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CoH Freedom Videos, When?

BasilAcid

By BasilAcid,
Posted on: 2011-06-28 16:26 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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I was on Youtube trying to find good videos to send to my friends to pull them to the game when COH: Freedom rollsout. To my great surprise, I saw Samuraiko video and it says "Winter 2011" Are we going to have to wait that long for this issue. I thought it would be Sept/October.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7GxkPi5_A

Sam's video was good but it was like Alice in Wonderland. I hope the official video will be nonstop fighting. The clean environments are a nice but MY friends won't come here unless they can see how good the combat is.

Finally, the issue has to be done BEFORE Christmas. It would be nice to get some taunting from Marcus Cole too. It wouldn't hurt to have Recluse and Statemen put a few words too.

 

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This question is for you Sam. In some of the scenes in this video the scenes were extra clean(:16-:35). How did you do it? Are these shots taken from the game recording tools or are you using third party stuff?

 

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Sam's videos are nice but I want official stuff. I want action videos. This thread comments on Sam's stuff but this thread is really a request for hard-hitting stuff in the next video when they make it.

Thank for your time....

 

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Any CoH Freedom videos will be released when the company is ready to realease them and not a minute sooner. When that will be is sometime between now and the day Freedom goes live.

 

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Clarity: We've been saying "Later This Year" without reference to a specific season.

As to when the videos will be released...

Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios

 

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Soon(tm)? 'When they're done'? Valve-time?

"And yes, it worries me that people know how many pipelines their graphics cards have and the bus speed of a PCIe-16x, yet don't know how to convert between bordering time zones."

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Soon(tm)? 'When they're done'? Valve-time?
I'm sticking with dot, dot, dot right now since I can't figure out how to make the trademark symbol on my Macbook, and I'm too busy watching cartoons with my kids right now to google it.

As an aside...Phineas and Ferb are totally OP.

Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios

 

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I'm sticking with dot, dot, dot right now since I can't figure out how to make the trademark symbol on my Macbook, and I'm too busy watching cartoons with my kids right now to google it.

As an aside...Phineas and Ferb are totally OP.
eHow to the rescue.

EDIT: Option - 2 on the keyboard is the ™ symbol. Shift - Option - 2 is the € symbol. And of course, if you are using a Macbook you should know that Option = Alt already.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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That is infinitely more simple than the PC method.

WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL STEVE JOBS???

Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios

 

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That is infinitely more simple than the PC method.

WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL STEVE JOBS???
Eh, Alt + 0153 and Alt + 0128 aren't that difficult.

Steve Jobs isn't evil per se, but I can't use the words to describe him and remain within the currently posted Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.

WWWS*





















*What Would Woz Say

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Originally Posted by Residentx10 View Post
I was on Youtube trying to find good videos to send to my friends to pull them to the game when COH: Freedom rollsout. To my great surprise, I saw Samuraiko video and it says "Winter 2011" Are we going to have to wait that long for this issue. I thought it would be Sept/October.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7GxkPi5_A

Sam's video was good but it was like Alice in Wonderland. I hope the official video will be nonstop fighting. The clean environments are a nice but MY friends won't come here unless they can see how good the combat is.

Finally, the issue has to be done BEFORE Christmas. It would be nice to get some taunting from Marcus Cole too. It wouldn't hurt to have Recluse and Statemen put a few words too.
*bampf*

To address this one, in order:

1) "Winter 2011" for me spans October - December. I would rather OVERESTIMATE how long it takes them, and have a couple dozen people mocking me on my YouTube channel for being wrong than UNDERESTIMATE how long it takes, and have HORDES OF ANGRY PLAYERS baying for my blood and Paragon's because "HER VIDEO SAID 'FALL 2011' WHICH MEANS AUGUST!!!!!!! YOU LIED RAGEQUITRAGEQUITHASSLEHASSLEHATEMAILETCETCETC"

2) This is a teaser, meant to hint at the possibilities when the Mother of Mercy Psychiatric Hospital makes its appearance in the game. My other teasers will also pick features or content that the devs had made public and do the same. Anything more would require me being in the beta, and if that were the case, the NDA wouldn't allow me to post more info without getting banned, sued, etc. So back to square one there.

A full-on, "here's what's REALLY in the issue", balls-to-the-wall-AWESOME trailer (assuming I can reach such a lofty hope) has to wait until the issue goes into open beta and I can film it. Sad but true.

3) See 1 and 2.

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This question is for you Sam. In some of the scenes in this video the scenes were extra clean(:16-:35). How did you do it? Are these shots taken from the game recording tools or are you using third party stuff?
Nope, all my recording was done using the /demorecord feature. It helps I have a fast rig and a really good video card that can hack me cranking the Ultra Mode settings "up to Eleven", as it were. Then when I play it back, I set my playback speed to 60fps and voila, neat, smooth, and awesome. The shakycam effects are done in post production.

This whole video (finding music, doing vocals, recording in-game, editing, vid conversion, etc) took me about... fourteen to sixteen hours total. I'm not sure exactly how long I took running around in-game to find certain shots. Oy.

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I knew I shouldn't have done this. Sam, this video was nice. I love the Furies and chest of the well. This reminded me of Novel, Web of Arachnos. Nice Job with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6g0G93LtM
I love that video. I still want to go back and redo it now that I've had a couple more years experience under my belt. But I still laugh each time I look at it because I predicted the Incarnate issue two years before they released it.

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Sam's videos are nice but I want official stuff. I want action videos. This thread comments on Sam's stuff but this thread is really a request for hard-hitting stuff in the next video when they make it.

Thank for your time....
Ha ha ha... oh, you poor deluded soul. Allow me to remove the scales from your eyes.

There is nobody, NO-BO-DY, on these forums, in this game, on this planet, who screams more loudly and relentlessly for more videos from the marketing team than I. Not no-body, not no-how. I beg. I plead. I threaten. I make mine hoping to appeal to some sense of competitiveness that "well, if that wannabe dev hack can make stuff with a half-a** rig and no budget, imagine what WE could do!!!!"*

Anyway, if you were to ask Black Pebble his definition of "hell", I'm sure I feature in there somewhere.

And that's all I've got to say about that.

*bampf*

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*Actually, that's not entirely true. I also make mine because a few players like them, and because I still hold out the vain hope that one day I will be good enough to do this professionally. Not at Paragon Studios, mind you. I finally gave up on that. But someplace else might be nice. Just not Cryptic. Even I have standards.

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)

 

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I believe it was said somewhere those attending the con in July might see the first videos of I21. So there's your answer.

 

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I believe it was said somewhere those attending the con in July might see the first videos of I21. So there's your answer.
Yes - per Zwillinger on one of last week's Ustreams, it was their goal to be able to show the first trailer at San Diego Comic-Con 2011. Here's hoping a) they meet the goal, and b) someone at the 'con films it and puts it on YouTube!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)

 

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Phineas: What are we going to do today?

Brain: The same thing we do every day... TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Those two need to get together. Ferb and Pinky rock, but just think if Phineas and Brain got together...

My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

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I hope the Paragon team let's us know ASAP as to when they expect the release of FREEDOM! I am getting some interest from friends and hope to scoop them up but their time is limited sooooooooooooo I want to hook them before that other new game hits the shelves....you know...the one from a galaxy far, far away.....

Mind you, we all may just go there if the content quality/interest doesn't pick up

 

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Yes - per Zwillinger on one of last week's Ustreams, it was their goal to be able to show the first trailer at San Diego Comic-Con 2011. Here's hoping a) they meet the goal, and b) someone at the 'con films it and puts it on YouTube!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I'm pretty sure I actually said "We're working on it" and Positron said something about SDCC .

I usually know better than to ever give a timeframe.

Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios

 

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
I'm pretty sure I actually said "We're working on it" and Positron said something about SDCC .

I usually know better than to ever give a timeframe.
Details, details... *waves her hand dismissively*

But we can always check the Ustream - pretty sure it was near the end of the cast.

EDIT: Damn him, he was right. Per the Ustream (56:48):

Zwillinger: "And Samuraiko, to answer your question about when you're getting your first Issue 21 COH Freedom trailer, uh, I know that it's 'being worked on.' *whispers* That's all I can say."
Positron: *whispering and crossing his fingers* "COMIC-CON!"
Zwillinger: "Yeah, fingers crossed!"
Positron: "Fingers crossed!"
War Witch: "Fingers crossed!"
Zwillinger: "We'll see, we'll see. Hopefully. Who knows?"

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)