Deus Ex

2005-08-09 05:19:16 am

Well... I've been working on a run for this to improve on Nick 'Thrull' Alward's time. If you use his save system, by section 18, I have 8 minutes off of his time.

The problem is... my computer is slow when I go to record it, otherwise I'd try and host the videos...

Anyways... would anybody care if I were to finish this? And if you do... could you possibly give me some advice to tweaking Deus Ex, and Camtasia?

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Face

2005-08-09 08:46:30 am

Good luck with this, I'd definitely love to watch an improved Deus Ex speedrun.

Are you recording directly with Fraps/Camtasia, or using the game's demo recording feature? (not sure it has one, but since it's the Unreal engine, it should...). If it's the latter, you could always try sending your demos to someone with better hardware and asking them to make movie files out of them for you.

Phauxe

2005-08-09 08:52:16 am

Well... It does have demo recording... the problem is, when you watch it through demo recording, it gives you the multiplayer style menu and excludes conversations...
I could try other means of recording it, but I don't have any ways of capturing it w/ a vcr or anything like that, so program based recording will most likely be my best bet at recording it.

Unless there's a way to seriously mess around w/ firewire so I could get it to a camcorder, then rip it back in (but I seriously doubt it...)

Phauxe

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Phauxe: 2005-08-10 08:08:04 am

2005-08-10 08:07:22 am

Even though I can't post videos now because of recording issues Angry

:'(, I can at least give you times.

These times are from the save menu, and I'm not sure if they include, or disclude menu times :P.

If anybody can tell me, I'll get somebody to do a stop watch.

Anyways, I was playing around with an altered route to save rockets (and kill Anna Navarre on the plane because of that, and here's the times they yielded.

(All times are cumulative)

From the start of the game to the first visit to Castle Clinton: 4:23

From Castle Clinton's first visit to Unatco HQ: 8:29

From Unatco HQ to the start of the Helibase level : 11:27

From the start of the Helibase level to Airbase level : 13:01

From the start of the Airbase level (spawning from the elevator start) to Hell's Kitchen (when you see your brother) : 16:32

From that Hell's Kitchen mission to escaping the secret MJ12 facility : 21:41

From excaping the secret MJ12 Facility to getting to the Hong Kong MJ12 Helibase: 23:23.

I don't have any proof to show you right now, so you'll have to take my word for it, and let me know if you get a faster time than me... I'd like to know your route Cheesy

Even though I can't post videos now because of recording issues  >:( :'(, I can at least give you times.

These times are from the save menu, and I'm not sure if they include, or disclude menu times  :P.

If anybody can tell me, I'll get somebody to do a stop watch.

Anyways, I was playing around with an altered route to save rockets (and kill Anna Navarre on the plane because of that, and here's the times they yielded.

(All times are cumulative)

From the start of the game to the first visit to Castle Clinton: 4:23

From Castle Clinton's first visit to Unatco HQ: 8:29

From Unatco HQ to the start of the Helibase level : 11:27

From the start of the Helibase level to Airbase level : 13:01

From the start of the Airbase level (spawning from the elevator start) to Hell's Kitchen (when you see your brother) : 16:32

From that Hell's Kitchen mission to escaping the secret MJ12 facility : 21:41

From excaping the secret MJ12 Facility to getting to the Hong Kong MJ12 Helibase: 23:23.

I don't have any proof to show you right now, so you'll have to take my word for it, and let me know if you get a faster time than me... I'd like to know your route  :D