Halo 2 Gravemind Legendary Speedrun

[@jordanfoster2955]

The begining of this is pretty much what i imagine chief would be like in the lore

[@silverwve]

Badass, killing things, but he's being smart about it. Yeah, prolly right.

[@Keoffry1]

The firefights in the earlier books definitely fit the bill, Chief is always analyzing the environment

[@richmeisterradio]

canon difficulty is normal. legendary is just there for the challenge.

[@Divisceral]

@@richmeisterradio wrong, canon difficulty is heroic.

[@BestICanDoIs20]

@@richmeisterradio u straight wrong

[@lethalfox3847]

Cortana: “To catch Truth, you’ll need to take a shortcut.” rocats: *starts flying through the air*

[@210shonuff]

Hahahahaha

[@Rawnzilla]

0:00-4:41 ok, seems like a very fast and lethal run, nothing too wild 4:42 this man is insane

[@DragonSoulMusic]

Alright, let me break down how ridiculous that trick is to do. There's so much RNG it's not even funny. In order to do it, the brute and elite need to be out of the way (completely random, almost never happens in my experience), and if you try to kill them the sniper jackal will hear you and insta-kill you. Speaking of said jackal, sometimes he can be aware of you as soon as the door opens, and insta-kill you. Assuming the enemies are out of the way, and the jackal doesn't see you, _and_ you're able to get the sword-fly in the first few tries, (frame-perfect trick, and if you wait too long the Jackal will see you) there's an entirely new series of *COMPLETELY BS* events that can occur. 1, you hit that stupid branch that rocats passes under in the video (will usually result in death). 2, you're in the air for just _slightly_ too long, resulting in instant death due to fall-timer. 3, the jackal that you're sword-flying off of sees you mid-air and ends your very existence. 4, your angle is slightly off and you hit a wall in the hallway you land in, which can kill you. 5, the enemies that were fighting in front of the door bumble back into the way right as you start to fly, screwing up your angle completely, and usually resulting in yeeting yourself out of the map. Don't forget, if you're at a crazy pace like Rocats is in the vid, you won't have gotten any checkpoints since the elevator skip. Meaning losing at least 30 seconds, but most likely much more since all the rooms leading up to this trick are _full_ of RNG.

[@CubiStudios]

How did this man manage to get not one but two snipers to not instantly pop him after making eye contact, that’s the real wild ride.

[@DragonSoulMusic]

@@CubiStudios at this point I'm starting to think that rocats has just transcended reality itself and is immune to RNG

[@DragonSoulMusic]

@@amaury_permer Stands for "Randomly Generated Number/Numbers". In video games, most things that occur randomly are determined by RNG.

[@fangee704]

I am the 343rd like

[@CubiStudios]

Meanwhile me, dying for two hours at that opening BRUTES! section. I hear that dialogue in my nightmares years later.

[@N54-s7r]

I’m playing Halo 2 for the first time on legendary, well I started last summer, but I just got to gravemind and I’m starting to go insane

[@carsonharris543]

Oh wait till you fight tartarus

[@N54-s7r]

Jocular Ranger5 I remember being super fucking proud of myself when I memorized the enemy spawning patterns to beat whatever prophet you fight, but I’m sure I’ll have a grand ol time

[@restlessfrager]

@@carsonharris543 The opening of gravemind was way harder than tartarus fo rme. Honestly tartarus is a pushover if you kill his reinforcing brutes before they reach the arena.

[@carsonharris543]

The most fun part of halo 2 legendary is obviously the jackal snipers

[@Spicymeatbawls]

You really went to town on that one elite that killed you

[@fhuzze8802]

4:11 man's started to levitate after extreme cbt

[@legday9398]

😭😭😭😭💀💀💀

[@MarkToast99]

It's so interesting how shooting almost feels like a secondary action in these speedruns. It's more about just moving on

[@dukes1993724]

They only shoot when it’s really necessary, like at the beginning of this level when the game won’t let you progress unless all the enemies are dead

[@undercoverlord]

Thats deep man... its hard to move on sometimes

[@unholysoldier002]

4 hours faster than me

[@ivanmuted9985]

2 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes faster than me jajaja

[@hendrahendra]

So close

[@ElronHumpperdink]

@@hendrahendra 4h20m 💨

[@valmeeki21]

@@ElronHumpperdink same bro

[@Jakester1]

Bruh i forgot how hard and a pain in the ass this mission was and how long it was i was doing solo legendary got 1 hour and 16 min but still felt longer and i died so many times and now i go to bed angry and annoyed at halo and myself cuz i got work in 4 hours lmfao

[@Hokiebird428]

This may not be my preferred way to play the game, but damned if this isn’t extremely impressive.

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Speedrunning is defo an acquired taste

[@AjaySahu-ij2xo]

@Hokiebird428 man you're a legend. I've watched all your videos of halo 2 and 3. Man they were so fun and the way you explained things were so great. It's so nice to meet you like this.

[@confusedindividual]

Watch the John Wick speedruns. He kills just about everything in those.

[@InvadeleYogurt]

I've just came from your video of this mission and wanted to see a speed run rn, then saw ya here. Great videos also Hokie

[@double_0_delta158]

i never imagined speed running involving molesting a brute 4:00

[@josephstalin6281]

Or a flood form in high charity

[@thepotatoof4219]

Sangheili at 5:31 "Bye!"

[@user-zb9ow6du6c]

That was a brute

[@phantom__menace]

that was tartarus actually..

[@miguelle4756]

“ *Bye* _have a wonderful time_ .” Idk why I imagine an elite would say that

[@ZealotChemist]

7:42 the explosion changed the trajectory of the thrown grenade. Pretty cool H2 detail, I love this game

[@arby8274]

yea its in every halo game works with rockets too

[@reala90]

Prophet: "Kill the demon!" Brutes: "Uhhhh..where is he?"

[@bigeboye709]

Gravemind is easily one of my favorite missions in the series and it’s super cool seeing it be broken down and demolished like this.

[@gravitybass]

So perfect how the breakdown of Blow Me Away continues to play even after you’re back at the main menu.

[@Krispy-Klips]

Holy crap, this is the mission that people die when it loads

[@MythicTyrant]

Holy geez! That was incredible!

[@rocats]

Much appreciated, I actually used to watch your halo vids a few years back, cool to see you still around

[@chinojosa4563]

Master Chief Sierra-117 what’s laso

[@halomaster2346]

@@chinojosa4563 Legendary all skulls on

[@Ostr0]

​​@@chinojosa4563 SLASO means Solo Legendary All Skulls On. In particular not all the new and most of Non-Scoring Skulls are actually on aren't on I don't know I don't really pay attention to it but yeah. ☠️

[@jsoholt11]

Cortana-"you might want to consider sitting this one out" rocats- fuelrod go brrrr

[@billcitybaby]

My thought at the end was "he reset to checkpoint. Wonder what he messed up on." *proceeds to fuel rod the hell out of the covenant*

[@neoparris6730]

When I did this level for my Monopolized run, my final time was 35:36. Boy, do I wish I could’ve gotten the prison skip to work like you did!

[@youraverageuser7039]

my dumbass clicked on it like if the video was that long

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

@@youraverageuser7039 Me too we got smoovbrain

[@benc77]

It took me a hour because of the starting room and final encounter with the invisible elites, the prison surprisingly wasn’t actually that difficult

[@ashes2ashes3333]

Cortana: "you might consider sitting this one out" Rocats: 7:35

[@yourshames]

8:12 I always wondered when that song came into play.

[@yourshames]

@@liamchance3604 I still listen to it from the soundtrack.

[@KoreanTakeout]

amazing song. got to hear it live this year

[@yourshames]

@@KoreanTakeout Wow cool!

[@RayOfDestiny_]

Blow me away

[@colebcolby6213]

@@KoreanTakeout same! I heard Breaking Benjamin perform September 20th,2019!

[@anfrac3700]

Even the speed runners fear the Jackal snipers on legendary

[@cristianrueda3824]

Man, those are some mad skills!

[@azzythechristianfurry]

The scoped weapon/sword thing is something I’ve never been able to successfully pull off.

[@afanoflafear]

Same here been over 14 years since it was discovered BUT I finally pulled it off this year, don't give up man. Mastering it however is another dilemma.

[@cheeko_914]

It's twice as hard to do (literally) in MCC. The time frame in between the sword fly combo is cut in half.

[@azzythechristianfurry]

@@cheeko_914 I dunno. I tried a few times on the 360. Didn’t work xD I just suck at glitches.

[@NovakLedger]

Its called sword fly, yes its extremely hard to pull off consistently but its still possible to do it

[@MatthewLarson578]

As a gamer such as you, you have my undying respect

[@Killerwing1]

This is just pure skill I could only dream of reaching this level!

[@blackrb123ryan]

8:13-9:00 you really blew me away

[@Hazard8663]

Boooooo

[@getwreckedson1298]

343 older halos will always be for the glory and memories

[@chinojosa4563]

You will never get a like, young blood.

[@Wigman_01]

2:49 perfect timing

[@brycefitz5345]

This is the most impressive thing I’ve seen done in halo

[@frost7463]

Check out Jervalin’s halo 2 LASO deathless. It’s insane.

[@Ostr0]

​@Frost Yeah imagine if he had to do it at 60fps looking at him sweating made me laugh I was drenched with sweat on SLASO 60fps that shit is harder than Touhou.

[@TheBabonnie]

7:50“My internal organs!” Sliced like a god damn cake there boy.

[@theJukeboxHero40]

This man is unstoppable. Subscribed

[@afanoflafear]

* Grunt voice *

[@OGRScintilla]

Game with broken physics > Game with perfect physics.... every single time

[@mythicgaming2552]

Simply built different

[@Sqdlow]

This level use too be so hard that speedrunners would do an exploit with the envy skull which wouldve taken so long to activate. Glad to see the new strats have removed the need to dashboard

[@Marcox385]

Man this fool is savage, it took me 9 minutes to complete the starting part in heroic

[@drt03uwu]

DAMN IT TAKES ME A WEEK TO GET PAST THE FIRST PART IN NORMAL MODE😭

[@Marcox385]

​​@@drt03uwu lmao it do be like that. I probably lied in the original comment and spent at least half an hour just to get out of that damned room, and then another couple of hours at the end of the mission

[@drt03uwu]

oh💀

[@WarLocked1523]

Your ability to skip through literally 1/3 of this level is highly admirable.

[@MrAsulta]

That elitat 7:47 was REEEEEEing so hard

[@KandyKornerGurl]

Ouch almost no death.

[@iPulpoGalactico]

4:11 wait, WTF?

[@jesperkragh]

What do you press to do that?

[@iw_legendary_sayain2215]

Jesper Kragh it goes like this B, X, B, X continued until he reaches his destination

[@DragonSoulMusic]

@@iw_legendary_sayain2215 He's also spamming jump the whole time, because lunging gives back your jump. You need to jump so that you have enough momentum to carry the brute upwards, since npcs won't jump off your head.

[@iw_legendary_sayain2215]

Dragon Soul it’s an impressive maneuver if I were to attempt it I’m pretty sure I’d miss a key second and fail sustaining the momentum.

[@DragonSoulMusic]

@@iw_legendary_sayain2215 As someone who's done the trick a handful of times, I'd say the hardest part is getting the brute in the right spot in the tube (above you and within melee lunge range) and second hardest is not accidentally killing the brute on the way up lol

[@Triicell]

Took me like 2 hours to beat this shit on Legendary. And you did it in less than 10 mins... damn.

[@tologonkuruchbekov6073]

same , the prison was pain, stupid checkpoint on the end of the elevator , when you going down , i died 20+ times :\

[@R3TR0--93]

3:44 BOOM HEAD SHOT

[@Leg3nd-27]

Man, it took me 50 minutes to beat this mission.

[@thasnipa597]

You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers. Try two and a half hours on heroic

[@inspiteful]

Your pfp makes these runs a million times better lol

[@smorgasborgas]

Somehow I did this in 1:15 (one hour fifteen) my first time on legendary and it seems like that’s not even bad considering some people took hours to get out of the first room

[@beefdawgamadeus]

Watching and hearing halo just makes me happy and smile

[@BreadPitt7]

Sad that the leaderboard is filled with cheaters

[@JamesonMusic808]

Yeah that’s why you gotta just stick with the HaloRuns site

[@allen9621]

Sword flying is soo satisfying

[@Ostr0]

I can't tell if things got patched out or not but 2 glitches that get used I couldn't do mainly the Start and the Butterfly Clip because the Brute wouldn't comply at 60 fps so I ended up getting 10:53 FeelsWeakMan.

[@anthony000izt]

when you have absolutely nothing better to do. sick

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

I don't blame them for calling him demon. Fuck, man.

[@PhatBoyFresh]

7:48 Fuk yo assassination.

[@charleslathrop9743]

If I was fighting someone who fought like this I'd probably refer to them as a demon too.

[@wayneenterprise463]

8:41 Elite: Wait hold up, let me run forward then backward to you*

[@dallaslucci1884]

Bungie: ok gravemind is a very hard level on legendary and is pretty long so make sure you have precise ai- Rocats beating it at 8 minutes Bungie: oh ok

[@josephstalin6281]

Well for future reference to get up the lift quicker I’ll just rapidly swap my weapons under a brutes crotch.

[@wot3rmelon679]

wtf I thought Chief is holding a can in the thumbnail

[@Vekren]

Seeing you skip the prisoner rescue part was so funny I just laughed and laughed.

[@d3vs3b96]

Damn!! That breaking benjamin song always gets me!

[@josemanuelposadas5470]

8:14 BLOW ME AWAY 🤘🏾

[@Cristian-nn5jj]

Can someone explain the skip at 0:26 and 1:21? I thought you could only skip from inside one of the doors.

[@RandolphDuk]

The second elevator was where I wanted to know how to pass fast.

[@Norcalflat]

Not bad..... my preferred method is spawning in to a death animation 12 times in a row and then rage switching to another game.

[@max1muslegend772]

Oh mine is just killing one of the brutes then dying about 10 times, quit out of mcc and repeat

[@nadaqueponeraqui7745]

A really spartan today

[@seefzi]

sometimes i forget that this game only has a suggestion of physics

[@keaganvang8639]

Imagine your fighting Chief, then bam! He flys away for no goddamn reason

[@afanoflafear]

No damn reason?! Talking about world record status lol.

[@dragonoscuro7716]

8:02 Benjamín Breaking Blow Me Away Soundtrack

[@heith1229]

2:59 And here I thought we were just going to settle this over a cup of tea

[@sergeantmarcusstackerM1903]

4:11 ZOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[@Mrkingpena43]

4:01 Do you need the brute to come with you in the lift in order to reverse the lift

[@__skillz]

Yeah

[@vyxlegend2180]

Damn he thicc 😂

[@lotfiouldadda2138]

Finally some SF blunders the high charity speedrun was perfect tho

[@RoxenLightfield]

7:48 F

[@CorneliusCob]

Truth: yeesh, the Demon killed regret on delta halo. But at least there was no way he survived the glassing beam, and if he did, he's still down there and not up here Chief: OOOOHHHH YOOOOOOO *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA* *AAAAAAAAAA* *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

[@prolificFPS]

Back to the simple days

[@fangee704]

Rocats is insane my fastest gravemind legendary was 18 minutes and i literally killed everything as fast as i could i didnt even wait for shields i dont know how this man got sub 8:48

[@roopelotjonen5091]

BTW, why did Bungie name this level Gravemind and the next Chief level in H2 High Charity? Shouldn't they be vise versa?

[@rocats]

Idk, the map file for gravemind is actually called high charity lol so I guess they were originally gonna call it that

[@likeclockwork6473]

This level is the meanest level in any game that isn't indy I've ever played. I really kicked this level in the teeth on my second run through it ever, and I did it in a bit more than 50 minutes on heroic. Maybe on easy could I approach the 20 minute par. This guy does it under 9 minute on legendary. Unbelievable.

[@rocking_will117]

the power of yxr is ridiculous

[@curtisleblanc5897]

2:50 Chief created an explosion by punching the air

[@woodsgump]

BRUH THIS LOOKS BETTER THAN NAKED ELI’s! HOLY CRAP!

[@asdfgh9985]

I call bullshit. I know this run is fake because at 5:03, the Jackal sniper missed. Everyone knows those bastards don't miss.

[@f1ringfed]

Immaculate, nearly

[@chinojosa4563]

Yo. I was like why is he just letting that brute live... then I realized I was the brute.

[@andrewayres6554]

2:44 I can feel that anxiety he felt at that moment

[@AmrRivers]

7:25 was a v smooth move

[@abhaysaini9406]

how did you jump so fast over the top of elites/brutes at several places?

[@nickdabs5553]

So I beat Halo 2 on legendary under 3 hours for the achievement and it’s funny cuz gravemind alone on legendary while speedrunning to me 1 hour. Which left me with 2 hours to beat every other mission on legendary. Most insane achievement I’ve ever acquired cuz it took actual speedrunning tactics to get.

[@FalconEye2015]

This video shows how broken halo 2 assassinations are

[@prolificFPS]

Major throwback !!

[@quickscopeoneeighty9158]

Perfect ending

[@Omega_thehusky]

it's insane this lvl has such a low par time I wonder how much of this is mandatory

[@rocats]

Par times are actually made for easy difficulty, only the 3 hour achievement has to be done on legendary

[@TheMDbauS]

To beat the 3 hr achievement you need to be even faster than par times iirc

[@tTaseric]

@@TheMDbauS Usually the par times will add up to just under 3 hours, but it depends on the level and game. For most Halo games, if you get par time on legendary for each level you'll be good, but others you wanna get far under. For Halo 2 and ODST, you wanna get as far under par time as possible so you have enough time for Regret, Gravemind, and Coastal Highway.

[@theneoreformationist]

@@tTaseric For ODST, just play the last rally point for each level....It counts.

[@tTaseric]

@@theneoreformationist Unfortunately, ODST is the only one I actually have the speedrun achievement on so I wish I knew this before lol

[@waterdragon2.08]

7:46 is such bullshit, it hit right on the back and didn't do anything.

[@Ostr0]

Agreed but it wasn't perfect and I had that happen countless times.

[@LuminousLead]

I was wondering if this was TAS, but the curtain coming down 7:50 suggests it is not. Nice work!

[@rocats]

Yeah this is just a regular run, here's a TAS of this level kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5S5f2mrqsuNpJY

[@LuminousLead]

@@rocats Whoa, that's nuts!

[@Mortablunt]

Gamer level: Hold My Beer

[@yousmeel9127]

It took me 2 hours to beat this level, and the first 45mins were in the starting room. Yet you do it in 10 god damn minutes

Technically, he spent hours and hours practicing. Yes I'm fun at parties

[@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr]

It’s pretty impressive to pull it off to make it look simple and what works and what doesn’t work I can tel a lot of time and effort went into this.

[@Willikoski]

When he died it reminds me of little kids rage quitting their xbox's super quick when they die in cod

[@josephf2960]

How do you do the thing where you kinda flew through the map

[@alfonso63447]

And that's why they call him demon

[@Zonda1996]

Is that another area you can skip waves of reinforcements at 0:35?

[@xrecon_2409]

Yep, it's a little bit hard to skip waves on that place, i use the old place :p

[@Zonda1996]

xRecon_ Yeah I have mixed success in making it to the door on time for the other spot lmao

[@rocats]

@@Zonda1996 the door one is way more precise than this one, would highly recommend using the pedastool one that I use