Hades I & II

[violet crow]

dang it I was going so well

hades 2 olympus ||talos ended my run 😭 ||

||its always the darn minibosses||

hades 2 story ? ||moros is promised to another ||

hades 2 gen ||oh no||

[violet crow]

I've not been making great choices here with my selections

hades 2 summit ||darn tail miniboss got me again ||

[barren meadow]

Definition of between a rock and a hard place

[hard quail]

Hades 2 Rivals 2 ||No, that's Scylla and Charybdis, silly||

[barren meadow]

They're so real for that tho

I still absolutely love their third song

I listen to it daily

[keen urchin]

Hades 2 all ||Great Chaos Below was not easy||

[sudden tulip]

I think that's my next target 😅

[keen urchin]

good luck. ||surprising myself, it was on a run without Death Defiance||

||unsurprisingly it was with Aspect of Circe. its up there with the secret aspects as my favorites in the game||

||the real lucky thing was my Fear. Didn't get any of the Rivals bosses, though im pretty confident in all of them but Chronos.||

[low nimbus]

Hades 2 victory screens : Couple of really fun runs! Big bonks and big dashes!

[low nimbus]

I had so much rage doing that one lol

||Had 2 runs ended when zone 4 I randomly got artemis stupid "die if you have skill issues" trinket||

[sudden tulip]

Girl, there's a lot of emphasis you are putting on like everything and I don't know what you are talking about, and it makes me nervous

[hard quail]

Aphrodite is just living her best life! (is that life treating Mel's love life like a reality show to be consumed? That's not relevant right now)

[sudden tulip]

damn, almost got it first try, but I stepped out into the last boss's one-shot...

[keen urchin]

Hades all || the Rivals version of Chronos always gets me with the double one-shot fake out||

[sudden tulip]

✌️

[compact wigeon]

Woahhhhhhh!! XD

[sudden tulip]

I do have a couple of minor prophecies to wrap up, but I can rest now

[keen urchin]

I ended up with two people without max relationship. I might eventually do them but I feel comfortable moving on to other games.

[violet crow]

hades 2 summit miniboss ||FINALLY BEAT THAT DARN TAIL||

[sudden tulip]

I find the Summit minibosses to be very punishing if you get hit

[violet crow]

Hades 2 summit final boss ||typhon took me down, but I feel like I was doing alright. Not having a health bar made it tough to guage my progress||

||I liked seeing zeus join the fight, though, that was cool||

[sudden tulip]

Mhm

[mental summit]

i should be productive today but like. what if i just did hades 2 runs

.............okay i'll be productive for a LITTLE BIT and then i'll rot my brain with video games

[sudden tulip]

Making progress towards accomplishing ✨ your task ✨ is being productive

[mental summit]

death to chronos

progress update from last night ||made it to Prom for the first time but died there, and then I went down again and saw Chronos again but I died in phase 1 this time, even though I looooved my build. I found Hades tho!!! He gave me a boon ||

I had a whole thing going on with Aphro boons ||Where I had extra damage at high health, and also shields on top of full health, plus some life gain on Ω Attack kills + full heal when leaving a room if you're over 70%. AND I had longer range on my staff attacks, but Aphro extra damage "up close" but the duo boon that makes all enemies count as being up close ||

It was so synergy...

And yet, not enough yet

also more important progress ||I took Moros to the baths again 😳 ||

[hard quail]

Very important progress 🙏

[violet crow]

hades 2 characters ||ares ||

[compact wigeon]

||thats it im booting ip the game again to meet him i cant take it anymore||

[violet crow]

hades 2 surface zone 2 boss ||man that eris fight was horrible. Took out 2 of my DDs and almost killed me ||

||she just has a few attacks I'm bad at dodging that do so much damage||

[low nimbus]

||I feel like my Eris fights are always a total mess, and someone gets wrecked, still die to her sometimes.||

[violet crow]

||eris really cooks me sometimes||

[keen urchin]

Surface Zone 3 boss ||100 hrs in and I just now realized Prometheus is Ben Starr||

[violet crow]

hades 2 ||4 boons from ares in one run ||

||another?!!||

[compact wigeon]

https://tenor.com/view/yugioh-punch-ground-punching-ground-it-shouldve-been-me-it-shouldve-been-me-not-him-gif-18069003738146878767

[violet crow]

||five ares boons at the moment ||

unfortunately I dont think this will be my winning run

I'm taking too much damage to take the final boss

hades 2 olympus boss ||dangit prometheus got me ||

[compact wigeon]

||Prom tends to get me too tbh||

[thorn root]

Hades 1 ||Halloween thanzag! https://fxtwitter.com/braisedtooooofu/status/1983961208639385666 ||

Braised tooooofu (@Braisedtooooofu)

Happy Halloween🎃
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[sudden tulip]

Hades 2 endgame non-plot minor prophecies mechanics stuff? ||Does anyone know what saluting at the Oath does? I got the ability after finishing the Chaos prophecy for all the boons, but I tried it once and it didn't feel like it did anything||

[sudden tulip]

got tired of grinding Oceanus so I did a quick surface clear where all my damage was just attack 😅

[static tide]

||That was most of my runs.

Attack and omega attack always were my highest. Hold X and win the game. :)||

[sudden tulip]

normally I've got a bit of a spread

[hard quail]

||you know how if you cancel a run it doesn't reset the seed? Saluting DOES||

[sudden tulip]

Ah, I didn't know that

[hard quail]

Fair lol

[low nimbus]

Yeah it's for rng, also means that speed runners don't need to record a death at the start of their run like in Hades 1

[sudden tulip]

Crossroads Renewal: Many decorative items have reduced costs in Kudos compared to before. Any excess Kudos you have already spent will be refunded.
game's saved

[hard quail]

Yeah when I downloaded the patch I got like...18,000 back

[sudden tulip]

uuuh 😅

[hard quail]

Heheh

[sudden tulip]

OH MY GOD the bullshit Denier of Suitors minor prophecy got nerfed to the ground and now I just have it!

this game is peak

[hard quail]

Lmaaaaooooo

[sudden tulip]

So how does the new "go back and replay stuff" work? I do the incantation to unlock the ability, and then... is it repeatable? reversible?

[hard quail]

Idk about repeatable, but its not reversible. That said, the only things you lose as far as I can tell are ||any Z sand and V lenses you have, + the final heart/bond with hecate. Everything else, relationship levels, keepsakes, etc, remains. Its just story progress that's reset||

||Obviously you also lose the Zag fight||

[compact wigeon]

Omg 🤣

[sudden tulip]

Hmm

[compact wigeon]

Hades 2 decorations ||praying this means I get more kudos to buy more outfits for my funny lil guys||

||and more random stuff, I love decorating in this game||

[sudden tulip]

Well, I bought everything

-# almost

I guess I'll go see those ending revisions

[low nimbus]

UP Victory Screen: Enormous Hephy bonks

this was fun

Hephaestus' attacks are very...

like their scaling is so exponential once they get going? But at the beginning they are terrible

[sudden tulip]

yeah, a few upgrades go a long way with those

[sudden tulip]

surface clear ||going to tell people these are Honor and Cultivation||

[thorn root]

I've played hades 2 for 69 hours!

Will be playing some more after dinner probably

[hard quail]

um

I uh

I like this game

[thorn root]

Hades 2 rivals + hades 1 hiddens ||SHE HAS LUCIFER RAIL???||

I was surprisingly closer than I thought to beating them, thought I had zero chance, but I actually took them to like.... 20-25% health I think

[hard quail]

||Eris the Lightbringer, babbyyyy||

[mental summit]

FIRST CLEAR (Down) ||Aphro was absolutely filthy to me, we finished with three death defiances still 🩷 ||

[sudden tulip]

Oh, was that what it was? I couldn't remember

[compact wigeon]

||one, congrats! Two, wow you cleared with Toula, thats arguably the most impressive thing about this, but it is a LOVELY build 😂💕||

[mental summit]

||I love Toula! An extra death defiance is good and she slashes at my enemies when I wake her up! Though... I imagine I'll like her even more now that I got back to the Crossroads and I can finally give her treats to upgrade her 😅 ||

[compact wigeon]

||omg yes I am not joking when I say I have been exclusively cooking animal crackers for my funny lil guys 😂||

[thorn root]

Nice!

[violet crow]

||wait you can upgrade the familiars?||

[violet crow]

hades 2 summit boss ||typhon is going down this time!!!||

||yesssss||

first surface clear 🎉

[low nimbus]

||Yep! With the pet snack thingies, I think you need to have unlocked all the familiars first.||

[violet crow]

Ahh

||I still only have the frog and bird, I think||

[mental summit]

||You definitely don't need all of them, I only have four, still missing Gale. You might need four though, since I just recruited Hecuba||

[hard quail]

||Flutter strike/flourish have INSANE scaling. Yeah you gotta be "close" but like...I do that anyway lmao||

[blazing peak]

Okay so on night 127 and suddenly there are || green jars that pop up in Erebus and do damage to me with like a bunch of green arms when they break?||

[sudden tulip]

||That's... odd? You can summon those with a specific Hades boon, but I've never seen them deployed against me in this game||

[blazing peak]

|| ahhhh that’s what it is. Forgot we get a random boon from the Pom relic ||

[hard quail]

||They shouldn't damage you iirc...||

[blazing peak]

lol also fully did the steps for the end Prophacy and it just didn’t count

[compact wigeon]

Hades 2 up 3 ||never EVER picking the dio mystery health boon again omg||

[hard quail]

||It's so weird and I hate it...hell if it just hid the number but you could still see the bar itself that'd be fine! But yeah....||

[sudden tulip]

haha

I like it

[compact wigeon]

||I didnt even understand it! I thought it was just a random "here get extra 70-100 max health have fun" and then prom and the stupid flame lines... jeez Louise man 😭||

So tldr was it my fault? Yes, yes it was 😔💔

Hades 2 weapons hidden aspects ||THE HIDDEN ASPECTS ARE EGYPTIAN???? thats it i gotta lock in for the rest of these right RIGHT now||

[sudden tulip]

||Like in the first game, the hidden aspects come from all over||

[compact wigeon]

||ohhhhhhhh that makes a lot more sense, and I thought about that after I got too excited 😂||

[thorn root]

Ah so you got that one first

[sudden tulip]

I do like that aspect a lot

[thorn root]

It confused me tbh but I don't dislike it

Only understood the mechanic like most of the way into the run

[sudden tulip]

Oh yeah, it took me some time to figure it out

but it's really powerful

[mental summit]

yesterday i defeated down... today we go up...

i could be productive but nahhhhhh

[compact wigeon]

Haha same queen

Me: gahh drafts and books

Also me: okay but what if I did ONE more run then what haha

[mental summit]

I know there's another gaming group right now but I could strim if anyone wanted

[sudden tulip]

we can beat them

[mental summit]

also my first down clear was Night 33!

[sudden tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/expedition-33-clair-obscure-monoco-gif-1894001316790732786

[mental summit]

alright if u say sooooo

[hard quail]

||Pro tip to unlock them: max out the aspect of the characters you can actually interact with (ie: Artemis for the Blades, Moros for the Torches, Charon for the Axe, etc)||

[thorn root]

||I've never leveled artemis, just pan, still got the blades||

[hard quail]

huh

[thorn root]

Toula...

[thorn root]

Hades 2 down clear ||A very straight attack build today.|| Still don't feel like I know how to use this weapon 😅

[hard quail]

Up clear, this build did WORK

[sudden tulip]

camp, heh

[hard quail]

Yeah that about sums up her character lol

[sudden tulip]

Hmm

[compact wigeon]

Hades 2 Bottom Clear ||One of my smoothest runs yet! Couldn't have dont it without Pookie Bookie~||

I was listening to kpop as I went against the final boss, that also helped

[mental summit]

I was noticing during raid last night that my thumb is a bit, uh, tender... So I think between the button mashing of Silksong, Hades, and FF, I should probably take a little break to recover 😅

I gamed too close to the sun (up route) ||Sorry Icarus if that's offensive :p||

[sudden tulip]

Surface clear ||Finally did good a Hephaestus run. Didn't feel good for the first two regions, but the numbers got there||

[low nimbus]

XD nice. Yeah Hephaestus is like that for sure. Once he gets going oh boy, but yeah feels bad at the start.

I just had a nice run too, "Q: How much damage would you like? A: YES"

[thorn root]

Hades 2, Another classic charon axe run. Back to my roots

Fun fact: There are 8 daedalus hammers that affect axe attacks and 4 that affect specials. I'm pretty sure I saw 8 hammer options during this run and all of them were the attacks ones.... ||(2 actual hammers, and 2 randoms from keepsake + echo. The only reason I'm not entirely sure it's 8 is maybe the random keepsake ones overlapped with the earlier hammer I got? Wasn't paying that much attention)||

[sudden tulip]

heh

final shop with 5k gold is a little silly

[low nimbus]

||Wait what how do you have 2 hammers from keepsake? Have I failed to understand how that works this whole time?!||

[thorn root]

||Echo's "gift gift gift" gives you your keepsake effect after you switch off it||

||And his is one of those keepsakes that persists even after you switch off in the first place||

[low nimbus]

Oooohhhh

That's really cool

[thorn root]

Yeah, first time seeing that option this run and was like "...does this work like that"? And it did lol

[sudden tulip]

Hades 2, Patch 1 ending (but not yet true ending) changes ||Okay, so a couple of things look new. Dissolution of Time now takes longer, which opens up more sense, which establish 1) Chronos having some regrets about how dysfunctional his family is, and just not seeing a way to fix that, and 2) Melinoe being the one to actually suggest Zagreus try speaking with Chronos before going stabby-stabby; there's a little more to their relationship now, where they have a little conflict around the whole death to Chronos thing, but then they work through it. The final Chronos fight now also gains a weaker version of the Unrivaled P3, which is neat. There's several CGs of the possible life the family could've had together, they are quite nice. The scenes after that feel largely rewritten, I don't think the family all remembered this alternative history? But now they do, and they like it ||

Also... were there new constellations in the credits? I didn't recognize a few, and I thought some were missing

[thorn root]

Hades 2 almost credits ||Oh interesting, I've never seen this unavailable message before||

I have one more win separating me and updated credits! That will happen..... some time later this week I guess xD

[sudden tulip]

I think that's new, yeah

there was something in the patch notes about "unavailable" messages being added

[sudden tulip]

Some screenshots

[sudden tulip]

Alright, I got back to the True Ending

I think I'll do a few more runs, hopefully max out the final relationship I am missing, see some more new dialogue, and be able to put this game to rest!

[keen urchin]

True Ending + extra spoilers ? ||Did you get the last bathtime with Hecate? I forget how missable that is but i didn't do it right away||

[sudden tulip]

I did get that in 1.0, I am not sure if that's changed

but I know the big secret, yes

[keen urchin]

Gotcha. i don't think it changed either. i just think its a missable thing that people should get before they put the game down

[violet crow]

another underworld clear

[keen urchin]

Hades II Crossroads characters ||i somehow missed this delightful halloween post from supergiant.||
||https://xcancel.com/SupergiantGames/status/1984292017896366235||

[hard quail]

Hades 2 True Ending v2: ||Yeah ok this literally fixed EVERY problem I had with the original ending lol. Game is now absolutely perfect||

[sudden tulip]

||Yeah? I feel like I didn't notice any real changes in Patch 1||

[hard quail]

||I mean compared to the 1.0 launch vs the patch 1/patch 1 preview. And yeah, the pacing and framing of the entire ending feels completely different to me now, and for the better||

[low nimbus]

https://youtube.com/shorts/NCOYoVz-muQ?si=yo1WrlLf710OCECp

[sudden tulip]

@mental summit found you a kindred soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6nLzU87lqU if anyone is curious, but the video contains... strong... language

[mental summit]

oh hell yeah, that's twink ares too 😍

[hard quail]

Ah, good ol kinkymation

[sudden tulip]

surface allies || ||

[hard quail]

I've been trying to trigger that for literally ages

[sudden tulip]

that doesn't encourage me 😔

[low nimbus]

same

I need to spam some more surface

[midnight canyon]

man i need to up my game fear 24 is kicking my ass

[thorn root]

I could barely do 16 😭 I'm trying to learn all the rivals fights

Just unlocked r4 😬

[midnight canyon]

r3 surface is 😬

[sudden tulip]

r3 underworld is also rough

[thorn root]

It's really fun

R3 up ||The memory portion is much more engaging when you're not just standing still for ten seconds straight||

1.1 credits ||I was too busy pooping my pants over the surprise phase 3 to actually learn the fight. I saw the infinity symbol over the death defiance bubble but was like "what if that somehow doesn't mean I have infinite DDs and I have to start over" Got carried by adrenaline alone. So I'm curious how that'll go when I run r4 4real||

[hard quail]

Same, can't waaaiittt...😭
I think the most difficult for me though is still UR2

[thorn root]

I think I struggle most with r2 down at this point. So much more chaotic

[midnight canyon]

huh, really?

i find both r2 to be the easiest of all the ones i've fought

[thorn root]

I can't tell if I need to figure out a new method to achieve my old strategy, or if I need a new strategy

R2 top scared me at first but it's more chill now I think

R2 down ||But yeah still trying to go for roxy first, it's just harder. Might need to bait scylla and jetty away and clear the closest tentacles? Idk||

[hard quail]

||clearing at least one of those back-arena tentacles helps a ton, yeah||

[midnight canyon]

hthis is the fear set up i'm running, idk if there are easier ones? what are y'all playing with?

[sudden tulip]

r2 down ||I tend to fully clear Charybdis first, I feel like between the tentacles' point blank attacks and the projectiles that's actually more area denial than Roxy||

[sudden tulip]

||I would say that 1 in time and 1 in return is free fear. I found Hubris also easy to play around||

[thorn root]

I've tried this a couple times with limited success. I probably just need to git gud though

And like run it more to familiarize with the patterns

[sudden tulip]

more runs really are the best teacher

[hard quail]

The best teacher is out there

[sudden tulip]

what the Hec

[hard quail]

dabs

[thorn root]

Also, random question I had when I was running credits this week. 1.1 + r4 ||Does the credits phase 3 have a normal amount of health compared to actual r4, or is it reduced? I felt like he kinda melted, not sure if it was the build or just less health for the climax||

[hard quail]

||I think its reduced||

[sudden tulip]

||It didn't feel reduced to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was. The mechanics were certainly not all there||

[hard quail]

||I hadn't unlocked it before, so I uh...I got jumped by it lol||

[midnight canyon]

hades two late surface boons ||I still have to pick that for the prophecy but i just dont play with DDs||

[blazing peak]

|| two ranks of time is VERY doable. Take off one rank of fangs, two makes things much much harder. Add hubris and shadow and debt. I would drop hordes to 0 grit to 1. 1 rank of frenzy isn’t awful ||

|| time isn’t as scary as it seems. It’s really only close to a problem in the first region. You can always pause to think about what room you want to go in. You’re not gonna fail a run on time after that unless you prime all your mana or just have no regen during the final boss ||

[midnight canyon]

idk i feel most times i just kill everything to the point that hordes doesnt do a lot

[blazing peak]

Hordes is a total of 3 fear. Time gets you 6 at max

3 at rank two

[midnight canyon]

but time is so stressful

[blazing peak]

Mia look at your run history

How many times have you cleared in over 28 minutes

[compact wigeon]

Mia i get it girl 😔

Hades 2 Fear Stuff ||I suggest you try with time set to 1 first to see how you do, and just get acclimated with the timer being there. It is nerve wracking at first though because you always think you need time 😂||

[hard quail]

Remember: ||the timer pauses when YOU pause||

[blazing peak]

And rank two of time is = to max hordes. And less enemies means less of a chance to take damage

[low nimbus]

Fear stuff ||I tend to go time to at least 2 ranks, often take hubris (both ranks), shadow I consider to be pretty chill for 2 fear, forfeit I hate but for 3 fear is pretty good, return I also often take - pretty easy to grab the green things to stop stuf respawning. I never take hordes or grit, makes things take longer, pretty antisynergetic with time. Scars is ok at one or two ranks imo. Wards for me is a "am I using a fast weapon or not?" Edit: fangs is fine. ||

[blazing peak]

Like I wouldn’t just jump to 3 time but at 2 time like you only have to pay attention to see if the timer is running

[low nimbus]

yeah I only ever run in to time issues on time rank 3, and even then usually only in the first zone.

[thorn root]

Echoing that yeah time is free fear

You do not need 36 minutes of in-game time to do a run

[blazing peak]

32 fear || love doing high fear where I get 4 ash rooms in a row worst god pool for my weapon lol. Somehow made it to boss 2 ||

[thorn root]

Hades 2 r4 up ||??????????||

Anyway, cleared it!

[sudden tulip]

Heh

[thorn root]

||I did switch from strength to death, and used 5 DDs lmao||

[thorn root]

[compact wigeon]

https://youtu.be/pexqV2N1zvg?si=VPm8biU2b_yHlpos

[sudden tulip]

surface r4, ||sometimes you just forget how to avoid all damage||

[low nimbus]

Holy tanking batman! That's a lot of damage to suffer and still win!

[keen urchin]

One time I had Demeter on my damage leaderboard at the end of a run.

[thorn root]

Did I post my thorns run here, or was that a different server?

Hidden aspects ||Maybe a repost, but at one point I decided I really wanted to finish athena's minor prophecy that run. So I walked back and forth in thorn bushes to get rid of all my DDs||

[midnight canyon]

hades surface, fear 24 ||holy heck that one is down, now time to do 32 fear chronos 💀 ||

[sudden tulip]

I found the higher fear underworld run easier

[sudden tulip]

Whoops, forgot I had god mode, but went and cleared Greater Chaos Above, and that's a wrap on my Chaos trials!

||but far more importantly, I can finally gift Icarus things again, so I am goign to max this boy out!||

[thorn root]

Heading into r4 down with 4 infusions lol. Going to be my first time, let's see how this goes

||New phase 2 took out my DDs, and only lasted like 15 seconds in phase 3 Not much of a chance to learn anything there||

[sudden tulip]

I clear that fairly regularly, and still don't know some of what's going on

[violet crow]

I'm going back to playing Hades 1 and I'm being jumpscared by the differences

[midnight canyon]

died to the last phase of the last boss in fear 32 😭 i wanna cry

[sudden tulip]

I feel that

I similarly died near the end of my first Greater Chaos Above run

[midnight canyon]

been grinding fear 32 for so long i dont even know what the base game feels like anymore lmao

40% extra enemy speed is rough

[sudden tulip]

Yeah, don't do that 😛

Frenzy is one of the worst affixes

[midnight canyon]

i'm gonna have an anime moment where i take out my weighted clothes and destroy everything once i turn that off

[sudden tulip]

mhm

[blazing peak]

Yeah I run 1 frenzy max. 2 just doesn’t compute for me

[low nimbus]

yeah turning off frenzy, especially frenzy 2 is like suddenly playing the game on slowmode

I think it's the hardest of the not totally miserable fear choices

ie. I would never take "have less arcana" unless I had a gun to my head

[blazing peak]

Fang 2 is miserable too

[low nimbus]

also I find forfeit and denial pretty miserable

I dont mind fangs 2 too much but it certainly adds a noticable difficulty

[blazing peak]

It’s just sometimes you die because they spawn 4 anchor dudes who do more damage and you just take 60 damage from across the level

[low nimbus]

oof yea

[sudden tulip]

Fangs 2 wasn't too bad, I just got nasty combos every now and then, but fine on average

[midnight canyon]

I don't know what the one that primes max mana is called but that one sucks, basically makes all my high fear runs just ignore the omega moves and I think it's pretty lame

Losing one boon per area sucks for morale but isn't as bad tbh

Wards is probably the best one of the making fights longer ones, but I guess that depends on what weapon you run with

Been trying to do timer 3 because by the end I always have too much extra time but I end up just running out during the first boss

[sudden tulip]

That's Hubris, interestingly I tend to find it pretty easy to manage

[low nimbus]

same I take it a lot

it's not free

but it is managable imo

on Up it can be free because of ||that one thing from Medea that gives max mana per encounter||

some weapons I barely use omegas anyway tho so that helps

[midnight canyon]

Oh I find it pretty manageable too, I just don't use omegas ever

[sudden tulip]

surface allies ||I will kill this boy||

[sudden tulip]

||Ugh, he is a romance option?? It'll take me forever to get him to show up enough time to max him out!||

[hard quail]

||I do believe he is...||

[little jewel]

I finally finally finally beat the upper side

Is it just me or is going up way harder than going down?

[hard quail]

It is in fact harder on purpose

[little jewel]

Is that something the devs said?

[violet crow]

It's definitely harder

[sudden tulip]

The game kind of comments on it a little bit

I don't know if anyone has said anything, but enemies have more health, do more damage, and have trickier mechanics

[low nimbus]

Also for the statues you only need to do 24 fear for up but 36 for down

[rare thicket]

Hades 2 general ||I mean, going up is the Hades 2 equivalent of zone/world/level 2. You need to go down several times before going up is even on the table.||

[midnight canyon]

hades 2 32 fear rewards ||FINALLY||

[sudden tulip]

They sure are something

[midnight canyon]

WAIT are you telling me there is no achivement for this one

[low nimbus]

🎉

congrats

[sudden tulip]

The hardest feats in the game are just for bragging rights

[low nimbus]

Up Victory: Hera annoyed, Zeus boons, STRONK.

[sudden tulip]

I've never seen boons go this high 😅

[midnight canyon]

Oh my

[compact wigeon]

||that clear time is astonishing omg||

[thorn root]

Nice

||You ransomed.... What is that, seven hera boons? And still got one back after? Like she got mad but went no wait come back ||

[hard quail]

I saw on yt someone hit 84, I think? Mid 80s

[thorn root]

Probably was the haelian short, think poobah linked it here a few days ago

[low nimbus]

Yeah she turned up in the final shop xD

[hard quail]

The full video, but yeah lol

[low nimbus]

DHades 2 up dialogue that made me laugh

[sudden tulip]

I think I am going to give up on maxing out that last relationship

||the RNG of "will Icarus show up at camp, or will he not" is just annoying to deal with||

[hard quail]

Yeah that's about where I'm at too tbh. ||Plus, I can find a scene comp on youtube I'm sure lol||

But I'm bout ready to move on to another game. And by that I mean replay the witcher 3 again

[wicked knoll]

Hades II Icarus ||He’s been my number one since I met him. Always make sure I’ve got my gift selection handy for when he shows up because it’s slow going 😅||

[sudden tulip]

^ ||Same, it was just not enough!||

[low nimbus]

||yeah he just has so much dialogue backlog because of his infrequent appearances and the need to coordinate seeing him in camp and in the world and so on I think.||

[thorn root]

This is funny

[sudden tulip]

Upsetting

[thorn root]

Hades 2 top clear hidden aspect. Unexpectedly tanky run

[sudden tulip]

Well, yeah, when you dodge half the attacks

[little jewel]

I just had a run where my highest damage was my dash

It was kind of funny

I got the Hera boon that makes another boon heroic and gives levels, on my Hera dash

[sudden tulip]

I've never been able to put together a dash build

[low nimbus]

I've done a few: this was my best one.

Ares rush boon seems by far the most effective, but only if you can get it's duos.

[rare thicket]

Alright! Back from hiatus and (Hades 2) ||I beat Typhon the first time I met him!||

[compact wigeon]

||awesome job, and a really neat build!||

||never tried deme and Hephaestus before but I see the vision||

[rare thicket]

Hades 2 down clear, up clear ||Turns out stacking Ares buffs with the torches is kinda nutty||

[rare thicket]

||TBH, it was less Heph&Deme and more Hammer&Oh-no-these-conditional-infusions-need-so-much-water||

[wicked knoll]

Hades II Olympus || why didn’t anyone tell me there’s a DODGE WEASEL!!!!???!! ||

|| friends off with cat and bird. Friends on with Dodge Weasel. ||

[thorn root]

Thanks charon..........??

What

[compact wigeon]

Omg 🤣

Its a sign crispy

[thorn root]

Cosmic they're doing something to me and I don't like it

Well, went into r4d with 0 dd and it went about as expected. I really need to clean up my earlier boss fights tbh

[low nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-hello-elmo-rise-elmo-hell-gif-3989603362345473118

[wicked knoll]

I hope you have the one that increases dodge against scorch afflicted foes 😅

[sudden tulip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCU_M3SFwQ

[wicked knoll]

Beat the upward route for the first time last night

Had a very satisfying dodge/daze/scorch build

The baseline || guaranteed dodge % from Gale really makes me want to aways do dodge builds. ||

I was trying to set up for || Aphrodite’s air infusion dodge boon, but I got a prophesied duo boon in the same offering and took that instead. ||

I really want to try Perfect Image with a good dodge set up

Also - (new aspects) || the circe aspect staff really incentivizes going ham on cast boons. ||

If you do || the Apollo boons that expand the cast + some of the after effect ones especially. ||

In || the rift sometimes I was covering half the boat with double cast circles. ||

Is anyone a fan of the coat or skull? I’m down with any of the other 4 arms, but coat and skull do not work for me.

Dreading having to double down and learn them when I decide it’s time to clear prophecies.

[sudden tulip]

||That's not a hidden aspect, is it? It's just the second one, no?||

[wicked knoll]

Oh correct!

Edited

[sudden tulip]

I don't think I've ever pulled this kind of build off, but I've seen it, and it looks fun

[sudden tulip]

I am kind of mid about coat. I tend to focus on attacks with it, and it's fun to punch fast. I've had good runs with it, where my attack special crits for over 2k

Skull is, ironically, my least favorite weapon, though the hidden aspect bumps it up a bit

[wicked knoll]

One run I had || Circe staff, expanding cast, a bunch of cast boons + the AOE fully complete Selune boon and I was just raining down damage. ||

[clear gate]

Selune :P

[wicked knoll]

I was a sword, bow, spear guy in Hades I, and coat and skull feel like successors to the rail and shield

[wicked knoll]

Selene 😅

DND spellings ruin me

[clear gate]

hehehe

[mental summit]

Same mood, I never really liked shield or rail

[midnight canyon]

i really like the coat, did all my high fear runs with it
skull is lame and can go die in a pit

[thorn root]

I don't really vibe with skull or coat yeah

[compact wigeon]

Skulls is so fun though

[hard quail]

Hidden skull is pretty good. ||You gotta have a good magic regen tho, so you can proc Valkyrie consistently||

[thorn root]

I was a little more into hidden than some of the other aspects

[low nimbus]

I like skull

Tho I almost never use the regular special except to get my ammo back and in general find the way the ammo mechanic works to be annoying

My favourite skull is mom skull for all the bonus levels Late Game ||especially in combo with the pom keepsake for even more|| and the cool and very strong omega special.

Tho the regular and hidden are fine too. And I think skull has quite a few strong hammers.

Tbh I like all the aspects in Hades 2, I think like on average more than the Hades 1 ones?

Like in Hades 1 I had my faves and I had the ones I didn't ever really use that much, whereas in 2 I feel like I'm happy to use all the weapons and their aspects.

There's maybe a couple I don't use but compared to 1 it's probably like a 500% increase or more in usage

[rare thicket]

I forget the name of it, but I really like the skull where instead of throwing them, you just load them into yourself for your special

Coat feels fun, but I don't think I've quite got the headspace down to use it well yet

[hard quail]

Medea

[low nimbus]

In my ongoing quest to grind up Icarus relationship I've been spamming surface runs and to make it interesting I've been upping the difficulty (Now up to VoR 4 + 20% frenzy), and lost a few now as a result to ||VoR Typhon and occasionally to VoR Prometheus + Friend|| But ohhh boy this run was out of control right from the start, one of the most unhinged and powerful I've seen in ages, like I've hit this kinda level before but not ever so fast / early, also had the Hestia boon where enemies explode when killed from nearly the beginning and set off a few massive chain reactions early on which was very fun.

Those Heph blasts were going crazy with the duo and the level 12 grand caldera, also had the other duo with apollo though my only source of daze was the one that triggers when I get hit, but when I did the blasts with the extra damage from removing daze were huge.

(sidenote: still haven't finished Icarus relationship of course)

(he didn't even show up this run)

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[compact wigeon]

Havent played hades 2 in a couple weeks

Lets see if I can do this

[mental summit]

I did that yesterday and died to up1 😬

embarrassing

[compact wigeon]

girl I was no better, I lost to down3 😭

We need to lock in queen

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||tartarus|| ||all right, just started playing this game. Got to Meg. Pretty fun game so far||

[compact wigeon]

Blaze? In the hades 1 + 2 chat?? We are so back

Have fun bud, the first one is great

[wicked knoll]

I struggle with Up1 for some reason. I often get flukey runs where I lose death defiances or die there.

I think it’s because (up1) || for some reason I have it in my head dashing always bypasses the shockwave attack, but that’s only with certain boons. ||

[mental summit]

It was my first run trying to do no death defiances and huh, 30 HP goes quickly...

[wicked knoll]

Oh yup

[mental summit]

I did have a complete down run after that so we turned it around a little

[wicked knoll]

I still haven’t done || the Artemis keepsake || chaos trial for that reason.

I tried my first (fear) || improved Hecate run and she obliterated me. ||

I feel like the || improved bosses in Hades I didn’t upscale to that extent in heat runs but maybe I just wasn’t playing well ||

[compact wigeon]

Sweet vindication its not just me

Up1 was a problem for me for a looooong time

[mental summit]

Up 1 ||I always forget that him jumping over you counts as a hit. Like I'm looking for the impact circles where he lands but he kicks my head going over me every single time||

[compact wigeon]

103 nights and it still gets me, yeah

Up1 ||also when he hits, he hits HARD even on strength 😭||

[sudden tulip]

Dashing always does, but it's easy to dash attack instead, and that doesn't give immunity frames

[mental summit]

Wait WHAT

Dash attack nullifies the dash i-frames????? That cannot be true

[low nimbus]

as soon as you hit the attack button yeah it stops being a dash and becomes an attack, effectively.

[mental summit]

:0

Okay well this explains a lot of hits that I was pretty sure I didn't deserve to take and somehow got damaged anyway

This feels like the kind of pertinent information about game mechanics that would have been great to get Skelly to tell you about!!!

The dash attack should just queue at the end of the dash animation when you press it in the middle!!! I didn't want to end the invulnerability early, I wanted to attack on the other side of it!!!

This is sending me

[clear gate]

lmaoooo

[mental summit]

Does everybody know this except me??!!

[compact wigeon]

Its okay i didnt (and I wont remember, trust)

[hard quail]

I didn't, it explains soooo much

[mental summit]

I dash attack all the time 😭

[hard quail]

Same!!! Its like...core to how I play the game

[mental summit]

I didn't think I was being PUNISHED with less safety for it!!

[compact wigeon]

Especially when im using blades.... that explains so much indeed

[clear gate]

I don't think I really actively dash attack, is the thing

like I'm sure I do dash attacks but when I'm dashing for the purposes of avoiding damage, I'm not really pushing damage

[midnight canyon]

I only really dash attack with the coat because the move is broken

Specially with the hammer that makes it hit 3 more times

[thorn root]

Huh, I knew you didn't get iframes when you dash out of a charge, didn't realize dash attack also loses them

[clear gate]

dash giving invincibility is at least something skelly guy tells you

[mental summit]

Yeah, but I've never seen a heads up that you can cancel the invincibility by hitting another button during it 😩

I remember him saying there's a sparkly trail behind you that lets you know when it's ready to use again but this would have been way more helpful

[sudden tulip]

dash attack is an attack, not a dash followed by an attack 😛

[mental summit]

I never in a million years would have guessed that it would immediately go into the attack when you hit the button

It seemed perfectly obvious to me that the dash would finish it's full duration first!

You can't cancel out any of the other attacks by hitting a different button!

[rare thicket]

I feel like there are some actions you can dash out of

(but it's been probably like a week since my last run, so it's an unreliable feel)

[clear gate]

I'm the opposite, i felt it was clear that dash is a temporary state that you can intentionally end early

[mental summit]

It's such a tiny window already why would they let you make it tinier

[sudden tulip]

I don't think of it as canceling out of the dash, but as a separate move that happens to reuse the dash button

[clear gate]

yeah, that's it

like it's two mutually exclusive things you can do with that dash button, one is avoid damage, and one is do damage

[mental summit]

Meanwhile, me trying to avoid damage and put a special little whack at the end: why do I keep getting hit, I dashed through that

[sudden tulip]

Go forth, and do (or avoid) damage with this newfound knowledge

[mental summit]

No no no, what makes me mad is that now the muscle memory is so baked in that I'm going to keep doing it, but now I'll know it was my fault when I take the damage 😭

[sudden tulip]

Go forth and take unnecessary damage then

[wicked knoll]

I was also in the dark

This makes more sense why it was confusing though

I was assuming it was the boon thing

But I was just timing it wrong or hitting attack too soon I guess

[mental summit]

okay i can't stay up super late, but i do want to put this new cursed knowledge to some kind of use so

doing a little hades strim

@sudden tulip consider yourself informed

[sudden tulip]

Appreciated but I've got pre-Nexus prep

[mental summit]

fiiine i guess SOME people have EVENTS

[sudden tulip]

Please make sure your future schedule adheres to mine

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||tartarus|| ||all right, meg down. Really enjoying the shield. Also, I appreciate how mucb variety there is in the dialogue go this game. Athena was not happy when I contacted her through charon||

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||asphodel|| ||Am so smart. Killed the hydra with 1 health left, then stepped into the lava whole truing to leave . Luckily still had some death defiance, but still a waste 😔||

[worthy mist]

||elysium|| ||dang, and I got the minotaur down that run. Mightve actually beat them if I had my second death defiance||

[sudden tulip]

Been there...

[wicked knoll]

I’m still struggling every up run (cleared twice, but sometimes still failing to clear up1), while consistently clearing the down path.

And I’ve done the up run way more times at this point 😅

At least recently

[mental summit]

i am also going to go back and attempt to relearn how to do up

i've got one clear that way but man i am dying early on a lot of these now

anyway lets see if tonight goes any better

[wicked knoll]

Just made it to the final up boss a second time in a row. Lost but got close so maybe I’ve cracked it

[mental summit]

Yeah I finally made it all the way up again but couldn't get the clear

[sudden tulip]

Up is more difficult

[mental summit]

i am set up for an axe run next time tho and that was how i got my one up clear

[wicked knoll]

So (boons and hidden aspect) || supay torch + a boon that makes your channeled cast follow you + the Hermes’ dash boon that gives you a barrier basically makes you an invincible death machine.

I just set up my special and cast and then zoom around. ||

I also had (same + down boss) || 40% dodge on top of that and the legendary Hermes’ boon that turns your coin into a bonus health pool. Chronos barely touched me ||

[sudden tulip]

You play weird builds

[hard quail]

I mean tbf, weird builds are fun to try and make work, that's a major appeal of the game, you know

[compact wigeon]

Hades 2 hidden aspects ||Hidden skulls feels CRACKED omg||

[sudden tulip]

It's my favorite skull aspect

[mental summit]

Two more up runs, two more failures 😩

Up ||Died to mini-boss Talos the first time and the second time I must have had Typhon down to a sliver but I'd taken frankly a ridiculous amount of damage myself. I took that Dio boon that hides your max health and I had a few regen boons. It wouldn't surprise me if I took 1000+ damage that run, easily||

[thorn root]

||I love worry free, it is so funny to me||

||Making progress with typhon though!||

[thorn root]

Hades 2 post game plot prophecy ||Ugh the fates thing didn't trigger for me cause the third chamber ended up being asphodel 😭 And it kicked me out.......||

[keen urchin]

Hades 2 Post game plot prophecy ||There is a trial of chaos with the correct keepsake in the correct area for the last bit. Way easier||

[mental summit]

Reprogging is always kind of a bad feeling but it does feel like my one up clear at this point was more of a fluke, since I've got about 10 failures between me and it now 😩

[sudden tulip]

It took me a few tries to make all this work

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||wooh, reached the final boss twice! No wins yet, but good progress. I also love how dynamic the dialogue is, like u was using the Zeus shield one of those times and so he complained about it ||

[thorn root]

I managed to get this the second time, thankfully 😅

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||wooh! Got my first win!||

||swift strike + flurry slash + cursed slash hard carried me ||

[mental summit]

I came to find Aphro for ONE specific boon and I got it

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Finallyyyyy

||I dodged so much in the final fight though, I feel like my dodge chance proc'd way more often than 22%||

[wicked knoll]

Looks like you are also || getting some dodge from Hermes’ ||

Unless I’m mixing up icons

I’ve got all the dodge boons marked off at this point with their pre reqs 😅

As an aside Up || I love how sassy Athena is every time you take her dash boons ||

[thorn root]

Yeah you're right. I'm ngl I don't remember anyone's boon icons lmao, pulled up the wiki for this [Boons] ||Another 15% or so?||

[mental summit]

Ooh you're probably right, I should pull that one up too and check

Also Gale gives some innate dodge, right?

[compact wigeon]

She does!! I love that happy lil thing

-# I pick her because she does funny backflips when shes happy

[hard quail]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xMlezfJZyjo

[wicked knoll]

6% standard, I think if you gave him maxed, but that can be increased or doubled by ||Circe|| if you take the up path.

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||wooh, beat redacted on heat 1 with the gun now! I was using the aspect that gives you bonus damage when yoh reload, and had some crazy Zeus synergy going. Im also making progress towards orpheus/eurydice's quest line, its pretty cool how well written this game is.||

||was expecting to be playing only for the challenge, but part of my motivation is getting nectar to continue the stories of each npc ||

||Oh wait, the heat gauge is per weapon? Rip||

[wicked knoll]

You’ll find || per weapon heat|| is actually a good thing.

[worthy mist]

Hades ||oh my gosh, zag just nicknamed the hydra lernie, and I'm dying at how it says lernie vanquished now ||

[hard quail]

||And it will for the rest of the game!||

[worthy mist]

||man do i love the humor in this game||

[thorn root]

Hades 2 hidden aspect. R4 down complete!!! ||Flame strike and cardio gain sounded strong on Hel aspect, and indeed it was. Someone tell me though, how I started the run with Hestia and didn't see her infusion the whole time??? That would've literally been fire on this build. What the Hel!!||

Now, I'd like to have a few more R4 runs under my belt before I turn that off........ 😭😭😭 But I think this actually was a good learning experience for that fight

[mental summit]

hey HOLD up

has (up) ||Prometheus been BEN STARR THE WHOLE TIME||

y'all they just patched that in right

my ears aren't that blind are they 😭

[thorn root]

.......y..yeeaaahhhh..............

[mental summit]

hahahahaha ||what a funny e33 crossover in honor of the game awards, that they just did right now, to mess with me||

||HOW DID I NEVER HEAR IT BEFORE, HE'S SO BEN STARR IT'S UNMISSABLE||

im haunted

[hollow basin]

I have some bad news for you

[mental summit]

this hurts

[clear gate]

that's hysterical

[mental summit]

cleared again! 😤

||I got Hearty Appetite in like, the third room after getting one Aphro boon and one Deme boon, and then it was just "okay get AS MUCH LIFE AS POSSIBLE" and then Hephestus came through and gave me extra life based on mana, which really helped when Echo's keepsake kind of screwed me over. I wanted to take the Athena boon that replenishes all death defiances and makes them stronger... but Echo decided I also wanted the one that primes 150 mana 😭 ||

||But then I had to hard pivot to trying to get as much mana as possible to try to BE ABLE TO USE MY OMEGA MOVES AGAIN, and we did get it back up there, but like, Echo, pls... I was avoiding that one... ||

||I only had 80 mana at the time, but I got it up to 300 by the end (150 useable)||

[sudden tulip]

That's a fun troll

||Free DD in each location is pretty powerful||

[mental summit]

||I didn't even use it except on Typhon. I was doing stupid amounts of damage with my whacky scythe. Upgraded Aphro attack, Hearty appetite, Blackened Fleece and a couple of other things meant my omega attack was just an absolute shredder||

[sudden tulip]

||Yeeeah, I love Thanatos axe with either Aphrodite's or Demeter's attacks||

[wicked knoll]

Down Boss || how does one beat Cronus without death defiance? I keep getting close but I don’t think I know how to avoid his crazy red black hole attack that does 999 damage ||

[clear gate]

||stand in the hole||

||unless you're talking about another one||

[sudden tulip]

||There's a couple of "almost the entire arena is covered in insta-death, but there's a safe spot" mechanics||

[wicked knoll]

|| I know how to do the golden clock work safe spot ones. But there’s one where it looks all red and it’s getting sucked into a point. It sounds like the point is the safe spot? ||

Cool. Was frustrating doing runs with no death defiance || because I’m trying to meet Arachne with the gorgon amulet || and then doing well but getting || squashed by that one specific attack. And he only uses it twice in a combat so it’s not something I could experiment or learn easy. ||

[sudden tulip]

I am surprised you are this deep in the game and have just been paying the DD tax at the start of each P2 😄

[thorn root]

Down boss ||Apparently you can iframe the 999 too lmao. I've never been brave enough to try it though||

[wicked knoll]

Listen….

I’m not always the smartest

I almost always had two to spare so why not?

[sudden tulip]

"Hello, I am here to fight the boss, here's my DD ticket" 🫠

[wicked knoll]

The good news is because I could afford the tax I’ll likely be fine without now that I know the trick

[compact wigeon]

Down 4 boss ||I was on the othet end of this, I had NO idea it was a 1 shot until I randomly died because I didnt hit the circle in time... and I dont run DDs 😭||

||wasnt even mad either 😂||

[worthy mist]

Just got the true ending of hades 1!

Hades 1 ||now time to keep looking for hidden aspects and fulfilling prophecies||

[compact wigeon]

Hades 1 ||awesome! Which has been your favorite weapons to use?? 👀||

[worthy mist]

||Either aspect of zeus or excalibur. I've only had one run with excalibur, but it was great. I had the athena's dash, and it was so fun being able to deflect everything in my holy ground||

||especially with splitters in elysium||

https://tenor.com/view/quick-silver-xmen-gif-7908043

||made me feel like this ||

[wicked knoll]

(H1) || Excalibur is so fun. I think that’s why I like || (h2) || the axe in hades 2 ||

[mental summit]

Alright, idk if there's any chance of it actually running, but I am downloading Hades II onto my weak little laptop while I'm away

It managed to run Silksong!

I feel like Hades II isn't super graphics intensive... a lot of it is 2D and there aren't tons of particles or anything

[clear gate]

ooh, good luck

[hollow basin]

There are a good number of particle effects

That'd actually be my chief concern on a very low end device

[mental summit]

I'm trying to recall if there's any option for turning the graphics down or if it's more of a one-size fits all kind of aesthetic

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||Wooh, heat 8 completed! Doubt I'll go for the 16 achievement though||

[low nimbus]

I mean it runs on a switch

so it will probably run

though iirc switch is 30fps which is painful to me

[worthy mist]

Hades 1 ||that was a fun run. Literally just spamming festive fog, my Zeus shield with lightning, and blade rifts, ripping through everything||

[keen urchin]

Hades II NPCs
||https://bsky.app/profile/supergiantgames.bsky.social/post/3malukuss7c2j||
||look at them ||

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[mental summit]

managed to get the game running on my laptop, though it is a bit chuggy

"ha ha, i've been doing up for a while, time to do down again and enjoy the easier time of it after this long break i've had"

[died to the first boss. with death defiances]

😩

the muscle memory LEAVES

[compact wigeon]

Oh it sure does

[mental summit]

I had already lost two death defiances in a god battle earlier tho

so i didn't lose them all to that boss

[mental summit]

Down ||Echo copied another daedalus hammer for me ✌️||

[worthy mist]

I've come to an epiphany

Hades is just stardew without the farm

You fish

You stab stuff

And you make friends with or simp on people

So, o might be doing stardew next

[wicked knoll]

Credits!!

[clear gate]

!

[mental summit]

Down again ||Zagreus refused to hand over the spear because he doesn't think killing Chronos is the right move, especially when he's never met him. ||

||Melinoe's frustrated with him but wehhhh i love my boi so much, he's right about this one, i bet you he is and we're gonna find another way||

General ||Also I just unlocked deeper trust with Nem and Moros 👀 I think I gotta go for Mor first... ||

[mental summit]

Grey watched me fumble an absolutely beautiful staff build last night on the up route 😭

I was overconfident and wasn't keeping track of my death defiances

Up ||I had Circe staff with an absolutely stupid amount of damage on the double casts. Demeter base for the freeze, plus the Zeus boons that strike everything with lightning, PLUS the Apollo "nuke everything in the area of an Ω cast after it expires" (and his boon to make casts expand, so the nuke area was huge) and then I snagged the Demeter boon of doing extra damage when standing in your casts right at the end with a reroll. ||

||It was doing SO much damage but the lack of mobility while holding down the charge button during the Ω cast really made me take way more damage than I should have||

And I realized ||If you get hit while charging an Ω, sometimes it interrupts you and you don't get it off, so I took that damage for no reason||

Ugh I almost want to try to get that build again but I'm not sure I could actually force it

[clear gate]

I should have said something 😭 I didn't realize you weren't tracking them

[mental summit]

I was locked in, I thought I could just face tank it and pull thru

I'm realizing most of my successful up runs I've been there with like 300+ health and ~30% dodge chance 😅

I uhhh maybe have not learned how to actually avoid damage in that fight

[clear gate]

I'm not amazing at it myself, some of those moves don't click right with my brain

[mental summit]

I was also very much not being safe with how much I was trying to get those Ω attacks off

[clear gate]

you loved that cast build so much you were not cautious in the least but until the end you didn't really need to be

[mental summit]

You shouldn't have to be cautious with a nukeeee 😭

I overestimated my ability to melt

[wicked knoll]

I’ve had almost this exact combo before and it’s sick

[mental summit]

It was so beautiful

Staff I think really suffers for damage usually but this did not

[sudden tulip]

You just need to build it right

I find that the Aspect of Melinoe works well with boons that favor fast attacks (e.g. Hestia, Poseidon, Zeus-ish) and really pops off with the "Your attack hits 2 times, but use 5 Magick" hammer upgrade. Can't speak to the Aspect of Momus, I don't like omega builds 😅 And the hidden aspect, ||the Aspect of Anubis, is just good with everything, it pumps out some unethical amounts of damage if you can aim it right||

[mental summit]

Yeah I had that two hit upgrade from the hammer too, which also really helped

[clear gate]

I also dislike omega builds, I like to move around too much

[mental summit]

I tend to do a lot of omega builds I realize, because I feel like you get more damage for the cost

Also I'm often running the card where you do extra damage when your mana is below full, so I'm always looking for ways to spend it

[low nimbus]

I think Circe is probably my favourite staff, so many good casts

though the hidden aspect is also very fun

[mental summit]

Mannnn now I wanna play but I don't think I'll get to for the next few nights

I got stuff going on

Also I really need to get some more hidden aspects, I still only have knives

[low nimbus]

knifes is a fun one

[mental summit]

Pls hidden aspects... reveal yourselves to me...

[low nimbus]

brings out a unique playstyle

[mental summit]

I really want to like it but I just can't get it to work

I feel like I've taken it out on the up route like 3 times and I die in the first zone

Hidden knives ||I know I was just talking about usually liking Omega moves, but think trying to do the Omega move in the triad gets me hit too often||

||I feel like both of the omega moves are so tiny you have to do them a lot to finish the triad on multiple enemies, which frustrates me||

||Maybe there's a hammer upgrade that would make the omega area bigger on the attack or special or something||

[midnight canyon]

I was an omega build fan until i had to do high fear
never aagain lmao

[low nimbus]

Knives hidden aspect ||My general approach is to be attack-focused but to weave in specials and omega specials since then I can proc the triad damage spike and then re-trigger that part of the triad it when the knife comes back so really after the first one you only need to do 2 moves per triad. So I can special, attack, omega special -> proc -> attack, special -> proc -> attack, omega -> proc. Also sometimes you can dash around away from the spinny knife to pull it through a bunch of enemies. I almost never use the omega attack tbh, though occasionally to cleave down trash. ||

[clear gate]

I need to go fast!!

[low nimbus]

IDK about high fear but at least on what I'd call "medium fear" that I usually play on, I use omegas quite a bit though maybe not as the focus of my build, except on torches where the omega attack is just, like, a core part of the kit rather than an addition.

[clear gate]

torches is the only one where I'm naturally drawn to omegas, that's true

[mental summit]

Hmmm I had not tried using the Omega special that way ||I was mostly doing omega attacks because the omega specials were so slow and short range. I'm seeing now that that might be kind of on purpose though for the double procs and ability to run away to make them travel farther to get back to you.|| Maybe I'll try that

I love that the basic attack of the hidden knives ||hits an area around you, though. I was really psyched when I saw that and then it's been annoying to not be about to make the weapon work for me||

Torches are nice that they kind of have a built-in omega too, that's fun

[midnight canyon]

high fear i just found the cost of keeping the specials viable was not very good when everythoing you do reduces max mana and stuff

[sudden tulip]

Sister Blades hidden aspect ||I do omega attack to engage, followed by regular attack and regular special; then it's rinse & repeat||

[mental summit]

I'll give them a spin next time they're thirsty

[low nimbus]

Yeah Vow of Hubris is kinda... either it's free fear or it's something you actively have to try hard to mitigate if you wanna use that mana.

[midnight canyon]

mhmmm

[low nimbus]

Tho on up runs there is ||the one buff from Madea that gives 5 max mana per room so it's entirely free||

[midnight canyon]

and in high fear you want to go fast anyways both for the timer and because well. everything either hits harder, moves faster, etc etc

so the slowdown from omegas isnt the best anyways

[low nimbus]

That said even without it there are a lot of powerful mana regen options ||Hestia my beloved especially. So you can get away with having most of your max mana reserved.||

[midnight canyon]

hestia is a lot of fun in general tbh

[low nimbus]

yeah

I think maybe you play a bit higher heat than me, or at least different settings, I tend to just use 2 ranks of time and 3-4 ranks of rivals depending on what I want, then maybe sprinkle in some hubris, fangs, wards, return, the one that makes minibosses harder, and the one that makes enemies from later areas turn up, depending on what I'm feeling like.

so most of it doesn't really affect what gameplay choices I will make, some of it slows me down a bit, but 7 mins per zone is very cosy.

making me wanna play Hades 2 again

I've been attempting to play Terraria today but oof

my poor inventory

[midnight canyon]

i was trying to get all the statues and i didnt run any level of rivals and max speed and a bunch of stuff

well, i did get my statues

[little jewel]

Hit the credits!

I was not expecting that ending

Final fight ||I did not see that third phase coming, so you have unlimited death defies in that fight? Kind of an interesting idea to have a ceremonial final phase||

[sudden tulip]

mhm!

[worthy mist]

Is that for 1 or 2?

[sudden tulip]

2

[worthy mist]

[mental summit]

I have never seen what happens if you get every single boon an Olympian has to offer and then find another of their nodes:

waow

[midnight canyon]

i love that lmao

[sudden tulip]

You get that a lot if you play with the Vow that discards any boons you don't select 😅

[mental summit]

Late game mechanics ||8 fear down completed!||

||My first night out with the Eos torches and they served me well. Got a nice little freeze on special, Zeus (with chain lightning) on attack||

||A shocky tornado of death :3||

[sudden tulip]

Chain lightning is a good boon for them

[mental summit]

Late game ||Ah, tried up 8 for the first time on the Than scythe, made it to the end but couldn't get Typhon. Alas... I did get the nightmare for it though, but I was hoping to win Skelly's challenge, since I already got the down side||

[low nimbus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVrJya47YQ maybe old news but I just saw this, how awesome!

[wicked knoll]

Hades II hidden aspects || okay the hel skull slaps. I will use the skull now. ||

If they do a hades 3 I’d love it if both Zag and Mel were player options

[sudden tulip]

I'd like a new character

[low nimbus]

I kinda hope they don't tbh

[sudden tulip]

I think an Olympian or some demigod hero might be fun

[compact wigeon]

Its copium to the max but what if hades 3 was about ares hm 🥴

[rare thicket]

Honestly, I'm not sure if there's any "big Greek Gods event" left, (Hades 1&2 general) ||They don't care a ton about timelines, but the Trojan War is in the past and Hades 2 is kinda sorta the Gigantomachia if you squint at it right||

I guess Hades 3 could be about the pantheon merging into the Roman pantheon, but that feels messy

[low nimbus]

Hades 1 + 2 ALL and why I think they shouldn't do further sequels with the same formula: ||While I think Hades 2 has the better gameplay I think it has a far worse story and mostly less good character arcs too, in no small part because it's stuck with the roguelike formula forcing things to remain stagnant while at the same time being a sequel they felt some need to go bigger and the global scale just doesn't work as well from a storytelling perspective if you want to have a satisfying conclusion but still maintain the roguelike "the runs continue" situation. Like it's fine in Hades 1 that Zag keeps fighting all the souls in the underworld for fun, the underworld is how it is and it isn't supposed to change (although, of course, Zag is able to change the situations of everyone he meets there for the better) wheres in Hades 2 it's kinda insane that they just leave the whole surface world of greece filled with undead and olympus besieged forever because uh reasons. And where Zag is able to bring change in small ways to make his world better Mel just kinda shrugs and maintains the status quo ie. with Arachne, saying "meh" to every fact Prometheus lays down about how much the gods suck, Dora, Heracles, etc. because it's kinda... it'd break the mythology and the premise of the game if she turns around and goes "hmm yeah you got a point, basically everyone I know got screwed by these jerks, time to kick some god ass". Also I think it annoyed me extra because I was seeing all these patterns and they were clearly talking about and flirting with this idea of beings wronged by the gods, and then nothing y'know? Also on a personal level while I kinda see the angle they ended up trying for (and it sorta works with Echo and Narcissus (who is one of the better characters in this game) I don't think calendar year 2025 is the right time for a "accept that the world is unjust and learn to be happy with what you get" as a moral. I'm more in a "burn it to the ground" kinda place||

Or at least I think they need to do a lot more careful consideration on what kinda stories can be told within this format

[sudden tulip]

Hmm, this is going to be a tricky tag, but let's say Hades 1 credits ||https://bskyx.app/profile/ryuuna.bsky.social/post/3kei7srm3lu2m ||

and Hades 2 credits ||https://bskyx.app/profile/ryuuna.bsky.social/post/3l3eb2hiwkv2h ||

[low nimbus]

sadly I cannot see those posts without a blue sky account

[sudden tulip]

this will do

[hard quail]

Hades 1 post-game ||So glad when I see people agreeing with my Persephone/Nyx agenda||

[mental summit]

@sudden tulip i be strimmin for a lil bit

(and also anyone else who wants to join)

[mental summit]

Hades 2, Late game ||Typhon has been destroyed! I'm headed out to dinner now but afterwards... Death to Chronos. (Or Zagreus works his charm on Grandpa and convinces him not to attack everybody, actually 👀)||

[mental summit]

OKAY

im back

lets finish this thing

imma strim

obligatory ping for @sudden tulip

[sudden tulip]

I'll come hang for a few

[wicked knoll]

I’ve officially cleared Rivals 3 in both directions. Making progress on prophecies.

fated List find the fates || Also did not realize there are instructions on this I was missing. I just read the bullet point “find us Melinoe” - and am now realizing I could have made progress by doing whatever weird keepsake task they have at the top. ||

[lone tree]

Hades post-game ||Beat up my dad multiple times, have been given title of security specialist, working on maxing out keepsakes and advancing the story.|| What an incredible game so far.

[low nimbus]

There are a few abilities from Hades 1 I really miss in hades 2 I have to say, and watching a run on youtube right now it's reminding me how much I enjoyed the Demeter beam meme once it gets going

[hard quail]

I miss my double dash 😭

[lone tree]

Just 100 percented Hades (well, earned all the achievements)

[lone tree]

Hades 2: Hades Harder is really interesting

At first it was really more of the same, but there's a lot more depth to the game design

[thorn root]

I boot up hades 2 for the first time in like a month and a half.......... and I left off in a boss room???? Past me, what were you thinking

I'm so rusty and idk what this build is lmao

[compact wigeon]

Past Crispy had beef with you apparently 🤣

[thorn root]

Well I won and it actually went very well, so there! A very straight attack damage build (R4 Up)

[compact wigeon]

||YOU LEFT YOURSELF AT TYPHON?? 😭||

[thorn root]

No I left myself at 2nd boss

Which admittedly is still one of my worst fights 😭 it really shouldn't be but....

And that's a clear with every single aspect!

[compact wigeon]

Woah thats so neat!

I gotta hop back in one of these days

[thorn root]

Hades 2 up 3 ||You can fish in this tiny fountain??||

[rare thicket]

||Well yeah, why do you think the chimera statue is camping it out?||

[thorn root]

Got my last duo today too!

[thorn root]

Hades 2 up/trials ||Great chaos above complete! ............How did I deal 27k in traps?? What counts as trap damage? 🤔||

||Like did I literally knock over 27k worth of trees and pillars and stuff in the environment??||

[hybrid mason]

Crisp comin in here just under the 2 week limit to prevent Argent from closing the thread. 😤

[thorn root]

Lmaoo just close the thread if it's time, I've been the only one playing in here the past few weeks

[sudden tulip]

Yeah, I forgot I hadn't done that, but this message reminded me