YouTuber Charlie “Cr1TiKaL” White Jr. is currently offering $20,000 (about €19,500) if you complete Halo 2: Anniversary. But on the highest difficulty and with plenty of options that make the game even harder. So far, no one has succeeded.
This is the challenge:
- Cr1TiKaL runs a large channel on YouTube with over 10 million subscribers. He shows everything there, including games like Pokémon Unite.
- The YouTuber offered $5,000 a few weeks ago for anyone who could complete Halo 2: Anniversary in perfect “LASO”. This stands for “Legendary, All Skulls On”.
- After no one responded, the YouTuber is now offering $20,000 and demands: “Come and get my money!”
This is what you need to achieve: LASO is considered the toughest challenge in Halo 2 overall. Not only do you play on the highest difficulty “Legendary”, but you also make the game even harder.
In the game, you can find skulls that add various modifiers when activated. These include disabling the HUD, invisible weapons, or a mode in which shields only recharge after a melee hit against enemies.
Just that alone is considered extremely challenging among fans of the game. Additionally, Cr1TiKaL demands that you play perfectly, meaning you cannot die a single time. This is now nearly impossible.
Furthermore, Cr1TiKaL’s challenge states that a specific skull cannot be active, which actually provides an advantage: invisibility. This makes the challenge not only nearly impossible but simply diabolical, as the YouTuber himself says.
The prize money is only valid for the first person to complete the challenge.
“0 people managed this in 18 years”
According to Cr1TiKaL, the task is possibly the hardest challenge currently in gaming. Halo 2 was released in 2004, and since then, not a single person in the world has been able to master the challenge.
In 2020, the remaster of Halo 2 in the Anniversary Edition was released, bringing the game back to the attention of many gamers. Nevertheless, no one has attempted the challenge.
Cr1TiKaL thought that there simply hadn’t been enough motivation – which is why he offered a “bounty” for it. But that didn’t work:
All we have seen emerge from this so far are mental breakdowns. It has broken the spirit of some people, and souls have been shattered. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the runners are now addicted to hard drugs just to forget that they even attempted this challenge.
In the 3 weeks of the challenge, many tried it, but no one has succeeded so far. 99% of people haven’t even mastered the first level, and 80% – including Cr1TiKaL himself – haven’t even made it past the first room.
Cr1TiKaL wants to watch as “history is being made”. But as it seems, he will have to wait a while for that. Maybe one of you will succeed and secure the YouTuber’s money.
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