Hi, I just tried to post a link to one of my game videos, an older one of Painkiller and my first full level video of a game. Little did I know that links are not allowed from new members, my fault for not reading the policy more diligently.
So for now, I'll introduce myself, and tell you what I have to offer. As I said in the Welcome forum, I have been gaming for about 5-6 years now, and am primarily into PC shooter games.
I have made videos of Painkiller, Far Cry, and F.E.A.R., and started posting them on forums about 7 months ago. I have a fair knowledge of both Fraps and Game Cam, as well as Movie Maker and Virtual Dub, and often give advice for first timers.
My videos are generally full level length, and are usually about 5-15 minutes long, and about 50-150MB in file size. I can also give advice on how to host and archive videos for free, for those of you that want to show them.
So, for now, I guess I'll have to wait and see what they mean by getting more well known, and how long it might be before I am allowed to offer links to my videos.
A rule was added a while ago so that you can't post links until you have a certain number of posts, it was made to prevent people from joining and spamming up the forums.
They're basically full level videos on the highest difficulty mode taking no hits, which is a trick in itself especially when they average under 10 minutes per level. There are however some short clips I have too which have more stuntlike elements to them like hang glider sniping.
I try to make my videos serve two puposes, entertainment and tutorial. Many have been used by those struggling with certain parts of the game when I post them on their respective game forums.
I just finished making a widescreen version of one of my latest Far Cry videos of the Control level, and am uploading it to my hosting site now. Wish I could show it to you but they haven't granted me link priviledges yet.
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"A rule was added a while ago so that you can't post links until you have a certain number of posts, it was made to prevent people from joining and spamming up the forums.
Welcome to the forums, btw"
Yeah, I figured it was added in, rather than original policy, as the rules I read did not say links were allowed at all, but I thought they meant only advertisements.
The hosting site I use hosts for free, so linking to them is not like an ad at all, in fact they allow you to set up your own file page as if it's your own website.
Thanks for the welcome, any idea how many posts gets you link privys btw?
Last edited by Frag Maniac on Jan 11th, 2006 at 08:52 PM
Um, I don't remember to be honest, it wasn't in place when I joined, it was added a while ago because we'd have problems with people joining, spamming a site, and never appearing again. Links to your vids wouldn't be spamming or anything, that'd be fine.
I'll go and check and see if I can find how many posts you need to post links.
Edit: I couldn't find anything, but I don't think it's very many posts that you need....so just settle in and have fun until then
(Warning, some spoilers) I played the demo before buying the game, it's the Fort level and plays just the same in the game. I'm not sure what you mean by akward though.
At first the game seems daunting, and it definately helps to use cover and the crouch and lean functions. Once you get to know the game though, there are many ways to beat it easily IMO, and I still don't know why even veteran players of it say it's one of the hardest games they've played.
One of the biggest tips I can give you is to turn off the music and listen, especially when stalking through the jungle. The binocs are great for tagging and monitoring the mercs with it's built in motion tracker, and the CryVision goggles you pick up later in the game actually allow you to snipe through brush and trees without even being seen.
Two of the things I don't like about the game that are a discredit to the otherwise excellent AI IMO, are the shouts the mercs make when they've seen you, and the fact that you have an unlimited number of rocks you can throw to distract or lure the enemy.
These two things make it much easier to fight them than it realistically should be, but of course you don't have to use the rocks, or the binocs for that matter.
One thing that is really cool is driving the Buggys, Hummers and P Boats, stealing them anywhere you can. Most Hummers and P Boats are equiped with both heavy caliber machine guns and rocket launchers mounted on turrets that you can aim and shoot while driving in either 3rd person or first person mode.
You can also hop in and out of the vehicle when it's parked to use the binocs to sight in rockets from a distance before and after your shots. The maps allow for excellent long range sniper shots, and the graphics and sound are among the best in the industry.
There are places in the game where if you pull off trick manuevers, like driving to a very difficult spot, you can take the heavy machine gun or rocket launcher with you upon exiting the vehicle, depending on which was selected when you left it. The odd thing is though, when you do that the skin for the weapon doesn't show, but it's firepower is definately there to use.
Speaking of Fort, there's also a built in humorous trick you can do called Rally Pigs. Parking the buggy in an unsafe spot like on the stairs is supposed to trigger one of the wild island pigs to run to the buggy and drive it off. I've never got that one to work, at least I got tired of waiting for the pig to show anyway. Maybe you can't be facing the buggy or need to be a certain distance from it.
To suffice I put together a humor clip simulating mercs harrassing and trash talking a pig instead, I call it Grunt Talk.
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Last edited by Frag Maniac on Jan 12th, 2006 at 11:47 AM
That would be nice, as I already have 16,...oops, make that 17 with this one. This is really a better forum than I thought it would be after assuming I'd made a mistake about it's content. I thought the video game movies forum, for instance, was for user made videos of games, not box office movies.
I'm finding that the Computer/Video Game Discussion forum is quite active and diverse though, with engaging chat. I absolutely love the Red/Black skin option too, very cool looking and easy on the eyes.
Last edited by Frag Maniac on Jan 12th, 2006 at 04:38 PM
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