I’d never played through the Headhunter content before, somehow missing them in my single player escapades. JBG came up with a couple of interesting twists to spice things up: starting afresh with a new character, and limiting ourselves to a single weapon.
The gameplay was relatively uninspiring, but given the original $2.99 price tag I guess you can’t really expect too much. We were given an interesting mix of bad guys to fight off, and our level 30 characters ran into a bit of trouble a couple of times.
We had a few technical issues during the recording of this video (not least JBG managing to turn off recording when he meant to mute his microphone!) but I think the edit actually comes out pretty well. We plan to continue with some of the other Headhunter missions in the future, so we’ll see how they go.
When AD asked me at the end of this video what I thought of the gameplay my immediate answer was rubbish; I’m never going to rate shooting pumpkins as a pleasurable pastime. The game restrictions we forced on ourselves were interesting entertainment though, especially as it was the first time we’d done something beyond straight gameplay.
For a start we played as each other’s Avatar, in that I was using a level 30 Axton and AD was using a level 30 Siren. On top of that, we had to allocate skill points and only carry one gun going into the level.
So, while I didn’t enjoy the gameplay and we DIED (once – a fire breathing flying pumpkin got us), it is actually quite entertaining to watch.
On the technical front, this was the first video we used OBS to record webcam. As ever we messed it up royally by only specifying 2.5Mbs data rate for the 720P video, which means our greenscreens had a lot of compression artefacts in the background. For once AD’s looked better than mine after it was chroma keyed.
We live and learn. We have since tested 720P @5Mbs and the chroma key works well. You’ll see that in the next headhunter video.
For now, have fun.