here is the first rocky effort. let me know if the stream quality is good and in particular if you think more/less audio delay is needed to stop our voices tripping over each other. and enjoy the glorious 1080p.
"Don’t buy a dozen eggs if you just want a hardboiled egg. Don’t buy a head of lettuce if you just want a salad. Don’t buy eggs and lettuce if you want egg salad because those are not the right ingredients." -Julius Bloop
FWIW, while I was listening, I have one main suggestion for quadz. Try to be more informative and do less assessing quality of plays. I heard a lot of "that was a bad flash from <champion>" which, for a play-by-play caster, is the exact opposite of what you want. Someone who isn't actually watching the game should have a pretty clear picture of what's going on just by listening to the play-by-play commentator. Think about what you hear when you listen to any sporting event on the radio. The play-by-play commentator needs to make you picture the action in your mind, while the color commentator asseses and gives flavor. Also, between the two games, I think you recapped what was going on exactly once. Remind the listener/viewer what the game state is. Who's ahead, by how much gold? What's the dragon situation? Towers? Make sure you're communicating this stuff, especially during any break in the action.
Commentator seems to require a lot of effort and synergy, and you guys overall were pretty good. (ex I think I would be terrible at it >_> And much prefer/think I would be better suited for Montecristo/LS type 1 person analysis)
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Post #41012 (ISO) » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:09 am
Postby dramonic »
Also the only thing that annoyed me a bit with the stream was that you didn't put the players face to face with their corresponding opponent in the bottom board.
YOu can drag n drop them to fix that.
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Post #41013 (ISO) » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:08 pm
Postby hitogoroshi »
Yeah, the problem is the hotkeys don't adapt so then you don't know the keys to jump to players.
My camera work was pretty bad regardless though so maybe I'll just put it on autocam and then I can line them up.
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Post #41014 (ISO) » Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:41 pm
Postby dramonic »
You can use the keys based on side portraits as opposed to bottom, but I understand what you mean.
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Stream: twitch.tv/dramonic
-If you stick your ear close enough to the game thread you can actually hear dram suffer in real life.-Beeboy
-Being obtuse is not a consequence of being a mod, it's a prerequisite. I think you may just have overestimated my intelligence before.-Korts
So, I finally got around to watching the vid around work and stuff, and I guess I'll give my perspective on things as well, at least on my end.
First of all, sorry for telling you the comps beforehand if you didn't want to know them. I won't do that next time.
Around 12:25 you mentioned that Vayne would've been a better pick, or at least non-utility. I can kinda see your point, but I have literally no experience with Vayne and no real desire to pick her up. I suppose Graves or Cait (or I suppose Kog if I wanted to go late-game) might be better, but Ashe is the champ I started with and know better than any other (granted, I don't know her in-and-out like I probably should, but I know her more than anyone else except maybe Caitlyn.). I suppose Jinx could've been a choice, but I need to buy her, so meh <_<
22:14 - Yeah, I liked that play, too. Dem bushes!
30-ish - I don't think I should've flashed in the end. I was dead anyways.
36:12 - I think I told Quadz this, but I got scared because I was pinned in by the enemy team. I don't remember if I was simply indecisive or if I was canceling too early, though.
37 or so - I was mainly trying to secure the kill on MF, although making sure she couldn't ult was a nice side benefit. I should've walked out of her Make it Rain, though, or I wouldn't have died (or at least not died then).
41:26 - "or when someone you love gets put in the box" lol. And yeah, I didn't expect Maokai to do that much, so I focused too much on killing MF.
44:02 - I had pinged dragon on the assumption that it was up soon when it was really about 50 seconds away. I told them as much in-chat. As far as the stepping up point, I don't think I needed to position that aggressively forward after killing Orianna, which I think is why Maokai had an easy time of killing me.
As a small note, I didn't realize that Maokai had the thornmail. Otherwise I think I would've stopped building BT and started on LW otherwise.
OMG KITTY! MEOW!!!
52:57 - "He (me) won the game, he's the only one who upgraded his trinket because he knew I'd be watching" ha ha, Quadz. Ha ha. Although the chase on Quinn was bad.
54:39 - I don't think that ulting Ori was a bad thing, necessarily, as I wasn't sure if I could kill her with AAs or not before she managed to ult, but then I got hooked and that just led to bad times. I also thought they had peeled off baron before they actually got it, too, and didn't see that they had gotten it until after I died.
56:46 - I think I was aiming for MF. I think. I don't remember.
HA! I KNEW I HEARD A CAT!
As far as the vid/stream itself, the audio quality was good, but there were a couple times I felt like you were either too far from your mic or mumbling so I couldn't hear you. Most of the time when I did hear you it was for information you did speak up for, but a few times as your analysis went on you started dropping off. The other main complaint is just echoing what Glork (I think) said about constant updates. I know you made one mention of cs differentials near the laning phase and one mention of a 6K gold lead at around 40 mins. in the video, but I don't really remember any other time. Maybe just remind yourself every few minutes to give an update on CS, kills, etc.?
Btw, I asked this earlier and don't remember seeing an answer: Should I just stick to a yellow trinket or shift to blue at some point?
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Btw, I asked this earlier and don't remember seeing an answer: Should I just stick to a yellow trinket or shift to blue at some point?
Swap to blue at some point. You need blue to be able to enter unwarded bushes safely, and to check areas such as baron that would be unsafe to ward lategame when you have no vision on them. Being able to use it to get vision of bushes in duels from a longer range then wards is a nice upside too. Yellow trinket isn't bad though, and if you prefer it you can just stick to that.
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-If you stick your ear close enough to the game thread you can actually hear dram suffer in real life.-Beeboy
-Being obtuse is not a consequence of being a mod, it's a prerequisite. I think you may just have overestimated my intelligence before.-Korts
