While Elden Ring Players prepared for Shadow of the Earth Tree to finally release a hardened BySoftware Stan has managed to stay one step ahead of everyone by completing the action RPG eight times without leveling up – or dying.
Streamers itzCBD has accomplished the seemingly impossible and is apparently the first Elden Ring player ever to beat the game on level 1 on every single New Game Plus difficulty without dying. That makes eight full playthroughs of an already challenging game, all made even more challenging by the lack of levels and the gradual increase in difficulty of each NG+ mode. CBD also starts as Wretch, Elden Ring’s own version of Dark Souls“Disadvantaged class, which disadvantages him even more.
I just became the first person to clear Elden Ring from NG to NG+7 without dying once… at LEVEL 1. Eight full runs in a row on the same character, starting as a Wretch class, never leveling up and never dying. We got this just in time for Shadow of the Erdtree. pic.twitter.com/Mx2FvjU5gh20 June 2024
When playing as a Wretch, CBD’s Tarnished is the lowest level possible, with no stats or strengths to speak of and no equipment to wear. It is the go-to class Elden Ring Speedrunner and fans choose it when they want a challenge, as it turns characters into completely blank slates with no buffs – as is the case with CBD’s own run. Still, the impressive streamer prevails after nearly 20 hours of blood, sweat, and tears – “just in time for Shadow of the Erdtree.”
As he faces the Elden Beast, seemingly the first to accomplish this incredibly difficult feat, CBD cheers and claps before simply declaring, “NG to NG+7 without dying, level one.” He finishes the challenge with a whopping 35,532,040 runes left over because he never spent any, making him a very rich Elden Lord. With Shadow of the Erdtree now out, CBD is sure to break even more records – in the meantime, I’ll just keep dying in the game as usual, over and over again.
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