Lightfall’s World First Raid Completion Claimed by Shocking Underdog

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 known as Workforce Onerous within the Paint.

Raids are Future’s final endgame problem, which contain six gamers working collectively to determine sophisticated 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 world wide fought in opposition to an historic risk within the Root of Nightmares raid this weekend through the World First raid race. An enormous congratulations to Workforce Onerous 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 ceaselessly 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 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 bunch 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 workforce’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 workforce are the best buddies I might ask for, and that is for positive 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, Workforce Onerous 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 workforce’s spectacular velocity, or to bemoan or have fun the lack of competing groups.

Since Future 2: Lightfall’s debut final week, unfavorable reactions to the growth and many bugs have forged a shadow over the long-running looter shooter, a undeniable fact that’s mirrored in IGN’s personal evaluation in progress. Nevertheless, there seem to have been few technical points throughout right now’s raid race, a marked enchancment over final 12 months, which can be simply the morale increase the Future neighborhood wants.

Regardless of who you had been rooting for, this can be a gaming underdog story for the ages. And who does not love a very good underdog story?

Travis Northup is a author for IGN. You may observe him on Twitter @TieGuyTravis and browse his video games protection right here.