FREEMAN'S MIND 2: EPISODE 8

[Ross Scott]

Freeman's Mind returns!  I never intended to have this long a gap between episodes, but with my recording situation upended for a good chunk of past year, that was the sole reason for the delay.  Things have stabilized though and this year I hope to make up for the relative lack of Freeman.  This one was a longer episode where I would have normally split it into two different ones, but I figured with there being such a long absence, it would be better to push it farther.  It kind of showed in production to be honest, since I think I had to deal with more individual bug fixes than any other episode (though not as serious as others I've encountered before).  That's the magical Source engine.

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[Presence]

Very good, although I think you got Youtubed; there's a couple of patches of heavy compression in the early bits.

 

Man, the airboat still makes me want to hurl. I think I'll need to watch those sections windowed.

[ekket]

Great episode, the modding in this episode was spectacular. I think that all the bug hunting was well worth it, so was the choice of making this episode longer. Here's to another year of Freeman's Mind!

 

That compression should be fixed by the VP9 encoding, I don't recall it being worse than what was on the previous episode.

[Sexypotato]

Somehow i never knew until this episode that you could shoot out that transformer and cut the power 

[Icebox]

Freeman got a little intense in some parts, which is good.

[Spitfire]

At last. Many thanks Ross. Love your stuff.

[furybader1234]

I saw a comment on the video saying

 

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 It would’ve been funny if at 5:59 after Freeman yelled,  you could hear Dave from Civil Protection go “Mike! Stay put!  I’ll go get help!”

lmao, that’s so like Dave.

[danielsangeo]

Subs up!

[CrowbarsCrow]

So uh where is the video that is a year update? You said you would make one at the end of the year highlighting the movie and other projects. No rush B

[ekket]

3 hours ago, danielsangeo said:

Subs up!

That was very fast of you, thanks so much for your efforts.

[krickit]

10 hours ago, seanbob said:

Somehow i never knew until this episode that you could shoot out that transformer and cut the power  

You can't. There is no transformer. He never shot out any electrical devices in the episode. You imagined the whole thing.

[Professor von Kriplespac]

Released just on my birthday I see.

Ross, really, thank you for this series. It's one of the few things I look forward to anymore.

[shoopdawhoop]

It's astonishing how often in this series you see things like Gordon climbing ledges, putting his weapon away, an NPC reacting to him killing a friendly vortigaunt, a mention of modding *in the credits* and yet we still have people going "I didn't know you could do that!" & "Is this modded?" in the youtube comments.

[BTGBullseye]

Excellent episode Ross!

[sheridanm962]

Wow, can we have these mods???

[Icebox]

16 hours ago, shoopdawhoop said:

It's astonishing how often in this series you see things like Gordon climbing ledges, putting his weapon away, an NPC reacting to him killing a friendly vortigaunt, a mention of modding *in the credits* and yet we still have people going "I didn't know you could do that!" & "Is this modded?" in the youtube comments. 

Shows that a lot of people don't pay attention to credits or any other notices.

[GordonFreeman]

Hell. It's about damn time.

 

Glad to be of service.

 

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[Ross Scott]

On 1/5/2019 at 10:49 PM, Presence said:

Very good, although I think you got Youtubed; there's a couple of patches of heavy compression in the early bits.

 

Man, the airboat still makes me want to hurl. I think I'll need to watch those sections windowed.

I announced it IMMEDIATELY after it got processed for 1080p.  If I could manage things better (maybe someday), I'd let it sit on Youtube for 24 hours actually, I've noticed the color is more accurate for videos after it's had more time to process.

[Icebox]

4 hours ago, RaTcHeT302 said:

I think you guys are a bit too harsh. I'm not really the sort of person who pays attention to the description or to the credits unless the video gives me a heads up while it's playing. People are still bound to ask the same question over and over again, no matter how well you try to present the information itself.

 

Nothing you can really do about it, it's pretty normal, people sometimes have their focus in different places, when approaching something for the first time, so they might miss out on some key info, even if it's right in their face. Maybe they lack the context, or they don't understand the meaning of what you told them just yet, until they are done with what they are watching, or playing.

I can see your point.

[Steve the Pocket]

It's more that people have a question, and don't even consider the possibility that the creator might have used the description to preemptively answer it. Even when that question is as major as "Who besides you contributed to the video's content?" and credits are a well-established thing in our society.

 

To some extent this is YouTube's fault. From day one, they've considered the video descriptions so unimportant that they've been mostly-hidden by default. (And no other site does that. Not DeviantArt, not Newgrounds, not even Imgur which 99% of the time is just used to rehost other people's pictures for hotlinking elsewhere.) So people get in the habit of not even thinking about them. There are a number of ways in which YouTube is staggeringly backward, and this is one of the bigger ones.

 

Anyway. Great episode. Like everyone else I'm surprised that you went to the trouble of having the game modded (well, custom-mapped) just for something so simple, but I guess we're all still used to the days when you didn't have the resources to do anything fancier than holster your weapon and noclip your way up a short wall. I'm guessing there are going to be more moments like this in store down the line.

 

Which brings up a good question: Were there any moments in the first series where you wanted to do something fancy like that but had to do without?