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Hades player beats unmodded 64 Heat difficulty run - "arguably unachievable in thousands of hours" (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 2 years ago by GeneralRetreat@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Haelian published a video a week or so ago setting out the probabilities for why it was so unlikely that this difficulty configuration would ever be beat: https://youtu.be/S-VUzcJHWF0

Which of course was taken as a challenge, with runner Jade clearing heat 64 yesterday, using an unseeded and unmodded run: https://youtu.be/0mo-kXjasZs

(For context, the seed is the way a particular run is generated, and players can meticulously generate seeded runs to ensure certain things do or don't spawn by taking very specific sets of actions. Dying and respawning - rather then reloading from the menu, which is quicker - resets the seed. That's why challenge runs always start with a death and respawn to show that a pre-configured seed isn't being carried over from previous runs.)

Here's Haelian's reaction to the whole situation: https://youtu.be/5L7_3MrG_08

Insanely impressive, and I don't know if we'll get to see it again.

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[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 42 points 2 years ago

Website has a link to a Reddit post which is just a link to YouTube. How many jumps did I need to make to watch the video at the source?πŸ˜‚

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Brb, gonna play hades and then watch them all in order to understand everything that's going on

[–] ogeist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago

And then he never returned as for he was forever trapped in an infinite loop of rogue-like gaming....

Farewell stranger, may the RNG be good to you...

[–] GeneralRetreat@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

See you in 200 hours, enjoy!

Also, if you're playing for the first time maybe don't watch those videos until you've completed at least one run for spoiler reasons.

[–] sanzky@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

Bouldy believes in you!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago

It's important to understand that Angel1c (Jade) and Baj were the only two players with the skill level who could have possibly had a chance to beat unmodded, unseeded 64 heat. They already beat 64 heat runs with mods or seeds, so it was a matter of getting that insanely luck RNG to reach the goal.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God damn that's an insane run

[–] GeneralRetreat@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Those last few seconds were absolutely hair-raising, even if we already knew how it was going to end!

[–] TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah I watched it on Haelian's stream and he was so anxious in the third phase even though he knew how it was gonna turn out. That fight was absolutely wild.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, with all of his safeties exhausted, he beat it with the lowest amount of health possible. One more hit and the run would have been over.

[–] dragynbob@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

FYI I believe the player uses she/they pronouns

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If there a commentary to explain what’s going on?

[–] GeneralRetreat@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The two YouTube links from Haelian in my summary set up the context for why this is really hard, and then commentary on the actual run itself.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you, I must have overlooked those links.

[–] falsem@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

They got really lucky with that Zeus special boon at the beginning.

[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Jesus, Jade makes it look so easy.

I'd be dead within a minute at most.

[–] rothaine@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Absolutely nuts!