Enjoy the "difficult" $20,000 Halo 2 obstacle remaining beaten

What just happened? Lengthy absent are the days when enjoying online video online games all working day was regarded a waste of time. Even if somebody will not come to be an esports professional, they could still make a good deal of income by becoming seriously, really good at a individual sport. Just request Twitch streamer JerValiN, whose proficiency at Halo 2 has won him $20,000 for finishing a problem most viewed as impossible.

Streamer Charlie 'Cr1tikal' White set a problem previously this calendar year for an individual to complete a deathless 'Legendary All Skulls On' (LASO) Halo 2 Anniversary run. Everyday players will know that ending the recreation on Legendary problems is an arduous feat in alone, but turning on all but one of the cranium modifiers and ending the recreation without dying the moment makes it impossible—or so Cr1tikal believed.

The magic formula skulls located across the Halo franchise contain modifiers largely developed to make the game titles harder, these as turning off the radar/whole HUD, growing enemy problem, and halving the amount of dropped ammo. Cr1tikal was so assured no one could do the deathless LASO run that he available $5,000 as a reward. Soon after numerous months of unsuccessful attempts, he greater it to $20,000.

Only just one human being previously finished a edition of this problem, JerValiN, but he had applied the solitary modifier not authorized, Envy, which provides players invisibility in its place of a flashlight.

Not amazingly, it was JerValiN who last but not least managed to conquer the top challenge—becoming the 1st man or woman acknowledged to have finished so—in just less than six-and-a-50 % several hours. As is typically the scenario with speedruns, he had to use a good deal of recreation bugs to get through it. But this was no easy win for the streamer it took above a month of seeking and on quite a few occasions he unsuccessful close to the complete line.

Dot Esports notes that the variety of streamers making an attempt to get the cash observed the Halo 2 group on Twitch explode to about 287,000 hours viewed in July.

Now that the deathless LASO operate has been conquered, JerValiN is setting up on an even much more tricky obstacle, just one in which he can't fireplace his weapon.