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Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2012-01-23T13:27:16+02:00

Hello again everyone.
I have had other things happening and interesting PC shenanigans recently.
I will endeavour to get the 3 videos I made uploaded for review shortly.
Apologies for the delays!

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 23 Jan 2012, 13:27

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-11-08T02:53:21+02:00

I see, though if you ask me you could have just skipped over the battle; but that's just me. Come to think of it I think it would be good for you to mention how to use chat too. It's important to be able to communicate with your team and it's better if you can message without somebody accidentally messaging critical information to all. So I think there should be a little tutorial about using the in-game chat.

Statistics: Posted by lafittejean — 08 Nov 2011, 02:53

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-11-07T12:01:13+02:00

Thanks for the feedback.

The idea for lesson one was just to see a game, rather than to talk about what happened.

There will be further lessons into what to do. I will redo lesson one to reflect this, though. The plan is:
Lesson 1: UI Overview and see a game
Lesson 2: Commands + Basic Build Orders (land first/air first, etc)
Lesson 3: Economy
Lesson 4: Tech Trees
Lessons 5+: Discussion of Actual games.

I will make lesson 1 more explicit about this, though. I've had more than one person say this, now, so I'm going with the idea that I didn't communicate this enough properly!

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 07 Nov 2011, 12:01

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-11-07T07:18:18+02:00

Bravo, I find the idea of a tutorial to be excellent and your video tutorial was not too bad. However the part where you went into battle seemed unneeded after you were done explaining your basic setup. Everything else you did might fly over a new player's head. Overall it was good, but I think the battle flew by too fast to be of any practical learning value, other than the initial build order.

Statistics: Posted by lafittejean — 07 Nov 2011, 07:18

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-11-04T01:48:46+02:00

Episode 1!
Let me know what you all think.
Might redo it as the first 12 seconds is all grey.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 04 Nov 2011, 01:48

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-11-03T10:50:49+02:00

In a break from tradition I actually got some sleep last night, so I will attempt this again today after work. We'll see how well Xsplit plays with me.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 03 Nov 2011, 10:50

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-31T00:37:16+02:00

Huh. When I flatten my videos to be played, they are super weird and stuttery. the audio is fine, but the video frames are all out of order. Anyone else get this problem?

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 31 Oct 2011, 00:37

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-27T10:22:04+02:00

Okay I did a couple as test runs last night. They went ok.

Will possibly redo them sometime today or over the weekend with the drawing on, as it's easier to point out what's going on. I don't like casting without it now.

I have done two lessons:
1) Introduction to FAF: A brief overview of the in-game lobby, what all the options mean (As this will probably be the first bit of FA someone sees) and the objective of a game of FA. In that I mention about ACUs and game objectives, I cheat and spawn a paragon and just build factories to build units and win the game

2) Economy in FA. I go over how the economy works. I talk about the steady income system, how it is similar to TA. I demonstrate by building some pgens and mass extractors. I talk about how you can only build mass extractors over mass spots and hydrocarbons on hydro spots. I talk about what happens when you run out of resources. I talk about build time units vs build power and how to speed up/prioritise your buildings.

As I said, will redo them within a few days and get them put up on YT.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 27 Oct 2011, 10:22

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-24T00:56:22+02:00

First lesson will be on Tues/Weds.
I'm going to go and redo my original noobcasts.

Lesson one will be on:
- Introduction to RTS
- Introduction into FA
-- Game Objective
-- What the basic units are (ACU, Land, Air factories)
-- Differences between Supcom and Starcraft/C&C Style RTS games
- Demonstration of a basic game
- Introduction to FAF Lobby and Client (unless Zep decides it's not ready for that)

This should last 30 minutes to an hour.
I will do this one by myself, as it's a very basic one and even I know the basics

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 24 Oct 2011, 00:56

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-19T11:09:25+02:00

Worst case scenario, we have 1 to of space available on the server...

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 19 Oct 2011, 11:09

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-19T11:04:15+02:00

Wow that was staring me in the face. I forgot that they allowed for bigger videos now.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 19 Oct 2011, 11:04

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-19T10:28:13+02:00

If you use youtube, it would be easier to integrate the video into the website and/or the lobby. Maybe other services allow the integration of a playlist too, have to check.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 19 Oct 2011, 10:28

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-19T10:25:21+02:00

That and you need an existing video to comment. It sounds very convenient to commentate on existing casts, which is a great way for people to get started with doing this kind of thing (so I recommend it to all would-be casters!).

If quality is a problem, I will look into doing the day[9] route and having VoD quality and live quality casts. I would just need somewhere to upload the videos then.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 19 Oct 2011, 10:25

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-19T07:17:09+02:00

Gowerly wrote:
Maybe.
I took a look and it doesn't offer me much that I don't already have with FMLE, so I will probably just stick with that (or move to Xsplit if I cast bigger games).

The benefit is mostly the fact that you don't need to upload anything. You just launch a video and comment, write stuff on the screen on the fly, very user friendly. But I believe that for an experienced caster, it's just a matter of saving time by skipping the upload aspect.

Statistics: Posted by pip — 19 Oct 2011, 07:17

Re: FA(F) and You. A series on how to play the best game eve

2011-10-19T00:34:37+02:00

Maybe.
I took a look and it doesn't offer me much that I don't already have with FMLE, so I will probably just stick with that (or move to Xsplit if I cast bigger games).

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 19 Oct 2011, 00:34