Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 851 - You Get A Cool MultiTool and You Get A Cool MultiTool

Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 851 - You Get A Cool MultiTool and You Get A Cool MultiTool

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

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Breach: 31st Dec – 13th Jan Traverse a desolate and abandoned universe, confronting both the awe and the horror that lurks in deep space. Follow the tale of the ill-faded Fireship Arcadia, step into zero-gravity, and scavenge modules from its wreckage to enhance your own corvette builds. Complete milestones to earn a set of ancient, powerful Atlas-themed corvette modules.

No Man’s Sky

Wednesday


Teleporter on derelict - I felt so stupid but they should all work the same!


Thursday

How to move between Expeditions and Main Save.

https://youtu.be/mv4Vgs_t57s?si=T6ZdEWEyRb3oj9J5


Friday


OK, so I made a big mistake and I saw sent on map. I was trying to clear out. Keep my inventory tight and make it you know I haven’t done that part yet maybe not so the part of the expedition four I’ve already done that this one I can’t do because I don’t have a symptom math, but oh, I was trying to tell somebody that they were worried that they had lost something to summon the derelict freighter, but there’s so many derelict freighters around here. There’s one right there so that one right in front of me right there anyways so I lost I don’t have a sentinel map anymore so I can’t find a sentinel pillow. There’s a few one is that what I was going to do is I have one of the things you can get at the merchant guild in the once you know become favorite child the merchant as they will give you a sentinel map so I had a brilliant go and get one of those and she could bring it to April Pvd in the game in the expedition. Once she joined she hasn’t joined it yet because she’s saving up suspicious packets for here for so that she could upgrade her multitool to S class so April Pvd and Pullen have done all these Corvette things we’re only doing it again for the sake of this gorgeous thing that is just gorgeous. Isn’t that Gorgeous look at that? I love that canister on the bottom and all the parts although in my head I still call it a snowblower maybe that’s what I should name. It can’t help upgrading my ex every time I come to anomaly, but the main reason I’m here now is because I was getting on April to see what she needed to do and she was in the part where you find a outlaw station now the problem with the outlaw station will always be a problem for some people is that there’s no teleporters space let’s go. The problem is that she wants to get as much as a suspicious packet she had sent to. She’s gonna join she supposed to join with April Pvd, and then join that but look this guy has set up a base. There is the sentinel pillar. There is my ship. Let me just make sure I have. I’m gonna go ahead and ok

I got raided l, but I think it was by a bunch of bots although one person did give me a recommendation of using a program called V rocker which I’m going to try to use

Saturday

Hi, I’m April and I’m addicted to expeditions, “hi April”!


I can’t help but I love them and I love finding new things in them. I currently have four characters and I was only going to do the Corvette expedition 19 on that two who hadn’t been around for it when it was live a couple of months ago. But this time the autophage multitool was cooler. See the last picture. So I did it on my “main” and she got it. I also got it on my other two characters are the one got it at a C class but then my fourth characters did the quest and got the same one we got the first time around. I was quite disappointed. But then I was trying to go from the outlaw station to a base so I didn’t have to run the whole platform to get back to my Corvette and I ended up warping to a sentinel pillar where I found this little beauty. I’m so happy. It wasn’t a class and I did bump it up to an S class but I love it so much. Thank you for whoever ever did this base.


Sunday


So much fun today. I actually found the Sentinel pillar with the cute multitool and got one for Sebastian in his main save. Then I found this ship on April Pvd.

 




And felt totally in love. Crazy fixing it up while I was also trying to get the multitool together. I went through all of my characters and got as much shipped storage so I could expand it and I love it. Love it love it. Looking forward to the next expedition where I can make a couple of copies. I actually sacrificed one of my current ships this one.

Monday



Crazy wonderful day. Epril finished the expedition with her fancy new multitool. All of my toons have the new one. But now I wanted to break down a couple to get more multitool arguments. Epril was getting three augments per breakdown. I wanted to do another breakdown, but I had already augmented the ones she currently had and she hadn’t gotten the blueprint for the weapons rack so she joined April Pvd to use her weapons rack on one of her big Corvettes in a random space station. But when Epril got there right after April Pvd had switched over there was an NPC with the same ship that April Pvd just got. I really wanted it for Epril so I had her switched to one of her Corvettes that was a copy, but I think the last expedition and then she ran over and traded. But then the ship disappeared and I realized it was because she had joined AprilPvd in her game. I immediately logged out, logged back in. She had the ship I was able to use AprilPvd’s weapon rack



Got back on Aprillian and then realized I was running out of time for the expedition. She had gotten the cool multi tour and I’m graded it and added some slots in the expedition. Just in case I didn’t get to finish went back to her primary save and she made a couple of copies and then she went back to the expedition. She still needed to do the hitchhiking thing so I had April start another instance of the expedition get to the space station and they met up, so April Pvd could take her on a hitchhike. But by then it was late and I had to go to bed. I plan on getting up at 7 AM so I can finish the expedition.

Tuesday


Other

Working out this week, I got two streaks in boxing


Neolithic Dawn

VRocker

Big Gee



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Ctrl Alt WoW FFIV Episode 850 - Last One Of The Year

Ctrl Alt WoW FFIV Episode 850 - Last One Of The Year


AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

Grand Nagus:

Final Fantasy XIV


Here is a video from Meoni that goes over the 7.4 Patch Notes in detail:

FFXIV: 7.4 Patch Notes (Preliminary) Reading




Chinese New Years. The year of the horse. So we get a horse, a unicorn, as a minion this time.


The tournament finals to determine the champions will be held at each Fan Festival.


The first FanFest will be in April in Anaheim, CA.


Some of my points of interest in Patch 7.4:


Control Panel:



Repair All Inventories.

Previously you had to do each inventory separately, like this:

So after ELEVEN years we finally get this option!



Crafting in FFXIV and the fact that it’s really fun, imo at least.

New option for trial synthesis: Preset starting quality.

 


New crafter scrip gear released with 7.4 iLvl 750.

Final scrip gear tier of DT.


Glam disregarding jobs, even some weapons / shields.




General topic:


Chocobo training! Different foods for different uses. Favorite foods.



Jaffa Cake progress:

End of year cleanup in the inventory and on the retainers.

Working on her iLvl 750 scrip crafter gear.
So far I have 3 / 4 accessories, only the earrings are still missing.

I chose to get those first, because the accessories provide you with the CP or Crafting Power you need in crafting. Most actions you perform cost CP and the more CP you have the more actions you can perform, and thereby finish your craft. The other resource you have is Durability, but that is a preset number for every craft and you can’t change that.

The new PvP Series has started, and the first reward is from reaching Rank 5, as per usual.

This emote CARRY BOOK is the emote we get this time around:

 




Email




Greetings AprilPVD & Grand Nagas!
I hope all is well with you both and an early Happy New Year to you!

Attached is my audio for this week. I've just been playing Final Fantasy 14 which is taking over my life but I'm really enjoying it. I will find time for NMS and GW2 eventually, just been sucked into the story and then I picked a secondary class/job for my character and yeah, my time played in game, shows just how much I've been playing it. (see below)
Cheers,

Rigarmorty


 


 




Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 849 - Oops I Did It Again, Expedition 17 Redux

 Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 849 - Oops I Did It Again, Expedition 17 Redux

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu



We are celebrating 19 wonderful years of podcasting. I even have the ssme desk!!!

Grand Nagus:

Not available this week



AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Wednesday
Started the expedition on Sebastian, but couldn’t bring over my ship. Initially, I thought it was because it was a radiant pillar ship, but then I started the expedition with Epril and she couldn’t bring her ship over either. So it looks like they’re doing some changes where you have to just use the Corvette. I think they do a modification of every redux.
Sunday

Finished expedition on Sebastian, but didn’t log out yet or even get final reward because I want to do the expidition with Aprillian and AprilPvd before the week’s out.

I did make a bunch of up links just to see if I could carry them over and I heard of people bringing them over and duplicating them with the refiner glitch (couldn’t).

Then Epril landed on a planet that had the cutest animal/pet that I want it for April Pvd but of course there is a problem on VR trying to do the screenshot to get the glyph so I could portal back there so I had to log off, go over to my laptop get the glyph that way now I’m getting ready to get on April Pvd and get that cute pet. It also had something else and I’ll show you one second.


Update:

Other

Got a 948 boxing streak on Monday:






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Greetings ApriPVD and Grand Nagas!

I hope you are well and set for the festive season. Attached is my audio for this week. Again mostly FFXIV. I finished the Core story! Truly epic stuff! Just the one screenshot to avoid spoilers. It's my Ironworks Bow and part of what is essentially Tier Gear called Ironworks which you get with Poetic Tombstones. I'll have to roulette some Duty (Dungeons) to get more to buy some more of the Tier gear.

I did get a tiny bit of No Man Sky played yesterday and some today. I went back to my capital ship and working on repairing my A Class ship called "Sleep of Sleep". Below are also some screenshots of my capital ship and that Sleep of Sleep ship. Lots to repair on it but it's a starting point at playing more NMS.


Cheers,


Rigarmorty


Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 848 - Ctrl Alt No Man’s Sky

 Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 848 - Ctrl Alt No Man’s Sky

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.


 

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu


121725 AprilPvd Plays NMS in VR


https://youtu.be/c59HyGh8E2g?si=-7DfFW_mpZHEu_bz


Grand Nagus:

Has other obligations.


AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

My four: AprilPvd, Aprillian, Epril and Sebastian


Wednesday



Finished Expedition on Sebastian but had a small issue with not enough night nights. I didn’t bring over enough suspicious packets. So I started jumping and finding battles to fight so I could take out the pirates and I would get suspicious packets from that as well as some nanites. It was an interesting challenge.

Thursday


Spent most of the gameplay with Sebastian copying and salvaging his ship.

I shrunk the skeleton pet down in this egg sequence:



I plan to do it again to see how small I can make him once he’s ready to make another egg.

Sebastian freighter is a class so I wanted to try to get an S class pirate fighter but I needed the conflict scanner and I thought I didn’t have any walker brains so I brought in April Pvd.


Friday



Saturday



April Pvd formed a whole bunch of runaway mole for the next expedition. The next one is the Corvette one and I can’t remember whether or not it’s the one where there are no way to sell modules that you get from the suspicious packages which is the best way to get nanites.

Sunday



Spent most of Sunday checking on. Everybody’s status on the expedition. April and Sebastian still needed to close theirs out. Sebastian still had some stuff to get back when she did

This is how you return to your primary save when you are in the expedition.


Monday



Still hunting for an A class freighter for Sebastian while trying to get frigates for his freighter. It’s cool that they transfer with you.

Tuesday

Sebastian is hunting for another living frigate using materials that AprilPvd gets him. Sebastian kept getting a different quest so I let him do the quest for The Voice of Freedom.





Corvette: 17th Dec – 30th Dec Your former starship has been damaged beyond repair, and the Sentinel horde is closing in. Assemble your own corvette-class starship, maximise its stats and potential, and take refuge amongst the stars! Earn an array of exclusive rewards, including the one-of-a-kind Mecha Mouse robotic companion.

Other


Neolithic Dawn


Microsoft Flight Simulator




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Greetings AprilPVD & Grand Nagas!




Attached is my audio for this week. I did briefly dabble in Guild Wars 2 and No Mann Sky but I spent a lot of hours in Final Fantasy 14. Today is FF14 Patch Day which I'm sure Grand Nagas will be talking about. It's my last working week of the year as I've booked next week off and we're shut until the 5th so I look forward to many more gaming hours.


Below is just a Guild Wars 2 loading screen. I'd send some FF14 ones but I always seem to forget to take screenshots and I don't want to put out any spoilers.

121725 AprilPvd Plays NMS in VR

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 847 - I Hope Vrishna is Still Gaming

 Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 847 - I Hope Vrishna is Still Gaming
AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

Grand Nagus:

Final Fantasy XIV













The next episode of Duty Commenced, the North American Community team's live show, is set for 10 December. Join the Community team while they recap further information about Patch 7.4 from the latest Letter from the Producer LIVE and hold another Starlight Dash event to end the year! As always, there will be a showcase of the latest entries for Community Commendations and giveaways!

Read on for details.


Wednesday, 10 December 2025 at 23:00 (GMT)
Thursday, 11 December 2025 at 10:00 (AEDT)


The official FINAL FANTASY XIV Twitch Channel





Jaffa Cake progress:


Jaffa was at her first ingame wedding.

Got another crafting job to 90


No Man’s Sky


Started a little on the current Expedition. Got to Phase 4.

Lots of digging.





AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Wednesday


Epril started Relic

Thursday 



Does anyone else multi box in No Man’s Sky?


I have a main that I was playing with the most but now I have a couple of alts. This came in handy when I accidentally deleted my starter ship in the latest expedition and forgot to remove the Atlantid drive because I thought my ship that I was bringing over had one. I initially panicked trying to find the mats to make another one when I decided to try bringing over an art with them necessary material. It worked. I know it’s silly, but it’s fun trying to figure out different things like this. I love this game


Finish the expedition on April Pvd.

She used the nites that she had gotten from selling the suspicious packages to update the multitool, which I love. She put one of the original S class OG radiant pillar in storage but now she’s running out of storage so she’s gonna have to pull some of those out.


Sunday

Went back to Aprillian to officially start the expedition. Logged in and she was stuck in her Corvette. I had created a platform opening on the second level by using two boarding gates facing each other. I tried several things to get unstuck like joining April Pvd‘s game but then I figured out I could just duck behind one ramp and go into the adjoining hab. But I did end up taking some of the pieces off because it was just too big of a Corvette to be using in an expedition. But it’s nice to have the storage because you have to collect a lot of bones. One of the things I like to do is bring back some of the augment you get to update your excel back to my main save for my new characters.


Titanic Trophy

It’s decoration AprilPvd accidentally sold hers. One time use but you 


Spoilers:

Another





Started, Sebastian, my 4th character on the Relics expedition and headed to the anomaly after warping to first system. Seems like you need to go into the first space station but forgot to sell stuff before trying to buy first expansion exosuit slot.

Other


Zenith 





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Greetings CAW Crew,


Attached is my audio this week which contains mostly FFXIV. Oh an because Storm Braham is hitting the UK, I shouted out KA-BRAHAM! which is a GW2 Braham meme :D 


Also below is my FFXIV Miquote Hunter :D


Good day all! 





There’s is only just over 40 days left on Legion Remix so as per usual most of my time has been playing my Legion characters. I realised I made a mistake rolling various characters at first (you live and learn!).

I am now mostly concentrating on my Earthen Horde Paladin, so I can further gear him up and make him more powerful and solo more stuff.


I am still trying to collect various pieces of Transmog so I have been tanking in various Raids..


I have dinged another 2 level 80’s, one on Legion and the other on Retail using the Darkmoon Faire quests and the new Catch up system.

With the latest patch they have nerfed the XP between level 70 and 80 by 80%!! Add this to my 210% Legion buff and the quest that also gives you a further 200% and you FLY through the levels like crazy!!


I haven’t properly started any of the new Housing system yet, but I have collected a few pieces though.


New mount this week: the Fescorned War Wyrm (the Warrior Legion Fel mount).


Anyway..

Take care all and enjoy the various games!


Kep