Solely two and a half hours after going stay, Future 2’s newest raid, Root of Nightmares, was first conquered by a comparatively unknown crew of underdogs known as Crew Arduous within the Paint.
Raids are Future’s final endgame problem, which contain six gamers working collectively to determine difficult mechanics and execute them to perfection, all whereas avoiding being killed by hordes of enemies and highly effective bosses alike. For a few years, Bungie has noticed the launch of their raids by internet hosting official “World First Races,” which doc the primary crew to beat these dastardly gauntlets.
Bungie confirmed the world first victory, writing, “Guardians from around the globe fought in opposition to an historic risk within the Root of Nightmares raid this weekend through the World First raid race. A large congratulations to Crew Arduous within the Paint for rising victorious. As the primary crew to each beat the raid and the extra challenges, all six members will obtain World First title belts and can perpetually be generally known as the World First Champions of Root of Nightmares.”
For the previous couple of raid releases, the identical crew, Clan Elysium, has claimed victory, including last year’s Vow of the Disciple. A number of different high contenders and former profitable groups had been additionally extremely watched on Twitch Rivals as a part of the competition. The winner although, because it turned out, included a gaggle of small content material creators and speedrunners whose streams had far fewer viewers till it turned clear they had been on tempo to win all of it.
One such speedrunner, RoenXD, has solely 9K followers on Twitch even after his crew’s victory, a testomony to his crew’s underdog standing.
IGN reached out to RoenXD shortly after his raid accomplishments, who mentioned of the victory: “It is nonetheless fairly surreal as a result of it has been a very long time purpose of ours to attain this. My crew are the best pals I might ask for, and that is for positive one of many highlights of our lives. We ready rather a lot for this raid and gave it our greatest, and it paid off.”
Rip out the nightmares, root and stem.
Congratulations to the World First Future 2 #RootofNightmares winners, Crew Arduous within the Paint:
? Roen
? Osiris
? Punz
? Kai
? SK
? Grangalf pic.twitter.com/jjnVV8rQdR— Future 2 (@DestinyTheGame) March 10, 2023
Reacting to the shock victory, commenters chimed in on Twitter to reward the profitable crew’s spectacular pace, or to bemoan or have fun the lack of competing groups.
Since Future 2: Lightfall’s debut final week, unfavorable reactions to the enlargement and many bugs have forged a shadow over the long-running looter shooter, a indisputable fact that’s mirrored in IGN’s personal assessment in progress. Nonetheless, there seem to have been few technical points throughout right now’s raid race, a marked enchancment over final yr, which can be simply the morale enhance the Future group wants.
Irrespective of who you had been rooting for, it is a gaming underdog story for the ages. And who does not love an excellent underdog story?
Travis Northup is a author for IGN. You possibly can comply with him on Twitter @TieGuyTravis and browse his video games protection right here.
