A frag movie is in many ways similar to graffiti – a way to show off one’s skills within the game. But often, lost in the grind of including everything the player found impressed himself: The main goal of a frag movie should be about entertaining the viewers. In this small showcase of frag movies, I decided to take a look at some under appreciated/forgotten hidden gems of frag movies.
First up, Our friend
Baerbel set off to make a movie for himself. It might not impress many. And, it might show signs of “my first video editing thingi”. But in the midst of that, a highly charming, entertaining, and ultimately very intuitively paced insight into the a humble life of German TF2 player. – released yesterday.
The last night of my culinary travels around the city of Valencia (Spain), I was dragged against my will into the worst restaurant I could imagine. Lit by flourecent ceiling lights, a wallpaper like the puke of an early 90′s MTV music video, and a cubic meter of rude hermaphroditic waitor (honestly) to take our orders. Who could have predicted the meal to be absolutely world class fine dining?
The following frag movie is similar. Forget about the Ray Charlesed colour correction, the 90′s overused extacy music – The frags, prediction, and pacing of this movie are worthy nothing less than those of world class fine dining. -Featuring the soldier
Traxantic, edited by himself and Aron, released November 2009.
The next movie, featuring TF2′s answer to Maradonna:
Chode. In 2008, The notorious superstar led the legendary Clan Fracture through epic games still talked about, only to ragequit the internet shortly after the team’s break into division 1. With a music choice only appealing to a small fraction of his viewers, the movie stands as a testament to one of TF2′s most stubborn renegades – and, just how far the game has progressed in the past 2 years. Due to the lack of good streams, a movie known by many, seen by few can finally receive the glory it doesn’t deserve. -Released sometime 2008
Do you know of any hidden gems that have been long forgotten, or just never broke through? Send us your tips. Stay tuned tomorrow, for a look at some of the non-frag movies that deserve a second look!
By
Sivert “Torden” Bakkeng




36 comments
TweetWhy did chode ragequit?
- # - nice! +0i like unicorn
- # - nice! +0chode’s movie was 7 mins of pure sticky launcher, hypnotic
- # - nice! +0i hate unicorn
- # - nice! +0Hehe, yes Randdalf. It’s quite surprising really. I remember speccing him doing some insane pipe kills too.
- # - nice! +0torden pls remove Traxantic’s movie as hes blatantly cheating in just about every clip…
- # - nice! +0coolstory bro
- # - nice! +0haha why would he cheat :P? cant see that :(. About Traxantics movie i cant really see the hidden gem making it worth the attention.
The frags are good but my opinion is that he sacrifice pace and smoothness in this movie when he syncs. Waiting with the previous clip a few extra seconds showing nothing, fast forwarding when it doesnt really fit and so on. I guess this is how most moviemakers do when they sync, i just think its a bit too obvious a few times in this one.
herm, maybe that was a bit too negative, i still think this is a good above avarage fragmovie, and i do actually like the music (espec the one at 4.30!) and the colors :P
- # - nice! +0Aron is german btw, so you may give him a flag!
- # - nice! +0think you might be blind sneis
Please explain
2:10 on spire
3:25 as demoman
3:30 mid at granary
4:35 mid at badlands
5:23 (my personal favorite) mid at badlands with the scout
care to explain any of those clips?
- # - nice! +0lol chris :D even i aim like that when playing soldiers… its called lack of aim and pure trust in mouse to do it for you (5:23 mid badlands)
- # - nice! +0TF2 must’ve been fun in the early days. 2 demos who only use stickies:o
Interesting to see how the game evolved though.
- # - nice! +0Trax HAXXXXXXXXXXXX!!
- # - nice! +0Haha cMw, everybody has different aim, I just see high sens and cold fingers, or he is tense or something. Would be funny if he made a serious movie where he cheats thought :P
But i don’t know where you see the cheat.
- # - nice! +0i dont think he cheats, he uses the same movement in every clip, just more extreme in those cases you pointed out. Go to gotfrag if you need supporters :D
- # - nice! +0Some of the mouse movements look pretty fishy in the frag clip collections, especially when multiple enemies are in front. Then again, I’m no expert so I’ll put it down to unorthodox style ;)
- # - nice! +0What’s the sense of playing soldier like a spastic? (no offense, really nice frags there Traxantic)
- # - nice! +0FYI I was just jumping on the Gotfrag cheat bandwagon. Trax had a lot of hate over there about his fragmovies. Truth is cMw is just a nutcase who spouts this sort of shit out on a daily basis.
All I can tell from watching the vids is that he uses a rediculously high sensitivity – so high that his aim shakes like fuck when he gets nervous – and he aims like a spastic but still hits stuff occasionally.
If anything the argument would be for a trigger bot, but he’s bound to get sceptics as many high sens players do for the “snappy” aim style they tend to have.
- # - nice! +0That blame movie was ace. Nice to see when moviemakers don’t take themselves too seriously and actually fuck around a bit and have fun. Hope we see more movies like that.
- # - nice! +0:D y, espec the blame movie intro was 10/10!
- # - nice! +0i havent been playing comp tf2 long, so its good to see how it was back in the day. link chodes vid to anyone who needs explaining why eu uses the pocket demo
- # - nice! +0Excellent fails by Blame !
- # - nice! +0Erm… the second movie was boring as hell. Wtf Torden seriously?
- # - nice! +0And finally can I post from my second ip without moderation? Plz.
- # - nice! +0we only did a fail movie because we are all too bad to kill things :(
- # - nice! +0yea kovacs because everyone cares what you think…
- # - nice! +0www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW4RYM...
- # - nice! +0fucking lol cMw you haven’t got a clue, there’s nooo way Traxantic is cheating.. look at how immensely bad his shotgun is?! (no offence m8 :D)
his ultrarediculouslyhigh sens means his rockets are pretty good, and often direct, but his shotgun – on that demo and medic for instance – he’s all over the bloody place.
I’ve played against him a few times now and he hits the occasional nice air shot but if he’s cheating he needs to find himself an upgraded model :D
(rly no offence meant btw IDK, you’re all lovely, just letting cMw know he’s a mongtard)
- # - nice! +0and omfg that blame video is making me fucking giggle :D
- # - nice! +0honestly whoever made that blame vid needs a fucking medal, that’s by far the funniest TF2-related thing I’ve ever seen
(other than Psunfragga’s medicing, ZING!!)
- # - nice! +0cheating doesn’t necessarily make someone good, idiot. he might be toggling or it might just be a shitty hack.
plenty of soldiers use high sens. none look like they’re suffering from a severe case of parkinsons.
no other legitimate player in the game with high sensitivity aims that way.
- # - nice! +0(other than Psunfragga’s medicing, ZING!!)
BAZINGA
- # - nice! +0cheating doesn’t necessarily make someone good, of course not, especially if it’s toggled.. but err if you’re cheating, and not using it to kill medics/save your medic/hit important shots, why the fuck would you cheat at all? :s
I inadvertently turned my 450 DPI sens up to 3200 the other day, played with it for 2 hours and I looked like a fucking RETARD, my mouse was spazzing around all over the shop.. I was hitting some rockets that I usually can’t hit because I use ultra low sens, but I was missing 90% of my shotgun shots.. juuuust like traxantic
jrod judging by your writing style I presume you’re a yank? come here from gotfrag?
- # - nice! +0and bless him, he’s so worried about being banned by ETF2L that he’s recorded his mouse/keyboard/monitor with a camcorder whilst playing to prove that it’s his natural aimstyle..
but nice, I love people that “know” he’s cheating!
- # - nice! +0A medic firing rockets? Cool story bro
- # - nice! +0