There will always be gamers who don’t find the hardest difficulty challenging enough. So does a Halo speed runner from the Simply & Slick YouTube channel. In one video, he fights his way through Halo Infinite on Legendary difficulty without even firing a weapon.
Languages:German English
Platforms:Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
The rules for the challenge
On the Simply & Slick YouTube channel, a speedrunner takes on the ultimate challenge in Halo Infinite: Beat the open-world shooter on the hardest difficulty, Legendary, without even firing a shot. On this brutally hard difficulty enemies act more intelligently, have more shield power and deal more damage. In addition, stronger enemy variants appear more often.
So the rules for the challenge are that only melee attacks are allowed, for example with the hammer or the power sword. And also Glitches are allowed, but no mods or hacks.
No Gun Run
The passage looks quite uncomplicated at first. With the grappling hook, the speed runner races through the level and easily avoids most dangers. Since melee combat is not an option with groups of enemies, he throws at his enemies with fusion coils lying around.
Unfortunately, this strategy does not work for the boss Chak ‘Lok. That’s why he cares power sword, to use it to defeat the boss. But it doesn’t get any easier after that: The Hosts of opponents are increasing and the Final boss has several phases and cannot be easily defeated without upgrades. Another detour and many deaths later, the speed runner finally reaches his goal and the final cutscene is played.
Can you beat Halo Infinite on Legendary without guns? Simply & Slick proves: Yes, you can!
In a comment below the video, Simply & Slick writes that the entire no-gun run about four hours Has lasted. Fun fact: The speedrunner plays Halo Infinite in Japanese because the In-game conversations go a little faster that way – and with speed runs, every single second counts.
Halo Infinite in 30 minutes
Halo Infinite was released just a few weeks ago and the speedrun community more than lives up to its name. Because already lies the world record for a run on the hardest level of difficulty at just over half an hour. (Source: YouTube – Sasquatch Sensei)
Other speedrun videos have already broken the 30-minute mark, but on easier levels of difficulty. If you just look at the improvement in the last few days, it can be assumed that many more records will follow in the coming weeks.
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