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Competitive FPS Gaming Documented, Exposed

Posted by simoniker on from the of-orient-are dept.

Simon Bysshe writes "I've just released the latest freely downloadable film in my series charting competitive FPS gaming. This film, shot in more of a TV show style compared to my previous Slashdot-featured documentaries, features a Counter-Strike match between the UK 4Kings team & the French Armateam. This time, the film was sponsored by Intel, who also flew in the star Quake3 player Cyrus Malekani (aka proZaC) to present the show. The 24 minute, 185mb WMV movie includes in-depth interviews with the players, extended coverage of games with commentary & post-match tactical analysis covering the key rounds."

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  1. Re:different encode? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you ever get prompted for them, let your WMP 6.4 download the WMP 7-9 codecs. Even better, download WMP 9 and totally disable the player (by associating mplayer2.exe - which is WMP 6.4 - with every 6.4-compatible WMP file type). The only thing you'll be sacrificing is the ability to play Cinepak-encoded QuickTime movies in WMP and the WMP 6.4 Netscape plugin, but you should already have QuickTime or QT Alternative separately, and that plugin never worked right for me anyway.

  2. Re:Text script please by Prien715 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You've got no way of knowing this, but it'd actually be incredibly unhelpful. If you're looking for the teammates talking about the other team, they pretty much say they think they're both good but think they're team is better. As for in game strategy, it's a lot of pointing at the monitor and saying "We decided to rush here [points], but that didn't work, so we camped out here[points]."

    I don't know if Halflife has replay files (ala WC3, SC, etc), but if it did, giving those replays along with an mp3 of audio (start them at the same time as the replay and they should sync) could be a very good way to watch these that doesn't require lots of bandwidth.

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  3. when it comes to FPS gaming documentary by z01d · · Score: 3, Informative


    You must have a look at OdB Productions. The two guy made a bunch films based on several CPL/ClanBase/whatever LAN events. Their works are very professional and entertaining. (IMHO, better than the two files mentioned by /. here)

  4. Re:different encode? by crazyaxemaniac · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Windows Media Player 9 codecs are now available through Windows Update as a separate download.