I don’t really have much to say about this video, as I seemed to spend most of it locked behind a grate trying to futilely assist JBG as he bravely fought all manner of magic creatures alone.
The slaughter missions seem to be very ‘marmite’ moments, in that they’re either incredible fun, or just more hassle than they’re worth. Sadly, this one seemed to fall into the latter category.
All manner of high level enemies was bad enough, but that coupled with numerous floor traps, flames and a precipice all around the level that meant instant death meant that staying alive in these missions was a real feat of achievement. One which I summarily failed to achieve.
I doubt I’ll be back, sorry Murderlin.
My overriding memory of this video has little to do with the gameplay and everything to do with the slog it was to bring together as a functioning video.
We’d been using facecam for a while and noticed some issues with lipsync for videos over an hour. This video was the first time we really started to get to grips with it.
We discovered MS Camera was recording at a much lower framerate than it reported. All our gameplay is recorded 30fps @48000Khz The camera was recording 14fps @44100Khz.
The short term solution was to eventually transcode the source webcam from 14fps to 30fps and then use that in Premiere Pro. They lipsync drift was solved at the cost of 3hrs additional transcoding before we ever got to start editing the video. We immediately started seeking a quicker solution.
The answer was OBS (Open Broadcast Software) which takes the webcam footage and codes it on the fly to our required 30fps @48000Khz. It wasn’t perfect by any measure, in fact, it was a step back in the quality of the captured chroma key background, but that’s a story for another day.
In the meantime, my memory of the gameplay itself was that I kicked arse once I realised running around the level was a bad idea and holding our ground was the way forward. My high powered, movement limiting shield helped a lot.