Palinoia by Poconut

A long time in the making, I give you my humble offering of a frag video.
I've been working hard and long to get it completed before the $W release and the standards rise out of my reach

What to expect:
decent frags
pretty good quality
good music variety (with some obscenities [if anyone cares])
a tiny bit of editing, nothing fantastic

What not to expect:
exploded brains

Length: 12:01
Size: 394 MB

Keep in mind that I only get to play for about five weeks out of the year due to college firewalls so I've been saving up these little bits and pieces for awhile. They're not mondo-impressive, but they're the best I could get and should be entertaining at the least.

Special thanks to Holy Moly for advice on video quality. ^_^

Hope you enjoy!
http://files.filefront.com/palinoia+xvi ... einfo.html

Note: I didn't zip the file because apparently it's impossible to shave more than 2 mb off the file in winrar and winzip. If anybody would care to tell me the secret or zip it themselves and put up a mirror I'd be much obliged. ^_^

As I already said on the steam forums ...I'll watch it as soon as I get my internet back

PRODIGY!

Too many headshots I loved the 3 consecutive frags near the middle. and the bow hit on that huge map, that was insane

Palinoia, haha, it's like an educational frag video

No worries mate my frag video won't be the best. I'm still debating on whether to scrap it or make it. You had some sweet kills in the community vid and I was way impressed.

Palinoia, noun
Compulsive repetition of an act until it's perfect

Will watch when I get home. Looking fwd to it Poco!

Palinoia, noun
Compulsive repetition of an act until it's perfect

thx wt...was wondering wtf it meant xD

Ya, be careful though. Palanoia can give you hairy palms.

Ya, be careful though. Palanoia can give you hairy palms.

hahahah I lol'd.
It's weird that the same joke is used in English and Spanish =O

Walking Target wrote:Ya, be careful though. Palanoia can give you hairy palms.

Haha, I didn't know that word had such a close relative.

Thanks for the feedback so far! As for the rest of you, I hope you get your internets working soon

Haha it doesnt Poco, that was a typo on my part. I was just referring to the obsessive behavior.

Oh, lol. I get the joke now. To tell you the truth I was ravaging the internet trying to find out what kind of medical condition 'palanoia' was

Thanks, Holy
I too like the two last songs the best.

And to answer your question, the answer is yes.....oh god, yes

10 minutes wait to DL. Yay cable. Feedback coming later Poco.

Watched it last night, very nice work Poco.

+ Quality good...not quite Holy-Moly level, but high res and very watchable.
+ Solid frags given the time you have to play
+ Well edited for the most part. 1 or 2 spots that coulda used some work, but certainly nothing major.

- Soundtrack. Not really a criticism, this is just personal preference of course. I would have liked to have seen some faster, higher energy tracks to generate more "excitement". I found these songs to be quite laid back. The prodigy song was probably the one I liked least, it just sounded too sparse for a frag video imo.

On a play style note, you appear to suffer from many of the issues I have been having lately. You appear to get jitter and lag quite often. At times you shoot behind the player model, like what you are seeing on screen is not what is actually happening.

What kind of rig and connection are you playing on? To me it looks like it is holding you back by messing up your hitscan and movement every so often.

EDIT...

Added here: http://www.hl2dm-university.com/frag_videos.htm

Hey! I actually made an appearance in someone's video!
I played the role of "Guy dying in hall by orb #3".
Nice work, Poco.

Thanks for the candid feedback, WT. I really appreciate it

And yes, there have been times when I had to aim a good inch behind on screen to make a hit I'm playing on a POS laptop, but I get decent fps with absolute minimum graphics and resolution. I usually try to play in low ping environments but a few of those clips I was in the low 100's.

@ Rico:
lol, glad you liked it

lol, I was hoping you would catch that and get a kick out of it

awesome music selection on this one poconuts.
you needed editing though man. action needs to sync up more to the soundtrack. the footage got repetitive after a couple minutes.
too simple looking. im all about subtle appearance in a vid, but things were just
the kills were quality though, just like everyone else's stuff now-a-days.
please take my criticism with a grain of salt though.

Thanks for the comments, Def. I realize that the editing was a little lacking, especially when compared to the cyn video. But as tempting as it was to go balls-to-the-wall on this, I have to keep reminding myself that I'm in college and if I spent my free time on the weekends working on this it would be at least two or three years before I put together anything of value. I guess I just don't have the patience required to work on something that long. Besides, I found that the longer I delayed the higher the standards got. I hope you find the lack of editing forgivable, since my grades were inversely proportional to the amount of time I spent on this video.

I hope you find the lack of editing forgivable, since my grades were inversely proportional to the amount of time I spent on this video.

Good to know !

Besides, I found that the longer I delayed the higher the standards got.

True.....I hope that my frags are considered at least good after releasing my vid o.o

kk, feedback time !
As Def said, there wasn't much editing or syncing, but at least you have good reasons for that so it's ok, np ;D
Frags were good, and you had some really nice shots or combos.
I still don't know how you got the bolt to go through the rails in lockdown, it always gets stuck for me. 3:23-27 is like, "ok, easy boys, split". I love when people are having a hard time to get a frag and you come and end their suffering quickly and easily ^^.
You also showed some really nice reflexes against orbs and some nice mag skills. Very good taking into account you can't play much during the year
Keep up the good work.
btw, where did you take those credits' fonts from, I loved 'em

Thanks for the feedback, Onti

0nti wrote:I hope that my frags are considered at least good after releasing my vid o.o

Don't think you should have to worry too much about that haha.

0nti wrote:btw, where did you take those credits' fonts from

Ummm, google? lol. I don't remember the exact site, but I remember googling 'free fonts' or something like that. The name of the font in the beginning is 'chaos times light' and the credits is 'bleeding cowboy'.