Random Dead by Daylight Bullshittery (Patreon)

Hey there folks. So this is the finished Dead by Daylight video I was talking about. Released as early access to you with my thanks. This week I'll get cracking on another video and let you know which one it'll probably be :)

Some behind the scenes info for those interested:

So the footage here consisted of about 5-6 games ZF played when we bought Dead by Daylight together. Predominantly the first 3 games where we really didn't know what we were doing. 

My initial plan was to record with DXTORY. But for some reason, the number of keyframes was really off, resulting in really choppy and unsatisfying looking footage. So in the end, I went with the OBS recording. Which was blurrier, but much smoother on the frame rate. You can compare the two briefly on about 0:55, where one of the scenes had to be the DXTORY footage because the sub notification appeared a that exact moment in the OBS version. As you can see, quite rubbish. So I'm glad I made the switch.

Initially, I was doing all of the spoken text. But I quickly released that it wasn't very satisfying to watch, as quite a lot was being said very quickly. So the eye would dart all over the screen. So instead I tried to focus only on the playeron the screen and did a lot of text following heads.

This does however make some of the text look quite jittery as the character models are jittery. I think I went overboard in some places to be honest. But the emotion of what is being said is there.

Also, the audio was quite difficult to get right. As people would go from quietly talking to yelling frantically quite quickly. So there was a lot of balancing work there. But it created a bit of a hybrid video, between a compilation of bullshittery moments, and a more narrative focused horror.

So to summarize, probably went a bit over the top with some of the text animations. But decided to go for text following players around to make it seem more interesting.

Diving into bed :)