Possible return of streaming console games to channel

Those who have been following my channel since my earlier years of streaming to Twitch may be aware that I used to stream certain console games to it (particularly in the PS3 years, but I've also streamed PlayStation, NES & Gamecube games in the past).  The determination to stop broadcasting those games was not by choice, but because of a technical issue with the old Elgato Game Caputre HD software that would cause a full-PC lockup any time I attempted to access the Twitch ingest servers.  Elgato clearly had discontinued updating that software, so I gave up on streaming games from console system because of that reason, but retained the device as it was still useful for screenshots & recording videos (possibly for streaming to YouTube as well, however I gave up on streaming gameplay to my YouTube channel after multiple attacks from Bandai/Namco on my first attempt to stream live gameplay to YouTube, the game being Dragon Ball Xenoverse on PS3).

I've been doing some research online & it appears I may be able to breath new life into the device to once again allow streaming to Twitch.  If it works, this would not only allow streaming of games from console systems to my channel again, it would also end the public boycott that started against Elgato (because they wouldn't respond to inquiries about updating the software, which in it's current state was dangerous for the PCs it was used on if somebody tried to stream to Twitch) back in 2020 (although I will probably still avoid additional purchases of Elgato products until this device ultimately dies off from normal use, but it does open up the possibility of purchasing from them again if the option to use 3rd-party streaming software in combination with their devices remains an option when I need a new game console capable video capture device).

This is still something to look at, but if my online research of this method (using OBS Studio to stream to Twitch using the Game Capture HD device purchased back in 2014), viewers of the channel may start seeing console games on the channel again.  Note that while I have switched from PS3 to Nintendo Switch & Switch 2 as a preferred console system (Bing's actions against my personal site driving off the considering of going to an XBOX system after the PS3, but I was getting to ready to purchase a newer XBOX system before that happened), my primary gaming device of choice is still PC, so any possible console games that may be streamed on the channel are likely to be limited & much shorter than normal PC game streams would be.

Tips on completing the Hallowed Nightmares (Halloween event) mission in Warframe

In 2026, I ran into some issues during this mission, specifically the fact that the objectives could break if other players left (see Known Warframe bugs list, pinned on the right side of this blog), so on my second run, I ended up soloing it.

While I didn't get this run on video, I wanted to share some tips on how to complete this mission (seeing as it can be difficult if you don't know what you are doing & I ran into this issue the first 2 or 3 years of running it).  First the basics:

• You won't be able to use abilities, weapons, companions or gear wheel.
• You can not drop out to Operator mode (even when the option to use Last Gasp becomes available; the prompt for this probably should have been disabled in this mission...).
• You can still use melee attacks (without a weapon) & finisher attacks.

The tactic to complete this mission without too many problems is: 

• Because you essentially enter this mission unmodded & for the most part disabled of your normal attack methods, the most functional way to do damage enemies is to utilize the explosive barrels (appearing as stacked Jackolanturns throughout the map).
• The other method to do sufficient damage to enemies is first knock them off their feet & the most effective ways to do this is to either hit them with a sliding attack or bullet jump while near them.  The static projections of the infested in this mission are EXTREMELY weak to these types of damage & can knock them down in one hit, opening them to a finisher attack.  Your cue to hitting them with a finisher attack will be the icon that appears over top of them (this icon will differ depending on whether it's a Ground Attack or a Mercy Kill.  Finisher attacks will be your most damaging personal attacks in this mission, but don't attempt this on the Jack O'Naut.
• If you are going to attempt to take down the static infested enemies with normal melee attacks, watch your shields, bullet jump out of harms way if they drop & continue dodging until you have shields again to go back on the attack.
• Enemies can be difficult to see in this mission, but you will have minor enemy detection to determine when enemies are heading your way, so utilize that if you are having trouble pinpointing which way you need to attack. 
• If you need health, look for the singular Jacklanturns, these sometimes drop health orbs when destroyed.
• When you get to the point of needing to insert 2 power cells to open a door, you'll need to hack a couple of consoles to acquire those cells.  You will see markers on your mini-map (top-left of your screen) that will pinpoint the consoles you need to hack.  Wait until you have defeated the hoard of enemies before you attempt to hack these.  Also keep in mind that while the majority of your equipment is not available in this mission, your Parazon still is, so any mods you have on the Parazon can still activate provided the activation method is triggered.  Repeat this process twice until you are through the door.
• In my case, I focus on Parazon mods that can stun nearby enemies when doing a Mercy Kill, as well hacking mods, one in particular making me invisible for a short period of time after hacking.  Both of these were useful in this mission, the stealth mode in particular keeping the enemies off of me while I inserted the power cells because they didn't know where I was.
• Another Parazon mod that could be useful here is one that can stun melee attacking enemies while you are hacking the console, in which case you wouldn't necessary need to take down most enemies before starting the hack.
• When you get to the Jack O'Naut, you want to focus on drawing it towards the explosive barrels & waiting until it's near you before triggering their explosion.  The most effective way to do this is to bullet jump away from the explosive barrel when the Jack O'Naut is in range (the AoE effect of these barrels will not damage you).
• The main thing you want to watch out for in the Jack O'Naut fight will be it's poison attacks; the status effect of the toxin debuff WILL kill you & unless you have another player raise you before you bleed out, you will need to revive yourself (as stated before, Last Gasp is not an option in this mission, even if given the prompt for it).

With the Jack O'Naut defeated, all you should need to do is head to the exit point on the map.

Keep in mind I did say that the objectives in this mission can get bugged.  If you don't see a waypoint for where you need to go, the mission objectives are likely bugged & you will need to abandon the mission (which unfortunately racks up another failed mission on your statistics) & restart.  Because the first time I attempted to run this bugged the mission when other players started leaving, I made it a point to come back & solo it the second run to avoid the mission getting bugged again & resulting in more failures getting added to my statistics.

Twitch drop tricks

A lot of people outside of the US have constant complaints about official Warframe streams (those with drops enabled) being outside of times that they can attend those streams (either because they are at work or because it’s the middle of the night where they live when the stream starts).  You have to remember that those official streams are a part of Digital Extremes’ job, so you can’t really expect them to stream outside of business hours where they are located.  I’ve been making it a point to attend even the streams that are in the middle of the night where I live in the US, so it’s doable, although I’ll admit perhaps not ideal...

I’m going to fill in users on a few tricks I’ve been using on my PC:

• The first is that you don’t actually need to be actively watching those streams, just in the channel with the stream playing & unmuted (at least in the site’s player, you can still mute the browser tab without it affecting your drop progress).  A lot of streamers still appreciate people lurking in their channels, so they usually won’t object to you being the channel before the stream even starts or being inactive in chat.  You can also set the quality of the stream to the lowest quality to save on bandwidth (or to make it easier in the second trick I'm going to detail below if you have a low upload rate that the running stream might impair).
• The second trick I’m going to give is regarding remote access.  You can use your mobile device to remote access your PC to start progression towards a drop.  This will require that you use software that allows for unattended access to your PC (because you will not be able to accept an incoming remote access request if you are not at your PC).  A few things I do have to point out here, however.
• When allowing unattended remote access to your computer, this opens it up to potentially being compromised.  First thing is make sure you have a strong password to be able to access that device.
• The password also has to be a static password, not a randomized password, as you will not be able to double-check the password remotely.
• Utilize the device whitelist if the software has the option for it.  This will limit only your devices to be able to access it, but will need to be set up prior to attempting to access it for the first time (the device ID should show on your device, which you would enter into the whitelist before attempted access for the first time). 
• Only run the software when you expect you are going to need it.  In the case of TeamViewer (note that I’ve stopped using this software & closed my account because they incorrectly flagged my devices as being used for non-personal use), this means disabling the background service (note that the TeamViewer background service will re-enable itself after an update to the software, so it will need to be disabled again after each update) & only running the software when you think it will be needed (also don’t leave it running indefinitely, otherwise you may run into the same problems I did).
• Make sure your user account on your PC has a password on it & lock your PC (Windows Key+L hotkey) when you are not at it.  This will add an additional step before they will be able to access your PC if somebody does access your computer while it’s not being used.
• Disable file transfers in the remote access software.  This can be enabled if you need it once you get past the login screen on your PC, but remember to turn it off again before disconnecting the session (software like TeamViewer will auto-lock your PC if you had to unlock it after a session is started).
• Also consider looking at the BetterTTV browser plugin for your PC.  This plugin adds a slew of helpful functions for the user to use, one of those is auto-redemption of bonus channel points & drops.  When I was getting errors when attempting to claim bonus points in the channel or drops that were already acquired, the BetterTTV plugin saves a whole lot of trouble.

Last updated 8/12/2026 

Of course there are mobile apps you can use while you are out, however if you have limited bandwidth (or are in an area where service is spotty at best, if not a mobile service dead zone) these may not be an ideal alternative (especially if you have to do it at work).  From my personal experience, the official apps really are not a reliable option (I would suspect this is where a lot of the complaints are coming from on the Warframe forums regarding drop progression not correctly tracking) & some of the apps really aren’t even usable anymore (the Shield TV app breaks stream playback after MOST ads are played; I’ve started using the remote access method to watch streams playing on my PC to get around this).

Changes on Twitch may limit use of the site

Recent changes to external scripts on Twitch has caused a slew of ongoing issue on their website...  I'm going to start documenting what is broken in this post, as well as giving the workaround I am using to get around it.

First issue is logging into the site (clearing cookies & cache for Twitch domains being the second thing I attempted after lessening browser security to allow all cookies & scripts from all external sites on Twitch, which required me to log back in), where it's now stating through a normal login window that my browser is not supported:

Unsupported Browser error

Note that I have censored my username & the characters in my password in the screenshot above

In order to get past this, I have to disable all browser plugins enabled in Firefox, clear cookies & cache on all Twitch domains, restart the browser, then log back in again (which means getting a new authentication code texted to me again).  This is only a temporary fix however, as the additional issues I'm going to detail below are certain site functions I've confirmed as still being broken even after going through all this trouble just to get back into my account.  The only way I've found to fully get around this issue is to log into Twitch through a Private Browser window (which means I'm having to get a new text authentication code almost daily, if not multiple times a day just to access what still remains broken through my normal method of accessing the site).

Drop Campaigns broken

 

This screenshot shows that Twitch is reporting that there are no drop campaigns available when logged in normally.

 

Claiming drops throws an error

 

Note that even the official Twitch apps occasionally throw errors when attempting to claim drops through it...

 

Notifications don't load

 

This screenshot shows that the notifications are not loading correctly (this is accessed by accessing the small icon in the top-right of this screenshot).

 

Roles Manager is broken

 

 

This screenshot shows the roles manager is throwing an error.  This is the area where you set moderators, VIPs & so on.  It's still possible to assign roles using internal chat commands through chat on your channel.

 

Clips do not extend beyond the first page
Clips I've created

Clips of my channel

The screenshots above may not be apparent what the problem is here, however when you look at these screenshots taken when I was logged in through a Private Browser window in Firefox on my PC:

Clips I've created

 

 Clips of my channel

...it shows that the top clip on the list of these screenshots taken in a Private Browser window are where the cutoff (and broken scripts) are when logged into Twitch normally.

 

Bonus points button non-functional 

 

Claiming bonus points through the button on the chat panel appears to not be functional anymore.  It turned red for a second or two.

 

Sometimes it appears to register the bonus points, but after refreshing the channel page, the button is back for claiming again & the points that appeared to be awarded before have been revoked...

 

Chat members list broken 

 

Just noticed on the 29th that even the list of people in chat is also broken:

  

This only became apparent because I was attempting to dismiss a moderation bot from my channel after figuring out how to enable ad break notifications in chat through StreamElements, meaning the other bot was no longer necessary.  Not a huge issue, I still have the userlist in my IRC client, but it's not as detailed as what Twitch does with the list (such as giving rolls to each user); this would be more of an issue in channels where you don't know the roles of other users (not that it's too hard to figure out when they have user badges shown next to their names, although sometimes users hide these).

 

Workaround for many of these issues 

 

Logging in through a Private Browser window using your PC web browser will allow you to get past most of these issues, however this requires you having to log back in REPEATEDLY (as well as having to repeatedly utilize authentication codes if you use multi-factor login protection) because your sessions will not continue beyond closing the window.  In my case, this means getting an authentication code texted to me every day I want to watch (or even lurk) a stream that has points or drops on it & sometimes multiple times a day...  Whether this will be a necessary step when I want to stream or not is still undetermined...

 

I will continue updating on other functions that are getting broken by these latest script changes on Twitch, but for the time being, these changes may cause issues if I attempt to do a stream (I can only guess how it's going to affect the embedded chat in the channel, I may have to find another alternative to get around this expected new problem as well)...

 

Last updated 6/29/2026