A. Aronsson’s WeBOLLog

This is a collection of videos from Halo:CE on the Xbox from around 2003. Most of it is with modding or other hacks (everything but the first clip!). The source material was captured with various weird USB or PCI devices, so sound and image quality varies greatly. Sound can be especially bad, beware.

2003

This is me and my cousin having a bit of fun trying out to duo parts of BRS. We had never done it before, so we were just experimenting, and it was probably after a day of end-game raiding.

I’ve remastered this video to fit YouTube’s 10min limit, and added a blown up view of the Healing-log at the bottom of the screen. In the original video you could actually read the text.
Update: Since then, I’ve converted to using Vimeo for superior video quality! The video is still cut down, for better viewing pleassure, but it’s easier to see what’s going on!

To keep him alive I used two trinkets and a whole lot of +healing gear to bump my heals, at the time I recored this, it was quite nice. Collecting gear was the point of end-game raiding, but I got reminded too often that I needed someone else to heal for my gear to be useful, I hardly had any benefit myself.

2006-02-17

Last summer I began renovating my new apartment. My lovely parents helped me out, or else I would still be doing it.

During the process I had a laptop with an Xbox Live Vision camera connected that captured a frame every odd second or so. After a whole lot of editing I’ve managed to distill the >10GB worth of data, 143067 VGA frames, into a video displaying the actions causing the most visible differences over time.

I managed to not take any pictures with a normal camera, so I have nothing else to show of the final result, but I will be posting a few things about my living space sometime in the future.

By the way, I am not one of the guys installing the carpet, we just look very much alike in this video.

2007-07-21 - 2007-09-06

Here I play with my brother and my cousin in Scholomance. We tried to do as much as possible with three cloth players, just for fun, without grinding a ton of potions and item buffs or reading any specific strategy guides. One priest and two mages.

It went fairly smoothly, except that I forgot to stay out of range of his aura :P

2005-12-22

This is another Halo Hacking video. It features flying Ghosts, Warthogs, Scorpions and a little more. As well as overpowered weapons, swapped shaders and textures, which is quite noticeable.

As I was so busy exploring the innards of the game at the time, I didn’t have any brains left to come up with a sensible video title, so “Bah” it was.

2003-08-18

Unfortunately I played the beta of World of Warcraft, Blizzard’s first MMO. When the full version was released in 2005 I immediately bought it, and then wasted a year of my life, but at least I got to experience how it was to be a hardcore MMO player, so I won’t end up there later in life.

First I played a Shaman, but then we were going to switch server to where my brother and cousin played, so I decided to go a healing focused class, and rolled a Troll Priest. It was awesome, the best multiplayer experience I’ve had. It was gratifying to be the person that kept others alive, someone people could trust would fill up their green bar, you felt appreciated (maybe because then they didn’t have to heal themselves!).

It kept being fun, until I reached level 60 (max at the time) and started to grind for gear. It took me a while to figure out, or rather accept, that being a WoW healer in endgame was nothing I could stand to do forever, especially as I personally thought there was an imbalance in _FUN_ between melee - caster, damage - healing, anything else - cloth in areas such as items, stats, feedback, grinding, pvp, quests, anything. Being a casting healer in cloth, and a Troll at that, it took some heart to not get demoralized.

After six months of grinding endgame 40-player raid instances, after acquiring full tier 1 & 2 armor, Benediction, etc, I quit. One of my best decisions in life.

This video depicts one of the worst items in the game, it’s practically worthless, but it’s an epic class-specific (priest) drop in an endgame instance. The [Aegis of Preservation]. You equip it, and when you activate it you get healed for 35 damage for every hit you take. Seeing as you take more damage than that quite early in the game, and in endgame (at that time) you could easily get hit for 500-2000 by dungeon mobs… yeah, you get the point.

In the video, I battle the mobs the trinket was designed to save you from, a pretty pointless video, but at least that matches the item.

2006-01-13

I’ll try to post more interesting videos in the future, and well, WoW doesn’t do too well with the video quality YouTube delivers.

I’m going to repost some of my old videos, from the days when hacking/modding Halo was the hottest thing ever (in the Halo community anyway). The first one is Happy Hacking, released a few days after PfhorSlayer had put out his lists for resources in the mapfiles. In the beginning we used those to manually change hex values in the cached mapfiles, then you would re-upload them to the Xbox and hope for them to boot. It was very exciting, and also resulted in the discovering of the Engineer, Flamethrower and Gravgun, which were unused in the actual game.

2003-08-08

Recently I was skiing in Hundfjället, Sälen, Sweden.

I went into the second steepest slope there, as the steepest one (The Wall) was closed off for upcoming competitions; and as I fiddled with the camera which was attached to my right foot/leg, I didn’t see in which direction my friends turned at the bottom of the slope.

I saw the warning for a crest, but nothing told me which way to turn, so I turned directly towards the lift system… where the snow wasn’t prepared so I sank through the crust with the left ski (snowblade) which made me do a faceplant on the icy crust at high speed, pushing my glasses into my face and doing some friction damage. You were supposed to turn left instead, apparently.

Luckily only one ski sunk through, or my nose would probably not look very pretty (only the right side of my face hit the ground), and my neck might have gotten damaged. My continued rotation rotated me sideways, so there wasn’t much more damage done, but my shoulder and neck on my right side was stiff like concrete the day after :p

The most painful part of the injury was the damage on the inside of my lower lip, really annoying stuff :x

And here’s a video from the camera I messed with before going down the slope! The reason why it all happened.

2008-02-14

And with this the blog has its first content :) yay!