i got this back on my xbox when it first came out and oh man how different some of the strats are now. over 2 dozen attempts it took but it got me into the sick twisted addiction of perma-death trophy hunting. congrats though, your blood pressure will never recover but an amazing feat it is to say you beat this trophy
Mein Leben is already pretty difficult, but then adding the challenge of playing in a different language (maybe you know German?) and not getting the pivotal overcharge health upgrade that allows you to keep 200 health into encounters is pretty crazy. Nice job on the clear.
I personally don’t have an issue with this because the only reason I would even think of doing this is if I was going for the plat. However, it is still really funny to me
@@ILoveHoneyBunss It's just the human brain. Bronze is often associated, rightfully so, with mild difficulty if not down right easy. This was a giant middle finger to everyone lol.
The hype I feel is immense and I am so pumped! Cannot wait to watch this one live~ got to see parts of it on stream and am hyped to see the final product!
14:40 I sympathize with that frustration through my screen, coming from someone who only played the game on the first hard difficulty. As much as i never vibed with the gameplay of this game, I salute you for beating this on mein leben.
Have completed this on two consoles and on PC. First getting it was like butter on a hot pan, so fucking good. Now I just do aggressive playthroughs on Mein Leben. No silencers; always assault rifles with full attachments before the mid game starts.
I am glad i am not the only who found mein leiben easier than expected, sure i had some bad deaths like falling of the map where you have to shoot the fan in the final level But in all honestly i think the reason people the diffuculty so hard is because people me included tend to panic fully when a strategy goes wrong but when i realized you can just go camp in corner in most places the game became way easier And yes the courthouse is one of the easist levels period for me , i never died to it the only level that i think is actually BS is venus cause if a stategy goes wrong at the later half of the level (Mainly the stupid Belt section you can kiss the run goodbye) this was an amazing video to watch even after beating mein leiben its always fun watching peoples journey in beating mein leiben its one has different low and high points but all end in that satysfying final kill of the game with the hachet
Hell yeh! I'm glad you feel the same way, I honestly would run Mein Leben again because the journey to the very end is so incredibly satisfying! Congratulations on your completion of Mein Leben as well!
@@thegreyscott I been back to running mein leiben myself first run made it all the way past the courthouse then got lit up in the back its amazing how well you can improvise without dying and yeah wish you luck too if you re run mein leiben its such a fun run to replay besides the unskibable cutscenes off course
Dude that was an awesome video! Currently going through this myself, only able to play for a few hours a day with work but tonight I made it to Courthouse for the first time, my best yet previous milestone was New York so it's looking hopeful after a week of practice.
@@thegreyscott Oh thanks! Not sure what game I will play next but probably won't touch anything perma-death for a while. Maybe the Dead Space Remake at some point but yeah. It's awesome but glad it's over lol.
I remember this. Its why i herald wolfenstien 2 as one of my most hated games. The 20 minute opening you cant skip, dying late into it. That one time i decides to go for a piss during the hitler cutscene forgetting if you stand around too long after they kill you. That made me very angry
Seeing you struggle with all the controller skill issues and finding out it's only a 3 hour run even if you go slow without skips has inspired me to try it for myself. I'm already at the reactor in Roswell after 4 attempts.
@@thegreyscott Oh hey while you're here can you clarify which desk is the one you hide under in courthouse? I'm pretty confident it's to the left of the judge table but I don't want to risk the run on that.
@@Barlakopofai It's to the left, the first row. You'll see a huge chaingun on the ground over there. Ideally, you wanna be under the desk closest to the wall.
The getting stuck reminds me of Dying Light 2. The parkour in that game is insanely janky, and I get stuck a lot. Never played the first one (even though I have it) so I don't know if it's the same.
Yeh he's a bit temperamental, since him and a drone are usually the last ones alive, I usually just peak slightly out of the trash can and unload on him with the rifles. I do take damage most times but he SHOULD go down. If he's stomping you while you're sitting in the trash can BEFORE you peak then you're sitting the trash can incorrectly.
@@thegreyscott oooooh gotcha, ok I'll try that. Oh and for courthouse, after sitting under the table with the shotgun I was unsure when to leave the main room until those big guys showed up again and I killed two but after killing a dog I instantly died to another big guy.
Mein Leben is easily the hardest trophy I've ever earned when considering skill, momentum, pacience and luck. I didn't use any skips or clipping through walls when I obtained it so maybe to me I would say is a 10/10 difficulty. But even for you that used a bunch of "tricks" the trophy proved to be a tough challenge so I digress with your rating.
Well yeh absolutely, it's still hard 100%. My point with the video is to encourage more people to try it because it's fun and nowhere near as impossible as everyone claims it to be.
@thegreyscott Yes this trophy is indeed very doable and fun. I earned other perma death trophies before and this one was the one I struggled the most because u r being attacked to whole time, as oppose to Alien Isolation, TLOU II and Outlast II that are very stealthy games, so u can bypass danger situations easily.
Cant wait to actually start attempting this and Figure out how UNALIVING and CANCELLING this mainlaben trophy is going to be the moment it flashes why this trophy is so hard and push through either way
Very nice & incredible good feelings I had same experience and i am very near to do it Final musics of your video was very nice and match to the video Good luck bro 🌹🙏
i started on ps4 and made the switch to ps5 and thats what got me the edge over it, that being paralogical or luck i still havent made me mind up yet haha good one though !
An achievement/gamemode that makes you camp, exploit the game's mechanics to the fullest, and it _still_ is unfair as fuck? Pushing players to play the game in a way that isn't enjoyable is probably not the best idea any dev has ever had. I've played New Order on hardest and it at least seems fair and you can even go in guns blazing if you're good enough. Never tried it on iron man, though.
its soo frustrating to watch because every single time you get shot you are just running out while doing the reload animation when you could wait 2 seconds! then halfway through the video you finally said i think i know the problem, im rushing.. soo glad the penny dropped as i was about to click off this channel man 😂 just didnt understand why you was running straight into deaths it was difficult to watch someone throwing their run away over and over 😂🤦🏻
Well put together video. What I love about it, is your approach. The title is good! You had me in the first part, ngl. But I agree, if you put in the hours of work, Mein Leben becomes manageable. I beat Mein Leben in August after 50 tries (two months of intense practice). I agree, there are many strategies, that make it easy to beat it, but it still requires patience and a little bit of luck, since RNG is the player’s biggest enemy. I even learned some things about the game, that surprised me (that skip in Manhattan, for example). But you were way to wreckless for my taste. I also related with that one fall during the Bunker skip (I have two deaths in that area, but zero «stuck in an object» deaths.) Now, I gotta figure out, how to install the German version of Wolfenstein 2 and do it all over again. Fantastic game. You earned a sub from me!
Thank you very much! Congratulations on also completing Mein Leben as well! You can either create a German psn and then get Euros for PSN (you can get that from Play Asia's website) to buy it or find a physical German version of Wolf 2 somewhere on the internet haha. If you end up completing it again, I'd love to hear your experience doing it a second time around!
i finished new order on highest difficulty, but never got to next games, and i was looking for the hard fights here there doesn't seem to be fight like last one from new order that's kinda bullshit mechanics nor big robot one, at most courthouse and all look like new orders helicopter hangar or that underground railroad part, but tbh, enemies don't seem to be so much of a bullet sponges here but i bet it would take many attempts from anyone even with cheese
Absolutely, no bosses here really, just a lot of heavy execution in certain spots of the game. Many attempts were had, but we got it in the end! Congrats on your completion of New Order though!
@@thegreyscott thanks! at some point i just started going for highest, to get some retries, because doing everything on single attempt was getting boring and semi movie like, so i totally get why somebody would go for those kind of difficulties, even if it's frustrating it can give some kind of acomplishment at the end. well, good job on those runs!
I bought the German version because you can platinum it again on the same account since the German version is a separate list from the world wide list.
if there’s any recommendation i can give for your next platinum it’s definitely be resident evil 2, it’s an overall pretty challenging platinum (in my own opinion) and i love that fucking game.
Absolutely, that's why me and chat made it into a bit every time. Unfortunately all of those had to get cut from the video because of the use of copyrighted music lol
The only reason this achievement is terrible is unskippable cutscenes. I did death incarnate with very few issues, but having to watch 20 minutes of cutscenes every try really pissed me off.
@@thegreyscott made me put it on pause after like 5-6 tries. Especially if you die hours in and you have to restart and stew in anger waiting for cutscenes to end. Neither is there a mod that allows you to skip them.
I do agree with you that Mein Leben is not hard as people see it. The only real difficulty of that mode is that any mistake can be fatal and send you to the beginning of the game. Well maybe another difficulty is having to watch unskippable cutscenes for 15 min every time you start a new run. I honestly do not understand why developers did not think about that problem or did not add the option to skip those in a patch. Mein Leben is the ultimate test of your skills and knowledge of the game and if you DO have those and know what you are doing, this mode does not present any substintial challenge. However, people simply jump straight into that difficulty without any preparation, die several times on the first few levels and then go to the internet complaining how the difficulty is insanely hard and you cannot even quit the game because there are no saves. I personally started with doing Mein Leben for the DLCs first to have more experience and get the idea of what that difficulty is about before getting to the main challenge. I finished first and second DLCs on the 2nd attempts, and the third on 5th. It could actually be first or second but I got too confident with myself and did not really train for the last DLC which was a big mistake. I also played through all the levels of each DLC, not just the final ones, and did start over from the first level if I died. I am all for using glitches and skips to make the process more fun but that kind of skip was so ridiculously easily that I felt I was actually skipping the entire challenge. As for the main game, I spent about a week training on Death Incarnate and played 3-4 hours every day. I found the reliable strats and learnt to perfom them consistently enough until I could get through the entire game on Death Incarnate. I did not actually played through the entire game several times not to waste time on cutscene and just loaded save files of the most difficult levels. Then I started trying to do Mein Liben. I got my winning run on the 5th attempt: on the 1st one I tried to yolo the last Manhattan harbor section and died (I actually did not know about that jump that lets you skip the trigger that spawns enemies), on the 2nd one I fell into the pit under the moving platform in Roswell, on the 3rd one I got stuck in textures and a grenade killed me, the 4th run I killed myself during Roswell because i was tired and dissatisfied with my performance. All my deaths were pretty stupid and I never actually died because of using a strategy or failing stealth. From what I saw in your video, you made 2 significant mistakes. 1) You were using submachine guns for stealts instead of pistols. Even though they are automatic their damage output is pretty low even with all the upgrades and the bullet spread is high. Their efficiency is very inconsisten and that is something you cannot afford on a run like this. A clean headshot with pistols is a much more reliable method which does not require any super skills. Even if you somehow miss the head you can always spam the trigger and quickly kill an enemy with 3-4 shots in the torso before they start the alarm. 2) You did not have backup strats in case you failed stealth. Almost each section has a more or less reliable combat strat for that case. Of course it still largely depends on how the enemies will approach you and how many grenades you get in your face but having those strats and an ability to save the run is much better than frantically running around the level trying to come up with a solution on the go. It is also very helpful because one thing I noticed about the Mein Leben is that for some reason enemy AI acts a bit differently even though this difficulty must be identical to Death Incarnate. Nonetheless, in my runs I noticed enemy behaviours that I never encountered during my practice. Like a soldier standing firmly on one spot instead of doing patrol, or enemies forever sitting in covers instead of running directly at you. I am not sure whether there is really a difference in AI or I just got lucky with bugs but having a back-up strat for a run like this is a must. Another thing I noticed is that your strats for Mesquite and final battle are pretty yolo. Sure, you managed to peform them but I personally would not risk losing the entire run (especially at the final section) due to the bad luck and would rather keep to safer and more consistent strategies. You also could use the same Ausmerzer skip on the final level as it helps to skip the enemy spawning trigger. All in all, I think if you used pistols, had back-up strats and did put more time into practice and training you could have significantly decreased the number of failed runs. Still, congratulations with that achievement. And, yeah, I still DO think people are overreacting about Mein Leben - if you know what you are doing, what to expect, and can finish the entire game on Death Incarnate without dying Mein Leben is hardly a challenge.
just a question i wanna do this but when you start a mein leben run do you need to upgrade all the weapons again? or can you just do it with the same save file?
Absolutely, that's why I tried to play meme music every time Frau Engel cut off a characters head to make it at least entertaining. Unfortunately all of those clips had to be cut from the video lol
I remember doing this stupid trophy and I did it and in my opinion everyone can get this platinum ( I died 3 times at last level btw I was heartbroken lol )
in the beginning he said "if a bald idiot can do it " we can too, he forgot to mention that the bald idiot can control 4 elements, enter the avatar state , FLY , Defeated a raging overlord, saved the 4 nations , Brought PEACE to the land all at the age of 12 .... suree scott sureee, i think ill just sit here and watch you accomplish these trophies for me thank you very much
@@thegreyscott7 months later I decided to retry this and today got to the very end of Venus and its honestly not extremely hard but the length of the run is what makes it significantly more frustrating to die late in the run
@@ragey2214 You're practically right there, you WILL get this I know it for a damn fact, don't give up! And I agree, the one session part is probably the most frustrating thing about it.
Mein Leben will take years off your entire lineage. But a shorter life is nothing more than a motivation to flex the achievement
Exactly, I may lose years off my life BUT I do get this nice JPEG to flex on everyone!
i got this back on my xbox when it first came out and oh man how different some of the strats are now. over 2 dozen attempts it took but it got me into the sick twisted addiction of perma-death trophy hunting.
congrats though, your blood pressure will never recover but an amazing feat it is to say you beat this trophy
Major congratulations to you! There weren't nearly as many resources back then as there are now!
HAHAHA!
Oh, the memories.
Great vid Scott! I thoroughly enjoyed reliving your journey & all the highs & lows. xD
Thank you very much, Scream! Glad to have had you along with me on the journey!
Mein Leben is already pretty difficult, but then adding the challenge of playing in a different language (maybe you know German?) and not getting the pivotal overcharge health upgrade that allows you to keep 200 health into encounters is pretty crazy. Nice job on the clear.
You Hotline Miami’d that one section of New Orleans 😂
I love seeing others do it, it’s one of my rarest and most proud plats!
Let's goooooo! Glad to see another Mein Leben achiever!
One of the few times where it helps to be German. Since you understand what the game is telling you haha. Great job man🤝🏻😎
Thank you very much! Yeh that audition scene was made MUCH more difficult lol
I DID IT!!!
LETS GOOOOOOOO CONGRATULATIONS!!
Yes it is.
Why did you remove the Nazi symbols?
It's the German version, it's a part of that version since (at the time) Nazi symbolism could not be shown in media distributed in Germany.
I did it first try without even realizing it was a trophy 🤥 skill issue
cool video, very bald of you
Thank you, very slay of you
The fact that beating the game on Mein Leben difficulty is only a BRONZE trophy is insane
I personally don’t have an issue with this because the only reason I would even think of doing this is if I was going for the plat. However, it is still really funny to me
I know they gave the middle finger to the players lol.
Why do people care so much about what color the trophy is. A trophy is a trophy
@@ILoveHoneyBunss
It's just the human brain. Bronze is often associated, rightfully so, with mild difficulty if not down right easy. This was a giant middle finger to everyone lol.
@@ILoveHoneyBunss that is true but it being a bronze trophy feels like it’s too much effort for not enough reward
I’ll beat it so bad that you’ll have to get 2 Xboxes
YOU'RE ON
We are still waiting, Snam.
*10 Months later. I am waiting.*
This video inspired me to attempt the mein leben trophy and after about 12 attempts I finally got it! Well done to you amigo! Much love!
Hey and well done to you! 12 attempts is something to be proud of! Congratulations!
The hype I feel is immense and I am so pumped! Cannot wait to watch this one live~ got to see parts of it on stream and am hyped to see the final product!
Hell yeh dude!
14:40 I sympathize with that frustration through my screen, coming from someone who only played the game on the first hard difficulty. As much as i never vibed with the gameplay of this game, I salute you for beating this on mein leben.
Thank you very much, Persona! The frustration and the struggle made the victory all the more sweeter. It was all worth it in the end :)
Have completed this on two consoles and on PC. First getting it was like butter on a hot pan, so fucking good. Now I just do aggressive playthroughs on Mein Leben. No silencers; always assault rifles with full attachments before the mid game starts.
Hell yeh, let's gooooo!
I am glad i am not the only who found mein leiben easier than expected, sure i had some bad deaths like falling of the map where you have to shoot the fan in the final level
But in all honestly i think the reason people the diffuculty so hard is because people me included tend to panic fully when a strategy goes wrong but when i realized you can just go camp in corner in most places the game became way easier
And yes the courthouse is one of the easist levels period for me , i never died to it the only level that i think is actually BS is venus cause if a stategy goes wrong at the later half of the level (Mainly the stupid Belt section you can kiss the run goodbye) this was an amazing video to watch even after beating mein leiben its always fun watching peoples journey in beating mein leiben its one has different low and high points but all end in that satysfying final kill of the game with the hachet
Hell yeh! I'm glad you feel the same way, I honestly would run Mein Leben again because the journey to the very end is so incredibly satisfying! Congratulations on your completion of Mein Leben as well!
@@thegreyscott I been back to running mein leiben myself first run made it all the way past the courthouse then got lit up in the back its amazing how well you can improvise without dying and yeah wish you luck too if you re run mein leiben its such a fun run to replay besides the unskibable cutscenes off course
"noo im so bad, if i could, you sure can" proceeds to attempt mein leiben around 20 times without giving up like a fng chad
Dude that was an awesome video! Currently going through this myself, only able to play for a few hours a day with work but tonight I made it to Courthouse for the first time, my best yet previous milestone was New York so it's looking hopeful after a week of practice.
AAyeee let's goooo! You're gonna have it in the bag soon enough, I just know it! Also thank you!
@@thegreyscott Appreciate that.
After a month and 25 days of practice, just finished Wolfenstein on Mein Leben.
@@MrDueltube Let's GOOOOOOOOOO!!! Happy to hear you pulled through it!
@@thegreyscott Oh thanks! Not sure what game I will play next but probably won't touch anything perma-death for a while. Maybe the Dead Space Remake at some point but yeah. It's awesome but glad it's over lol.
I hereby give the hilarious schadenfreude award to the evil genius who came up with Mein Leben.
Schadenfreude, a new word to add to my arsenal. Also yeh, this game is endless content for those who are willing to brave Mein Leben lol
Hell yeah. Although i thought you were gonna do first wolfenstein old blood, new order and then this one
I thought about it, but they aren't that bad as far as difficulty is concerned (imo at least)
No, what drags it down and makes it tedious is all the unskippable cutscenes including a seven minute one right at the start of every reset.
Man, that video was awesome. Great editing skills! Also, GG on Mein Leben :)
Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
I remember this. Its why i herald wolfenstien 2 as one of my most hated games. The 20 minute opening you cant skip, dying late into it. That one time i decides to go for a piss during the hitler cutscene forgetting if you stand around too long after they kill you. That made me very angry
Oh no that sucks! I am so sorry!
it’s not the difficulty, it’s the cut scene at the start of the game that’s the most annoying thing about it.
Seeing you struggle with all the controller skill issues and finding out it's only a 3 hour run even if you go slow without skips has inspired me to try it for myself. I'm already at the reactor in Roswell after 4 attempts.
I meannnn, let's gooooooo LMAOOO
@@thegreyscott Oh hey while you're here can you clarify which desk is the one you hide under in courthouse? I'm pretty confident it's to the left of the judge table but I don't want to risk the run on that.
@@Barlakopofai It's to the left, the first row. You'll see a huge chaingun on the ground over there. Ideally, you wanna be under the desk closest to the wall.
@@thegreyscott Dorime 🙏
@@thegreyscottYou're right, that was the easiest level so far.
Lmaoo I love this thumbnail
Thank you LMAOO I forgot I had a prop skeleton for Halloween so I thought it'd be a good reference to the Mein Leben difficulty image
@@thegreyscottone of the best thumbnails you’ve done in my opinion!
Now beat mein leben with no stealth or glitches.
I'm good, I've beaten it two times which is enough for me!
The getting stuck reminds me of Dying Light 2. The parkour in that game is insanely janky, and I get stuck a lot. Never played the first one (even though I have it) so I don't know if it's the same.
I WAS THERE. This one challenge was a whole rollercoaster of emotions. Getting ready for that akumu video.
Hell yeh dude! Looking forward to watching it with yall!
@@thegreyscott LESGOU. Once I finish lies of P, and stuff at work, I'll probably be active again on twitch
@@ZireaelBlackfyre No worries dude, you've got life stuff. We all look forward to your return!
hell yeah brother! congrats man thats an incredible accomplishment not once but TWICE!!
Hell yeh!!! Thank you :))
Sony had a sale and I got this game, because of this video. Going to try and get this trophy myself 💀
You got this, I believe in you!
That was one handsome Chad
Indeed 🤣😂
Tried oscar the grouch method and first time it worked but the next attempts there's this big guy who stomps the shit out of me 😩
Yeh he's a bit temperamental, since him and a drone are usually the last ones alive, I usually just peak slightly out of the trash can and unload on him with the rifles. I do take damage most times but he SHOULD go down. If he's stomping you while you're sitting in the trash can BEFORE you peak then you're sitting the trash can incorrectly.
@@thegreyscott oooooh gotcha, ok I'll try that. Oh and for courthouse, after sitting under the table with the shotgun I was unsure when to leave the main room until those big guys showed up again and I killed two but after killing a dog I instantly died to another big guy.
All the jokes and memes were on point im glad i just discovered you keep up the great work sub +1 😮
Thank you very much! :)
Mein Leben is easily the hardest trophy I've ever earned when considering skill, momentum, pacience and luck. I didn't use any skips or clipping through walls when I obtained it so maybe to me I would say is a 10/10 difficulty. But even for you that used a bunch of "tricks" the trophy proved to be a tough challenge so I digress with your rating.
Well yeh absolutely, it's still hard 100%. My point with the video is to encourage more people to try it because it's fun and nowhere near as impossible as everyone claims it to be.
@thegreyscott Yes this trophy is indeed very doable and fun. I earned other perma death trophies before and this one was the one I struggled the most because u r being attacked to whole time, as oppose to Alien Isolation, TLOU II and Outlast II that are very stealthy games, so u can bypass danger situations easily.
@@thegreyscott it is
Once I get a PS5 I'm wanting to plat my favorite video games. (Skyrim, fallout 3, Fenxy rising)
Don't think you can play Fallout 3 on PS5
Cant wait to actually start attempting this and Figure out how UNALIVING and CANCELLING this mainlaben trophy is going to be the moment it flashes why this trophy is so hard and push through either way
You've got this, I believe in you!
@@thegreyscotti did actually started the mein leben died 2 separate times on the Venus conveyor belt 🤡 now will try again tommorow … 3rd attempt bye
@@ItsVibes1 You've got this! Just hang in there, it'll come soon enough.
If I ever go for this, I'll make sure to use this video and a guide
I would be honored ☺
Great video man I don’t even think I could do this once 💪
Thank you Vishy! I believe you can do it, you just have to believe in yourself!
Definitely doable I also got the platinum but Definitely the hardest platinum to get
W video man; will apply some of these strats myself!
Thank you very much, I hope any of these strats bring you a BIG W!
Very nice & incredible good feelings
I had same experience and i am very near to do it
Final musics of your video was very nice and match to the video
Good luck bro
🌹🙏
Thank you very much, I appreciate it! That's very kind of you to say!
So Mein leben is easy if you use glitches, ok got it. its mainly dodgy AI that gets you, especially Venus. cant use logic on broken AI.
I wouldn't say easy, but an easier experience. Even still, without glitches Mein Leben is still pretty manageable. I mainly use skips to save time.
honestly alot of your skips i hadnt even seen before and alot of your tactics where improvised which is the best way to do it @@thegreyscott
i started on ps4 and made the switch to ps5 and thats what got me the edge over it, that being paralogical or luck i still havent made me mind up yet haha good one though !
Getting through the first area on mein leben is something to be proud of, nevermind the whole game
Yeah nah😂😂 congrats to you man
An achievement/gamemode that makes you camp, exploit the game's mechanics to the fullest, and it _still_ is unfair as fuck? Pushing players to play the game in a way that isn't enjoyable is probably not the best idea any dev has ever had. I've played New Order on hardest and it at least seems fair and you can even go in guns blazing if you're good enough. Never tried it on iron man, though.
Wait… Mein Leben is a BRONZE trophy???
Yeh LMAOOOO
The intro was great 🎶 CHANGEOVER DAY 🎶 🔥 🔥 🔥
Haha thank you very much!
its soo frustrating to watch because every single time you get shot you are just running out while doing the reload animation when you could wait 2 seconds! then halfway through the video you finally said i think i know the problem, im rushing.. soo glad the penny dropped as i was about to click off this channel man 😂 just didnt understand why you was running straight into deaths it was difficult to watch someone throwing their run away over and over 😂🤦🏻
Pffft, he can’t even speak German.
Pfffft, this guy AM I RIGHT??
He doesn’t even go to The Grey Scott’s School for Gifted Cowards…
Well put together video. What I love about it, is your approach. The title is good! You had me in the first part, ngl. But I agree, if you put in the hours of work, Mein Leben becomes manageable.
I beat Mein Leben in August after 50 tries (two months of intense practice). I agree, there are many strategies, that make it easy to beat it, but it still requires patience and a little bit of luck, since RNG is the player’s biggest enemy. I even learned some things about the game, that surprised me (that skip in Manhattan, for example). But you were way to wreckless for my taste. I also related with that one fall during the Bunker skip (I have two deaths in that area, but zero «stuck in an object» deaths.)
Now, I gotta figure out, how to install the German version of Wolfenstein 2 and do it all over again. Fantastic game. You earned a sub from me!
Thank you very much! Congratulations on also completing Mein Leben as well! You can either create a German psn and then get Euros for PSN (you can get that from Play Asia's website) to buy it or find a physical German version of Wolf 2 somewhere on the internet haha.
If you end up completing it again, I'd love to hear your experience doing it a second time around!
"yeah I wanna learn banjo" - famously last words
Believe me, my friend, this is not cowardice. In the military, we call this "Do not run towards your death."
"Strategic Hiding for Your Life" ;)
congrats! now try Halo 2 LASO.
I will be doing A LASO playthrough of one of the Halo games with someone on RUclips, although I won't be the one making the video hint hint
I’ve been on mein leban for a month and a half 😢😢😢😪😪
You've got this, I believe in you! You will pull through, just stick with it!
You can not skip cutscene is the argument for me. To not try. And not play this game.
i finished new order on highest difficulty, but never got to next games, and i was looking for the hard fights here
there doesn't seem to be fight like last one from new order that's kinda bullshit mechanics nor big robot one, at most courthouse and all look like new orders helicopter hangar or that underground railroad part, but tbh, enemies don't seem to be so much of a bullet sponges here
but i bet it would take many attempts from anyone even with cheese
Absolutely, no bosses here really, just a lot of heavy execution in certain spots of the game. Many attempts were had, but we got it in the end! Congrats on your completion of New Order though!
@@thegreyscott thanks! at some point i just started going for highest, to get some retries, because doing everything on single attempt was getting boring and semi movie like, so i totally get why somebody would go for those kind of difficulties, even if it's frustrating it can give some kind of acomplishment at the end.
well, good job on those runs!
I laughed at the starting clip :D
Surprise my fraueline.
I gave up after 3 attempts. It's a good series of games, but I'm not in the mood for something like that at all... Why is the game actually in German?
I bought the German version because you can platinum it again on the same account since the German version is a separate list from the world wide list.
please Play TOMB RAIDER Remasters. they are HARD to platinum ❤
Still need to do this. Lost count of how many times I've failed it
You can do it, I believe in you! Next 5 attempts, tops.
why are you playing the german version?:D
immersion or what?:P
As a man who earn this platinum i can say that you did all uncorrectly (what means you didnt use same strats) except garbage can, btw congrats
Thank you! Congrats to you as well for the platinum!
Maybe I al not skilled enough but New Order was for me a 8/10 and took me a reasonable time until I finally platinuned it
I've heard hard things about New Order, congratulations for persevering and getting the platinum!
who woulda thought the red container would blow up when you shoot it? blew my mind
Ive been watching your vids for like a week now and just realized i wasnt even subscribed. We part of the bald boy gang now
Hell yeh, welcome to Balderaan!
if there’s any recommendation i can give for your next platinum it’s definitely be resident evil 2, it’s an overall pretty challenging platinum (in my own opinion) and i love that fucking game.
Well, let's just say there MIGHT be plans for something with RE2 haha
The worst thing is the 23 minutes long cutscenes that you have to look at every damn time. Otherwise its about consistency and planning
Absolutely, that's why me and chat made it into a bit every time. Unfortunately all of those had to get cut from the video because of the use of copyrighted music lol
I'm SO confused by all the on-screen text being all in german, mate... :D
As was I, as was I lol
Channel looks cool bro have my sub!
Thank you!
I'm gonna need you to change the title, can we keep the myth that it's really difficult please because it took me sp long to complete mein leben 😂😂
Nah I need that attention grabber yah feel me lol congratulations on your completion though!
@thegreyscott well, to be fair, that's the whole reason I clicked this video so it works! 😂
8/10 rating is acceptable although i am scared to play the mein leben difficulty
Totally understandable, it can be a lot of time wasted!
as a fellow mein leben achiever i fully agree. stressfull plat but with patience and a bit strategy, not that hard.
Hell yeh, congratulations on your achievement by the way!
It’s easy to beat mein leben! Just turn on god mode first 😂
Finally i earned it after around 30 tries im so proud
AYEEEE let's go! I'm proud of you for sticking with it! Welcome to the Mein Leben club! Congratulations on your major achievement!
@@thegreyscott thanks alot dude...i have Cod bo3 too...now im trying Suoer meat boy
This run takes something akin to having balls made of vibranium.. rats off to ya brother, insanely big get
Thank you very much! There is fun to be had when doing it though!
The only reason this achievement is terrible is unskippable cutscenes. I did death incarnate with very few issues, but having to watch 20 minutes of cutscenes every try really pissed me off.
Yup, it is insufferable lol
@@thegreyscott made me put it on pause after like 5-6 tries. Especially if you die hours in and you have to restart and stew in anger waiting for cutscenes to end. Neither is there a mod that allows you to skip them.
I can't believe you can do that with a controller
It's the cutscenes that put me off. Because I would 100% die...... a lot!
Yeeeeh, they do get annoying, but Twitch chat and I managed to make them entertaining during the streams haha
I do agree with you that Mein Leben is not hard as people see it. The only real difficulty of that mode is that any mistake can be fatal and send you to the beginning of the game. Well maybe another difficulty is having to watch unskippable cutscenes for 15 min every time you start a new run. I honestly do not understand why developers did not think about that problem or did not add the option to skip those in a patch. Mein Leben is the ultimate test of your skills and knowledge of the game and if you DO have those and know what you are doing, this mode does not present any substintial challenge. However, people simply jump straight into that difficulty without any preparation, die several times on the first few levels and then go to the internet complaining how the difficulty is insanely hard and you cannot even quit the game because there are no saves.
I personally started with doing Mein Leben for the DLCs first to have more experience and get the idea of what that difficulty is about before getting to the main challenge. I finished first and second DLCs on the 2nd attempts, and the third on 5th. It could actually be first or second but I got too confident with myself and did not really train for the last DLC which was a big mistake. I also played through all the levels of each DLC, not just the final ones, and did start over from the first level if I died. I am all for using glitches and skips to make the process more fun but that kind of skip was so ridiculously easily that I felt I was actually skipping the entire challenge.
As for the main game, I spent about a week training on Death Incarnate and played 3-4 hours every day. I found the reliable strats and learnt to perfom them consistently enough until I could get through the entire game on Death Incarnate. I did not actually played through the entire game several times not to waste time on cutscene and just loaded save files of the most difficult levels. Then I started trying to do Mein Liben.
I got my winning run on the 5th attempt: on the 1st one I tried to yolo the last Manhattan harbor section and died (I actually did not know about that jump that lets you skip the trigger that spawns enemies), on the 2nd one I fell into the pit under the moving platform in Roswell, on the 3rd one I got stuck in textures and a grenade killed me, the 4th run I killed myself during Roswell because i was tired and dissatisfied with my performance. All my deaths were pretty stupid and I never actually died because of using a strategy or failing stealth.
From what I saw in your video, you made 2 significant mistakes.
1) You were using submachine guns for stealts instead of pistols. Even though they are automatic their damage output is pretty low even with all the upgrades and the bullet spread is high. Their efficiency is very inconsisten and that is something you cannot afford on a run like this. A clean headshot with pistols is a much more reliable method which does not require any super skills. Even if you somehow miss the head you can always spam the trigger and quickly kill an enemy with 3-4 shots in the torso before they start the alarm.
2) You did not have backup strats in case you failed stealth. Almost each section has a more or less reliable combat strat for that case. Of course it still largely depends on how the enemies will approach you and how many grenades you get in your face but having those strats and an ability to save the run is much better than frantically running around the level trying to come up with a solution on the go. It is also very helpful because one thing I noticed about the Mein Leben is that for some reason enemy AI acts a bit differently even though this difficulty must be identical to Death Incarnate. Nonetheless, in my runs I noticed enemy behaviours that I never encountered during my practice. Like a soldier standing firmly on one spot instead of doing patrol, or enemies forever sitting in covers instead of running directly at you. I am not sure whether there is really a difference in AI or I just got lucky with bugs but having a back-up strat for a run like this is a must.
Another thing I noticed is that your strats for Mesquite and final battle are pretty yolo. Sure, you managed to peform them but I personally would not risk losing the entire run (especially at the final section) due to the bad luck and would rather keep to safer and more consistent strategies. You also could use the same Ausmerzer skip on the final level as it helps to skip the enemy spawning trigger.
All in all, I think if you used pistols, had back-up strats and did put more time into practice and training you could have significantly decreased the number of failed runs. Still, congratulations with that achievement. And, yeah, I still DO think people are overreacting about Mein Leben - if you know what you are doing, what to expect, and can finish the entire game on Death Incarnate without dying Mein Leben is hardly a challenge.
Why r u playing the German Version?
Why not?
@@thegreyscott its uncharacteristic for a english streamer, than the most don’t understand or cant read anything
@@fraemik3409 It was mostly to get a second platinum on my account since the German version has a separate trophy list from every other region.
Luckily it took me a couple tries but I got it for PC, same goes with Doom Eternal's Ultra Nightmare
DAAAAYUMN Ultra Nightmare ain't no joke! Congratulations are in order for you!
@thegreyscott well playing on mouse and keyboard makes the game miles easier compared to controller but of course it's no easy task.
just a question i wanna do this but when you start a mein leben run do you need to upgrade all the weapons again? or can you just do it with the same save file?
Every Mein Leben attempt is a completely fresh file. Nothing carries over, have to start from nothing every time.
@@thegreyscott so that means no upgraded weapons or perks 😅
@@OMGJinQ Precisely, gonna have to earn them all again as you play through each attempt!
@@thegreyscott ahh oke that makes it even harder😅
@@thegreyscott well just got it done yesterday thanks to your video with the skips and another guide i followed and took me only 3 tries :)
New subcriber but awesome stuff so far the Oscar the grouch joke had me rolling 😂
I'm glad you enjoyed haha
Imo it's only hard because EVERYTIME you die you have to watch the beginning cutscenes.
Absolutely, that's why I tried to play meme music every time Frau Engel cut off a characters head to make it at least entertaining. Unfortunately all of those clips had to be cut from the video lol
@@thegreyscott Honestly if cutscenes were skippable I wouldn't be on hiatus from this trophy lmao
Are you learning german or are you german i cant tell?
This is the run
Always great to see you, Avatar!
So halos iron skull?
Yeh basically, also Halo, another series I would like to do eventually
i come back to this video so much lmfao. TheGOATScott
I deeply appreciate it, Grim! Hope you're doing well!
I remember doing this stupid trophy and I did it and in my opinion everyone can get this platinum ( I died 3 times at last level btw I was heartbroken lol )
I agree!
I'm sorry about those deaths, that sucks BUT you made it! Congratulations!
@@thegreyscottI died twice twice Samuel at the final mission feel that pain
in the beginning he said "if a bald idiot can do it " we can too, he forgot to mention that the bald idiot can control 4 elements, enter the avatar state , FLY , Defeated a raging overlord, saved the 4 nations , Brought PEACE to the land all at the age of 12 .... suree scott sureee, i think ill just sit here and watch you accomplish these trophies for me thank you very much
Do you need good aim for this? I am a TRASH console gamer and Im thinking of going for this plat, but my aim is so horrible
Yeh BUT practice makes perfect! I still believe you can do it, you just gotta put in the time and be patient with the game.
@@thegreyscott7 months later I decided to retry this and today got to the very end of Venus and its honestly not extremely hard but the length of the run is what makes it significantly more frustrating to die late in the run
@@ragey2214 You're practically right there, you WILL get this I know it for a damn fact, don't give up! And I agree, the one session part is probably the most frustrating thing about it.
I don’t see why skips wouldn’t delegitimize your runs; it’s clearly abuse of bugs and blatantly not intended.
Does anybody know where to go after you enter the first glitch?
I recommend Qvik's Wolfenstein 2 glitches video, I think it shows what to do better than my video.
is there a video of a whole run?
Hey hey scott class vid and congrats man
Hey thank you Dean! I really appreciate that dude!
If anyone wonders mein leben means my life
Can you still put this through even tho if you don't do the glitches? Seems impossible.