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dyno is trying its best 😔
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yea it mostly happens when i post two pomscaling graphs
can you only have 2 revenge boons at a time?
no
I must've gotten really unlucky
I had heaven's vengeance and wave of despair
I got so many ares boons but never got offered curse of vengeance
and I had vengeful mood too
revenge only build
I got an idea
I'm gonna only get centaur hearts if I can
even if I have to take it over a hammer
Haelian has a revenge boon build
Got like 5 or 6
And vengeful mood
It also requires specific "routing" of sorts.
You would either need to accidentally get a lot more gods than usual, or force it
aph ares zeus athena and soemone else
Ah
Yeah
Just it translates to basically "enemies that hit you get slowed a lot"
wait
Still not great. Not a dmg source without blast
maybe greater delivery boost would be more than the boost frolm survivability
Meanwhile HV does heavy work on several enemies
And applies Jolted on all
Revenge boon only is pretty hard to do. I'm also fairly certain he almost died.
Might have been em4
he did n ormal and then em4 like a year or two later
Yeah I might have only seen em4 then
Your best boon is HV so just pom that and Static Discharge
Probably pray you get Splitting Bolt idk
Vengeful Mood is hardly doing anything
You could technically do ME and it would be kinda good
whar
3 seconds
You're getting hit more than that
Em4 is the only time you get hit that much
Hyper delivery = survivability
its afk
Aphro 👍
Ares 👍
Artemis does not have
Athena 👍
Demeter 👍
Dionysus does not have
Poseidon does not have
Zeus 👍
Oh nevermind
It's weird some Gods dont have one.
Artemis: shoot a number of homing arrows based on boon rarity
Dio: hangover burst like the dash
Poseidon: tdash 2.0
arty would be like 1.5x the damage of support fire
damage scaling as support fire
and arrows by rarity
dio sounds easy as does poseidon
arty revenge is just reverse support fire
defense fire
dio revenge sounds like a great way to get hangover override lmao
pos revenge sounds weird in concept
Jesus, fully upgraded Beowulf + Mirage Shot + Trippy Flare is insane
Straight up melting enemies
yeah it's a great bug
nope
mirage shot is bugged on beowulf to not have reduced damage
and trippy flare gets double the pom levels on beo
Oh
i mean it'd be an okay build without the bugs lmao
if u get the boons
well
if you get the boons and the stones
someone shoo me away i have homework due in 38 minnutes
it'd just be slower hera lmao
maybe faster with cshot idk
but like it'd be functionally the same as hera
i mean if u just like got all of them v quickly itd be faster than hera
go away child
man im trying to do a heart rend run right
and i finally get artemis
but the thing is, the other door is a daedalus hammer
funny heart rend build…or hammer…..
its gonna be really funny if heart rend is just not one of the available boons if i pick her door
update: heart rend was not one of the available boons
i just gave up a hammer for nothing lmao
did get the boon that fires an arrow with every hit though
pretty rad
bruh i need 27 attempts and the admin room flashback to get access to it lmao
20 blood to spend.. Such riches, what shall I do with them?
MAX HESTIA💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
I'm trying to max every weapon aspect
And just 100% the game in general without glitches
I think it affects the rush, but not... Oh wait. Probs not beo. Yea, I'm sure it does
I think it does but I think other things that affect basic attack are more finicky
Okay 5th attempt
10thattempt
Gilgamesh
zeus has some of the strongest
just found an interesting rounding error, had cursed slash + life affirmation, heart from chamber gave me +14, heart from shop gave me +15 and boss tunnel gave me +29
Yeah it’ll give you fractions of max hp
it’s not a rounding error, more of the game just not willing to give you non-integer max hp
I mean the fact that inshop gives 15 and room gives 14 is a rounding error
if you use guan-yu it’ll give you 12 then 13 hp
as it's not consistent
No that isn’t rounding error
It’s the game giving you the right amount
12.5+12.5=25
They aren’t cheaping out on you by taking the 1 hp away
but two rooms back to back gave 14
yeah
It’s
Rounding your max hp for how your max hp exists in game but keeping the rounded off part in mind the next time it gives you max hp
So when you have guan-yu giving you -50% max hp
One heart will give you 12 and the next heart will give you 13
Rather then both hearts giving you 12.5
that doesn't seem to be true, as I was 60, then after shop I was 75 (+15), then I got heart from room so I was 89 (+14), then next room heart I was 103 (+14)
You probably don’t have a straight -50%
So it isn’t giving you 14 -> 15 every time
Guan-yu’s a really ez example due to just being half
Cursed slash + life affirmation isn’t
Wait hold on forget it that is a rounding error I’m arguing the wrong thing with you
Even without life affirmation in account
Wait nevermind
I’m crazy
I mixed up -60% and -40% for a sefond
Forget everything I’ve said after this message
What rarity life affirmation
Essentially
+42% it says
.4*1.42=.568
So you’re getting less then 15 but more then 14 max hp every time
But the game can’t give you non-integer max hp
It’s supposed to give you 14.2 max hp every time you pick up a heart but it’ll give you 15 every 5th heart to make for the .2’s that added up
If that makes any sense
it does, but then I am not sure why the first heart was 15
I got two hearts before life affirm, so I was at 60, and then after life affirm first heart was from shop that was the 15 one
and then the two 14 ones came
and then the big one 29
I wonder if it rounded .568 up to .57 or something
Then it would be a rounding error
Which would result in 14.25 every heart
Making it be on a 4 heart cycle
And it may just start off giving you the rounded up hp and not taking into account the next 3 hearts worth added up
Which would make sense
15(14.25+.25*3) -> 14 -> 14 -> 29 (14+15)
idk I don’t have an eye into the code
but it may just round the max hp up in your favour
Then add the rest of it up in the background
Most likely yeah it is counting the rounding off the start. I see this fairly often.
Usually aiming for a multiple of 5
how do i unlock upgrading weapons? i get a different answer everywhere on google for some reason lol
once you unlock all the weapons
Unlock all the weapons and then hop into a run and either escape or die and you’ll be given the ability to
thanks
any way to somehow up the chance of thanatos appearing in the lounge via mods or by editing one of the lua files in scripts? this mf has shown up only two-three times and is one of the only things preventing me from getting all companions
He’ll only show up in lounge after he shows up in a run iirc
my issue is he rarely shows up in runs either, so i barely see him
my hearts with him are 2 , meanwhile ive maxed everyone else
the modding server is pinned in #self-promotion if you would like to ask there, as people there would be more likely to know how to help you
-Get into speedrunning
-make runs happen faster
-see thanatos more often due to just doing more runs
Ez
👍🏻
which fish is above the gupp?
he showed up in a run
only for me to not be able to talk to him in the lounge because he was having a chat with his brother
Well
I said “in the lounge” but it really should’ve been “in the house of Hades”
My b
@calm zenith would you consider this a fine trade https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/514291631113895946/1101970494359613440/image.png
Yeah keys are the least useful resource
You would need like idk, 45 keys to buy 1 titan blood usually
67% off titan blood for the worst resource, in other words
(Correct my math if I'm wrong idr the keys => nectar conversion)
It’s 50 is it not?
Probably yeah
Not all deals there are great but thats probably one of the best you can get.
Wait no it’s like 100 according to wiki now that I double check myself
That’s super sus
Wait it makes sense
1 blood *1 (ambrosia trade)* 2(diamond trade)*10(nectar)*5(keys)
2*5*10=10*10=100
Btw is drunken dash really that good? Like how would a low tolerance build do?
On gilga ofc
Actually just straight up too many victory screens with it
So that's 9(12) stacks of hangover with gilga
I’ve sent so many images it’d be hard to dig them back up now
Boost the hangover dmg with maim, aphro special
Fair yeah
I should try it
I am done my other game kinda...
It poms well
Like any hangover
Not the best hangover scaling but its hangover scaling
My first 50 heat 💪
Then rending claw for +50% dmg on it
Maybe get the hangover = slow boon. I never see it though.
Seems fun at least
Maybe Bad Influence appears
I dont take it much tbf
it’s the only hangover core that doesn’t have a boosted first pom
Usually dio has an unpommable you ca take
Weird.
Still want to see
Plus relentless rush is boosting it
I can totally boost the hell out of it
Gilga once again making the worst boons good
Best boons are shackle
I mean
Back then I was shackle best boon
I have over 24 victory screens using shackle which is too many
I'm gonna force an epic drdash so hopefully that scales better than 11 at 9
Then again it pulses 3 times
Maybe gilga is the wrong aspect but maim kinda helps
Demeter would work but that's not dash focused
That's so weird
Dio dash, aphro special ares strike ez
Wdym it’s the meta (if you follow TheGamer)
Sea Storm is my favorite though tbf
You get a high % special with auto detecting bolts
I think it makes more sense with how Luci plays on controller
Or how I do it.
With triple bomb especially you just fling them out to appropriate nearby enemies. You have less aim and a bit of a delay due to the aiming
So the bolt activating the special chain upon hitting an enemy is kinda important
Then again it isn't a good build before sea storm
Your specials just knock enemies away from them
Luci is just tough starting off though
What about ME Luci with Athena special and triple bomb?
The bulk of your damage is still coming from the special
Attack hit > trigger special > deflect > attack hit > other special > attack hit etc
True
That's why I just like the sea storm build
You can just rely on Zeus attack for tart anyway
I mean that’s literally every +%special
You can just start with zeus and take any +% special and you’ll be fine
So Poseidon special sucking before sea storm is fine
Ofc smair is ideal
Smair yeah
But just having the +% means you’re chilling
ofc the real big brain is zeus flourish luci
Need the % special
your bombs auto self destruct when enemies get neat
Oh I know
Sea storm does too
That's what I'm saying
You get the best of both worlds
It's just harder to get
It's a really fun synergy
You get what I mean now? You get Zeus flourish but with a high %
I mean just find chaos
Ex
Sure ig
I’m joking 
Like getting an epic Poseidon special then Sea Storm seems just as hard as getting not 1 but 2 Chaos special boons
On okay
Ofc just using a different special exists
Zeus strike and tdash do the work
I guess they're surface mines
And the bombs explode from any enemy attacks too
Yeah
Or Jolted
But like I previously said there is a bit of a delay after aiming at least ime on controller
Not necessarily that bad but you also have auto aim
So the Zeus special will always auto trigger anyway
You dont need attack. Tdash is still good
But sea storm on tdash makes it even better
Just seems like a worthwhile duo if you want to target one.
I'd rather aim for more than less.
It’s not exactly worthwhile because you have to take an inferior special but
Yes
Do you get what I mean about auto aim? Is there just another way?
I dont go for speed so I dont know if the auto trigger is faster than just smair
Then again with my keybinds it feels that way
Call also has a delay. Not like lag just controller input/digit movement.
I have to press down with my thumb on a joycon, that takes longer than a button press.
I also need to move my thumb to the joycon from my buttons
I don’t think my call is mapped to a joycon bump
Yeah that's probably my issue. Might try something else eventually
I don’t remember
I mapped dash to R to make dash strikes more natural feelling
And dash specials and such
Fair
I mean granted I’m 500+ runs in and so changing things up at this point would break a lot of built up muscle memory
Lmao
I started a drunken dash gilga run. Got epic drdash
Then epic greatest reflex
Hammers inbetween are Explosive Upper and Rush Kick
Swap to heroic lvl 9 Blade Dash
33 damage a hit.
Its barely a coherent build lmao
6 explosive uppers is pretty good
Even worked in Asphodel when I had no flourish. Picked up a rare divine flourish in Elysium. Gonna finish it now.
I was aiming for Low Tolerance then Curse of Nausea basically, Athena showed up as my first miniboss, Aphrodite didnt give a flourish, and Ares gave a very tempting trade
GOD I LOVE HEART REND BUILDS!!!
aphrodite attack + artemis special + heart rend + clean kill + cruel thrust = extreme fun!!!
FINALLY BEAT THESEUS LESGOOO
the boon trinkets only work once right?
as far as getting you the god you want?
so you swap to three different gods on each floor?
or did I misunderstand and I could keep one and focus?
you typically do god -> god -> utility/defense -> utility/defense
keeping a god keepsake on more than a biome is pointless
oh my god i made it to the final boss
||i thought styx was gonna be way harder lmao|| spoilers for the final area before the boss
the poison is tough sometimes
your build generally doesn't really need 3 different gods
like you want a main 2
Is chaos or zeus aspect better for Aegis?
you can force a third into elysium, but if you are then that's like a last resort lol
or you really need a duo
ok
chaos aspect bonus does nothing useful and zeus has a lot of extra damage
Also, when using merciful end with Malphon, is it better to use Athena attack and Ares special or vice versa
ares attack by far
yea u don’t trigger very much doom on special
slower animation
comes out after dash
Ares attack for every aspect of every weapon unless you’re using zeus shield
Then it’s interchangeable
I mean rama would prefer athena attack ares strike but that’s rama ME
Because you can throw on divine dash and just dashstrike into enemies to prok and drop ME
dont die
I think I have around 80+ runs on hell mode where I never beat hades.
I now started a fresh game without hell mode.
Seems to be much simpler
I have a love hate relationship with this game.
Can't wait to get my ass handed to me many more times.
turns out giving dad 5k total more hp is not a good thing lmao
ohhhh
Didn't even know about that.
I knew enemies have more health, but damn!
yeah 15% more hp goes a long way for bosses lmao
for normal enemies, it's not as bad (but still pretty bad)
but bosses have a much larger hp pool, so they'll get a lot more
you're also facing 20% more enemies with 15% more hp, so that's not fun lmao
hell mode do be kinda hell mode
Tell me about it.
And I only use the sword so always on melee range

I love the sword!
I will start using different weapons once I beat hades.
are you using nem then
I still have the base one
at least with nem your experience is easier because it does the big damage
I enjoy hurting myself for some reason
lmao just get merciful end
if you have aspects unlocked and still wanna use zag sword, you can do the funny plume
but that's a lot harder to pull off
plume is also worse if uou don’t know what to build
I never look up build, at least not until I unlock most things
For now I play around with Zeus boons
well if you bash your head on it enough times youll get through lmao
lightning dash, jult, double lightning, etc.
This seems to easy the pain a bit
idk can be helpful
I know.
Just my personal preference
not knowing build basics is how you end up with fmdrunken flourish
I just read the description of each boon and look for
synergies
just saw redditors telling someone to take vengeful mood over Me
with ddash
and ares atk
idk man as
theee were at least 3
one who did it in massive bold text for some reason
one who said vengeful mood was important at high heat
and one who said vengeful mood if good revenge boons and if not doom stacking is good???
oh those are a lot more recent lmao
this is like those people asking patty vs hammer
hammer because since they're not using dark foresight, it'll be their first hammer

i mean i'm not wrong lmao
tbf in a casual run, patty can be useless on occasion
full DDs, dont need atk boost or hydralite
since we degen speedrunning, we always take patty
also beo doesnt need 2nd hammer lol
i mean hydralite is hydralite
this is reddit bouldy emoji
Patty can sometimes not be useful. It happens.
0-9 heat Eris run with clockets
Or just rocket bomb since it's a hammer
Even more reason to take the hammer early to get clockets throughout Elysium
Vengeful mood meanwhile is just mediocre
The perfect selling duo
Full SD’s 
How is crit chance calculated? If I have nemesis, and activate deadly reversal, what's the crit chance?
pretty sure it's additive. So Deadly strike on a maxed ZagBow gives 15+15 for 30% chance total for example
would like somebody to double confirm but I'm fairly certain that's how it works + and how it has always felt
Used to think it was stacking separate instances:
Which would be 0.15+(0.15*0.85) in the example but I believe that isn't the case
Yeah crit chance is additive
👍
Who's cast is good with Beowulf
poseidon is the best
aphro is good too but styx is harder
dio is really good but slower because you need stygian soul
Hmm
Pos cast best because it's an easy lead up to mirage shot
Which is bugged to do 100% damage instead of 30% on flares
do the devs have any intention of fixing it? or is it fine to talk since it doesnt matter
no more updates
We've been talking about it for years lmao
And also numerous speedrun videos online that use beo lmao
They've gotta be familiar with it
didnt like ign make them watch a fresh file run
does deflect work on melee attacks
Yes
how
Best shield aspect?
They're very short projectiles lmao
Hidden
and how can i get the secret one?
Pinned in #h1-story-discussion
?
How to get hidden aspects are pinned in #h1-story-discussion
how can i find the pinned message?
computer
Yeah
somehow it only took 39 attempts for me to finally see the snakestone boss in styx
Uh recently every time I encounter than on a run my laptop crashes, is this a common issue or just me?
titan blood is excruciating to get oh my god
i dont even know what ambrosia does but i immediately sold it for titan blood 😹
Steam? There is a repair game option. Failing that, complete reinstall.
That's a you issue lol I've never had issues
Ask in #h1-tech-support or something
Or try what salula said
i dont even know what i did but i revealed the spears hidden aspect
seems lame though so im sticking with achilles 🥱
the prereq for it is to unlock 5 non-zag aspects lol
i was literally 1 hp of killing the hydra on my first ever attempt of it
his health was so low the slither was barely visable
lambent plume is incredible
where can I get posters that are in stock
im 100% sticking with plume when im not trying to get a specific boon
hermes’ stuff is general is just broken (which i am only just now realizing is because its a reference to how he is the only olympian who is cthonic, aka related to the underworld)
try to get a specific boon
Pom blossom tho
no 🙏
pom blossom is pretty bad ngl
Why?
it only gives you a level every 5 encounters (right?)
and that doesnt count chambers that arent combat like charon, fountain, chaos, story etc.
youd probably take it into ely or styx after two olympian keepsakes in tart and aspho
elysium has a total of 8 possible combat rooms but chances are youll skip a couple so youll only get one random level
ah my bad
also inconsistent, your poms might not go to the right place
yeah
might go somewhere not worth pomming
better to take something like hourglass or acorn
i guess technically speaking, mom pom can be better than hourglass if the hourglass gets no value
but also better to just have it just in case you can get good use out of it
I usually run it for all biomes. And do not take regular poms if given a choice. Sometimes it does give you bad rng, but usually I get pretty pomed up in right places
i used to think mom pom was good too
not having build control kinda not fun lmao
i think you just underestimate how powerful builds can get if you construct them properly using olympian keepsakes
what aspect do you like using most?
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/725021639506526249/1102107651690733578/image.png?width=1191&height=670
mom pom would not have gotten me this lmao
mom pom does have a niche use case imo
where you like
Cmon, whole game is heavily reliant on rng. I get way more flustered when I dont get right duos than when poms go to wrong boons
reset the run every time until you get the cast boon from a god you want
and mom pom through tart
but then switch off
i mean i'd like to have a strong build tbh lmao
also not using a god keepsake makes it so you're less likely to get the duo you want
you can greatly reduce some of that rng with god keepsakes
i'd get more flustered if i ended up with zeus ares dio arty pool on hestia with plume and i didnt shackle
and yeah the game is heavily reliant on rng, but god keepsakes take out a good chunk of it
Chiron. Got me 32 heat. Now trying to get sub ten minutes...
there's still hammer, room, reward, enemy rng
i would recommend not using chiron for a sub10
top 2 worst aspects to speedrun
yeah if you want to try get a sub10 use literally anything other than chiron lmao
it is def possible, but there's easier options
oh i forgot about gilga
top 3 worst aspects to speedrun
it's slightly less painful than arthur
if you want to get it on chiron that's fine, but do keep in mind that it's not the fastest
unpopular supergiant opinion.
supergiants past 3 games werent very good, hades is their first actually great game, SG should stick to rogue-likes, it seems to be what they do best.
yeah a sub10 on chiron is like sub830 or something on a half decent aspect
#supergiant-games and also i dont think most people actually want to talk about this
God keepsakes feel almost like a waste of a keepsake tbh. When you can get a good god rng regardless. It is good for making a specific build, but still feels bad.
in a supergiant-games server they dont want to talk about SGG 💀
god keepsakes are literally the best keepsakes in the game
we're talking about the game hades
getting "good rng" is kinda hard to get consistently lol
god keepsakes helps with consistency
not about the studio
i dont think you know how good specific builds can get
imagine trying to get mirage on plume
it's the whole reason why dark foresight is preferred over olympian favor
dark foresight is better for consistency across runs
with olympian favor, you can get some runs that are great where you get a lot of boons
but it's less consistent and less likely to happen
i too was talking about the game hades. the premise of my comment was hades is (in my opinion) their only great game and i think in the future they should stick to Rogue-likes and hades as they are with Hades 2
what aspects other than chiron do you use? we could give a couple ideas
After playing for 530+ hours and lurking on r/hades for more than a year I believe I do )
ok? whatever
hades subreddit lol
ngl the reddit is a dark place
Why? Reddit is quite nice imo.
i mean reddit as a platform is
it's more like
fine
the community is fine
i feel like if you did learn some decision making and builds youd probably easily get a sub 10 given your game time
just dont take reddit suggestions for builds 95% of the time
the pacts i see on reddit 
this is also kinda true lol
unless you just started getting into speedrunning
the subreddit tends to praise chiron a lot, and a lot of them say that their fastest time is on chiron
which is fine and all tbf
but grinding for a sub10 on chiron would need a lot of rng
chiron is just slow
i think i have like 200 ish hours and ive gotten all weapons almost sub 9 so i feel like the thing limiting you the most rn is just not knowing meta strats
yesterday i saw a based fists pact
and like it honestly wasn't that bad, incredibly based with hl0 lc0 lmao
dc2 ap1
i think they got ME
people running those ri3 em4 td0 32 heat pacts must be built different incorrectly
Not a speedrunner at all, yeah. I just played for fun untill few months ago, when I thought that I should spice things up, so I tried 32 heat, and after seeing today post on reddit about someone achieving sub ten thought that would be fun too. But for now got max 13:20
did you see my sub6 lmao
what other aspects do you like other than chiron
my very first try into speedrunning was to get the sub12 victory screen
but yeah that's fair enough
and i got like 13 minutes and i was so mad
and yeah, what other aspects do you like to play
please dont say chaos
i think i got my bow sub 10 on rama first
rama is hard
just win and be fast duh
literally i couldn’t get a sub10 on it a few days ago
Nemesis, Poseidon, Beowulf, Zeus, Talos, Hera, Rama.
BEOWULF
skill issue
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BEO
BEOWULF AND HERA
GO FOR IT BABYYYYYY
beowulf is considered the best speed aspect by most and you can look at the leaderboards for evidence
hamie jo do you have a sub6 on beo
no of course i dont disgusting aspect 
IIRC it gives more damage on beowulf, right?
2/3 of us have beo sub6s
who do you think i am
oh yeah
flares specifically, but yeah
100% instead of 30% kinda funny
3rd try easy
so just flood flare -> deadly strike -> get duo -> win
if you dont get charged shot hammer, you can either cope with sudden rush or ferocious guard, or you can cry
Yeah, I just forgot if it was 100 or a bit less
honestly it'd be a lot funnier if it was some arbitrary number that wasn't 100
"yeah mirage shot does 56% more damage instead of 30% for some god forsaken reason"
join the speedrunning discord if you want more opinions and info
me doing 117 damage with common lvl1 and mirage
you dropped two zeroes
117.00 yea

00117
i might have to try get a good beo time now but im console so unmodded 
Dont think I will fit there, I am not much of a speedrunner. Honestly, I just wanted a place where I can talk about hades, since nobody in my friend circle plays it anymore 🥲
well you are in #h1-discussion so go wild
yo same
if you couldn’t tell we kinda like the game
never
I tried to get one of them hooked up. Gifted her the game, she played for a month, and is not interested anymore.
my friend told me to play this game and then they proceeded to stop playing the game while i still degen it
Wow
it's been like a year
how did i even find this game
oh it was xbox gamepass
and someone told me zag looked hot so i was like "lmao im in"
I started playing when it got big
Started seeing Hades victory screens
Right after full release
I saw it when Kronii (vtuber from hololive) played it. She played spear only and said things like "I dont know how you can even get a clear on a bow". And here I am, using bow more than anything, lol
I mainly play on switch so that helps
I hope it comes to switch immediately on full release
how tf do people play spear lmao
spear is my least favourite weapon apart from sword
Serrated go brrrr
yeah when im guaranteed flurry jab on achilles lmao
but like apart from that
it's clunky
serrated does have the damage yeah so it's less miserable
Spear has some massive dash strikes
Spear is kinda fun. With hummer that makes it hit multiple enemies on special
Beautiful area and reach on them
Sometimes hard to aim them but with serrated you have 3
Like shield. Captain america goes brrrrr
i don't touch the special button unless it's for raging rush on achilles or guan yu special spam
A special Zag aspect run can be fun
I mostly use special. With shield too
Explosive + charged is so fun if you get it
You have a massive special
Its fun
watch a beowulf speedrun and become enlightened
https://youtu.be/s49jVwc6rS8
shameless plug
I know, when I play beowulf its different
You can do Beo special builds
yo i love this guy hes so cool
I still need to
beo meta used to be charged flight lmao
does lucky tooth and deaths defiance stack?
yes
It still can work if you really try
DDs get used before tooth
Not good given you can use rushes
I just like cosplaying Captain America, focusing on special. It's so fun seeing your shield fly all over chaimber
so does this mean i can come back from death twice? once before dds and then once from lucky tooth
Its a different playstyle
Try a special beo build then
yeah
ah ok
you can use all 3 DDs, your tooth, and then after that you die
More even
not great if youre looking for speed tho
technically as much as your main HP pool allows because of chaos yeah
Athena and Chaos and Wells
I know, I dont use it for speed. I use it for fun! When I use it. Which is not often.
my boy patty
valid
Then yeah Lucky Tooth
Lucky Tooth is often gonna be one of your first keepsakes
I feel players will tend to gift to the guy they beat up
When I was playing on a keyboard, I always swapped cast and special.
And it's a very useful keepsake
Iirc I always preferred collar back then
man maybe i should try playing games for fun instead of grinding for numbers
(this is a cry for help for my overwatch addiciton)
Well, I am not very competitive, so I always played for fun. Even in OW, I played like 200+ hours in QP on support+tank. Only this year, when I got a few friends to play in a party I got into comp. And I still cant get out of bronze... I always get so close, like bronze 1, and then it resets after new season starts
But grinding 32 heat was fun. I've been running like 16-20 heat before, so it was a big leap
I played with god mode on my first save, yeah
i think i classify as competitive if im currently rank 8 in ow 
Then I got mom back, climbed up to 16 heat, and thought "hm, I think I am good enough to not suck at clean save without gm"
ayo big gamer?
in open queue on console tho
still based lmao
do you remember what your 32 heat pact was btw
it's going to be a reddit pact isnt it
How do you aim with joystick ._.
As someone who used to resent joysticks before getting one since title screen said "better play with joystick"
you aim with your movement stick iirc
someone with a controller can correct me on that
yeah
just make sure you have aim assist on and you basically dont have to aim
was that in chamber 1 lmao
Nah, I only try reddit builds when they are fun, like pingpong with maxed out athena cast and zeus duo
althought aim assist is kinda dodgy sometimes
yes
thats scripted
huge catch is guaranteed when you buy the fishing rod lmao
sorry to ruin christmas for you
oh
"oh hey you can fish now, you can now see fish more frequently this run"
you can also take this opportunity to sell it after tartarus for the steam achievement and 500 gold
Yeah
thank god
Yeah, I meant controller in general. I forgot how it is called for a second and called controller joystick. I am getting bad at both languages, lol. I am forgetting russian words since I use it only to communicate with family, and I forget english words since it is not my native language and almost do not use it to speak/write
of all the legendary boons that is not one i would wanna get ☠️
Yeah normally you dont get that boon without taking 2 of his resource boons
Bounty and the other one
sunken treasure
ah yeah my aim is pretty bad ngl theres not much to it other than practicing
on the other hand
I remember getting demeter + aphro duo for the first time. It was a first time I was glad purging fountains exist :D
lmfao based
real
It is generally way better for hades imo. And elden ring. Idk about dead cells tho, it is more or less the same for me
dead cells is 2d so yeah i'd figure it be neutral
for hades tho
it's honestly personal preference
like yeah there's pros and cons, but they're generally not that big of a deal
the default keyboard binds are kinda wack tho right?
there's top controller players, top kbm players
i think MiKE uses default lmao
so like
whatever
jazz uses default
if you can make it work then sure
but you can always just remap them so it's fine
sometimes i forget how quirky my controller binds are
i dont think my A is bound to anything
Exactly. Always change them
well i dont play on keyboard and mouse anyway
Yeah, but it still says that controller is preferable on a title screen, like in hades
that's a felony
i had my dash on right trigger for a while
well i dont play controller so that's whatever
but the A button not being bound?
felony
that's literally the button to spam
well dash used to be there
but i unbound dash
but now dash is on x/square
which is where attack used to be
this goes on for a while
When I got my 32 heat win... My game crashed. Just as I exited last boss room. Idk what exactly was causing it, I had mods installed, (stuff like skipping the cutscene on death), but even without them with a backup save of when I just finished bossfight it didnt work. Turns out it was trying to send me into grece, and crashing since grece does not have a value to add to a timer. Thank gods I was able to fix that by modifying game code, lol.
Good thing part of it is written in lua, I just found I place where it crashed and added a condition for it to add zero if no value was found
Or it would be quite a sad evening, I wanted that skelly statue so bad
just looked back at my 32 heat clear and i had 4 acorn charges left 
It is certainly not the best build, yeah. But it was one that worked. I was quite proud of myself for finally beating it. 🥲
Kinda, it replaces boon choices with a mix of boons from gods you pick. Honestly not that good, regular boon choices are better. Did not use it ever since.
Funky
Oh I'd like to mention
Multiple sources of hangover will override itself
So that Dio call is kinda worthless if you're using your special while it's going off
actually wait i dont completely understand that can you explain
Me?
yeah
what happens if i have 3 stacks from my special and then a stack from the call gets applied
It takes the call stack probably
so itd just be like if there were 4 stacks of call hangover
Yeah
right
But like you're gonna be shooting yourself in the foot the majority of the time lmao
Imho god boons would be way cooler if they gave some buffs. Like increase crit chances by a certain percent for Artemis (percent of crit percent, like you have 25% crit boon, and keepsake gives it 25% of 25%, so you have 31.2% total). Something like that. Maybe not strong, but to give some nice effects other than 1 guaranteed boon + a bit higher rarity chances
cool idea but sounds too complicated compared to what the current keepsakes do which are all really simple apart from hades'
Prolly a good mod idea?
Yeah, but in the end their damage was almost the same, and at the beginning it helped
man i wish i could mod on console
Aw hell.
resetting in tart for 50 heat changed me
…
Damn you’re cracked
What pacts do u got?
That was the point at going for 32 heat when I started modding, yeah
my only 50 heat clear
probably never doing it again
Instakill + death scene skip helped a lot. You just press a button and few seconds later you are in the house
17 minutes…?
is that supposed to mean a good or bad thing
Tbf normal resetting at 50 doesn't take that long esp because of ri2 and hl5
Yep, after I finish my cursed 36 pact I’m never torturing myself like this again.
^
Me who abused the 10th win and did 50 heat in 14 minutes lmao
it was more how often id have to after getting wave of despair and thwn life affirmation
Fair
LMAO!!!!!!!! Goddamn it, I should’ve done that.
Tbf it was a good 50 heat build so I def would've been fine
honestly ely is the hardest part of 50 heat
But I thought it'd be funny
That's because you play hestia
But also yeah
Ely isn't fun

You no longer have aspect of bananas?
No lol
My pb right now is 13:20. Which is not high by any means here lol. But when not trying to go really fast I usually got around 20.
damn nice!!
yeah i think my best is abt 20mins xD i'm not a great gamer i'm just here to have fun
My build usually starts to pop off in Elysium, I’d say the worst part of the run for me is Asphodel or em4 fight.
i did it once at high heat on a pseudo 45ish pact on chaos
Ye, mine are usually around 20, tbf I usually take the scenic route so my time ends up being 25+ tho
Now imagine em4 on every run for a week.
i take like 9-10 mins on aspects im comfortable with most of the time
Nice!
i entered dad fight with 3 DDs lmao
oh yeah i got caught off guard by how hard it was massively when i did it on eris
had a broken build thinking id instawin
Damn… I personally know how rough that is.
cp2 
wait so you got hit by like 30 big attacks
I’m saying.
15k more health anyone?
with cp2
Would be nice if time stopped when there is a fishing spot in the room. I want to go fast, but I also want these sweet resources to farm ranks T_T
The healing is my bane tho, cuz I can’t stop it from happening so I have to out damage it and I take more dmg to do so.
Doesn’t it? I’m pretty sure it does.
one knows their soul has died when they no longer fish
Ohhhh
my new save purposely does not have a fishing rod
Only when you fish, not when you go to the opposite end of the chamber in asphodel
a husk of a man
True, honestly they feel like meditation spots.
i only use them to pause the timer for chaos and than tech
"Witchcraft. What can you do"
T_T
What’s that quote from?
Its what Zag said just now when I finished a miniboss room with witches circle. Lost a dd. Lol.
Shouldve looked at condition of a chaos boon, not only reward :D
Damn… I once did a Chaos only build, it was hell and I don’t even know if I added heat.
isnt that basically just boonless
no
I love more foes, what really hurts is when he gives me the Pauper one.
boonless means your only boost is from mirror and shackle
huh?
The one that reduces all Obol rewards to 0
pauper is great
In a hades relay race yesterday, someone took slippery grasp on Beowulf lmao
atrophic 
“We’re opposites you and I”
Or "you get hurt when you use special/cast/attack" on a build that is heavily dependant on that exact action. When everything else may not even have a boon yet :D
Not being able to hit shop is my nightmare.
free mostly
ah whenever i get a damage on attack i just sustain the damage and chill at 1hp for the forseeable future
What dat do?
OH YEAH!!! I hate those so much.
Tho more foes in tartarus, in a room with skulls that give each other hearts...

can’t pick up stones for like 10 seconds
Damn… you’re more based than me
standard procedure atp
yeah
“My existence is suffering, my life is pain”
Y’all are cracked, I just work with the other stuff I have.
its not as bad as it seems when youre instakilling everything on beo or hestia
Does bonus damage when you do not have casts work when you loaded casts into weapon, but did not use them yet?
yes
Ohhh, so basically free damage boost for beowulf?
Very true.
zeus + ranged weapon = maximum tomfoolery
Quite.
seek psychiatric assessment
Is it that bad?
But... It's fun... 🥺
honestly the worst part of all that is the innocent little cp2
Lel, "innocent"
At least it's fists tho, I'd be bawling on bow
youre giving hades like a billion extra hp on em4




