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 After his brush with an alien race dedicated to eradicating all humans, a malicious parasitic epidemic, and other various threats during his time in Halo: Combat Evolved, Master Chief escaped and destroyed Halo Installation 04, concluding the game saying "I think we're just getting started." Well, consider that an understatement; the Covenant have discovered Earth, and now the UNSC must prevent them from glassing the planet and annihilating the entire human race. How This LP Will Be Done This thread will have two playthroughs going on: One playthrough will be done on Normal difficulty for the sake of showing and explaining the game and its mechanics (yes, mechanics besides shooting and moving forward). The other playthrough will be on Legendary, the highest difficulty, for the sake of showing off how frustratingly ridiculous this game can really get, and how it affects the judgment and performance of the players. My friend, ClumsyNutcase (right screen), will be assisting me with playing through the game on this dreaded abhorrent chasm of relentless torment we call a difficulty level. UNSC Major Characters  - Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 - Our main protagonist. The last living soldier from the Spartan II program.The Master Chief is pretty much just a merciless, soulless, killing machine who only exists to take on suicidal tasks. The Spartans are highly trained elite soldiers clad in armor equipped with energy shielding,  - Cortana - A UNSC artificial intelligence. Has served as Master Chief's partner through various missions.Cortana pretty much lives inside Master Chief's helmet. In the previous game, Master Chief was assigned to keep Cortana from falling into enemy hands. Cortana holds an unprecedented amount of data pertaining to Halo as well as UNSC intelligence, such as weapon research, post deployment, and of course, the location of Earth.  - Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson - A highly trained Marine and overall badass.Johnson will be accompanying the Master Chief on a few missions in this game. Johnson was highly regarded among fans during his few brief stints in Halo: Combat Evolved, and because of that, even after being blatantly killed in the first game, he was brought back for no other reason, and it never undergoes any further investigation (as far as the video games go). All we need to know is that he is incredibly helpful in battle. (It possibly has something to do with him being impervious to all damage, but I'm not sure)  - Lieutenant Commander Miranda Keyes - Commanding Officer of UNSC In Amber Clad.Daughter of Captain Jacob Keyes (deceased) and Doctor Elizabeth Halsey. After the death of her father in Combat Evolved, Miranda makes her first appearance in Halo 2, being promoted to the commander of the In Amber Clad, which will be Master Chief's limousine of space travel in this game. She is impervious to all damage in gameplay as well, but she only appears once, so she's not as cool. Then again, this girl is destined for some great things which we will get to later. Covenant Major Characters Thel was an elite in charge of the entire Covenant's expedition to Installation 04, specifically titled the "Supreme Commander". Because of the Master Chief destroying the ring in the previous game, Thel is burdened with the blame for its destruction, branded a heretic, and is subsequently stripped of his rank, his uniform, and his dignity. The Covenant Council decided to have him executed, but the prophet of Truth decided to give him a new rank instead, making him the next Arbiter.  - Rtas 'Vadumee - The ship commander.'Vadumee is an Ultra-ranked Elite and the Covenant Special Operations Ship Master. 'Vadumee often displays great concern for soldiers under his command, and even urges Grunts to get behind elites if necessary. During the events of the first Halo game, the ship master was in charge of a Spec Ops investigation of the fallen ship, Infinite Succor. There, the platoon encountered The Flood for the first time. During the encounter, his second in command became infected, and the former soldier managed to sever 'Vadumee's left mandibles in their engagement. 'Vadumee lost all his soldiers in the platoon during the investigation, but managed to eradicate the rest of the attacking Flood by sending the Infinite Succor on a slipstream course into the nearest sun. Like Johnson, 'Vadumee is also impervious to all damage, and is a very helpful ally for the small amount of time he's around.  - The Prophets Of Truth, Mercy, and Regret - The highest ranking masters of the Covenant.These three prophets lead all of the Covenant with a very religion-oriented system and promises of salvation. In this game, The Prophet Of Regret has lead a Covenant fleet to Earth. Oddly, the prophets have no idea that Earth is their enemies' home world; meaning the prophet didn't come to Earth for human genocide, but for something else... But what? UNSC Weapons  - BR55 Battle RifleRate Of Fire: 2.6 shots (8 rounds) per second Reload Time: 1.7 seconds (1.17 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Melee Time: 0.9 seconds (0.6 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Short to Long Scope: X2 Head Shot: Yes Dual-Wield: No Special Notes: This is the most preferred default weapon in the game. Due to its wide variety of range and being a head shot weapon, it is very handy in just about any situation.  - M7 Submachine GunRate Of Fire: 16 rounds per second Reload Time: 1.45 seconds (3.9 seconds if dual-wielding. 1.24 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Melee Time: 0.8 seconds (0.6 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Short Scope: None Head Shot: No Dual-Wield: Yes Special Notes: Only really helpful when being duel-weld. Messes with your aim.  - M6C MagnumRate Of Fire: 6 rounds per second Reload Time: 1.6 seconds (3.4 seconds if dual-wielding. 1.05 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Melee Time: 0.9 seconds (0.6 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Short to Medium Scope: None Head Shot: Yes Dual-Wield: Yes Special Notes: Definitely not as useful as the Pistol from Halo: CE, but it can still be used well when duel-weld with a Plasma Pistol.  - SRS99C-S2 AMB Sniper RifleRate Of Fire: 2 rounds per second Reload Time: 2.06 seconds (1.88 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Melee Time: 1.36 seconds (0.89 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Long Scope: X5 to X10 Head Shot: Yes Dual-Wield: No Special Notes: It's a Sniper Rifle, therefore it's quintessential to accomplishment.  - M90 CAWS Mark II ShotgunRate Of Fire: 1 round per second Reload Time: 0.67 seconds per shell Melee Time: 0.89 seconds (0.48 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Short Scope: None Head Shot: No Dual-Wield: No Special Notes: When I say short, I really mean it.  - M19 SSM Rocket LauncherRate Of Fire: 2 rounds per second Reload Time: 3.87 seconds (2.25 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Melee Time: 1.1 seconds Range: Medium to Long Scope: X2 Head Shot: No Dual-Wield: No Special Notes: Homes in on vehicles and turrets. Covenant Weapons  - Type-25 Directed Plasma Energy PistolRate Of Fire: 8 normal shots per second. 0.4 charged shots per second Cooldown Time: 2 seconds Melee Time: 0.9 seconds (0.6 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Short to Medium Scope: None Head Shot: No Dual-Wield: Yes Special Notes: Sometimes, the charged up shot homes in a bit too well.  - Type-25 Directed Plasma Energy RifleRate Of Fire: 8 shots per second (12 shots per second if pressed repeatedly fast enough) Cooldown Time: 2.6 seconds Melee Time: 0.9 second (0.64 seconds if done repeatedly) Range: Short to Medium Scope: None Head Shot: No Dual-Wield: Yes Special Notes: Good for taking down energy shielding. Best to dual-wield with SMG.  - Type-33 NeedlerRate Of Fire: 8 shots per second (12 shots per second if pressed repeatedly fast enough) Reload Time: 1.67 seconds (1.11 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Melee Time: 1.02 seconds Range: Short to Medium Scope: None Head Shot: No Dual-Wield: Yes Special Notes: It fires pink junk that explodes.  - Type-50 Particle Beam RifleRate Of Fire: 3 shots per second (but will burn up after 2) Cooldown Time: 3.02 seconds Melee Time: 0.73 seconds Range: Long Scope: X5 to X10 Head Shot: Yes Dual-Wield: No Special Note: An alien sniper rifle. Completely evil in the wrong hands.  - Type-1 Energy SwordMelee Time: 0.42 seconds Range: Short Scope: None Dual-Wield: No Special Note: Swords are very sharp.  - Type-51 Covenant CarbineRate Of Fire: 4.67 shots per second Reload Time: 1.87 seconds (1.21 seconds with fast-reload glitch) Range: Short to Long Scope: X2 Head Shot: Yes Dual-Wield: No Special Note: If you can't find a Battle Rifle, this gun will be your next best bet. The Playthrough So Far Cairo Station    Outskirts  Metropolis  - Part 1 - Part 2The Arbiter  Oracle  Delta Halo  Regret  Sacred Icon  Quarantine Zone  Gravemind  Uprising 
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| # ? May 25, 2013 08:16 |
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Reserved. Just in case.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2012 03:59 |
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Cairo Station   This is where it begins. Nothing extraordinary so far, but we'll be sure to break out of that in the later levels, especially on the Legendary run. KKoserYaks fucked around with this message at Nov 17, 2012 around 02:06 |
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I'll be watching this. I didn't like Halo but I'm curious about the story.
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 23:36 |
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I'll also be watching this, I played the first one and really, really liked it, but never got around the following ones for a number of reasons. I think when Halo 2 first launched it was only for Xbox? And the release for PC was much later? Please correct me if I'm wrong
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| # ? Nov 20, 2012 23:46 |
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Oh, Halo.  My favorite FPS (though I'm not an FPS player, make of that what you will). Excited to see this done on Legendary, I never managed it myself, and hearing a more technical breakdown of weaponry and battle tactics is more refreshing than I thought it'd be. Keeping watch on this LP.As for Sergeant Johnson, there actually as a detailed account of his survival of Halo-- only it was in the novels that were sold after the release of Halo: CE. Does such trivia count as spoilers (or obnoxious), or would you mind if I point them out here and there?
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 00:07 |
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Man, when I was in college, my friends and I played the HELL out of some LAN multiplayer. Do the thread a favor, though. Can you link all the videos in the first post? Thanks. 
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Do you have any plans on doing Halo 3? I watched the two (excellent) LPs of Halo and Halo 2 on the archive, but I'd like to see what finally happens in the third game.
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Suspicious posted:I'll be watching this. I didn't like Halo but I'm curious about the story. I don't want to undermine this particular LP, but Cooked Auto's LPs of the first two Halo games are excellent. He actually digs into the fiction a bit too.
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Haha, you poor motherfucker. Legendary? Really? Gods rest your poor loving souls, I will never get those hours of my life back. Those godddddaaaammmmmnnnnn Snipers....... counterfeitsaint posted:Do you have any plans on doing Halo 3? I watched the two (excellent) LPs of Halo and Halo 2 on the archive, but I'd like to see what finally happens in the third game.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 00:32 |
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StrangeAeon posted:As for Sergeant Johnson, there actually as a detailed account of his survival of Halo-- only it was in the novels that were sold after the release of Halo: CE. Does such trivia count as spoilers (or obnoxious), or would you mind if I point them out here and there? Go for it. counterfeitsaint posted:Do you have any plans on doing Halo 3? I watched the two (excellent) LPs of Halo and Halo 2 on the archive, but I'd like to see what finally happens in the third game. I think TheGreatGilderSneeze still has plans for it. Otherwise, it does sound like a fun thing to try out. If only my Campaign disc wasn't broken (gently caress special edition cases).
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 00:53 |
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Man, did I ever play the poo poo out of Halo 2 as a kid. In retrospect, it's probably my least favorite, but Halo was the first FPS that I really got into so I was super loving excited about this one. Add in the fact that it had online multiplayer, and it was the best thing in the world. Of course, I ended up getting banned from multiplayer because I forgot to turn off my flying Warthog hack. Totally worth it.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 01:00 |
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It sounds like Halo in multiplayer is a giant meta game, I suppose it's a good thing I never got into it.
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Nothing's getting past this platform in one piece. "Sir, they're not bringing their capships in range, they're launching bucket loads of boarding pods." WHO COULD'VE FORSEEN THIS. Earthdef, why did you not mount close defense guns. You are literally the worst. Edit: also wait, if Cortana is in Master Chief's head, who is firing Cairo's gun(s)? Veloxyll fucked around with this message at Nov 21, 2012 around 04:01 |
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Veloxyll posted:Nothing's getting past this platform in one piece. Cortana writes code to handle things while she goes off with Master Chief. She explains it at the beginning of the first game, when she leaves the Pillar of Autumn.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 04:05 |
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The game that I first experienced Xbox Live with and sunk so much time into. Also: 
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 04:27 |
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Monolith. posted:The game that I first experienced Xbox Live with and sunk so much time into. Man, Black was one of those games that I REALLY wish they had brought out on PC. I am so very, very terrible at console shooters.
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Outskirts Time to meet the absolute worst obstacle in the game: Sniper Alley! On Legendary, one shot from the Beam Rifle is instant death, no questions asked, and this is the level where they're the most prevalent in. As a matter of fact, snipers anywhere in this game are an absolute pain, and this level is just the beginning. Well, enjoy our suffering!
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 19:22 |
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Why do you call it a warthog? It's more cat-like than hog. I'd say it looks like a puma.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 19:42 |
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Wait what accents do the Marines have? It kind of sounds like Australian sometimes.
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CharismaticHorsey posted:Why do you call it a warthog? It's more cat-like than hog. I'd say it looks like a puma. It just had to have a name. "The M12 LRV" is too hard to say in conversation.
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CharismaticHorsey posted:Why do you call it a warthog? It's more cat-like than hog. I'd say it looks like a puma. You mean like the shoe company?
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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Spudd posted:Wait what accents do the Marines have? It kind of sounds like Australian sometimes. At least one of them is australian. Also what exactly IS a double shot. Or a BXR for that matter. I would appreciate explanations of your strange techniques and jargon.
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Veloxyll posted:At least one of them is australian. One is Australian, one Mexican, one Southern, and pretty much the rest of them have "neutral" accents. Glitch explanation time! A BXR implies what it implies; B, X, and R pushed in that order (in regular Xbox controls). Basically, there's a glitch in the game where you can press X right after pressing B in order to cancel your melee attack. Because the melee gets canceled, you can either shoot or do another melee without having to wait for the melee animation to finish. So, in online multiplayer, if you were to melee someone with a Battle Rifle, and press X then R immediately after the melee makes contact, you instantly kill your opponent, provided they don't have any extra shielding. BXR doesn't work very well in Campaign due to the fact that the shielding on a Covenant Elite is exponentially larger than an Xbox Live player's. Where it would take 4 shots to the head with a Battle Rifle to take out an enemy's shields and kill them in multiplayer, the average Elite in Campaign would take about 6 to 8 shots. Now, a Double Shot is when you press RRX with a Battle Rifle at a certain speed, which exploits a glitch that allows another Battle Rifle shot to be immediately fired after the first one. Unfortunately, after doing the glitch, the game reloads your weapon (without the reloading animation) and leaves you temporarily helpless. (Kinda like this) Here's where we get around that. A Quad Shot is when you change to your secondary weapon then right back to your Battle Rifle to do the Double Shot again. So basically it would be RRX-YY-RRX (Like here) KKoserYaks fucked around with this message at Nov 24, 2012 around 08:22 |
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Metropolis Part 1 Part 2I was told there's an enemy for each time that I try. I was told there's a new sniper born for each one that has died. I was told there will be no-one to call on when I face a Covenant Elite. I was told if you dream of a checkpoint, you'll find yourself swimming in a lake of plasma. It really doesn't get much worse than this... I really hope it doesn't.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2012 05:39 |
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"If God is love, then you can call me cupid!"
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| # ? Nov 27, 2012 06:31 |
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How the hell did I ever manage to beat this on Legendary solo.
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Many many moons ago, my best friend was moving away from our hometown. This was just before High School started for me, and right around the release of Halo 3. Either before he left or on one of his first visits since moving, he told me of "Gamer Fuel" (we still refuse to call it game fuel)and how terrible it was, telling me to drink it. He even went so far as to buy me a bottle of it, and demanded I drink it. On that day I made a promise to never drink it, and to that day, I have kept that promise. Having been sitting on my bookshelf for years now, the bottle has continued to morph and become disfigured.  Oh, and in case anyone was curious: 
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| # ? Nov 28, 2012 03:13 |
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Oh wow, I didn't even notice Black the first time I looked at this. I haven't played that in about 6 years. Whoa, now that's dedication.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2012 07:04 |
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Drink it. Do it. You bastard I will never be able to sleep at night now because I will be wondering what'll happen if somebody DID drink Gamer Fuel that old. Also I had some of that around the release of Halo 3 just because I was a soda junkie at the time and the stores had replaced their regular mountain dew with it. I had a migraine for a week and promptly swore off soda for the rest of my life.
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Endorph posted:I will never be able to sleep at night now because I will be wondering what'll happen if somebody DID drink Gamer Fuel that old.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2012 14:58 |
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I live in Canada, where they don't sell Game Fuel so this was my shopping trip about a month back: Also I still have a couple of these guys kicking around. I was gonna drink one for the Halo 4 release but completely forgot and now the magic is gone.  As for the LP, not gonna lie I watched the first video and got kinda turned off at how much stuff you didn't show. You did really well at the start being cinematic and trying to show off the game, but then you did stuff like miss the giant ship flying by and walk straight ahead practicing your double shot instead of looking at the huge loving space gun that's firing into a space battle while you're standing on part of its recoil mechanism.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2012 23:06 |
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I'm glad to see a Let's Play of this game. I played the original way back when and was completely underwhelmed. Maybe because I only played the single player, but I never saw what the fuss was all about. The second half of the game with its endlessly repeating corridors and the incredibly annoying potato people simply weren't fun for me. That one loving circular room with an open corridor around it and structures in the middle will haunt my gaming nightmares forever after having to run through copy/pasted versions of it a thousand times .
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:As for the LP, not gonna lie I watched the first video and got kinda turned off at how much stuff you didn't show. You did really well at the start being cinematic and trying to show off the game, but then you did stuff like miss the giant ship flying by and walk straight ahead practicing your double shot instead of looking at the huge loving space gun that's firing into a space battle while you're standing on part of its recoil mechanism. To be fair, there is quite an amount of cool things to look at on the Cairo Station specifically, so I was bound to miss something. I could go back and show it in a bonus video. Maybe I'll make a compilation for stuff I missed in the Normal run.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2012 07:08 |
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The Arbiter What would you have your Arbiter do? Well, for one, give us a break from Master Chief's pathetic attempts to survive the wrath of snipers.
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| # ? Dec 2, 2012 21:39 |
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I never played Halo 2, I had no idea that you played as an Elite. I thought you just picked up the sword because people kept begging for it.
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| # ? Dec 7, 2012 23:32 |
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Oracle As the Arbiter continues his search for the Heretic leader, he finds the worst enemy in the game; holograms... Oh, and we get to fight some Flood. KKoserYaks fucked around with this message at Dec 15, 2012 around 04:20 |
| # ? Dec 11, 2012 00:56 |
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Your normal video seems to skip every 2nd frame or so, it's very jarring and is making me somewhat motion sick. It might just be me or maybe it's YouTube still trying to encode but your legendary run was fine.
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Spudd posted:Your normal video seems to skip every 2nd frame or so, it's very jarring and is making me somewhat motion sick. It might just be me or maybe it's YouTube still trying to encode but your legendary run was fine. Oh geez, more YouTube problems. I'll see if it fixes itself in a few minutes, but if it doesn't, I'll re-upload it. Thanks for catching that. Edit: Yeah, it's a rendering glitch that I seem to have been having often. I'll re-upload the video. KKoserYaks fucked around with this message at Dec 11, 2012 around 15:23 |
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The FPS's on this video are pretty low, you might consider re-uploading it.
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