Video: Passing Plays

[tgleaf]

Nikon and I are releasing our "Passing Plays" video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywvqN8yA1As

These are by no means the best ever or even our best ever passes, but they do illustrate skillful passing. Our hope is that other players will increase the amount of passing they do and/or create similar videos about other Altitude skills.

[Ribilla]

Some awesome plays there. I particularly like the way it demonstrates that even slow planes (i.e. two whales) can get past an entrire team with a bit of skilled passing.

Also I passed the test, on both counts.

[Goose]

pretty cool, vid. Also was that you speaking in the beginning of the video tgleaf? you sound different than i expected

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by Goose

pretty cool, vid. Also was that you speaking in the beginning of the video tgleaf? you sound different than i expected

No, but that was me saying "Goal."

[Flight 666]

wow impresive, kickass passing and goals
i feel bad for you guys that alty is main TBD =/

[sunshineduck]

i wasn't invited to do this?

[Boko]

I'll be an asshole and say the first couple of passes/plays weren't good at all. The one in mayhem was good stuff tho.

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by sunshineduck

i wasn't invited to do this?

You don't remember this conversation?

[19:49] [Server] Balance Teams Complete
[19:49] You whisper to [fLball} Nikon: it worked, btw! thx for the help
[19:49] [Hawks]\&MARSHAWN\& whispers: hey
[19:49] boss29: i was one of the dogs
[19:49] You whisper to [Hawks]\&MARSHAWN\&: hey, Nikon and I are making a passing video
[19:50] {ball} olsen twins: boss u ok?
[19:50] [Hawks]\&MARSHAWN\& whispers: c[_]
[19:50] {ball} tgleaf: gggrrreat
[19:50] boss29: shetep olsen twins
[19:50] You whisper to [Hawks]\&MARSHAWN\&: I was gonna invite you to join, but w.e.
[19:50] {ball} olsen twins: lol not u
[19:50] {ball} olsen twins: that crazy bastard
[19:50] {ball} tgleaf: lol
[19:50] [Hawks]\&MARSHAWN\& whispers: I've got better things to do
[19:50] boss29: me crazy bastard or the other one?
[19:50] af.beep: U
[19:50] You whisper to [Hawks]\&MARSHAWN\&: later then

[Nikon]

Originally Posted by Boko

I'll be an asshole and say the first couple of passes/plays weren't good at all. The one in mayhem was good stuff tho.

#9 #10 weren't good, but #8 and down were almost all good, besides laggy ones.

But I hope that this encourages everyone to get into pairs and try to do the same thing we just did, it would be really cool to see everyone's different styles and they make awesome videos. If you do make one, post it here and I'm sure tg will post it on the Top post.

[sunshineduck]

TeH ApA and I will not be stopped.

[MajorPayne257]

Those were some bad ass passes.

Better version (mainly due to the accent): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

[tyr]

Interesting stuff.

On the production side though you can make some improvements :
- No music on some sections when there is on the others. I don't know if it was intentional or not but it really seemed kinda weird.
- Could see the borders of the window pretty much all the time. It's better to cut like 1mm of the ingame screen that seeing the borders if you can't or don't want to record in fullscreen.
- I'm not sure about the extra clips. I've never been a fan of stuff that doesn't belong to the game in game videos but I guess it depends ... Hmm ..

Otherwise, nice passes. I'm not very interested in ball but it's always nice to see good play.

[Spartan]

great video overall

i esp. like how you put "passing plays" right after "whatisthisallabout?"'s name. very clever imo

[Clapon]

It sucked, cant expect much though when gleafer is in it...

[mlopes]

Very nice, but there were some laggy passes, as they are in the "good passes" video I'm assuming you guys took the lag in consideration when passing, do you guys really know approximately where to pass counting with lag for each player or are those passes there because they turn out good???

[tgleaf]

Originally Posted by mlopes

Very nice, but there were some laggy passes, as they are in the "good passes" video I'm assuming you guys took the lag in consideration when passing, do you guys really know approximately where to pass counting with lag for each player or are those passes there because they turn out good???

So, obviously I have some work to do with regard to video skills (right on all counts, tyr; wrong on all counts, clap clap), but no, the passes were not laggy. That is to say, they appear laggy in the video -- so I need to adjust fps and other settings -- but we didn't have to pass any differently than we normally do and I think our pings were in the 50-100 range.

[shrode]

Hopefully people learn from this. I see a lot of players just blindly follow the ball, but this video nicely demonstrates how the 'flow' of give-and-goes work and how to run the lanes making yourself a great target to pass to.

also- nicely shows you how to not play defense

[mlopes]

Originally Posted by tgleaf

So, obviously I have some work to do with regard to video skills (right on all counts, tyr; wrong on all counts, clap clap), but no, the passes were not laggy. That is to say, they appear laggy in the video -- so I need to adjust fps and other settings -- but we didn't have to pass any differently than we normally do and I think our pings were in the 50-100 range.

That's kinda relieving I was starting to think you guys knew more or less where to pass to each ball member in order to overcome lag, lol.

[sunshineduck]

Originally Posted by shrode

Hopefully people learn from this. I see a lot of players just blindly follow the ball, but this video nicely demonstrates how the 'flow' of give-and-goes work and how to run the lanes making yourself a great target to pass to.

also- nicely shows you how to not play defense

I think I posted something of the like in that thread where Urpee insists he's a good player, but it really annoys me when I have the ball and people fly from behind me to directly in front of me and then moan when I don't pass to them. Take a different lane plz, kthx

[Tekn0]

Originally Posted by mlopes

That's kinda relieving I was starting to think you guys knew more or less where to pass to each ball member in order to overcome lag, lol.

Yes, I was wondering about that too... Lag = sux0rz for passes.

Really nice video btw, and thanks even more for sharing it with us.

[loser1117]

I masturbated to this.

[Demuyt]

Nice vid, I enjoyed it !

[Threevenge]

Quite a few fantastic passes in that video, many of those showing a good level of chemistry and trust.

[[Y]]

I noticed the receiver catching a bunch of passes that were considerably behind their plane. Neither you nor Nikon lag, so I was confused.