After more than three years, YouTuber and Twitch streamer Matthew 'DarkViperAU' Judge has finally completed his notorious pacifist run of Grand Theft Auto 5's story with an impressively low body count.
Started in 2019, DarkViperAU has been on a long and fragmented mission to try and clear the entire GTA 5 story without personally killing any of the games NPCs or enemies unless it was essential for story progression. In a game where criminality and violence is rife, this was always going to be a pretty big undertaking, and while he could use them to test theories, DarkViperAU also banned himself from using any mods to complete missions.
Over the course of 27 episodes spread out across 1,227 days (which apparently condensed over 1,000 hours of gameplay), a combination of stealth, glitches, and strategy has seen DarkViperAU slog through the GTA V story. By avoiding combat where possible, and by using AI controlled allies or even the Los Santos Police Department to do the shooting when gunfights had to take place, he has managed to get through the campaign with a ridiculously low number of personally inflicted casualties.
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