FUDK4: Enjoy The Pain

by Oozo

http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=167725

WARNING: You are about to enter the faceroll zone. If you do not like protection warriors, do not proceed. If you do not like twinks, do not proceed. If these things don't bother you, then by all means continue onward and ENJOY THE PAIN.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

ONE vs. AV ZERG
BADASS DANCE MOVES
HATE CRIMES
ENEMY TWINKS
PUSSY. LOTS OF IT.
ENEMY RED AND ORANGE CONS.

This warrior was levelled to 60 in a few days via friend link. It was the first time I've played a warrior, so you will see some mistakes as I was working out my keybinds, macros, and timing. The protection warrior was very unbalanced when compared to fury and arms. Those builds couldn't compete as a twink, since they did less damage... at the cost of having less survivability and less mobility. Hold it, what did I just say? Yeah, right. Stupidly unbalanced. I'm glad to see that Blizzard has come to their senses with regards to the changes coming to warriors in Cataclysm.

SONGS/CONTENT:

ENJOY THE PAIN - 16 VOLT
Intro
1v2 - 69 Warlock/65 Hunter
Interrupted 1v3 - 68 Death Knight/64 Death Knight/62 Druid (already low health)
Chain 1v8 - 60 Death Knight/52 Warlock (x2)/53 Rogue/60 Warrior Twink (DEoI)/56 Mage (runs away)/58 Druid/56 Mage/60 Hunter Twink

JUST ONE FIX - MINISTRY
Chain 1v6 - 60 Warrior/56 Rogue(x2)/54 Warlock/52 Rogue/55 Shaman
1v3 - 62 Druid/69 Hunter/64 Warlock - 3 more kills after INC heals
Chain 1v6 - 54 Warrior/57 Paladin/58 Warrior/60 Warrior/59 Rogue/58 Death Knight

THE DREAMS THAT ROT IN YOUR HEART - 16 VOLT
Interrupted 1v5 - 69 Mage/64 Warrior/68 Paladin/63 Druid/60 Warrior
1v2 - 64 Rogue/62 Rogue
1v2 - 60 Warrior Twink (Sulfuras)/60 Paladin Twink (bad) - defensive CDs on cooldown
1v2 - 64 Warlock/66 Rogue

TWO WIRES THIN - 16 VOLT
1v2 - 68 Hunter/65 Death Knight
1v5 - 51 Hunter/54 Rogue/58 Rogue/60 Rogue/53 Shaman
1v2 - 66 Death Knight/67 Warrior
1v3 - 61 Mage/61 Druid/68 Shaman
1vWTF - 59 Seasoned Defenders (x4)/51 Hunter (x3)/54 Rogue (x2)/55 Shaman (runs away)/57 Warrior (x3)/57 Rogue/59 Dirk Swindle/58 Warlock (runs away)/55 Lana Thunderbrew/60 Murgot Deepforge/ and a few others

ALKALI - 16 VOLT
1v1 - 60 Druid Twink (trolls be flippin' out, mon)
2v4 - 61 Warlock/66 Shaman/67 Rogue/67 Warrior
2v4 - 60 Twink Prot Warrior with 20K HP buffed in last stand. This fight was won before the adds, he had used his defensive CDs while I still had mine available.
Some 60 Rogue Nostalgia

I've been entertaining the idea of doing a 60 nostalgia video before Cataclysm hits. I added these clips so you know that I've been on the other side of this gear disparity. I know what it's like. I have no disrespect for the people killed in this movie, in most cases they had absolutely no way of winning the fight. But, hey... that's the World of Gearcraft for you.

FUDK2: Battleground Hero

by Oozo

Update: The movie is published at http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=152675

As expected, the ratings are all over the place. Some like it, others hate it. Most that hate it, hate it for lame and/or incorrect reasoning. But, that's just the way it goes. :) What was unexpected, is that they decided to feature it. Pretty risky, given that a good portion of WCM viewers dismiss this kind of movie out of hand.

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The movie is rendering now and should be uploaded to WCM within a few days. This movie will focus more on objective-based PvP than the 1vN PvP bloodbath featured in FUDK. I've also decided to add some humor segments to the movie, similar to what I did for the Huntard movie.

ATM, I'm inclined to keep a humor storyline going as it opens up avenues to talk about different elements of the game. Are DKs overpowered from 50-79? Can a lowbie contribute in his PvP bracket? How do you jump warrior charges and intercepts consistently?

It would also allow me to tie in my shadowpriest, hunter, druid, and rogue 70 movies and even go waaaaaaay back and do a "best of" nostalgia movie from my Chromed/Oozo pre-TBC footage. I am missing a few of the fullsize movies (Oozo's Fear and Chromed's Poison most noteably), but I should have enough to put something interesting together.

But, I digress. Breakdown and credits for the movie follow. Again, it is heavily edited such that the action and events in the movie sync up with the music. In order to do this I have to zoom, fast forward, slow mo, cut, paste, etc. etc. Lots of work went into this.


PART 1 - Scrubs Anonymous (humor intro)

- Toasty Loop by Jimbob

- Stealth Game Over by Jimbob

- Badass Theme - Loopmaster

- Eeeeeeeeeee! from Austin Powers "Goldmember"

PART 2 - Return to Bass by Meat Beat Manifesto (pvp segment)

PART 3 - Tzolk'in by Imprintz & Kleo (pvp segment)

PART 4 - Showdown (Excision Remix) by Pendulum (pvp/dance segment)

PART 5 - Industrial Love by ISTW (humor segment)

PART 6 - Montage from Team America (pvp montage, duh?)

PART 7 - Ray's Whipass by Mike O'Connor and Ray (credits)

Will update with link when it is published.

FUDK INC

by Oozo

As I type, iFyoUDeathKnight (FUDK) is uploading at Warcraft Movies. There is a risk that they will reject it because of it's filesize (930 MB for 23 minutes). I wanted to keep the movie HQ for those who stream. I'm crossing my fingers on this one, because I really really really don't want to sit through another 15 hour render hoping some error doesn't occur 10+ hours into the render (which has happened a few times on this movie already).

I'll have a full write-up for this movie later tonight.

iFyoUDeathKnight Trailer

by Oozo


By far, the Death Knight has been the most dominating class I've played in 70 AV. This had led to many 1vN clips, many of which are 1v4s or 1v5s. Also, I've had some crazy kill chains up to 8 to 10 people back-to-back.

Now, the question is: how do I present this material?

I could go documentary style similar to my Warhammer Choppa movies with added commentary. Or I could go for editting and pure entertainment value. Either way I want to give the viewer some way of understanding what happened and how my enviroment affects the decisions I make. In this trailer I am going for editting, but also do some slowmos and zooms to help the view follow the action, particularly for those who only watch movies via streams. Without zooming, stream-viewers would miss so much of what is happening.

But, does trying to accomodate both types of viewers lead to overall failure? I could go for a movie that is a mixture of what I do in this trailer but also uneditted footage with commentary. This might be the best approach. Otherwise, I fear most viewers would miss the little things I do that help me win these 1v5s. It's not facerolling. There is a lot of thought put into my actions here. But, how should I convey that without coming across as a pretentious ass?

Wait. I am a pretentious ass. Ah, nevermind then.

You can get a fullsize download at Warcraft Movies. Don't forget to rate! (even if you think it sucks)

Allods Grounded for Bad Behavior. Back to WoW Again

by Oozo

Taugrim and Keen have covered the Allods cash shop fiasco in its entirety. I'll just say that once I lose trust in something (or someone) they have almost zero chance of getting me back. However, I'll still keep an eye on the game in case a miracle occurs.

As far as the positives for Allods for me? The game is very pretty and runs extremely well on my machine. I never dropped below 30 FPS while recording with FRAPS. No other game has performed that well under FRAPS for me. It would have been a pleasure making Allods movies. Also, the character development system intrigues me.

Besides the cash shop, there were other significant negatives for me. The character development system is intriguing, but also slow. It takes a good bit of time before your character "progresses" by picking up new abilities. So, you have to spend a lot of time using the same abilities over and over and over and over. That's not so bad at upper levels where you have many abilities to learn and explore synergies. However, it's not good at low levels where you only have a few abilities. Tedium set in pretty fast for me.

Another thing I did not like was melee movement. It felt clunky to me. Then again, pretty much anything is going to feel clunky when you are coming directly from playing WoW. It took me a long time to get used to the clunkiness of Warhammer. So, that is something I might have gotten used to over time. One thing I would never get used to is one of the Scout abilities. It causes you to vanish and appear behind or at the side of your target. Unfortunately, it also drops mouse look when you use it. I use my mouse for circle strafing. Using that ability takes you out of strafe mode. You actually have to release the mouse button and then hold it down again to continue strafing. By that time your movement has been compromised.

If I was to play Allods, I'd probably play a caster.

For now, I'm back to playing WoW. This time I'm checking out the Death Knight. It's easily the most powerful of my twink projects so far. Even surpassing the rogue who had quite a bit of arena gear. 1v3s are common and 1v4+s are doable in the 69-70 range. I've thrown up a clip as a preview. There are a few things I still need to fix with the editting, but it gives a pretty good idea what the DK is capable of in the 61-70 AV.

edit: Clip removed as I've added a legit trailer for the movie.