Thank you! I can touch on those concerns. I 100% had all the weapons from the very start. I beat the game, then played through it again on that same save file so I would have every tool available to me. In regard to the jumping, it's helpful to look at this video like a montage. Meaning, I'm showing off all the crucial obstacles. What happens in between those obstacles is immaterial. I can tell you that I jumped during the fighting sections though. I don't have to, but my objective with this project was to quickly get from obstacle to obstacle and film them, not showcase every fight. A full playthrough would be grueling so I never sat down to do it. If there was a wave of interest in seeing me do something like that, I would happily host a live stream, but until such a time, it's not something I'm interested in doing. Nor am I interested in trying this on a fresh save file. I'll leave that to someone far more knowledgeable than I am :D

@@SpasmodicGaming fair enough

You're the best, dude.

Hey, thank you so much, I appreciate that! This was indeed accomplished in single player, amazingly. You should absolutely give it a go. It should be possible on the original version of the game, so long as you're ok navigating void space blindly. In regard to the hole, I think there's 3 feasible approaches. Walking into that area a little spawns the shade turret in, so you could push that all the way and grenade jump up the hole. You could lead a pair of flood over and attempt to boost up. You could also play on Legendary and double frag jump up there :)

Double frag jump? How does that go?

@@BadCyborgMovies You look at the ground at a reasonably steep angle, jump and throw a frag grenade, such that it won't bounce into your feet. You strafe around it lightly, drop a frag at your feet when the first one lands, and jump before the nades go off. If both go off simultaneously, as far as I remember it kills you instantly, even on Legendary. But if you jump earlier and you're far enough away from the explosion, you can survive, and still reap most of the benefits of two grenades. But if that doesn't work, leading flood to the hole should be fine, or pushing the shade turret the whole way.

Thanks. Definitely must try that out. Can't recall doing it before.

Hell yeah, dude. I'm always glad to see you still around :)

Thanks for the kind words, my friend! And thank you for watching for so long. I appreciate you.

I've also discovered this place called Narnia, a kingdom I now rule over with benevolence.

Thanks, legend :)

Thanks, buddy! I personally think that counts to a degree. It would be so much fun if the room had collision.

It's very likely that's what it is, honestly, but it's still largely up in the air. I would love a concrete explanation behind it.

After realizing that the cutscene room has no collision, as soon as I read your comment I thought, "I wonder if that's the cutscene Johnson after having fallen through void space?" I would love to know for sure as well. I remember phasing into the cafeteria not too long ago, and he's there even before the bridge cutscene.

@@SpasmodicGaming Actually thats weird. I just opened the map in sapien and the "cutscene" place called "hangar" is just above the cafeteria room. "Cutscene" Johnson too is placed just above the cafeteria into the hangar. The problem is that he is just a little offset into the floor,so he slides into it and into the cafeteria(so i am very convinced that this is the "cutscene" Johnson).I would really like someone to find a solution to this and place him correctly,without breaking the mission. It really makes me wonder how the hangar room is located elsewere between versions of the game(i am using the original xbox version)

@@SakisTheDrifter So far as I know, on the original version of the game on Xbox, the room deloads entirely when the mission starts.

@@SpasmodicGaming Yes thats true, but i believe that Johnson doesnt, because his biped is offset in the floor, making him appear in both rooms at the same time. Can you investigate this? I really like watching videos like this, showing new discovered things

That Maw launch was an adventure to be sure, but it paid off in the end :) And of course, man! You deserve it. I'm surprised you don't know the story! Well, reasonably quick and dirty. I did a bunch of speedrunning back in the day, then I faked a whole mess of runs (like 9 or 10 or something) to entertain an imaginary story that I dreamt up, subsequently leaned on old trauma and acted like a ridiculous moron for a year, but eventually got caught officially. I considered lying more at the time to wriggle out of it, but finally stopped and just confessed to everything. Afterwards (I touched on this briefly in the commentary), I had to genuinely ask myself if Halo was a healthy addition to my life, and I decided in the end that it was. I had much more to offer, I just had to be honest about it in every respect. So, I left slYnki behind and started fresh with Spasmodic! I wasn't really concerned with what the forgiveness process would be like for everyone. I just wanted to make content that I found interesting, and if people wanted to stick around, that was entirely up to them, and I've never looked back. Since then, it's been beautiful. Occasionally, I'll get a sad, pathetic, naïve child who wants to believe they're throwing a jab at me, but I don't mind. I'm a different, better person now, I've had nothing but fun on this channel, and the people who matter have stuck around. It would have been nice to have avoided all the ugliness, but oh well. As for my Halo 1 adventures, I do have a few more things planned. I wouldn't mind looking into a couple tricks one last time, I have a portion of a jumping video I intend to work on soon, I wouldn't mind redoing my no jump speedrun of the campaign, and I'm vaguely interested in getting proficient at all the new speedrunning tricks and tossing together a fun segmented run, but we'll see.

I had no idea you'd been such a disreputable scallywag! A life of high crime and cooking eh? Interesting. There could be a book in this. I should say, I was never really following the speedrunning scene. I _was_ interested in speed runs, but of a different type, based on efficiency of combat rather than doing nifty grenade jumps and whatnot. But I couldn't get people very interested in that, so it was only me doing it. Anyway, thanks for the story, and fingers crossed for your possible further H1 adventures and movie output.

@@BadCyborgMovies Hahaha, that's a kind way of putting it :P Luckily I'm much more level headed now. I remember trying to start 100% runs back in the day, but they never really caught on. Nowadays, there's "John Wick%" where people kill everything on Legendary, but it still doesn't seem very popular. Probably just harder to track kills, honestly. Thank you! I don't think I'll ever truly leave the game, but I certainly won't be as prolific. I figure 20 years of continual service is enough :D

Well I was indeed doing kill 'em all speed runs (that's what I called them), so it's nice to see the concept taken up by others in some form, even if it apparently needed a movie franchise to spark things.

Why are you so smart and handsome?

It's definitely one of my favorites in the video as well. It's easily the hardest launch I've ever landed. I can tell you that I hit the hog multiple times that day and died on impact immediately. I ended up flying over to the tower to adjust it closer to the edge, and that final adjustment did the trick. I landed the launch within 20 minutes. The hog was there mainly so I could have a wall of sorts to hit, otherwise I'd sail clean off the tower. I would have been happy with any sort of landing, but the landing I got was honestly insanely lucky. Basically, I filmed all of the launches first, then the cinematic shots came afterwards. For many of them, I wasn't keen on cleaning up little continuity errors. I was mainly interested in taking pretty shots of everything. For that particular shot, I flew far outside the map, scoped in with the sniper rifle, then flew at my partner, and it looked gorgeous. The lack of hog never really bothered me.

Okay, thanks for the explanations. It might be amusing to know what sort of speed you were going when you hit the hog. Not sure how easy that would be to work out though!

There is indeed! There's a rocky ledge above me that's there for reasons unknown. Launching into it hard enough redirects the momentum towards the bridge :)

Oh yes, I've just fired up the game to check it out. I'm sure I actually _knew_ about this curious feature years ago, but had just forgotten about it. I see that the underside has a very nice diagonal angle, so I imagine that at some point you thought to yourself, hey I could bounce off that! Anyway, the use of that feature makes the launch all the more interesting, now I know what went on. Definitely worth talking about in the commentary I'd say.

Every launch was conceived many many moons ago before skulls were ever a thing in CE. Every launch in this video can be done without it, with the possible exception of the launch on The Maw. That one is a bit of a toss up in my mind, which I'll address in the commentary. Honorary mentions would have to be bottom to top AotCR, and bottom to tower on Halo. The former because of the banshee barrier making the set up insanely difficult, and the latter because of the bizarre floor at the bottom of the map. They're still doable, but Acrophobia made both trivial, especially the one on Halo. That took me maybe 15-20 minutes to setup? Back in the day it would have taken hours. But it was a conscious decision to not leverage Acrophobia too hard. One launch I dreamt up recently was bottom of Keyes to the hangar, but I figured if I can't get to the bottom of Keyes normally, I shouldn't be able to launch from the bottom.

Ah, okay. By the way, possibly you missed my comment on the 3-hog Halo launch? I know RU-vid can be dodgy for notifications. There was also a question I asked on your '343 Guilty Spark in 6:16' vid, a while back.

It's nice to still see you around, buddy. Thanks for all the comments over the years!

Appreciate you.

Still doesn't touch the great Ms. Man! :D

BOOL! I used the loadzone in one of the hallways by the dual suspension bridges, then just flew right in. I dropped grenades via the shade turret.

Ah right. I remember having a try at BOOL in Two Betrayals, but it was torturous and I eventually put it aside. Don't think I ever got back to it. Can you tell me, is it possible to do BOOL in AOTCR in single-player?

@@BadCyborgMovies It is! There are guides out there. Speed runners have been doing it for a while now. It's actually not too bad either

Okay, thanks, guess I should check that out then.

My friend, you're an absolute legend. Love you, buddy.

You're the best.

Good eye!

Me neither! Originally, I was just launching up to the switch, but when I went back to record this launch a second time, I decided to fly up there for the hell of it and discovered those spots. It was a pleasant surprise for me for sure. We just need to get to the very bottom of that pit now :) The spot under the switch is one of my favorites in the entire video. Just enough space to stand up. Because the Acrophobia skull means you can't crouch launch, I had to hit that launch basically perfectly. So far as I remember, that spot was first reached back in the iBonk days in 2002. This was the first time I ever stepped foot under that glass :D I'm glad you liked that launch! A couple people have mentioned that to me now, which is a relief. I wasn't sure, at first, if I was even going to leave it in, but I'm sure glad I did.

Yes, definitely worth leaving in. There's something to be said for the pinball dynamic, and it adds a different element. The Pelican landing was another good different element; landing on a moving target! And then… launching at sea? Yup, you got _that_ base covered too.

Thank you, buddy. I appreciate you. I'm glad you're looking forward to the commentary! I don't know when I'll have time to record it, but I'm also looking forward to it. You're most welcome to ask as many questions as you like. I can always make time for Rockslider. As for my sanity, honestly, about 80% of this video was shockingly easy. The remaining 20% was... interesting, in a word. The rockslide to hillside tower launch was easily the hardest. After that was the bottom to tower launch, hilariously enough, followed by bottom to top AotCR, then finishing strong with The Maw launch. All torturous in their own special ways. You're welcome! You are correct. That was a launch I jotted down years and years ago for this video after WLT made it to the bottom alive for the first time in a ghost. Seeing you land it was both incredible and a relief. It was so amazing to see done, but I was immediately relieved to not have to do it myself. Lone Starr and Ms. Man landed the other launches (blue beam pit, bottom to top T&R, top of 343 GS end structure). You're also here for the banshee grab on The Maw. The original plan was to use Duke's method of overloading the Xbox to grab the banshee, so your method made the concept possible. Thanks so much! That's awesome! I hope it brings those fine people some joy :)

In regard to the commentary, maybe you could explain a bit more about that "little idea" that popped into your head, to do with a second computer and connecting over LAN. I wasn't sure what was going on there. Bear in mind, my whole Halo world is exclusively single-player and with the original Xbox, very simple. I'm not familiar with your set-up, but I'm assuming you're using co-op and the LAN thing was to do with that. You say the rockslide to hillside tower launch was "easily the hardest". That's one I was going to comment on, as one I really like. A lateral launch, I'd call it. A shallow but speedy cruise over much-travelled ground, in this case. Aesthetically pleasing, and with a hog waiting at the far end as a stopper (jolly lucky some bozo happened to park up there huh?). But in the commentary, maybe you can explain/analyse _why_ it was easily the hardest. There may be a good bit to talk about there. You said the Maw Banshee grab "made the concept possible". I assume the Banshee is simply what allowed you to get down to your launch site, yes? Except, I imagine the Acrophobia skull later allowed you to dispense with the Banshee entirely.

@@BadCyborgMovies Oh for sure, that'll definitely get talked about. It was the main linchpin for the entire project. The rockslide launch is also going to get talked about fairly extensively. As for The Maw, you're exactly right on all points. I'll go more in depth later, but that's basically it.

The RU-vid Legend himself 😱