The Dog Days

Texas Summers are like living on some distant star. The boiling, the heat, the humidity (for us Houstonians, anyway)… it just wears a man down to his bones, or whatever other endoskeleton that is used to construct geeks like ourselves. In the midst of all of that, we’re still toiling away at the final episode of TLW, one scene at a time.

Some of you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of radio silence for the last few weeks. There are a few reasons for that. Part of it is that there has been some vacationing going on, and another is something that we hope to tell you about soon. Still another part is that Episode 14 is the Godzilla of episodes. It is obese. All others bow before it. That hyperbole simply means that it is big.

I’d say we’ve got about a third of it left to film, but it’s the hard third (that’s what she said), so take that with a grain of salt. When we’re nearing about a week from release, we’ll let you know. It’s not that time yet, good sirs.

Maybe these screenshots will tide you over, but probably not.

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Feel free to speculate. Thanks for sticking around to see this thing through with us, dudes. You’re kind of awesome in that way.

48 thoughts on “The Dog Days

  1. 5aga-m4n

    Most intense screenies ever! I’m so holding through for this, take your time to make it awesome for us!

    edit: GODZIIIILLLAAAAAA!!!! :O

  2. Mandos

    Player and Chet are going to kick some cyborgs ass!!! But wait… cyborgs that looks like Chet??? WTF?!?! I can`t believe it, but then again Asher look a little like Leeroy so… everything is possible! I wonder if Westy has cyborgs, or Cortez…?

    Can`t wait for the next episode!

  3. - Anonymous -

    WOW. Awesome screenshots. They pretty much explain themselves, nothing to try and figure out. One thing to say… This is going to be one hell of a f***ing epic battle…

  4. ChillXD

    Actually, those arent Chet Bots. They’re that Leeroy encountered in the secret area of the death room.

    😀

  5. Gforce

    It was a good run, and I enjoyed every step of the way fellas. However, at least we get to look forward to the movie whenever you guy start on that.

    May the Emperor guide you to bigger and better things in life. Ave humantis!

  6. Hazmat

    The screen shot with player and chet running down the hill is epic nice work . hope you will make more awsome videos.

  7. viking357

    that’s amazing i cant wait for it even if it means the end of the leet world :(. But you shall be remembered by nerds all over the world. still i cant wait you rock .:)

  8. hl2lover14

    [quote comment=”16604″]Player and Chet are going to kick some cyborgs ass!!! But wait… cyborgs that looks like Chet??? WTF?!?! I can`t believe it, but then again Asher look a little like Leeroy so… everything is possible! I wonder if Westy has cyborgs, or Cortez…?

    Can`t wait for the next episode![/quote]

    I’m pretty sure they are just skins of the Chet model. I don’t think they are Chet cyborgs at all really. But knowing TLW I could be wrong 😉

  9. Rogue12

    Hey guys, have you ever released any machinima tutorials, or are you going to release them in the future?

    On another note, this looks amazing. Thanks for all the hard work, I know it’s kept me entertained. It’s such a pity you couldn’t make money out of it. =[

    Bring on the Finale XD

  10. Eddy

    [quote comment=”16606″]Actually, those arent Chet Bots. They’re that Leeroy encountered in the secret area of the death room.

    :D[/quote]

    +1

    And as for length, we’re not sure. I almost said what I thought, but it’s just too hard to tell at this point. We’ve got lots of gaps to fill in. I’m guessing it’ll be comparable to Ep 14 part 3 from Season 1, but don’t hold me to that.

  11. Pl@y3r 98

    AWESOME….can’t w8 for finale also though, when will you guys start making the movie or, isnt that happening enymore ???

  12. SargentPikachu

    These screenshots aren’t much for me to make my usual “screenshot conclusions”, but I’m surprised no-one has noticed (or at least noticed AND commented) that Chet and Player in the second screenshot are stuck with crappy pistols.

    If you try and zoom into the pic, you’ll see. So if that’s the case, Westy was right about it being suicide. I guess Leeroy was right also about the lack of ability to bring stuff in and out of the death room, or Chet and Player left their firearms at the table with all the weapons past episode.

    Plus, the army fighting Chet and his “bro” aren’t bots. They’re just the same guards Leeroy encountered in that episode–I forget what number it was, but I guess you know.

    1. Eddy

      +2

      Nice post, pikachu. Westy isn’t always wrong, eh? And yeah, while we’ve never explained all of the rules of the death room, we do have some rules that we always go by, and Leeroy was indeed correct in his assumption last episode. Though you never know, some of the rules might get broken…

  13. Ganoosh

    [quote comment=”16618″]+2

    Nice post, pikachu. Westy isn’t always wrong, eh? And yeah, while we’ve never explained all of the rules of the death room, we do have some rules that we always go by, and Leeroy was indeed correct in his assumption last episode. Though you never know, some of the rules might get broken…[/quote]
    lol eddy just once could you possibly answer someones question on a definitive answer haha. “YES THE RULES CAN BE BROKEN’ or ‘NO THE RULES CANT BE BROKEN’….u always gotta leave people guessing hahahha

    interesting post SargentPikachu, i dont think ive ever seen someone analyse a screen shot that well before LOL

  14. Xanzibar

    I’m a long time fan but wanted to ask this question for a long time as I haven’t found an answer for it. In regards to the movie, is it still coming out? Or will this be The Leet World’s final production? Just so I can be sure 🙂 Thanks!

  15. hexplode11

    That second screenshot is just amazing. But, this is a question I’ve been holding on to for a long time:

    At the end of the season one finale, Player and Ellis reach the end of the deathroom, except it was just a big wall with a small door in it. My question is this: Where did that HUGE staircase come from? Where is the other “entrance”, if there is one? I mean, all of the sudden, a big staircase showed up that led to the base. Where is that door that Ellis and Player saw? We may never know…

  16. Star Breather

    As always LEET WORLD is worth the weight

    I am deeply sadened that you will be levaing the world of machinma soon :(.

    I hope that when you have finished your jobs you will reunite to bring us lols again in a new version of leet world or an entirely different machinma. hope to hear from you after the series is finished

    Signed

    Star Breather

  17. TheDutchMANBEARPIG

    @Hexplode11 – Ellis mentioned something along the lines: are you sure we didn’t take a wrong turn somewhere?

    Back then it seemed ironic,as to us it as just a long hallway, but whenever player has been in the death room there was always a bit of foreshadowing, like with the whale sound noise, the fact that he COULD see the door, so i’m thinking that was a then-joke but also half telling us that the deathroom was a huge expanse with many corridors and shit?

  18. TheDutchMANBEARPIG

    Oops forgot i was actually gna comment on the screenies.

    i love the 2nd one, reminds me a bit of that movie where the two soldiers are going down a big dam with just a rope or something. looks really epic. im looking forward to see player’s skills.

    as for ppl talking about ‘chet bots’ – the russians were remakes of the Phoenix Connexion (Ahmad) skin (or was it Ellis’s skin?) – mendoza was the same model as cortez but without glasses and a diff colour jacket, asher was a remake of the GSG-9 skin…

    so these guards are the ST-6/DEVGRU with a bit of edits.
    the playebrots are purposefully just the SAS model because they are supposed to look just like Player. If there were Chet Bots they would also look exactloy like Chet.

  19. Eddy

    [quote comment=”16628″]@Hexplode11 – Ellis mentioned something along the lines: are you sure we didn’t take a wrong turn somewhere?

    Back then it seemed ironic,as to us it as just a long hallway, but whenever player has been in the death room there was always a bit of foreshadowing, like with the whale sound noise, the fact that he COULD see the door, so i’m thinking that was a then-joke but also half telling us that the deathroom was a huge expanse with many corridors and shit?[/quote]

    Also, in the most recent episode, Chet referred to the death room as a maze that Leeroy had to spend months researching to even find Noonien. It’s a big place, we just haven’t seen all of it, and don’t really need to.

  20. SargentPikachu

    Man, I have the urge to reply to all your comments. And I shall fill that urge starting from Eddy’s most recent.

    [quote]It’s a big place, we just haven’t seen all of it, and don’t really need to.[/quote]
    So if you’re sayin’, we don’t really need to, then that ends any suspicion that the Movie will be about the death room, amiright?

    @hexplode11-[quote]My question is this: Where did that HUGE staircase come from?[/quote]
    TheDutchMANBEARPIG’s reply to your comment is what I’m agrreing with right now: so many turns and place they could miss in the dark. Heck, even Eddy confirms it.

    @Xanzibar-[quote]In regards to the movie, is it still coming out?[/quote]
    SFF already gave us info that it’s coming out. No other info though, so it’s very very likely they’re still doing it (98% likely)

    @Ganoosh-[quote]interesting post SargentPikachu, i dont think ive ever seen someone analyse a screen shot that well before LOL[/quote]
    Well, I always like investigating. “We’re like private investigators!Investigating each other’s privates!” Couldnt help but quote a line! 🙂

  21. SK Beans

    Lol I know what you guys mean about the Texas summers, I live in Dallas and summer’s a bitch.

  22. quantumoftoast

    Can’t wait for next episode!

    Just two things:

    First, if Adam Sizzler was just a figment of Ahmad’s imagination (as Asher said), then how did the terrorists actually talk to him in person? Is this a plot hole, do the terrorists all have chips (!), or was Asher lying?

    And second, are you ever going to release the new death room map? It looks epic.

    As for my two cents, remember that Leeroy copied Player’s core programming, and there are like a hundred Player.v2s…

  23. Eddy

    There’s a real Adam Sizzler (the one that the T’s talked to) and the one that was in Ahmad’s mind. Ahmad even mentioned in Ep 11 that when they kidnapped Sizzler, he had no idea who Ahmad was. This was a plot point we hoped to expand on more, but given the current state of things, we won’t be able to.

  24. SargentPikachu

    Whoh, my last comment’s quoting system was completely wronged. How can this happen? Wrong slash (\quote or /quote)? Well, sorry about that.

    On the topic of Adam Sizzler, there’s an actual guy named Adam Sezzler, a close resemblance. He’s a guy on the TV show, X-Play (G4), who reviews games. Sizzler (TLW) even reviewed a game in an episode back in Season 1(This was pre-Hax.). Is the resemblance of their names intentional?

  25. cardinallane

    Hello there all, this is actually my first post on this site, although I’ve been signed up for quiet sometime. First I have got to say that this has been a fantastic series, and this is by far my favorite machinima out there. I can not wait for the next episode, although part of me wishes it doesn’t come out at all due to the fact that it is the last one.

    Also, I know everyone has been asking this quiet a lot, but I need to make sure, is there still going to be a Leet World movie? Just wondering. Anyway, thanks for the awesome years and I really wish you guys the best in whatever you do next.

  26. darkwatcher5

    OMG..

    1st screenshot: cortez been badass
    2nd screenshot: Pulp Fiction
    3rd screenshot: SPAAAARTAAAAAA!!

    right now a “the leet world so far” like in season 1 would be awesome.

    but i wonder…what happen to the russians ;_;? I like them, bring my Russians back ;_;…also Vodka =D

  27. Hazmat

    Wait you guys are missing something, The third screen shot look………. why are they shooting chet & PLAYER, dident they want him alive? and, how did they know that they were there, i understand if a couple, but there is like 10 guys there?

  28. FishChips65

    I am going to miss this series. It was a ripping good hunt!

    Anyway, The finale looks great!

  29. SargentPikachu

    Hazmat said:
    “Wait you guys are missing something, The third screen shot look………. why are they shooting chet & PLAYER, dident they want him alive? and, how did they know that they were there, i understand if a couple, but there is like 10 guys there?”

    (Sorry, I keep on messin’ up the quoting system, so I’ll just stick with acutal quotation marks.)

    As for the part about shooting at Player, I can’t guess why. Maybe they realized he wasn’t needed anymore or somethin’.

    And then the second part, probably they anticipated their coming or set off a silent alarm.

  30. duartemad

    SargentPikachu said that he zomed in the picture righ?
    If you do that we can see that one of the guys in the death room is uzing a ak47 funny…

  31. Gezo

    No no no, you guys got it all wrong.
    The first picture is just a shootout at the house.
    The second one is Chet and Player in the deathroom.
    The third one is all of the player bots that died, thus getting sent to the deathroom and fighting Chet&Player.
    (Or just those security guards)

  32. SargentPikachu

    I’ve never did, but I just noticed that the death room has no apparent light source. I wonder how it’s so bright in most parts.

    And what’s up with the creepy playground in the middle of the death room? I never understood how it’s important. Maybe that’s where the Players play? 🙂

  33. SargentPikachu

    This series should be entered into the Machinima Filmfest Awards or something. The series would have most luck at Best Series, Best Original Music, Best Voice Acting, and Best Writing.

    (EDIT: The Leet World is actually already an Honorary Mention in the Best Series catagory in the 2008 Machinima Filmfest.)

  34. lukerobi

    i never post on these things, but i read every single one… you guys are really good at what you do. I have throughly enjoyed leet world, and i think i could continue watching it for years.. it is by far one of the most entertaining things on the internet. I am really looking foward to the finale, and even more looking foward to the movie. everytime i see an rss feed from your site, i nearly jump out of my chair to see what player is up to.

    thanks for the laughs guys…

  35. lofty

    AHAMD COMES BACK?! in the recent episode!

    does this mean that when someone dies? a sacrifice is made to regain another teamate?

    And surely Leeroy would just make it so the death room is open for people to go in when they, *cough* sorry… IF they get killed.. they shouldn’t :O everyone knows the leet world team are awesome owners and wil ltake down the n00b producerr :O 😛

  36. SkateOrBMXorDie

    [quote]Can’t wait for next episode!

    Just two things:

    First, if Adam Sizzler was just a figment of Ahmad’s imagination (as Asher said), then how did the terrorists actually talk to him in person? Is this a plot hole, do the terrorists all have chips (!), or was Asher lying?[quote/] Well… Since Asher couldn’t be trusted, well, in almost anything, I would not see a reason why to believe him. And, there MUST be a real Sizzler, since.. Do you remember the first episodes of Season 1? There was drunken Chet and Player and they were watching TV. There was Sizzler who rated a game as “Sizzling” and 5/5.

  37. The Blonde Supremacy

    When you look at the third screen shoot, as far as we can see none of those guards are using the same weapon one has an AK-47, one has MP5, and one has a P90

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