I’ve played with the Replay feature in the TF2 Beta before, but as of today the Replay Update officially went live on the official game, complete with new items, achievements and of course, a film making competition.
This is my first video fiddling with the official Replay feature, and I couldn’t help but notice that while in the Beta it seemed relatively polished and nice, in the official update I either experienced frequent jumps where the game would hang for me, or the replay just plain wouldn’t record/download. That being said, I expect these problems will be ironed out in the coming week, and everything will work well.
In this video, I play a Heavy on Dustbowl wielding the Iron Curtain, Fishcake and Fists. I felt I did rather well, capping the first point and clearing out the final control point. My only real regret was taking the risk of eating the Fishcake on the last point, when the Sniper comes over and penetrates my face with his…arrow. Unlike my previous times with Replay, I took a little bit of time to fiddle with the different cameras you can use. While the game plays in first person perspective, you’re able to “record” from third person, and from “free camera” (the latter of which I do at the end to hover above my death.). Not only that, but you are able to record from the perspective of all teammates and enemies, allowing you to create some interesting build up to a final shot. While I haven’t done anything tremendous with it, you can see my exploring it towards the end, when the camera starts following the Red Sniper. I noticed I was unable to record enemies from a first person perspective; when I tried the final result was a recording of myself in first person instead. I assume this is a bug that will get fixed in the follow up update1.
Unfortunately, as time goes on and I get used to this system, I’ll probably post more of these for you to put up with.
In this video I apologize for the sound quality and the humming of my netbook. I also tell you what you should already know if you read this site at all, and point out that I have a Wolfenstein 3D blog of sorts (which you would also already know).
Speaking of which, it now has a .com type thing! http://WolfingTime.com for all your Wolf3D needs. If you’re anything like me, you have a lot of needs. You needy needy person.
Now, I’m going to drink some water and calling my girlfriend.
Alright, I’m a month and a few days late on my learning a new skill each month idea, but allow me to explain; I was lazy. Too lazy to make a video. UNTIL NOW.
The lighting isn’t greatest, and my face looks retarded, but I can juggle! Not very well and not as good at this guy, but I can. And this month I’m getting lazy with my next choice of useless skill to learn. I am learning how to fold shirts perfectly in two seconds. That’s right; exciting stuff right here. This particular way of folding shirts is an interesting way to do it, and I want to start doing it. Because I can.
While I ask that people primarily put questions for me to answer on my FormSpring, I don’t mind when people post challenges to me either. I asked for them originally, but after about 5000 “Do a back flip” comments, I laid off on asking. The only challenge I’ve done until now is the Shoe On Head meme that inevitably got requested.
Today though, I decided to knock another challenge of the list. The challenge made reads as follows:
Jump up and down screaming "I’m a peanut! i’m a peanut!" you need to film it for me too.
So, sounds simple enough. Since I don’t know who actually made the challenge, I’ve posted it on YouTube, and again here, for you to point and laugh at me.
You can make a new challenge by following this link http://bit.ly/ZPform. Please do; it’s really fun for me to do these things.
Like all sequels, almost none of the original cast is in it. In this case, less Craig, more Aly and Courtney. I had fun editing this, and I’m glad it finally got uploaded. Whether or not it stays up is yet to be decided. Part of the days goal was to set out reviewing coffee and wireless internet throughout Adelaide utilizing only Twitter, and while that isn’t covered in the video, know that essentially it wasn’t planned enough and didn’t reach full fruition. We will probably be attempting something similar again in the future, but a time isn’t decided yet.
