I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

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Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by OLEARY » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:01 pm

BUMP.

Good times playing with devil!

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Sears » Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:38 am

added youtube embed

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by hildebrand » Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:15 am

some serious nostalgia here.

just comes to show how far we've come. shooting skills and the like and strategies. :D

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Fulmar » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:12 pm

siXten wrote:youtube?
http://youtu.be/s763BsIH0mU

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Todo » Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:12 pm

i enjoyed all of that

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by meekrab » Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:57 pm

Sears wrote:Obviously 500 people is plenty to sustain a community, as we've had less than that all these remaining years. It's just incredibly difficult to sustain league play during a decline like that because there were just so many dead/dying teams.
Yeah, I think the reason for that is that people grow up and quit this horrible game at a roughly equal rate across skill levels, rather than finding out they're terrible at it and never playing again, like say, Quake or CS. So the already skimpy top level of skill and ability to spend time practicing just gets thinner every year, and its obviously not good for the health of the community to stick random main teams that don't practice into Invite. (Ask how I know :p ) So yeah, tough to maintain a consistent league.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Sears » Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:54 pm

2004-2005 was actually the competitive peak of DoD. We peaked at about 2800 active competitive players between Open, IM, Main, and Invite in 2005, and then sharply declined heading into 2006, with only about 1500 active players in Season 13, below 1,000 in Season 14, and then finally were at about 500 when we started Season 15, which we cancelled half way through.

Obviously 500 people is plenty to sustain a community, as we've had less than that all these remaining years. It's just incredibly difficult to sustain league play during a decline like that because there were just so many dead/dying teams.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Fulmar » Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:34 pm

Airnick15 wrote:
Fulmar wrote:2004-2005 there was quite a difference in qualities of teams. If you still sandbagged it in Open you wouldn't run into a good team until maybe the Semi's or Finals. In 2006 with devil, I just remember playing random teams and they all had at least one superstar on every team. So the progression of pubbers out of leagues was apparent.
The good old days, had tons of experience in O/IM back then with Victory Party. In fact your name rang a bell and I just found this...
http://www.gotfrag.com/dod/forums/threa ... 7/?cpage=1
Haha
What can I say? I spit the truth.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Airnick15 » Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:37 am

Fulmar wrote:2004-2005 there was quite a difference in qualities of teams. If you still sandbagged it in Open you wouldn't run into a good team until maybe the Semi's or Finals. In 2006 with devil, I just remember playing random teams and they all had at least one superstar on every team. So the progression of pubbers out of leagues was apparent.
The good old days, had tons of experience in O/IM back then with Victory Party. In fact your name rang a bell and I just found this...
http://www.gotfrag.com/dod/forums/threa ... 7/?cpage=1

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Fulmar » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:29 am

Airnick15 wrote:The one thing that really stuck out to me was against mornos on harrington when you were standing white steps and aiming far to the left, as if nobody would try to peak and would just run across. Were we all that bad in 2004?
I can remember that mornos match being quite a beat down for them. I don't remember them doing terribly well that season and I think it was towards the end of the team.

2004-2005 there was quite a difference in qualities of teams. If you still sandbagged it in Open you wouldn't run into a good team until maybe the Semi's or Finals. In 2006 with devil, I just remember playing random teams and they all had at least one superstar on every team. So the progression of pubbers out of leagues was apparent.

From what I remember form Main was it was either composed of teams that should have been in invite or were quickly progressing there, or teams that should have stayed in IM.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by meekrab » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:00 am

Airnick15 wrote:The one thing that really stuck out to me was against mornos on harrington when you were standing white steps and aiming far to the left, as if nobody would try to peak and would just run across. Were we all that bad in 2004?
I don't think he was aiming as far to the left as it looks because of the weird widescreen format of the video. How about the clip where he sprints around the outside of the mountain house to stairs and then shoots a sniper in the back who's still looking at hole? Dude must have had his headphones on backwards? :lol:

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Airnick15 » Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:37 am

The one thing that really stuck out to me was against mornos on harrington when you were standing white steps and aiming far to the left, as if nobody would try to peak and would just run across. Were we all that bad in 2004?

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by nhoj » Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:46 am

youtube?

Re: Yeah I made a movie from demos circa 2004-2006

by avenger » Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:17 am

Sears wrote:oh hi

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Sears » Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:21 pm

+rep because Lord Chambers dies in this.

Also forgot how completely terrible the competition was during that 2006 season, was definitely the low point for the community.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by bullgooselooney » Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:53 pm

I remember getting raped by oleary in that railroad match :lol:. That is cool you had that old of demos around and even dated the matches.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 2004-2006

by Fulmar » Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:04 pm

defiance wrote:i will watch just as long as there are no clips from the "redphive" league that lasted for a season!
HAHA thats a blast from the past.

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 2004-2006

by defiance » Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:01 pm

i will watch just as long as there are no clips from the "redphive" league that lasted for a season!

Re: I made a movie from demos circa 2004-2006

by Fulmar » Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:56 pm

oh hi eric

I made a movie from demos circa 04-06

by Fulmar » Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:51 pm

[youtube]s763BsIH0mU[/youtube]
Title: Unlegendary

http://www.derstuhl.net/downloads/dod_m ... endary.zip (480mb)

I started this project just about a year ago. Finally finished it back in February going off adn on. Forgot 1911 existed so I'm posting it now. Clips are from 2004 through 2006.

It brought back a lot of good memories. Not just the game itself, but the community and the people I played with back then. More of a movie I made for myself of the last years I played the game (ending in 2006 with devil). It's fucking long because I put everything in there, ~ 22 minutes. So it may not appeal to everyone.

Teams I played with:
devil
redphive
Der Stuhl
Monks

I played under Fulmar (devil/Der Stuhl/redphive), jester (redphive), K. Banya (Monks)

Mix of CAL-O/M and TPG Upper and Middle

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