Hitless gaming pro put over 800 hours into beating Borderlands 2 without takin🐻g damage, and less than a day before he finally ma🐬naged his goal, challenge run streamer did it 💫first.
"Yeah, darksmoke11 got the run less than a day before me," Heyblasty notes🐷 in , though darksmoke11 only started the Sisyphean undertaking about two months ago after being motivated by Heyblasty's initial commitment to it, and ended up using a similar overall route. But it was never a real competition.
. "As soon as I saw his first attempt, I knew that the 'world's first' was not going to be free."If anything, it's exciting that two expert Borderlan🦹ds 2 players managed to do what many people thought was inconceivable. As a bloody shooter filled with damage numbers, Borderlands 2 provides a single-player experience that's sometimes punishing and always riddled with bullets, though the game ultimately proved to be no match for either Heyblasty or darksmoke11.
Borderlands 2 was the 112th game Heyblasty knocked out with a no-hit run. He tells bewildered fans that "I've been doing hitless for the past 🎃six years now. The more runs you get the less hype you feel at the end." That's another thing Heyblasty and darksmoke11 have in common: after performing fl๊awless takedowns of the Warrior monster in Borderlands 2's final boss fight, both players hardly reacted at all.
"Dude, I just beat Borderlands 2 withou༒t taking damage," darksmoke11 in monotone. "That's awesome." It really is.
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usual🐭ly working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
