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The $20,000 Halo 2 deathless LASO challenge has been completed
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Gravemind on LASO remains the single hardest level in all gaming IMO.
Those are the eyes of a man dead on the inside.
Wait. The WHOLE game?! I thought the challenge was level 1 only, which is insane enough by itself. Mother of god.
Yeah the boss fight sucks balls on legendary solo even with no skulls on.
Jesus, yeah. Cloaked Jackal snipers that can one shot you? And fire more frequently? And are more aware? No, just, no. How is this even possible?! For those that don't know that enemy along can kill you in one shot. It took my friend and I on an entire night until the sun rose to beat that second level on Legendary. It's no joke.
Not to say that this isn't still a hell of a thing, but the run makes liberal use of glitches and skips throughout, just PSA.
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If glitches and skips are fine for official speedruns, then I don't see why they can't be used here.
Wasn't implying they weren't, just that this isn't quite the run that some may be expecting. Still a fun watch though.
It's being played on an Xbox, there's not really a lot you can do offscreen. Plus it's streamed so we can just look at the game being played and observe how it behaves.
The challenge didn't specify glitchless. Certainly makes Outskirts less of a nightmare.
If it's in the game it's fair.
Certain missions might straight up be impossible otherwise.
He was also the first player to complete Halo 2 LASO deathless, so now that he's done it without the envy skull, it's fair to say he's the undisputed GOAT of Halo 2 players.
Even with glitches, this shit is certifiably insane. You sneeze wrong and it all goes sideways.
It blows my mind seeing Halo 2 LASO.
It blows my mind even harder that anyone could even attempt it deathless.
Some of the highlights include...
It blows my mind even harder that anyone could even attempt it deathless.
Halo 2 is infamous for its legendary being unfair even without the absurd extra challenge of the skulls.
Some of the highlights include...
- Jackal Snipers: These bastards will 1-shot you with a shot anywhere on the body. There are dozens of them to clear out in some missions.
- Elite Ultras and higher ranked Elites in general: These have stupidly high amounts of shielding to shoot through. Plasma pistol is basically mandatory just because these fuckers will not die otherwise. They also have incredibly aggressive AI that will pursue the player behind cover, and at close-range have an attack that will kill you in one hit. Sometimes wield dual Plasma Rifles which melt your health.
- Brutes: Not as scary as the higher Elites, but obscenely high health that you can't burst down with a charged Plasma Pistol. If they go berserk, they will rush the player and kill in a single hit with melee.
- Cairo Station: The very first level has tons of battles where you're forced to fight waves of Elites. It is awful.
- Regret: I regret this level ever existing. Tons of Jackal Snipers and the final section is a boss fight with tons of Elites.
- Gravemind: One of the longest, hardest levels in Halo history. It starts with the player spawning in an open room with no cover, multiple tanky Brutes, and a single Needler (Bad weapon). Basically every single kind of horrible encounter will happen here. Jackal Snipers, Brutes, Elites, cramped corridors, waves of enemies, this level has everything.
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Those are fair in general, and Halo is very much a franchise where glitching and skips are massive elements in the community, but more importantly, this change is quite possibly *literally impossible* without them.
Halo CE and Halo 2 are right alongside OoT and SM64 in terms of being analyzed and broken down to a molecular level.
There was really only one major roadblock towards the end of the game that was stopping runs, a workaround was discovered this week making it just a matter of time for the completion.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Y4DEhGxsg
It's wildly unlikely that someone who understands the context of how difficult this is to begin with wouldn't automatically expect the use of glitches.
really never thought i'd see the day. how much time until someone does the impossible without glitches?
The prison skip has been in the game a long time. It's getting it consistent that's the problem (like many other skips in Halo)
There'd be no interest since the routing would be so different + the RNG from Prison. Same reason there aren't just straight up glitchless regular runs for the game. The idea of the "prestige" of glitchless vs using glitches only really exist for people who don't follow/run speedruns or where there's a more concrete reason why the difference would exist in gameplay like OOB skips.
It's the setup that's different, this was only discovered recently. Watch the video.
Absolutely insane.
Also goddamn did this remind me what a total pile of piss that final battle is.
Also goddamn did this remind me what a total pile of piss that final battle is.
i did watch the video...like i said the issue is getting it consistent which he was able to do. getting the brute to go into the lift was RNG basically.
mint blitz says multiple times in the video that people didn't think it was possible on LASO, when it's been done on LASO runs for years.
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Ah so you misread when I said "workaround" thinking I was talking about the Prison skip itself and not the setup people just found. Did you need an explanation for why the original prison skip wasn't feasible versus the method he's using now? :p