Frozen Synapse - I'm an idiot!

[Sp!at]

Jakob Pavlov and I had just finished a multiplayer game and so I challenged back. Each side in this new game has just three machine gunners and we start on opposite sides of the map. I look at my men and think to myself 'This is reasonable - I should be able to reach certain choke-points before Jakob can get to position', so everything is looking fine.

I move my three men, carefully gauging angles and cross-fire directions. Jakob won our last encounter so I had learned a thing or two about how he plays so I was feeling confident I could expect him to do the unexpected. I didn't bother testing the setup by moving his men because it all looked pretty straight-forward.

The turn is sent off and then during the day Jakob has his turn and it comes back.

Anyhow, I just opened the file back up to have my second turn. The turn plays out and there is something wrong. My men have disappeared. Completely gone. At the end of the turn there are ghost images of where they started so I play the turn again. Still no men.

At this point I zoom right out and see Jakob's three machine-gunners in their start positions.

Finally dawns on me that instead of moving my men during the setup, I'd only moved Jakob's in the 'test phase' leaving all my men sitting back where they started.

[ZeeGermans]

yep done this at least 2 or 3 times. Actually won by doing it too.

[Jakob_Pavlov]

LOL!

Classic mate!

It makes more sense why you were not in the places I expected you to be....I was getting very nervous.....figured that I had guessed totally wrong as to what you would do!

[Jakob_Pavlov]

Gah! Should have known that I'd lose my first guy like that after reading this!

Perhaps I'm the idiot after all!

[Sp!at]

Lol. I think I got lucky.

[Jakob_Pavlov]

Well played mate.......there I was thinking I would dominate if I could control the central rooms and I ended up being trapped like fish in a barrel!

[Sp!at]

In turn 3 there was a split second where my guy runs out in the open - just as your guy looks the other way. Very close.

I've tried making a YouTube of our last couple of games but without success. Perhaps this is one of the issues left over from the launch.

[Brootal]

Just tried a youtube of one of my matches, Seemed to work, Got an email telling me congratulations on my first upload. Took me awhile to work out how to find my own videos

YouTube - ‪Frozen Synapse: Brootal (green) vs MetalRain (red) - Extermination‬‏

[Jakob_Pavlov]

I've put videos of this and our slightly more "dynamic" preceeding match up in the original Frozen Synapse thread: Frozen Synapse

(I've had success using the "Record Offline" option, then converting the .ogv to mp4 before uploading. Although there does seem to be some delay with the sound (mp4 is okay...but then after upload there is a delay?!?)