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Double Derv Dare
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A new rule

Post by Double Derv Dare »

All runs shall now require videos of all unique splits as proof prior to approval.

This means that if you are ever splitting off, your split requires a video. If you go into underworld with 5 people, and you stay within visual range of eachother at all times, you will as a team need to submit a single video. If at any point during the run, someone goes to solo something, they must also submit a video.

It is unfortunate that we are in this situation, but we see no other choice in this matter. There are simply too many potential avenues for exploiting the system if we do not start mandating this. We realize that some of you have very dated computers, and because of this I will be posting some barebones recording information in the following days. I do not expect people to submit 1080p recordings at 30fps. You may record at half or even 1/3rd of your native screen resolution. It doesn't have to be pretty. As long as it is clear that targeting ghosts in the box, dialogue hacks, etc are not being abused, it is good enough.

For those who do not wish to leak record tactics, I am willing to offer a compromise. You must still post a video, but it may be made private or unlisted. If you make it private, please friend me on youtube, and I will review the video.

All currently acceptable uses of Toolbox are to remain so. This means that pcon poppers, timers, recall hotkeys, etc, are acceptable. If it can be macroed, we do not care. We cannot police this, and we will not engage in the he said she said pissing contest over the legitimacy of runs that is guaranteed to develop should we outright ban toolbox. Provide videos, and prove that you are not altering the gameplay via targeting ghosts, dialogue hacking, etc. That is all that is required.

Jirina
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Re: A new rule

Post by Jirina »

does this have to be of the area during the record or just to see that tactics that we used? stupid question, i know, as you can just not use the same tactics in your record or whatever, but an example is in our uw record i tried to record the last minute or so of the run but i had filled up on memory on my computer, and something happened with the recorder and i got a huge fps spike and my guild wars crashed causing me to dc at dhuum (which is lucky that it didn't fail).

i'm not trying to argue with the rule, because there aren't too many teams competing for any sc so the members of a speed run team would have to put effort into recording videos to get the videos in, but as easy as it should be shit happens like what happened to me. i think 6/8 (more or less depending if people start to use new splits for a 12 min) in uw and 8/8 in fow would be required to record.

by the first thing i said, for example i recorded a small portion of one of our runs where it shows me taking escort of souls as soon as reaper pops with no dialogue taker or whatever, but if you look at someone elses point of view it can still look like it was taken with a program. <-- because that, i was hoping the video i uploaded would prove that it is possible to take the quest fast without a program (there was some controversy over taking lab quests fast a while ago) and that no program was used (or needs to be for that matter). i hope that all makes sense and doesn't sound stupid, but it's kind of disappointing it has to come to this, not because of you but because there is so little trust in this game now. trying to record failed my chance to screen the 13 uw (could have also failed the whole run completely) and even though everyone else has me in their screen it's sad to me i didn't get my own :(.

P.S i know it's kind of stupid i didn't know that i wasn't recording until the end but it would have been a video none the less, i didn't have so much time to see that it stopped recording because i had to focus on the run

Cookie
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Guild: Death And Taxes [DnT]

Re: A new rule

Post by Cookie »

The idea is that you need to have video evidence of all activities within a run. In UW, this means that every terra, and either the EMO/LT and spiker/SoS need to record. When all 8 members are together, there can be 1 PoV. So for example you only need 1 PoV for dhuum.

Nina Fow Addict
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Re: A new rule

Post by Nina Fow Addict »

Dumbest rule i ever read..
Im doing only fow where all people do something solo and my inet or pc idk exactly wich thing cant record i alrdy cant be on ts without lags. Well since uw people and doa people have a bad mentality and blaming hacks here we go.. sad story gw

Jang
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Guild: [SenT]

Re: A new rule

Post by Jang »

well i don't like this rule and personally i don't think its a fair rule because doa players for example would have to take a lot less videos than fow players. if i'm not rly wrong this rule would require a pov of everybody at any party size from solo to 8 men in fow as long as you don't run reg t2/3way while for doa it just reqs the tt and a mainteam pov of someone who is at rift.
and no matter how many times you say everybody can record and upload videos its just not true. this rule means there most likely won't be new fow records anymore.

Nika
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Guild: [SenT]

Re: A new rule

Post by Nika »

No new approved oneas* :p the pics will be comming.
But i agree, i tried several recording programs, from fraps and co to bandicam and my performance get's lowered alot, apparently too much for my laptop to handle. Works for casuals maybe, but taking the risk to fail a record because vid.. Well.

Jirina
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Guild: The Dawn Of Legends [DaWn]

Re: A new rule

Post by Jirina »

Jang wrote: no matter how many times you say everybody can record and upload videos its just not true.
Nika wrote:...but taking the risk to fail a record because vid.. Well.
these things^

you, your teammates and other people in the community will know who got it regardless of the record being approved on this website. so do your records, we will be impressed with or without the approval stamp. we know who works hard for their shit. :D

K A O S Theory
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Re: A new rule

Post by K A O S Theory »

https://obsproject.com/ is a good recorder if you are worried about framerate issues.

Sylars
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Re: A new rule

Post by Sylars »

It's pretty funny that people claim they can't record videos. A decently set up recording in 480p produces files with almost no size while not hitting performance by more than 20%. Means, whoever can run gw on 720p or 1080p can record no problem. And I have yet to see someone playing on a 480p monitor and a 20 years old laptop.

yago
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Re: A new rule

Post by yago »

you are slowly killing this comunity which is almost dead btw

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