The Cheater Who Ruined RuneScape's Hardest Challenge

RuneScape's Fight Caves were SUPPOSED to be the games hardest challenge. Until one smart player figured out an exploit to get "free" fire capes. You don't want to miss this OSRS video!

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[spiritofnex]

I remember back in the day, safe spotting tzhaars using a rune halberd, while chatting with people doing their fight cave attempts. I miss those days. I'd never safe spot with a halberd nowadays, but I look back on those days fondly. Great times. I honestly miss not knowing the best/most efficient way to play the game. Everyone was much more social, mini games were popping, and nobody cared that someone was "wasting XP".

[lordvoid]

So, I don't think this means Chrisaki ruined the fight caves. In a way he - like some bug abusers - actually helped bring to light an update riddled with errors, which was brought to Jagex's attention.

Some bug abusers....definitely have truly ruined a lot more than that.

[rs_cruze]

Seeing players with the fire cape way back then was always so mesmerizing. “How long did it take?” “About 2 hours..”

[Ghi]

I remember attempting the fight caves as a noob with 43 prayer and full rune. I was ready for anything. Got my ass ended to me by a 90, didn't even get to the magers

[NotSureIfSrs_x]

Ah yes, i remember when no one knew how to play the game, it was honestly a more fun and relaxed time. You'd find out most things by word of mouth, we'd even do quests the old fashioned way.

[Beriorn]

If you manage to exploit safe spots like this with a reward like the Fire Cape, which can't be traded and while it makes you a bit more powerful doesn't break the game, you should be allowed to keep it. That an oversight on Jagex' part, not you breaking the game.

[nocturn]

J1mmy's attempt on byrelease was insane enough as it is. Keep in mind he had access to a decade of worth knowledge and settled guiding him and he still barely scraped by. Can't imagine what it'd be like as a kid in 2005.

[bouncing_fabricator]

I was in the clan with him back in 2005 when he had the cape. He was actually in a clan called demonic empire. I actually recently reached out to some people that used to be in the clan as well and it turned out he used to date one of them which no one knew about. He was a nice guy back when I spoke to him. No idea what he’s doing now.

[tenhlif]

"The Cheater Who Ruined RuneScape's Hardest Challenge" is kinda an agressive title for a guy that discovered a safespot right?

[zoox]

Man that clip at the beginning of the dude in mystics water blasting the blob sent me back. I was a kid when fight caves came out and I didn’t fathom completing it. I’d go in and use it to train all my combat stats up to wave 30 or so— magic and melee especially. Never knew things were set in stone wave wise, so I always thought a mager would come out of nowhere and 1 shot me at any time.

[terrafirma]

I remember doing this back in the day, used two crystal bows where one was meant to be kept at full power and the second bow would fire the last few shots so that it would take the degradation hit. That way you'd have a 10/10 bow for most of your attacks.

[majdodeh]

Bro I'm watching this at work and burst out laughing at the Caramelldansen edit. Love you.

[jfesta]

Impaler99 here, writer of original guide and second fire cape acquired - Funny to realize how many people I got killed with that little bit of poor wording, but I assumed people would not be in melee range of Jad. XD Appreciate the shout outs! Great video my man!

[JackXMULA]

Raid shadow legends needs a subscription service to stop seeing its ads

[Aprici]

Ranger boots? 500K? Take me back to the good days.

[HeyItsKora]

This video ended really abrubtly, I thought you were gonna be like "and it was Chrisaki who got the d2h, which raised further suspicions that he didn't legitimately get the firecape, nor the d2h" and explore that further, but it was like "and it was chrisaki who got the first d2h, cya"

[benmorr]

To clear up some of the bit about the clan mentioned, Imperial Forces - I was in the clan at the time (refer to my youtube name). As far as I'm aware the person who played the account at that time was not the person who got the original fire cape - i.e. gave the account away to someone else. This was 13-14 years ago or more, so my memory is a bit spotty, but this is what I recall. I think he may have turned up to one clan war, but again, not the same person. Nice to feature briefly in your video though! (lol)

[Intse]

Got my first fire cape early 2006 after 13 failed tries on a very slow internet, was super satisfying. Still got that original cape on my rs3 acc.

[basicx]

Imagine you playing minecraft and 20 years later someone makes a video about you and it gets almost 100k views crazy

[aboutgrams]

i would absolutely love a boss stage where you need to stealth across somewhere and use the ring of stone and other form altering stuff to hide from them. that'd be fucking cool