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.
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?😂
Brb, gonna play hades and then watch them all in order to understand everything that’s going on
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.
God damn that’s an insane run
Those last few seconds were absolutely hair-raising, even if we already knew how it was going to end!
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.
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.
They got really lucky with that Zeus special boon at the beginning.
