A Twitch streamer shoots at an enemy player in Marathon and then realizes that he knows his opponent but lost contact 10 years ago.
Who is Crayator? Nathan “Crayator” Ryan (33) is an Australian YouTuber and Twitch streamer known for his energetic and humorous personality.
- In Australia, Crayator is mainly known for his involvement in the content creator groups “Click” and “Wanted.”
- While his own YouTube channel has nearly 30,000 subscribers, “Click” had over 2.5 million subscribers and numerous videos with several million views.
- The spiritual successor “Wanted” has 749,000 subscribers on YouTube and also several million views per video.
In his personal streams, Crayator showcases various games. He had his peak on Twitch during the Fortnite hype. He is also known for roleplay in GTA Online. Recently, he has been playing a lot of ARC Raiders and Marathon. He regularly attracts over 300 viewers.
Streamer randomly finds a school friend in Marathon
How did he meet his school friend? Crayator was playing Bungie’s new extraction shooter Marathon during a livestream. He was exploring the “Borderlands” map in solo mode when he noticed during a conversation with his chat that another player was in the same building as him.
Crayator moved toward the source of the sounds and found an enemy assassin. He opened fire and broke his opponent’s shield. However, the opponent then escaped in a smoke cloud. The streamer then changed his position and called out in the game’s ambient chat: “Are you still there?”
Then came the surprise that he didn’t expect.
From the voice chat of the shooter came a questioning “Nathan?”, to which the streamer replied: “Never call me Nathan in your life.” As Crayator later explained, he thought at the time that the other player was a viewer and a stream sniper, but to his surprise, he should know the other player very well. The player responded: “It’s James here.”
Crayator reacted with surprise and asked: “You mean James from high school?” The other player confirmed this with a laugh in his voice.
As it turned out, Crayator and “James” were best friends in school but lost touch. It has been about 10 years since they last spoke. When James then heard the streamer’s voice in the game’s voice chat and saw the name, he recognized him immediately.
After the random encounter, they talked for a few minutes about the past and how they have been doing since then. James is now a nurse. They then extracted together, sent each other friend requests, and played a few more rounds together.
Crayator posted a montage of the situation as a video on TikTok. Here you can see the clip:
Why is this special? The streamer plays Marathon solo. When you start a raid solo, you end up in matches with other solo players who spawn all over the map.
As a player, you don’t know the names of the players in the round or exactly where they are before a raid, and you cannot specifically invite other people into a solo lobby. There are also no custom matches.
The probability of encountering someone you personally know in a raid in Marathon is therefore very low.
Moreover, Marathon is not one of those games where questions are asked first and then shots are fired. In Marathon, the shooting starts when you make visual contact. James himself said it was the first time that someone had spoken to him in that shooter.
Is a meeting like this really realistic? Some users accuse the streamer of staging the scene, but even in that case, it must be said: It is anything but easy to specifically get into the same lobby as another person and initiate a “random meeting” without the chat noticing. That is virtually impossible.
Of course, one can never rule out whether such a scene was artificially initiated, but managing to do so would be extremely difficult.
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