Weekly or so community frags

(RasteRayzeR) #1

Seeing the enthusiasm around frag movies and videos, I’d like to test having weekly or every two weeks a video of frags coming from the players of the community. With Pixel we are ready to spend time selecting the best frags and editing these videos of maybe 5 to 15 frags (provided we have enough material to work with). It would be like a “no comment” kind of videos: just frags be frags.

  • First test on the alpha forums only -

What is a “good frag” ?

  • At least a triple kill, no death(s) between the frags. The frags shouldn’t have more than 5 to 10 seconds of interval (approximately).
  • A single extraordinary or very funny kill / team-based action / spree of any kind.
  • Frags with the latest build of the game.

How do I submit my frags ?
Simply play, record at the same time if you can and when you have a “good frag” upload it somewhere private (passworded archive on dropbox, copy or your own ftp) and put the links in this thread with the passwords as a reply. Please also give us your country (for the flags in the videos)

Until we find a better solution (private dropbox or so), we will do it like this.

Goal
The goal is to see how people play the game. It’s as much feedback for SD as fun for the community. Also in the mind set to orient this game toward competitive play frag movies are the perfect way to see how this works out. Finally it can also help bring more players back to the game.

Where will it be published ?
Well, NDA haha ! So I’ll gently ask Silvanoshi if he can open a thread here and post the videos on SD’s youtube as unlisted. So it’s still in SD’s hands !

Ready to frag ? It starts now ! :stroggtapir:

DB community frag movie #1: “Rape me”

//youtu.be/dSmd5fl3ACI

DB community frag movie #2: “Crows’n’Guns”

//youtu.be/7h6BRrS4xKQ

(spookify) #2

Good Idea. Hope you can pull it off.

(Humate) #3

Do you want these vids recorded at a certain quality to keep things consistent raste?
For instance setting certain values high in the cfg, or would that exclude too many ppl from recording.

(PixelTwitch) #4

Ideally everyone would record no lower then default configs minimum. However, we do understand that this could exclude some people. So right now I would recommend to anyone wanting to take part to TRY and record in the highest possible playable quality. If we start to notice to many clips with quality that is not up to standard I may have to develop a custom config for recording that will make it look nice while keeping framerates high.

(prophett) #5

As long as it’s at 720/1080 visual settings shouldn’t matter if the frags are of a certain quality.

(RasteRayzeR) #6

I agree, but not pixel art please haha. Some configs are really extreme. If the action going on is worth is then ok.

(potty200) #7

Best post this set of forums had seen for months! I wish you the best raste. If the game picks up again someone should do a draft game and get frags from that!

(Humate) #8

Good… can only record with min settings. : /

#9

I think you over complicate things, and over specify.

Just let people submit videos. If you like them, put them together.

Just saying taste is taste, and specs doesnt mean much. A triple kill can actually be very boring to watch, depedning the person and taste. If you understand, so just go with the flow and see what happends, instread of restricting all the flow before you even got any incoming videos.

Just my 2 cents.
Or I misunderstood the project.

(spookify) #10

I will start recording but I am super lazy!! Like for real!!!

Played just now everyone /quit haha no idea why and I also title this sniping is easy.

//youtu.be/IyrYIVZDHN4

(INF3RN0) #11

Must be a USA server. 99% W holders with ball mice.

(INF3RN0) #12

[QUOTE=JBRAA;509803]I think you over complicate things, and over specify.

Just let people submit videos. If you like them, put them together.

Just saying taste is taste, and specs doesnt mean much. A triple kill can actually be very boring to watch, depedning the person and taste. If you understand, so just go with the flow and see what happends, instread of restricting all the flow before you even got any incoming videos.

Just my 2 cents.
Or I misunderstood the project.[/QUOTE]

Agree. It’s the act of the frag, not the quality. No need to even edit them either or add music, but that could always be done later and more official when there’s a bigger audience (post release with demo replay system). I was thinking people just pm their frags and then raste/pixel/silv pick the ones they think were the best of the bunch and post a vid compilation here each Sunday. Also would suggest wiping this thread clean so I don’t have to wade through a bunch of text.

(RasteRayzeR) #13

Well that has always been the plan.

By any means submit the frags you believe are good, but to have quality videos we will have to select / exclude some content. I simply want to give people an idea of what we are hoping for. Defining a nice frag comes from the guts, it’s hard to describe so post them here and we take care of the rest :slight_smile:

(tokamak) #14

If replays were available the entire of quality would be non-existant.

(RasteRayzeR) #15

Yep, but you know… not a priority for SD

(spookify) #16

How are you going to give them these huge files?

My things record in 1080p or i whatever and one round of obj is like 10GB!! 1 ROUND!

I guess I can make it a MPGDFDSF4 whatever its called…

This seems like a waste of time, especially for a beta game and especially just to get your kicks…

(RasteRayzeR) #17

[QUOTE=spookify;509857]How are you going to give them these huge files?

My things record in 1080p or i whatever and one round of obj is like 10GB!! 1 ROUND!

I guess I can make it a MPGDFDSF4 whatever its called…

This seems like a waste of time, especially for a beta game and especially just to get your kicks…[/QUOTE]

Don’t send the whole round lol ! Only the interesting part, with 5 seconds or margin before and after the frag. Shouldn’t be more than a hundred megs. If you need to cut your files, use this software (free):

http://free_video_cutter_joiner.en.softonic.com/

And it’s worth it, that’s why I’m doing it.

(potty200) #18

I’d love grenades to make a return to their former self and for more 4-5 man kills with them. Me and Sean witnessed some amazing multi kills with them back in the alpha. I am sure pulley will remember a certain frag!

Looking forward to rocket launcher multi kills and well timed air strikes getting 5 man kills!

(Side note: Make explosions worthwhile like they used to be :frowning: )

(Glottis-3D) #19

[QUOTE=potty200;510013]I’d love grenades to make a return to their former self and for more 4-5 man kills with them. Me and Sean witnessed some amazing multi kills with them back in the alpha. I am sure pulley will remember a certain frag!

Looking forward to rocket launcher multi kills and well timed air strikes getting 5 man kills!

(Side note: Make explosions worthwhile like they used to be :frowning: )[/QUOTE]
agreed, explosives need to be deadly, but not spammy.
now it is all worthless spam.

(Glottis-3D) #20