The Project Reality Diaries
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The Project Reality Diaries
The Project Reality Diaries now have a website! New videos will now appear at http://www.prdiaries.com.
Hey everyone at Reality Mod.
I'm new here, though I have been reading the forums for quite some time. I'm a BF2 and, more recently, Project Reality enthusiast with a taste for tactical squad leading. As such, I've decided to create a series of movies called the PRMM Diaries that I thought you guys might be interested in.
Many of you may have watched these already as I'm trying to get as much coverage as I can, but for those who haven't, these are essentially rounds of PR that have been FRAPS'ed from my perspective as a Squad Leader, and uploaded to the web. I find them extremely useful for examining my actions as an SL and finding areas that I need to improve on. Also, they're quite entertaining if you like watching a match from a perspective you might not necessarily take.
I'm attempting to make this a weekly thing, and so far I have three separate rounds up called Day 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The link for Part 1 of Day 1 can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Inb7UTZKF4 . If you want to watch the rest of 'em, just click on More from this User.
I apologise for using YouTube; it has a ten minute time limit on each individual video (hence splitting each Day into multiple parts) and I don't have a dedicate webspace provider to host them. I'm considering using Google Video for future Days if the quality is better. (Also realise it ain't a mini-mod anymore - will change that for future entries).
All rounds were played on the Australian Bigdy server - pretty much the only worthwhile server down here. Hope you enjoy 'em, and hell, maybe even pick up a few neat tricks.
Hey everyone at Reality Mod.
I'm new here, though I have been reading the forums for quite some time. I'm a BF2 and, more recently, Project Reality enthusiast with a taste for tactical squad leading. As such, I've decided to create a series of movies called the PRMM Diaries that I thought you guys might be interested in.
Many of you may have watched these already as I'm trying to get as much coverage as I can, but for those who haven't, these are essentially rounds of PR that have been FRAPS'ed from my perspective as a Squad Leader, and uploaded to the web. I find them extremely useful for examining my actions as an SL and finding areas that I need to improve on. Also, they're quite entertaining if you like watching a match from a perspective you might not necessarily take.
I'm attempting to make this a weekly thing, and so far I have three separate rounds up called Day 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The link for Part 1 of Day 1 can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Inb7UTZKF4 . If you want to watch the rest of 'em, just click on More from this User.
I apologise for using YouTube; it has a ten minute time limit on each individual video (hence splitting each Day into multiple parts) and I don't have a dedicate webspace provider to host them. I'm considering using Google Video for future Days if the quality is better. (Also realise it ain't a mini-mod anymore - will change that for future entries).
All rounds were played on the Australian Bigdy server - pretty much the only worthwhile server down here. Hope you enjoy 'em, and hell, maybe even pick up a few neat tricks.
Last edited by ThePhotoshop on 2007-07-10 08:42, edited 1 time in total.
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Why would you send 6 guys to Estate (on foot no less) when it's obvious that the other 2 small squads and a bunch of blues are pretty much not going to cap kyongan ni? So you basically wasted your squad of 6 guys for the first 6 minutes of the round, making it a 20 on 14 game (for China), while your guys just hiked around in the forest doing nothing for your team.
I'm all for leap-frogging flags, but I just think that was a very bad call that hurt your team and allowed china to roll you back to your last base. The video just shows that USMC would have done just as well during that 10 minute period if your squad stayed at home base and stood still staring at each other.
Sry I wouldn't post such a negative post except that people are praising your tactics here and I don't get it.
The video diary thing is a good idea though, and I understand that PR isn't too big in Australia so, it's cool that you are doing things with it and building it up with this, etc. My only tip is that PR is about resources. Use your resources wisely. If 1 team uses their vehicles and men well, and the other team has their guys hiding in forests not attacking, then that's a waste of resources.
I'm all for leap-frogging flags, but I just think that was a very bad call that hurt your team and allowed china to roll you back to your last base. The video just shows that USMC would have done just as well during that 10 minute period if your squad stayed at home base and stood still staring at each other.
Sry I wouldn't post such a negative post except that people are praising your tactics here and I don't get it.
The video diary thing is a good idea though, and I understand that PR isn't too big in Australia so, it's cool that you are doing things with it and building it up with this, etc. My only tip is that PR is about resources. Use your resources wisely. If 1 team uses their vehicles and men well, and the other team has their guys hiding in forests not attacking, then that's a waste of resources.
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Thank you for the tip, and yes, it was a pretty bad use of resources. It was a very early game and I wasn't as farmiliar with the mechanics of PR, which is why I felt taking out their Estate rally point was a priority (I don't think they respawned in this version.)
It's a good example of something that I've learned from and won't make the same mistake in the future. Don't worry about being negative, I did ask for feedback in any form.
Project Reality ain't that huge in Australia (at least compared to vBF2) but it is starting to build a dedicated player base. We only have one server worth playing on.
It's a good example of something that I've learned from and won't make the same mistake in the future. Don't worry about being negative, I did ask for feedback in any form.
Project Reality ain't that huge in Australia (at least compared to vBF2) but it is starting to build a dedicated player base. We only have one server worth playing on.
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Yep, great job man. I liked all the days. Day 4 is indeed very nice with the 3rd person scenes. Part 2 ended with me saying "Omg that spec ops just got healed right in his face and he's looking at the map!! What will happen?!"
But hey, even just the 1st person videos are very nice. If you get tired of doing the 3rd person recordings, just having 1st person is not bad at all.
Looking forward for the next ones
But hey, even just the 1st person videos are very nice. If you get tired of doing the 3rd person recordings, just having 1st person is not bad at all.
Looking forward for the next ones
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Day 4 is up in it's entirety.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiGT7zfui-c
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSklto3eCSY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbqPOAv9v08
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSVspdWFTs
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiGT7zfui-c
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSklto3eCSY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbqPOAv9v08
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSVspdWFTs