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Ah of course, I was lucky to have an early click and collect and most of my bigger games I downloaded while working and gonna do some more through the night and tomorrow.

@FraserG hope you’re alright, usually on the ball with the Tuesday updates 🙂

Easy one with Hyperdot

Escapist 2 I got an achievement but was very easy and took about 5mins. I started a new game on Centre Parks, then when you can leave your cell I followed the crowd for a roll call line up but I attacked a guard and was taken to the infirmary. When you can move again I attacked another guard and got ‘Dr Love’ achievement for a hunky doctor picking me up, and a third time I attacked a guard and ran away and as the alarms ring the reward popped.

Gears of War Tactics has also now appeared as a monthly reward to get an achievement. I planned to play this anyway and started up a new Jacked game. Theres some easy achievements to get...

Kill someone with the chainsaw - After a few moves the chainsaw appears and you can select it as a weapon, then move the pointer (your character) next to the enemy, and press X and it’ll move your player over and chainsaw the enemy.

Kill 10 enemies
Kill an enemy and one behind with a single burst of bullets
Complete a mission without anyone dying
Down one of your own team

PofE: Chicken Possible video again, him and most other forums/sites I’ve read all talking about the tracking of the 5 kills being buggy so may take more than 5.
https://youtu.be/WsUqgpAe63g

EDIT: I’ve started up this game, killed the wolf then 2 men a couple of times each day for 3days, and I’m on 1 of 5 haha, hate MS Rewards sometimes 🤦🏻‍♂️

DAY 4: Made it to 3 of 5 🙂

Achievement just for starting Resident Evil when the first cut scene ends. Doesn’t bother me as that gets me my 50pts for the day but seems to bother others 😀

Jackbox isn’t that bad once you work out what you’re doing haha, this was the one achievement I didn’t manage to get during the 10k gamerscore reward period.

However I’ve done it now, and as above you do get an achievement for one of them and considering you need 5 it’s unavoidable.

I used this link (I used them last time as well).
https://www.trueachievements.com/a242012/bracketeering-cinderella-story-achievement?showguides=1

Basically open the 4 tabs (I used Chrime and SessionBox) and just call each P1, P2, P3, P4, and then for the answers use A1 A2, B1 B2, C1 C2, D1 D2 (or similar).
Then when it asks you to predict remember the answers you pick (each time for me 2 players picked the same answer and the other two different so only had 3 answers to remember). Then the next part is a 1v1 vote and just make sure you don’t pick any answer you’re remembering.

In all my play throughs it never put them against each other so I was always able to pick the other answer so my 4 players all lost.

Taken me a good hour to two hours but been watching TV same time.

On Dirt once the game is available to play (Xbox) you can use the free roam area to race around freely or do some of the tutorials before it even finished downloading.

Could be worth noting that Dark Pictures reward can be earned as soon as it’s ready to start rather than downloading it all.

@FraserG Are there any other pages for other rewards? Just curious how people found the 10k reward challenge as I struggled having already completed a lot of the easy games off Game Pass but managed to reach a respectable 7500. Just like this page most of the games weren’t great, but I enjoyed completing a previous weekly reward game Carrion

Mount and Blade awful game! So glad it didn’t take too long although did take me about 30mins as it wouldn’t setup a 1v1 always 2v1 and controls on horseback annoying so I just did it on foot.

@TREX1979 Yes only 2 per day to log into the app and play any game.

PS. 2 easy rewards to end the month

Anyone know if you can sit in the menus of Elder Scrolls? Before I sign up my email to whatever it’s asking for haha

EDIT: I’ve done it just by playing through tutorial and leaving my character standing in the first open area.

I’ve given up on Soul Calibur, can’t seem to block and lose games without damaging the opponent haha

Got the 1k reward anyway though, cheers for the tips

@FraserG I’m determined to complete Decenders in 1 run haha

There’s no way around that I’m afraid, I’ve had similar issues such as them choosing Gears 5 again but managed to convince a mate to do some co-op

I assume Fallout can be done once the game is ready as it’s a massive download. I’ve set all the games to download over night but will see if they’re done or not tomorrow.

@FraserG I made it to level 10 for an achievement in a game pass game then gave up haha

Nice easy end to the month 😀

Was looking forward to a bit of Red Dead but it’s just loading it up.

As for Cluster Truck, I’ve no idea what I was doing but simply load up campaign and press play. Don’t touch a single button and let the truck drive itself to level 6. On level 6 I came up to a massive pile up and kept failing so re-did level 5 and got the 5000 style points.

EDIT: I’ve just clicked on you’re standing on top of the truck haha, either way I didn’t fall off it until the pile up on Level 6 which I’ve now completed haha

Tip: We had to restart our console four times to finally get all the shots to track. Ugh!

This is getting sooo annoying! Taken me a couple of days to get the 100 shots on Gonner but it’s not a bad little game.

The new Gears of War punch card is doing the same thing and not activating 😡

Is anyone else finding the Independence Pack isn’t there on State of Decay?

Few things when I go to start...
I get a choice of 4 pairs to play with while in the video they choose 3 people.
My game opens at a refugee camp and they start right next to a vehicle.
Finally I have Skills and Inventory when pressing D-Pad down, they have a third option for Independence Pack

EDIT: My kills are going up from a mix of Campaign and Horde just takes a little longer.

I’ve just noticed you didn’t have the Streets review, if you load up the Story and select Easy, then play through the game you’ll get a few really quickly.

Eating off the Ground
Eat an Apple

Life’s a Struggle
Free yourself from a grab

Further on in the levels...

Wasted Wine
Break a bottle, pick one up and hit someone. It might also unlock by throwing it at an enemy.

This Is Wood Oak City
Kill someone by picking them up and throwing them in a hole (off the map/screen). Can do this level two at the docks and further on.

Combo Pro
Achieve a Super combo

Birth of the Cool
Catch a weapon when it’s thrown at you using the same button to throw it

Miss Ne
Meet Adam a few levels into the game

Throwback
If you get a taser, you can taser an arcade machine and go to an old level

Broke My Toe
Again a few levels in there are spears to use on the enemy

Dojo Master
Beat Shiva

By this point a few levels into it on easy might take up to 30mins, a lot quicker if you can do the first couple of achievements in first 10mins.

I knew Streets of Rage would pop up one day so I made sure not to complete it, still gotta do 3 full run through for this months reward though haha

EDIT: Only need to go through twice as I left the secret Call The Police achievement but need SOR1 and SOR3

As above, I think you need to have a subscription already. I do a lot of Bing searches on mobile and Xbox, click all the different links for news stories and places to visit on mobile and all the vids and links on Xbox. I tend to earn a months Game Pass plus spare change from just this, especially the weekly 3 challenges on Xbox and if you keep up a streak as I’m getting 2500pts every 5 weeks now currently on my 29th week in a row so bonus next week

PS. I did the Costume Quest reward then as the clown I pressed the horn 1000 times for an easy achievement for the weekly challenge to get an achievement and also the daily 50pts.

Took me a few goes to get Decenders to click, but overall everything so far this month has been pretty easy.

I need another weekly (should be more out today) and some daily’s to get the 1k

Silent video but this just appeared for Sly the Spire, basically played through the game moving up 15 in game levels. I’ve skipped through it a bit so need to re-watch it to work out how to play the game, assume settings on easy etc will help

https://youtu.be/TxAwxvvf3tw

Edit: Come back a day later to see if you’d worked it out the same as me, I got to 12 levels and tried again today and it clicked after level 3 haha

Forza... for anyone who has played the game a lot in the past. I’d already found every board and road etc.

I was downloading some of the new cars and all the bonus credits I’d gained, and I went into the Car Mastery section and had 130+ points to allocate. From there I was adding loads to skill scores and at the top there was one for ‘Get an instant 10k Skill Influence’. This popped the reward.

NBA has taken me 2.5hrs plus a lengthy download over night. I really hope that in the very opening game you can get 10 assists as I only managed 9 and what followed was very annoying!

The season start was hours into the game where eventually I got my 10th assist!

To start I created my player adding as much as I could to Playmaking stats. In the opening game I got 9 assists, then got subbed 2nd period. There’s a good 50+ cuts scenes, multiple training games 5v5, 3v3, 2v2, multiple training sessions such as weightlifting and jumping, and clicked continue in the menus 20 times.

I scored numerous assists within the training matches and none of these seem to count toward the total.

I really hope someone else finds a faster way, or maybe gets the 10 assists in the very first game.

I also gained no achievements throughout this process.

Only positive I took from the whole experience is that my coach was the spitting double of Idris Elba.

Top stuff again! Both done and 1000 reward completed 😀

Spot on again with Mud Runner, I went back and forth there and to the right of that picture, the road turns into a bit of a swamp so getting off it left or right there are mushrooms about.

Worms I beat someone online who was hopeless at the game shooting himself a lot haha

Not long left but I’ve just completed the Monster Hunter reward, was quite a few SOS on the Quest Board all early quests you may have already done alone killing Jaguars.

Just got two daily rewards for opening a game and the mobile app and found the main page from there but it’s not showing on the main screen where it has the Gears reward and the weekly.

EDIT: Also found that if you go to the bottom of the rewards page and click on ‘Xbox Activities’ with the pic of the Xbox and Controller it’ll open up. No idea why it’s not at the top, not even in ‘Show All’.

All I can suggest is to report it, I did that for Ori about a month ago but due to Covid-19 it had fixed when they replied after a couple of days.

In other news, my rewards have disappeared before managing to complete the 1000pt monthly reward. There’s a new 500pts easy to get just clicking to view offers.

@SubG do you mean the separate one that also asks to watch the trailer and Mixer? There’s a common bug with some of the rewards and it can take between 1 second and 3 days I’ve found in the past. Annoying when it’s not instant.

If you’ve done the 3 achievements in Gears while this separate one is going it’ll pop at some point without having to get another achievement.

Has anyone done Monster Hunter reward? I’ve played enough of the game and went to the board which had a few options but I wasn’t able to join any and same again a few hours later having played the game most of today.

‘You have not met the requirements for this quest’

Found something on Reddit that says you can start a quest, then once someone joins set off a flare and ask them to join your quest. It’s another long write up and comments afterwards say you could still complete the big 1000 monthly reward without 1 or two of these weekly rewards.

Basically the issue also mentioned is everyone trying to do this reward wants to join a quest, not be host. Great if you have a mate wanting to do it.

PS. If anyone wants to add me on Xbox go for it haha

I’ve done the Hunter one, it gave me a few different achievements on different occasions which while reading the page I was on wouldn’t please some people but reward completed. Long one and I’ll quote those who shared it. Maybe wait and do it on a separate day as there’s a 50pt reward daily for getting an achievement.

Whacksurf Gaming on YouTube posted a comment on True achievements.com

https://www.trueachievements.com/xbox-quests/thehunter-call-of-the-wild?page=2

See the comments for it but I’ve copied and pasted everything below.

Hey everyone,

Here is a relatively easy way to do the Xbox Game Pass monthly quest for theHunter: Call of the Wild. The quest asks you to "gain 5,000 in the total harvest score." Using my method, this should take you about 12.5 runs or 45 minutes or so to complete.

I made a video of the process here: https://youtu.be/bb9O_W8Wrck

The text description of the method is below:

1) Start the game. If you have played before, choose New Game from the main menu. If not, your only option is to select New Game.
2) Select the Layton Lake District (default map) and hit Start Game.
3) Once you spawn in, immediately hit LB to put away your phone and bring out your rifle. You're going to turn completely around and face the water behind you.
4) Begin walking to your left (east on the compass) until you approach a shallow water inlet.
5) Cross the water to get to the land on the other side.
Note: You can run before this by pressing in on the left stick, but I would refrain from doing so from this point on. Running elevates your heart rate and makes it harder to hit your shots.
6) Follow the shoreline as you walk around looking out at the water. Listen and look for any ducks that might start flying to the water.
7) If you are slow and quiet, you should start to see ducks land off to your right. If not, keep following the shoreline and look out straight across the water. Scope in with the LT to aim and hit UP on the D-pad to zoom in.
8) Once you have a target, hold in on the left stick to steady your aim and take your shot.
9) If you hit the duck, simply wait for the duck to float over to you. You get progress for the quest only by collecting your kill. This might take a bit depending on how far away the duck was when you killed it.
-If you miss the duck, try to hit one as it flies away. This is surprisingly easier than it sounds.

If you miss all ducks, either restart the level or keep walking around the shoreline and focus on the water in the distance. The ducks tend to keep landing in the water if you're facing east, but they might be really far away.

10) Once you've gotten your XP for the kill, hit Start, scroll down to System, and then Exit to Main Menu.
11) Back in the menu, select New Game and repeat the process over again from the start.

Other Notes:
-The deer that is positioned directly in front of you when you start the level does not give you progress towards the quest for some reason.
-I disabled Mission System under Settings->Game but I'm not sure this matters.
-You will likely unlock multiple achievements as you work on this quest.

Hope this helps!

@FraserG
Gears to add to the above the 2v2 Gnashes you can add a 2nd or 3rd controller and change it to Beginner (although the game seems hard for me still). I did this for a previous reward though.

For the 3 achievements here I started with Arcade Blitz in the same way, it’s 5v5 with me on one side and controller 2 on theirs. I went straight for the ‘flag’ to defend and shot a few with lancer and finished top scorer and earned ‘Ring Leader’ achievement. Thought that was really easy personally. Maybe you could just eliminate controller 2 over and over to earn it???

Free for all you can do 1v1 with two controllers. And again Gridiron with 2nd controller is 5v5 a bit easier but I’d already played it online. So I’ve gotten ‘Sampler’ achievement. I assume if this game is needed again I’ll use Gridiron with 2nd controller for a Touchdown.

You only need to play each mode not win anyway, plus when choosing a character I couldn’t see those mentioned, they’re names I recognise from earlier Gears and this one is their kids so may be a link or maybe unlockable?

I also did Alien as above which worked, open first door to start the clock then turn and hide in the small room. After 20mins I took one look and saw it wandering around so went looking for it only to be stabbed from behind by its tail after about 2mins haha

Gonna try your Hunter walkthrough now while Halo downloads as I had no space and it hadn’t downloaded earlier.

Started a new game, beat up 20 people around the ground in the city. Taken 15mins since I posted last comment.

I found the F1 a lot quicker than 60-90mins, Bahrain for example doing under 1:30min laps is only 30mins. It’s also a good track as you can go wide/off track and not get stuck in gravel.

Already downloaded Batman so gonna see what I can get there if no update before it pops I’ll post another reply. Also downloading Alien with Halo queued.

@FraserG have you guys seen the new Gears 5 rewards? Luckily I’ve still not played through the game so can just play an online multiplayer game and get an easy achievement there to add to watching the trailer and a Mixer stream.

There’s another easy one for creating a map but I’ve done that previously for another Gears reward.

Completed everything last month and off to an easy start with this one 😀

@FraserG I hadn’t noticed, all done. See you next week

SoT has unlocked, still awaiting Descenders but actually enjoying the challenge trying to get through all 4 maps haha

@FraserG Yeah I was trying to do the latest one for Ori and wouldn’t register but didn’t actually play any of the game until it would.

The SoT and Descenders ones here are pretty short though if I needed to do them again though. The weekly task for starting 3 games didn’t work but I got 3+ achievements playing Descenders for 30mins.

I assume having done all of the above for SoT and Descenders but they haven’t u locked, that I won’t have to do them again later I can just keep clicking on the rewards page waiting for them to show completed?

PS. Massive thanks for the write ups!