Wambat's Rhovanion Campaign LP

[Wambat]

I have just published the preamble to my Rhovanion campaign; subtitled: "Are you happy now?"

Link

Campaign playlist link.

Let me know what you think of the video and audio quality, and any suggestions for improvement.

I have implemented a weekly raffle to promote this series, giving away a different Steam game every week. Each raffle will end Sunday at 11:59pm Pacific time, and a new raffle will be up by the following Monday.

Link to raffle host page.

[CountMRVHS]

Great to see this! I'll check it out

[Beorn]

Looking forward for the actual start of the LP!

[webba84]

Oooh, exciting!

[Wambat]

Well, the time of the great disappointment has arrived!

Feast your eyes and ears of what must be, not only the most boring, but also the most ugly video LP ever produced. At great cost to my personal time, and fueled by pure cussedness, I present episode 1 of the Rhovanion LP series:

Rhovanion Campaign Ep1 Part1

Rhovanion Campaign Ep1 Part2

You can be assured the gods did not want this to happen, but gods be damned! I shall be releasing episode 2 presently.

[CountMRVHS]

Yes!

[Wambat]

Episode 3 part 1 and part 2 are up.

[Wambat]

Episode 2 up.

[The Sloth]

Episode 2 up.

I'm starting to watch this only now. You are a very good player, and I'm learning a lot, although I don't think I have the patience for all of these tricks, and some of them seem a bit power-gamish to me.

Also, at one point in the quoted episode, you wondered why Dale wouldn't give you any money for map informations. Isn't that because you already sold your intel to the dwarves? All factions that are part of a permanent alliance have shared visibility, so Dale would already know your map from the dwarves.

EDIT: I now realize this theory doesn't make as much sense as I thought, but it is strange that this map information issue only happens with factions that belong to a permanent alliance. I remember that in vanilla, once I had traded my map info to one Roman family, the others would no longer be interested in it. So this has to be a factor somehow.

[Wambat]

I'm starting to watch this only now. You are a very good player, and I'm learning a lot, although I don't think I have the patience for all of these tricks, and some of them seem a bit power-gamish to me.

Also, at one point in the quoted episode, you wondered why Dale wouldn't give you any money for map informations. Isn't that because you already sold your intel to the dwarves? All factions that are part of a permanent alliance have shared visibility, so Dale would already know your map from the dwarves.

EDIT: I now realize this theory doesn't make as much sense as I thought, but it is strange that this map information issue only happens with factions that belong to a permanent alliance. I remember that in vanilla, once I had traded my map info to one Roman family, the others would no longer be interested in it. So this has to be a factor somehow.

I would not be suprised if my playstyle falls precisely into the catagory of "power-gaming", though I was not previously familiar with the expression. I have no doubt that you are right about factions not being interested in your map information once they have that information from another sourse, and I couuld easily have overlooked that durring gameplay. Nevertheless, offering map information can still be useful as a way of promting the AI to bring their own offers to the table, though I have recently learned that offering 100 mirian can be even more conducive to positive results.

[Dáin II]

Thanks for the uploads! You're displaying a great love for detail there. I doubt many players know so many nuances of the game. I especially like to see your diplomacy guide in action! Impressive how much money is extractable of other factions. Definitely learned some useful stuff in that regard that I will implement in future campaigns. Also really cool to see how you exploit movement points and cost advantages most efficiently. Really nice LP!

[Wambat]

Thank you. I cannot offer good video quality, so I am hoping insight into my strategy and tactics will provide an alternative attraction.

[Saul Tyre]

Thank you. I cannot offer good video quality, so I am hoping insight into my strategy and tactics will provide an alternative attraction.

My technical knowledge of recording may not be great, but If I can help in any way I will. I have learned much from your understanding of this mod and the guidance you have given to us all, and I would hopefully like to give something in return that helps you to have a more enjoyable experience with your Let's Plays.

[Wambat]

It's begun, hooray! Have to find some time to watch this soon .

I hope you find the time. I may start recording episode 4 tonight and I should like to be able to respond to any comments or questions in the video.

My technical knowledge of recording may not be great, but If I can help in any way I will. I have learned much from your understanding of this mod and the guidance you have given to us all, and I would hopefully like to give something in return that helps you to have a more enjoyable experience with your Let's Plays.

I am happy to benefit form your experience.


Unfortunately, I am not able to record, render and upload all at once. I can pretty much only do one thing at a time. I have been recording, rendering and uploading only in small bits; 10 minutes or less at a time. It takes me between 2 and 3 hours to record and edit, about 8 hrs to render, and about 24 hrs to upload each episode; maybe another hour to put everything together once it is on YouTube.


Fortunately, I don't have to "do" anything during the render and upload phases, but they are quite apt to failure if I use my computer for anything else, especially during the rendering. I think a lot of the graphical problems manifest due to merging the video back together after upload, but there is no alternative currently given my hardware and bandwidth.

[Saul Tyre]

Unfortunately, I am not able to record, render and upload all at once. I can pretty much only do one thing at a time. I have been recording, rendering and uploading only in small bits; 10 minutes or less at a time. It takes me between 2 and 3 hours to record and edit, about 8 hrs to render, and about 24 hrs to upload each episode; maybe another hour to put everything together once it is on YouTube

Crikey your timeframe is ridiculous, I feel for you and at the same time admire your dedication Okay, could you answer some questions for me plz, I think I can help and the maximum you "could" spend for what you need will be $10..1) what is your pc stats? 2) what is your gpu 3) what are you using to record 4) what are you using to convert? 5) what is your OS?

[CountMRVHS]

Yeah, second everything Dain said; these are very cool! I hope you were able to resolve the technical issues to at least make the process more enjoyable for you. I sometimes have to replay a battle a few times due to a crash, and I find that immensely disheartening; can't imagine playing it 20 times!

[webba84]

It's begun, hooray! Have to find some time to watch this soon .

[Wambat]

OBS 17.0.2
Vegas Pro 14.0
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[webba84]

I'm not an expert, but the GPU looks to be the bottleneck there.

[Saul Tyre]

@webba: GPU is fine mate, has nothing to do with how his recording software and rendering perform and the time it takes.

@wambat: All your equipment is fine, I am not sure but you are doing something that's not quite right. I have Shadowplay which records in approx.30 minute sections but still continuous, I have Freemake VC which I use to join the segments into one and convert for upload to youtube. A 1 hour video takes about 4 hours from record to publish.....and all for the princely sum of a one time only $10 donation to avoid a company advertisement at the end of my video. I have never used OBS found it to be too much faffing around and could not get it to work properly and I certainly wouldn't pay around $400 for editing software. How is it you can only record in 10 minute segments? Can you not join it altogether into one continuous video? Do you narrate whilst recording? I know youtube can be notoriously slow to upload and process but it's not that bad unless you have a slow internet speed. You are definitely doing something wrong by the sound of it.