#h1-discussion
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how do you guys feel about needing 100+ interactions to unlock the next level of friendship? i've spent a good amount of time in the game and i'm not even close to achieving that
is it overkill on purposed cause the content is not there yet or is this intended to be like that because as a roguelite you're going to be talking to them a lot because you're going to do a lot of runs?
I think it's the latter
I just hope you don't have to talk to them 1500 time after that to unlock the next level like with the infernal arms
@analog mantle I’m 30 away for Hades pretty excited about that.
to be fair you kill a lot more wretches than you talk to people
So like
im sure you're tired of hearing him complain about you
To gift them more ichor, you have to unlock their next level of conversation first
Also, I don't know if anyone else said this but Zagreus is extremely hot
I listen to podcast or audiobooks why I play. If there no ! I don’t care what they say
everyone always everywhere has said it
He also kinda looks like buff Karkat
the second the game came out
the first thing i said
was that they made karkat hot
Extremely hot
that was the first joke i made about it
I have so many nectar of the gods and keys just sitting in my inventory now. Can’t wait for the next content update. I hope they don’t Strip our progress away in the update. Some early access games have done that
they did say specifically that they'll try to avoid that
That would be nice I would hate for all my work to just disappear.
huh, hades' trailer has nearly 3 million views
wat
and marketing from epic
what version of the trailer
So uhm...I asked yesterday about how to open the codex, and it still doesn't work for me, so I don't think I have it, and I talked to Achilles a bunch of times. Should I just start over?
I'm not even sure how to report this because it's so long back and I don't know what messed up
guessing holding C doesn't work then
LB doesn't either
yeah just report that in hades-feedback
On a side note about Epic. It nearly put me off from purchasing the game due to the questionable nature of Epic's parent company Tencent and I've seen discussion threads on websites questioning the decision to put it on only Epic.
If you'd like to have discussions about Epic games, please do so in #off-topic-discussion
Alright.
thanks!
Time to start over from scratch 
oh I only turned my PC on half an hour ago so it should be up to date
the wiki says achilles gives you the codex after your third attempt, but I just died for the third time and he's not there
Sometimes the characters are talking between them
And I don't know if it counts as the same
I got the codex now 😃
One thing I noticed is that it mentions that Daedalus is in Elysium which makes me think we'll meet him in person once we get there
Are there any plans of releasing a set of wallpapers from Hades? Honestly I fell in love with the artstyle
And Zagreus' pecs
why does skelly still have a coin in his mouth? Isn't that for paying Charon, but he's already in the underworld so why didn't Charon take the coin
@calm delta that too 
maybe that's skelly's salary haha
Hades saves to the documents folder on your computer. sometimes antivirus programs will block that folder
Try turning your antivirus off and see if it works then
I can't wait to see what they're going to do with Nyx
Whenever I see the name Nyx.
I think of dota2 Nyx Nyx Nyx Nyx
i think of the makeup store jfjgngjg
nyx buys zag nailpolish from there
once nyx has a sprite someone gotta cosplay her and go shopping there jfjgjg
i looked there now and they have a purple matte lipstick the same color as her sprite rn sdkjfhsk
if anything they all go to hot topic
man I want to play this damn game so bad haha
I won't be able to purchase it until Friday... until then, I'm just gonna paint a buncha fan art lol
nightsalt is what the nightwings' gossip group chat is called
νυξάλας
What is this moonspeak?
wanders on over to google transalate
well that didn't help at all xD
it's greek 😂 nyx means night and is also the root for the latin "nox" which also means night, which is what greg used when he came up with the name for the nightwings in pyre - "noxalas"
oooh
I know this isn't the place, but I just gotta say that Pyre is a goddamned gorgeous game.
just sayin
Sooo..... I made this.....
https://imgur.com/3zoxZlI
LOL
oh Perfect
is that like.... Medusa with a feather duster?
is it so she can dust all her stone statues?
I do not own the game, friend :]
she's great and i love her
I should probably vacate this channel, really. I have no business being here besides the fact that I want to play the game really damn badly lol
i mean you're welcome to hang out, there won't be too many spoilers here but 😂
I'll freely admit like.... probably 30% of why I want to play the game is because Zagreus is an attractive piece of man.
not gonna lie
that's also valid
like lbr sgg's stories are great but jen's art is a solid 35% of the equation at least
just like darren and ashley
it wouldn't be an sgg game without them
and she just keeps getting better
yeah it's nuts
the progress from game to game is incredible
I tried to emulate her style in my last Fan Art but it's not easy. It's just so clean
but she has years and years ahead of me so hopefully I'll get to that point eventually. I've really only started taking painting/illustration seriously the past 2 months or so
so far with the environments in Hades i'm really enjoying that we get a blend of the more naturalistic stuff from Pyre and the more designed, architectural, embellished stuff from Transistor
Transistor was my favorite of the three games in terms of environmental design and atmosphere and this feels closer to that, for which i am Overjoyed
Transistor was great. I loved the futuristic art deco style
yesss the tartarus rooms are v goth cloudbank!!!
GOTH CLOUDBANK
it was like someone took Frank Lloyd Wright and smashed it together with Blade Runner
for Transistor haha
and by someone I mean Jen Zee lol
jen zees art is so inspiring like....the painterly quality......the Environmental personality..... the AMOUNT AND VOLUME SHE CAN DO IN SO SHORT A TIME 🙇 ❗
(and also all the new artists ofc who im sure sped things up for hades yeeeesss!!!!)
the Volume is the part that especially impresses me
but that's something that comes with a lot of practice
JEN ZEE DID A WHOLE BASTION
how many extra artists do they have?
and who are they so I can fawn over them as well
I'm always in the market for more artist crushes
go fawn on @modest dirge !!
can do
you should go check #fan-works btw. I posted a couple of my fan art there o3o
though you'll have to scroll up a bit for the first one I posted
I haz question. What happens when I get all the keys I need for all abilities? Does anyone know? Granted, it's a bit early for me to worry about it, I havent even beaten Meg yet ;~;
oh it looks like you saw the first one I posted @alpine stratus 💖
I mean, rather, do they still show up as rewards for room options?
Well then. I feel like that's something that could certainly be addressed, but at the same time, I'm not sure what they could be replaced with once you get to that point, without... affecting the power balance, per say.
it's in EA and we're kinda playing it a lot more than intended lol
if it were finished there'd probably be more stuff to do but, for now it is kinda irritating
Its already in the list, dont worry
Another question, that I'm curious about, though to be fair, I might just have to git gud. Are the bosses like... dead cells, was, in the earlier access? Gates, preventing you from seeing the end of content unless you were really good? I only ask because... I have tried to fight meg so many times. xD And I havent beaten her once.
How to beat Meg. Easy version.
Max out backstab in the mirror. Max out Quick Temper.
Take the bow as your weapon.
Get Artimis' dash.
Get Hades' basic attack boost.
You win!
Hades gives you a blessing?
i dont find the bow really practical against meg
It doesn't have to be the bow.
or maybe i suck
It can be any weapon.
ye
practice with it
i like the spear
Just focus on getting as much damage as possible.
its good
That's the real key in this game. You want to focus on damage over everything.
At least, right now.
Meg is still beatable by even the most trashiest builds
With the bow and the right boons you can easily get to the point of one shotting almost everything you see.
yup she has pretty easy patterns
I mean, you could imagine alternate builds which are about like, having really good damage reduction, or really fast attack speed or really good health restoration.
depends on what u want i guess
But they don't exist / are bad.
LOL
Or at least they're no where near as good as just having super duper high damage.
good health restoration
bad
like the most broken and braindead thing in the game right now
is lifesteal sword
wouldent say most broken
I say
its still far more tedious then bow imo
its tedious yes, but you can just stand and tank the hole hydra zero effort
Hey, do you stop getting keys when you've unlocked everything? Or do you guys just all have like hundreds of unused keys?
no dashing or anythig
you just keep getting keys lol
Boo!
just spam attack on everything you see
bow is far more broken tbh, in tartarus for instance i could do survival room without a single mob ever moving from when they spawned
Its strong but it requires at lest some amount of thinking to play
with sword you just cant die unless you want to
half the time i just point blank fire shots
with artemis dash u dont even have to do power shot half the time
you still take damage
Dash->Shoot->Dash->Shoot->Dash->Shoot. One shot everything.
nope im talking 0 dmg till meg
I know dammit
on a new save
Everything is strong with artemis. Crits are good, because damage is king.
Im just sayin that the swords lifesteal is braindead
I've never even been offered lifesteal...
when you try, you'll see
ive tried every weapon mate
not to you
and yes lifedrinker is insane too but u still need to acutally get it
with bow most options are just far easyer to manage
Anyway, this wasn't meant to be a "best builds" thing.
I was just trying to say the easy way to beat Meg if you're still new.
And the answer is damage.
nah but the game does need some rebalancing
Because the faster you kill stuff the less damage you take / fewer times you have to dodge.
Well with bow you need 1 upgrade to make it broken
with sword too
but with sword you dont need to think
I want spear to be so much better than it is. I love using a spear in games whenever I can, but it's just so hard to use in this game.
Spear is very good with a lot of it’s upgrades
yup
do u use the charge spin with dash?
I beat the hydra with spear using the special.
Same, but the regular attack is also good
I had Aphrodite on special and the Aphrodite upgrade to do bonus damage to weakened foes.
As is the throw
fast spin can get pretty ridiculous
Yup
I had Aphro on attack and the same upgrade, also crits after dash, ez hydra
If you can make the spin crit then it’s gg haha
What do you guys think are the toughest enemies?
I just think there's a bit too many armored enemies in act 2
none are tough but more annoying
^
Skull piles probably eat more of my health than any other enemy.
then ide say skelebombs
If I don't have the right upgrades.
What happens after you beat the Hydra?
GG
It's over.
Bomb throwing skeletons because they litter the screen a lot and can clip you unexpectedly with a lot of damage
For now.
That's the end of the content so far.
Oh...
Armoured bloodless can be annoying if you can’t one hit them
Don't piss off athena in act 2 then.
you can knock the thrown bombs back with deflect
Bloodless with defelect is no fun.
You can't bless the same button twice right/
Like you can't have Athena blessing on Special and also get Ares blessing on special?
yup
Yeah, but you can still augment the attack with basic upgrades like "damage to attack +x%"
Sure and with the hammer.
Yeah, Ares can also do that if I remember correctly
Also I assume someone has put together a wiki with all of the upgrades in it?
some are working on a wiki yes
I don't think they have yet, at least didn't find a few days ago.
Yeah, figured as much
or to get some space:p
i love the artemis one tho
Artemis is pretty good as well
yeah if u can get lucky and find everything has chance to crit , it can do some serious dmg
Yeah
was my first go to for hydra heads tbh:p
The first time I beat hydra I got lucky cause I got so many damage resistance upgrades and weak + more damage to weak, it was a breeze.
yeah some of those boons are very good
I think the zeus cast upgrade is good.
Bounce cast.
I think last time i got it it was at epic rarity though. And then I got the epic "extra lightning" Zeus buff too...
Poseidon’s attack upgrade on the shield 
Hey what god are y’all hoping gets added
Like for boons and stuff
My top two are Apollo and Hephaestus
I wonder if they could find room for Eris in the mix: I'd be really fascinated to see how she fits into the mythology of this game 😃
Oh that would be cool!
She’d probably join the house, I’m not sure what for though
Hermes, more dashes, further dashes, faster dashes.
Faster move speed.
Teleports?
Maybe Eris could upgrade the enemies and you get more rewards for fighting them? Kind of like what they did in Bastion and Transistor with the gods and limiters.
I like the idea of Hermes giving you more speed and Dash upgrades
Or reduced cool down times after using Specials?
I really think thanatos might be a boss maybe
Thanatos would make sense as a boss
I just want to say thank you to you all! So far so good and all "SGG game" core elements (art, audio, gameplay) are, as always before ;), on point.
Also I have a quick question - if I would like to write a little bit lenghty feedbacl should I post it in #hades-feedback-closed or do you prefer an "OG" email way?
Hey, does anyone know what each of the legendary boons are?
Ahhh! They're the last boons in the upgrade chain.
^ Hey, that is a bit spoiler-y...
I wouldn't say its a spoiler since legendary boons aint a plot element

Just played for the first time and I'm already hooked
Its so awesome
Welcome to the community!
Might be Supergiant's best yet
Bout to hop in for a run
Any fun builds I should try?
Spear.
Range Upgrade.
Poseidon Boon
Literally untouchable
I still need the conch for that
But yeah, I enjoy the bow and shield best, with Aphrodite's boons
Or, True Shot/Phalanx Shot and lots of casting
The slight bit of homing helps casting so much
Hard to go wrong with Pos
Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Typhoon's Fury
Breaking wave is also good if you can get it
With the spear and Tempest Flourish, whenever you get swarmed you just use your special to instantly get out
can't wait for the next update 😃 on the other hand, that leaves we with more time to max all mirror upgrades and unlock all lore 😄
got tempest strike and typhoons fury
@brisk trail by range upgrade did you mean the one that deals more damage to distant foes
Yes
Honestly Poseidon's my favorite.
Which is great cause Water is my favorite element
@brisk trail when I just want to win a run, I choose the polearm with Aprodite's trinket. With a little luck you get the "+attack damage + weak" boon, then in the second realm you chose Artemis for the "dash + crit". Even if you don't get the crit, you should just be able to hold on attack to charge to full, then just hit your dash key without releasing it. What happens is that you'll do your fully charged attack at the end of your dash. Its super easy to end up behind your target for backstab + dash attack bonuses and some absurd damage. One-shooting close to everything and making both bosses super easy.
i havent even reached hyrda yet
😄
im just taking it slow because i dont wanna run out of content
do what I said and you'll likely get there in no time 😃
the rest is just learning the encounters
Getting World Splitter on the Blade
and then Urge to Kill from Ares
And then Hunter Dash from Artemis
You just turn into a walking nuke
What's the big update gonna be?
We dont know yet
im guessing maybe a new character and updated portraits for the robed characters
as well as a ton of balancing and bug fixes
maaaybe a new weapon
I had a great run with the sword: I got deflection for the Nova Burst early on, then stacked that with the greater area of effect & damage, plus the Blade Rift dash from Ares, which also got greater range 😃 Really satisfying combo
I finally beat meg. Was getting through asphodel really easy. Then I got on a moving platform with crystals that shield the bombers.... beat the bombers... then got swarmed xD
the only time I've beaten the boat battle was also the only time I've beaten Hydra and also the only time I've even reached Hydra
but now I had to start over with a new save and were I just got every weapon unlocked
I've never bested the Hydra yet 😦
boat battle is trivial with OP life leech sword
Gotten it to 10% health but no further
everything is trivial with that tho 😂
Boat battle used to be longer @_@
I dont want a longer boat battle. 3 waves is quit eenough
boat battle?
The third boss battle
Nah.
But if you get a skull room late into asphodel it's a level on a boat through the lava
what replaces the bomb skeleton miniboss in Asphodel
I just got tripple shot in the 1st room and Artemis dash in like, maybe the third room...
I was like... "Oh, ok, dead hydra then."
(First is bombers, second is Meg, third is boat, fourth is hydra)
Wow, everyone is so far already! I feel like I'm slacking off by taking a game break to work 😅
I think you can also not get the bombers or the boat
Bombers and Boat are skippable if you just avoid going into rooms labelled with skulls.
yeah so counting them as bosses is weird
They are more...
They’re a big difficulty spike when you first get to them
Well I guess the bombers are mini bosses and the boat is just an event?
But yeah
they are meant to be rather hard.
I'd call both minibosses
Unique rooms I guess you could call them?
Anyway, I'm probably done with Hades for 30 days.
but calling them bosses would just confuse everyone because most people would count 1 - Meg, 2 - Hydra
I pretty much win every time now.
I'd call them "elites"
Since they're actually just regular enemies with armour.
But you can also get elite rooms aside from the bombers/boat
Mini bosses?
^
i would say elite room cause there's a chance they're not minibosses like when the two bombers appear, sometimes it's just a bunch of armored enemies
elites are the official names for enemies with armor
^
sigh
this is driving me crazy
it doesn't save my progress
i disabled my antivirus


that sucks (
Oh man. I just beat the Bone Hydra after four hours of gameplay, and I'm left absolutely ravenous for more!
Good stuff, Supergiant.
I just may. Maybe I'll finally give the aegis a fair shot.
I've always gone bow since it's so much more powerful than the other options, when combined with dash buffs.
The other weapons are fun too, but I've never been able to get good damage output out of the aegis.
101 runs - 3 killed Hydra -_-
Also this is a dumb thing to congratulate Hades on: but good on Hades for not having DRM
how do you know how many runs you've done? are killed hydras counted as escape attempts?
I think there's a small little bowl next to your bed that tells you how many runs you've attempted and how many you've killed.
Does it show your kills?
You have to buy it from Charon's cauldron first, if I remember right.
yeah, have 75 attempts right now, does that count hydra kills or are those seperate?
i know it shows hydra kills when you kill him
seeing if 75 includes all the kills
I only have one kill so far, that may be why. Still newish.
the scrying bowl shows your total attempts
The bowl shows all foes killed. Not just hydra.
I think all the kills just count as one
yeah
total attempts, total foes killed
The only differentiation it does is with which weapons you've done your runs in.
Hydra kills will be shown when you get back from killing it.
yeah wasn't interested in foes killed, was just trying to calculate ratio of atempts to hydras slain
almost at a 50/50 split then lmao
You just gotta kill Hydra again, then,
i know what i'm at on hydras, 33 right now
I have 53/103
rip life drinker
^ 🙏
oooooh snap
what does "normalized base power level" mean again?
Well, I was talking about a nerf for Life Drinker, I guess that's one
it sounds like they'll bring it back eventually if they can rebalance it tho
was op but I really liked that heal 😢
That was really too powerful 😄
i already miss it
🇫
yeah man life drinker was op as all hell lol
in fairness, it's hard to balance a healing effect in a game that kinda relies on the concept of healing not being a thing you have ready access to
yep
only hydra kill I've ever had
Can I just not update until they bring it back?
I don't think it'll be back
i facetanked literally everything with life drinker and revenge life gain
To be fair, an upgrade that lets you heal yourself in a game where healing should be a valuable and rare ressouce was broken to begin with
life drinker could remove 2 max HP per room, or drink your life itself until combat is over
fyce you literally reworded what i said lmao
some mirror upgrades are too powerful
'drink life itself until combat is over'
this is interesting
aphro nerfs 
Oh, yeah, was typing and I didn't read you 😄
a constant drain that incentivizes quick kills
but yeah idk
i don't think we'll see it back
or if we do it'll be heavily modified
at least I could play with it in EA, that's something, was fun 😄
😄
yeah, though my mouse certainly didn't appreciate it
i havent touched sword so rip me using that
but i used pre nerf shield so thats :^)
constant drain is interesting
SGG got ideas, they try things, break somes, repair somes, I like those experiments. Gotta try again dieing 😄
zag's B-mode
pre nerf shield was so good
my life drinker run was basically summed up by "clickclickclicketyclick"
didnt play pre nerf shield
I managed to pull a muscle playing too much hades on my computer. XD
Pre-nerf shield was insane
but i dont like shield right now
pull what muscle geez
oh noooo
I was too agressive with the joystick fighting the monsters 😄
oof
Forearm
rip
hey hey, if any dev friends have a sec, would it be possible to clarify "normalized" power level for sweet surrender/sure footing?
@upper vigil Normalized just means the variance was removed
I love the Neptune spell. ❤
aphrodite boons hurt me more than life drain tbh, I kinda expected life drain to be gone 😄
Though admittedly we could be less ambiguous about in what way. It could either mean 'avg. power level is now higher' or 'avg. power level is now lower'
ah, ok
To give a specific example
yeah, I was reading as having to do with increasing/decreasing the average amount as opposed to just saying "it's just the same flat percent always"
thanks for the response
Aphrodite's Sweet Surrender previously had a min/max of 10% - 15%; now it's normalized to 10% (so this specific change was a reduction in overall power level)
Patch notes are up on reddit and the wiki 
I try to balance clarity with succinctness of patch notes and don't love 'normalized' since it doesn't indicate whether the thing got better or worse on average, but it may not be something we do that often. Appreciate the feedback on this.
Gotta go fast
@vale drift is it intentional that the game patch notes include the bit about the coin purse text clarification but the discord ones don't?
It's not intentional and I think Morgan will add it to the Discord version.
oki was wondering. thanks!
Ha just finished my first time hydra with some vampirism blade skill and aphrodite boon lvl 3 on simple attack... (it was op for sure) Well think I'll have to work on my own skill for a second finish.. Maybe?
Hope they bring it back
Just balanced better
Life steal can be hard to balance honestly
you can't really balance that
It normally ends up too OP or too underpowered
as it was mentioned before
I know I think I had a taste of the most newbie op build.
game is too much about limited ways to heal
Aphrodite attack buff was nerfed from 50 to 20%. Dayum
Life steal in a roguelike is really hard to do well if you don;t have limits on it
now that you say that, it was kinda okay in Dead Cells imo 🤔
Like even if it was +1hp, that's like loads if you think about how much you can steal per room vs the +3 you get when leaving a room
Dang. I mean, the weakness condition is pretty strong - enemies doing half damage practically doubles your HP if you can hit enemies with it before they get you. But still. Dang.
Yea life steal lack and in the meantime I agree it may be hard to balance
Dead cells has health values in the 100s so it's easier to do I guess
And also you have the flask heal anyway
Which is "free"
Vs in hades you have to buy your health, or find it from a fountain
So lifesteal is way better in hades
True
also it healed more
in dead cells I could only heal like +5 and I had like 600 hp iirc
mid game
Normal Attack Boons buffs:
Aphrodite: +20%
Poseidon: +30%
Athena: +40%
Aphrodite went from best to worst in that aspect 😮
Is there not a counterattack which is meant to heal you? I do not understand how activate it
I guess everyone preferred her, lol 😄
@plain ridge on the third hit of the 3 hit combo on the sword
counteracttack only heals part of the damage
No I mean on the skill tree
that's a different thing
idk sounded too complicated to try 😄
u have to attack right after you get hit
that is pretty limited heal
@tepid wedge this one yes. Yes I struggle too to made it work
I did some crazy stuff with the lifesteal before even realising it - the Ares curse on attack was hitting for 82 (it was an epic one I think)
if I put the curse on with the thrust attack, I'd get 10% of that back, so 8hp
Well what mean right after indeed
once I understood what was happening, that run was in the bag lol
Guess I started playing just before a patch hit. Came to say that while Bloodthirst is ovbiously amazing, Bloodthirst Ares is just disgusting. The curse damage from the thrust also heals you, giving an astonishing +10 heal all the god damn time.
I didn't even know lifedrinker was a thing before it got taken away XD
and ye, Lifedrinker*. Always forget
Well I think life drinker was somewhat gamebreaker
Its a crutch
The life drain from Ares was very likely an overlook/bug tbh
But once youre good enough, its benefit is pretty insignificant compared to a lot of upgrades
Don't worry, there's still Hunter's Dash Bow
Don't worry, there's still Hunter Dash in general
Pour one out for the homie life drinker
I'm not nearly patient enough to use the spear special
I just charge it and dash into my enemies
yea my bad
Which isnt actually the special
lol in another conversation I just made that exact slip
i misread
i just think of the special as spearthrow
lmao rip morgan
It was already good, but then they buffed it even more
I'm too speed-oriented
Easy 500+ damage to enemies in a line
it's really hard to kill things fast with it
man I dunno I have not seen a build with the spear special that I could make it feel good at all
I'm glad you have then
Yeah
^ yeah that too lol
but throw = special and spin = hold-click
there's a hammer upgrade to increase it by like 500%
o dang
Add the fact that special upgrades give a bigger increase
that has always existed
i've never seen that hammer upgrade
Add that it has 2 upgrades that give it essentially 100% extra damage
One of which turns it into crit
I like seeing that things one person thinks are no good are found to be perfectly functional for others
Add some good Artemis boons, and there you go
I don't really care for the spear special playstyle so I'm not likely to try making more of it
but that's cool
I like it, because the return is super-satisfying
And its probably the safest playstyle in the game
I really enjoy the bow special build, although it's a little bit dicier now that there isn't just a huge bunch of hit lag every time you use it lol
Bow special is janky, but seems to be a decent boss killer
it reminds me of like
meteorain in FF7, or sazh's blitz in FF13
a multi-hit, many-target attack that you ideally just want to use on one target because then it does broken amounts of damage
dashing up behind the [redacted] and just unleashing a torrent of arrows into it
is pretty effective
ah yes, the good old shotbow technique
I do wonder though, with more levels in the future
Maybe you cant upgrade just one move
And instead have to diversify
Oh lol yeah I was also confused about spear special
Pretty much just dashing around blowing up
I prefer deflecting
Giant untouchable tornado
Doesn't it already get very close to forcing you to diversify already
Like Poseidon's non-buff boon is garbage
Err non-ability
Eh, so far you can lean heavily into just one move
yes I'm hoping that diversifying will become more needed
I don't mind it being viable to focus on one thing in one run
as long as you can switch viably from run to run
I'm not sure whether I'd rather have it that you can always choose whichever thing you want to do on a given run, and get enough boons that you're able to use that thing
or have it that you can pick a weapon but whether you do attack/special/dash/cast will be determined by the boons you get
and you just have to roll with that
I see merits to both kinds of design
I think so far all the weapons except the shield (which I might just be bad at) have pretty reasonable progression unless you get super boned on boons
shield is uh
I got a clear with some real sketchy boons
But you basically have to use just the basic attack
Charge-attack maybe too
Special is worthless
I've had a lot of fun playing with it but I haven't killed morg with it yet
Yeah, I mostly just dash back and forth trying to backstab with it
special is uh
it's serviceable
the special damage boons are like
ludicrous%
so you can kinda just
force it to work
I had a clear where my main damage sources were athena dash + shield special up 263%
Because as it turns out, 300% bonus on 15 damage is still only 45 damage
Well, 60 since its +300%
Thats low
At that point dash + attack is still more damage
hm, is it possible to post a link to this here? let's find out
that was a build I got a clear with
just spamming dash and special
it was something
I feel like Athena's buffs are good for practically all builds
yeah but poseidon gives bounty
Its good for roomclear because of wall-smash, cornered and traps
Poseidon's special knockback is pretty great with the bow though
Yeah, def great with the bow
Got me through the hydra
If you hit Meg with a knockback
And she dashes into a wall
You get wallsmash damage
yeah i always thought that was funny
yeah I noticed that lol
i wonder if that's a bug
I wasn't sure if I was deflecting her dash, or if she was deflecting my attack and hitting the wall
But I thought maybe when she got deflected she would wall smash
I couldn't reproduce it due to being bad
I had a great Poseidon wall-smash build going with Shield a few days ago. Then it all fell apart in Asphodel. None of the walls for some reason counted as walls. The Shield special just friggs off into the horizon, and you can't knockback the boss. Knockback focused builds just don't really work there. Neither does shield special because the rooms are effin' huge and have no walls.
They do, because the lava does mad damage
so if you miss, you're boned
Special is bad in general, but knockback is great in Asphodel
Miss cast, shoot bloodstone into lava
Plus, most walls work afaik
Stand at the edge hoping it scoots back to you
Yeee, maybe. It wasn't very effective that one run, though. And when you bash a flying enemy 500 ft over lava, it's really annoying to deal with, especially if it's the Brimstones.
I ran into many walls that did absolutely nothing.
I had Aphro cast, lol. So that was a no-go for range.
I might try another one. It was fantastic and hella fun in Tartarus.
So far besides straight damage builds with the bow almost everything is at least fun
I had a similar relationship to Transistor
Oh this is garbage -- but it's also hilarious
Is ocean's bounty supposed to make the centaur hearts give you more than 25 extra hp?
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS! I'll be picking that up more often now.
I thought it was just healed health, not extra max
So I still think there are definitely walls and objects in Asphodel that I bang dudes into that do not wallsmack nor stun. And it seems they only get knocked properly into lava if you yourself are attacking them on the edge of lava, which doesn't make any sense. I can hit them across a football field but unless we're both on the edge of lava, they only get smacked a couple feet. Maybe they clip a wall or something that slows them down so it's the angle that's off. But the lava smack is dope, though. Still useless on Hydra. I had amazing Zeus cast for that but I still died at last phase. 😦
The little piles of grey ashes stop knockback and do not cause a Wall damage. They are everywhere in Asphodel
You can only destroy them by walking on them
@nimble harness Post in #hades-feedback-closed using the !bug command 👍
Is that a bug or intended?
I was answering to Medico, I don't know if that's intended or not
Ah, I see
Still probably worth using either !feedback or !bug, they can decide whether it's intended or not but at least they'll know about it
Still worth a bug report anyway, as the interaction definitly seems weird
yeah
Done and removed my picture from this channel to prevent potential spoilers of the second zone to people who are still not there yet
well done
you can't get boons for one ability from multiple gods, right?
like you can't get artemis' seeking cast and zeus' bounce cast on the same run
Correct
pretty boring imo
Keeps it from getting too out of control if you ask me
I mean
maybe just not have it show up at the same likelihood as normal
like if you get artemis' cast, zeus' will show up much less frequently
dunno
feels like on some runs you get a bunch of boons from one or two gods and on some you get boons from like 4 gods
shrug
like some would be pretty broken or not work well together
but some could be fun
I'd be fine with them allowing that if it was just in a challenge arena or something where the enemies would get nuts, but not so much regular runs
It's def a balance thing, esp with Daedalus hammer making some boons really strong as is
maybe it could be tied to an upgrade
Like if you can upgrade god boons
er
the trinkets
Maybe they'll come out with a dual wield weapon and it can have two boons on it 
like, y'all ever play dead cells? how you can upgrade the likelihood of getting weapons of higher levels
it's an expensive upgrade but maybe if they eventually add a similar sort of NG+ like what dead cells has, but that'd definitely be far in the future
this is very much minor "I wish" stuff
Rogue Like like this also have a strong emphasis in decision making. Having to choose only ONE boon for each move you have that then dictates your playstyle is part of it
maybe when you max out all your stats
but at least with cast vs weapon builds until then
you gotta decide whether putting all that darkness into bonus casts is worth it
if you're planning a weapon run that never uses cast
but then all your good perks are cast related
or if you wanna go for cast but you get no good cast perks
has there been the case when you get back to the house of hades when hades is just not there?
once or twice
I don't think I've ever seen Hades missing myself ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Not to say it couldn't happen, though
I havent seen it either
got my second hydra kill 
turns out that that one artemis boon that gives you a second projectile for 25% damage
is really good
especially when you upgrade it
cause you're just adding a flat 50% damage
gratz
I had 3 of the good artemis boons
seeking casts, quick reload and that extra projectiles
yeah the cast is prettty good, and the ammo also nice 😃 and free extra dmg cant say no to that right
Woo damn, they really nerfed Aphrodites left click a bunch.
seeing the feedback # after a submission makes me feel bad for devs
Supergiant, you're one of my favorite development studios though. I'm sure you all don't glance in here much, but everything you all touch is gold. Thank you so much for not succumbing to lootboxes or any of that filth and always having such a polished game 
I think the feedback number is encouraging more than anything
People love this game
Feedback isn't always a negative! And we're providing it because we love'em too!
And its scarcely been out a week
yeah ppl done over 100 attempts and such 😃 totally hooked
A lot of them are just duplicates and suggestions rather then outright bugs.
of course! I'm sure it's more a help than anything, though I'm also sure many of them are probably reposts(which also doesn't have to be bad?); it's just a large number so soon lol
though I imagine(only an assumption based upon almost no game dev knowledge) having a strong core game with very few bugs will allow the implementation of more content more seamless
I'm new here so idk where I should ask this but how difficult is the game? I'm thinking of getting it but I'm not really a hardcore gamer so I'm wondering if it'll be too much of a challenge
I think its a good mid ground difficulty wise
not too hard but not too easy
the learning curve isnt bad either
nice
👌 thanks
np chief
its hard but its doable
^
as a casual too, it was very hard at the beginning, but you will be able to slowly progress, the game helps you learn the mechanics once you've experienced them a lot
and dying over and over doesn't feel that frustrating cause it rewards you with lore
The game is fantastic about getting you to willingly explore strategies. The semi-randomness of the boons you have access to in each playthrough really makes you think about how to make a successful build each play-through.
Most games I hate being forces to try every strategy; here, I find myself adapting to wildly different tactics based on what I can find upgrades for.
Just finished a play-through where I had Ares' delayed-damage upgrade to my attack, and Aphrodite's shotgun cast, both epic, and developed a wildly successful strategy of attack-cast-dash hit and run tactics.
Before that a dash-centric build around Zeus' lightning dash, before that a defensive build with Hera's deflect applied to attack - defense on my offense. Never played anything that made me so happy to adapt.
honestly i spent a few runs just collecting money instead of doing useful things bc i wanted a poster lol
dying doesn't feel v bad 😂
or just testing random stuff for fun lol
im trying for the poster now Q.Q
I JUST got aphrodite's poster. I think Achilles has one, too.
he does yeah
I just got a dialog where I asked the fury what she was drinking. She said, "Whatever it is, it's weak. Enough to be mistaken for your blood." Am I weird for loving that crappy attitude of hers? 😃
one thing i loved in Pyre is the growing collection of stuff from party members so i cant wait for even more stuff to put in our room in Hades
and then eventually... leave... all of that... behind... DDD:
petition to take a scroll with us!
got 2 legendary boons in the same run, lulz
i want achilles' autograph too
I'd like a small passive boon from each of the gifts you get; I feel like all the upgrades are a little fancy; I'm having trouble making progress without being able to upgrade the basics.
and Orpheus's
Something I've noticed; can anybody verify? It looks like you can only have one boon related to your dash, attack, special, and cast. I've never managed to have two different gods apply two boons to any one of those.
Yep, that's by design for now
Would probably get a bit messy
It makes sense; some things can't mix well, like Ares' blade storm on your cast wouldn't mix with other cast effects well. Thought I would check.
If you had effects for deflect, weak, curse, knockback, critical, and chain all on one action
I would be shocked to be lucky enough to be offered all those choices in one playthrough, really. I mean, it'll happen eventually, but getting lucky is part of the process. I'd be more worried about unique effects breaking each other. There would be too many combos to do any really quality control on how they mix.
I don't know, they did it for Transistor
it would get boring if i just maxed everything out on one attack
I do like that you have to choose only one for each slot, though
I don't MIND that they don't mix, I just wanted to verify. All I knew was that I wasn't seeing it happen, and there's too much luck at play for that to mean anything.
yeah i got a run where zeus only had his legendary to offer to me
I also noticed the sword is the only weapon that seems to have a dash combo.
Not terribly meaningful unless you got the double hit/crit upgrade on the sword, but I spent a few runs trying to figure out if any of the other weapons were keeping secrets from me.
Aegis has a chompy face
true
Chompy face?
Similar to the dash-thrust, the bow has a quick charge after a dash
Maybe even the chompiest. It hungry
I couldn't get the bow to do anything unusual with a dash. I'll try again.
And the spear has a reverse dash attack, where you can charge your spin attack and then dash to release it at the end of the dash
You have to dash and then charge your shot, it will charge much faster than regular
That's normal, though. If you dash while holding any charged attack, it'll fire from the end of the dash.
The bow's primary fire can release from the end of a dash, too.
Admittedly, not as useful.
With the bow, dash and then immediately charge a shot. When you dash again, you will fire the shot, and instantly be charging the next
Instead of having to release fire and hit fire again
Huh. I did find out that you can alter the path of the shield's bull rush by dashig during the rush.
It seems to be an interaction with the quick temper (?) mechanic
Maybe because I haven't taken any points in quick temper.
hey, um, how do I view my own stream on twitch?
I'm doing a test stream for hades and I haven't streamed on twitch before
You can see a preview of it on the dashboard, or else just navigate to your twitch page
If you throw a link in #self-promotion I can pop in to help out, if you want
I'm not an expert or anything, but I've done a bit of streaming, and spend a lot of time on Twitch 😆
it says I'm offline in the preview
The shield you can double attack very fast after a dash
It's not a unique attack but it's VERY handy
have you pressed the 'start broadcasting' button in your streaming program?
It's a code that twitch gives you so that people can't just stream through your channel
its in your dashboard
@jolly summit I'll talk with you on Twitch
ok
hey, I am trying the stream on youtube
can someone go on it to see if it's working?
or not, I don't really care at this point
You'd have to post a link in #self-promotion , I don't know what your Youtube page is. Only found your Twitch page 'cause it's in your Discord profile 😉
Vacuuming also?
In fairness Trna had a whole lot of unintended(?) things you could do by stacking only two upgrades
For example one upgrade, in Hades terms, makes a bunch of tiny spark projectiles when you dash, which do small damage
Another makes a single homing cast when you dash, which does high damage
If you use both, it makes a bunch of homing casts that do high damage every time you dash
I played through an entire run using only those upgrades, dashing back and forth and letting all the enemies die to the dozens and dozens of homing casts
I do agree that we should be able to stack boons. To a point. Maybe like 2 or 3 max
that bounce reflect and chase
that shoot 3
Nah no limits
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM
(Also the code for how they stack in trna is beautiful and I have a partially-finished mod I need to get back to)
(That lets you do things like "invert the effect of X upgrade" or "make X upgrade twice as powerful but gain a drawback")
they would need to lower the drop rate for the boons then or we would become hell destroying gods by the second area
(Meta-upgrades in other words)
what trna?
Oh, sorry
Transistor
But searching "Transistor" tends to come up with electrical components
So fanworks for it often have the special tag "trna" also
oh ok
Just because nobody else uses it
never seen it shortened like that.
can't we already stack them? Like we can get at least 2 gods each time Z goes out.
They mean stacking the same boon type (Attack, Special, Dash, and Cast can all only have one boon attached to them)
seems like the interactions would get hairy
Yeah, what wightfyre said.
We can already do that, I think they mean stacking the same boon like double true shot but that’s just the level up system
Not... quite.
You can already stack stuff like the area of effect cast and true shot tho
Like having true shot AND blade rift on cast.
yeah, that's kind of hard to imagine
Or having Deflect on Attack and making your enemies weak on attack.
It'd be funny as an easy mode.
Slash 'stress mode.'
Correct me if I’m wrong or it was changed, but I’m pretty sure that’s a valid combination?
not that I've seen; if you have a god augmenting a method of combat (attack, cast, special), you won't get another boon augmenting the same method.
Hm, interesting. Maybe it’s less likely or something but when I was playing over the weekend I could have sworn I doubled up on cast boons
As in like...
Ares can augment Cast/Attack power, yes, but if you have Artemis's trueshot ability for cast, you won't get the blade rift generation that Ares provides.
You could get a Daedalus Hammer boon and a God boon on the same weapon, I believe
Yep!
Those can synergize in fun ways on their own
But that's different from gods.
Ohhhhhh okay
The gods seem more like replacing an ability for a similar one, so I don't even know if stacking god boons is feasible even if SG wanted to
Nor do I! But it's still worth asking, if only to see what happens, you know?
That and like... Let me find it and post it in off-topic.
does anyone know if its possible to play hades using a nintendo switch pro controller?
faq says it is
What are legendary boon? I have kill Hydra a couple of time now (and being killed even more often), yet I have never get anything better than epic
they have higher stats
legendary boons are boons with a special effect. like aphrodite's gives a chance for weakened enemies to fight for you
stuff like that
its a chance thing
I should’ve some drop by now
how many runs are you at?
Can’t remember
Ive done 150 runs and maybe seen 5 total
But I kill Hydra 4 times, now
I saw my first legendary around run 40 ish
It's not chance, there are prerequisites to get Legendaries
Maybe, I’m just unlucky
that doesn't really tell us anything, you could be at 200 runs with 4 hydra kills 🤷
what do you need to do then/
Well, at least it tells you that I play a lot, already?
if you get the pool for your room you can see how many runs you have done
if you are interested in that sort of thing
I didn’t buy any cosmetic for my room
if you look at your savefile in the menu you can also see it
Though, it wastes of gold...
Yes, I think I’m over 50, but not sure how many exactly
You can look them up on the wiki, check pinned messages in #h1-builds-and-combat . Basic idea though is you need a basic boon for a god, followed by the tier 2 boon that modifies it, and then tier 3 (legendary) will be available
TIL
Alright
Prereqs are listed at the bottom of each god's page. Beware spoilers if reading the wiki
I feel like even with prereq's met, it is still a big chance thing
I always go for aphrodite weak and then increased damage to weak, and I have only seen the legendary once
Sure, you can't guarantee you'll see that god again
And what they offer is still randomized from the available pool
The prereqs just toss the Legendary into that pool
Artemis fangirling over Achilles is the best
i wanna see zagreus fangirling over achilles iykwim
Hahaha
he does to a certain extent lol
it's more like admiration in a student-mentor kinda way, I think
achilles is pretty famous lol it's not surprising he'd have fans in the underworld too
and enemies
loads of enemies.
He put 60% of those guys in there
Hades is still processing them lmao
that’s the line u see whenever there’s people in there
i mean zag can buy a poster of achilles, so
If he put 60% of those guys there, then over 60% of those guys were killed in combat. Alas, during those time those number is far off...
(as a side note i think the line you get from him when you inspect the poster is Adorable)
How many room decorations are there? Is there any purpose to have them?
I have both posters, scrying bowl, and the old weapons
with the bowl you can see how many runs you've done and enemies you've killed
The bowl is the most general, idk what the aphro one does but everyone seems to want it
it has pretty lady
I only got the decor because decor!
yeah me too, it took me a lil while to get the 500 for the aphrodite poster, when I did get it I had 600+ and I'm like: ?? Where did all this money come from??
fair carry on
What does the color of our name mean?
Purple is mods, red is supergiant, the rest are from the game roles
Okay, thanks

