It didn't go up on the weekend so I suspected it would be up today, but it itsn't. I was really hoping to see it, the first BB was awesome and I've suffered through MHC.

It was like what, 3 or 4 hours long?

@EuanDewar said:

It was like what, 3 or 4 hours long?

God dammit, it's subscriber content to begin with! GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT! D:

It'd probably be split up if anything, it was like 4 hours of pure struggle. Brad's a trooper though.

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

@GreggD said:

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

No, but in a beautiful fit of rage-quitting, he immediately booted up Geometry Wars and played till he got hit once.

I'm sure it will be. Didn't they only stop because they ran out of capture space? That means they were recording it, right? They wouldn't record it unless they were planning on posting, surely.

Actually, they were going to post it, but then the archive took an arrow in the knee. (I'm going to do my best to drive this into the ground)

@MikkaQ said:

@GreggD said:

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

No, but in a beautiful fit of rage-quitting, he immediately booted up Geometry Wars and played till he got hit once.

God damn, that is great.

@GreggD said:

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

He did give it his best as far as giving it his full attention and ability, but after about an hour, he also became ideologically committed to sticking with the strategy he already had, and not giving any alternate strategy a fair shake. He refused to commit to use enemy weapons (the P90), to switch to his alternate weapon EVER, or to knife the bathroom guy to take an element of randomness out of the equation. Norm and Patrick both gave him good advice that he ignored.

It was this weird combination of legitimately trying, while also completely sabotaging himself.

@BisonHero said:

@GreggD said:

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

He did give it his best as far as giving it his full attention and ability, but after about an hour, he also became ideologically committed to sticking with the strategy he already had, and not giving any alternate strategy a fair shake. He refused to commit to use enemy weapons (the P90), to switch to his alternate weapon EVER, or to knife the bathroom guy to take an element of randomness out of the equation. Norm and Patrick both gave him good advice that he ignored.

It was this weird combination of legitimately trying, while also completely sabotaging himself.

Hey, I've been in the position of playing that mission for the achievement. It's really easy to put the blinders on, depending on your personality.

I was thinking the same thing today. Please tell us there's an archived version of this going up for subscribers soon!

PLEASE!!!

@GreggD said:

@BisonHero said:

@GreggD said:

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

He did give it his best as far as giving it his full attention and ability, but after about an hour, he also became ideologically committed to sticking with the strategy he already had, and not giving any alternate strategy a fair shake. He refused to commit to use enemy weapons (the P90), to switch to his alternate weapon EVER, or to knife the bathroom guy to take an element of randomness out of the equation. Norm and Patrick both gave him good advice that he ignored.

It was this weird combination of legitimately trying, while also completely sabotaging himself.

Hey, I've been in the position of playing that mission for the achievement. It's really easy to put the blinders on, depending on your personality.

My roommate played along for the entire cast, plus another 3 hours after in order to finally get it. It makes sense, you get locked in to your strategy hoping it'll work out, just this one time.

@MikkaQ said:

@GreggD said:

@BisonHero said:

@GreggD said:

@MikkaQ: A broken, shell of a trooper. But eh, he gave it his best. Actually, I don't think I caught the end, did he ever get it?

He did give it his best as far as giving it his full attention and ability, but after about an hour, he also became ideologically committed to sticking with the strategy he already had, and not giving any alternate strategy a fair shake. He refused to commit to use enemy weapons (the P90), to switch to his alternate weapon EVER, or to knife the bathroom guy to take an element of randomness out of the equation. Norm and Patrick both gave him good advice that he ignored.

It was this weird combination of legitimately trying, while also completely sabotaging himself.

Hey, I've been in the position of playing that mission for the achievement. It's really easy to put the blinders on, depending on your personality.

My roommate played along for the entire cast, plus another 3 hours after in order to finally get it. It makes sense, you get locked in to your strategy hoping it'll work out, just this one time.

I think for that reason, and reasons like it make it one of the best levels ever in gaming. There's really no plot, but it's just so perfect.

@GreggD said:

Hey, I've been in the position of playing that mission for the achievement. It's really easy to put the blinders on, depending on your personality.

Yeah, I guess as a player, I'm always one to question what I'm doing, seek help/suggestions from other, and think "the designer couldn't have possibly intended for it to be this impossible". Though I do get extra frustrated when it turns out the designers DO intend for it to be that difficult. But even with say Super Meat Boy levels, you can usually sort of see how there's an ideal route where you just run constantly and need to have decent timing.

As far as I can tell with the Mile High Club achievement, unless you're willing to put in the time to be a flashbang savant and stun all of the guys at the EXACT right time (which is how a lot of the super fast or knife-only YouTube videos do it), your best option is clearly to switch guns constantly (including using the pistol) and try to use the P90 as much as possible. Brad just became INSANELY stubborn about only using the default gun, and even he repeatedly acknowledged he was wasting so much time having to reload it constantly.

I really hope they archive it as I missed it and would love to see it, sounded really entertaining.

@GreggD: How did the terrorists get on the plane? Why are there so many? Why was the SAS in the ceiling of the plane, directly under the VIP they needed to rescue? Why didn't they drill upwards in that case? Why don't they take the stairs with the luggage blocking it right next to the spawn that takes them into the room with the VIP?

Yeah no plot is right. But I loved that mission.

Of course it will be. Seems like a weird question to ask.

@chilibean_3: Yeah, it will, just worried.. it has been a while and i'd love to see it.

@MikkaQ said:

@GreggD: How did the terrorists get on the plane? Why are there so many? Why was the SAS in the ceiling of the plane, directly under the VIP they needed to rescue? Why didn't they drill upwards in that case? Why don't they take the stairs with the luggage blocking it right next to the spawn that takes them into the room with the VIP?

Yeah no plot is right. But I loved that mission.

Fuckin' a, Duder.

Been awaiting this to be archived for ages! I need it! I crave it