News: XJ Premiere: HARD JUMP MANNEN

31/12/22 - 19:20:56

Written by: hoLy

Comments: 44

heL^_x : The story behind the idea of this movie is that zyllEE himself had recorded, one by one, a lot of demos of jumps done with weapons on hard maps, which are recognized by most "weapon-runners" as very difficult. He compiled the whole thing by recording himself and playing the demos one by one on YouTube so he could give time to the person who would ask him to edit them in the future... Once he had sent me this link from that YouTube mashup, it was over. From the first vision I already had some content in mind. The music was not necessarily a problem, it just flowed. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to watch the series "Your Honor"... Each episode I saw with those songs... I could have imagined a KZ movie. it was too good, too perfect.
I thought it was a shame to let these demos sleep without valorizing them, knowing the important technique that it takes sometimes to approach the perfection to land these jumps legally. The connection between the 2 was instantaneous. The link was easy because at the same time, I was talking with 8ball1 too. I would like to thank him especially for dedicating part of his free time to a side project, unpaid and with passion. A lot of internal technical problems, etc. It's a beautiful, sober, elegant realization. Nothing would have been possible without him. (and also zyllEE !)

News: XJ Premiere: Beyond constraints

24/12/22 - 18:04:17

Written by: hoLy

Comments: 34

blackelf : Hi Xtreme-Jumps,

Today I would like to present a movie about what I believe to be one of the greatest achievements in KZ history. The last unbeaten .qui 's map, qsk_ease, has fallen.
In this movie, you will see a cut version of how it happened.

Unfortunately, I really struggled with technical issues that I still haven’t resolved, therefore I couldn’t bring what I envisioned into existence.

In the end I couldn’t even produce more footage at all, but even with the limited material and after all the frustration, I think the final product is definitely worth seeing.

Okazys : Hi,

Originally, I was a little bit concerned about the appeal of my snail-like pace in the run, but I think blackelf made up for it with his amazing moviemaking skills, despite all the problems that he has faced in the production process.

After nocp-ing fu_insane at the kz-rush servers on 01/01/2021, I started looking at extreme maps differently, considering the possibility of a nocp run on maps that didn't seem possible at first. But even then, I would have never guessed that qsk_ease would get beaten the same year on 31/12/2021 (which I find incredibly satisfying).

qsk_ease has always been one of my favourite technical maps, I think it was even the hardest map that I have finished with checkpoints at some point back in 2017. Now it is without a doubt my greatest accomplishment in the game, much harder than qsk_azure-2 or qsk_aznre-3. Even though it took me about 40 hours of practice/runs, I do consider myself lucky that it didn't take much longer. I was doubting my ability to nocp it even tens of hours into the project so I'm happy that it is done.

I would like to thank shooting-star for being a huge inspiration to try and push myself. I hope I can also inspire others to try and get some of the maps done, even if they aren't XJ maps. I don't think it should matter. Would really like to see someone nocp hb_ShoCk and other maps like that... Maybe if mursux gives it a shot or I get better at longjumping.