Alpha gameplay: first runthrough

well that explains it, looking forward to seeing the vids when they're done.

Ouch, the old computer sleeps problem... I'll be looking forward to seeing it ... when I get up tomorrow morning.

Couldn't you upload one at a time to get us content more quickly? If FA engineer blobs taught us anything, it's that single manufacturing is better than parallel manufacturing. Even from a channel growth perspective, you'll probably get more interest if you stagger the rate at which you upload your videos, instead of doing them one by one.

Since I got a ton of messages asking if I could upload them one at the time I had to make a difficult decision.

I'm uploading the FFA battle first. this is because it has action almost right away, since my starting position is quite close to one of the enemies.

The FFA video: http://youtu.be/KXICWoDm76A
ETA: 5 hours

This means that the folks from Europe can see it when they get out of work today. The folks in the US can watch it whilst eating their afternoon soup!



I'm still sorry about how this whole ordeal went. You guys should have been able to watch the first vid hours ago. Terribly sorry.

the folks in Australia can watch it at 11pm.. yay! haha better than having to wait till tomorrow though and don't worry about it, could have happened to anyone, i'm just glad that someone is uploading some vids.

Honestly...I don't really care.

You shot some videos of Alpha footage and tried your best to get them to us.

Even if the upload didn't work at first, You are still several levels of awesome

on another note, what recording software do you use & what would you recommend?

I use Fraps, and I let it record at 60fps on 1080p quality. PA doesn't reach that level of fps yet though. Recording on this quality will take a toll on your gpu though. So make sure your rig is up for it. You also need a lot of HDD space. Raw video data of a 30 minute match will be about 100GB. With windows movie maker you can convert it to a playable size of around 2 GB.

I believe he uses Fraps, I use OBS. Both work equally well in my experience! Just a slightly different user interface. And I believe one is supposed to pay for Fraps...

EDIT: Apparently we are in sync. Both replied at exactly the same time...

yeah there is a limited free version of fraps but i was more interested in fining out if there was something with more functionality than that & free. haha So OBS sounds like it.

cannot believe no one else uploaded a video yet... twitch.tv doesn't work at work ...

Be patient my friend, youtube says the video will be ready in about 3 hours. It's very action filled. I'm so close to an enemy, that the t1 artillery from my base is shelling his base!

easier said than done well, maybe I'll try to work at least. Better watch it with Sound on at home

ProTip for the uploader:
Upload first, advertise later.

You are not TotalBiscuit and you apparently do not have a gbit Internet. So don't do it. ^^

That was my fault I'm afraid. I was (still am) giddy with excitement over the whole thing and got the_killer to upload ASAP, and had to tell the world.

Noted - less regressing back to my five-year-old self for next time.

Bad kiddy! :lol:
It is fine if you know the people but if you don't we'll just be uncertain and unable to communicate directly with you guys. We are all in the same boat but this here is still kind of a public place you know man.. dude... Kiddy :twisted:

It's alive, everybody! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXICWoDm76A

Thanks for persevering in uploading the video guys, that was well worth the wait, I know it crashed and there were a few frame issues but still that's the first proper footage of the game I've seen do far and it looks pretty good for an Alpha from where I'm sitting.

Looking forward to your original unboxing video when it finally gets up

That was a great watch. The commenter has a great voice.

Just to let you all know, the_killer has been REALLY busy making PA videos, there's a bunch more on our channel now:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealmVids/videos