In Destiny, a Guardian has set himself a very special challenge: he wanted to take down Crota solo, in Hard Mode, and without weapons, all while Crota was enraged. He succeeded, but how.
Currently, there is really nothing to do for PvE fans in Destiny. Maybe a Nightfall strike here, another Oryx down there – and just like that, you have completed your weekly tasks. Few are venturing into the old raids. Unless you create your own challenge.
Since Bungie has been stingy with PvE content lately, Guardians are setting new goals for themselves, like this eager Reddit user here. He wanted to dance with Crota again: only this time, Crota was to fall in a new, unique way, which the user himself called “the most annoying and difficult challenge yet”.
His conditions: Solo, Hard Mode, no weapons, and all during Crota’s rage. Crota is allowed to kneel only once before he must be defeated.
It reportedly took over 40 hours for the Guardian to kill Crota under these conditions. His successful run only lasted 40 seconds. You can watch it in the following video.
The user points out several aspects that made this challenge so “insane”:
1. Every time he made a mistake, he had to wait 10 minutes to start the next attempt. This was terrible and “evil”.
2. Hard Mode means that health does not regenerate. Every OverSoul ruthlessly takes away health, even if blocking with the sword. Since no weapons are allowed, even the Red Death is useless.
3. Crota’s rage continues to spawn OverSouls one after the other, as well as Thralls and Ogres. The Bombers appear “mega aggressive”. Additionally, the user complains that the screen shook wildly and the music was very loud. 4. Perfect timing was everything: the first OverSoul takes away your Super; killing the sword bearer without weapons, grabbing his sword, dodging enemies, positioning, creating a bubble, etc. must all happen before the first OverSoul appears. You can marvel at the perfect run in the video above.
5. He also had problems with the two grenades: only about 60% of the time did they force Crota to kneel. He often failed here.
6. The buff “Weapons of Light” is needed for every sword hit. However, the user usually lost the buff before the final hit. So he had to be very quick here too.
7. Furthermore, the user often had the issue of delays with the sword hits. He suspects that this was caused by the grenades, which detonate twice. Because of this “glitch”, he almost gave up. In the end, however, he managed to complete this self-imposed challenge.
He also apologizes for the noises he makes in the video when he achieves his goal. But that moment was just so relieving.
What do you think of this Crota kill?
There are many other curious methods by which Crota has already been taken down. For example, he was beaten to death with drums.
