Team Exigent: Ascension

Jmmsbnd007 · July 2006

<div class="IPBDescription">Now Available for Download</div>After slaving away in the dungeons of the Exigent corporate headquarters, I have finished our Natural Selection frag highlights video, Team Exigent: Ascension
The clips are comprised from most of our competitive careers, enjoy <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

<a href="http://www.own-age.com/vids/video.aspx?id=8753" target="_blank">http://www.own-age.com/vids/video.aspx?id=8753</a>

<a href="http://www.Team-Exigent.net" target="_blank">http://www.Team-Exigent.net</a>

surprise · July 2006

hey, coooool =D

downloading now and giving some ernest comments later

CoolCookieCooks · July 2006

That was a very interesting watch <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Jiriki · July 2006

Really good stuff! Ten point out of then for video editing and frags were really nice. All the annoying ns sprited had been removed, good codec choice and nice camera usage. Music got better in the end, or rather I didn't like the first piece but thats a subjective question.

For the feedback. Timing with music and video was really good except when the piece changed. And repetition isn't really good imo. The stillimages were brilliant except some were overly photoshopped and some were repeating.

And ns sounds in fragmovies, dunno about that. Sometimes it really worked, sometimes it didn't.

The only real weakness was the ending with Final Countdown. Just ..in the lack of better word.. *removed* and well repeating. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Butt.. Altogether it was really worth to watch. Recommended.

But hey no bloopers, this must be the the ultimate proof of american arrogancy! j/k

DarkFrost · July 2006

I liked the shader effects he used.

Did you code them yourself, jmms?

More than that, is it vac proof? The last one I heard of was sadly not =/

Wiggles · July 2006

I have to agree with what J wrote on NSplayer, it was a poorley composed film of poor frags and replays of average frags over and over. None of the frags that I saw were particually special apart from a double knife kill and a few good tracking moments. Nothing wrong with the music as such but as J said no attempt to sync the frags to the soundtrack.

Not one of the better NS movies I've seen, but then again NS isn't very good for frag movies.

tjosan · July 2006

Best film I've watched in a great while actually. Made me want to play NS seriously again.

MrMojo · August 2006

*How about a little respect*

BobTheJanitor · August 2006

I enjoy a good frag movie, but my system has decided it hates your mp4 file. It plays fine for 10 seconds or so, then I get frozen pic while the audio track continues. I fiddled with settings, I tried updating codecs, I updated my players, but all to no avail. I guess I'll try the low quality download. (Which is only a 10mb difference or so... which strikes me as a little odd) But if this fails, I'm giving up. Idle curiosity about a video can only take a man so far.

wey · August 2006

A small tip: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/" target="_blank">mplayer</a> has released a windows version, which supports all important codecs natively, and runs even faster than the vlc.

I enjoyed the movie. And despite the conservative editing, there were some cool tricks in it (aimbot in spec mode? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> ). And kudos for the ingame-sound. That's a lot of work (unless you captured with fraps :X).
BTW: The FPS are the biggest technical flaw. I read your comment on nsplayer, but didn't really understand it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />. But generally i would dare to claim that 40fps is evil per defenition <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> .

But however, kudos for the great movie. I really can't understand the rants going on at nsplayer. NS has so few movies, and most of them are so much better than the average cs-movies out there (which are like 10000times more).

surprise · August 2006

really, the greatest scenes were the ones fom commanderview, or from above

it was funny to see the teamework, to see that everybody seems to know where he has to stand
great effect

i guess you need hltv-demos for that?
so if i would make demos of me playing i am not able to reproduce that effect?

Dihard · August 2006

The video was good from what I was able to watch. Is it really necessary to use a codec that requires so much processor power to decode? I have a relatively old Athlon XP 2100+ that hasn't presented any problems in games but it maxes out running this video and VLC pretty much crashes when I try to close it. Kinda sad when you can get it to run better by actually rendering it than watching the video...

Jmmsbnd007 · August 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>I enjoy a good frag movie, but my system has decided it hates your mp4 file. It plays fine for 10 seconds or so, then I get frozen pic while the audio track continues. I fiddled with settings, I tried updating codecs, I updated my players, but all to no avail. I guess I'll try the low quality download. (Which is only a 10mb difference or so... which strikes me as a little odd) But if this fails, I'm giving up. Idle curiosity about a video can only take a man so far.</div>
Your computer sucks <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> Download the LQ version <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> Updating your codecs is a waste of time, it's all built-in with VLC

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>A small tip: mplayer has released a windows version, which supports all important codecs natively, and runs even faster than the vlc.

I enjoyed the movie. And despite the conservative editing, there were some cool tricks in it (aimbot in spec mode? smile-fix.gif ). And kudos for the ingame-sound. That's a lot of work (unless you captured with fraps :X).
BTW: The FPS are the biggest technical flaw. I read your comment on nsplayer, but didn't really understand it wink-fix.gif. But generally i would dare to claim that 40fps is evil per defenition smile-fix.gif .

But however, kudos for the great movie. I really can't understand the rants going on at nsplayer. NS has so few movies, and most of them are so much better than the average cs-movies out there (which are like 10000times more).</div>
Thanks for the mplayer tip, I'll check it out in 10 years when I release another frag movie LoL~~! Yeah, ingame sound was a ton of work. All video was captured using startmovie, and all sound was captured using fraps. Thanks for the review, those nsplayer guys are complete morons. "Epitome of mediocrity" --WTH??

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>really, the greatest scenes were the ones fom commanderview, or from above

it was funny to see the teamework, to see that everybody seems to know where he has to stand
great effect

i guess you need hltv-demos for that?
so if i would make demos of me playing i am not able to reproduce that effect?</div>
Apparently you can load an HLTV server and (because HLTV supports demo playback for viewers) load your own POV and you'll get a semi-functional HLTV demo. I'm pretty sure you can only freelook stuff around your player though. Haven't tried it personally, and I didn't have enough time to anyways.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>The video was good from what I was able to watch. Is it really necessary to use a codec that requires so much processor power to decode? I have a relatively old Athlon XP 2100+ that hasn't presented any problems in games but it maxes out running this video and VLC pretty much crashes when I try to close it. Kinda sad when you can get it to run better by actually rendering it than watching the video...</div>
Yeah, sorry. D/l the LQ version and live with the terribad quality <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

BobTheJanitor · August 2006

Yep LQ worked fine. Time to start looking for some new hardware...

coris · August 2006

First of all I want to say that I really, really enjoyed this movie.

I do feel that it's way too long thought, esp. since you're reusing clips that were used in the old exigent movie (pain user leaping at via, pain user in nano from 2.1, froggeh shotgun on origin, double fade sg kill).

I don't really like the music either, but I guess that's only a matter of taste.

Oh, and regarding the performance, mplayerc couldnt handle it (post-processing turned off), VLC could though. Ill give it a go in mplayer and see how it performs.

Oh and btw, I loved that scene on caged where 5 exi skulks rock terror. That footage was awesome from third person!

Jmmsbnd007 · September 2006

Bump due to forum rollback and semi-public forum test

coris · September 2006

OMG BUMP LOCK TOPIC NOW PLZ..
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Cole · September 2006

This movie had 0 ninjas. Perhaps make a special edition directors cut uncensored version pinpointing the exact location of any ninjas that might have been in the video.

N_3 · September 2006

i liked it, well done

Snowknight · September 2006

Very nice Jmms, and /wave.

SpaceJesus · September 2006

+ Good soundtrack (even if it was ripped from other frag movies)
- Too Long
- No Sync with music
- Horrible Gamma/Saturation
- Average frags
- Footage reused from earlier movie

I think that sums it up ....

GISP · October 2006

I have added some other great NS movies on this <a href="http://www.ablens.net" target="_blank">Community</a>
Just look in the Download section...

Jmmsbnd007 · October 2006

Final bump due to forums now being fully public.

tigersmith · November 2006

Jmms i thought it was the best NS frag video ever made. And I hope you guys come back someday. I cant stand watching you play CS. lol

sometimes i bored and i watch you guys on HLTV

Jmmsbnd007 · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tigersmith @ Nov 1 2006, 12:08 PM) [snapback]1571959[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>
Jmms i thought it was the best NS frag video ever made. And I hope you guys come back someday. I cant stand watching you play CS. lol

sometimes i bored and i watch you guys on HLTV
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

SpaceJesus · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tigersmith @ Nov 1 2006, 01:08 PM) [snapback]1571959[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>
Jmms i thought it was the best NS frag video ever made. And I hope you guys come back someday. I cant stand watching you play CS. lol

sometimes i bored and i watch you guys on HLTV
</div>

Are you joking? This video was horrible. Sure the content was good, but everything else let it down to the max. Props to jmms for being bothered to look through that ridiculous amount of demos - but the end result is ultimately lacking. It looks like it's just been thrown together with some music on top.

tigersmith · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SpaceJesus @ Nov 1 2006, 07:23 PM) [snapback]1572180[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>

Are you joking? This video was horrible. Sure the content was good, but everything else let it down to the max. Props to jmms for being bothered to look through that ridiculous amount of demos - but the end result is ultimately lacking. It looks like it's just been thrown together with some music on top. </div>

wow are you joking? You show me a better one. And im sure you cant find one better.

Support the NS Community man. and saying NS videos are crap is not a way of doing that.
Just say its cool or its nice..but dont says its horrible.

SpaceJesus · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tigersmith @ Nov 1 2006, 10:50 PM) [snapback]1572270[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>
wow are you joking? You show me a better one. And im sure you cant find one better.
</div>

<a href="http://www.own-age.com/vids/video.aspx?id=7655" target="_blank">Fananation</a>

You might also want to check out my video Strafe - I'm all for suporting the NS community, however brown-nosing anyone wh odoes anything at all for the community isn't really my cup of tea.

Team Exigent: Ascension

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