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GTAV – Survival

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I've finally found my favourite mode in GTA online. Survival mode is just like gears of war horde mode where wave of enemies come & attack. You get ten seconds in between waves to run around & pick up health/ammo.

I think you need to be at level 15 to unlock the mode but I was playing with Hakk & Gus who are in the mid twenties. My character is still on level 13 but after a good session yesterday evening in which I also won my first race on motorbikes, parachuted a faceplant into the ground & just missed out on a 2nd place finish in a mini race, I earned 16K.

Thanks to RLLMUK I also now understand what I was doing wrong with the Simeon car quests. I was taking them to my garage to run away from the cops & that would put a tracker on them, not sure if you can remove trackers or not? Will check when next online.

Who needs to worry about next gen consoles when current gen is so much fun.

Song Pop – Video Games

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My daughter wanted me to start playing Song Pop with her again so I returned to find over 1500 coins waiting to be used. There are now lots of new categories to purchase. I was very happy to find a video games category & on my first attempt & I got all five correct :)

Letterpress – Winning strategy

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I've recently returned to playing Letterpress & I am off to a good start winning nine games on the trot. I've taken a lot of advice from Jochta's recent post on UGVM.

Control corners.
Always put an S on a word if there is one.
Variants like _ed and _er are counted as different words.
Look for endings like _ing.
Once you have control of the important letters and a corner build out into the board and take off unused letters one or two at a time to limit your opponent.
Leave Q to the end if there's no U as you know your opponents can only play QI or QIS with it.
Try and play an anagram (or nearly) of your opponents previous word.
Never leave common letters uncoloured with a close score as your opponent will almost certainly be able to polish them off. 

New Game – Dishonored

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Got bored of playing GTAV online, so I played a few hours of Dishonored yesterday, I only really wanted to install the game but ended up getting sucked in, the mirrors edge style viewpoint takes a while to get familiar.

The stealth-based gameplay is very enjoyable but I keep wishing for a Splinter Cell style radar to show me where enemies are, I need to get better at hiding behind obstacles & peeking out to see where the enemies are? I could of course go charging in & attack but the stealth is so much more enjoyable.

In other news fourth time lucky for my PS4 pre-order with a Killzone bundle from Sainsbury’s on order, wobblegate is getting discussed quite a bit & the white light of death has been reported on a few consoles. Glad the US are getting their machines early so they can beta test the machine in case of any issues.