My bad.

Filmed them walking around the event? Showing the matches and their reactions? Touring where they were staying? Asking them questions about their ambition that drives them to participate in this event? Etc. Out of the entire film, there was only like 4 minutes of actual game footage related to the event. The other 26 minutes were interviews, and interviews, and more interviews with most of the content from that being really bland.

And if you were so limited, and you knew you had such little to work with, why was it such a "project" in the first place? That's like going to your teacher when your book report was due and saying "sorry teach, I didn't do enough research to write 4 pages so I only wrote 2" with the teacher responding "well then why did you accept that one if you could not complete it with the required 4" when 4 is the required or standard for the said report to make it decent or acceptable. And I do believe resources help to make a film great by giving more room to work with, however in no way does more resources mean a better film. You can throw money on a pile of horse feces, and it's still horse feces just with some extra green on it (Not calling this film horse shit, but I just love using comparisons if you haven't picked that up yet).

I guess I shouldn't have used Free to Play as the comparison in the first place since it's a documentary on the lives of 3 professional Dota players, and not so much on one particular event, even though TI1 is tied into it. However I still believe the documentary on the TI2 event in my second post is still relevant. Sure, Valve has all the footage and angles to make such a high quality professional film, but honestly all I meant is the way they tied in the players, and the game. You seemed to not do this here. One minute Ruwin is on talking about how Pyyyour is his best buddy, and the next Pyyyour is talking about his "internet friends". How does this tie into the event at all? It's like all you asked them was "what do you think of this person?". You didn't even ask them how they got into competitive TF2, how they manage their free time, etc etc etc. Good real questions that a viewer could then bond with the players while they play in this Lan event. People who aren't a part of TF2 could then see what these players go through for their passion at this event and would like to dip their toe in TF2 comp. Anyone outside of our little bubble of TF2, or arguably outside of TF.TV will not get this film at all.

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"Winged it" implies going in without experience. So you can't really wing something well when comparing it to going in knowing what you're doing. You can wing a presentation yes, however you will always do better at that same presentation if you don't wing it.

Why did you push a full film then if you were just winging it? What was the goal? As the quote above this one states, it just looks like you guys got interviews then just randomly decided to piece it all together and slam a title on it to make it look more official. We as the viewers don't set the bar for a film, the people making the film do. If you would've just released a video like this and it was just interviews of players at the event and there wasn't really anything else with a simple "here you go guys sorry it took so long to get these interviews from i46 to you", then I wouldn't have any fault in it. But the way this film was pitched to us the last year and how much of a cool thing it was going to be, in other words a hype train, it really became lack luster when it came out and you're sitting there watching a year of anticipation and hype slowly drain from you. Where did that year of editing go towards? The opening? The diagrams? Surely it doesn't take a year for someone to piece a few videos together in Sony Vegas (example). Yes, you have lives I respect that but it seems like at this point, that is being used as more of an excuse rather than an actual liable reasoning to why there was so much of a higher standard set here only to be dropped way down especially when it's the result of a year's work and effort...

Maybe I'm just expecting too much? I don't know.

Oh if. Okay. I thought you were saying that's what I was implying by my post. Sorry about that misunderstanding.

Then don't label it a documentary when it's not a documentary. A documentary is about a factual event, but they didn't even touch on the event. All they did in 3/4th of the film is interview players. That's not documenting the event as you like to say it is.

And no it was not about the underdogs as I never said it was and I disagree with what mattertea said. It was about the fact they portrayed no aspects of a documentary. All they did was film a few interviews, the event and threw in some TF2 trivia. There's a difference between documenting an event and documentaries. They didn't provide the meat of what a documentary needs which is back story of the event, history, timelines. Events which keep the anticipation of the viewer going. This is why historical documentaries are always so facinating because you come out learning something with the documented data. You didn't learn anything here other then "America beat Europe at some LAN in Europe". You didn't connect with the players, the event, the atmosphere which is what makes documentaries great.

This was a very sub-par film to label it as a documentary. It documented nothing other then a few players opinions about each other and like I said, TF2 trivia with some event footage. I understand everyone here wants TF2 to be on par with things like other esport documentaries, however this is how you run an event documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqk9C1wVT0U. The player stories tie into the event. It keeps you watching for more. It gives you that dose of factual story that makes a documentary amazing. Not to mention there was NO game footage of the event? What? How can you make a documentary about a video game sporting event, and not show clips of the game? I get a more documentary feeling watching old Frag videos like the first minute of The Experiment than watching this 30 minute film because it shows footage of the game during the event.

Okay let me be very frank and very clear in this before I go into explaining it. This "documentary" was actually... kinda awful.

Let me explain what I mean. First off lets look at other documentaries. A good example to me that comes to mind is FRAG: The movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBncjnPP-ts which is still in my mind one of the greatest showings of esports documentaries to date (may be beaten by Free To Play once Valve releases it to the public) even though it focused mainly on the old Quake era. It shows this substance. Let's take into account what a documentary showcases. It showcases the event in question, and the timeline around it. Documentaries are telling you a story. This particular film does not tell you a factual story. It doesn't tell you anything related to the event really other then a select few players. And sure, you can tell a story through the players, however this was not accomplished at all either. You sat down the players and asked them generic questions and had small discussions. You didn't really touch on their gaming lives or experiences that got them up to that point. Their struggles, hardships, commitments, sacrifices to get to the i46 LAN, or to play TF2 on a professional level. That's how you tell a story through the players. Why are they there? What drives them? There was this casual atmosphere around the players that just struck me as odd because it seems to bleak for a "documentary". I also became confused on what this film is supposed to tell anyway. Are we talking about the players or the event? Or both? There was no real direction or subject to the film.

Sorry. I didn't like it especially since it was a year in the making and had so much "hype" behind it. Was expecting more. Was disappointed.

Alright, the files work when I packed it all into one collective .vpk. However, the custom fonts within the vpk will not load now. I read somewhere, Fog was talking about how vpk files do not like font files. How do I get the font files (such as custom crosshairs and custom fonts for huds) to load then?

Now, I know how to pack the files into .vpk format (by opening the file in vpk.exe), however after this point, I don't know where or what to do with the vpk files to load them. I read that you have to mount them or something however I can't seem to find out how.

Also, are these packed correctly?: http://i.imgur.com/zO7bFUr.png

Or do I just pack my entire custom folder (not the custom folder itself, but the one you can name) into one big vpk file?

After some research I fixed it. r_decals is set to 1 in the configs which only allows 1 decal to be displayed at a time, and this applies to sprays as well as to bullet holes, blood, etc.

Default is 2048.

Thanks anyway.

cl_playerspraydisable 0
r_spray_lifetime 2

I have tried that. The very same thing happens.

Oh you ( ° ͜ ʖ°)

A long long while ago I got fed up seeing tentacle porn so I disabled sprays with the in-game menu. Since then, I have switched to dx 8.1, and use max frames. However, I decided "what the fuck sometimes sprays are hilarious so I'll re-enable them". I did so through my max frames config, however the sprays still do not show up. I have tried both using the variables and commands within the config, and disabling the commands altogether (commenting out both the on and off commands) and just unchecking the disable box in the tf2 menu. If I spray my own spray on a wall, you see it for a split second before it just disappears. Is there something in the config that would cause this? I know it's not dx 8.1 because I know people who use sprays still in that dx level.

I just Boston Basher jumped across maps with this yesterday.

That was fun.

Not in pubs. Remember, they're balancing for pubs. I see more W+M1 flamethrowers in pubs, while you ALWAYS see Dead Ringers in pubs. So that's why Pyro wasn't really touched that much.

No, the danger shield has a -% bullet damage or something on it now, so you can't 150 headshot other snipers with it on. Kinda works the same way, just doesn't only apply to headshots.

New particles for Cowmangler don't show up in dx 8. VALVE PLS.

To try and make them as viable as the Degreaser, I believe. Backburner got +10% removed from it, Degreaser got a -10% added to it, but then all flamethrowers got a 10% buff.

Who the fuck balances a team game around 1v1s?

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