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A well deserved completion. If you want to see Darksmoke finish off the final 2 characters for BL2 one life, you can see it live on his Twitch channel. www.twitch.tv/darksmoke11
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@joltzdude139 100% one life? No OP10 Raid Bosses? Though really... Vorac would kill many more runs...
Ah yes the Ultimate one life boss: "The Jumping Puzzle"
I lost like 200k money on that thing in my first playthrough
Looks like he got the jump on it
I would have hopped he could have skipped it, but guess he jumped straight to success.
Original Name The easiest way to avoid loosing $200K on that puzzle is to spend it on the Mysterious Amulet first 😅
trust me. that. The jumping puzzle. badassaurus rex. Hector are the biggest nightmares for BL 2 One life runs. I can say that from experience
As a Kreig main that has died numerous times at the peak i salute darksmoke. Its kinda crazy at how easy he made the peak look and the fact that he did it 23 times and finally got it is sooo satisfying.
Do you know what build he uses
@@jacko7013 i think its a explosive build. It mainly goes down the green tree for blood bath and bloodsplosion and some in the red tree for regen probably
tfw ur main is underpowered
@@teratoma. some would say but kreig is pretty complex but hes always a fun character to play
Does he desetve a meat cycle?
I really think it's refreshing to see people still push the boundaries with this game, this man is an absolute legend for doing this challenge with Krieg.
In literally one milisecond your going to have a million likes
Im quite confused why Light the fuse wasnt used
@@Vash_D._Jager yeah I’m confused too, could’ve avoided all that suffering by just using light the fuse 🤔
Love you dad
BRO U EVEN WATCH BL2 TOO??
After countless hours on the game, after an incredible run, after maxing out all weapons and strategies, after basically knowing everything there is to know about the game, after finishing all there is to finish... he still checks the loot on the ground...
And then he fell into a deep slumber, and didn’t wake up for the next 82 hours
Shows you have enjoyable the loot system is in bl2
It's why I play
I remember watching almost all of his streams, then the one I miss is where he beat the challenge
Same smh.
Lol
Missing one day of school be like;
out if curiosity whyd you miss?
What's with games having all these weird ass speedrun rules
For veteran players of the game, a lot of the information including UVHM mechanics, slag, and builds are already quite well known, but I really really appreciate that you took the time to go through all the things that really mattered in this run so anyone and everyone can fully enjoy it! Love your recent content Joltz!
Do you get paid to play or you just spend of crazy amount of time playing?
He’s growing
I'm only at max level overpowered level one on my 1st character rn and max level is 72 since it's on xbox360
As someone who’s gotten every character to max op and have played and loved bl2 since launch. I can definitely say this man is cracked out of his mind to do that.
I like this comment
Those leading/tracking lady fist headshots on the handsome dragon were insanely impressive
that's crazy lol, I think I played through the game twice, as axton and krieg and I found it hard to kill normal enemies nevermind these crazy high level overpowered ones.
@@primary2630 Tvhm is the most fun mode because you have enough skill points for synergies. Normal is a bit all over the place with skills and uvhm is really difficult.
Bruh, I can barely handle getting a character to level 80 so Darksmoke is basically a god
I can't even imagine pulling this off. I've always suspected the devs took advantage of the seamless respawn and second wind mechanic to make the enemies damn near unbalanced at times.
They for sure did, that’s why healthgate is a thing
@@glu9165 healthgate? hm thats something i got to learn i suspect.
@@lechking941 it’s nothing crazy, it’s just a mechanic that makes it so if you’re above 50% health and take lethal damage instead of going down you’ll be at 1 health and invincible for about 5 seconds to give you a chance to heal.
@@glu9165 hm well think fuck it exists because thats often a kriegs salvation when made to mania as i do not know HOW many times a team damage of his just sent my kit into overdrive XD like i just personally and in game lose it to the bloody mess. sometimes i wish the game had a pure gore system just so i can look back and see my mess so i know how crazy i have become :P
@@glu9165 It's not nearly that long, it's around 2-3 seconds, sometimes less depending on weird gearbugs things. 5 seconds would have been a cool way to help lower level players stay alive more in higher level lobbies, I guess.
Damn, i can't even imagine what kind of gaming chair darksmoke was using.
Wasn’t even sitting in a chair, just levitated in the air the whole run! 😂
he got gamer carpet, thats for sure.
@@cypherusuh no way he's too advanced he's got a gaming house
Drinking only gamer water
@@hunteraltman4762 *drinking only gamer girl bathwater 🍸
I love darksmoke glad he’s still grinding, this guy is insane
Darksmoke don't love you tho ya bot 🤣
@@synehgy2702 what
@@synehgy2702 shut up fortnite kid🤡
@@synehgy2702 now why did you feel the need to comment that
@@venom8771 cry more
He pulled off a miracle and is saying so very calmly “did I just do that?” If that were me I’d be screaming I’d be so happy 😂
After losing 23 kriegs to this. I wouldn’t be all that excited at first either 😂
Well not really a miracle considering how much this man has deconstructed this game to the point he knows every aspect of how to abuse it. Still insane though, of course but the video said his final run took him 80 hours. It took me longer to beat the game once, nevermind 3 times on the craziest difficulties, so it goes to show how insanely skilled and knowledgeable he is about the game.
After doing it over and over at some point you just get tired. Yea, he's drained.
I'd have to process actually pulling it off before I jumped for joy
It amazes me that after 10, 10 YEARS, this game is still being talked about and played, this game really was a masterpiece in just how much you could do and its community
Speaks to how insulting 3 was 🫠
@@groudongamer31783 was great lol, only flaw was the main story
"And after all that. . . He died. I'm just kidding." Got me, I was genuinely sad for a second there. 😆
Bro same lol 😆
My Eyes popped out of my Head. Got me good....
my heart sank joltz got me good 🤣
I love how he's just so chill about it... " did I do it?" LMAO!
That would probably be my reaction because I wouldn't believe the grind is over
He sounds bored like it didn't even matter. I would be jumping up and down like crazy. Think of all the hours sunk into these runs.
@@joshwhite557 well speedrunners are a different breed of human
@@platzu8061 Yeah I would have the sanity to do it
@@joshwhite557 Darksmoke must never show emotion
This is one of the greatest games ever made. It's an absolute masterpiece.
Borderlands 2 is Top 10 Video Games of all time for sure.
@@renemaier5197 it’s the only game I can unequivocally say is in my top3.
Completely agree. Handsome Jack is also the best baddie ever in a game, and just one of the best in general IMO.
Truly a perfect game all around. Fun and simple enough for all players, but op levels bringing in a challenge for more determined players
@FatalPies yes it is
i remember doing this with a friend in early 2016 but we called it the “no digistruct challenge” and we cheated very much by leaving but still one of the most fun moments i’ve had in borderlands
did this a while back with maya, made it to ultimate vault hunter mode, and early on I got swiped by a loader bot and it launched me off the map, needless to say I was severely depressed that day
@@solarft rip
I love that even though Joltz is primarily known for being a borderlands content creator he still explains the small things so everyone can understand what's going on
Must be why this video got over a million views
Certainly helps, especially if you didn't play the DLCs. All within 20 minutes
The way youtube works, only a small portion of the viewer count comes from your subscribers, so it makes sense.
Agree
This is insane.. Congrats to Darksmoke for completing this challenge, what a beast.
If you watch the VODs on his run, you can see how flawless the run actually was.
Krieg in the games : A psychopathic axe wielding murder Darksmoke's Krieg : Calculated, precise, trained to be an effective killing machine.
Borderlands 2 is timeless. I love seeing people still playing and enjoying this game. It's an all-time great. Darksmoke is a legend in the community. Congrats
That was intense, especially your trolls where he "died." Nice work Darksmoke!!
I had to
He's too skilled
@@Joltzdude139 are you gonna continue the Dahl alliegence Maya?
@@CRYSHW he will when he feels like streaming again
18:37 did joltz just actually call Uranus by his name and not “not Saturn” for once 😱😱
I think that was a greater challenge than 1 Life OP10 Krieg.
I think its to cater to new members he's trying to attract to the audience. This is meant to be an informative video so saying something like that could be confusing Edit: spell check
@@justjordan6560 yeah I think so too, but also he still called "badassasaurus" "badasaurus" at 17:30 lol. To be fair it's very similar and much easier to realise.
@@Thunda_Storm joltz doesn't swear. There's a difference between shortening a name a bit and completely changing it too.
he did. though Im not sure which character u-ran-us is. Ur-anus (as in the planet, you gutterbrains) like Saturn is a reference to... well... planets...
I love how you are so excited to give gim his props in this video. There's others, for sure, but you are one of the best people on the planet to really be able to understand what this achievement is, given all of the hours you have logged in the game, so your praises mean a lot.
Thank you so much for explaining all of this! You do a great job breaking it all down. So many others assume we know all the lingo and don't call out their weapons or builds
Really enjoying the new style of content Joltz!
Thanks! I'm happy with the way it is turning out
It’s good but I prefers the old style of play throughs.
@@unpopularopiniongaming2928 Yeah, same here. I need to see what happened to Dahl Maya.
@@shiruotakuno28 chill guys, just chill.. Joltz has stated that he was getting really burnt out by constant and only doing playthroughs, I mean he has played Borderlands non-stop almost a decade now so give him break.. I´m 100% sure the playthroughs return when Tiny Tina´s Wonderland comes out if it even takes that long which I doubt it will..
@@Joltzdude139 love you man❤
I’ve come back to watch this video for a third time. Always end back up here when I get the bug for BL2. You’re video is extremely well done, coming from someone who didn’t even know you can raise the difficulty it was all explained amazingly. Much love brother.
This game was a huge part of my childhood, it’s cool to see that people are still pushing the limits of it to this day. This makes me wanna go play through the whole series again
I was so invested in this story of triumph that when you said “and he died.” I, audibly….at work…exclaimed “Ahhh fuck, dude!!!!” 😂😂😂
This guy sounds amazing! Also, ngl, hearing that the same bosses that often give be trouble to beat are actually recognized as being hard makes me feel less bad about all the times I've died to them.
me too lmao
Nothing has defeated me more than Captain Flynt
@@casualdiscussionenjoyer3303Have you not gotten to the end game or fought raid bosses ?
@@mariosmatzoros3553 I'm surprised you like borderlands considering you don't understand jokes
@@casualdiscussionenjoyer3303 Captain Flynt isn't really a meme or a joke in the borderlands community...
this is incredible, i played this game to death back in the day - but nowhere near the level darksmoke was on. amazing to see this, thanks for putting this video together
nice video! these challenges were super fun to complete! glad to see people finally catching up and completing them now a days. I remember when I first completed them back in 2013 what a rush!
I love how joltz is saying how good he is every 5 seconds, and that’s probably an understatement too, what a monster, def gotta check out his streams!
Krieg is such a hard character to pull this off. You really have to play him and the game perfectly to achieve this. A applaude DarkSmoke, that is truly a feat.
It should absolutely be pointed out that Kai_TW was the first to do Krieg one life. In fact, Kai was the first to do one life on each character. He holds a million BL2 world records and made the one life challenge what it is today. Kai, imo, is the most legendary vault hunter there ever was. And he still streams! Everyone should check him out
Do they upload to youtube?
@@coffeecrispy2673 No but I think he still regularly streams, and all of his streams are saved as vods on twitch
I remember watching bahroo and ryoko beating one life together years ago and thinking that there wasn't a bigger challenge than this. And now that, solo and with with Krieg... Insane skill on display here
Brought me back to a strange time in my life. Bahroos the one who got me into Isaac
gotta say Joltz, this new content style suits you very well as it does for us too! and the shoutouts to these other awesome folks are great too so thank you! also what the heck Joltz!? you didn´t call it "not saturn" XD this is the first ever I have heard you call it uranus!!!
Wow thank you for doing a video on this run! I play Krieg in BL2 and while I'm not even close to darksmoke's level I really like that you went through all his gear and what skill trees he went down. Makes me want to pick up my controller again 😁
Expert commentary on an expert play through! This was so great to watch! Thanks for your time
this video is great, even me, having watched Joltz for over a year now, still learned a few things. Having to do the whole game over AGAIN on OP10 is just sheer dedication, props to darksmoke
Love these videos. They remind me of when I used to write essays and I’d use filler words to make it sound better and longer. Bringing up random facts or “how too”’s in the middle of a pretty cool topic though is very enjoyable.
I rewatch this once a month. Very comforting video.
The format and pacing of this video was great! Id love to see more videos like this!
Love smoke! Had no idea nobody had done this before, only makes what he did even more impressive!
Loving the fleshed out videos, reminds me back to when BL2 came out on ps plus a couple years ago and when I found your channel, I instantly became addicted to both the channel and the game! Ahh good times, keep up the good work and I mean that🙏🏼🙏🏼
I love this video. This was my first Joltz video, and I love when it graces me with its reappearance in my recommended.
watching 10 million health constantly dropping into less than 5% is insane, the numbers and scaling and difficulty of Borderlands 2 is something that turned me away after only a couple years and this video brings back memories of me struggling to get through UVHM
Try playing with mods, some big mods have a great game rebalance, so you can actually enjoy even UVHM and OP's
I can't even get through the game on regular difficulty without dying once, granted I don't play the game enough to know it like the back of my hand so it's pretty sweet getting to hear and see this kind of stuff coming from much better players.
Ah much nostalgia. I remember bahroo made it pretty far with krieg. Remember my first time watching your Maya one life. Although I've still never played fight for sanctuary, so that part is a mystery to me.
Oh my god someone actually remembers bahroo except me - I was disappointed when he dropped off the face of the earth for a long time 😞
@@yesman1231 yea man for sure. I don't watch twitch so I didn't see most of his content but I definitely watched the borderlands stuff that was here on KZhead. I actually went through my subscriptions the other day and cleaned out the dead channels and stuff I wasn't interested in any more, I noticed his channel that I was subscribed to had everything taken off of it. Did he quit twitch for a long time as well? Another guy that made good bl2 content that quit was man of low moral fiber. I know he was a bit of a prick and all that and I definitely would not like him in real life but his content was quality haha. I really miss those days tbh. Ever since bl3 the whole community just doesn't feel the same, it's like something is missing. Maybe that's just me though, my way of living is a lot different than it was then. I'm not addicted to borderlands now haha. I used to play 10 hours a day at least, every single day. Can't do that now.
@@JaredTG. nah he's really active on twitch and does incredibly well tbh, for him being a content creator moving away from bl3 was the best thing he could do
@@king_sheogorath9082 cool, glad he's doing well.
this is mindblowing. All “previous kriegs”. All the other characters. This run. This is like tens of thousands of hours.
Krieg has always been an awesome character. Solo-ing Pyro Pete the invincible with my health always running down and transforming into a super mutant was one of the most fun times I had fighting a raid boss.
I've been obsessed with this game for years. Got the vr and thirty games in between. I cant stop playing it. Nothing left for me to do, other than every invincible and peak in one run.
How’s borderlands 3 in comparison
@@somefishhere I can't get into it. I can't level grind anymore characters. I did it with two so many times. So I don't know.
@@somefishhere I'm not a crazy Borderlands 2 fanatic (it's a great game, but I could never do these insane challenges) but I would say that 3 is much better. The story was unfortunately lacking, but the gameplay was far and away better than 2
@eric kanter as I said in my comment, the story was lacking
I'm a huge bl2 fan and it makes me happy to see progress still to be made here. darksmoke is a god, so are you joltz. take it easy brother
I remember watching 1 Life runs YEARS ago, glad to see the game still lives on.
I'm baffled it's a thing I played through just 2 games (absolutely loved it, though i was mostly invested into the story rather than RPG elements, as i'm a pleb), 1 and 2 a handful of times, mostly on TVHM, but to go through THE *ENTIRETY* of the game, since start, is just mind boggling. I mean, THE ENTIRETY OF THE GAME, just how much time did it took? I haven't put that much time into all the games! I can only salute, for i am with him in this adventure of loot and glory! upd: You know a video is great when you go out of fullscreen numerous times to find the like button already clicked! Great video man, it's really big news and awesome montage of an awesome footage!
I appreciate these videos. The bl2 speed runs opened my eyes. Bl3 just has a drab feeling, but love the franchise
I watched their entire one life Axton run a while back, it was absolutely magical!
Thank you Joltz for this awesome content! Love the New-U :)
Great video! i love the summoning salt vibe!
The guy is a Legend, he deserved this completion.
Guys don't forget how much effort he put into this he had to watch all the livestreams and then summarize all the strats and the interesting moments Thx Joltz
I love these kinds of vids Joltz
Thank you Joltz, wouldnt have known about this if it werent for you. I have some good BL2 memories
joltz, i'm loving these new "community reporting" style of videos! a great reminder that there's still new things being mastered in this series... nice
I just started watching his latest episode on KZhead! Congrats to him!
You should do more videos like this! Was super fun to watch!
What a great video, thank you Joltz ❤
This showed me how little I knew about Borderlands 2. Thanks Joltz for bringing us this!
i had no fking idead the game was that big! i remember playing it for maybe 50 hours or so, beating "story" with a couple of characters and thinking i beat the game lol!
@@rusduderus You can have over 2.000 hours on bl2 and still have not done the raid bosses, farmed all the legendaries, pearls, seraphs,uniques you need, reach overpowered level 10, completed all the side quests ect.
@@mariosmatzoros3553 cool, does borderland 3 has all that infinite farm grind as well?
Wow. Just getting to op10 on krieg is an accomplishment, without dying is insanity I never would’ve thought it could be done
That was insane congratulations darksmoke and great storytelling joltzdude139
What a savage. Well done, Darksmoke!
Dude I love these Summoning Salt-esque reviews, these are so sick! Any chance we see an all quests co-op run review in the future?? It'd be really cool to hear your insight on the run!
Honestly, there is a lot of underrepresented speedrun content from bl2 on youtube. The journey that took solo all quests under 5 hrs and where it stands today, the 3 hr barrier for coop all quests, the hour and a half of time save recently to the 1-op8 category. Would be cool to see some of the stories behind these situations finally get some spotlight here on YT.
this experience of returning to kill a boss that killed off a previous Krieg is giving me heavy deathloop vibes
YOU KILLED ME ONCE BUT IM BACK BABY.
I have no idea who you are and just saw the video and thought I’ll watch a few minutes. You might be the best commentator I’ve ever heard. The way you explain everything is amazing. I watched all 20 minutes and loved it. New sub ❤️
He has amazing play throughs I'd watch them, they are pretty fun and just an enjoyable watch
Really like this video format. Gives me some “summoning salt “ vibes. Which is always good 👍
the amount of dedication that would go into 23 one life run attempts on krieg is actually insane
And now he’s completed the 1 Life challenge for all characters!
hey I been watching for some time I would have my snacks & drink & watch playthroughs & you speed run the game & wanted to take the time out to say keep up the good work your amazing
crazy just how much content borderlands has to offer and the insane skill ceiling
That’s insane, he’s so talented for his amazing skills and amazing runs and playthroughs, he’s awesome and did an amazing job.
This just shows again how much content there is in Borderlands 2. Great game!
Great video dude!
I remember playing this game alot back on the 360, i have great memories of it. its strangely nostalgic to see that the old Conference Call/Bee combo is still as OP as ever, lol.
After running through this game with every character and maxing out each of them, I'm amazing I can still be surprised with this game
I was in Bahroo's twitch chat the day 1Life2Live was "started" and I was in his twitch chat the first time he succeeded with Salvador and said Krieg was most likely impossible. Just discovered this video after picking up BL2 again and this is a bittersweet moment.
Congrats darksmoke! Super cool!
This is still one of the best video's by joltz, It was the one who introduced me to his channel and I have been adicted ever since lol
I dont know why, but the moment I heard your voice I broke into tears, Its been so long since I've watched a video of yours.
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@@some1behindthescreen535🤣🤣
He's so freaking calm about it too. There isn't any dream level reactions, just calm and collected logical affirmation. A blessing for my ears compared to "LETS FUCKING GOOOOO"
Absolutely Brutal! Nice Job!
Dude this took 4months to complete. Like he did this for 4months straight. I remember talking to him every night after each stream, he was wondering if he should just speedrun for a bit or try a different character. The character he beat the challenge with was the one he kept having those thoughts with. He is a stubborn man, and may be a masochist for doing this, but thank god he got through it.
Speaking of the legendary reaper I found a duplication glitch accidentally because I accidentally sold it and had to buy it back but when I bought it back it ended up being 2 legendary reaper class mods Wasn't able to replicate glitch since I have no idea how it happened
this very well could be the most impressive thing in terms of gaming ive ever seen, i am a long time borderlands fan and i know just how hard it can be, let alone 1 life!. Hats off to DarkSmoke man deserves a world of recognition!!
Only thing that rivals is beating the entire trilogy of darksouls in one life
@@natetb2 dark souls is not only easier but ''fairer'' then this for BL2 because UVHM specially after the lilith DLC is a broken poorly design mess of constant artificial dificulty.
Yeah I would take dark souls any day compared to UVHM difficulty plus borderlands has a lot of cheap deaths as well.
@@unkindled6410 soulsborne no hit completion will atleast always be harder than this, no competition.
@natetb2 Kingdom Hearts 1+2 Final Mix Critical Mode level 1 all content no death is definitely more challenging than this and anything the soul series could muster….However this is incredibly impressive nonetheless.
When you joked and said he died on the Hammerlock DLC my heart sunk!!!! Dude you bout got me to shed a tear my dude!!! And ima BL2 Veteran! I’ve been there done a lot of things Ik how hard it is on OP10. Been playing since it first came out. I had hundreds of hours in it. But you man you’ve got all of us topped!
Yeah I heard about this! Major props to him for being able to pull through
6:49 , just to complement, the Grog Nozzle is a Mission Item, that means it'll be random everytime you load up your character, and if you complete the mission, it'll dissapear, and there's no other way to get a new Grog Nozzle.
MAN, borderlands 2 is so much better than 3. there is so much more to it and its so much more challenging with way more interesting loot
The way he does his gameplay is so smooth and it helped me get a little more speed when I play
As someone who has never played a single minute of borderlands (don't worry im planning on playing eventually), I felt like I understood everything being said in this video, well done!
Bit upset that there no mention of Kai_TW in this video. He completed 1life with Krieg back when the level cap was 72 OP8, and he's done insane challenges on top of 1 life such as non-unique items 1 life Zer0 which he got to OP10, or non-unique items, no read-only farming Krieg which got to OP7.
Yeah, I thought of him as soon as video started, shame Joltz didn't mention him at all :(
Kai, Blackwayv, FistMaster, and others are definitely legends at completing one life.
Kai is the goat. not to take anything away from Dark here