What you request to know

• Twitch streamer and Halo 2 speedrunner JerValiN has managed to execute thing that was erstwhile believed to beryllium impossible: a deathless tally of Halo 2 connected Legendary difficulty, with each Skulls connected (other than Envy, which gives Master Chief the Arbiter's progressive camouflage alternatively of a flashlight).
• By successfully finishing this challenge, JerValiN has completed the $20,000 bounty issued by fashionable Twitch streamer MoistCr1TiKaL to bushed Halo 2 LASO without dying.
• The tally took six hours, 29 minutes, and 44.17 seconds, and progressive masterful and methodical gameplay and the incredibly skillful usage of skips and glitches.

After weeks of grinding the Halo 2 campaign, Twitch streamer and Halo speedrunner JerValiN has yet managed to execute thing the net erstwhile thought was impossible: a completed tally of the crippled connected Legendary trouble with each Skulls connected (except the Envy Skull, which provides Master Chief with progressive camouflage) without immoderate deaths. No different subordinate has managed to execute this feat, meaning that JerValiN has officially made gaming history.

The community-wide contention to bushed Halo 2 LASO without dying began erstwhile the fashionable Twitch streamer MoistCr1TiKaL issued a $5,000 bounty to implicit the challenge successful precocious June, which was past raised to $20,000 successful July. After attempting the situation dozens of times, JerValiN yet managed to decorativeness it with adept cognition of Halo 2's run systems, clever usage of glitches and skips, skillful and methodical play, and a interaction of luck.

Notably, triumph astir eluded the speedrunner successful the game's last moments erstwhile a shotgun-wielding Brute managed to dodge 2 grenade throws from allied Elites (grenades that astir always sound it disconnected the representation successful these LASO runs) and complaint towards JerValiN arsenic helium was getting successful a Banshee. Thankfully, JerValiN managed to crook the Banshee's armor towards the Brute to support himself conscionable successful time, utilizing the craft's plasma weapons to instrumentality attraction of the threat.

Halo 2 LASO is notorious for being importantly much hard than immoderate different Halo LASO campaign, mostly owed to the information that with each Skulls activated connected Legendary difficulty, enemies bash insane amounts of harm and person importantly much health, portion the subordinate has hardly immoderate wellness astatine all. On apical of that, the combined effects of each of Halo 2's skulls severely disadvantage the subordinate by taking distant their heads-up show (HUD) and limb viewmodel, preventing them from recharging their shields without getting melee kills, and reducing the magnitude of ammo they tin carry. Meanwhile, each enemies get progressive camouflage, a higher rank, an improved occurrence rate, and the quality to spam grenades with reckless abandon. Halo 2 is besides wide considered to beryllium terribly balanced for Legendary trouble successful wide (I'm definite you've seen the Sniper Jackal memes).

Another constituent of the situation that makes it truthful pugnacious is that Halo's AI tin often beryllium a small unpredictable, adjacent for masters similar JerValiN that person extended cognition of their behaviour patterns. This unpredictability is mostly seen arsenic a bully happening successful mean playthroughs since it keeps players connected their toes and makes for bully moment-to-moment gameplay, but successful challenges similar this wherever decease is lone a fewer Plasma Rifle shots away, it's terrifying.

Part of maine earnestly doubted this situation would ever beryllium completed, which made watching JerValiN bash it unrecorded perfectly incredible. Halo 2 LASO deathless without the Envy skull is arguably the hardest feat to execute successful each of gaming — it hasn't been done for 18 years until now, and the immense bulk of radical attempting it could hardly get past the archetypal fewer rooms of the game's first level — but successful a dazzling show of accomplishment and finesse, 1 antheral has proven that it's not impossible.

The palmy tally took six hours, 29 minutes, and 44.17 seconds successful total. You tin ticker the afloat VOD straight from JerValiN's Twitch transmission successful the VOD above.

Brendan Lowry is simply a Windows Central writer and Oakland University postgraduate with a burning passionateness for video games, of which he's been an avid instrumentality since childhood. You'll find him doing reviews, editorials, and wide sum connected everything Xbox and PC. Follow him connected Twitter.