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Monday, 25 June 2012
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
About the Livestream
Yeah, yeah... I know I've been bugging all of you about the livestream but there's a couple of reasons I still havn't gotten around to it yet...
First of all, I got the Black Screen issue again, it's probably because own3d has changed it's format and I havn't contacted support to resolve it yet. So, right now, even if I DO stream, you'll probably see the "Live" indicator but nothing on the stream... But that's the easy part...
Secondly, my free time is a MESS... Some days I have lots of time to play video games, others I have none. I'm currently at a point where a lot of things are happening simultaneously in my life (both important and insignificant) and I HAVE to set priorities (and, frankly, League of Legends just cannot be my first priority...) Again, I'd like to set the stream up, mostly because of the great experience I had the first time I tested the stream and the awesome people I met that day, so that gives me hope. But again, if I don't manage to settle down to a more stable schedule, I don't think I can bring myself to begin a streaming channel.
There's also the bandwidth issue, which is the only "technical" problem I cannot solve from my part. As of late 2011, I own a PC that can stream in HD without CPU lag. But there is NO ISP in Greece that provides more than 1 Mbit Upload speed, so I can only stream in lower quality in order not to "suffocate" the line. My only hope lies on a communication firm from Cyprus that provides services in major Greek cities that give up to 4 MBit upload but the odds to have my town added to their netowork is REALY slim... Still, one can only hope! ^^
That's all for now... Take care!
First of all, I got the Black Screen issue again, it's probably because own3d has changed it's format and I havn't contacted support to resolve it yet. So, right now, even if I DO stream, you'll probably see the "Live" indicator but nothing on the stream... But that's the easy part...
Secondly, my free time is a MESS... Some days I have lots of time to play video games, others I have none. I'm currently at a point where a lot of things are happening simultaneously in my life (both important and insignificant) and I HAVE to set priorities (and, frankly, League of Legends just cannot be my first priority...) Again, I'd like to set the stream up, mostly because of the great experience I had the first time I tested the stream and the awesome people I met that day, so that gives me hope. But again, if I don't manage to settle down to a more stable schedule, I don't think I can bring myself to begin a streaming channel.
There's also the bandwidth issue, which is the only "technical" problem I cannot solve from my part. As of late 2011, I own a PC that can stream in HD without CPU lag. But there is NO ISP in Greece that provides more than 1 Mbit Upload speed, so I can only stream in lower quality in order not to "suffocate" the line. My only hope lies on a communication firm from Cyprus that provides services in major Greek cities that give up to 4 MBit upload but the odds to have my town added to their netowork is REALY slim... Still, one can only hope! ^^
That's all for now... Take care!
An update
Some times this game gets the best of me... Yesterday evening I couldn't even sleep cause I was thinking about what I could possibly have done better to win my last couple of games. I forced myself to realise that it IS just a game and winning or losing shouldn't influence me this much, especially since I have to wake up early each day to get to work. Still, being a competitive person, I always want to get better and better on anything I do, not just League of Legends.
So, yesterday was kind of a strange day. On the couple of games I played in the afternoon, without much effort from either me or my team, we managed to easily win them (28-13 on the first and 28-6 on the second). Then, after going out with friends I thought that it would be nice, with a clear mind and all, to continue my win streak. Didn't happen.
First game got second to last pick but I offered to take support as our last pick didn't want to and I wanted to keep the spirits of the team up. Little I knew at the time, since ALL of the team failed and I wasn't in any position to help the team in any way. Our jungler just farmed on a far away land while we where trying to get objectives, our carry couldn't farm because the opponent jungler camped our lane and our mid-laner, after giving us the "which one of you is gonna feed them and ruin my game" was getting killed over and over again, ending with the most deaths on the team. The surrender was swift...
That's ok though, it's a risk I always know it's there whenever I play support so I tried my luck another time, getting a jungler again, which I'm practicing a lot lately as it seems to be best at it over other roles, and managed to give my team a great early lead, shutting down COMPLETELY their jungler and having their carries out-farmed and asking for reports... I don't know if that was a mistake on my part to leave top lane alone but, since their jungler was strugling to get some farm and was really weak up to mid game, his ganks where next to useless. So, our top was happy farming while we destroyed the other two lanes. Then everything turned south... Me and our carry started doing dragon and, even though our support and mid where right beside us, they descided to hunt down the 1/2 HP enemy support instead of helping us with the dragon, ending up with me taken down by their sneaky jungler and the two that where chasing to get cought in the enemy jungle and get killed. We lost 3 towers right then. After that, it was a facepalm fest... Their support and top lane went full tank and had no damage to be an actual threat. So I orchestrated a teamfight by ward placement and routing my team through the jungle in order to get ourselves behind the tanks and get their carries first. We pulled it of nicely, got 4 of them and while the other 4 where chasing the last remaining tank, I managed to have them stop chasing and do a quick Baron. All was fine and well and, even though we where behind in towers, I thought my team had realised how easy it was to win the game... Again, I THOUGHT! For the love of God, I have NEVER seen another team so EAGER to drop a tank in battle and not focus down carries. I died over and over by diving into their carries, managing to kill one of them each time, but the other killed me because I was all alone back there! Each time, I was watching the tank clean up the mess, and walk away with 1/4 or 1/3 HP. I tried to coordinate the team once more to focus down the carries first but by the time my teammates realised how simple that was (they didn't have a tank to taunt them or have a strong Croud Control skill, he was just a meat-bag that my team loved to hit), their carries got defensive items and managed to finish off our carries first. 47 minutes wasted just because people have NO IDEA about mid/late-game...
Oh well, I seriously doubt that I'll find teammates that know what is important and what's not in this game. Every teen that plays League of Legends thinks that if he's good at 1v1, he's good overall! And that's why I can get easy early leads, ALL these players know how to 1v1 and with my help, they dominate their lanes. But then they get all greedy and throw games like that above... I won't call them "noobs", I just wonder what more "I" can do to overcome such dificulties...
So, yesterday was kind of a strange day. On the couple of games I played in the afternoon, without much effort from either me or my team, we managed to easily win them (28-13 on the first and 28-6 on the second). Then, after going out with friends I thought that it would be nice, with a clear mind and all, to continue my win streak. Didn't happen.
First game got second to last pick but I offered to take support as our last pick didn't want to and I wanted to keep the spirits of the team up. Little I knew at the time, since ALL of the team failed and I wasn't in any position to help the team in any way. Our jungler just farmed on a far away land while we where trying to get objectives, our carry couldn't farm because the opponent jungler camped our lane and our mid-laner, after giving us the "which one of you is gonna feed them and ruin my game" was getting killed over and over again, ending with the most deaths on the team. The surrender was swift...
That's ok though, it's a risk I always know it's there whenever I play support so I tried my luck another time, getting a jungler again, which I'm practicing a lot lately as it seems to be best at it over other roles, and managed to give my team a great early lead, shutting down COMPLETELY their jungler and having their carries out-farmed and asking for reports... I don't know if that was a mistake on my part to leave top lane alone but, since their jungler was strugling to get some farm and was really weak up to mid game, his ganks where next to useless. So, our top was happy farming while we destroyed the other two lanes. Then everything turned south... Me and our carry started doing dragon and, even though our support and mid where right beside us, they descided to hunt down the 1/2 HP enemy support instead of helping us with the dragon, ending up with me taken down by their sneaky jungler and the two that where chasing to get cought in the enemy jungle and get killed. We lost 3 towers right then. After that, it was a facepalm fest... Their support and top lane went full tank and had no damage to be an actual threat. So I orchestrated a teamfight by ward placement and routing my team through the jungle in order to get ourselves behind the tanks and get their carries first. We pulled it of nicely, got 4 of them and while the other 4 where chasing the last remaining tank, I managed to have them stop chasing and do a quick Baron. All was fine and well and, even though we where behind in towers, I thought my team had realised how easy it was to win the game... Again, I THOUGHT! For the love of God, I have NEVER seen another team so EAGER to drop a tank in battle and not focus down carries. I died over and over by diving into their carries, managing to kill one of them each time, but the other killed me because I was all alone back there! Each time, I was watching the tank clean up the mess, and walk away with 1/4 or 1/3 HP. I tried to coordinate the team once more to focus down the carries first but by the time my teammates realised how simple that was (they didn't have a tank to taunt them or have a strong Croud Control skill, he was just a meat-bag that my team loved to hit), their carries got defensive items and managed to finish off our carries first. 47 minutes wasted just because people have NO IDEA about mid/late-game...
Oh well, I seriously doubt that I'll find teammates that know what is important and what's not in this game. Every teen that plays League of Legends thinks that if he's good at 1v1, he's good overall! And that's why I can get easy early leads, ALL these players know how to 1v1 and with my help, they dominate their lanes. But then they get all greedy and throw games like that above... I won't call them "noobs", I just wonder what more "I" can do to overcome such dificulties...
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