When we started this video, we assumed we’d get the final mission wrapped up, and maybe even have time to take in one of the side missions. How wrong we were!
This turned into one of our longer videos, despite cutting out a fair portion in the middle where we found ourselves wandering around the dungeons trying to find our way out!
Tina threw the kitchen sink at us in terms of combat, and we barely had time to draw breath as we fought our way to the top of the tower to take on the Handsome Sorceror in the final battle of this story. The identity of the queen had JBG guessing right up until the end, and led to a real laugh out loud moment when she was revealed.
A very strong ending to this DLC, and one which almost made me weep the first time I played it through.
JBG touches on some of the technical challenges faced in the production and editing of this video, and I need to offer an apology for the annoying level of keyboard and mouse sound on my side. I experimented with using the microphone on my webcam for this video, not realising that it picked up much more of the clicking of keyboard and mouse. Lesson learned!
You could not accuse the developers of the Tina DLC of cutting corners for the finale. It was non-stop for nigh on 90 minutes, with wave after wave of opponents to the very top of the tall tower and the face-off with multiple incarnations of the Handsome Jack bad guy wizard. It’s full-on.
The ending is both poignant and hilarious and is worth the battle to experience it, especially if you liked the characters and story narrative of the main game play-through.
Technically this video was the first time we realised the audio sync on the webcams was drifting when tied with the gameplay. Or the webcam video was drifting from the audio. You can see it on both our videos but more noticeably on AD’s.
The drift turned out to be Microsoft’s Camera application recording at some odd FPS well below the 30fps it reported it was recording. The framerate meant the audio drifted noticeably from 1hr+ when synched with actual 30fps video.
Most issues we can resolve during the edit, sometimes we can’t as was the case here. We apologise for the lack of lipsync at the end of this video.
The short term solution will be to transcode the webcam footage including the audio to 30fps before editing, but that’s a time sink in itself.
Going forward, we will need to find an alternative to MS Camera.