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Lord Maldoror
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Posted - 2011.10.19 10:20:00 -
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First of all, this series is independent of the 'main' series like Clarion Call 3 and Ironclad, of which there will be more installments soon.
Instead, these battle reports will feature a more 'informal' setting. Usually it will marry fairly raw Fraps to an analysis of the fight in audio commentary.
Youtube Links:
VideoBR: Battle in Notoras * latest VideoBR: Faction Battleship Showdown
(720p and 1080p are available for all video reports)
I'll aim to release one every few weeks and each one will try and focus on a different kind of fight, or aspects that are interesting for different tactical reasons. The first one is uploaded to Link's account but mostly they'll be on the 'rooksandkings' account.
MKV Links:
Generally speaking, the videos will just be on Youtube. However, if a fight is particularly aesthetically pleasing, I will make a 1080p MKV/H264 download available. The Battle in Notoras is one such case. Even the 1080p setting on youtube doesn't really do justice to the scene of the battle, since the bit-rate can't keep up with the storm of lasers, explosions and rapid drone movement. You can get the MKV of Battle in Notoras here (700mb).
However, VLC users, please note: if you have an Nvidia card, you need to enable full dynamic range to view the video correctly (otherwise Youtube versions will be far superior anyway).
The link should show clearly which option to tick in the driver. Without doing this, the VLC/Nvidia combination will produce washed out colours and the black of space will be merely grey. This is because by default, VLC Player turns on "Use Hardware YUV->RGB Conversions", and the Nvidia driver does this with much of the colour range cut off until you change from limited to full dynamic colour range. It's a problem that affects almost all Eve mkvs to some degree and there is not presently enough awareness in the community about it.
Essentially, anyone with an Nvidia card and VLC player who does not either enable full dynamic range or turn off the VLC setting for "Use Hardware YUV>RGB" is watching their MKV with colours 0-15 and 236-255 missing.
Generally I recommend the combination of Media Player and the Combined Community Codec Pack for playback of Eve related MKVs.
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Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2011.10.20 12:49:00 -
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For Zarlak and NightmareX:
Tracks for Battle in Notoras (and from the main battle, rather than the intro) are:
Love Eternal The Last Embrace (title track of the album of that name) Diadema
In that order.
Thanks for the kind words, too. |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2011.10.20 13:42:00 -
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NightmareX wrote:Lord Maldoror wrote: Diadema
And what is the artist name for that song? If you could, then link me that song from YouTube. .
Arcana is the band for all the tracks used in the video. Lots of versions on youtube, e.g. this one.
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Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2011.10.21 11:23:00 -
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URDEAD2ME wrote:where is Episode 1?? any links plz (sorry if im lazy) .
It's linked in the original post just below the Notoras link. Sorry, I should make it a little clearer and number them for future.
Karah Serrigan wrote:May i ask what your computer specs are and what program you are using for recording?
The program is Fraps (3.2.5), although I may switch to using MSI Afterburner since I prefer the codec options it has (Fraps is often thought of as 'uncompressed' but in truth it's not). Keep in mind that using Afterburner will require the use a secondary program to record audio, if you plan on getting TS sound too.
Regarding the computer, my main PC is atm a Sandybridge 2600k @5.5Ghz on a gigabyte P67A UD7, with Tri-SLI 580s for graphics. Since it was some months ago I'm not 100% sure what machine I recorded that fight on, though it would have been a Sandybridge @5+ghz/UD7. I can check the dates if you want.
I notice you are from Team Liquid, of Starcraft goodness, and may be looking to extract the maximum performance from your rig in fleet battles. For what it's worth, my two cents on that: Eve is a totally cpu-limited game in fleet battles. Even a lot of effects that you might assume to be gpu-based, like brackets, are mainly stressing CPU.
I've benchmarked Eve in the past in fleet battles (don't have the link to hand, since the forums here have changed) and whereas in space flying around you might see 99% GPU usage and 50-60% cpu, once you are in a fleet battle with drone movement, brackets, effects, etc. you'll see 20-50% GPU usage (on powerful gpus) and 100% cpu all the time.
A lot of people seem to fly around in space, check gpu usage and upgrade graphics cards. That's a mistake - it's irrelevant whether you have 90 or 400 frames a second when just warping around, what matters is performance in large scale combat, where Eve is actually a great game to overclock for. I've benched the numbers carefully A single Geforce 570 should be sufficient to keep up with a Sandybridge 5.5Ghz in Eve at 1920x1080. The cpu will limit the framerate anyway - and even a top end Sandy will often be reduced to 30-40fps in heavy situations.
The reason I have three 580s overclocked is nothing to do with Eve - for a purely Eve player, that money would be much better spent on better cpu cooling and solid state drives (SSDs are a requirement for our triage pilots, for example). Eve is all about having the fastest core for core performance possible on CPU, i.e. a high revving cpu. By the same logic, you don't want a 990x (the six cores won't help you on the Python code) versus having a 2600k. And since Hyperthreading is useless for Eve too, I usually recommend people in my alliance to get the 2500k and overclock that, which is perfect price/performance ratio.
Sorry for the wall of text. I hope this is useful information and I can dig up those fleet battle benchmarks I made, if you like. I also benchmarked my Intel PC vs. my AMD pc while dualboxing both in the same fight, at one point.
Nice to see Team Liquid on Eve. My friend Archivian still makes popular maps that he releases on your forum, so I check there quite often.
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Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2012.02.18 17:37:00 -
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OP updated with a mini-VBR |
Lord Maldoror
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Posted - 2012.03.29 21:24:00 -
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Video BR 4 is up.. a hefty 30min+ video this time, to make up for the delay from the last one
The Youtube is 1080p but I'll upload an H264 if people want one. |
Lord Maldoror
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Posted - 2012.03.29 22:55:00 -
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Ed Hardi wrote:Lord Maldoror wrote:Video BR 4 is up.. a hefty 30min+ video this time, to make up for the delay from the last one The Youtube is 1080p but I'll upload an H264 if people want one. wow awesome fight you got! you guy's are still amazing! (accept for the hic's ) shame on the logoffsci supers
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Squizz Caphinator wrote:Lord Maldoror wrote:Video BR 4 is up.. a hefty 30min+ video this time, to make up for the delay from the last one The Youtube is 1080p but I'll upload an H264 if people want one. Yes please. Youtube has been pretty horrible at consistent streaming lately, it's no fun to watch a video that needs to buffer every 10 seconds.
It'll be up on eve-files in a few hours, I'll post the link here when it is. |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2012.03.29 23:35:00 -
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Lady Spank wrote:Please clarify the legitimacy of the events and voice communications in this video before I download it. I do like your vids but I don't like being cheated in regards to legitimacy thanks.
Accuracy is enormously important to me. I'm often annoyed when I see video of x vs. x and then see other ships turn up, or solo videos that aren't. If you mean Aperture's concern in their blog, that is addressed here. But to summarise:
- We've killed a lot more of AHARM than they've killed of us (both killboards agree). - If was to show more Aperture kills, I'd have to show proportionally even more of our kills. - Ergo, our videos to them have actually been more friendly to them than the truth.
On that note, actually, a stat prepared by a hostile, if you'll allow a little pride
Of course, we'll see what the future holds and I don't doubt there will be many twists and turns along the way.
As for comms, with video in 2x or 4x realtime and comms at 1x speed, you'll never get full fleet comms, since the comms are broken into wav files and re-sync'd. In a release video they'll also be run through Adobe Audition filters to help clarity, etc. since it's an advert for game and community, but in VideoBR series I generally won't bother. More swearing remains, too. |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2012.03.29 23:47:00 -
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Lexa Hellfury wrote:Andrejs L wrote:Lowest Resist of about 86% unslaved What do the resists go up to when Slaved?
lol, yes, I was baffled by this too but never got round to replying ;)
Vixorz wrote:Lord Maldoror great video, as always.
And thank you for sharing your hardware experiences with Eve client. Very insightful.
o7
Thanks - I've been meaning to get round to writing a benchmark post about Eve during fleet battles, i.e. comparing different hardware in a fleet situation:
- does SSD really help you load grid faster? by how much - does it help to have anything faster than a 570 for fleet combat, versus just more cpu power? - ram drive vs. SSD load times
etc.
I will try and get around to that, I've been a bit slow lately On which note, an early night calls. |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2012.03.31 18:06:00 -
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Angel HUNG wrote:Just found BR4 from a link on reddit, and am greatly disappointed they're not all available to download. Youtube's a **** site, and even if it wasn't, I'd still like to be able to watch these when away from the internet.
Is there a possibility of downloads for all of them?
For those who want it, Anatomy Of a Fight is available here as a direct download: Eve files mirror (1.2gb)
It's an mp4 file, which is a legacy of that being the file format used in its preview at the video morning on Fanfest. But the encoding is still H264 so the same players and issues apply as for playing an H264 MKV.
Thanks for the kind comments. I've updated the OP with the mp4 link. |
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Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2012.03.31 23:17:00 -
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Marlona Sky wrote:As always, amazing stuff!
Did anyone else keep trying to turn Lord's damage control on during the whole video in frustration? lol
Sorry As bonus fail, though, you do get to see me smartbomb my own drones at one point around midway through |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2012.04.02 23:02:00 -
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Angel HUNG wrote: Heyya, thanks for the quick response, but I meant all of them. I've already now downloaded 2 and 4, but 1 and 3 would make a fine addition to my hard drive.
Ah, I see. I'll try and get the other two uploaded for you in the next week or so. Mail me to prod me if it doesn't happen in that timeframe. |
Lord Maldoror
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Posted - 2012.11.01 04:06:00 -
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ISD Athechu wrote:Unlocked on Request of the OP
Cheers :)
OP is updated with VideoBR 5 and has links for both Youtube and MKV. |
Lord Maldoror
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Posted - 2013.05.22 02:22:00 -
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For once something actually got finished in reasonable time, so False Tower actually has a thread already. I have however updated the OP and will endeavour to get all the MKVs up on Eve Files, as people have asked for (False Tower's has one). Rooks and Kings Youtube |
Lord Maldoror
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Posted - 2014.01.19 16:49:00 -
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Thanks, Falcon.
I've updated the main post with links to new videos, released since the time of this thread (which was last updated for The False Tower). And there will be more on the way soon(TM).
I've also added links to some 4K galleries. It's easy to forget sometimes what an amazing spectacle Eve can be, and it remains to be seen if upcoming 'next gen' space simulations can even come close. For that matter I do have a fight recorded in eyeball-searing 2160p, and look forward to the day Youtube can handle it (I may look into doing a large mp4 upload to Eve-files or something, in the meantime).
Rooks and Kings Youtube |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2014.01.20 12:34:00 -
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Altrue wrote:It is the burden of making good videos that to be under the pressure of people always asking for more. Still... I'm asking for more, please :D
I understand that a longer video takes more time to make, but is it planned to make videos of the same length than Anatomy of a Fight or Clarion Call 3 ?
Short stories, or presentations of tactics, are fun and pleasant to watch, but they lack the nearly kinematic depth and intensity that only a 30min video can provide.
Thank you for all these amazing videos anyway.
Thanks and yes, there will be. Rooks and Kings Youtube |
Lord Maldoror
Fairlight Corp Rooks and Kings
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Posted - 2014.04.20 00:07:00 -
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Imgur galleries updated with 4K screens from the record-breaking 49-U battle on Serenity (some of which used in the recent devblog; some more in the album). Rooks and Kings Youtube |
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