Why Nobody Could Beat Halo 3 LASO Deathless Challenge

Can you actually beat Halo 3 LASO without dying? Is a full Halo 3 LASO deathless run even possible? And how would you beat the hardest Halo 3 challenge?
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[@jackygemme863]

Imagine you make it to halo deathless and then your warthog flips and you get kicked out 💀

[@SWAGMASTER69_1]

I had that happen in CE on "halo" hoped out and got hit by it by my own warthog

[@darvire]

Cue the “Betrayal” multiplayer sound

[@bionicca]

Sooo many hours of team vidmster challenges back in their day, that ended with someone lagging out waaay far in & bombing the run

[@mrmcjeff385]

one time right at the end of the run one of the panels that explodes as a single full square landed right back on where it came from and made it look like it was just regular floor, i drove through it and you just fall as if it isn't there imagine that at the end of a full 3 game run haha

[@Falkriim]

Lmao

[@Dhurl421]

That exploding panel on Cortana has killed me more than once. Surprised how so many people haven't seen it before.

[@DigitalVanquish]

Mm, likewise. I had no idea it was a particularly rare occurrence.

[@anthonyconner9180]

I was gonna say, I've had it happen like three times in a row once.

[@ijustmakeinflammatorycomme9839]

Dude you're speaking to my childhood w this, definitely smoked me a few times

[@danieldeininger9732]

I was thinking the same thing. Damn thing has clipped me many times. He probably just never noticed it before cause it wasnt a concern.

[@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmerica]

I watch for it every time I play the mission it’s so often.

[@zachvanderpool9111]

The bungie creators who made halo must be so happy to see even after 20 years theres such a thriving community of people who r constantly finding new heights to their creation

[@TheVictorio]

The old gods 💔

[@zackhicks5320]

@@TheVictorio old gods? What do you mean? Didn’t they make that train wreck of a game called Destiny?😂

[@0Heeroyuy01]

except the halo community isnt thriving its actually borderline DEAD. the last tournament had so few participants and so few spectators both IRL and digitally it was a joke

[@0Heeroyuy01]

@@zackhicks5320 to be fair that wasnt all their fail that was publisher fault too

[@zackhicks5320]

@@0Heeroyuy01 so what about Destiny 2? All on the publisher as well? Or maybe you’re just wrong from the jump😂

[@Kn_nick]

If this man actually completes the og halo trilogy laso deathless in one session He should also get 20k like holy shit that's impressive

[@redx4013]

Only 20k? Why not 60k?

[@SuperMooshrooms]

117k

[@Al-xj2oo]

200k

[@beleakswordsteel]

I was clenching my entire damn body at the warthog jump thinking one of the panels was going to slap him down.

[@Pandnn216]

The panel flying from the last level just to cut his warthog down

[@Peron1-MC]

23:47 this dude is the most patient and chill dude ever almost 4 hours into it. dies from some BS. no rage.

[@nixonagnewreviews7206]

I rage quit 15 times during my 1hr 40 min battle with Harbinger in Infinite on fucking NORMAL mode. How the fuck this guy keeps his temper after all that is beyond me.

[@four-en-tee]

Honestly, i'm probably the same way. I play Yugioh, no game is ever going to be more frustrating and unfair than that. Literally played Halo 3 SWAT today, all my teammates left and I had to clench my ass cheeks and just peek corners for 10 minutes until timer ran out. I won by 4 kills, lol.

[@BooshBag1]

He must really love halo 3. To be able to play that without rage but mean you love the game enough to play it indefinitely, that’s some passion!

[@Peron1-MC]

@@BooshBag1 i mean the original triology is fantastic (CE gets a bit repetative but is fun with skulls). now days i usually play them on legendary with a bunch of skulls. both funny ones and hard ones. that said i would never attempt a no death run on any of the games. fuck that. same goes for speed runs in general. i can deal with difficult but having to replay the whole game again and again just to say youve done that. not for me Xd

[@BooshBag1]

@@Peron1-MC yeah I’m with you there lol

[@qb616]

People are thinking the panel death is much rarer than it is as most of the time cowbell skull isn't on

[@naverilllang]

I've been nailed by that panel a couple times without cowbell. It's definitely not that rare

[@Walter__Clements]

Good thing about Halo 3 LASO is that giving marines something like a Spartan laser and having them hop in a vehicle with you helps so much. I remember playing the Covenant and giving a marine one to have them on the back of a mongoose and obliterate things from a mile away.

[@Robbie_Haruna]

I remember I watched a pacifist speedrun and the guy used marines with fuel rod guns lol

[@theRok29]

@@Robbie_Haruna be an enabler, not a killer

[@no-barknoonan1335]

You can also do that in Halo 2, there's no spartan laser but give them SPNKR's or fuel rods and they shred. It's even more busted in Halo Infinite, give put 5 marines in the razorback with the unique skewer, and they are shooting down phantoms in seconds and taking down every enemy from a mile away. I used that strategy to get 100% in a LASO save Bonus fun fact: In Halo CE, the Marines with snipers (Johnson and Stacker) are hilariously OP, in the 2nd level of CE put stacker in your warthog and you'll see how hilariously OP those marines are, I still wonder what the Marines with SPNKR's would have been like, I miss how aggressive marine AI was in CE

[@Assassin5671000]

@@no-barknoonan1335 well the marines with snipers were exceptions considering how bad the ones were with the AR and their agresive trigger was when they got to low health. I recently played halo Ce on legendary and noticed compared to normal and heroic you get far less marines in some places . There are two marines with the sniper in the second mission and one of them was missing. After that on the snowy map usually when you get to the tank there is 5 marines on legendary it's just Johnson. Who gets shredded almost immediately since his close to a spawn of enemies. Or the third map on normal if you loose your marines in the ship when you reach the hangar you can get 5 more marines coming in . If you end up loosing them again you can disable the hangar door and get 5 more . On legendary you get none of that they all die in the first room and that's it , it's you and your sniper now

[@no-barknoonan1335]

@@Assassin5671000 Yup, and they're not the most common like you state, but they Sniper marines nonetheless are superbly competent. The shotgun marines also are not bad, the AR marines are very bad in CE, but those marines are generally bad in every Halo game.

[@reedemthed3ad985]

I can't wait for someone to beat the Legendary Master Chief Saga Playlist in MCC deathless.

[@fromthegrave69]

I appreciate the video a lot, but I think it’s a shame that streamer BarkBevestation was not mentioned. He not only spent a lot of time on this challenge but was one of the biggest developers of strats that ultimately made this challenge possible to complete. Much praise to Thesusx though. Incredible accomplishment.

[@d4rklord79]

Back when halo 3 came out I found a teleport spot on the covenant. It goes from the area before you enter the facility all the way to where the scarabs spawn. Although the way I did it was in multiplayer and to spawn a dead teammate above a barrier. But I’m sure it can be done without that.

[@patrickminsch3813]

Did the same as a kid. We had a party going on with the soccer team and we ended up just messing with it for hours trying to see how far we could get

[@inductivegrunt94]

It's impressive that people are creating even more challenges for Halo. As I casual player(who won't even do LASO normally) this doesn't interest me. But the dedication of the fanbase is what's important. This challenge here is why Halo will not die. It's the fans that keep it alive, and we will keep it going. Now let's see how Halo 4 LASO Deathless turns out.

[@notsafef0rlife]

I think halo 4 deathless lasos been done before, And if not there's already clear routes layed out for laso at the very least

[@iexplodonateri7378]

Halo Reach LASO Deathless is probably going to be the most brutal IMO.

[@inductivegrunt94]

@@iexplodonateri7378 Is this before or after taking into consideration Lone Wolf?

[@iexplodonateri7378]

@@inductivegrunt94 Lone Wolf doesn't count. That death is a freebie.

[@inductivegrunt94]

@I Explodonater I Fair, levels/sections of levels without Noble Team would be very painful. The Sabre sequence, Exodus, and many other parts/levels will be very painful.

[@GliZzBoy68]

Hey rocket, love your videos. It’s amazing how much you get into these videos while stile keeping them entertaining. Definitely my favourite halo KZbinr. Keep up the great videos.

[@Iluvlollipops]

I've done full game laso runs of 3 with

[@bendytheinkdemon3949]

roosterteeth's let's play crew actually completed halo 3 LASO (Minus the Deathless part) "A Object in motion stays in motion"

[@Figway55]

That damn panel has killed me a few times but huge congratz to thesusx for being the first! Beating Halo 2/3 deathless on just normal legendary is hard enough (I should know) lmao Great Video showing all the challenges he faced 😎

[@guitarbass22]

This video is awesome! Glad you could document the journey and share it with us! Talk about history being made!

[@AmeHart]

lovin the remixes in the background here ! excellent stuff. amazing chronicle of Thesusx's halo runs, too !!

[@enlightshadow4852]

We all know what the real challenge will end up being one day. Everyone knows about the FromSoft no damage challenge, where the player plays through ALL the FromSoft games from Demons Souls to Elden Ring without taking damage... Up next is all the Halo LASO challenges in a row without dying.

[@Assassin5671000]

The real challenge is playing through every game in history in one sitting without getting up to eat pancakes

[@brandonsnyder9950]

​@@Assassin5671000Nah, I did that, and it was easy. I'm just built different.

[@TranquillShot]

Best friend from Halo 3 days and I tried Laso on Halo 3 on MMC a few years ago. We spent 9~ hours on mission 1 and got about half way through. The way that grind developed was insane, actually. The servers crashed, though...

[@Lukec141]

I really enjoyed this video. I especially enjoyed the fake out where you made it seem like he wouldn't make it.

[@nickx3869]

Hell I just started MCC again after 5 year hiatus. I am going through all campaigns solo legendary and am on Halo 2 currently. LASO deathless would give me too much stress. Props to this for sure. Good luck on the trilogy deathless.

[@taewoosuh9323]

H3 Catch nade spams are beyond insane, in ODST they react even faster than jackal snipers. There have been way too many instances where I managed to land surprise headshots on grunts and they still managed to throw blind nades.

[@brandontaylor6189]

LOL fart_n_butt6 getting a little spotlight in all of this is pretty hilarious. Those who see him in chat will probably not get a good first impression 😆

[@mrexists5400]

15:15 my friend and I did this when we were trying to beat halo 3 on legendary the first time, one of us would stay in the chopper and the other would go out to spot for the guy on the chopper and pick off the people they could. and if the guy spotting dies we'd switch places 32:33 I was legitimately terrified he would die right there.

[@rockzyk1291]

One in a million? I feel like I've seen that door do that on multiple occasions.

[@J05TI]

1:10 I never thought I'd hear the words "playing LASO casually" :').

[@mr.dr.kaiser4912]

LASO is rough no matter which Halo title you're playing, but the idea that H3 LASO is harder than H2 LASO is laughable.

[@gibby8005]

The first ever Recon set I saw in Halo 3 was given to a player who sent in recordings of himself beating the campaign on "Mythic" difficulty, as LASO wasn't a term back then. So cool to see back in the day, and made it such a goal to get all achievements in Halo 3 and ODST for that set.

[@kanemane]

Just watching these good ol halo vids is very nostalgic

[@shadowwubs535]

Keep up the amazing work!! I love these videos and its amazing how far the halo community will go.

[@HedgehogY2K]

29:00 I honestly thought he knew better. I died to that once and learned my lesson about rushing things. This must be his first death that particular object. Better make that 2 in a million, and I was on easy or normal mode too.

[@theneoreformationist]

I think it's gotten me too.

[@kittenswithketchup]

I love how you talk about Heroes of the Storm being a Dragonforce song (it's actually "Fury of the Storm") while a keyboard version of Through the Fire and Flames is playing in the background 🤣🤣🤣

[@DreamDemonYT]

The Panel death on Cortana happened to me 2 years ago playing Legendary with a friend, I was ahead in the rush out, and it caught me completely by surprise.

[@calapsio]

This achievement was a constant "Were you killed?" Sadly yes *but I lived*

[@invisiblebob69420]

The first time I played Halo 3 on MCC I accidently played the LASO campaign and I was like "why tf can't I see the hud, and why am I dying so much?" Then I realized I was plating the LASO campaign and said wow I'm dumb

[@gamerguru2924]

Your halo laso videos are top tier my man ❤

[@Iluvlollipops]

Brute shot blade will almost always one hit tank forms, and taking Cortana slower might be safer. It honestly seems like he is rushing too fast and taking slightly too much risk. Sometimes bulldozing is the way. Speed can come later.

[@naverilllang]

The problem with cortana is that there are rooms where you just get shot at from 20 different angles, and you get lit up if you try to take your time. That may be well and good on legendary, with with no way to regenerate shields, you can't afford to do that. So instead you gotta just plow through faster than the AI can target you and pray it works

[@kanyondickinson5574]

Amazing coverage of the run 🏃‍♂️ thank you and bravo 👏

[@scottfleck2223]

I love the TTFAF jingle at the end of the vid. I’d recognize that melody anywhere!

[@cyriell]

I hope you guys keep us uptodate with his journey that would be amazing ^^

[@DarkCobra88]

Honestly, its so cool seeing the Halo franchise live on by MCC games, the newer games just don't feel like Halo, and i don't want to start the debated "Halo bad" or "Halo good" stuff, i just mean its moved forward, for better or worse. Regardless, seeing the OG 3 (and odst with reach) still have such a dedicated community make these challenges is so just fun to watch.

[@artzequer1143]

Funny how he completed it on seven attempts like the favorite number of bungie

[@OriginalCouber]

"Sloth harasses and bullies children, seen here first chat" 24:54 Don't know who that's referring to, but that was funny since this channel's name is Rocket Sloth.

[@VivianKurayami]

I may or may not know a bit about this subject...around 2008-2009 there was a group of people doing this sort of stuff and finishing all the levels, no deaths, on the Bungie forums - but no one was crazy enough to try and do the whole campaign start to finish this way. My money would be on any of them if they still do this stuff today. Doesn't help the difficulty of each campaign level differs (The Flood is the easiest but comes sandwich between The Storm, which is about in the middle, and The Ark which is a candidate for hardest (long level so plenty of things can go wrong). So uh... y'know, godspeed to the madlads trying to do it. Not sure if Tyrant's guide is still around or not but it can help since that was one of the things that came out of it.

[@leonidas231]

those final goals gave me anxiety

[@sickly809]

The panel flying at him at 28:58 happens to me every time I play through a laso, I think it has something to do with the cowbell skull. That ambient explosion is amplified and sends the panel flying almost every time, unless I'm really just that unlucky💀

[@ashtincbell]

Through the fire and flames was very fitting 🙌🔥

[@ReD_paX]

A Halo GodRun would be something else, the SoulsBorn God run is a work of art, but trying to imagine a Halo one slowly adding each game to the roster sounds like plenty of content to be made and plenty of fun to be had

[@Commander6727]

Well glad he beat it but imagine how heat breaking it would have been had MCC crashed on him right at the end

[@haloguylevi]

I hope to live long enough to see someone play every halo title b2b laso deathless

[@TheTiger896]

This is insane and makes me want to see a deathless glitches/skips run to make it harder

[@vakyak]

Man this video is great I love it!

[@matthewmccoy7437]

when my friend and i tried to beat halo 3 LASO, tough luck was 100% the hardest skull to get used to. grunts straight up light you up even when they’re the last one alive. our strategy was to kill the brutes first since they can basically one shot you, but if you’re not keeping track of the grunts you get punished almost immediately. 3 plasma rounds to the ass cheek and you’re dead.

[@Paradox-es3bl]

If I remember right, I actually beat most of the levels solo "LASO*" but the * is I took off the Blind skull. I HATE that one. Also, very much not without dying. And that is where I'll leave it. Never gonna attempt to fully LASO it, even with deaths allowed.

[@SAF-Chronicles-97]

we need javilien, to try to attempt this, since hes the true king of halo 2 laso, lets see if he can keep his ''King of the Hill'' crown, before other take his place

[@callmedoc6294]

I've done every LASO campaign except CE, and 2. Halo 3 LASO was by far the most chill LASO of the bunch, and provided a challenging but not overtly frustrating experience. I actually feel like with a bit of practice I could probably do it deathless without too much issue.

[@randomjap8431]

The amount of patience these lads have surprises me. Carter blocks one of my shots in Halo: Reach and you already got me yelling at the screen LOL

[@crow2596]

Imagine if he hijacked the AA wraith... now THAT would be awesome

[@jackstott8134]

my boy thesus, im so happy he got some exposure.

[@qb616]

Deathless LASO trilogy should be done in correct order, you can't do the missions in a gane out of order, keep the ganes in order too, makes the whole thing more special if the narrative follows alomg

[@CameronJGilliam]

Thesusx literally beat Halo 3 the way it’s meant to be beaten… Impossible for everyone else in the game, but Chief pretty much cannot die lol.

[@pHixiq]

The craziest part of all of this is the fact that I've been doing that wraith "frame perfect" trick since the game dropped and I had no idea that was something worth noting 🤣. I didn't even have internet back then lmao

[@Sharpshooter50]

It’s not “frame perfect” you just have to blast the hatch open without beatdowns/grenades and kill the brute in there with a headshot. Frame perfect has nothing to do with it

[@TheSaintMystic]

That Cortana panel isn't rare. It happens very consistently when I play it.

[@hopelesstroll2430]

Every time he died in these runs, I can say with confidence that they are what we in the community passionately refer too as "Bungied"

[@ando2821]

Atta boy thesus! Epic

[@GimmickBox39]

The flying panel part makes me feel like I'm playing dodgeball every time. It killed me either more than once or just once in one of my first playthroughs and I just never forgot it because of that. I'm surprised vets can say it's 1:1million when it nearly happened to this guy twice.

[@throwingbeef3524]

I can't believe, out of all the people, you have never noticed that! 🤣 I noticed that day 1! When the game launched. Because I died like 100 times trying to blow up that damn antiair gun!

[@moody7947]

It’s going to happen soon! Great video! EDIT: WAIT I commented with a minute left thinking he didn’t do it, but wow!

[@jimboramba]

At this rate by 2050 we will be seeing blindfolded laso deathless runs

[@dylant3714]

This is such a good channel

[@Killdust99]

28:55 that panel smacked me for the first time recently when I went back and played through 3 again. I was so fucjing upset

[@JWBLegend]

that panel on Cortana has killed me a bunch of times lol

[@Peron1-MC]

38:52 he was thinking of fury of the storm - dragonforce wich is also playing in the background XD but some weird almost christmassy version XD

[@N0TYALC]

what a journey. A great journey, even.

[@doyltruddy902]

that freak out at 30:00 lmao. I firmly believe that our reality is a projection of what our brain believes. I mean it just makes no fucking sense for him to keep dying in that same exact spot 2-3 times. He created that reality by becoming so fixated paranoid about the improbability of what was happening that it actually became reality.

[@legend0000FF]

No way that panel is rare, the amount of times it's killed me would have gained it a vehicular manslaughter lol

[@maxencegross5802]

Great stuff

[@Karpata1]

Halo God Run LASO Deathless when? (God Run = All Halo games Back to Back) EDIT: This was a joke before I watched the whole thing. The mad lad is actually planning to do it.

[@slavko7898]

this man is the happy hob of halo

[@pegasusbs6237]

Hopefully he does another challenge this year for destiny, maybe all campaigns legendary deathless

[@royalbluegaming7763]

15:49 +10 Points for style

[@soundlesspeal]

nah i've died to that panel flying at me on cortana like a billion times. it is very likely to hit you there

[@zygo0]

I can see why Halo 3 would be harder. While Halo 2 LASO was so obnoxiously difficult unless you could repeatedly melee people thanks to the physics changes it was also a pretty broken game with tons of exploits and skips that you could take advantage of. To my limited knowledge Halo 3 doesn’t have as nearly many tricks as 2 does which means you’re going to have to fight your way through a lot of the game, massively increasing your odds of getting killed by a box flying into your skull at Mach speed courtesy of four Grunts deciding they want to empty their stock of plasma grenades.

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

I just beat Halo 3 on Legendary while watching this video. Im planning on beating every game legendary (so far I've got Reach and 3 down) before moving on to trying LASO runs. Ill never be able to do a Deathless run, but I'm sure I'll be able to do LASO on at least one game.

[@steakcrust558]

Just a guess, but that mission where you save Cortana is why. That mission alone is extremely hard with all skulls on, beating it without dying is nigh impossible. Ive beaten it LASO, but never without dying.

[@VaRiiaLHD]

Havent seen any footage of this game for so long . I remember wasting HOUR looking for the scarab gun in halo 3 , idk if any one find it after all these year

[@alterablebark54]

Oh that's why ttfaf is in the background

[@kenyattsmalls8198]

The amount of glazing in this video is insane

[@Memphis_ritz]

Having beaten halo 3 on legendary, i can assure you that i have not been dropped on the head enough times to try and do a LASO run much less deathless. I’d have to be brain damaged to even try knowing how bad levels like Cortana are in regular ole legendary

[@riclate2013]

Having done the same I can confidently say people overstate the hardness of cortana on legendary. It's the easiest level to beat since the level is really generous with weapons and equipment.

[@vik8306]

I'm stuck on the arc on my regular LASO playthrough atm. Just got Halo 2 and Halo CE to finish after

[@joshuaswartz4602]

Luke at the end though 😂😂😂

[@lagio3195]

Grunt Birthday Party actually does affect the game because this is the only game in MCC where the head explosion does damage. I think it's weird that they removed the old effect from H2 on MCC...

[@thomas1848]

that flying panel was brutal.

[@bigscottypippen659]

for the ark there is an entire skip i used to do where you would scale the first tower jumping by from the shade turret onto the tower ledge to then get out of bounds and jump over and into the final level nearly skipping the entire level until the two scarabs wonder if it works anymore

[@legendarybrando348]

Halo ce laso is easily the hardest imo. There's more RNG then any other halo and it isn't just rng that might make it harder no its rng that makes it cause a restart. An example is truth and reconciliation the hardest level. When you get to the lift room you half to hope that the camo elite or the first wave spawns on the right side and after you get in the hall and wait for all of the waves to get done spawning you half to hope that it didn't spawn to many golden elites and hope that the grunt explosions kill them or you half to restart. If it's just one or maybe 2 elites left then you might get threw it but if there's more then your done. You also half to hope that while your sniping grunts/throwing grenades in that one of the golden elites doesn't enrage and chase you until you kill him.

[@jonusaguilar8156]

What about that lone rocket flood on two betrayals? I feel like that part is somewhat of a gamble on whether you live or instantly die.

[@legendarybrando348]

@@jonusaguilar8156 almost the entire game on laso is rng I was just giving an example and imo the hardest part/most rng part.

[@jonusaguilar8156]

@@legendarybrando348 yeah that’s true

[@WonderMePartyStrip]

You can skip that part with an out of bounce wraith skip.

[@legendarybrando348]

@@WonderMePartyStrip the skip is extremely inconsistent i watched the speedrun world record holder for the CE and even he had to restart from last checkpoint alot but on a deathless run you can't do that. It wouldn't be worth going for in a deathless run.

[@gnarleypunkroker5]

followed both you and thesus on twitch. its funny. i find these videos and deathless attempts fascinating, but i absolutely despise playing halo.

[@CraterRaiderZ28]

Now hold on, you were on to something with Heroes of the Storm. They have the song Heroes of Our Time yeah, but they also have Fury of The Storm which goes hard btw

[@saarlan6455]

I have yet to see anyone complete halo 2 laso glitchless. Now thats a challenge.

[@RyanGozz]

its possible who hasnt sat there for nights on end with the friends in the past and tried to actually achieve this