‘Path of Exile 2’ Players Call Bullshit on Elon Musk’s Video Game Stream

A fewer minutes into Elon Musk’s livestream of his hardcore quality successful the video crippled Path of Exile 2, idiosyncratic DMed him ASCII creation of Mario taking a crap connected the sanction “Elon.” The information that the world’s richest antheral and a self-professed epic gamer didn’t cognize helium should crook disconnected DMs earlier starting a livestream was weird. But it was a watercourse afloat of weirdness that pointed successful 1 direction: contempt claiming helium was a high-level PoE 2 player, Musk didn’t look to grasp the basics of high-level play.

© YouTube screengrab via Cynicalex.

Musk loves video games. He keeps a replica of the Diamond Back .357 handgun from Deus Ex: Human Revolution on his nightstand. Grimes, parent of 3 of Musk’s children, wrote a opus astir their narration and his gaming addiction. He loves to speech astir however he’s 1 of the champion Diablo IV players connected the planet.

For Musk, it’s important not to conscionable task the representation of a gamer. No. He has to beryllium the champion gamer. But his achievements don’t marque sense, and his Path of Exile 2 livestream gave grounds of a antheral who is making it up arsenic helium goes on and, possibly, getting idiosyncratic other to level characters for him.

On Tuesday night, Musk livestreamed a play league with his high-level Path of Exile 2 quality connected X. To the practiced eye, determination were a batch of reddish flags. PoE 2 is an enactment RPG that’s akin to Diablo IV. Players comb maps for invaluable items portion leveling up their characters. Like Diablo IV, it tin instrumentality hundreds of hours to grind a quality up to max level and get the champion loot.

Where the hellhole does Musk find the time? He’s the caput of six companies and a adjacent subordinate of incoming President Donald Trump. He posts connected X, the societal media tract helium owns, roughly 61 times a day. He meets with satellite leaders, attempts to crook nationalist and planetary authorities to his will, and inactive someway has clip to play games similar Diablo IV and PoE 2 astatine the highest level.

Unless helium is arsenic afloat of crap arsenic the ASCII Mario that took a dump connected his sanction successful his DMs.

“I tin accidental aft watching an hr of this livestream that I would put, like, $100,000 oregon much connected a bet…that Elon did not level this quality from level 1 to level 90 himself.” YouTuber Cynicalex said, commenting connected the stream.

The suspicion among players who really play Diablo IV and PoE 2 is that idiosyncratic other is grinding an relationship that Musk takes implicit and claims is his. In that scenario, Musk isn’t really putting the enactment successful to grind these characters up, he’s conscionable taking recognition for idiosyncratic else’s hard work.

Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media is an enactment RPG instrumentality with much than 500 hours successful Diablo IV and much than 140 successful Path of Exile 2. Cox told maine helium has agelong suspected that Musk’s vaunted achievements successful some games were lies.

Cox has been connected the Musk gaming bushed for immoderate time. Back successful 2022, helium broke down the mediocre mechanics of the billionaire’s terrible Elden Ring build. “Diablo IV players were already precise suspicious of Musk’s alleged world-leading occurrence successful the game,” Cox told Gizmodo. “He tweeted astir a Diablo IV loophole successful October that would marque your quality unfairly strong, and the sheer clip concern needed raised bully questions astir however a antheral who runs aggregate companies would adjacent person the weeks upon weeks to play that overmuch if helium wasn’t getting assistance from boosters.”

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“Musk’s embarrassing Path of Exile 2 stream, as reported by VICE, solidifies those suspicions,” helium said.

It’s important to enactment that Musk’s PoE 2 playthrough is successful hardcore mode. In that mode, if your quality dies the crippled deletes it. One mistake could mean the extremity of days of enactment and there’s nary mode to travel backmost from it. A subordinate with a high-level quality successful hardcore mode should cognize what they’re doing.

Yet Musk runs past high-level items that, based connected his inventory, would beryllium a monolithic boon. He attacks walls. He puzzles implicit pressing a power that would unfastened a transition to him. He’s got a specialized inventory tab labeled “Elon’s Maps,” suggesting that they’ve been reserved for him by idiosyncratic else. He besides doesn’t look to recognize however his quality works and claims to beryllium clearing a representation astatine the hardest trouble contempt it being acceptable to a debased level.

“Running past ace invaluable items? Not knowing what captious endgame mechanics are? Not the behaviour of idiosyncratic who has enactment successful a batch of their ain clip into the game,” Cox said. “Calling a stash tab ‘Elon’s map’? Exceptionally unusual for idiosyncratic allegedly playing their ain character.”

Multiple Path of Exile 2 YouTubers posted videos critiquing Musk’s show and they each came to the aforesaid conclusion: this is not a antheral who knows thing astir precocious level Path of Exile 2 play. “What I bash cognize is that if you’re a level 90 player, you bash not marque these errors,” Cynicalex said successful his.

“Maybe you instrumentality truly braindead radical who person nary thought into reasoning your precocious extremity successful a crippled that they person nary hint about,” Quin69TV said successful his video connected the stream. “What does that do? That does nothing. What’s the constituent successful that? So you’re going to instrumentality a clump of boomers into reasoning you’re bully astatine games whenever boomers deliberation the games are cringe arsenic fuck anyway. It makes nary sense. And it’s cringe.”

Cox was struck by Musks’ changeless prattle astir however helium was playing PoE 2 astatine the highest level. “His changeless emphasizing successful the watercourse that what helium is doing is very, precise hard portion seemingly not knowing what he’s really doing is incredibly connected marque for the attraction and emotion hopeless Musk,” helium said.