One player, AngeL1C, claims completion of the game Hades with the maximum difficulty level (heat 64), no mods and no seeds. A video accompanies the performance, which was said to be inaccessible.
With Hadesthere is finish the game and there is to end the game. Like many, you certainly finished the story, bringing Zagreus out of the Underworld. You’ve probably pushed the experience all the way to discovering the real roguelite/action-RPG epilogue. And, for the bravest among you, perhaps you have spiced up the challenge with the additional difficulties (“heats”).
All this does not weigh much in comparison to the feat just accomplished by AngeL1C, a relentless player ofHades. The person concerned managed to complete a run complete with the maximum difficulty level, heat 64. This performance had never been achieved without mods and without seeds (unmodded and unseeded), while the game will soon celebrate its five years of existence.
The principle of heats is to be able to increase the difficulty by choosing what will be made more difficult: increased enemy damage, less hit points returned by healing, more opponents, more deadly traps, talents disabled and so on. These challenges can be combined and, for some, be increased by several levels.
The more you add, the more the heat climbs, therefore, up to 64, which clearly means that you have activated all the possible and imaginable difficulties. It is also such an exceptional challenge that SuperGiant Games, the developer, has only imagined three trophies, symbolized by statues, rewarding the crossing of three heat levels: 8, 16 and 32.
Many Internet users insist on the extreme difficulty, and therefore the extreme skill that had to be deployed, but also the extreme luck that it took for all the planets to align perfectly. ” Achievement is above everything. The impossible has literally just been achieved, it’s pure madness », reacted Nitrostarsch.
Same story for vetb8. ” For those who don’t know, this is quite possibly the most impressive thing ever done in all of this video game, and probably one of the luckiest and most skillful things done in any game. which game “. Many reactions point in the same direction.
A feat so remarkable it made players doubt
The news obviously did not go unnoticed by the community of players.Hades. It is also so spectacular that it was questioned in the process, through long discussions on Reddit (in the subreddit HadesTheGame). Some are also wondering about the timing, which is quite unexpected.
This is what Nightcracker sums up, for example. ” My only concern is that it’s theoretically very easy to cheat [sur les avantages, NDLR] using a secret mod “, he warns. He also finds it curious that the announcement of the exploit comes out barely a week after the release of a video titled ” why no one beat peak heat in hades and probably never will ”, which exceeded 800,000 views.
” I hope that’s true, because that would be a huge achievement indeed. “, he adds, while specifying in case that he “ don’t accuse the runner of anything, i have no reason to believe she cheated “. Others, like NmP100, want to remind you that AngeL1C has a history and a reputation that speaks for itself, which tends to remove any doubt about performance.
” She was the first person to beat heats 63 and 64 unseeded, using mods to fake some [tirages] at the very beginning (the choice of the first advantage mainly) and at the very end […]. She also holds many world records in weapons and/or aspects of heat. Everyone agrees that you have to trust him “, he summarizes
The author of the video which suggested that it was impossible has also recognized the performance. ” Kudos to AngeL1C for proving me wrong […] only 8 days after this video was posted. A real super player. Keep in mind that all the math in this video is still correct, Angel was just able to prove she had the determination to make it happen. »
The sequel will take place in Hades 2. SuperGiant Games has announced that a new story is in the works, based on the same roguelite / action-RPG foundations. This time, we won’t play Zagreus. It will be his sister, Melinoë. Early access is expected for 2023, but the actual release will occur in 2024. A new challenge for AngeL1C.
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