Streamer Charlie ‘Cr1tikal’ White has a challenge for you Halo fans – all you have to do is beat Halo 2 to a certain level of difficulty (without dying) and it will give you $ 20,000 ($ 27,764). The thing is, this custom difficulty level is what makes the game seem impossible.
Through PCGamesN, this difficulty level is known as “LASO”, or Legendary All Skulls On, a set of conditions made by fans that not only sets the game in Legendary, but introduces a number of modifiers set by the skulls of the game, which can include things like giving more health to more enemies or putting less ammo in your clips.
It’s a brutal way to play. Here’s a Reddit thread from a few years ago where someone brags about completing Halo 2 LASO, albeit with the warning that “my deaths were measured in three digits”. Cr1tikal’s challenge is not to die even once.
Describing it as his “Willy Wonka moment,” Cr1tikal initially offered a reward of $ 15,000 ($ 20,823), but has since increased it by $ 5,000 ($ 6,941), because it is a task he believes which is “the most difficult challenge.” which currently exists in all games ”. I don’t know, but it certainly sounds difficult: in the 18 years since the release of Halo 2, no player has ever been able to prove that he has completed a career without LASO’s death (well, yes, but I’ll get to that) . It’s so hard for Cr1tikal to say that after seeing how people tried to grab their money over the past three weeks, “99%” of the players couldn’t get past the first level of the game and most, including himself, didn’t even they can only surpass the first. couple of rooms.
The rules are: the race must be streamed live, either on Twitch or YouTube. You should be playing Halo 2 on legendary difficulty with 13 of the game’s skulls enabled, but the one known as “Envy” is disabled. This is because a player has claimed to have completed a LASO race without dying before, but they were using this skull, which replaces the Chief Master’s lantern with the ability to become invisible through active camouflage. Which makes things difficult at all, so disabling it seems entirely given the meaning of this challenge.