Group Rewatch S6E1: RFW1 420OG vs 10kMC episode 1

[isi]

The lack of actual words in that title is confusing even me.

Welcome to season 6 of the Group Rewatch, hosted by me! I apparently have been elected to share some early Race for Wool with you, which is a 4v4 competitive map created by Vetches, in which the first team to complete their victory monument wins. My previous assertion that this would all be in the Direct Fire map was false: this first match I'm showing is in the first map: Hostilities Begin, and will be between Team 420OG and Team 10kMC.

Episode 1:
Team 420OG: Avidya | Coestar | BdoubleO | Guude
Team 10kMC: Mhykol | SimpleGamerz | Dewtroid | MC Gamer (did not upload)

The episodes are all close to 30 minutes long (except Dewtroid's perspective, as she edited things down rather heavily this episode), so watching one perspective from each team would equal our usual one hour of footage. Is this good, or will the overall pace be too slow? There's about 5 matches, each at 3 or 4 episodes, so I guess it depends on how long we want this season to go.

Comments

[mindcrack_love]

Thanks for doing this for me! I think the current pace is fine, but it's up to the rest of the community.

[isi]

Thanks for the tag job!

[theropod]

I'll be watching this. Despite it being stupid oclock in the morning here, I just had a really creepy thing happen and quite frankly if I get any sleep its going to be a damn miracle so I'm going to watch this and hope it helps calm down a bit.

[isi]

What happened? Hope you feel better soon.

Thero shows off her paranoia!

[theropod]

Well, I'm home for the weekend and mum was out with my aunt tonight. She came back not long ago and she's through the living room while I'm in bed relaxing. I go through to see her and immediately smell gas so I check out the oven in the kitchen and the gas hob is on.

Neither of us have touched it since yesterday and I swear it wasn't on when I'd gone through while she was out to make hot chocolate. She swears she never touched it. Either it's been on all day and night without us noticing (highly doubtful since she stood right by it while folding clothes from the tumble dryer and I've been in and out making hot chocolate) or it turned on by itself or something.

I'm utterly terrified of house fires so finding that hob on when mum could have walked off and went to bed without knowing it was on is just really frightening to me. I'm paranoid about a fire starting so spotting that just has made me afraid to sleep in case something happens, stupid as it sounds.

-hug- Thanks.

Re: Thero shows off her paranoia!

[guiltyshirts]

Oh geez, that's just creepy. *hug*

Re: Thero shows off her paranoia!

[theropod]

Yes, yes it is -hug-

Re: Thero shows off her paranoia!

[isi]

Uh oh, that's no good. Good thing you caught that. Maybe you could get it looked at, if it is turning on by itself.

Re: Thero shows off her paranoia!

[theropod]

The thing it, to do that it has to be pushed in and turned in all the way round to where it was, so there is really no way that it could have done it itself D: I just don't know what happened.

[isi]

THAT MINECRAFT BETA. Gosh, there's not even death messages.

It occurs to me, after watching the episode, that perhaps a little more explanation is needed for people unfamiliar with Race for Wool. I believe the Hostilities Begin map was originally designed for 2v2, and in my tracking down the links for this post, I did come across some 2v2 matches: 420 vs OOG and Team Meat vs Team 10k Cupcakes. Those teams then fused into the two teams we see now. It's worth noting this because you could tell from the commentary that they've played this map before, which I found somewhat jarring jumping into now, especially since it's my first time seeing this particular match. Perhaps it would have been worthwhile to go through the 2v2 footage, just for orientation sake, but both matches were really long; I can only assume, having not seen that footage before, that 2v2 was not an effective configuration for this map, so they did teams of four instead. In any case, I expect the first match in Direct Fire will feel more "newcomer friendly," as it will be the player's first time being exposed to the second map.

[theropod]

I really enjoyed the banter between BDubs and Guude, naturally, makes me want to go back and rewatch Legendary actually. Very enjoyable but wow, such a difference in then and now in the game. I always forget there was no death messages so the random curses as people died were quite amusing. And Guude was really good with that bow!

[isi]

I'm certain there will be death messages in future matches. I remember there being death messages. I think it was even custom death messages, so it'll actually say "[person] pulled a VintageBeef." Direct Fire will be in 1.8 too. The people in this episode mention sprinting a few times, and looking at the date, 1.8 was released shortly before this match was recorded, but I'm guessing this map wasn't updated for 1.8, but the next one will be. It should feel a little more familiar, in any case.