BattleCast Primetime Episode 9 Online

[Sonic 295]

Episode 9 of BattleCast Primetime is now online and available for downloading or streaming from the Official C&C Site. And this is one huge episode.

 

On this Episode of Battlecast Primetime...

• We show you all the steps in making a new Red Alert 3 unit from concept to creation to balance
• Louis Castle, creator of the Sacred Green Crystal, joins us to reminisce about Red Alert 2
• Adam McCarthy, lead animator on Red Alert 3, talks about art in the gaming industry – see how he animated his favourite new Red Alert 3 unit.
• Apoc's back in his corner, Amir’s answering your questions, and we have 5 great matches in the Battlecast Five.
• And of course… David accepts Raj's challenge in The Main Event. Black's Big Battle – 2 MCVs enter, 1 MCV leaves! Who will win in the match Jason Bender is calling "A Noob Apocalypse"?

Direct downloads links below.

BattleCast Primetime Episode 9 | HD (1.3 GB)

BattleCast Primetime Episode 9 | SD (400 MB)

BattleCast Primetime Episode 9 | FLV (187 MB)

If you would rather not download those big files you can head over to the Official C&C Site now and use the flash player. The YouTube version is a condensed version of the show.

[Luk3us 63]

Nice episode. But it was kind lame how thingey, answered the question about walls when we already knew that a week ago but w/e..

 

And I can't believe Raj, lost the main event! Of course they both played like total noobs but it was still amusing. Especially when the two epics fell through the bridge, I cracked up when that happened! haha.

 

Good stuff.

[Johnnyxp64 20]

RAGE was perfectly used! it think it should have something like cooldown animation 3-4seconds like the engineer before used and the enemy can notice it and try to avvoide it, like the MADtank in the original Red Alert Aftermath.

 

now i have made few captures sawing the new RED ALERT 3 User Interface, its not clear i know the camera was moving a lot!! but its very clear the shape of it, the soviet coloring and the MANY new tabs for Naval control.

 

also it seems at the bottom we have something like Formation or order buttons,

 

very interesting, i prefere it now that is getting smaller as it goes down, even better it would be to be semitransparent.

 

Red Alert 3 User Interface Side Bar

http://synapse.gr/downloads/ra3ui1.jpg

http://synapse.gr/downloads/ra3ui2.jpg

 

 

p.s the dev sections was great addition espacially the longed hair guy interview, he was cool, understandable and told few new things....but he works TOO close to those 2 Monitors!

i want more inside looks and team work interviews!

super episode

great main event battle, simply noob extra fun! q+a+click

Edited April 26, 2008 by Johnnyxp64

[Sonic 295]

That was a good show. I would also like to see the stuff with devs and behind the scenes work expanded, more of this in the coming months please. Where does Amir Rao get those hats?

 

Big walker style units, thats a first for the Red Alert universe.

 

As for the main event Dave/Raj match up, it was entertaining, not much else to say really.

[G0NE2W4R 0]

lmao, yea i was laughing through the entire match.

It was good episode, i like the birth of a unit

[recover 2]

I don't think that "HD" is really HD, the Apple TV feed gives you a 1.6 GB file: http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/CNC3_TV_Show/BCPT9_ATV.m4v

[mastermind 0]

The video is 720p, which I'm pretty sure qualifies as high definition.

[Saracen 16]

True HD is 1080p...

 

Anyway, I personally don't feel the show was informative enough. OK most of the information was in "easy to understand English", but it would have been better (as Sonic said) to go more in depth.... some more detail into the workings of the development process would be great... Meet a Developer specifically just felt a little too shallow for my liking... and I have no modding background whatsoever.

 

The Louis Castle Interview sorta felt kinda redundant as well... OK, he was part of the founding of Westwood to some degree, but it'd be nice to have touched more on RA2 with a foresight to RA3.... this also seemed rather shallow.... I also noticed that he talked about Adam Isgreen and Brett Sperry by first name only.... which to my mind means that they're working as part of the EA team... now I know Adam has left Petroglyph for endeavours unknown at this time... but it makes you wonder...

 

Nevertheless the show was quite entertaining... Yet another I have actually watch from end to end.... the quality is certainly improving, although the detail could be better.

[recover 2]

The segment Meet a developer was pretty nice.

I like Bethsesda's "Inside the vault", frequently recurring blog posts talking with the guys who are working with Fallout 3.

Anyhow, C&CTV is improving, I hope they can continue to do this forever.

[G0NE2W4R 0]

True HD is 1080p...

 

Anyway, I personally don't feel the show was informative enough. OK most of the information was in "easy to understand English", but it would have been better (as Sonic said) to go more in depth.... some more detail into the workings of the development process would be great... Meet a Developer specifically just felt a little too shallow for my liking... and I have no modding background whatsoever.

 

The Louis Castle Interview sorta felt kinda redundant as well... OK, he was part of the founding of Westwood to some degree, but it'd be nice to have touched more on RA2 with a foresight to RA3.... this also seemed rather shallow.... I also noticed that he talked about Adam Isgreen and Brett Sperry by first name only.... which to my mind means that they're working as part of the EA team... now I know Adam has left Petroglyph for endeavours unknown at this time... but it makes you wonder...

 

Nevertheless the show was quite entertaining... Yet another I have actually watch from end to end.... the quality is certainly improving, although the detail could be better.

 

True True, i expected Louis to say something more interesting. What he said was the same things he said in the interview on TFD DVD.

[Sonic 295]

The Louis Castle Interview sorta felt kinda redundant as well... OK, he was part of the founding of Westwood to some degree, but it'd be nice to have touched more on RA2 with a foresight to RA3.... this also seemed rather shallow.... I also noticed that he talked about Adam Isgreen and Brett Sperry by first name only.... which to my mind means that they're working as part of the EA team... now I know Adam has left Petroglyph for endeavours unknown at this time... but it makes you wonder...

I think Louis was talking about Adam and Brett in a past tense. Either Louis' schedule prevented him from sticking around for to long or that interview was cut for time. It felt like it was over before it started. For someone as important as Louis Castle the interview could have gone longer.

 

[cnc_sage 0]

Say, can't Raj issue any more challenges? You know what they say. Power shifts quickly in the Brotherhood.

[Gben 20]

I think Louis was talking about Adam and Brett in a past tense. Either Louis' schedule prevented him from sticking around for to long or that interview was cut for time. It felt like it was over before it started. For someone as important as Louis Castle the interview could have gone longer.

 

I definitely had the impression that Louis was talking in the past tense about the original crew. (So I have no expectations of any current involvement in RA3. Surely their work would have been more important in the stages before anyone left Petro?)

 

I was also disappointed with the lack of content/detail in the some of the segments... it would have been better to cut some segments and extend others... like the Louis spot. The TV really needs to work on exclusive info - not rehashed info that's been heard before. It doesn't all have to be earth shattering news, but they should try to maximise the 'exclusive' news - to drive it's popularity.

 

I had no expectations with the 'main event' - but I really did enjoy the rage generator, and the epics going head to toe... and then head over bum! But the game really made them look like noobs... is that a good thing?

 

(It would have been a better 'script' if Raj could have won.)

 

I was entertained anyway.