disable resample, so much blur

It's almost like another streaming channel did something similar to lessons at one time.


D:

inb4 zoto zowie invitational lol

zlive spring season cup!

Nice!

Plussed for including the half beat strafes

Need aim tutorial, thanks.

'how to win' tutorial plz

You see people use plasma jumping in competitive play sometimes (like on ZTN to get to RA), you could have included a clip of that at the end of the plazma jump tutorial instead of some random game play.

Very true, no idea why it didn't cross my mind

That's actually funny, because when I loaded the video first thing I thought "finally I'm gonna get that plazma climb to RA". :D Nevertheless, even without the actual clip this vid is gonna help me.

hope so :)

maybe you could do a map series showing routes and trickjumps that are useful.

Good stuff! Where can people find that HUD that shows key presses? There is always someone looking for that on the "wolfcamQL :D" thread in QL forums, I thought that the old gazhud (if that's what it was called) was broken...

:)

The command is /cg_drawinputcmds 1

Although it does only show from your POV, you can't see the key presses of other players

Awesome, I didn't realize it's so easy! :o

I think the tutorials could be presented better if you recorded yourself doing them, then add the commentary later and used things like pausing/timescale to better illustrate points.
eg: break down forward/strafe/jump/mouse movement in the CJ vid and show it in slow-mo with explanation so people can see the UPS changing.

You could do a basic 'Visuals' tutorial using only the in-game menu to show people how to change things such as picmip, timer direction etc through the menu options. Quickly cover the pros/cons of high quality vs basic etc.
Then also give them links to say visualhud and cfg guides if they want to take more control past the basic in-game options.

Or perhaps a resources tutorial since it is aimed at the new players...visualhud, cfg guides, raztrain link etc.

I did like how quick the tutorials were. I hate being new to something and being forced to sit through a 15-20 minute video explaining something where the commentary drags out much longer than necessary.

Nice work.

Thanks for the feedback, some very good points there!

My aim in these was to create what I felt was a decent explanation of certain aspects of the game. I didn't want to fall in to a trap of over-explaining and turning each part of the movement in to something over-scientific. As you mentioned, I also hate sitting through intensely long tutorials to learn something that should be basic.

If there is more demand for such an explanation on CJ'ing then I'd be happy to do another vid for it, I'm not so scared now I've learned to edit videos a little bit :D

Visuals/config/menu tutorials sounds like a good idea also, I'll have a think on this :)

Cheers!

Nice!

Some small feedback: I think you should extend the rocket jump tutorial a bit. There are so many different kind of jumps, like the one on the stairs to RA on hub (easy), or from RA in direction to TP exit on tox (not so easy). Most of them are not just jump, wait, shoot (imh(noob)o).

There's been a lot of demand for this, I am going to break things down in a follow-up tutorial :)

aero don't even jump, just shoot

I think the tutorials on circle jumping and strafe jumping are too advanced for the quake player that doesn't understand the physics behind strafe jumping. The key to strafe jumping is understanding the acceleration vectors. Its possible, although very hard, to gain an insight into the current values of the vectors based on the speedometer. The best way to understand how the acceleration vectors operate is to see them. I know the defrag engine can show them via some console commands (its been a long time so I forgot them). Once you can see the acceleration vectors then you can practice just bunny hopping and moving your mouse to see how the vectors change. This was the key for me to understand strafe jumping after many years of playing quake. Its unfortunate the quakelive engine doesn't have the ability to show the acceleration vectors (as far as I know).

Circle jumping can be easily understood in terms of the acceleration vectors.


There is some strafe tutorial video from a mod of q3 that shows the acceleration vectors and how they affect your speed, although I can't find it now. Maybe someone knows what I'm talking about.

edit: I couldn't find the video I was thinking of but this is almost as good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAxPgIv4Q8s

I guess the hud is called cgaz hud, and apparently it works with quakelive. Maybe some tutorial on how to install it and how to use it effectively would be useful.

Some people learn that way, some don't. Going in to acceleration vectors is actually more advanced than what I was demonstrating...

I am literally pointing out where one should point their mouse to help them go faster. Trust me, I've taught people to circle jump and strafe in various different ways... a lot of new players don't actually have a damn clue what the cgaz hud lines mean - it is definitely an overcomplication :)

I can certainly understand though that some people would learn more effectively with such a tutorial, but as QL doesn't provide the cgaz hud - I'm not going to include it in the guides. Even if it did exist, I would have to make a separate guide for people to learn how to use it in the first place.. but considering you mentioned that I don't understand how it reflects on the current guide's 'complexity' :S