#h1-discussion

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analog mantle
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really excited to see what they do with nyx and arthemis

calm delta
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Oof Artemis is my favourite tbh

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Personality-wise

analog mantle
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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

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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?

calm delta
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I think it's the latter

olive jungle
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I...sort of thought it was the former??

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It seemed like an artifically high number

calm delta
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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

gusty pike
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@analog mantle I’m 30 away for Hades pretty excited about that.

analog mantle
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to be fair you kill a lot more wretches than you talk to people

calm delta
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So like

analog mantle
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im sure you're tired of hearing him complain about you

calm delta
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To gift them more ichor, you have to unlock their next level of conversation first

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Also, I don't know if anyone else said this but Zagreus is extremely hot

gusty pike
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I listen to podcast or audiobooks why I play. If there no ! I don’t care what they say

analog mantle
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everyone always everywhere has said it

calm delta
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He also kinda looks like buff Karkat

analog mantle
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the second the game came out

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the first thing i said

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was that they made karkat hot

calm delta
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Extremely hot

analog mantle
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that was the first joke i made about it

gusty pike
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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

analog mantle
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they did say specifically that they'll try to avoid that

gusty pike
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That would be nice I would hate for all my work to just disappear.

honest raft
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huh, hades' trailer has nearly 3 million views

brisk trail
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Nice.

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I guess the publicity of the Game Awards helped.

grand jewel
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wat

honest raft
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and marketing from epic

grand jewel
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what version of the trailer

little fable
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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?

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I'm not even sure how to report this because it's so long back and I don't know what messed up

grand jewel
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guessing holding C doesn't work then

little fable
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LB doesn't either

grand jewel
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yeah just report that in hades-feedback

brisk trail
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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.

olive jungle
brisk trail
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Alright.

olive jungle
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thanks!

little fable
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Time to start over from scratch shadegrief

grand jewel
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sorrow

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remember to restart the epic launcher to get updates

little fable
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oh I only turned my PC on half an hour ago so it should be up to date

little fable
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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

amber helm
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Sometimes the characters are talking between them

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And I don't know if it counts as the same

little fable
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I got the codex now 😃

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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

lucid prism
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Are there any plans of releasing a set of wallpapers from Hades? Honestly I fell in love with the artstyle

calm delta
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And Zagreus' pecs

little fable
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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

lucid prism
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@calm delta that too dusa

olive jungle
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maybe that's skelly's salary haha

hallow lark
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good morning all! may your runs be true, and skull earring carried

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🙏🏽

exotic storm
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hello

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guys i played first time yesterday

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but it didn't save my progress?

olive jungle
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Hades saves to the documents folder on your computer. sometimes antivirus programs will block that folder

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Try turning your antivirus off and see if it works then

calm delta
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I can't wait to see what they're going to do with Nyx

brisk trail
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Whenever I see the name Nyx.
I think of dota2 Nyx Nyx Nyx Nyx

alpine stratus
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i think of the makeup store jfjgngjg

calm delta
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heathens

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jk

alpine stratus
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nyx buys zag nailpolish from there

void vigil
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THATS RIGHT nyx is a makeup brand

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i forgot

alpine stratus
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once nyx has a sprite someone gotta cosplay her and go shopping there jfjgjg

void vigil
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i looked there now and they have a purple matte lipstick the same color as her sprite rn sdkjfhsk

alpine stratus
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WAIT I THINK I BOUGHT THAT ONCE HFJFNGJG

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i gotta dig it up

vale kite
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if anything they all go to hot topic

alpine stratus
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its all part of the same mall

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charon owns it ofc

odd granite
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man I want to play this damn game so bad haha

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I won't be able to purchase it until Friday... until then, I'm just gonna paint a buncha fan art lol

olive jungle
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νυξάλας

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from the nightwings to the....night....salt

alpine stratus
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nightsalt is what the nightwings' gossip group chat is called

odd granite
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νυξάλας
What is this moonspeak?

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wanders on over to google transalate

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well that didn't help at all xD

olive jungle
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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"

odd granite
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oooh

olive jungle
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but in greek it doesn't...quite parse hahaha

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nyxalas....

odd granite
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I know this isn't the place, but I just gotta say that Pyre is a goddamned gorgeous game.

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just sayin

vagrant leaf
odd granite
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LOL

olive jungle
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oh Perfect

odd granite
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is that like.... Medusa with a feather duster?

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is it so she can dust all her stone statues?

vagrant leaf
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What ?

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She has it ingame

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its just an edit

odd granite
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I do not own the game, friend :]

vagrant leaf
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like Pan pride colors on duster

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Mah representation and all

olive jungle
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she's great and i love her

odd granite
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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

olive jungle
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i mean you're welcome to hang out, there won't be too many spoilers here but 😂

odd granite
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I'll freely admit like.... probably 30% of why I want to play the game is because Zagreus is an attractive piece of man.

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not gonna lie

olive jungle
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that's also valid
like lbr sgg's stories are great but jen's art is a solid 35% of the equation at least

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just like darren and ashley

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it wouldn't be an sgg game without them

odd granite
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Jen Zee is like

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I've had an artist crush on her for probably over a decade now

olive jungle
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and she just keeps getting better

odd granite
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yeah it's nuts

olive jungle
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the progress from game to game is incredible

odd granite
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I tried to emulate her style in my last Fan Art but it's not easy. It's just so clean

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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

olive jungle
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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

odd granite
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Transistor was great. I loved the futuristic art deco style

alpine stratus
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yesss the tartarus rooms are v goth cloudbank!!!

vale kite
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GOTH CLOUDBANK

odd granite
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it was like someone took Frank Lloyd Wright and smashed it together with Blade Runner

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for Transistor haha

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and by someone I mean Jen Zee lol

alpine stratus
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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 🙇 ❗

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(and also all the new artists ofc who im sure sped things up for hades yeeeesss!!!!)

odd granite
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the Volume is the part that especially impresses me

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but that's something that comes with a lot of practice

alpine stratus
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JEN ZEE DID A WHOLE BASTION

odd granite
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how many extra artists do they have?

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and who are they so I can fawn over them as well

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I'm always in the market for more artist crushes

alpine stratus
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go fawn on @modest dirge !!

odd granite
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can do

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you should go check #fan-works btw. I posted a couple of my fan art there o3o

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though you'll have to scroll up a bit for the first one I posted

ripe violet
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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 ;~;

odd granite
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oh it looks like you saw the first one I posted @alpine stratus 💖

vagrant leaf
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Nothing really @ripe violet

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you just unlock everything

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and thats about it

ripe violet
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I mean, rather, do they still show up as rewards for room options?

vagrant leaf
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Yup

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and there is no other use for them so far

ripe violet
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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.

olive jungle
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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

vagrant leaf
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Its already in the list, dont worry

ripe violet
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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.

digital lava
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How to beat Meg. Easy version.

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Max out backstab in the mirror. Max out Quick Temper.

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Take the bow as your weapon.

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Get Artimis' dash.

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Get Hades' basic attack boost.

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You win!

ripe violet
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Hades gives you a blessing?

digital lava
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Sorry.

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Ares.

vagrant leaf
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How to beat Meg. Short version
Get any weapon you want

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Git good

vale kite
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i dont find the bow really practical against meg

digital lava
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It doesn't have to be the bow.

vale kite
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or maybe i suck

digital lava
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It can be any weapon.

vale kite
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ye

prime harness
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practice with it

vale kite
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i like the spear

digital lava
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Just focus on getting as much damage as possible.

prime harness
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its good

digital lava
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That's the real key in this game. You want to focus on damage over everything.

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At least, right now.

vagrant leaf
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Meg is still beatable by even the most trashiest builds

digital lava
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With the bow and the right boons you can easily get to the point of one shotting almost everything you see.

prime harness
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yup she has pretty easy patterns

vagrant leaf
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@digital lava isnt that like, the point of having a build ?

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to be efficient

digital lava
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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.

prime harness
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depends on what u want i guess

digital lava
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But they don't exist / are bad.

vagrant leaf
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LOL

digital lava
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Or at least they're no where near as good as just having super duper high damage.

vagrant leaf
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good health restoration
bad

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like the most broken and braindead thing in the game right now

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is lifesteal sword

prime harness
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wouldent say most broken

vagrant leaf
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I say

prime harness
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its still far more tedious then bow imo

vagrant leaf
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its tedious yes, but you can just stand and tank the hole hydra zero effort

digital lava
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Hey, do you stop getting keys when you've unlocked everything? Or do you guys just all have like hundreds of unused keys?

vagrant leaf
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no dashing or anythig

olive jungle
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you just keep getting keys lol

digital lava
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Boo!

vagrant leaf
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just spam attack on everything you see

prime harness
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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

vagrant leaf
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Its strong but it requires at lest some amount of thinking to play

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with sword you just cant die unless you want to

prime harness
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half the time i just point blank fire shots

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with artemis dash u dont even have to do power shot half the time

vagrant leaf
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you still take damage

digital lava
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Dash->Shoot->Dash->Shoot->Dash->Shoot. One shot everything.

prime harness
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nope im talking 0 dmg till meg

vagrant leaf
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I know dammit

prime harness
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on a new save

vagrant leaf
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i know that bow is stong

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I main it

digital lava
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Everything is strong with artemis. Crits are good, because damage is king.

vagrant leaf
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Im just sayin that the swords lifesteal is braindead

digital lava
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I've never even been offered lifesteal...

prime harness
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that can happen yeah

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then sword becomes pretty bad

vagrant leaf
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when you try, you'll see

prime harness
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ive tried every weapon mate

vagrant leaf
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not to you

prime harness
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and yes lifedrinker is insane too but u still need to acutally get it

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with bow most options are just far easyer to manage

digital lava
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Anyway, this wasn't meant to be a "best builds" thing.

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I was just trying to say the easy way to beat Meg if you're still new.

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And the answer is damage.

prime harness
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nah but the game does need some rebalancing

digital lava
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Because the faster you kill stuff the less damage you take / fewer times you have to dodge.

vagrant leaf
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Well with bow you need 1 upgrade to make it broken

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with sword too

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but with sword you dont need to think

ripe violet
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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.

brisk trail
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Spear is very good with a lot of it’s upgrades

vagrant leaf
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yup

prime harness
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do u use the charge spin with dash?

digital lava
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I beat the hydra with spear using the special.

brisk trail
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Same, but the regular attack is also good

digital lava
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I had Aphrodite on special and the Aphrodite upgrade to do bonus damage to weakened foes.

brisk trail
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As is the throw

prime harness
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fast spin can get pretty ridiculous

brisk trail
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Yup

mighty path
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I had Aphro on attack and the same upgrade, also crits after dash, ez hydra

brisk trail
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If you can make the spin crit then it’s gg haha

digital lava
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What do you guys think are the toughest enemies?

mighty path
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I just think there's a bit too many armored enemies in act 2

prime harness
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none are tough but more annoying

mighty path
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^

digital lava
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Skull piles probably eat more of my health than any other enemy.

prime harness
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then ide say skelebombs

digital lava
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If I don't have the right upgrades.

ripe violet
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What happens after you beat the Hydra?

digital lava
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GG

mighty path
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It's over.

brisk trail
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Bomb throwing skeletons because they litter the screen a lot and can clip you unexpectedly with a lot of damage

mighty path
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For now.

digital lava
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That's the end of the content so far.

prime harness
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and those blue guys paired with bloodless

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hate those shields

digital lava
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Oh...

brisk trail
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Armoured bloodless can be annoying if you can’t one hit them

digital lava
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Don't piss off athena in act 2 then.

mighty path
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you can knock the thrown bombs back with deflect

digital lava
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Bloodless with defelect is no fun.

prime harness
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never piss off athena period

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allways pick her first:p

digital lava
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You can't bless the same button twice right/

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Like you can't have Athena blessing on Special and also get Ares blessing on special?

vagrant leaf
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yup

mighty path
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Yeah, but you can still augment the attack with basic upgrades like "damage to attack +x%"

digital lava
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Sure and with the hammer.

mighty path
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Yeah, Ares can also do that if I remember correctly

digital lava
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Also I assume someone has put together a wiki with all of the upgrades in it?

prime harness
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some are working on a wiki yes

mighty path
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I don't think they have yet, at least didn't find a few days ago.

prime harness
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there is one

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but not finished or anything yet:p

mighty path
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Yeah, figured as much

vagrant leaf
mighty path
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Btw, imo best cast upgrade is from Poseidon

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it's so good in clearing out stuff fast

prime harness
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or to get some space:p

mighty path
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and same with Zeus' attack upgrade

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10/10

prime harness
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i love the artemis one tho

mighty path
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Artemis is pretty good as well

prime harness
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yeah if u can get lucky and find everything has chance to crit , it can do some serious dmg

mighty path
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Yeah

prime harness
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was my first go to for hydra heads tbh:p

mighty path
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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.

prime harness
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yeah some of those boons are very good

digital lava
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I think the zeus cast upgrade is good.

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Bounce cast.

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I think last time i got it it was at epic rarity though. And then I got the epic "extra lightning" Zeus buff too...

wooden lance
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Poseidon’s attack upgrade on the shield orcasm

granite field
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Hey what god are y’all hoping gets added

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Like for boons and stuff

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My top two are Apollo and Hephaestus

gritty roost
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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 😃

granite field
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Oh that would be cool!

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She’d probably join the house, I’m not sure what for though

digital lava
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Hermes, more dashes, further dashes, faster dashes.

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Faster move speed.

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Teleports?

gritty roost
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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.

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I like the idea of Hermes giving you more speed and Dash upgrades

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Or reduced cool down times after using Specials?

wooden lance
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I really think thanatos might be a boss maybe

topaz estuary
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Thanatos would make sense as a boss

swift torrent
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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.

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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?

digital lava
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Hey, does anyone know what each of the legendary boons are?

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Ahhh! They're the last boons in the upgrade chain.

swift torrent
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^ Hey, that is a bit spoiler-y...

vital pier
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I wouldn't say its a spoiler since legendary boons aint a plot element

light fog
pulsar raft
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Just played for the first time and I'm already hooked

brisk trail
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Its so awesome

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Welcome to the community!

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Might be Supergiant's best yet

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Bout to hop in for a run

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Any fun builds I should try?

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Spear.
Range Upgrade.
Poseidon Boon

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Literally untouchable

topaz estuary
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I still need the conch for that

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But yeah, I enjoy the bow and shield best, with Aphrodite's boons

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Or, True Shot/Phalanx Shot and lots of casting

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The slight bit of homing helps casting so much

brisk trail
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Which pos boons?

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one sec

winter echo
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Hard to go wrong with Pos

brisk trail
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Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Typhoon's Fury

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Breaking wave is also good if you can get it

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With the spear and Tempest Flourish, whenever you get swarmed you just use your special to instantly get out

storm rune
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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 😄

brisk trail
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got tempest strike and typhoons fury

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@brisk trail by range upgrade did you mean the one that deals more damage to distant foes

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Yes

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Honestly Poseidon's my favorite.

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Which is great cause Water is my favorite element

storm rune
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@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.

brisk trail
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i havent even reached hyrda yet

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😄

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im just taking it slow because i dont wanna run out of content

storm rune
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do what I said and you'll likely get there in no time 😃

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the rest is just learning the encounters

brisk trail
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Getting World Splitter on the Blade

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and then Urge to Kill from Ares

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And then Hunter Dash from Artemis

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You just turn into a walking nuke

muted tide
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What's the big update gonna be?

brisk trail
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We dont know yet

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im guessing maybe a new character and updated portraits for the robed characters

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as well as a ton of balancing and bug fixes

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maaaybe a new weapon

gritty roost
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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

ripe violet
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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

topaz estuary
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Oh yeah, the "boat battle" is awful, I've never beaten it

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I always avoid it

little fable
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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

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but now I had to start over with a new save and were I just got every weapon unlocked

topaz estuary
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I've never bested the Hydra yet 😦

tepid wedge
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boat battle is trivial with OP life leech sword

topaz estuary
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Gotten it to 10% health but no further

tepid wedge
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everything is trivial with that tho 😂

winter echo
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Boat battle used to be longer @_@

amber garden
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I dont want a longer boat battle. 3 waves is quit eenough

brisk trail
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boat battle?

topaz estuary
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The third boss battle

brisk trail
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theres a boss after hydra?

digital lava
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Nah.

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But if you get a skull room late into asphodel it's a level on a boat through the lava

little fable
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what replaces the bomb skeleton miniboss in Asphodel

brisk trail
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havent seen that yet

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interesdting

digital lava
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I just got tripple shot in the 1st room and Artemis dash in like, maybe the third room...

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I was like... "Oh, ok, dead hydra then."

brisk trail
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😩

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my favourite build

digital lava
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Yep, dead hydra.

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Pretty sure I crit the hydra for over 1000.

topaz estuary
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(First is bombers, second is Meg, third is boat, fourth is hydra)

digital lava
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You can get the bombers twice in the Tartarus though?

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Or maybe I'm misremembering

brisk trail
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Wow, everyone is so far already! I feel like I'm slacking off by taking a game break to work 😅

little fable
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I think you can also not get the bombers or the boat

brisk trail
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Bombers and Boat are skippable if you just avoid going into rooms labelled with skulls.

little fable
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yeah so counting them as bosses is weird

brisk trail
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They are more...

void vigil
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They’re a big difficulty spike when you first get to them

brisk trail
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Well I guess the bombers are mini bosses and the boat is just an event?

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But yeah

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they are meant to be rather hard.

little fable
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I'd call both minibosses

brisk trail
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Unique rooms I guess you could call them?

digital lava
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Anyway, I'm probably done with Hades for 30 days.

little fable
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but calling them bosses would just confuse everyone because most people would count 1 - Meg, 2 - Hydra

digital lava
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I pretty much win every time now.

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I'd call them "elites"

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Since they're actually just regular enemies with armour.

brisk trail
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But you can also get elite rooms aside from the bombers/boat

granite field
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Mini bosses?

brisk trail
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^

analog mantle
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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

brisk trail
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elites are the official names for enemies with armor

little fable
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^

exotic storm
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sigh

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this is driving me crazy

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it doesn't save my progress

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i disabled my antivirus

snow mortar
amber garden
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that sucks (

azure edge
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Oh man. I just beat the Bone Hydra after four hours of gameplay, and I'm left absolutely ravenous for more!

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Good stuff, Supergiant.

vital pier
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Thats great man

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Now

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Do it again.

azure edge
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I just may. Maybe I'll finally give the aegis a fair shot.

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I've always gone bow since it's so much more powerful than the other options, when combined with dash buffs.

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The other weapons are fun too, but I've never been able to get good damage output out of the aegis.

placid elk
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101 runs - 3 killed Hydra -_-

cerulean pagoda
#

Also this is a dumb thing to congratulate Hades on: but good on Hades for not having DRM

thorn sand
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how do you know how many runs you've done? are killed hydras counted as escape attempts?

cerulean pagoda
#

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.

azure edge
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Does it show your kills?

cerulean pagoda
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You have to buy it from Charon's cauldron first, if I remember right.

thorn sand
#

yeah, have 75 attempts right now, does that count hydra kills or are those seperate?

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i know it shows hydra kills when you kill him

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seeing if 75 includes all the kills

azure edge
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I only have one kill so far, that may be why. Still newish.

hexed smelt
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the scrying bowl shows your total attempts

waxen ravine
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The bowl shows all foes killed. Not just hydra.

cerulean pagoda
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I think all the kills just count as one

hexed smelt
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yeah

cerulean pagoda
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Hydra or not

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Sorry not as one, but they get collected as one

hexed smelt
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total attempts, total foes killed

cerulean pagoda
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The only differentiation it does is with which weapons you've done your runs in.

waxen ravine
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Hydra kills will be shown when you get back from killing it.

thorn sand
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yeah wasn't interested in foes killed, was just trying to calculate ratio of atempts to hydras slain

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almost at a 50/50 split then lmao

cerulean pagoda
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You just gotta kill Hydra again, then,

thorn sand
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i know what i'm at on hydras, 33 right now

waxen ravine
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I have 53/103

coral thistle
#

rip life drinker

karmic basalt
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^ 🙏

hexed smelt
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oooooh snap

upper bobcat
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well, rip life drinker

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was nice knowing ya

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now I'll actually have to git gud

coral thistle
#

what does "normalized base power level" mean again?

nimble harness
#

Well, I was talking about a nerf for Life Drinker, I guess that's one

tepid wedge
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rip Life Drinker

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I'll miss it

coral thistle
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it sounds like they'll bring it back eventually if they can rebalance it tho

tepid wedge
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was op but I really liked that heal 😢

glad fossil
#

That was really too powerful 😄

late crown
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i already miss it

void vigil
#

🇫

coral thistle
#

yeah man life drinker was op as all hell lol

hexed smelt
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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

late crown
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yep

upper bobcat
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only hydra kill I've ever had

forest cargo
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Can I just not update until they bring it back?

upper bobcat
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I don't think it'll be back

late crown
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i facetanked literally everything with life drinker and revenge life gain

nimble harness
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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

glad fossil
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life drinker could remove 2 max HP per room, or drink your life itself until combat is over

hexed smelt
#

fyce you literally reworded what i said lmao

late crown
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some mirror upgrades are too powerful

coral thistle
#

'drink life itself until combat is over'

this is interesting

hasty frost
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aphro nerfs PepeHands

nimble harness
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Oh, yeah, was typing and I didn't read you 😄

coral thistle
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a constant drain that incentivizes quick kills

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but yeah idk

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i don't think we'll see it back

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or if we do it'll be heavily modified

tepid wedge
#

at least I could play with it in EA, that's something, was fun 😄

late crown
#

😄

upper bobcat
#

yeah, though my mouse certainly didn't appreciate it

hasty frost
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i havent touched sword so rip me using that
but i used pre nerf shield so thats :^)

void vigil
#

constant drain is interesting

glad fossil
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SGG got ideas, they try things, break somes, repair somes, I like those experiments. Gotta try again dieing 😄

void vigil
#

zag's B-mode

analog mantle
#

pre nerf shield was so good

upper bobcat
#

my life drinker run was basically summed up by "clickclickclicketyclick"

late crown
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didnt play pre nerf shield

storm schooner
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I managed to pull a muscle playing too much hades on my computer. XD

cerulean pagoda
#

Pre-nerf shield was insane

late crown
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but i dont like shield right now

upper bobcat
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pull what muscle geez

void vigil
#

oh noooo

coral thistle
#

shield is still v fun rn imo

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mobility is great

storm schooner
#

I was too agressive with the joystick fighting the monsters 😄

upper bobcat
#

oof

storm schooner
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Forearm

void vigil
#

rip

upper vigil
#

hey hey, if any dev friends have a sec, would it be possible to clarify "normalized" power level for sweet surrender/sure footing?

storm schooner
#

It'll be okay, it's just so stupid and funny.

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But thanks!

hallow lark
#

my sweet, sweet aphrodite boons

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😭

vale drift
#

@upper vigil Normalized just means the variance was removed

storm schooner
#

I love the Neptune spell. ❤

tepid wedge
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aphrodite boons hurt me more than life drain tbh, I kinda expected life drain to be gone 😄

vale drift
#

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'

upper vigil
#

ah, ok

vale drift
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To give a specific example

upper vigil
#

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"

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thanks for the response

vale drift
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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)

brisk trail
#

Patch notes are up on reddit and the wiki shadesmile

coral thistle
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ahh okay

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@brisk trail dang ur fast lol

vale drift
#

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.

brisk trail
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Gotta go fast

coral thistle
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@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?

vale drift
#

It's not intentional and I think Morgan will add it to the Discord version.

coral thistle
#

oki was wondering. thanks!

plain ridge
#

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?

tepid wedge
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vampirism blade skill is out

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with newest patch 😂

brisk trail
#

Hope they bring it back

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Just balanced better

#

Life steal can be hard to balance honestly

tepid wedge
#

you can't really balance that

brisk trail
#

It normally ends up too OP or too underpowered

tepid wedge
#

as it was mentioned before

plain ridge
#

I know I think I had a taste of the most newbie op build.

tepid wedge
#

game is too much about limited ways to heal

nimble harness
#

Aphrodite attack buff was nerfed from 50 to 20%. Dayum

half surge
#

Life steal in a roguelike is really hard to do well if you don;t have limits on it

tepid wedge
#

now that you say that, it was kinda okay in Dead Cells imo 🤔

half surge
#

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

inner sentinel
#

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.

plain ridge
#

Yea life steal lack and in the meantime I agree it may be hard to balance

half surge
#

Dead cells has health values in the 100s so it's easier to do I guess

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And also you have the flask heal anyway

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Which is "free"

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Vs in hades you have to buy your health, or find it from a fountain

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So lifesteal is way better in hades

tepid wedge
#

True

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also it healed more

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in dead cells I could only heal like +5 and I had like 600 hp iirc

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mid game

nimble harness
#

Normal Attack Boons buffs:
Aphrodite: +20%
Poseidon: +30%
Athena: +40%

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Aphrodite went from best to worst in that aspect 😮

plain ridge
#

Is there not a counterattack which is meant to heal you? I do not understand how activate it

tepid wedge
#

I guess everyone preferred her, lol 😄

half surge
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@plain ridge on the third hit of the 3 hit combo on the sword

tepid wedge
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counteracttack only heals part of the damage

plain ridge
#

No I mean on the skill tree

tepid wedge
#

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

plain ridge
#

@tepid wedge this one yes. Yes I struggle too to made it work

hallow lark
#

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

plain ridge
#

Well what mean right after indeed

hallow lark
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once I understood what was happening, that run was in the bag lol

fiery pebble
#

Aw, Lifedrinker is gone

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Didnt get to test it yet

unkempt storm
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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.

mint forum
#

I didn't even know lifedrinker was a thing before it got taken away XD

unkempt storm
#

and ye, Lifedrinker*. Always forget

fiery pebble
#

I will say this though

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I dont think its that good

plain ridge
#

Well I think life drinker was somewhat gamebreaker

fiery pebble
#

Its a crutch

nimble harness
#

The life drain from Ares was very likely an overlook/bug tbh

fiery pebble
#

But once youre good enough, its benefit is pretty insignificant compared to a lot of upgrades

night plaza
#

All of my wins so far have used it lol

#

Time to get gud I guess

unkempt storm
#

Don't worry, there's still Hunter's Dash Bow

tepid orchid
#

Don't worry, there's still Hunter Dash in general

brisk trail
#

Pour one out for the homie life drinker

fiery pebble
#

And Spear Special

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And Sword nonsense

night plaza
#

I'm not nearly patient enough to use the spear special

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I just charge it and dash into my enemies

analog mantle
#

spear special+ hunter dash is very powerful

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it's 200 damage just base

fiery pebble
#

Doesnt work

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Unless you mean the charge

analog mantle
#

yea my bad

fiery pebble
#

Which isnt actually the special

upper vigil
#

lol in another conversation I just made that exact slip

analog mantle
#

i misread

upper vigil
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calling spear charge "spear special"

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because honestly who uses the actual special

analog mantle
#

i just think of the special as spearthrow

fiery pebble
#

Uh

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You should

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The actual special is really good

coral thistle
#

lmao rip morgan

fiery pebble
#

It was already good, but then they buffed it even more

analog mantle
#

it's really funny with poseidon

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knocking enemies away and into me

upper vigil
#

I'm too speed-oriented

fiery pebble
#

Easy 500+ damage to enemies in a line

upper vigil
#

it's really hard to kill things fast with it

fiery pebble
#

Nah

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Its really easy

upper vigil
#

man I dunno I have not seen a build with the spear special that I could make it feel good at all

coral thistle
#

wait

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in a line?

upper vigil
#

I'm glad you have then

coral thistle
#

do you mean the spear throw??

#

i feel like people are confused

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im confused

analog mantle
#

how do you even deal 500 damage with spear throw

#

it's base is 30

fiery pebble
#

Yeah

coral thistle
#

^ yeah that too lol

fiery pebble
#

Its 40, actually

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Was 30

#

But then you add backstab multiplier

coral thistle
#

but throw = special and spin = hold-click

upper vigil
#

there's a hammer upgrade to increase it by like 500%

coral thistle
#

o dang

fiery pebble
#

Add the fact that special upgrades give a bigger increase

upper vigil
#

that has always existed

analog mantle
#

i've never seen that hammer upgrade

fiery pebble
#

Add that it has 2 upgrades that give it essentially 100% extra damage

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One of which turns it into crit

upper vigil
#

I like seeing that things one person thinks are no good are found to be perfectly functional for others

fiery pebble
#

Add some good Artemis boons, and there you go

upper vigil
#

I don't really care for the spear special playstyle so I'm not likely to try making more of it

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but that's cool

fiery pebble
#

I like it, because the return is super-satisfying

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And its probably the safest playstyle in the game

upper vigil
#

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

fiery pebble
#

Bow special is janky, but seems to be a decent boss killer

upper vigil
#

it reminds me of like

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meteorain in FF7, or sazh's blitz in FF13

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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

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is pretty effective

hexed smelt
#

ah yes, the good old shotbow technique

fiery pebble
#

I do wonder though, with more levels in the future

#

Maybe you cant upgrade just one move

#

And instead have to diversify

night plaza
#

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

fiery pebble
#

Eh, so far you can lean heavily into just one move

little fable
#

yes I'm hoping that diversifying will become more needed

upper vigil
#

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

night plaza
#

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

upper vigil
#

shield is uh

fiery pebble
#

Shield is good

#

Starts out as the best weapon, and still is good when upgraded

upper vigil
#

I got a clear with some real sketchy boons

fiery pebble
#

But you basically have to use just the basic attack

#

Charge-attack maybe too

#

Special is worthless

night plaza
#

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

upper vigil
#

special is uh

#

it's serviceable

#

the special damage boons are like

#

ludicrous%

#

so you can kinda just

#

force it to work

fiery pebble
#

Ive tried

#

Had a rare boon with 3 Pom upgrades

#

It was still terrible

upper vigil
#

I had a clear where my main damage sources were athena dash + shield special up 263%

fiery pebble
#

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

upper vigil
#

hm, is it possible to post a link to this here? let's find out

#

that was a build I got a clear with

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just spamming dash and special

#

it was something

night plaza
#

I feel like Athena's buffs are good for practically all builds

fiery pebble
#

Thats true for most gods

#

Ares and Zeus are the only situational ones

night plaza
#

idk Poseidon's attack knockback

#

Feels a little self-defeating on melee weapons

analog mantle
#

yeah but poseidon gives bounty

fiery pebble
#

Its good for roomclear because of wall-smash, cornered and traps

livid herald
#

Poseidon's special knockback is pretty great with the bow though

night plaza
#

Yeah, def great with the bow

fiery pebble
#

And against bosses, knockback doesnt do anything

#

Actually, not true

livid herald
#

Got me through the hydra

fiery pebble
#

If you hit Meg with a knockback

#

And she dashes into a wall

#

You get wallsmash damage

analog mantle
#

yeah i always thought that was funny

night plaza
#

yeah I noticed that lol

analog mantle
#

i wonder if that's a bug

night plaza
#

I think if you hit her at the right angle

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It works

fiery pebble
#

Probably?

#

But its so narrow and not-broken

#

That I want them to keep it

night plaza
#

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

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I couldn't reproduce it due to being bad

unkempt storm
#

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.

fiery pebble
#

They do, because the lava does mad damage

unkempt storm
#

so if you miss, you're boned

fiery pebble
#

Special is bad in general, but knockback is great in Asphodel

night plaza
#

Miss cast, shoot bloodstone into lava

fiery pebble
#

Plus, most walls work afaik

night plaza
#

Stand at the edge hoping it scoots back to you

unkempt storm
#

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.

night plaza
#

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

inner sentinel
#

Is ocean's bounty supposed to make the centaur hearts give you more than 25 extra hp?

topaz estuary
#

Yep!

#

It boosts all gold, darkness, and health rewards

inner sentinel
#

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

unkempt storm
#

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. 😦

nimble harness
#

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

prisma wind
topaz estuary
#

Is that a bug or intended?

nimble harness
#

I was answering to Medico, I don't know if that's intended or not

prisma wind
#

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

nimble harness
#

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

ashen pier
#

well done

pastel nacelle
#

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

prisma wind
#

Correct

pastel nacelle
#

pretty boring imo

prisma wind
#

Keeps it from getting too out of control if you ask me

pastel nacelle
#

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

prisma wind
#

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

ashen pier
#

It's def a balance thing, esp with Daedalus hammer making some boons really strong as is

pastel nacelle
#

maybe it could be tied to an upgrade

#

Like if you can upgrade god boons

#

er

#

the trinkets

prisma wind
#

Maybe they'll come out with a dual wield weapon and it can have two boons on it Kappa

pastel nacelle
#

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

nimble harness
#

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

pastel nacelle
#

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

analog mantle
#

has there been the case when you get back to the house of hades when hades is just not there?

pastel nacelle
#

once or twice

prisma wind
#

I don't think I've ever seen Hades missing myself ¯_(ツ)_/¯

#

Not to say it couldn't happen, though

fiery pebble
#

I havent seen it either

pastel nacelle
#

got my second hydra kill happy

#

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

prime harness
#

gratz

pastel nacelle
#

I had 3 of the good artemis boons
seeking casts, quick reload and that extra projectiles

prime harness
#

yeah the cast is prettty good, and the ammo also nice 😃 and free extra dmg cant say no to that right

golden totem
#

Woo damn, they really nerfed Aphrodites left click a bunch.

civic nimbus
#

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 acsHeart

amber garden
#

I think the feedback number is encouraging more than anything

#

People love this game

random slate
#

Feedback isn't always a negative! And we're providing it because we love'em too!

amber garden
#

And its scarcely been out a week

prime harness
#

yeah ppl done over 100 attempts and such 😃 totally hooked

trail rain
#

A lot of them are just duplicates and suggestions rather then outright bugs.

civic nimbus
#

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

brisk trail
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any fellas got a legendary screenshot?

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nvm

scenic sable
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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

brisk trail
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I think its a good mid ground difficulty wise

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not too hard but not too easy

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the learning curve isnt bad either

scenic sable
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nice

brisk trail
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I would 100% recommend the game

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its awesome

scenic sable
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👌 thanks

brisk trail
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np chief

alpine stratus
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its hard but its doable

slender linden
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^

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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

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and dying over and over doesn't feel that frustrating cause it rewards you with lore

mossy parrot
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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.

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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.

slender linden
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you work with what you got

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or sometimes, it just wont work. and thats okay too

mossy parrot
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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.

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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.

karmic basalt
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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 😂

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or just testing random stuff for fun lol

slender linden
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im trying for the poster now Q.Q

brisk trail
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oh hey

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some rebranding

mossy parrot
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I JUST got aphrodite's poster. I think Achilles has one, too.

brisk trail
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he does yeah

mossy parrot
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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? 😃

slender linden
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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

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and then eventually... leave... all of that... behind... DDD:

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petition to take a scroll with us!

frigid dragon
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got 2 legendary boons in the same run, lulz

karmic basalt
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i want achilles' autograph too

mossy parrot
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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.

slender linden
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and Orpheus's

mossy parrot
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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.

vestal lodge
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Yep, that's by design for now

brisk trail
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Would probably get a bit messy

mossy parrot
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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.

brisk trail
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If you had effects for deflect, weak, curse, knockback, critical, and chain all on one action

analog mantle
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not to mention the increased damage multipliers

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it would get silly very fast

mossy parrot
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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.

brisk trail
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yeah

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im okay with how it is right now honestly

prisma wind
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I don't know, they did it for Transistor

brisk trail
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it would get boring if i just maxed everything out on one attack

prisma wind
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I do like that you have to choose only one for each slot, though

mossy parrot
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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.

analog mantle
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yeah i got a run where zeus only had his legendary to offer to me

mossy parrot
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I also noticed the sword is the only weapon that seems to have a dash combo.

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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.

elder flax
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Aegis has a chompy face

analog mantle
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true

mossy parrot
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Chompy face?

prisma wind
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Similar to the dash-thrust, the bow has a quick charge after a dash

elder flax
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Maybe even the chompiest. It hungry

mossy parrot
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I couldn't get the bow to do anything unusual with a dash. I'll try again.

prisma wind
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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

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You have to dash and then charge your shot, it will charge much faster than regular

mossy parrot
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That's normal, though. If you dash while holding any charged attack, it'll fire from the end of the dash.

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The bow's primary fire can release from the end of a dash, too.

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Admittedly, not as useful.

elder flax
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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

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Instead of having to release fire and hit fire again

mossy parrot
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Huh. I did find out that you can alter the path of the shield's bull rush by dashig during the rush.

elder flax
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It seems to be an interaction with the quick temper (?) mechanic

mossy parrot
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Maybe because I haven't taken any points in quick temper.

jolly summit
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hey, um, how do I view my own stream on twitch?

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I'm doing a test stream for hades and I haven't streamed on twitch before

prisma wind
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You can see a preview of it on the dashboard, or else just navigate to your twitch page

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If you throw a link in #self-promotion I can pop in to help out, if you want

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I'm not an expert or anything, but I've done a bit of streaming, and spend a lot of time on Twitch 😆

jolly summit
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it says I'm offline in the preview

ashen pier
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The shield you can double attack very fast after a dash

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It's not a unique attack but it's VERY handy

slender linden
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have you pressed the 'start broadcasting' button in your streaming program?

jolly summit
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what's a stream key?

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is it my url?

ashen pier
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It's a code that twitch gives you so that people can't just stream through your channel

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its in your dashboard

prisma wind
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@jolly summit I'll talk with you on Twitch

jolly summit
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ok

jolly summit
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hey, I am trying the stream on youtube

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can someone go on it to see if it's working?

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or not, I don't really care at this point

prisma wind
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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 😉

jolly summit
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ok

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it wasn't working anyways

spring cipher
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I wish I could stack all the cast boons

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I cry

analog mantle
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ah yes, 6 chasing bouncing deflecting knockback Rifts

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per cast

steady plume
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Vacuuming also?

topaz estuary
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In fairness Trna had a whole lot of unintended(?) things you could do by stacking only two upgrades

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For example one upgrade, in Hades terms, makes a bunch of tiny spark projectiles when you dash, which do small damage

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Another makes a single homing cast when you dash, which does high damage

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If you use both, it makes a bunch of homing casts that do high damage every time you dash

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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

spring cipher
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I need it

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give me

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the 20 casts

cedar hollow
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I do agree that we should be able to stack boons. To a point. Maybe like 2 or 3 max

spring cipher
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that bounce reflect and chase

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that shoot 3

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Nah no limits

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FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM

topaz estuary
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(Also the code for how they stack in trna is beautiful and I have a partially-finished mod I need to get back to)

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(That lets you do things like "invert the effect of X upgrade" or "make X upgrade twice as powerful but gain a drawback")

cedar hollow
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they would need to lower the drop rate for the boons then or we would become hell destroying gods by the second area

topaz estuary
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(Meta-upgrades in other words)

cedar hollow
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what trna?

topaz estuary
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Oh, sorry

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Transistor

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But searching "Transistor" tends to come up with electrical components

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So fanworks for it often have the special tag "trna" also

cedar hollow
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oh ok

topaz estuary
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Just because nobody else uses it

cedar hollow
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never seen it shortened like that.

remote ember
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can't we already stack them? Like we can get at least 2 gods each time Z goes out.

prisma wind
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They mean stacking the same boon type (Attack, Special, Dash, and Cast can all only have one boon attached to them)

elder flax
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seems like the interactions would get hairy

lime hinge
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Yeah, what wightfyre said.

devout plinth
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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

lime hinge
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Not... quite.

devout plinth
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You can already stack stuff like the area of effect cast and true shot tho

lime hinge
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Like having true shot AND blade rift on cast.

elder flax
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yeah, that's kind of hard to imagine

lime hinge
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Or having Deflect on Attack and making your enemies weak on attack.

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It'd be funny as an easy mode.

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Slash 'stress mode.'

devout plinth
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Correct me if I’m wrong or it was changed, but I’m pretty sure that’s a valid combination?

lime hinge
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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.

devout plinth
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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

lime hinge
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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.

elder flax
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You could get a Daedalus Hammer boon and a God boon on the same weapon, I believe

lime hinge
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Yep!

elder flax
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Those can synergize in fun ways on their own

lime hinge
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But that's different from gods.

devout plinth
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Ohhhhhh okay

elder flax
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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

lime hinge
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Nor do I! But it's still worth asking, if only to see what happens, you know?

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That and like... Let me find it and post it in off-topic.

karmic storm
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does anyone know if its possible to play hades using a nintendo switch pro controller?

cedar hollow
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faq says it is

karmic storm
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oh it does sorry, i missed that

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cheers

alpine silo
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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

brisk trail
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they have higher stats

cedar hollow
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legendary boons are boons with a special effect. like aphrodite's gives a chance for weakened enemies to fight for you

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stuff like that

alpine silo
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Hmm

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Is there special condition that must be met to get one?

brisk trail
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its a chance thing

alpine silo
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I should’ve some drop by now

radiant flame
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how many runs are you at?

alpine silo
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Can’t remember

cedar hollow
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Ive done 150 runs and maybe seen 5 total

alpine silo
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But I kill Hydra 4 times, now

radiant flame
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I saw my first legendary around run 40 ish

prisma wind
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It's not chance, there are prerequisites to get Legendaries

alpine silo
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Maybe, I’m just unlucky

radiant flame
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that doesn't really tell us anything, you could be at 200 runs with 4 hydra kills 🤷

alpine silo
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I knew it!

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What is it?

brisk trail
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what do you need to do then/

alpine silo
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Well, at least it tells you that I play a lot, already?

radiant flame
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if you get the pool for your room you can see how many runs you have done

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if you are interested in that sort of thing

alpine silo
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I didn’t buy any cosmetic for my room

brisk trail
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if you look at your savefile in the menu you can also see it

alpine silo
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Though, it wastes of gold...

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Yes, I think I’m over 50, but not sure how many exactly

prisma wind
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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

cedar hollow
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TIL

alpine silo
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Alright

prisma wind
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Prereqs are listed at the bottom of each god's page. Beware spoilers if reading the wiki

radiant flame
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I feel like even with prereq's met, it is still a big chance thing

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I always go for aphrodite weak and then increased damage to weak, and I have only seen the legendary once

prisma wind
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Sure, you can't guarantee you'll see that god again

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And what they offer is still randomized from the available pool

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The prereqs just toss the Legendary into that pool

mellow spoke
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Artemis fangirling over Achilles is the best

cerulean flare
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i wanna see zagreus fangirling over achilles iykwim

mellow spoke
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Hahaha

olive jungle
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he does to a certain extent lol

mellow spoke
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it's more like admiration in a student-mentor kinda way, I think

olive jungle
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achilles is pretty famous lol it's not surprising he'd have fans in the underworld too

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and enemies

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loads of enemies.

mellow spoke
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hahaha more enemies than fans by like 99%

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he's not a legend for nothing

devout plinth
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He put 60% of those guys in there

olive jungle
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Hades is still processing them lmao

devout plinth
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that’s the line u see whenever there’s people in there

hexed smelt
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i mean zag can buy a poster of achilles, so

alpine silo
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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...

hexed smelt
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(as a side note i think the line you get from him when you inspect the poster is Adorable)

alpine silo
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How many room decorations are there? Is there any purpose to have them?

mellow spoke
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I have both posters, scrying bowl, and the old weapons

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with the bowl you can see how many runs you've done and enemies you've killed

devout plinth
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The bowl is the most general, idk what the aphro one does but everyone seems to want it

hexed smelt
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it has pretty lady

mellow spoke
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a pretty naked lady

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👀

brisk trail
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I only got the decor because decor!

mellow spoke
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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??

devout plinth
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fair carry on

alpine silo
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What does the color of our name mean?

little fable
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Purple is mods, red is supergiant, the rest are from the game roles

alpine silo
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Okay, thanks