great video. Nice job! Keep up the good work!

Not watched it yet.

Immediate thoughts? Nice looking cfg :)

Thanks. Wolfcam is great when it comes to making the game look pretty awesome.

Watched it an payed alot of attention.

Think you did a very good analysis. Well done. +

Didn't watch till the end, but it looked like you're just a substitute for subtitles, explaining things like "he just grabbed a yellow and strenx isn't shooting back with rockets."

Will watch later and post more.

I highly recommend watch more into it. Some situations are more dull and thus there is less to really explain. There is more detail in some of the more key situations.

No offence man, but he's right. You didn't once state what you would expect him to do in a situation or why (if) you were surprised by any of his decisions. You just stated what was going on the screen. For instance when he failed 2 rocketjumps you didn't have any observations on whether that just changed his initial plan - you just commented on his health and armor.

I dont agree with you. He even rewindes at one point to explain why rapha shoots rockets at certain places.

even there, I think his explanation was wrong, especially for rapha's 1st rocket

hey this was sick nice job.

do more vids like this

Thanks man.

sound isnt synced -_-

I know. Fraps desyncs the audio. And it has like a bungee cord effect where it falls ahead or behind. Trying to figure out what to do to fix the issue. :/

A few things about the match that I think you missed

1:54 Dropping down to tele like that is free dmg for strenx and the tele puts him right back in a better position, then when rapha goes thru tele he flicks right because strenx was above red trying to do dmg.

3:20 when he's spamming grenades on mega and drops on sg, he was about to sandwich strenx between grenades and rockets, which is fkn smart but he hears the mega pickup and leaves.

The thing with using ledges as a barrier, its not really because strenx's lg is better than his, you do that get out of the line of fire when switching weapons or during reloads for rockets. No reason to stand there getting shot when you can't return some dmg.

everything else was pretty good, but play-by-play isn't very useful as far as analysis goes. There's positioning, map control, and knowing the other guys stack based on wheres he's been on the map for things to talk about instead of what items he picked up or hitting rockets which the viewers see themselves.

Keep going though. d('-' z)

I want to say I didn't like it, but I dont want to say that because that is rude. Also I like the effort put forth. I think the commentary was overly elementary in most instances

i'd just say if you don't know what exactly someone is doing during a match it's much better to be silent or make no comment instead of guessing or predicting. there's absolutely nothing wrong with some periods of silence throughout a commentary.

also please have default gun position, that is a huge pet peeve of mine.

keep it up!

fixed gun

I would say overall you had some good insight. But for next time, watch the demo at least a few times first, then watch it again doing practice commentary. Once you know the demo's gameplay and know what you're going to say, do the real recording.

Other than that, nicely done.

I suppose thisis your first commentary: nice job! With time, u'll do even better following suggestions like the ones above. Keep up with the good work.

even though i'm not a duel player, here are some thoughts that you may consider adding in upcoming releases:

- 1:50 and over: focus in some small things he does, that cost him less than half a second to do but that end up giving him a nice advantage right afterwards and for the whole match.
He went backwards to pick up the grenade launcher, then gets some lg ammo and grenades, and plasma gun.

- 3:10 positioning change is intentional/forced by rapha.

- 3:35 would have been an excellent move by strenx, if he was to take the hp bubble. Was he way over 100 hp to don't rj to pick it up? Probably not.

- 10:37. That's why everyone makes a big deal about strenx's shaft. He got caught off guard and has a much lesser stack, yet he managed to get rapha down to 50hp from 180/87.

- 10:37 Also note that top players dodging is superb. Another example can be found at 12:01

- 13:08 final scoreboard. Accs are in a whole different level, especially considering that they both spam lg to help locking the target faster and their dodging, so in this case mg is a good way to appreciate the big gap that exists between top players and the rest.

- and in general: I'd rather watch a video commentary with play-by-play analysis than listening to someone talking about map control almost exclusively, because that's what casters have been doing since streams (and vent/winamp gtv commentary) started.

Noted. :)

try and comment on your games first maybe. this, like previously said is too elementary

2 people doing this now \o
now we need zsx, garpy, stermy & rapha to man up too

the problem is at this level players doesnt really just play the game itself they kinda like playing poker with a lot of leveling, mindgames etc... seeing this without playing for a long time is pretty hard and youll missing out a lot.

id say if u want to stick to with strategical analysis commentary it would be good to grab someone 1600+ points as a side-commentator and asking questions to him etc... i know its not easy to get someone in ql community to do anything =))

also you may want to use timescale like in the esl videos.

this

avoided to comment (until now), because I would had been too negative. I liked the poker comparison, because that is what it was mostly that game. Rapha was more clutch and calculated better strenx’ s health and the outcome of fights. His risks worked (barely in most cases, cooller would had said "this is rapha"). It wasn’t as much about positioning and rapha building walls between them (it was a pretty standard dm13 game in that regard).

strenx did some clever moves. The jump at tele (like spyyder said) was one. He did good damage there and merit should had be given to him and not to rapha (for that fight).

I am not sure that rapha spammed those rockets at 8:50 (rewind point) to anticipate strenx’s rjs. Seemed to me, at least the first, like a possible strafe route from ya. For the 2nd rocket I am not sure. A better player could clear that up.

not much learning value from this game imo, apart from the importance of reading well opponents health and being clutch.

The first rocket was to hopefully hit him on his way to 50h since he was screaming when we left the rocket fight. It would do 1 of 2 things, hopefully hit and kill him. Or delay him from getting into a position where he could use MG on me while I'm trying to get to upper YA. Secondly, the 2nd rocket was to prevent him from rushing at me if he decided to be very aggressive and make the quick jumps from middle YA to the Upper corridor.

Obviously this portion of the reply isn't to InDepther but I thought you did a pretty decent job with this video, if it was your first time doing a pro game it was pretty decent. My advice to you would be based on your own comment during the video when you mentioned you weren't exactly sure what fight was coming up. You stated you'd only seen the demo 2-3 times. If you want this to be alot better, then take notes of timestamps in which important things happen and mini notes next to them on what should be talked about. Nothing wrong with taking notes and looking at them while doing these. It's not as though anybody sees you doing it anyhow.

That's my 2 cents

thanks for clarifying

Man, if I could, I'd grab Rapha himself. The only other commentator I know is EVOL. He is a really good Dueler. Only thing is, I don't want to interfere with his channel.

he's the guy with the tattoo who does analysis of his games? I don't think anyone woulod call him a 'really good dueler'

I would DEFINITELY say he's not a really good dueler. In fact, I would say he's pretty effing garbage. But he's learning quickly...and he loves the game and the community.

Also, shameless plug for http://quakepickups.com/. Hung out a lot yesterday, and got some amazing TDM games in. TDM in NA is not dead!

I like your videos btw, we need more of that sort of thing

evol and you are both doing a good job, but the person with the most insight in the game, doing something similar at a non-pro level is memento_mori, albeit he is from europe. you should watch his videos or ask him how he does his stuff.

edit:
http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=post&id=2121334

Indeed, I've seen all his vids and learned loads from them. Great stuff.

Yeah, he does some awesome videos.

on the quality of the production: I'd prefer to see more in-depth analysis instead of making fun of rapha using MG to kill his opponent while speaking too quickly about unnecessary details at times

on the quality of the analysis: if you use your own or friends demos you might 1) learn a lot about the game quickly, 2) explain stuff better because you know what you're doing
there were a handful of nice insights tho, for example how rapha denies direct fights with the lg

I liked it for OK production quality, good voice and ofc the biggest plus, the intention

look at what evol does, great stuff, but he had to go through 3-5 sessions to have a really good analysis for everyone

Actually about the LG fighting I mentioned that a couple times in the video. Also, never made fun of Rapha. I just thought it was sorta funny.

The problem with commentating demos of friends, or even me. Nobody watches. I have no clue how to get in contact with that top 10% of the community. And even if I did, they'd probably just kick me from whatever IRC/Mumble server that they where on.

watched 1 minute, you dont analise, u describe raphas actions...

Don't get discouraged. Take everything we throw at you, sit for a while and reflect on it. Then keep going. If you are prettyawesome as your name indicates, you'll pick up quickly, since this is the whole of ESR teaching you. After that and analyzing more demos, you'll start subconsciously trying these moves out when u duel and you'll get better and better.

KEEP GOING.

yes, some remarks might sound pretty negative but those are kinda encouraging to you personally I hope

Honestly, these comments where much better than expected. There are less and less trolls posting.

Thanks. When it comes to dueling, I don't really like it. I'm mainly learning to duel so that I can commentate on it. Once I get to a point where I know those little things to look for, I'll be done dueling for a while.

Man. If this where UT, my commentating would be so much better. I know that game like the back of my hand. xD

Duel is only fun when you know what you are doing and planning to do to the enemy. So once you get good at dueling, I expect you to fully enjoy it, because that is how the progression goes.

It's like exercise, no fatty wants to do a pushup, however when they get strong and feeling good, they'll want to do more and more until they get physically fit. Then they'll do exercise all the time since its easier and more fun for them.

Same shit.

The only exceptions are people that want to be good at duel because they idolize other quake pros so they emulate them and try hard to become good, some succeed and learn to love duel, most quit though. And those that just want to be competitive so they pick the hardest route in quake which is duel and strive to get good whether or not they like it.

Once you start to understand duel better you may not want to play anything else.

If you're going to do more pro demos, I would suggest watching them a few times with wallhack on, and write down some notes on different situations before doing the commentary.

i wouldnt bother with anything else tbh... duel by far the best and most complex mode, tdm arent too far but thats about it... others are utter crap

Totally agree with this. I got an email for the quake zero beta whenever (Jan 2009 I think), and hadn't played Q3 since 2000. So I hopped in, and most people were playing CA, so I tried it. I was awful, and everyone talked shit, so I was like "fuck this!" and probably went back to play tetris or cs:s or something. Picked it up again about a year later, but mostly played CA. Tried to duel a couple of times, and got 30-0 raped. Did not seem fun. CA was the shit!

I feel like I was improving for a while, learning to strafe jump, aim, learning when to use what weapons, learning the maps, etc. I guess I got to be *ok* in CA (but not great. Maybe skillrating 86, but lol @ skillrating).

So at one point I noticed that I was only good in CA when I would do damage from the side, or in large team battles. I was terrible at engaging 1 on 1. I decided to take up duel, since my skill had plateaued in CA.

I'm still bad at duel, but definitely improving. It takes a lot of mental energy to duel though. I maybe only play duels 2 nights a week. The rest of the time I play TDM if I can, or just FFA, which I love now (and visje's youtube channel has inspired me to become truly great at it).

Anyway, point being, I'm getting way better faster now that I play more duel, TDM and FFA. Also, I can't fucking stand CA anymore. Tried to join a game about a week ago, and it's so goddamn frustrating and retarded. People only play for their own score, and not for a team win. My fav is the guys that say "GO BRIDGE!!!" and then go pillars w/ rail.

86 skillrating is hardly plateau. there is something called duel arena (by heartless), too :@

2gd should analyse, or ask rapha

Then go ask him. Because I'm not him. Wrong thread.

lets get rapha in the hizzzzyyyyyy

I enjoyed it and thought it was good for your first try with a pro level duel game.

Unfortunately there are some things you did not go into as much depth with as you could have but you don't realize these things until you improve your own duel game (imo). Or it is probably just because I know Rapha's playstyle pretty well by now lol.

Good effort, I'd like to see more people doing this. Hell, the players should do this with their own games too.

good job, nice config, keep it going!

Just a quick note, it's plasma gun not pulse gun. :)

I think the videos you do are really nice, keep it up!

Can't help saying Pulse Gun. Damn you UT!!! xD

in that case its link gun. nub

sorry pulse gun 2k4 nub

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yeah I'm probably gonna sound like an annoying youtube commentor writing on some guitar video or something. tune your guitar man!!!! work on your bends!!!!!!! but really.. this is just bad. I can't say much more than that. I had to turn it off. your analysis is not insightful and quite often you just have no idea what's actually going on, and this is just in the first 2 mins or whatever I watched. you posted this presumably for constructive criticism. I can't get much more constructive when your whole foundation is so flawed. no offense or whatever.

No offense, but two minutes is hardly enough to base an opinion on. Unfortunately, I'll be around for a while. :P

no, it's really not. I've been playing Q3 since 1999 and I'm a pretty high level dueler. it just wasn't good, and you seem a little bit arrogant for reasons unknown to me. if you're really dedicated to Quake, you wouldn't be the first person. but demonstrate it. put in the effort and the work and learn the game, and don't leave after two weeks, like, say, The Beard. cause I'm skeptical.

Also, get a sick ass quake tattoo on your arm, like that psycho EVOL kid.

I haven't watched that many quake live duel analyses so I can't comment on the actual content, but don't you think that there should be some graphical clues for what is ammo, what is clock, what is health and what is armor? Don't you think that you exclude new and inexperienced players from your audience without default hud?

it was confusing even for me and I'm a really experienced player whose game revolves about really precise timing. ;p I kept having to very conspicuously force myself to find the location of the clock..

bad. You had time to view the matche as many times as you wanted, and you came up with a bad analysis. Also your analysis of strenx and rapha is so weak,

Not gonna say what i think about your face also.

lol
muppet show >>>>>> that way
frogurt

qq much?

That I am one sexy mofo? So scared to post under a screename I see. xD

Is this pro level commentary? No. Could rapha or 2gd do better? Probably. Do either of these things matter? Definitely not!

I really enjoyed this. Yeah, it wasn't the BEST analysis you could have done, but it was your first time trying to comment a pro level match and I thought you did a pretty good job. The best part about doing these in my opinion is the fact that you are going to be looking for the parts that don't immediately stick out to the novice player, and your ability to analyze situations in game will improve, allowing you to do a better job in the future.

I really look forward to more of these, and I hope a few naysayers don't keep you from doing it.

Tyryl, I understand you're a good player, but try and see that this video isn't for a guy of your caliber. I understand it's frustrating seeing things others might not, but he's young and he's trying, and honestly that should count for a lot considering how little anyone does for this game. =)

The best part about doing these in my opinion is the fact that you are going to be looking for the parts that don't immediately stick out to the novice player

like which (give an example)?? and he is a novice player himself

Tyryl, I understand you're a good player, but try and see that this video isn't for a guy of your caliber

then why he isn't talking about basic things, like the importance of stack, initial spawns, weapon choices etc.? Memento is 10 times as good as he is and he only spoke about basic stuff, instead of pseudo-meta-game strategies. Because that is what u do if u go as deep as to try to analyze a rapha’s game.

btw someone should glue memento's thread on top, since I find it very honest and informative for noobs (or veterans of other game mods, like ca). For the moment, I will just bumb it.

imo if he is serious about this, he should ask for help from some better players and watch the demos many times before he starts commenting on them, to make sure his points will be worthy and solid.

Good effort and nice initiative… but trying to analyze Kasparov’s game to help other chess players, because u started chess yourself?

I just don't understand the reason to be hard on him. He's not hurting anything.

He's not a novice either. Is he a high level player? No not really, but he's not running around ztn not paying attention to armor with MG out not knowing how to strafe either. My point is, he's LOOKING for things that are above novice level. Maybe he doesn't see these things, and maybe he just overlooked them in the voiceover. So what? He's trying something out and maybe it will help others learn something and make him a better player.

Where is the harm in any of that?

I just don't understand why sometimes u use reply and sometimes don't

do u honestly do it on purpose or not?

just curious

i hate to say this but hes kind of novice for todays skill standards.
not like it would be a problem, i mean its a fucking old game, pretty much everyone can be considered as a beginner who plays only for 1-2 years.
its just when he attempting to "break the code" of the highest skill, sometimes its visible he dont see those depths what an average veteran player would see, and the understanding of the high skill players are even deeper...
i think its ok, since the video aimed toward other beginners, if they learn something from it its all good and reached its purpose. its just it would be more fortunate to analyze other (own or lower skilld) matches as its just as educational but mistakes would be way less numerous.
or either get someone as a side commentator with higher understanding for these pro matches, i know international A players cba to do this, but im sure few of the 1500+ish players could volunteer a few hours if being asked, theyre also really good in terms of skill...

i hate to say this but hes kind of novice for todays skill standards

novice compared to other new players? i don't agree. Most players never even reach this kid's playing level. The majority never get out of tier 2,3 or just outright quit. the tier 4 elite does not make up the majority in this game, they comprise maybe 10% of the total population and that's evidenced every time an elite whines he doens't have a tier to play in to excuse his tierslumming behavior on lower tiered servers.

i think its ok, since the video aimed toward other beginners

exactly, it's good enough. since newbies don't even know where most items spawn on the map let alone "deeper" strategy.

im sure few of the 1500+ish players could volunteer a few hours if being asked, theyre also really good in terms of skill...

didn't rapha do a self commentary of one of his quakecon matches?

please stop preaching the bullshit, my comment wasnt written to you.
yes in term of dueling hes novice, obv he might could be the master of north american space ctf already...
there is no such thing as tiers, or "elites of tiers" or tierslumming in duel.... there is qlranks which is an objective measurement of skill. no need or anyone cares about your personal opinion.
hes 1075 points, losing massively to 1150ish players. the gap between him and a midskiller is there, this is why i said 1500ish points as they could be more than helpful for the guys (and other guys who willing to learn) skill level. obv if he rapha wants to do it himself nothing stands in his way...

hes 1075 points, losing massively to 1150ish players.

omg NOT THAT. that means he doens't have the skill to help new players huh... you know you're right. only rapha can teach newcomers. i stand corrected. '

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

also, noone cares about your opinion.

see wut i did thar

As always, massively missing the point.

trolling as always

I suspect my percentage of troll posts in regards to all is not greater than 5%.

a grown man with so less reading comprehension, always make me wonder how they funcionate in our society...

let me elaborate to you what does 1075 points. he doesnt have the skill to see what going on exactly in a game being played by two international A level players. that leading to he will do a lot of guesses / assumptiont what might turn out to be false, hence it will lead to teaching wrong things.
no, not only rapha can teach newcomers, but when it comes to indepth strategy analysis, you might want a better midskiller to tell why a player do certain things.

now you can stand corrected to the second time...

but as i realize, i argue here with "raythenoob", so i just stop, back to my ignore list, letting you eating shit as you did in the past couple of years.

so long...

you replied to 63 in a contentious manner, disagreeing with his points that it is unfair to be so hard on prettyawesome's commentating skills by saying, quote:

i hate to say this but hes kind of novice for todays skill standards

and now you're trying to backpedal lol

he doesnt have the skill to see what going on exactly in a game being played by two international A level players.

is djwheat a pro dueler? think before you type next time

edit: functunate isn't a word

Since when is djwheat considered an authority as a quake commentator?

for him, it seems like he is.

he is a commentator no? there are only so many? does one have to be an authority to comment on duel matches? apparently not since djwheat did it.

name me a pro dueler who commentates for quake live. go

oh wait... there are none..

gg

calipt, 2gd, zsx, occasionally: czm, rapha, strenx, cooller (russian)...

please just stop.

i'm talking about fulltime commentators. I hate to break out the idiot card, hardly ever do it, but .... wow

what full time commentators you retard?
there isnt such a job in quake economy. only 2-3 LANs / year who do think is commentating full time?

calipt and 2gd was contracted by esl, not sure about zsx but he was commentating pretty often iirc, others recently hop in to the guest seat for a few matches.

greasedscottsman is what then? part-time? you sure?

and no shit there's only so many events per year, but you see the same guys commentating at those events for a reason... and it is not because they are pro players, they are pro commentators, the one variable you seemed to have missed in regards to prettyawesome who is a GOOD commentator.

and again i say, if you think you can do better, do it.

greasedscotsman hardly ever does analysis, this the other guys job who sits next to him and most times happens to be a good player. he does mostly play-by-play hyping excitement, making the other guy elaborate things what might not be clear, etc...

in regards to prettyawesome's video. There's a reason he didn't get into more detail and he mentions that within the first minute of the video: Because he didn't want to make 2 videos (over 2 parts), hence the condensed version (so it fits into a 15 min video).

There's a reason he didn't get into more detail

at least we could had a good laugh, if he had done a longer “in depth” video

elitism showing through?

djwheat used to be stylez519 iirc, he was atleast semi-decent at tdm and in one of the better teams the us ever had. in short, stfu.

noone is questioning his abilities, point is, he's now commentating more than playing. Which is my point,that one does not need to be "actively" pro at duel to commentate or to make the kinds of videos prettyawesome is. And again, for tards like you, he's not trying to teach rapha and strenx how to play....

well i admire his work, i just think the direction he takes might not be the best for him...

did djwheat attempted to do indepth strategy analysis in a day9esque manner?

"think before you type next time"

oh wait

dont think, ure incapable of, and well... dont type either (im speaking behalf of the QL community).

thank you

what is this indepth strategy analysis you keep speaking of. There's no need for that at the moment. There is however, a need to get new players into the game by teaching them basic dueling strategies. Prettyawesome is doing just that. Overtime he will get even better at them. If you don't have the patience to wait for someone else to do better, than perhaps you can do it better yourself?

here u r

I am sure prettyawesome would also benefit from watching these

ray I like how u take the role of the robin hood of the noobs and I respect that, but here u couldn't be more wrong.

he is ranked 19262 out of 20195 (he is worse than 95% of everyone who plays duel)

I really find no logic whatsoever in that. For me is plain crazy that someone that bad will try to analyze the game of the best players. Like Olmas said, he did assumptions and his assumptions were also wrong. How can u learn something from a math’s teacher when he teaches u that 1+1=3. You are as good as ur teacher.

I prefer to be honest: this is madness

Ps: please mention something that even a noob might have learned from his analysis. I find nothing, apart from seeing the map and learning that rapha and strenx are top players (if he didn’t already knew these).

For me is plain crazy that someone that bad will try to analyze the game of the best players

he is only trying to teach newcomers. (GUYS LIKE HIM).... no need for indepth analysis... noobs just need to know where the spawn points are and to learn how to time, etc. let alone just figuring out the maps.... and where everything is....

I find nothing, apart from seeing the map

that's what a noob dueler wants to learn, the map and where everything is and how an average game is played (by timing items).

Newcomers should rather focus on basics like aim and movement instead of analyzing pro demos. Yeah you might learn a few things here and there but you can't just copy a pros style whose whole game bases on timing and positioning when it will take you 20 sec from mh to ra on ztn ...
It's like watching a nestea build which he prepared exactly for a match and then you go and execute it on ladder.
Mechanics > over analyzed shit. Same applies to quake.
Btw. timing is overrated anyway at least on his level.

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against his analyzes but it's just plain wrong to say that it helps newcomers. Rather watch evol or memento vods.

edit: He should commentate on his own play. Doesn't matter whether it sucks but people could give him advices and he eventually might learn a few things which in the end helps newbies too.

If you watch commentary videos to learn a map, spawns, and how to time items, you are certainly taking the wrong route to learning.

they wont' learn much from getting slummed 16-0 in a beginner's duel game either.

robin hood of the noobs, hahahahhaha. rofl

Listen. I am just going to say this once. This is NOT aimed at people on your skill level. I am wanting to get new players to STAY playing the game. If you have a problem with it, well that's just too bad, isn't it?

It is true, I have only been playing Quake for about 2 years. I played Unreal Tournament much, much more before Quake. It's a different game, different environment.

By my youtube, reddit, and even ESR comments, my videos are and have been helpful. Isn't that what matters?

What really sucks for you, you'll have to see my posts and videos around. I'm here to stay. U MAD?

where you live in the states bro? im a fun-loving outgoing guy pretty mobile so can drive to wherever you live, if ya wanna meet up im sure we wud have a good time, playing with each other, drink couple of beer having some fun... what u say?

lol@omlas

btw: your gay tendencies are shining through

What, what in the butt?

lol no, but u?

pls stay, u r amusing

I stand by all my points. I find nothing useful in ur vid, even for a noob. He could instead watch a demo and save himself from ur wrong assumptions.

Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. Thomas B. Macaulay

ps: I don't know u. I am not telling u to stop (if some ppl like it, THERE U R). I am just being honest. We have a disagreement and it is just that, nothing more.

What the majority of criticism is getting at is that high-level commentary requires high-level understanding.

You'd be better off commentating your own games, pointing out mistakes that you do (which don't happen in rapha vs strenx, but do happen when newbies are playing).