1) find replays
i would start with the games from the tournaments. search the forum->news or the forum itself ("tournament replays") and you will find some of the most instense tactical games. if you are looking for big graphics, you might want to look further, as tournaments are sometimes to short for such glances.

2) "access previous games listed on the Hall of Fame for medals"
Only for the top value for each medal for the current month, the battle link is shown. i dont know but i believe this is the only thing to find there.

3) recording ingame (windows OS, recommend to use windowed mode for the game)
the engine comes with a recorder, which records at a fixed framerate. the engine slows the simulation down, if your cpu cannot bring the framerate. use ctrl+shift+f10 to start the recorder, a window will popup, lets you choose of your system-found videocodecs like x264 and encoder settings, output location etc. also you can record the inagme camera position over time (maybe someone who has knowledge how to do so may help me out here) and replay the camera movement when you show the replay a second time. onfortunately, the game engine knows only one way, so no rewinding or jumping to a time position while showing the replay. fast/slower speed goes with "+/-" keys.

making videos is a reoccuring forum question, you might search for it and find even more, as i can think of right now.

glad you are in this! hf and knock yourself out.

http://i.imgur.com/nF33u10.gifv

http://zero-k.info/Forum?categoryID=8 has all the battles where people commented. Maybe you find comments that sound interessting. example: http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/316501 ("tick use successfully saved the day." [did not actually watch]) But largest part of comments on battles is useless for this, too much "lol.", "opgunshits", "team sux" etc.

BUT realistically I consider actively looking through past replays a lost cause.
That works if you want random battle footage, for "highlights" it is like trying to find needle in haystack.
In tourneys players usually try harder and it might generally be a better skill level, but even that does not nessecarily result in something "highlight worthy." The interessting 10 seconds are still hidden in hours of mediocrity.

Of course best if other players post suggestions (with excact details of coordinates,timestamp,description) but they also face the mentioned problems.
So imo better approach is to take notes: Whenever you see interessting stuff during spectate/play/in forum/replay, write it down.
Combing through hours of past replays should be last resort...
(or punishment for trolls, find one scene like in mojjj's gif to get un-muted)

Its clear that vindicator nap will be on the list:D

It would be better to !cheat and !hostsay /godmode to produce your own staged battles, which will appear many times more impressive than regular fights.

Then the purpose of the production needs to clarified:
"what do the people ask for" or is it "what do the people like to see"

Deception

Marketing

Selective reporting = Propaganda

"Play ZK! WUBS!" versus "Play ZK, look at this epic battle cinematography of actual* gameplay!"

the classic dichotomy between makeup or no makeup. One setup is accurate, the other is less accurate but enough so to enhance the attractive qualities.

Just played the most EPIC 1v1 I ever played: B319767 2 on Comet Catcher Redux

I am thinking of some nice games I played and some games came to my mind:
B312105 2 on Hide_and_Seek_v03 : this game has a nice scythe strike in it, although it didn't win me the game
B297888 10 on Throne v1 : most epic FFA I personally played
B265526 2 on Into Battle_v3 : Kyubey shows how a felon+convict rush can be really effective
The finals of the first one day 1v1 tournament were also quite epic, especially godde's tactic in the last game.

I am sure there are a lot more games which are epic in many ways. Ask players like Forever, Kyubey or Firepluk for games with special tactics, mojjj for nice skuttle kills. Maybe @shadowfury333 could say which game he casted is the most memorable for him.

My cast videos on YouTube are all CC-BY, so feel free to use them (with attribution, of course), for any montage project.

Ok here are my personal best from what i remember, excluding the games with the licho rush where they were op.


1.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/319222

Lolz bertha one shot killed 2 commanders, 1 aegis, 1 skuttle and 1 missile silo with 2 tactical nukes:D

All of that at 18 minutes and 20 seconds

2.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/284399
A game where me and Kyubey do the vindicator nap

3.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/280077
Succesful blastwing rush 1.20-1.30

4.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/272422
Perfect com nap against pro players. Me and @Kmar on same team (2 vs 2)

5.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/272041
Killed 3 commanders with 3 planes and also recorded my gameplay on youtube

6.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/268958
Perfect Krow rush and also recorded my gameplay on youtube

7.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/268539
Another krow rush game but game is 20 minutes long

8.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/257267
Tactical nuke usage: killing 3 commanders at the same time, a moho+commander+bertha

9.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/256520
Double jumper autorepair com rush worked with Firepluk as teammate:D (pro battle 2 vs 2)

10.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/172327
Countering Krow rush with gnats 7.46 starting.

11.http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/261001
Another com nap game from 0-2.45

Forgot to mention that even if i found these games, the replays and the file replay cant be used by spring.exe dont understand why

Oh wow, this list is looking amazing.
I may have to invest in a small external hard drive.
Love you all, full homo