Merric posted this on March 9th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as Guides, Skirmish Guides.
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In our last segment (for now) of the current soldier cosmetics, we take a look at the Man cosmetic items. I would like to thank Kaelin of my Kinship, The Council of the Secret Fire for their help with the gathering of these photos. It is very much appreciated! Remember, that each cosmetic costs 1 specific Campaign Mark and 77 Skirmish Marks and can be purchased from a Cosmetics vendor at any of the Skirmish Camps.
Thanks everyone who made these possible! As we see new updates I’ll be sure to add them, but until then…. Happy Skrimishing!
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Veneration posted this on February 24th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as General, Guides, streaming, veneration, video.
Shorthand Link: http://combo.mmeow.net/god
In part III we will be looking over the options and ways to do Live Streaming LOTRO game play through a number of sources. Some of them very easy, and others… Not so much.
Throughout online gaming’s history, viewers and players have enjoyed being able to watch and learn from each other through many unique venues. The latest and fastest growing is the online streaming video. Much like the recorded and replayed options many use today, live streaming allows players to share what they see (Or what they want you to see) to an audience in almost real time! In some cases the video can be as fast a 0.2 seconds behind making it look %100 seamless. This new wave of interest has moved from live webcam and online media feeds to what we now know as Streaming Gameplay!
There are many ways to set up your stream. The most popular and efficient way is to go through a 3rd party streaming site like Justin.tv or UStream.com. These sites have features that allow you to stream live while allowing the site to record and archive footage for later use. A step up from those is the LiveStream.com community where companies like Microsoft and the ABC Networks stream television shows to custom feed scripts.LiveStream.com has tons of great features that can be integrated into making your own channel at LiveStream.com
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Merric posted this on February 17th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as Guide, Guides, Rewards, Skirmish Guides, Skirmishes.
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This week we take a look at the Dwarf-kind Soldier cosmetic items. I would like to thank both Kaelin and Azzbuk of my Kinship, The Council of the Secret Fire for their help with the gathering of these photos. It is very much appreciated!
Remember, that each cosmetic costs 1 specific Campaign Mark and 77 Skirmish Marks and can be purchased from a Cosmetics vendor at any of the Skirmish Camps.
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Merric posted this on February 6th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as Guide, Guides, Rewards, Skirmish Guides, Skirmishes, how-to, new player.
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In this section, we take a look at the new Cosmetic Items for sale through the Cosmetic vendors that are located in the Bullroarer Skirmish camps. In order to find them, set the “Filter by Profile” drop-down menu to read “Rift Cosmetic Clothing”. These new items include a cloak, a top hat, a fisherman’s backpack and the Rift helms! All of these items are wearable by all classes (even the Rift Helms) but are not purchasable with the existing Campaign Marks. It looks like with the new skirmish “Rift Rescue” we will also be obtaining a new Campaign, and along with it a new Campaign Mark, the Lefnuilan Campaign Mark. This campaign currently only contains “Rift Rescue”, but I would assume that there will be future Skirmishes that will fall into this campaign released as Volume 3’s books are released.
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Merric posted this on February 5th, 2010. It has Comments Off
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This week we take a look at the Hobbit-lad Soldier cosmetic items. I would like to thank both Arbitrary (Idris of the The Silent Minority kinship; Laurelin server in the EU) and Westernesse (Lorebreaker of the Elite Squad kinship; Meneldor server in the US) for helping with the gathering of these photos. It is very much appreciated!
Remember, that each cosmetic costs 1 specific Campaign Mark and 77 Skirmish Marks and can be purchased from a Cosmetics vendor at any of the Skirmish Camps.
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Veneration posted this on January 29th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as General, Guide, Guides, how-to, video.
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In part II of the “The Records of Battle”, we will go over recording game play using XFire! You can go back and read Part I about Fraps if you missed it.
XFire is a program used by millions of gamers worldwide and is considered by many to be the most used gamers aid available. With Features like Live Chat overlay, Game stat tracking, Gamer Profiling, Screenshot and Live Video Streaming as well as strong community and events interest. XFire is a favorite of many gamers both MMO and FPS oriented. XFire will also allow you to see what games your friends are playing and enter the server or game (if it’s installed on your computer) with a click of a button. On top of all of that its got the best feature of all…. Its 100% free! Click here to download XFire now! XFire also comes with skins and themes to help set the mood or fit your current desktop look.
Once you’ve installed XFire and set it up the way you’d like, you’ll need to look at a few settings to make sure everything is set up correctly for video recording or streaming.
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Veneration posted this on January 28th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as General, Guide, Guides, how-to, video.
Shorthand Link: http://combo.mmeow.net/fsl
Xfire is hosting their first ever Video Capture Awards, and we are going to show you how you can make your own video. Ever wonder how people record game play or even stream it live online? Well wonder no more! In this three part article we will go over recording game play to a hard drive as well as streaming it live!
Before we get started lets get a little more familiar with the terminology used in these programs.
- FPS – Contains the frame rate value for each second of the benchmark
- frametimes – Contains the time (in milliseconds) of every frame that was rendered in the benchmark
- minmaxavg – Contains the total frame count, benchmark duration, minimum, maximum, and average frame rate values.
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Merric posted this on January 27th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as Guide, Guides, Rewards, Skirmish Guides, Skirmishes, soldier.
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This week we take a look at the Elf-Sire Soldier cosmetic items. I would like to thank both Pericles of The House of Blackrock on Windfola and Kaelin from my kinship, The Council of the Secret Fire for helping with the gathering of these photos. It is very much appreciated!
Remember, that each cosmetic costs 1 specific Campaign Mark and 77 Skirmish Marks and can be purchased from a Cosmetics vendor at any of the Skirmish Camps.
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Merric posted this on January 22nd, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as Guide, Guides, Outside LOTRO, how-to, screenshot.
Shorthand Link: http://combo.mmeow.net/flh
Please note: This guide is only intended for Windows-based systems. If you have instructions for Linux and/or Macintosh systems, feel free to post a description or link in the comments.
When I was playing WoW, I came across a post on how to organize screenshots for free using Windows Powershell. I thought that this would be an excellent subject matter for LOTRO players as well, since we have so many screenshot artists throughout the community. So I’ve gone ahead and modified the screenshot script for WoW, created one for XP and another for Vista/Windows 7, and created this guide. Now don’t let the length of this article frighten you off. Setting this up is fairly easy although it may take a little time and it takes absolutely no scripting knowledge whatsoever and it’s absolutely free.
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Tony posted this on January 20th, 2010. It has Comments Off
Categorized as Braiglad, Bree-land, Cordofoneth, Dorollin, Flowers, Guides, Lenhwest, Merillif, Nedorlas, Old Forest, Rhosthon, Silloth, deed, map.
Shorthand Link: http://combo.mmeow.net/fia
This site gets a lot of searches related to the Old Forest flower deed. Nowadays you kids have it easy. Back when I had to first worry about this, I had to run around with 2 wolves, 3 bats, a bear, several spiders and some evil trees on my tail. We didn’t even have a detailed map! But I digress …
I thought it would be helpful to put together a map of the flower locations (Nedorlas, Braiglad, Lenhwest, Silloth, Merillif, Dorollin, Cordofoneth, Rhosthon). I didn’t bother with coordinates, as I think this is easy enough. I’ve labeled by name, which should be helpful for those of you with a few flowers leftover.
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