Solely two and a half hours after going dwell, Future 2’s newest raid, Root of Nightmares, was first conquered by a comparatively unknown workforce of underdogs referred to as Staff Exhausting 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 workforce to beat these dastardly gauntlets.
Bungie confirmed the world first victory, writing, “Guardians from all over the world fought in opposition to an historic risk within the Root of Nightmares raid this weekend in the course of the World First raid race. A large congratulations to Staff Exhausting within the Paint for rising victorious. As the primary workforce to each beat the raid and the extra challenges, all six members will obtain World First title belts and can endlessly be referred to as the World First Champions of Root of Nightmares.”
For the previous couple of raid releases, the identical workforce, Clan Elysium, has claimed victory, including last year’s Vow of the Disciple. A number of different high contenders and former successful groups have been additionally extremely watched on Twitch Rivals as a part of the competition. The winner although, because it turned out, included a bunch of small content material creators and speedrunners whose streams had far fewer viewers till it turned clear they have been on tempo to win all of it.
One such speedrunner, RoenXD, has solely 9K followers on Twitch even after his workforce’s victory, a testomony to his crew’s underdog standing.
IGN reached out to RoenXD shortly after his raid accomplishments, who stated of the victory: “It is nonetheless fairly surreal as a result of it has been a very long time objective of ours to attain this. My workforce are the best mates I may ask for, and that is for certain one of many highlights of our lives. We ready loads 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, Staff Exhausting 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 successful workforce’s spectacular pace, or to bemoan or rejoice the lack of competing groups.
Since Future 2: Lightfall’s debut final week, unfavorable reactions to the enlargement and plenty of bugs have solid a shadow over the long-running looter shooter, a incontrovertible fact that’s mirrored in IGN’s personal assessment in progress. Nevertheless, there seem to have been few technical points throughout at the moment’s raid race, a marked enchancment over final yr, which can be simply the morale enhance the Future neighborhood wants.
Regardless of who you have been rooting for, it is a gaming underdog story for the ages. And who would not love underdog story?
Travis Northup is a author for IGN. You may observe him on Twitter @TieGuyTravis and browse his video games protection right here.
