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Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Costello – welp, we got rekt here. Not much to say other than 1) don’t get cocky (due to recent victory) 2) don’t get complacent (and leave 1 MG to defend a bridge).

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Costello – another Stonewall battle. We learned the importance of flanking finally!

1:30 “I need to remember how to play this”, followed by accidentally unlocking sticky bombs
5:30 Hey that ‘shreck looks good
9:45 Sneak attack from the west
10:30 Garage demolished :-/
15:00 Rear armour is the way to go!
16:00 Northern swarm
19:15 ‘shreck recovered
21:15 Interesting place to park a tank
26:00 A cooperative tank (“exactaloutely”)
27:30 Rocketspam vs Flakpanzer
30:30 First of the Nebels
31:45 Nebel stolen
37:45 “Rangers: under the treads, on the double!”
40:00 How to defeat a Tiger tank: allow it to face its rear armour at you
42:45 Church down
46:45 Last wave?!
49:45 Panther, what you do?
50:45 Bombing run inbound
51:15 Howitzer rounds inbound
53:00 Fin

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio – welcome back to Frunfingham North! Starting out by forgetting my city name and a terrible pun…

Highlights

2:00 Coin tossin’
9:00 Logging industry get
17:00 Investigating the health of the slums
21:15 “Stop tool-tippin’ me!”
22:45 gg firetrux
24:00 bertiebridge mk 2
39:15 Happy little trees
50:45 Move the pumps!
55:30 Everyone loves cemeteries
1:11:45 Big Town!
1:20:45 More bertiebridges
1:22:45 bertiebridge retry
1:46:15 Small City!

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Costello – Back to the world of square blocks. We explore, fight off a blood moon and King Slime, and finish by making some sweet yoyos. All in a day’s work.

Highlights:

1:25 Desert pit of doom
6:30 Costello and the falling sand
9:00 Blood moon!
31:45 Snow! (and falling slimes)
41:15 King Slime has awoken!
48:30 Come back, you coward!
57:45 Strange-looking eye…

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio – back to finish off the contract with a little advice from coolchazz98 and co! Thanks to everyone who advised, gave support or joined in!

Highlights:

15:00 Basic requirements complete!
23:00 Doubleteamed by spies (*grr*)
36:30 First lot of 5 kills!
1:11:15 Second lot of 5 kills (except it’s 4?!)
1:19:30 Contract done!
1:22:00 Contract discussion
1:23:30 “I suck today with the flare gun” *flare gun kill*
1:25:00 I keep mispronouncing “dylandublin2”
1:27:45 Pyro op
1:29:15 Crisps discussion
1:36:00 Useful Sniper is useful
1:37:00 Double revenge on bertieb

Part 1:

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Noobface – This is actually 2 videos joined together. At 29:45 while entering a door I BSOD, and on rebooting I get “your profile is corrupt”. Oh joy. Fortune intervenes and Steam Cloud saves me.

Highlights:
13:15 Through the vegetation and barbed wire
20:30 Grapplefail
21:15 Noobface explains a concept eloquently
29:30 Crash! D:
38:30 Back up and running 😀
49:00 Quarantine zone (Chemical storage)
1:02:15 bertieb loses his grappling hook (but doesn’t realise it)
1:04:45 Realisation dawns
1:11:45 No replacement hook for bertieb D:

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio – got the video codec sorted but lost in-game audio in the first 10 minutes until Mr Fancypants pointed it out (thanks Mr F!)

Just the first half of this, Part 2 (Advanced) to follow.

Highlights:

7:30 Game audio back! No longer have to listen to my grunts, taps and clicks!
12:30 Mini-sentry shoots someone so hard they joined the other team (okay, autobalance)
13:45 Dat lucky crit tho

Part 2:

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio – getting to grips with Cities: Skylines. After getting used to the interface (well, getting somewhat accustomed, anyway) it was time to get to grips with some of the idiosyncrasies of this fine game.

Welcome to Frunfingham North!

Highlights:

4:15 A town is founded!
11:30 We have houses!
17:00 Start of industry!
28:45 Little Hamlet!
32:00 bertieb discovers the “small” roundabout
39:15 Worthy Village!
1:09:15 Boom Town!
1:13:00 The first of bertieb’s “famous” bridges
1:21:45 Districtin’
1:24:00 Powerplantplacementderp
1:40:15 Busy Town!

(Apologies for the quality, had the wrong codec selected in OBS)

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Noobface – five hours! To hell and back with any concept of dinner, or breaks 😛 In fact I was cooking some food during this; but I didn’t let it interfere too much.

Highlights to follow!

(Apologies for the quality, had the wrong codec selected in OBS.)

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio – the second Borneo contract. This one wasn’t too bad; now that I have some knowledge of the map (and MrFancypants around)!

Highlights:

16:15 “Just hold them off”
20:45 “RIP my aiming”
52:15 Humiliation conga
1:01:00 PYROMANCY (with 2 or 3 lucky flareshots)
1:02:30 “Hey, what about the cart?”
1:04:15 Medal level up

Borneo #1: