Excellent video, much better than the other 3, the combos were very good, I'm glad to see you got the Robot Smoke 100% (even though it's blockable) still a nice job.

Matt

Dave, this is gotta be one of the best vids along with vid 3. dude you've outdone yourself. I lvoe that you included lot's of Ermac, Cyrax and Tsung vids, they are all excellent. Congrats bro.

Very nice again, it look and feel much more professional than the others you made not only because of the combos, the video editing is very good too.
This video can really compare to the Dark Addictz videos.

Great work good video i love combo videos yours is another great one.

First, thankz everyone for the nice comments



Thx, I did a lot more editing and messing about with combos making them higher damage and cooler in general with this vid, much more than the last ones. Like sometimes I'd come up w/ one that may be 55%, before that woulda ended up in my vid - but this time I tried to improve them and make them better. And certain combos that were ok, nothing special - before woulda been in the vid - but this time I'd just scrap em, only ones I really liked made the final cut. I scrapped a lot of combos actualy...

And I was happy with the Robo Smoke 100%, but it did look blockable Two Q's about it, 1 - Is it always blockable, or only blockable cus I was late on the teleuppercut and late on the spear?
And 2 - Did u guys know of it and because it was blockable didn't include it in your vids before, instead starting w/ the JK for 98%?



Thanks Pablo I know u like the vids, and for this one I did go all out - I'm glad you liked it. And of course, lots of Ermac, Cyrax and Shang cus they are probably the 3 characters you can get the most possibilities out of...plus they have the sickest combos!



Yes, I actualy added transitions between clips this time (thx to mk2kb suggesting it after my last vid) and now I can't understand why I never used em before. I went to watch vid 3, and it's painful to watch because there are no transitions...And that final comment comparing it w/ the DA vids is especialy pleasing, thankyou very much for such a cool response.



Yeah I love combo vids too, unfortunately there really isn't much left that hasn't been seen, so I doubt I'll be making them any time soon. However, knowing the quality of Shock, Dreem and Konqrr's vids - you can be sure that if the MK1 vid gets made - it will be cool as hell...

It's always blockable, I had tried getting a really high connecting teleport uppercut and then 3 roundhouses to harpoon, but it's just never not blockable in some way. I never got around to putting it in a video, but I'm glad you got it.

Matt

there are some really cool combos. good work.

another great video man. you are the man. all 4 are good but 3 and 4 are the best. great kombos, really like the cyrax kombos.

Nice Video! Don't make it your final though. Keep going! :)

Awesome vid man. It's your best.

Awesome video! The Cyrax combos are killer. Nice job man.

I'm happy I inspired you

When the vid started with the Smoke kombo, I thought "Here we go again", more blockable, kombos ending with a standing HK on standing opponents, etc..

Then it got to the Ermac kombo, and I thought good, then the Cyrax, and I thought very good, I think you've bettered me in Cyrax now.

Overall very good, U have definitely improved to one of the masters here.

But some of your ideas really are new to me, like Sub-zero uppercut opponent on ur ice clone, stuff like that..

I'm really looking forward to ur MK1, when you do, I would like it if you had it without added music, as I love the MK sound effects and music, and would love to hear them during the kombos..

Anyway your call

Keep it up..

I give props to anyone that makes a combo video i was starting to make one today but damn i felt so pressured by myself i screw it up.It takes alot of patience to actually get the combos you want when recording cause when i miss them i get pissed lol.It can be frustrating and the editing process is almost as bad but its worth it when they turn out the way you want.

Man, when I started to make them myself is when I truly began to appreciate the quality and effort involved in the Dark Templarz (and ninja grinder's) ones. People see them and think "wow cool combo" but they don't know how hard is it to not only get that combo, but record it too. I've had combos that I've tried like 40x just to get it recorded once...

BUT when you do get it, haha it's very satisfying

And your right, when you keep messin it up, you get frustrated - but sometimes you'll leave it after repeatedly trying and failing, then come back later and get it right away. I remember the first combo in my third vid (Liu Kang - aa Hp Hp, JK, Air Fireball, Rh, Rh, Hk = 7 hits - 91%) I was trying it for AGES. Couldn't get it, then came back later and got it on the first attempt...

I don't mind the editing too much, I kinda like trying to match the action up w/ the beats of the music. Sometimes you're listening to the song and hear a part where a certain combo would fit perfectly. One thing not to do though is use the song you think you're gonna use for the final version during the entire production. By the time you are done you are so sick of the song (well I was) that you just can't use it.

But yeah, patience is the main thing, you just gotta keep trying and eventualy (usualy) you'll get the footage you want.

Heh when I got it I thought I'd found a proper 100% for Smoke, I was so happy. But when I started to watch it over, I had a feeling it was blockable, and it is which is too bad
I never thought of a high teleuppercut and 3 RH's, I'm gonna have to try that now But that sux that it too is blockable, it would be cool if there was one unblockable infinite for him. Since he's my fave character I really want to find one, so do you have any suggestions of 100% ideas that u have for him that u never pulled off or never had the patience to fully explore?



Thanks for the response psyko, I'm glad you liked it



Yeah I think 3 and 4 are the best, 4's better imo cus of the editing and quality of the vid - plus the combos were all top quality, whereas a few in the 3rd were mediocre. Cyrax was a bit of a focus, after KLSAD linked a video of his cyrax umk3 saturn combos in my last combo vid thread, I had some inspiration and a place to start this vid. He had some cool combos that I used and / or improved and I was well pleased with that. Oh and thanks for the nice feedback tw, good to see you still show your face around here sometmes



Ah see, it probably wont be my final ever, but honestly there's not really much left to show that hasn't been seen unfortunately...I don't think I'll be making a new mk3/umk3 vid anytime soon. One thing is for sure though - if I do find an unblokable Cyber Smoke infinite I'll make an effort to make some sort of new vid just to show that



Thanks taker, glad you enjoyed the vid and it's good to see you back at mko



I'm happy too, like I said earlier if you didn't leave that vid I wouldn't have had a good basis for this vid - thx again. And I dunno if I'm a 'master' yet (thanks for saying it though) but I do like to think that I've improved, and the videos are of a higher quality than when I started...

I too really liked the uppercut into the Clone, it was one of my faves of the vid. Some of the creativity you come up with on your own, other times you get inspired by others to alter and improve on what they've done. I think for that one I gotta give the credit to the DA vids, cus I'm pretty sure they did Subby's 3 hit HK combo into the clone and went from there, and that made me think of jumping over and uppercutting into the clone for a combo of my own..

And finaly about the MK1 vid, I'm with you in wanting to hear some MK sounds. That game has great music / sounds and really brings back some nostalgia when you play it. BUT I don't think I'll be doing the editing on that vid, right now I just record combos and send them to MK2KB, so you'd have to ask him about that - as I'm not gonna be in charge of the music However, if it never gets off the ground, I will press on and make my own MK1 vid, and if that happens I'll keep your idea in mind

I'm so stupid.

http://www.darktemplarz.com/umk3/rsmoke100mk3legit.wmv

http://www.darktemplarz.com/umk3/smoke100new.wmv

Matt

Damn for some reason my media player wouldnt play it.

What does it do? I just tried them and they work fine. I didn't do anything special with the encoding.

Matt

Both work fine to me, the 2nd kombo never finished, while the first was nice..

I think i have to save as target for it to work cause this happened to me before sometimes my player wouldnt work with direct links and it says it cant read the file. edit... i got it working on internet explorer very nice combos anti airs i think are the most fun and useful for human smoke very cool man.

What do you mean the second didn't finish? The DL stopped?

Matt

matt, those were great... the robo one I've figure it out yet, but the human one, is so sick, rh+jk ending? kool!

krsx66:

I just watched all 4 vids (I didn't know of 'em really until these days)
vids are great for itselves I tell you, good work with the editing and presentation overall. I really liked the text presentation in the first vid. the only thing I complain about it is you have A LOT of "old" and "look alike" kombos. there are plenty of virtually identical DT and CKT & MKT kombos... if not, just supressing or changin' one move to make 'em look "different". when I started to make my 1st kombovid, I made sure I wasn't showing something previously seen. the very first vidz I saw were NKI's and SICDIC's. those were my inspiration. sick as hell, but no transitions or kool presentation. I watched all those vids many times, in order to not show something old, even thinking many people don't remember those vids/hadn't seen 'em. the kombos of your own are great though. good work in mk3. the morph kombos are good too, as well as the set-ups you included.

sorry for the late answer, I didn't know of this vidz, good work and PLEASE make more, I'm sure that wasn't your truly masterpiece!