My 0.59 Vehicle Adventure

[PolishedGuy 80]

 

I was playing a lot of experimental this week and I wanted to show you some of my encounters. I was really surprised how many friendly people I met. There's sad moments, there's action, friendly interaction, driving around. I wanted to capture essence of dayz. Everything can happen when you play and sometimes it's worth to not KOS everyone you see.

 

I worked on edit for good couple of days, that's only 20 min. video, but it took me a lot of effort to make. I hope it's visible and you will enjoy it. I made some simple animations, for intro/outro and map. I would love to know your opinion on that. Tell me what's you think overall. I will really appreciate any feedback.

 

Thanks for watching.

Edited December 6, 2015 by PolishedGuy

[S3V3N 1402]

"I offered him a ride..."

reply:

"Nah, I can't trust people.!"

 

That's one type of DayZ gamer. Maybe we should start collecting the different DayZ personalities we've met, in another thread :)

 

I was quite surprised you survived that, too. What a sweet ride the Lada is - and who hasn't turned it upside down or put on two wheels ^^? 

Videos like this might encourage people to play more friendly, since it can be a win-win for everyone. It's also a lot more creative than just shooting everything. If it happens, like at the end and around a police station, it comes naturally. Still funny, how Runningmanz can't stand still even without a weapon in your hands. It's imprinted behaviour now. 

 

Funny is - I was watching Runningmanz stream, while this happened and just heard the whole thing from his side. I still can't believe how well you got around with that car. Of course the "killme,killme" guy had to show up, too ^^ That's another type of DayZ gamer. This one was funnier than the usual ones, but I still find it annoying they can't kill themselves and leave me alone.

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About your video. The mix was good, the font was good to read and nice size. The only thing I didn't like was the spacing at the beginning; you changed the tracking on it, which made the spaces between letters too large. Fonts are made to look best in their custom tracking, so it's usually recommended to leave it this way. I could have done with less music.It's nice to highlight certain scenes to add to the atmosphere, but you could fade out again. That piano ballad was a bit much for me. Your mapflights are too fast and barely visible. Either make them slower or use a really well-visible color to show the routes. Also might wanna turn gamma back down for the mapflights. This is criticising on a very high level, as I think you've done a wonderful job, overall!

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This is what DayZ is about. It could almost be an educational video ^^ I always thought, vehicles would bring a change and more cooperation between people. Generally, most people on the experimental servers seem to agree with that kind of gameplay, let's hope on stable it can become the same. I have some RL friends, who never played the mod and don't do anything else in Dayz, except run to military, get guns, go somewhere - play deathmatch. That can be fun sometimes, but why the hell would you get a game like DayZ for that? It's all about the journey for me and there are no better journeys than those you don't have to go alone.     

 

P.S.: I've done some editing with After Effects in the past. What did you use for your video editing? You could also PM me. I don't have After Effects any more, so I would like to find an affordable replacement. 

Edited December 6, 2015 by S3V3N

[PolishedGuy 80]

About type of players. Depends on situation and place I am doing different things. Sometimes I like to try friendly approach and talk to someone, but obviously if I am on the NWA or any other military base kos is normal for me. I hate retards who wants to kill even if you are a freshspawn. This guy at start really surprised me. He could kill me and take my car, but he gave it to me back. Vehicles make everything more fun that's for sure. It's always nice to take someone and ask what's his plan and where he wants to go. People on experimental are usually more friendly, I also hope it will be similar once 0.59 hits stable, but that obviously depends on the server.

 

 

Thanks for productive response S3V3N. It was really nice to read. Good advices. 

I used AAE for map animations, intro and outro text. The rest I am doing in sony vegas.

 

Cheers and thanks for watching.

[nl 986]

Well done! Nice video to watch. :thumbsup:

[Red_Ensign 990]

tunnel visioning on finding trinkets while you let yourself starve is an excellent example of how not to play this game.

 

the video was put together very well though.