The streamer Adam “B0aty” Lyne is one of the biggest streamers on Twitch for the MMORPG Old School RuneScape. But even such an experienced MMORPG player is not immune to the pitfalls of “AFK” going.
What did he lose? The streamer B0aty lost his hardcore character in Old School RuneScape. When a hero dies in “Hardcore Ironman” mode, they are out of this prestigious mode and become a normal “standard” character. That’s how it is known from other games with hardcore mode like Diablo 3.
What’s special are the circumstances of his death. They are so bizarre that videos showing the incident have already garnered over 100,000 views across all platforms.
Streamer messes up
This is how B0aty dies in RuneScape: The streamer teleports into a cave and apparently positions himself securely there before going AFK. He stands right at the entrance, so nothing can happen to him there.
Just before he goes AFK and takes off his headset, he thanks a Twitch user for a Prime subscription, and as a farewell, he lightly taps the desk while he is already leaving. Due to this tap and a hand movement afterwards, his character takes a tiny step forward and is now no longer in the safe zone of the cave but in the dangerous area.
A few seconds go by with nothing happening, but B0aty spends too much time away from the keyboard and a mob starts attacking his hero. When B0aty finally returns, his character has already died and is permanently dead.
In the later investigation of the incident, the streamer realizes what went wrong and analyzes exactly what must have happened that this tap on the table and the hand movement cost him his hardcore character.
B0aty concludes: He just had incredibly bad luck that this one tap moved the character exactly the way it did.
This is how it’s discussed: On Reddit for RuneScape, B0aty’s death is the news of the hour.
- Players feel his pain, that one loses so many hours while on the toilet.
- One says, this must be the “unluckiest death in hardcore ever” – B0aty must have somehow bumped into the mouse while standing up.
- A third says B0aty had played the account “so nicely”, that it’s a terrible way to lose it.
To die in hardcore mode is always particularly painful. Legendary was the death of streamer Phil “Philza” Watson in Minecraft. He died after 5 years from a baby zombie. But in hindsight, he massively benefited from it:
Twitch streamer makes terrible mistake in Minecraft – And gets everything right
