Should I review the RA mod on Youtube?

[freijon]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

The problem I think is setting the MP up, there is some dark ritual you have to perform.

But if you get it done, I can offer an over agressive RuN nuke driver

Setting up the MP session wouldn't be an issue I think, I've played online with a friend several times (I can't host myself, just join, but that's because I'm using Linux). I just need an IP and then I'm ready to go. Anyway, I think first I would do some offline recordings with the AI to show the different/new stations, textures and weapons. I thought I'd do a quick-mission with all controllable platforms. But only if enough people think it's worth the effort...

[Hawk66]

Hi freijon,

just do it, as you say there are not much RA videos out there. Maybe you can play different missions with the various platforms. And SP is just fine...most people play it that way...- I guess

I'm currently creating a cold war mission for the RA-mod but it will take a while.

[Mike Abberton]

I think one of the shortcomings of the RA mod right now is that there are very few scenarios that showcase all the new platforms (especially the 60's-80's platforms). So for most, you are limited to quick missions or multiplayer.

Even for the original platforms, some of the changes in the mods (this includes LWAMI) kind of break the scenarios written for stock DW.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome to SubSim freijon

[Hawk66]

@Mike, there are a couple of standard scenarios, which are converted for the RA mod. Even the great RedStormRising campaign is available, you just have to copy the content of the RSR_RA_Campaign folder into the scenario folder. So, in my opinion there is enough content to do a lp series about the mod.

Also when you look at some comments/review @ steam you have the impression that a lot of people do not know that with the RA mod it is not a problem to run the sim on Win8/Win10. So a little promoting it via some yt videos would maybe help here to spread this info.

I have currently limited time but I'm starting to create a bit of a dynamic scenario in which you're playing a West German platform in the 80's...

[Mike Abberton]

A Red Storm Rising run through would be good.

For the lack of scenarios, I was thinking specifically a lack of scenarios for the new playable platforms. There are a ton available, but you're mostly limited to quick missions for those. That being said, I still love the RA mod (and LWAMI).

Mike

[FPSchazly]

I'm glad to hear you like my videos!

I would totally appreciate vids like this! I've been waiting since just about when I started for someone else to do voice-over commentary for Dangerous Waters videos. I think it will ultimately result in better videos for the community.

You should definitely do the RSR RA campaign, that would be sweet. I would recommend doing several practice missions first so that you can get comfortable with commentary. It takes a while to get pretty good at it and you only get better by practicing.

When I first saw 'review video', I'm thinking of like a video game review video, as in a summary video with lots of different cuts and a commentary track that's put over an edited highlights video. That would be a lot of work. I've never undertaken something quite like that, but similar, and it takes a lot of time to get all the footage you need and piece it together. That's not to say it can't be done, but you should also get a good bit of editing experience under your belt first. I'm going to give the same recommendation for practicing with some practice missions for both commentary and editing.

Let me know if there's more you want to know about this. I do minimal editing to my naval videos because I want people to see my thought process but there's still a lot going on behind the scenes to get my videos uploaded and published to YouTube.