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So recently I was contacted by this russian keener about my tuit mods, and after talking modding a bit, he showed me this video he found: http://www.slingfile.com/file/6a1bo8 . Obviously this is a keen vorticons mod of some kind, but I've never seen it. The video was uploaded only a few days ago, so I did some checking on keen modding but it doesn't look like its among the recent projects there. Anybody know anythign about this and who is behind it?
Genius314 said the sight its hosted on sucks, so I took the liberty of uploading the footage. Note, the quality is horrendous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k16TY0JliQw
Genius314 said the sight its hosted on sucks, so I took the liberty of uploading the footage. Note, the quality is horrendous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k16TY0JliQw
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That is weird... The video is oddly hypnotic though. I'm sure this hasn't been mentioned on K:M (or here); although I'm not there as regularly as I once was, I have checked more or less all mods and topics about them. Did he say anything about its release? It looks like it could be from the past decade. I think those 'orbs' change Keen's way of moving somehow... I'd like to try this.
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I think its pretty obvious how the flying works. It looks to me like he replaced the pogo sprite portrait with the jump sprite portrait, (or he patched jump to work in pogo's place) and he's using the pogo/jetpack patch from the generic mod II. You can tell based on how keen hovers after he hits the ceiling. I don't believe this mod has been released- as far as I know, LL's generic series were the only mods to use that patch. However, if that is in fact LL's patch, then I suspect were looking at an early version of a future mod, or some abandoned mod that a community member was working on.
Edit: that's not a perfect copy of LL's patch. Normally you can't move up after hovering I don't think.... I think he's using some but not all of the patches. I'm pretty sure we have a hover patch somewhere...
Edit: that's not a perfect copy of LL's patch. Normally you can't move up after hovering I don't think.... I think he's using some but not all of the patches. I'm pretty sure we have a hover patch somewhere...
This is what I thought at first too, but from I recall, that patch doesn't allow Keen to ascend after he's hit his head on the ceiling. In the video Keen clearly ascends after hitting his head at 0:06.It looks to me like he replaced the pogo sprite portrait with the jump sprite portrait, (or he patched jump to work in pogo's place) and he's using the pogo/jetpack patch from the generic mod II.
Keenrush might be right about the items; keen only ever floats in the video after getting an item, although this might be coincidental. Pretty cool if thats the case.
I didn't. Read my post.Wth did you record that with?
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Oops. I thought you wrote you recorded that clip while playing the modI didn't. Read my post.
But yeah, in Russia, Keen floats around in crappy videos.
He floats through the entire clip. Even before getting that item.keen only ever floats in the video after getting an item, although this might be coincidental. Pretty cool if thats the case.
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True. What I meant was, keen only ever rises after grabbing an item. When he grabs the black thing, he seems to descend, and both the yellow and blue things seem to make him rise.He floats through the entire clip. Even before getting that item.keen only ever floats in the video after getting an item, although this might be coincidental. Pretty cool if thats the case.
The guy who showed me the video hasn't been online since he first messaged me, but I sent an email to the address he used asking if he knows or has found out anything more.
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