#h1-discussion
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SD isn't needed until like 25ish
ik ik but my goal is 32
Kinda but it makes boss fights harder because you can tank less
SD has good well items and patty
there should be
Shifter (green ghost) - The enemy will teleport randomly.
Bruiser (helm) - The enemy has greatly increased health and size.
Slugger (sword) - The enemy deals more damage, like the Hard Labor punishment. (Stacks with other pacts of punishment).
Puller (purple disk) - The enemy has a small 'gravitational' field around them that can not be escaped by walking. Usually takes several dashes to break free.
Savior (blue shield) - The enemy will periodically give other nearby enemies 1 shielded health, up to a max of 5.
Speeder (boots) - The enemy attacks and moves faster, like the Forced Overtime punishment. (Stacks with other pacts of punishment).
Linker (pink ray) - A laser is created from the enemy to another nearby enemy. Prioritizes linking with armored foes, but can link to normal enemies.
Cloner (skulls) - Tartarus only. Fake clones of the enemy will constantly spawn, up to a cap. Each clone has 1 hp (armor and regular each). All clones die when the original dies.
Burner (fire) - Asphodel only. The enemy will constantly create fire traps.
Seeker (green star) - Projectiles fired by this enemy will home in on you.
Popper (warrior soul) - Exalts in Elysium only. In addition to the real soul, the Exalt will drop several fake souls that explode upon death or after a few seconds.
Ty Ty
yo sup
Played through hades on my switch before, got it on my ps5 cuz im hyped
Man on my second run back and having a new save file I killed Meg lol
meg killed me on my first few tries, but i've never been killed by any of the fury sisters now
For maybe 30 runs now, the only non-generic dialogue i've gotten is in the Nyx + Ares substory. Does that story unlock a Great Hall work order? I'm still missing something from that category
Hmm
That's mildly concerning
Oh, also haven't gotten the final conversation where Skelly talks about who hired him, either
Not sure what to do to unlock that conversation
Maybe I need to examine his statues more, or maybe beat Charon more times?
btw since i mentioned some sad stuff about my rabbit yesterday: thought i'd mention she's doing better than thought and she's still very sick but she has more of a chance than we thought. would appreciate good vibes for my lady... where should i send pics of her and the other two rabbits? i don't see a pets channel
although she is art 
#off-topic-discussion is fine
ok!
Take the tooth into asphodel
Talking to ||hermes|| with it equipped kicks off the dialogues for that
Okay, thanks
best way to farm meta currency on no heat?
Chaos and Poseidon boons plus Dark(er) Thirst
Take Fated Authority to reroll rooms into the meta currency you want
Unless you mean diamonds/titan's blood, in which case fishing for them and buying in Styx is about the only way without heat, other than trading
I’d personally take fated persuasion because the room rewards aren’t very significant compared to boosting boss darkness drops with oceans bounty and chaos eclipse
Which you can use persuasion to reroll for
Do you know of any hidden requirements for a last Great Hall work order I might be missing?
Do you have the throne?
You might need to inspect the mural behind dad to unlock that
I've bought one that changed Hades's chair, if that's what you're talking about
Yeah it is ok
I’m not even sure if I have the check mark for that tab tbh
Did you get the fountain in the west hall? That was one of my latest unlocks
Nyx is the only one still giving me non-generic messages in the house
I've gotten a couple fountains, yeah
Blood fountain was my last purchase
Has she hired dusa back?
Have you defeated Charon?
Yeah there’s a Charon treasure you can put by the pool
Yeah, gotten his card enough times to fill the journal
I stopped doing it much after that though, maybe I should kill him some more
And it replaces something so ugly that I wish I knew earlier that it did that
Boatman’s treasure
I'll check the shop once i'm out of this run
It replaces the fat gemstone covered pillar to the left of where you respawn
If you haven't already, check what you have against the list on the wiki https://hades.fandom.com/wiki/House_Contractor?so=search#Great_Hall
There’s a chair for Hypnos, a hades sigil for the middle of the hall, sarcophagi for the walkway to his desk
Maybe the hades wiki has a work order list, I'll compare after this run
Like 4 different kinds of flower petals
Apparently it was the east blood pool, but it took like 10 runs after buying the west one before it appeared
Dishonored 2
hades is not a popular game? lmao
It have its own….population
I does not mean the trivialize the success of this game
it's a very popular game
Ok
its popular but its indie
Yeah I think selling over 1 million copies makes it a popular game
well, like, hades sold 700k copies during its duration in early access (a year and a half-ish), and another 300k within days of full release, and it only got more popular and well-known from there
i imagine they sold another million easy during the first few months of full release as more and more people heard about it
not sure sgg has ever dropped any sales figures beyond that initial 1m milestone tho
thats just me guessing based on how the game exploded
How am i meant to escape with only 30hp?!?!?!?
Ever since I did Hades fanart of a concept of Melinoe almost a year ago, I was hoping they'd add a female protagonist! This is awesome! I'm super excited they made a version of Melinoe 😄
can I post images?
You can post links to images
fun fact dishonored 2 was almost only about Emily until the devs thought people wouldnt play it cuz its a girl
the worst part is that Corvo has the cooler powers
Upload it somewhere, or post it in another Discord server and copy the image link
he is fighting the final boss and got really lucky with the boons
oh wait he made a big blunder and died well at least he unlocked demeter
Nowhere near as common as asphodel and taking tooth into tart is an L move for your build
Whereas taking it into aspho probably won’t hurt you too badly
Also shut up tree
Does anybody know how I can make my Discord stream share stuff make Hades show which stage of the game I'm on?
Like for me it just shows "Playing Hades" but for a friend it shows exactly what he's doing in the game
I’m pretty sure it shows that for everyone
i think its an update so maybe try to update idk
both of my things are updated that's why I asked
it happened to me too a few months back but now it just says "Playing Hades"
oof
someone who is french can help me ?
sorry
or just someone who can help me with my problem
i can speak english it's not a problem
but better in my language
Is it a technical problem?
I only know spanish and english
when i start the game there is the bug reporter
?
but he don't say what can i do
so
what can i do for start hades and don't have a crash
I see. If you can post details in #h1-tech-support, they might be able to help you out
ty
I could see the stages myself back then, it's not that big of a deal
Je parle francais
there isn't my problem
unfortunately
I mean you should send a message in that channel asking for help. @rough token might be able to solve your problem
k
I wont lie, I forgot Supergiant made video games for a bit there
should I continue playing my normal file or should I start a new normal or start a hell mode file?
why are you asking us this
do what you want
Idk t know which I want to do
depends on what you're looking for. I started a new normal file the other day and it was funny how easy it was but kind of nostalgic to go back and redo everything. If you love doing things the diehard way, you get a considerable challenge boost with hell mode
butterfly ball my beloathed
Butterfly ball is better then bull wdym
that's because you have meg
Meg it and breathe on it and it’s dead
not everyone has meg 
Meg issue
without meg, bull is much easier
I hate butterfly ball
All the homies love butterfly ball
unless you have like, breaching cross or any of the extra damage to armor stuff
god I wanna start playing hades again
what's stopping you
Personally I would just start playing hades again in that case
finals
😭
true
I cemtered my build atound cyrstal glare and then I accidentally hit the wrong button and got rid of after beating theseus and asterius 😭
How many hours do you have played @swift inlet It sounds like you speedrun the game hehe
I did/do, more or less on a break
I'll check
180, which is nothing
Shows in my gameplay too lmao
oh bruh you have like half of mine but you have better times lmao
okay more than half but still lmao i have 323
I specifically went hard on learning to speedrun tbf
And started it pretty early in my Hades playtime
true
Ah okay, so you play the game to speedrun it
Do you run other titles?
oh damn when'd that happen
A while ago, before I got the software to record
I have like a 6:40-6:50 ish verified 😔
I just watched this and my god do you guys go hard wtf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0YcVRYmbVk
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Shorts Chan...
Grinding for the sub6 got derailed by finals hell
this is a completely different category lmao
Oh, that one does have really clean nuts gameplay, but that's fully planned and routed
that's a seeded run
Eh true, but having to do all this work would make me lose all interest in running the game
most players do unseeded
I see, cool still, I'm assuming you use a lot of the same strats
Excluding the routing/seeding and what not
yeah
Nah, a lot of what you learn is super interesting if you enjoy speedrunning or even general combat/decision making in games
enemy grouping, build
The thing that's most demotivating is actually the rng
Idk, i'd lose it having to grind the same repetitive stuff over and over, I don't have it in me lol
speedrunning in hades is also called "tartarus simulator" lmao
Which, yeah, it's a roguelike, but a single bad room can take 30 seconds or more
Ah lmao that's sad
Aka "witch/numbskull simulator"
yep
It isn't really a factor until you're pushing super low times, dw
I was following the scene for a bit after release but lost interest, it's crazy to see how far it's come
Congrats!
i mean i casually speedrun so i frankly dont really care unless it's over 2;45 leaving
very nice
I low key wanna do some casual runs rn and stream it
Grats
new wr was set yesterday and then hades 2 dropped lmfao
modded wr*
Oh that's cool
💪 unmodded rama being 2nd
Rama's fun as hell
Thank you ocke for unlocking hades 2 by supergiant games
rama do be fun
"More Hades content will not drop while Croven holds the WR"
- SGG, probably
It's a race against time
croven get a sub5 later that night but it was unrecorded lmao
Will SGG finish Hades 2 or will Croven swipe back WR again
probably croven tbh
Yeah
It takes months for someone to beat him, and then he has a new run like 5 days later
early access comes sometime 2023, so he's got plenty of time before degening hades2
last time it was 36 hours 
At least bigp had the throne longer than william henry harrison
Wait wtf is ocke's god pool
ares/aphro beo
This is the most blursed run of all time fr
-4 tart poms and no hammer until endshop but he gets fat chambers
rerolling poms 💪
tmw he leaves aspho the time i leave tart
I feel bad for Hypnos a little he is literally the god of sleep XD
Bro, sleep is literally the best
You should try it 👍
midboss -> midshop -> fountain -> than god damn ocke
This styx is actually ridiculous dude
Not a single tiny rat in sight
1 waves every time
oh bruh if than decided to cooperate would've been a better time
literally 7 second time loss
that's actually so horrid
There were a couple like 1 or 2 second things too
i mean yeah but i feel like than's is super upsetting
Like the muck up on Asterius and the tart witch needing a shield throw
It really do be rough like that
Hate when Than hangs around
esp considering ocke was in the right spot for than
I do like how if Zag teases Tisiphone her sisters get irritated.
They apparently find her current mental state not something to joke about
Tis deserves teasing she’s the worst
Factual
is tisiphone the psychopath?
aren't we all
Alecto is second worst especially when she laughs
On the plus side she get's better she went from saying Murder and Murderer to "Murder Zagreus"
Improvements XD
ocke's leaving styx before i even leave asphodel 
oh alecto is the psychopath
tisiphone is fineeee....until I dont have a rapid attack or athena dash
Dumped the stream in self promo chat if you wanna drop by
I mess up at alecto no matter what
How fast did ocke clear?
4:47
Oh that’s like.. by one second isn’t it
4:45
Oh wait that was croven
47 was previous iirc
ye
2 seconds this time lmao
i hope croven beats it by 2 seconds as well so it'd be consistent
Sub4 before hades 2 or bust
Doable with goated rooms + hacked chaos maybe
Yes**
guys wheres hades' workshop page on steam
Bruh
My actual rooms were great but the enemy patterns sucked 😩
double chaos + fountain + sisy tart with midshop
it do be like that
hey! hades does not support modding in an official capacity, there is a dev response about this back during the last early access period: #ask-supergiant message
there is a server that works on modding though, and we have an invite for it pinned in #self-promotion if you wanna go poke around and see what the modding community is up to
huh, the charon boss fight is pretty difficult
not the wisest decision to steal in tartarus with one boon only but i wanted to see what i was up against
Yeah it’s a lot easier if you fight him in Elysium
Fight him in the right underworld?
💬 Wow! You really fought against the legendary Boatman?!
he was talking to dusa when i died, sad
I don't remember his actual line, but it's something to that effect
is dark thirst multiplicative with chaos eclipse and poseidon’s bounty or is it just additive
As far as I know they're all additive, but I haven't confirmed this
👍 ty
good to know, so if I get dark thirst on a weapon I don’t really like while farming darkness, it’s not really going to make that much of a difference
well it kinda is
20% is still a decent chunk
hades gives like 300 darkness or something right
That sounds right
that's 36 more, which is still a decent amount
250 I believe
oh wait i did the math wrong for 300
I was gonna say
i put it into a calc wrong lmfao
but 250 is 50 more
which is a hefty amount
because meg gives like 50 or something
probably
I’d rather lose 100~ darkness if I means I don’t have to play with Varatha
Boss rewards are 50-100-150-250 according to the wiki
Whenever I play spear I just get irrationally frustrated
mood
It just feels awful
if you play hunting blades achilles it can be pretty brain dead
throw casts and let it do it's thing
farming darkness also give me an opportunity to take care of some fated list stuff, like the mirror one
nice
Additive
I’m fairly certain additive since I did a bunch of darkness grinding all at once and I would’ve noticed if it was multiplicative
I'm pretty sure it is too, I just didn't want to authoritatively say it was without looking at the numbers
Even being additive you can still get some pretty good returns with good Chaos RNG
Hey do i get more rewards if i skip heat levels
No
Nope
You get the reward for the next level always
Even if you make it harder than necessary
Upsetti spaghetti
mm what will dad say if i actually beat em4
Only one* way to find out
I couldnt beat dad with zeus shield so im tryin chiron bow
I think it should be easier with zeus than with chiron tbh
nah
chiron is easier
well
chiron has more range but more standing still
but chiron is still one of the easier aspects for em4
wel im struggling on dad so wouldn't single target dps be better
well zeus is a shield and blocks make everything easier
also if you want better single target dps, hestia is gonna be stronger imo
unless you get like, conc relent volley with heart rend
actually hestia might not be stronger but it's gonna be safer
I thought chiron and charon were different
Charon was the boatsman and chiron was a centaur
They are
1 i havent unlocked 4th aspect 2 i dont use block on shield 3 im probably gonna lose this run
hestia isn't a hidden aspect
also the block is what makes shield one of the best weapons so you should try using it more
zeus is my favorite weapon aspect
it's a lot faster of a playstyle than most shields, which feel more methodical to me
it's actually the 2nd slowest lmao
beo zoom
beo zoom
faster as in you're pressing more buttons
zag is just more damage
wait is the first chaos?
pretty sure chaos doesn't have sub5 yet
the other shields you press less buttons for
that checks out
depends
and pressing buttons is fun
this is why i dont block lmao
high heat zag players probably press many buttojs
there are faster shields 
true
spaghetti plate good
chaos and zag shield play the same
so does beo to an extent except you load casts
zeus is more intensive
bull rushing and throwing/recalling special and whatnot
baj is doing 64 with zeus right
i mean, he did 64 with seeded zeus a while ago
no idea what happened after that since he disappeared and then i stopped playing this game
oh right
he talked about attempting it again b4 hades 2
63 modded got beat
by angel
whats the difference between modded and unmodded
i dont think people were playing modded runs when i stopped playing
speedrunning mod removes a chunk of rng
oh, i know that mod but i dont think anyone really used it for high heat back then
i guess it's accepted now?
guaranteed hammer, 4 boon choices at start
no barge, bull miniboss, or tiny vermin
guaranteed 2 sack in styx
i mean it works lol
Zeus is pretty much 2 zagreus at once if you upgrade both special and attack
dont get vorimed is my favorite
I am nearing the end of elysium with my only source of special attacks buff being shackles
i have lost 2 death defiances
i am very dead
what are you running? zeus or chiron
chiron
and is this just purely em4
because you should be starting with a special boon
shouldn't be running shackle on chiron
i can definitely see why good rng is necessary on super high heat, since TD3 is impossible with other pacts unless you get good luck
im not good enough at this game to do really high heat though so the issue for me was always "if you die just get better"
lmao true
noo im gonna disappoint the shade
my goal before I stopped playing was 32 heat with all aspects
some of them were a lot easier than others
chiron was my first weapon that i did 32 heat with
it's real straightforward to use
32 chiron was one of my best chiron build i've ever got lmao
aphro/artemis on special and then just take the hammers that make your special better
yay
help me here do i stick to shackles or switch to mom pom
shackle
mom pom is bad
you dont have a special boon
mom pom isn't gonna help you get any damage on that
you really should have taken a special boon though
mom pom is fine in styx
mnooo but what if i find a special boon that does more damage than shackles
with the way styx works yea its fine
i think starting with either artemis or aphrodite special leads to really powerful chiron builds
no i havent ran into aphrodite
then you wont get better damage
so i would generally recommend forcing one of those with a keepsake in tartarus if your goal is just winning
not really, you get 4 maybe 5 random poms
what are the chances they actually land on the stuff you want? besides, at that point you should have enough poms on the important boons. any more poms at that point isn't gonna be as useful as a defensive keepsake
if you're desperate for poms going into styx then there's a different issue
also
what do you even want to pom
you dont have a special boon, and that's your only damage source
tbh i think acorn is generally best for styx if your goal is winning
that keepsake real good
i got frost flourish
at this rate i doubt it's gonna be a win tbh, considering no special boon
prob still gonna lose
lower than 100% isnt it
what heat is this on?
oh, frost flourish is fine
oh i forgot the % for special is much higher than the atk
slowing the boss down will help you beat EM4
it'll work
its not the best, since dealing a lot less damage than artemis or aphrodite builds means you have to actually dodge more attacks, but at least those attacks will be slower
shouldve switched to mom pom tho
if you just want to win acorn is by far the best
acorn saves so much HP in the boss fight
well em4 is likely to screw over acorn with butterfly ball and sneak
purging boons really isn't a great strat just so you can mom pom styx
if your important boons aren't about level 5 entering styx then you either got unlucky poms or just didn't get poms
and at that point
it'd be better to just take acorn for defensive value
if you really want to use mom pom, use it from the start
but then you lose control of your build so that's a different issue
it do be like that
worst of all, no fish.
average non-skelly user
3 chances to hit a boon you want but you still dont get it, what makes you think mom pom will randomly hit it lmao
I suck at this game and need skelly at the final boss all the time
whats a good keepsake anyways
your keepsake rotation should be god -> different god -> util/defense -> defense
generally god keepsake for the first two biomes, your choice for the third, acorn for the last
so for chiron
would recommend starting with either aphro or artemis in tartarus
dionysus/artemis -> aphrodite -> acorn/tooth -> acorn/tooth/spearpoint
better to shoot for low tolerance or heart rend than stick with aphro flourish imo
Hm what if i use chthonic purse for the whole run
with aphro special you build towards the legendary
it literally only works once
it's a waste
oh that's fair
forgot that existed
each of the special arrows has a chance to charm, so you can semi stunlock bosses with it
its not perfect but it makes them attack a lot less frequently
also if i start with aphrodite I keep an eye out for zeus since smouldering air is broken
true
the other build I like is just artemis special + aphro attack + heart rend
which is fairly basic but it works
if you start with dionysus, dont take an extra source of hangover because hangover overrides itself
also take priv status if starting with dio
I like dio call a lot (its the best one imo) but a lot of his other boons are pretty bad imo so I typically dont like forcing dio
strong drink and premium vintage are nice
so is the one where he restores to a threshold
and reduce damage underneath a threshold
now that i just had the worst luck am i going to get the best luck now
do you have full mirror?
i just got crit flourish
based
the last few mirror skills really help with putting together a strong build consistently
oh yeah the last 3 are pretty strong
if aphrodite doesnt show up for you, would recommend forcing her in asphodel with your keepsake
keep your attack boon slot open for aphrodite attack
i just got heartbreak flourish heroic lmao
did you get a hammer yet
this is the 2nd chamber
i mean i like both artemis and aphrodite special, so whichever one you go with is fine
oh bruh lmao
i personally would not take the replacement
if attack isn't offered, just take something else imo
but to each their own
no aphro is heroic its like a 70% increase
i dont have other good choices
you think i'll get chaos flourish?
having aphrodite in your god pool is already good tbh
heart rend is still pretty good, and it relies on arty special
but do whatever
you have like a 3/10 or something lmao gl
artemis numbers are deceiving since crit scales multiplicatively in this game
didnt get it even after reroll not that i need it
so its actually a huge damage bump when you crit
if you have artemis special you want to look for heart rend
if you have aphrodite special you want to look for the legendary, whatever its called
check in your codex for requirements
do i steal from charon
hmm
if you're not familiar with the fight probably not recommended

though I do think that charon is really telegraphed so if you're comfortable with him the fight is pretty easy
and then you lose 2 death defiances and wonder what went wrong
but he does a buttload of damage so if you mess up its really bad
basically i think the fight is high variance
his attacks are pretty easy to dodge for what is generally considered a "hard" boss, but if you dont dodge them you take so much damage
sometimes you go into the fight and beat him while taking 0 damage, other times you lose one or more lives
also he's hardest to fight in tartarus
what if patroculus dont show up
i mean the fact that you have no DDs left is already a high chance of losing
tbh i think heroes was the hardest boss for me when i first started playing, took me much longer to beat them for the first time than to beat hades
but after getting more experienced they became fairly easy whereas hades remained somewhat challenging
(this is on not FO2 btw)
if patty doesn't show up and then you're probably very screwed
its fine i usually dont use my dd until hades anyways
Came here to say that I beat the hydra on my first try and then immediately died to lava
kill me
based
Dying to lava while fishing is best
YOU CAN FISH???
now your run relies on an rng element 
yeah its a house contractor upgrade
honestly i didnt get used to not stepping in lava randomly until many, many hours into the game
fish at surface gives very valueable stuff
that makes me feel better
fishing sounds fun
though i do think hydra is the easiest boss
that guy is going to hate em2 lmao
aw
relative to the experience you have with the game once you reach the boss
that's true
like the first boss is hard because when you get there you have no idea what you're doing
but I think if you're a new player and have beaten all of tartarus and asphodel up to the hydra, that boss fight should be fairly easy
then elysium is hard again and the boss is even worse
difficulty really does spikes at redacted though
last boss is definitely the hardest boss, but I do think that relative to the skill I had when I first met the boss, the champions where harder
Champions are harder in a different way than dad
Some builds will have no problem with them but dad is still rough
And other way around sometimes
also there was a spear discussion earlier and I want to mention that hades spear is probably my second favorite aspect
i hate all the other spears though, they're poopy 😠
for aotw it's hades spear lmao
it fits my playstyle
average hold button user
big spin
hey is bone hourglass good
also on that aspect a lot of the hammers are useful, which is nice
depends what you're buying in the well
or rather, depends what's in the well before you buy it
what about egg
Egg is neither cool nor egg sadly
only good if you bought an ixion from the well, but even then there might be more important things to get
theres an argument for taking it in elysium maybe?
if you're lucky you can carry over a well item from there into styx if you have bone hourglass
Elysium is like
for ely, hourglass is fine
The main place to use hourglass
although
i like how the purging pool always gives the option to completely ruin your run for capital
depends on the well items before ely
Because you can get well items in the room after hydra
but generally its hard to beat god/god for the first two biomes and acorn in the last one
i typically dont take hourglass if the well items before ely isnt good
actually that's a lie i use it for the well before styx and then switch it
Acorn is great for last area until you learn how to build well enough that you don’t use it
i have 2 boons i could take mom pom
so yeah it's probably fine
Mom Pom not good
what do you even have
God keepsakes, hourglass, purse, shackle, acorn, Spearpoint, sigil
starting to figure out why em4 is a struggle
heroice aphro flourish and athena attack
what levels are they
Those are basically the only keepsakes considered “meta”
if either of them are level 3 i wouldn't even bother taking mom pom tbh
attack is 0 flourish is 3
yeah i'd stick with hourglass
okay here is what you do
take aphrodite keepsake
or aphrodite keepsake
so youre saying i should amplify weak?
Select Give Up

And this time get boons
the best boon atm is the legendary so just take whatever you need to to enable that to show up
And turn on dark foresight
i dont see the start button im on pc
take aphrodite keepsake, get prereqs for legendary and hope you get it
best one is the one that makes weak enemies take extra damage
but if you dont find that, anything that enables the legendary is fine
#teamgiveup
based
god run if i get patro
what's your call
zeus call is good
zeus for damage, athena if you need safety
dont sell the call tho tbh
because you're not guaranteed to get a call again
just take what you get tbh
hitting call gives you iframes
im gonn have lunch
Is there a guide for getting through elysium? That region is eating up my time
And when can you start to use companions on hades?
Summons vs Hades
At first, only Shady and Rib may be used against Hades. However, once you have forged a sufficient bond with him and a few others, he will grant you authority to use any of the companions against him.
This authority requires:
7 hearts with one of the following: Megaera, Thanatos, Dusa, or Achilles
7 hearts with another of those, or with Skelly or Sisyphus
4 hearts with Hades
what are you struggling with in elysium specifically?
in general that region just naturally takes a lot of time to clear unless your build has very good damage
enemies start having a lot more hp
Rooms are just so large and i get THOSE rooms where everyone is spread out consistently, always taking like 4 min to reach styx
Isnt that asphodel
2 seconds??!?!?!?!?!??!?
4 min to clear all of elysium is pretty fast, all things considered
I want that sub 12 tho
okay so I assume you're already familiar with the game if you're trying to speedrun
one thing you can potentially do is manipulate enemy spawns
Granted i havent been able to use companions on hades as of yet and my pb is like 12:05
the game tries to spawn enemies close to you when possible
so after you clear a wave if you stand in the corner then the enemies spawning in will be slightly closer together, since there's less room near you for them to spawn into
this saves a small amount of time
if you want to turn on EM2, this also saves a tiny bit of time
as does forced overtime
Is using heat to buff enemies good? Like to make them move faster or spawn quicker
force overtime makes enemies spawn faster, but it also makes it harder obviously, so you'll have to learn that difficulty
EM2 makes the hydra fight faster and is barely a difficulty increase
so definitely turn it on
the other important thing is that there is a codex exploit that can save time
but you cant use it for official speedruns because it's considered an exploit
if you just want to push the in-game time down though, it will work
Spill the beans
if you open the codex after clearing a room, it pauses the in-game timer but the game keeps on going
this is most useful in the thanatos room
since he takes forever to do his little speech and then give you a heart after the room is cleared
but if you open your codex he does all that while the timer is paused
also minorly useful for other rooms because it takes a small amount of time after clearing a room for the doors to unlock, which you can cut out by opening the codex
but that's a very small benefit
It can also be abused
Interesting
oh, also use TD1 when playing
For igt use td0
since it removes survival rooms
oh wait
yeah nevermind
if you want to get a low in game time no tight deadline is better
forgot survival rooms pause timer
What aspect are you running?
Usually nemesis sword or demeter fists
Yeah those kinda struggle unless your build is online
Tell me about it, i barely did any damage my last run
Another tip is that if you’ve not seen than yet, prioritise menu rewards so that if you do see him, you can hide in the menu while he drops the heart
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR6NaU9v1-raeibkl4jBOxsYyBGfwq6w9g-HvOkzEXFM9RaxKP9TSE1ZioMmR4p-taL-sQjFbcqOe2A/pub this is a guide to show you where to stand to manipulate enemy spawn
As an expansion to what silly was saying
Is bow worth learning or would it be better to just use rail
for speed running? eris is gonna be easier
wen hades 2
Yeah
also are they sick of people asking yet
some time next year
So eris and turn on the auto aim
yeah
you do want to high roll rockets if you can
but in general eris is good because damage bonus on everything is a very powerful/consistent weapon bonus for speedrunning
free rd basically
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I’d rather have HL0.5
Mine was zag sword 😦
Mine was eris
out of curiosity what are the chances for getting a duo boon?
🤷♂️
I heard 50% once but that doesn’t sound right
Might have been 50% chance that any of the 3 options will be a duo
Still sounds too high
Are there characters that you have to give multiple nectars to get a second reward from them?
I've tried to look it up but I can't find anything
No
You never get a second reward for nectars
But there are 6 characters who give a second reward when you give them the first ambrosia
Which ones
And for 3 of them, that’s the last heart. But for 3 other, you can keep giving more ambrosia
Meg Than and Dusa take multiple ambrosia but give reward for the first
Skelly Sisyphus and Achilles take one ambrosia and give the reward
To give ambrosia you have to give them as much nectar as possible, then unlock the next heart by doing a favor for them
Which can be anything from a random dialogue to finishing a prophecy
Not my precious nectar
I know lol
But to me it is precious
I need to get the first rewards for everyone first then I'll stack up nectar for that
Good plan
Meg is a good choice to go for first since you see her often
And her companion is good
Oh I love talking to meg that sweet voice
Once you don’t have any work orders to spend gems on I’d suggest trading them for keys and if you don’t have any weapons left to unlock or mirror talents to unlock, then you can trade keys for nectar
And have plenty
Do you only use gems for a few things
You use them for lots of cosmetic stuff
And for quite a lot of work orders at the start
The fountain unlocks etc
But once you start needing diamonds for work orders the gems are less important
Basically anything on the first page of the house contractor you want to buy
The other pages are almost entirely cosmetic stuff
Some of them actually do stuff, but most don’t
The pool in your room does stuff
Some of the lounge things do stuff
@twilit lodge you only use keys for unlocking all the weapons and then the mirror right?
Yeah
Sometimes the broker has a trade of 15 keys for a titans blood
But other than that you’re free to turn keys into nectar after you unlock weapons and mirror
awesome
Very late game there’s some other uses for keys but they’re cosmetic and by then you should be able to get them without an issue
nice. Man skelly tooth is clutch af
14k players on steam
damn, nice
and a third sometimes
Wait for 3rd
I'm...Well, 35 hours and 45 runs in.
hades has a second phase????
If they're talking about the underworld, I think so.
oh no
House, Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium, The Mazes, and then the Surface.
The maze is less complex than it sounds, but it's interesting.
what do you mean?
i meant i am going to lose my mind
because i lost to hades when i thought i had killed him
and i even had 6 hp left
Ha.ha.
Yeah it’s going to be in early release in 2023
What 
I was making a joke that hades has a phase 2
Called Hades 2
Lol I have 9 attempts and 2348 enemies killed. Why do I feel like that's much
Big numbers
Bingus I just unlocked the aspects of the weapons. Aspect of zagreus seems pretty lit
with crit chance
The other 2 seem kinda meh
Zagreus bow is pretty cool when leveled
It’s not as flashy or exciting as Chiron or hera but it’s good
The effects on chiron and hera seem kinda bad tho ngl
And hera is one of the best speedrun aspects in the game
All of the arrows home in on whatever you hit last with attack
So it’s very safe and distant focused damage
And Hera is just nuts
Really? How
Casts scale very well
Huh. I almost never use the cast, I just don't like it for some reason
Hera makes them much more usable
Even if you’re not using casts for the damage they do on their own, they’re worth using to apply the boiling blood debuff
Well, it’s good when you get a cast boon and scale it up
Base cast isnt useful for raw damage after Tartarus
But cast boons (specifically Aphrodite cast on hera) gets a lot of benefit from poms
And the aspect removes the short range weakness of the cast
And if you’re blowing things up instantly the stones pop right back out
Which is probably part of why you don’t like using casts
Waiting for the ammo
There is only one room that makes me tilt so much in this game and it's with the flying medusa head and the rock mini boss fight in Asphodel. I hate it with a passion
My sleepy brain read that as "cats scale very well"
It’s kinda frustrating yeah
They do, with those claws!
What trips you up more? The thwomp or the Gorgon?
Meg’s companion summon helps a lot for this fight, and all the miniboss battles for that matter
Yeah the Gorgon is annoying because the projectiles don’t always come out the same pattern
Easy to get petrified
Dash more
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Why is demeter cast so good
I tried aspect of achilles but game instead gave me 4 demeter casts that each lasts 14 seconds
Without the 10 chill = explosion boon so it could have been better
just wondering, how hard is boatman?
really not that hard after u beat him once or twice
u just have to get used to seeing the sign of him doing the big sweep and dashing asap
other than that its p easy once u control ur timing of dashes
charon isnt very tanky either if u have an at least functioning/synergized build
a ok thx
i thought he would be harder tho, i beat him first try
btw im new to the game, i don't know any builds yet but have beaten 'redacted' multiple times now
You say “but”, here, why? Achilles boosts cast damage so this is a good combination
crap I died on hades. Attempt 11
Means you’re getting closer to succeeding
I tried to make a weapon build not using the weapon as a buffer for cast damage
hey hey i need help for something
i got the "trading card booster" and when i click on it my steam just dies
Hades trading cards
are they already redeemed or do i have to redeem them
Man I just unlocked Deremeter (I think that's her name, the goddess of seasons) and this run alone I've found 3 boons from her. What is this
Demeter, goddess of the harvest and agriculture
It isn’t
Her laser turrets erased hades from existence
Got the duo with artemis right before the final fight and hermes rapid cast
arty demeter duo is fun
helps your lack of aim a lot
overbuffed crystals are actually funny especially if you can keep getting them off in multiples with stygian soul every 3s
It’s the one thing that makes dem cast usable
It's like Ares cast but worse
without a duo boon helping it, it just sits there being useless most of the time
at least Ares without hunting blades still does some respectable damage
Demeter Cast is great but its build demanding
where dog go
its a laser though thats always fun
You don't need to have good tracking on ares if you overpom the size boon so its as large as arena

Only reason why I got to that point was because poseidon overwrite my keepsake and said HEY BRO NICE FISH TAKE THIS
I got a question with heat. If I have rewards for Heat 2 and I go for a Heat 10 run with the same weapon, will I gain all 8 rewards all at once?
no, you'll just recieve the heat 2 rewards
Thanks!
The eternal question
can i take dog with me
what dog?
cerbus
don't think he fits through the window
:(
felt the same
is it possible to see how many times ive pet dog
i don't actually know, maybe there is a counter but i haven't seen it
how long have you been playing the game/petting the good boy?
ive played it for 8.4 hours, with like 1 hour being just me petting cerbus
nice! what else do you like about the game, outside of giving pets to cerberus?
Petting Cerberus more
I think Cerberus’s favor requires you to have petted him at least x number of times but I might just be making that up
honestly really like the gameplay, used to not like roguelites until i found hades
wait, what is that? it seems i still haven't played the game enough
its when you pet him 20 times iirc
Autocorrect
what do you mean by em3
Extreme meassures
ah
3
it's festive
beyblade spinning at you at mach 4 is always a good time
I have a lot of respect for Speedrunners now
why now lmao
i am people
Because forced overtime really is something
ah
fo2 isn't that much of a hassle once you get used to it, it's kinda like relearning enemy timings
i am horrible with time
and once you get used to it, it becomes second nature
no you are SomeoneOnHere
I like how free tight deadline is
just go fast
Hi
hello
I want to order from fangamer.com site, is it reliable?
Do you have international shipping on that site?
if youre ordering from eu they have an eu shop
it is an official merch site, so it is reliable. my orders arrived fast and securely and there is international shipping
do you keep ur nectar when u die
yep
Yes I have ordered 2 things from there and no issues. In USA though
Question : I am about to go into biome # 2 on a hera bow run. I have epic divine strike attack from Athena right now... If I have the Artemis Keepsake on does it make me less likely to find the Artemis attack from a boon if i always have an attack?
so maybe i should sell my attack?
a 10% chance or something? idk
well idk the whole artemis toolkill seems to be working well for me
with hunters mark, arty attack
i mean it's hera, the main focus is your cast anyways
i mean i guess that's valid but also, you're not guaranteed to get her attack anyways
or marked
true. I should have seleted Demeter to get snow burst sooner...
probably
without crit synergies from the attack the toolkit is a bit moot
like the synergistic crit boons
yes i have crit shot and poms currently
well i always try at least
Im sad i didnt go for demeter for snow burst or rare crop
i find snow burst to be a little rare to see so far
if you fill your cores early then you're more likely to see it
the game will always offer you core boons until they're all filled out
oh... i always have cores missing lol
so attack, special, cast, and dash
if you're looking specifically for something, doing that will help a bit
cuz i never use my special
