Last Friday I setup Twitch and streamed a few hours of PVP and pretty quickly racked up 8 solo kills in my Thrasher, with most the kills coming in outnumbered fights. Unfortunately I had my settings wrong and the resulting video was pretty terrible quality (was my first time streaming).
You can go watch it on Twitch now if you want but the quality is pretty bad. To check out the new Twitch Channel Click Here.
I'm 90% sure I have fixed my setting and now the streaming quality is pretty good, however I'm still not 100%. But if it's not I will keep at it until I get it to work.
So what exactly is Twitch and what do I plan to stream there?
Twitch is a site that hosts streaming feeds of live video game play. This growing trend seems to be most popular with Starcraft at the moment, but it's a great medium to teach from and just have fun with. Certainly much more entertaining than doing a Podcast (I've made a few, but never released them because I wasn't sure I wanted to do them regularly).
So instead of a weekly Podcast, EVE Pro Guides will be doing a weekly EVE Online Twitch Stream. In the stream I will PVP, maybe have a few beers, joke with my self, maybe lead fleets, and generally try to have fun while teaching as much as I can.
Due to the laid back nature, it won't be nearly as organized and effective as my other guides but there should still be lots of good stuff.
There are a couple catches for the first few weeks. Tomorrow's Stream may be a little late, and the quality may need some tweaking. Also next weeks stream will most likely occur a day later than normal because I have plans I made long ago for next Friday night.
MOST the time I will be streaming every Friday from 9pm to 11pm US Eastern Standard Time. I will also pop on occasionally to stream when I get some free time, so favorite my stream on twitch so you get notified every time I stream.
Once again... Every Friday 9-11Pm US EST - EVE Pro Guides PVP Stream!
Sweet! Loading the first one now. Can’t wait to see more! Thanks!
Oh yay! You are/were in my neck of the woods. Would love to try my new solo skills on you in hopes of getting a “master” vs “student” kill 🙂
Did not see your live stream, but loved the recording, and yes, us FW types are all up for a fight, its what makes FW the most appealing to me.
The plex sites are great places to wait for targets, plus each size of site only allows certain sized ships. E.g. a Minor only allows frigates/destroyers so you can be sure your not going to get anything bigger 🙂 (not that it would worry you of course!).
As for Xsplit, I think they are still trying to fix it for eve afaik, but did you try fullscreen windowed mode?
I will sub to your Twitch feed!
I love FW space for small ship fighting because of the reasons you mentioned, lots of targets and plexes that allow you to weed out larger targets and make blobs more manageable.
The Xsplit was a little tough at first, I could not get it to work at all in full screen mode, so I had to put EVE in windowed. Then after the first video, I played with making local video and kept changing video setting until I got it worked out. Turns out I had the Resolution setting wrong under “View.” Now it seems to be pretty good quality, but we will find out for sure later.
In your last video you asked what Major Plex’s allow:
Minor: T1 frigates, T1 destroyers. Faction frigates (both empire and pirate) count as T1.
Medium: T2 frigates, T1 cruisers, as well as the smaller stuff named above for minors. Faction cruisers count as T1.
Major (restricted): T2 cruisers, T3 cruisers, T1 battlecruisers, as well as smaller stuff named above.
Major (unrestricted): Anything.
HTH
Thanks for that… Now I know
This last outing was pretty uneventful, but I think the discussion was pretty interesting anyway.
Hopefully next time my setup runs smoother and I get some fun kills.