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Title: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: Al Tarket on July 30, 2008, 06:14:58 am
i have finished a small clip shop showing a primary weakness on terran ships, more like blind spots. i also intend to do the same to vasudan and shivan ships soon. please note that no enemy projectile or beam ever hit me in this clip show just my own bomb shockwave to show you the weakness.. it will be uploaded by mahkat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n01sYb90dEQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n01sYb90dEQ)

Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: Snail on July 30, 2008, 07:25:32 am
It was a bit too long for something like that, a few seconds worth for each would have been better than a whole minute or whatever.
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: Al Tarket on July 30, 2008, 08:17:37 am
i thought my vid was seconds for each. looks like i will be into nano seconds then! :p. average seconds length is 28 seconds for each show.

seriously though, if it was just 3 or 4 seconds each it wouldn't be much of a clip show to show where the weak spots were.
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: highwayman on July 30, 2008, 12:05:05 pm
I didn't have a problem with the length, but I think it might be more instructive if you have titles for each ship as they appear in the vid, instead of at the end. So for each new blindspot, have a title with the class and then perhaps a short description of what part of the ship the blind spot is in (and the best approach, if you didn't show it) if it's not evident from the clip. There were several that I couldn't figure out what ship, nor what area of the vessel the blind spot was in easily from the clips.
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: Droid803 on July 30, 2008, 12:31:26 pm
Uhh...the attacking the "blind spot" in a Fenris is likely to get you killed. The Lterslash will smack you up if you launch a bomb, (Cap beams target bombs) or if you ghave something you're escorting...then again, the fenris is usually weak enough fort his not to matter. much.

The "blind spot" on the colossus is sketchy. Its in the engine wash...
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: Insomniac34 on July 30, 2008, 05:48:06 pm
Not to mention those destroyers would deploy their alert fighters within seconds
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: Excalibur on July 30, 2008, 08:36:45 pm
I thought it had a nice one when you're right up near its engine, but not so close you get engine wash.
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: nubbles526 on August 01, 2008, 12:11:13 pm
Interesting video, but would be nice if there was like subtitles. For example 'For an Orion, shoot here'.
Title: Re: identifying ship weakness vids
Post by: DarthWang on August 03, 2008, 09:22:12 pm
I agree that the ships are hard to discern from the video but I like your choice of The Who as the music