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Unprofessional Fridays: 07/08/2016

Happy birthday, America. We got you pixels, portals, railguns, and severe framerate issues.

The end of the week is here! You made it! Let's sit back, relax, and close the week out in style with some video games.

Jul. 8 2016

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Drew, Dan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Return Fire

Strafe

Quake Live

Prey

Episode Notes:

The downloadable version of this video is now available! -Drew

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I love some 8th of July celebrations!

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Drew DON'T YOU EVEN BE SORRY thanks for the vod!

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Good thing Drew put that note there. I was looking for the download just now.

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I kill Jeff a few times in this episode. And win a round of Quake Live.

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Thank you for the note @drewbert I came here as this popped up in my "download link" rss feed, but the link was to this page not the file. I wonder if it is even possible to fix/not occur or if its all just automatic cms stuff. I'll check back tomorrow for the link :)

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Boy that AC really comes through - impossible problem to solve w/ a control room, let alone a dude at a tricaster. GGWP Drew.

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Boy that AC really comes through - impossible problem to solve w/ a control room, let alone a dude at a tricaster. GGWP Drew.

He did a damn good job with just a mobile tricaster control panel.

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I hope they fix the download soon. I usually watch all the weeks worth of Giant Bomb stuff on Saturday

:(

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NOTE: The downloadable version of this video will be available later than usual. Sorry for the inconvenience! -Drew

Noted, thanks.

By the way, the AC was definitely more noticeable this time - little annoying when listening using headphones (not the end of the world though). Best of luck finding a solution.

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I kill Jeff a few times in this episode. And win a round of Quake Live.

apologise!

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Jeff Gerstmann : Professional Fancy Boy

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I should have known that Jeff was a Spudboy...

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video won't play for me on the site, says i need flash, but have one installed in protest and still won't work

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Got to railgun Jeff a few times.

Quake is good stuff.

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@danryckert Prey was great! Don't let J. Jaded Gerstmann tell you otherwise.

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saluting jeff is my favorite jeff.

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4th of July and war game then a tons of FPS games.

Interesting choices.

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Any quick easy way to get a list of the games they played? Thanks

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I kill Jeff a few times in this episode. And win a round of Quake Live.

I remember that. It's been a while since I've had a jam-packed game of Q3/QL like that, it was fun. I was spook. I believe you ruined a kill streak of mine at some point.

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condemned 2 was great! That bear scene is legendary and I liked all the investigation stuff

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return fire was really fun to watch them play.

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whats up with that awful quake live crosshair! I haven't played in months but I decided to see how much this cost and it said it was already in my library. Awesome. Guess I will be playing some rocket arena tonight! Will be nice after getting 80+ levels in overwatch and kiiinda burning out on that and just wanna get some rail gun fragging in. Anyways, change the crosshair to just a normal + and your life will be better in quake. I used to play in a top 10 TF clan back in the day and everyone was an HPB and I was on a 56k modem and could compete with people in most aspects except sniping vs a college T1 with a 10 ping when I had a 370 ping but still could pull off some amazing shots. Quake / Quake 3 had the best netcode on earth. It has been hard to play any different games over the years so I am very happy to see the resurgence of games like Quake.

I hope to god machine games is making a Quake. Please, please please. Quake champions for multiplayer and single player machine games Quake would make my whole life better.

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Damn hope its watchable soon on ps4 drew

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o7

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That first game reminds me that Glory Days 3 was supposed to look like that. Or, well, AirMech.

Though anything with military vehicles like that makes me want more Armor Alley based games.

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Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca

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Video is Flash Player only, Flash Player just heats up my Laptop so much I refuse to use it, meanwhile HTML5 doesn't eat up any battery.

PLEASE STOP USING FLASH PLAYER!

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Jeff's DPI and/or sensitivity is too high, why he sucks.

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Palm down and open towards your face, not outwards. Middle finger touching tip of brow, glasses or hat. Thumb outstretched and parallel with rest of the hand and not underneath or over fingers.

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Was audio off? Whenever people were speaking there was lots of background noise?

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Was audio off? Whenever people were speaking there was lots of background noise?

it's been gone over before, their mic audio is gated and cuts off unless they're speaking, and they have an excessively loud AC that goes off so you only hear it when they speak.

unfortunatley they seem to have been able to do all they can about it.

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Flash only? That's a shame, I usually watch UPF Saturday in bed on my iPad. Guess I'll have to get up now!

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Yes, the robot was "blessing" your gun.

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Prey is a fantastic game, recently played the PC version i highly recommend it.

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Brother Daniel has been DELETED

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Prey looks very similar in design with some parts of Duke Nukem Forever.

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The laughing skull from Return Fire has been etched into my memory for decades now.

"Ah-hahaha-HA-ha!"

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Video won't play on PS4 web browser.. damn you flash! Please don't change all the videos on the site to flash player. Old one is fiiiiiine, don't fix what isn't broken <3

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@anonymous_jesse said:

Was audio off? Whenever people were speaking there was lots of background noise?

it's been gone over before, their mic audio is gated and cuts off unless they're speaking, and they have an excessively loud AC that goes off so you only hear it when they speak.

unfortunatley they seem to have been able to do all they can about it.

Don't notice it once they start playing games.

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Glad to hear The Darkness getting some recognition. Hoping for a 3rd game in the series to be made.

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I think that Quake Live was free for those who played it on Steam when it was free to play. At least I have no recollection of buying it.

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Yeah agreed here. Please upload html5 version?

Video won't play on PS4 web browser.. damn you flash! Please don't change all the videos on the site to flash player. Old one is fiiiiiine, don't fix what isn't broken <3

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@mmarsu: This should be available when the downloadable version of the video is. I'm guessing there was some sort of recording/encoding issue last night. You can trust Drew to get it sorted out, but that dude deserves a weekend as well!

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@pslyy said:

I think that Quake Live was free for those who played it on Steam when it was free to play. At least I have no recollection of buying it.

I think you are right. I specifically remember downloading it and playing one match to make sure I got it for free when it changed from F2P to $10.

I also realized that I've owned Renegade Ops for years and have never really played it. I should probably get on that.

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Something I've never understood about Prey: if you have portal technology, why build a giant complex mechanical slaughter chain that moves through the ship? Just portal the cattle straight to the stabby kill machine.

For that matter, why have doors on a spaceship when you have portals? The portals seems to by just be lying around in boxes, so it isn't like they are expensive, complicated, or dangerous.