YouTuber makes viral video about why Hades' hardest playthrough is basically impossible, then a speedrunner comes along a week later and beats it for the first time in history
On July 25 this year, a YouTuber named Haelian uploaded a video called «Why No One Has Beaten the Max Heat in Hades or Probably Ever Will»: a breakdown of the hardest possible run-through of Supergiant's incredible 2020 roguelike action-RPG and why it is, effectively, unbeatable.
The probabilities are just too low: Activating all of the game's difficulty-boosting Pact of Punishment modifiers turns a challenging game into a gruelling gauntlet. It ratchets up the game's heat (effectively its difficulty level) to its maximum of 64. With enemies buffed to the max, the player character as weak as can be, and only 5 minutes to complete each area, you'd need to be both immensely skilled at the game and secure an impossible string of lucky drops during your unseeded playthrough to even make success a possibility. As far as the community knows, it had never happened before and it was never going to.
Anyway, it's now eight days after that video was posted and, obviously, someone's gone and done it. As reported by GamesRadar, a Hades challenge runner and speedrunner named Angel1c has successfully achieved the impossible: clearing what is apparently the world's first unseeded, unmodded 64-heat playthrough of Hades a mere three years after the game released in full. You can see Haelian's reaction to Angel1c's victory above and her full, impeccably soundtracked 30-minute playthrough below.
While there's always the possibility that a streamer like this is using some kind of hidden mod to bump up their chances, the Hades community seems to agree that Angel1c should be trusted on this. She's a well-known figure there, and has form for doing stuff like this in the past: She's previously posted videos of herself completing runs at 62 and
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