Friday marks the first day of the weekend-long Penny Arcade Expo, a glorious gaming convention focused on Community and sheer awesome.
I’ll be there all three days, hanging with friends, checking out cool upcoming titles, and meeting great MGC Members. Will you be one of them?
Let me know if you plan on being at PAX!
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Good Start! Complete first chapter. |
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Spring Complete spring season. |
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Summer Complete summer season. |
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Autumn Complete autumn season. |
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Winter Complete winter season and defeat the Ice Giant. |
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I mainly posted these because the ‘AYBABTU‘ reference is pure awesome.
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Battle of the Bears In the campaign, destroy a squad of POLARS with a squad of GRIZZLYS or vise-versa. |
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Top Gun In the campaign, get a squad of EAGLES, FALCONS, or HUNTERS to Rank 8. |
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Snack Time In the campaign, destroy a squad of RABBITS with a squad of LYNX. |
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Mule Be Sorry In the campaign, destroy a loaded MULE squad. |
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Humiliation In a Ranked Match, destroy an 8-troop strong unit in a single attack. |
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Refresher Course Finish the Prologue Mission: Master & Padawan |
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Girl Power Finish all Jedi Missions as Ahsoka |
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Double Trouble Perform a Droid-Jak at the same time as your partner |
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Act 1 Padawan Finish all Act 1 Missions on Padawan Difficulty |
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Act 1 Master Finish all Act 1 Missions on Master Difficulty |
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Practitioner Complete Chapter 1 on any difficulty. |
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Operative Complete Chapter 2 on any difficulty. |
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Specialist Complete Chapter 3 on any difficulty. |
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Master Complete Chapter 4 on any difficulty. |
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Conjurer Kill 100 Enemies while using the Dragon’s Grasp. |
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No mathematical models here - just straight Zombie action! More info here: http://www.konami.com/games/zombie/
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Environmental Awareness Kill a zombie using an environmental hazard in any game mode |
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Gas Powered Complete an entire arena, getting every kill with the Chainsaw |
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Gun Shop Kill at least one zombie with each weapon type in any game mode |
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More the Merrier Kill 10 or more zombies at the same time in any game mode |
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Socialite Play in an online multiplayer game |
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Mission Accomplished Topple a dictator. |
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Coalition of the Willing Crash a castle. |
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Oceans No Longer Protect Us Protect a city. |
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A House Divided Defend your leaders. |
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If You’re Not With Us Choose a side. |
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I’ve re-enabled all of the processes that handle the Leaderboard functionality, and you can now see Global and local Leaderboards for your country.
This is ‘Temporary’, because there is a hardware issue with the server that handles this functionality, and I’m unable to identify if it’s actual hard-drive failure, or the RAID controller that manages the drives. This means that it will likely fail again at some point, hopefully leading to more concrete data.
In the meantime, while it doesn’t seem many changes have taken place on the Global Leaderboards, perhaps there are new faces in your home country! Visit the MGC GamerScore Leaderboard to find out!
Since more and more people are asking questions, it sounds like it’s time to make a post about the MGC GamerCard service.
First, let me apologize for not posting about this sooner, but my attention has been mostly focused on testing and attempting to resolve the issues.
Over the weekend, a number of upgrades had taken place to the existing servers. It seems that all of them have been impacted in some way, but none moreso than the ‘primary’ GamerCard server, which has taken on some very odd issues. Most of the up-and-down nature of the servers have been due to me attempting to dive into what the deal is.
Just be aware that I am absolutely on top of it, and actively attempting to solve it. Most of my waking hours have been devoted to investigation and testing, and I haven’t had more than 4 - 5 hours of sleep any night this week. Since any changes I make require at least 30 - 60 minutes of ‘warm-up’ time to gauge the effects, it’s been fairly slow-going. One large downside to being the creator of many of the technologies that make much of MGC possible is that there are often no resources to consult when things go wrong!
In the interim, I’ve brought up one of the older servers to help deal with the load. This will also give me an opportunity to study how it holds up versus the current machines, once it starts serving a decent number of requests. Right now I don’t know if it’s Operating System-related, webserver-related, interpreter-related, etc. Once I get more data, I can potentially fix the problem once and for all.
I deeply thank you for your patience. Things will likely be bumpy for the next few days, but be assured that I’ll do everything in my power to get things running as smoothly as you’re used to.
-Morgon
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Defender of Britain Complete the “Battle of Britain” chapter. |
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Defender of Stalingrad Complete the “Battle of Stalingrad” chapter. |
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Liberator of Sicily Complete the “Invasion of Sicily” chapter. |
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Liberator of Korsun Complete the “Korsun Pocket” chapter. |
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Defender of the Ardennes Complete the “Battle of The Bulge” chapter. |
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Let’s Get Punchy Melee 5 soldiers |
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Bomba Punter Punt 20 Bombas |
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My Head A-splode Get 50 headshots |
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Make ‘Em Scream Get 100 soldiers to scream |
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To Kill a Blackbird Destroy the helicopter attacking the vice president |
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Baroness Defeat Baroness (P1 only) |
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Destro Defeat Destro (P1 only) |
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Firefly Defeat Firefly (P1 only) |
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Storm Shattered Defeat Storm Shadow in all three secret arenas (P1 only) |
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Strike Commander Defeat every wave in all Satellite Strike mini-games (P1 only) |
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Race (Normal) Finish a Standard Race in Normal mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
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Race (Difficult) Finish a Standard Race in Difficult mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
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Time trial (Normal) Finish a Time-Trial in Normal mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
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Time trial (Difficult) Finish a Time-Trial in Difficult mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
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White Jersey (Normal) Finish the Tour de France in Normal mode with one of your riders being the best Young Rider |
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Sonic Finale Complete the game as Sonic. |
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Knuckles Finale Complete the game as Knuckles. |
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Please Continue Earn a Continue in either a Bonus or Special Stage. |
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Gettin’ Super Collect all seven Chaos Emeralds. |
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Chaos Emerald Collect a Chaos Emerald. |
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Attacker Capture five flags |
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Best Squad Be in the best squad on all three maps |
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Tour of Duty II Play one hundred matches |
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Defender Defend five flags |
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Master of your domain Get one kill playing as each class |
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