Chronicler06

Wow, I guess focusing on just rescuing all the citizens in peril across Gotham City was a rather quick and easy way to collect enough gold bricks to purchase that one hero character you needed. Really wish I had remembered that to begin with. But I do remember Lego Batman 3 being much more of a confusing hassle trying to figure out which characters need to be unlocked and which characters need to be unlocked to unlock those other characters you need. So convoluted that free playing the levels in numerical order was practically impossible. Probably for the best that you decided to do only the first two Lego Batman games before moving on to the new Lego Batman game. Anyway, good to see you got enough gold bricks to obtain all but four of the gold gate hero characters (and finally got that last remaining goon character as well), and even had enough time to fully complete one of the levels from that week of horrible struggle. By the way, I forgot to mention that I'll be out of town next weekend, so if you want my assistance in next week's stream, it needs to be on Thursday, because I definitely won't be available on Friday and then probably won't get a chance to check on anything until the following Sunday night.

Significant progress on the last four levels. One of them required a few quick repeats, but eventually everything was collected in that level. Pity many of the levels are not quite complete due to needing Aquaman, but hopefully you're now familiar with the suits used by Batman and Robin that you can start collecting some gold bricks throughout the hub world without too much struggle. Good news is that regardless of whether the next stream will be on Thursday or Friday, I'll be able to watch live. I guess the month of May was much more busy for me than June is turning out to be so far.

I finally caught a break this week to be (partially) available this Friday. Now that I'm (completely) available again (and rewatched the second half of the stream for anything I might've missed while distracted the first time), I can finally get this comment in. Three levels replayed, though a few things missed due to needing Aquaman (believe me, if I had remembered how much that one character was necessary, I would've initially recommended collecting some more gold bricks in the hub world until you could get him). I just glanced through the guide again for reminders, and it seems to last four levels are relatively quick enough that I'm sure you could get through them all in a single stream (though again one or two thing would require Aquaman). Hopefully things will go well next week.

I did a bit of searching on Steam's page for this game, looking through comments and discussions, and the impression I've gotten is that if you happen to already own the game, then it should continue to remain fully playable, at least for its story mode. What will be lost after the servers get shut down next year will be the multiplayer feature, which apparently was the only aspect of this game for which you actually needed a 2K account to access. Truth be told, the one thing that had kept me hesitant about actually playing LEGO 2K Drive was whether a 2K account was necessary to be able to play this game. It seems I may have finally got the answer, that it was needed only for multiplayer, and for me personally who is more of a single player type of gamer, that shouldn't be much of a problem for me. In fact, I believe that all but one of the achievements should still be possible to unlock even after the servers shut down. Pretty much the only real issue I must now consider is if I really want to go through the hassle of creating a 2K account just so I can have the ability to unlock one relatively simple achievement for playing ten rounds (races, minigames, etc.) in the multiplayer's "play with everyone" feature. I guess my final decision might depend on if Black Six wants to spend one of his Twitch streams sometime in the next few months trying to get that multiplayer achievement in LEGO 2K Drive, in which case I'd be more than happy to play along with him.

Would LEGO 2K Drive remain at least somewhat playable after those multiplayer servers get shut down next year? Would it still be possible to do things like complete the story missions or unlock achievements? While I do already have this game on my Steam account, I have not yet gotten around to playing it, so I just want to be sure whether or not I'd miss out on anything significant if I wait too long.

Glad I could help you out with a few things this time (especially the reminder about Superman's freeze breath yet again). Levels 6, 7, and 8 are fully completed, though I suspect the message you ignored upon starting a new level was that all of your save progress was lost on one of those other levels from last week. If that's the case, then do yourself a favor and wait until a day when I'm available to help out with that particular level. You should already have everything you need to complete Level 5. It's just a very long level, so you might as well dedicate an entire stream to that one level. Unfortunately, Friday is once again a no-go for me, so you'll be practically on your own again next week (unless of course if you decide to go back to Thursday, for which I'm likely to be available).

I finished watching the recording of yesterday's stream and... well... I'll just go ahead and say it. That was kind of painful to watch. Heck, I'm convinced that you wasted so much time practically banging your head against the wall that it would've taken less time for you to simply search though the entire guide for all of the relevant information. First of all, I'm pretty sure I mentioned in my previous post right here that you do not yet have enough gold bricks to purchase any of the gold gate characters on the central island. I'll admit that it's been such a long time since I completed this game that I don't remember if I actually did need to use Aquaman for that particular minikit in Level 4. (If you're too lazy to actually check that guide I had linked for you, Aquaman is located on the northwestern part of the central island and requires 70 gold bricks to be able to purchase, so you might as well either move on to the rest of the levels or do some exploring of the hub world until you've found enough gold bricks.) While I'll admit that I had forgotten just how long it takes to complete Level 5 (much longer than a typical level, but at least there's some rather quick ones later on), I will say that I did not forget that Superman has the freeze ability. To spell out what you couldn't figure out at the end of the stream, you had to freeze the waterfall in the back so that Batman can grab the electricity suit down on that lower level, then climb up the frozen waterfall and continue on through that electrical barrier. For next week, I will once again not be available on Friday, so hopefully you'll actually read all of this or at least stream on Thursday (ideally both).

Unfortunately, this Friday looks just as unlikely as the previous Friday stream for me to be able to watch, so chances are I'll probably miss this week and have to watch the recording sometime later in the weekend. Hopefully you won't encounter too many difficulties, now that you're aware of that guide I typically check.

The package just arrived today. Of the twelve packs within those two boxes, I found the Bionicle Cosplayer in the fourth pack of the first box, so I'm very thankful to actually have the one minifigure I was actually interested in. Now I just need to figure out what to do with the 11 other minifigures that I have no desire to keep for myself... EDIT: I decided out of curiosity to open the rest of the packs I got. Turns out that half of the packs in the second box (three out of six) are duplicates of ones I got in the first box, which means my collection of Series 29 minifigures is actually incomplete with three missing. This makes me even more grateful that I was able to actually get the Bionicle Cosplayer (but also kind of disappointed that it was not one of the duplicates that I ended up with). Well, good thing I had used some of my Insider points to cover most of the cost for those two boxes so that the amount I actually payed was enough for only the one minifigure that I really wanted. But since I don't like incomplete collections, I now definitely have no desire to keep those 11 other minifigures, so hopefully I can find some friends or relatives who might be interested in them.

Everything collected on the first three levels, so that's some good progress. And with a few minutes leftover, also got a couple of those gate builds to unlock some hero characters (the others that you can currently afford are one on the west end of the north island and three of the four throughout the south island, but none on the central island). I'm not sure if I'll be able to watch next week, especially if it ends up on Friday, so hopefully you won't have too much trouble going forward with the help of that guide. (And like I said in the chat, sometimes you might have to check the story mode part of the level on that guide if you need a reminder of how to advance to the next area (especially what final tasks would finish the level, so you'll know what not to do if you're still missing a minikit or two).)

Good to hear that this week's stream will be Thursday, so I'll definitely be there. Fridays are looking questionable at best for me for the rest of the month, so don't expect me to show up for any Friday streams anytime soon.

Yesterday, the first day that new series of minifigures became available to purchase on the Lego website, I decided to get two of the six-packs, which should theoretically allow me to get all twelve minifigures in the series. Hopefully, the Bionicle Cosplayer will be in one of those packs when they arrive. As for the rest of the minifigures I'll end up with, I guess I'll figure that out later (I could either sell them or give them to some friends or family members).

A full day later, I'm finally able to have a chance to watch the stream. Yeah, I did say Fridays were going to be difficult for me to be able to watch live. Anyway, looks like you got all the villain characters unlocked (except one of the goons (can't remember if it was Riddler goon or Two-Face goon), which is unlocked like all the other goons, by simply wandering around Gotham City until a group of them show up to attack and then you fight back (not with someone who can instant defeat like Superman) until they become available to purchase), despite the occasional glitch. And not bad on getting most of the minikits in the first level (of the two you missed, the first required using the magnet ability (I think Cyborg has that ability) in the room you had opened behind the gold lock and then doing some more things after that, and the second required using the freeze ability on a waterfall to the right and climbing up the frozen wall). Hopefully, next week's stream will be at a time I can be more easily available, so I can be there to help out every now and then. Besides, the guide I had linked in the previous post covers not just where to find all the collectibles but also lists all of the abilities and all of the characters and what abilities they each have, so you don't have to bother with any web searches, because literally everything there is to know is right there on that one page.

As far as LEGO doing anything official regarding Bionicle, the best case scenario I can possibly foresee (unlikely as it might be) would be releasing the occasional system sets, either brick-built recreations of some of the iconic figures (like that Tahu and Takua gift-with-purchase set that came out not long ago and applying that concept to the rest of the Toa Mata) or something like playsets of some iconic places or events (such as portions of the villages of Mata Nui with some Matoran minifigures doing their usual tasks, or perhaps the Kini Nui temple when the Toa Nuva battled against the Rahkshi with the characters in minifigure form and some functions to reenact certain moments of that battle). If themes like Harry Potter could get new sets several years after those movies came out (and despite a certain controversy) and Ninjago released some special legacy sets during anniversary years, it's possible that a G3 Bionicle would likely be just a retelling of G1 Bionicle, except with unique minifigures and brick system playsets.

Unfortunately, I will very likely miss the next stream on Friday, so I might as well add on a bit to my previous post. If you manage to defeat all of the villains throughout the hub word and still have some time to spare, I would recommend the next thing you do is go through the levels. The only things to collect in each level are ten minikits and one citizen in peril, but you'll have a more limited setting to help you refamiliarize yourself with the various suits used by Batman and Robin. (Worth noting is that unlike the first Lego Batman game, in this game the only way to switch to any of the alternate suits is to find one of those suit swapper panels, so if you ever see a certain suit swapper, then chances are you'll need to use that suit somewhere nearby.) And if you need a little extra help, here's the guide I typically use for reference: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2381475850