025 - In Between a Frog and a Hard Achievement

The Zed to Zed Podcast: The Show For Xbox Achievement Hunters and Gamerscore Junkies

025 - In Between a Frog and a Hard Achievement

Tarragon breaks tradition and buys a lot of games; Brandon yells at a cloud; Crandy does his best impression of Krang; we review brand new puzzle platformer In Between.

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Hosts:

• Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Jo aka "angelsk" - TrueAchievements - Xbox
• Damien aka "Spazpol" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Random ToDo List Update
• Forums?
• Zed to Zed Fitbit Group
• Twitch streaming

012:48 - Recap

• Tarragon BALROG prep kicking off

• Tarragon’s New Games
• • Greg Hastings Paintball 2 (EU)
  • Motorcycle Club
  • The Escapists (360)
  • Super Meat Boy
  • Just Dance Disney Party 2 Xbox One
  • Among the Sleep
• Tarragon Ordered:
• • Tour de France 2015 Xbox One
  • MotoGP 15 Xbox 360
  • Transformers Devastation Xbox 360
  • Psycho Break (Evil Within) Xbox One
  • Zoids Infinity EX Neo (JP)
  • Super Robot Taisen XO
  • Army of Two: 40th Day (JP)
  • Overlord (JP)
  • Cross Edge Dash
  • Hokuto Musou (Fist of the North: Ken's Rage) (JP)
  • Double Clutch (Conflict: Denied Ops) (JP)
  • IHF Handball Challenge 14
  • Rabbids Invasion TV
  • Psycho-Pass
  • Diario: Reverse Moon Legend
  • Momotarou Dentetsu 16 Gold
• Leap Frog
• • Freamwhole croaked - Project Spark let him down
  • Tarragon is planned to about 13.0
• Playing Zeds: Crandy vs Fream
• • In Between: Crandy wins!
  • Achievements are backloaded - candidate for preloading?
  • Some glitchy achievements, counters are off
• Playing Zeds: Community vs Fream or Crandy?
• Fream played: Project Spark, In Between, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2,
• Tarragon played: Among the Sleep, Minecraft 360, Killer Instinct, Rare Replay, Six Guns (Win8), Knight Squad, Factotum 90, Xbox Fitness, Blast ‘em Bunnies
• GTASC: Tarragon’s team survived period 20 and cutoffs have changed

0:39:56 - Listener Feedback

• WNBA Kirkland = Wife of NBA Kirkland
• Burnah Bros: re: music
• Jjaldana: State of Decay 2
• Kaiba Chaos: should MS give up on Japan?
• Big Ell: Crandy met his wife online, not on TA though
• Saucy Slingo: $1 million to never see an ending of a game or movie ever again?
• Saucy Slingo: topic - cross-platform unlocks?
• Big Ell: Crandy sounds like Krang from TMNT, should have an alt account called Kraangdy

0:59:42 - News

• Battlefield 1 - Kids don’t know about World War I?
• • Old man yells at cloud
• Window 10 Mobile Xbox App hints at console streaming
• Elite Dangerous: Horizons has dropped, 1.6 update introduced some funny quirks with AI, tutorials achievement is now possible
• Sega and Genesis compilations no longer give access to Sonic and Golden Axe BC games
• Fable Fortune Kickstarter
• Mojang bans branding in Minecraft
• Minecraft IOS/Android achievements
• Vivendi and Gameloft: The saga continues
• Vivendi and Ubisoft: The saga continues

1:34:02 - Leaderboard Update

• Only covering top 25 from now on
• Started tracking game completions and played
• Shoutout to the Endless Bean Dive guys: Madeyepadeye, Montana97, seamonkeypowder
• Game completions: 19% of people on TA have not completed any game, 25% have not completed a game including all DLC
• Big news:
• • Celtic Force hit 2 million TA
  • smrnov hits 1.3 million GS
  • Stallion83 increases GS lead over smrnov ~7k, narrows TA gap to ~8k
• Top scorer: Stallion with 40,344 TA and 24,732 GS
• Other milestones
• • GS
  • • 900k: jimmyhova
    • 800k: lucas1987, Minioger, Matt DB87
  • TA
  • • 1.8m: Rand al Thor 19
    • 1.7m BIGSXY1
    • 1.6m red tanuki
    • 1.5m ChaosSlayerX187
    • 1.4m Sangriaz, Terrin
• Battles to watch
• • GS
  • • Last month: BIGSXY1 closing on RedmptionDenied for 5th spot
    • • RedmptionDenied responded and widened the gap a bit
    • Last month: Spots 14 through 18 are all very close around the 850k mark
    • • A lot of activity around this space, from 14 down to 25 almost everyone changed position
    • Matt DB87, currently position 1 on the Games Started leaderboard, is on the cusp of the top 25 for GS
  • TA
  • • Fairly quiet month for the top 25
    • Womi lost two positions, and Spawnycher very close to overtaking Sangriaz

1:36:55 - Shovelware Cemetery: In Between

• SANCTUARY

2:02:14 - Knobs and Discos

• NBA 2K14 discontinued

2:03:00 - Zombie News Corner

• Dead Rising 4
• Death Valley in Hitman Sniper

2:06:00 - Outro

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Songs and sounds that have been used in the show:

• "Jive Bot", “Tally Screen” (x2), “Dalmation Station (It Gets Better Mix)” by Jake Kaufman from the games Mighty Switch Force! 1 and 2, developed and published by WayForward Technologies
• Epic Voice Announcements by RJBANKSWA
• crickets by rucisko
• Solo Zombie 1 by Slave2theLight
• Murder by Shovel by JenniferSJF
• Shovel digging into dry dirt (SFX) by MorneDelport
• FP_Burial_In_Wooden_Coffin by cmusounddesign

Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms