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Quick Look: GBNYCQLS:FTL:AE

Just because Brad already did a Quick Look of FTL's Advanced Edition content doesn't mean Alex can't too. There's enough fiery space death for everyone!

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Apr. 19 2014

Posted by: Alex

In This Episode:

FTL: Faster Than Light

174 Comments

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Eh, couldn't care less what these videos looks like

I'm not a subscriber for the best looking videos on the internet, I'm here for the entertainment value of some awesome dudes who are freaking hilarious together and watch them play some god damn video games.

And trust me, I get my $5 worth of entertainment every month. 720p or 1080p, it's whatever in my books.

If I'm dying to see direct 1080p footage of a game to see what it looks like then I'll go elsewhere and watch about five minutes of gameplay and go "yep, that looks like a pretty ass video game, cool...now I'll go back to giantbomb to actually be entertained"

Then again though I'm one of those guys who couldn't care less about graphics/visuals. I'm a person who played Deus Ex in 2006 (six years after it's release date) and it became my favorite game of all time.

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@cdub901 said:

Eh, couldn't care less what these videos looks like

I'm not a subscriber for the best looking videos on the internet, I'm here for the entertainment value of some awesome dudes who are freaking hilarious together and watch them play some god damn video games.

And trust me, I get my $5 worth of entertainment every month. 720p or 1080p, it's whatever in my books.

If I'm dying to see direct 1080p footage of a game to see what it looks like then I'll go elsewhere and watch about five minutes of gameplay and go "yep, that looks like a pretty ass video game, cool...now I'll go back to giantbomb to actually be entertained"

Then again though I'm one of those guys who couldn't care less about graphics/visuals. I'm a person who played Deus Ex in 2006 (six years after it's release date) and it became my favorite game of all time.

Why do they have to be mutually exclusive?

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Hey look, actual quality content!

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You sold me on it. Downloaded and will try to get in a few hours tonight.

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@ripelivejam said:

i for one am for unpronounceable acronyms

I just pronounce it "GB Nyquils", though I think "GB Nicholas" could work as well.

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Best FTL QL this week.

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Giant Bomb New York Count-Quick-Look-Solo?

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Giant Bomb New York Count-Quick-Look-Solo?

City instead of count, but yeah.

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I found the best crewman while playing last night.

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MOD+$number to target a specific one of the foes automatically enumerated rooms, after having previously selected the weapon to use.

Did I miss the checkbox, or is that actually not in the advanced edition?

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@00 said:
@noizy said:

@00: Thanks for your post. Really informative. I've listened to streamers discuss their different solution and watched the "How to make a TNT" video, and what you are saying rings true. Broadcast gear is built for speed, which is necessary for the live shows. They have an ungodly amount of gear to pipe in different sources, and do it all live. Upgrading all the gear would be a very high investment of resources. Rather they might want to consider an alternate capture solution when it comes to QL content where the live requirement isn't there and they don't need as much switching and speed, rather than use the live setup.

There is probably too much that could go wrong if they have separate equipment for capturing Quick Looks than they use for the live shows.

For PC games though, it does seem that something like NVIDIA's ShadowPlay running in manual mode might be a good solution though.

They have GTX 670's in their PCs and those can output 1080p video at up to 50mbps with minimal performance overhead as it uses the card's hardware video encoder.

They would not have to bypass their normal capture process to use this, so they would still have a redundant copy of the video if something went wrong with ShadowPlay.

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Disclaimer: With a GTX 570 in my PC, I can't say how well ShadowPlay works—it requires a 6xx or newer card. It looks like it could be a solution to providing higher quality PC footage though.

I tried some ShadowPlay streaming over the weekend and apparently the quality was pretty good but the video was buffering every 5 seconds. Probably more to do with my upload speeds as opposed to anything being wrong with the software though.

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How long before we get emails on the podcast from a New Yorker complaining about his coworkers living in San Francisco?

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Nice to see more FTL on here.

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Alex I have to say it is so much fun to watch you play this game you have some great lines of dialogue.

"Only good slug is a dead slug."

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Good god, you play through this game without pausing??

You are so, so much better at FTL than I am!

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Man, when I play I have the game paused 90% of the time, only not pausing when I know exactly what I need to do and what my current situation is. Seeing Alex and Brad just roll through all "fuck it" style is just not good for my mental stability.

I think he likely was just not pausing for the sake of the quick look. At least I would hope so. He could have done way better if he paused and timed his shots to go off when he had their shields hacked. I honestly never use auto-fire because timing your shots is so important.

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Man that was fast! I usually pause the game to look at everything to keep from missing closed airlocks. Also, I usually just click the button on the lower right to close all the airlocks in case I missed one. I think the teleport would have helped on those missiles at the end as well, but I've never beaten this game, just got to the end of it.

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Easily makes my list of top FTL Quick Looks.

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@flacracker:

Duder you're totally right. This video looks way better than the normal videos.

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Upgrade those shields!