#h1-discussion
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Ah I'm on the last boss but haven't been able to reach him again
Ahh I remember her saying that
Makes sense now
@forest grotto idk what you were looking at but sun tzu and guan yu were two entirely different people, there's literally hundreds of years between them. the spear is guan yu aspect.
Guan Yu should be used as a ranged weapon
don't try to melee with it or get absolutely annhilated
It's really powerful with Serrated Edge.
Hey can you unlock the song that plays in Sisyphus' room at the music stand? If so does anyone know the name of it?
Nyx has been disappearing for 4 runs now after i fixed the altar, but she isnt with chaos
where is she?
is this a bug?
is it me or are dash builds really strong?
Depends on your weapon.
Dashing Wallop is cool, but it doesn't really do anything Aegis couldn't already do.
But Double Edge Nemesis, Serrated Edge Hades/Guan Yu, Zag Coronacht, and Spread Fire Exagryph? Those are all world-enders.
who? /s
yeah
but it would be cool wouldnt it
also percy is basicly a godling
he has the power to level mountains
not really. a children book made him popular but he's hardly good source material
yeah true
or maybe leo
hmmm
that,d be cool
btw
do all the weapons have a hidden aspect ?
eventually
noice
looks like a good place for outside-story lore, such as we have already
i have the spear and sword rn
the spear is kinda weird
its realy not that good on lvl 1
but from what ive seen lvl 5 is more than making up for that
anybody got a build for arthur
Guan Yu only makes it slightly easier to live, its a super strong weapon that heals
Arthur carries itself, overtuned so anything works
you even get a massive 50 bonus health on it
Artemis alone boons make it crit for over 700
Then fish for Hermes atk spd
fish ?
Yeah, slap a few knuckle heads on there and you're slashing and dashing
Geeze i'm trying to explain someone that Hades and Darkest Dungeon are different games
Do they understand that they launch from different .exe files?
how good is darkest dung eon
Eh
It's like DnD meets weirdness
ive beaten stygian and i didnt play any games after a week
As a lifelong rpg fan, Darkest Dungeon is just... weird to me
im thinking of pirating it, should i?
It goes pretty low on sales often
i just pirate it to test before wasting the cash
yarr harr
Darkest Dungeon is fun if you like challenge
and you like permadeaths
also pray to rng because this game has a lot of rng elements
its less guaranteed than hades
hades is easy when it comes to rng
The games gets "make the best out of a bad situation" talk a lot but honestly, isn't every RPG ever like that?
Damage ranges, miss and dodge chance, crits
DD's only real extra layer of RNG is the way buffs and status effects are also based on RNG
the traits are one annoying
you simply has too many things to worry from so many angles
bad or good
Yes that too, i simply despise everything that has to do with trains quirks and such
btw how many attemps has it taken some people to defeat the last boss and make it to the top..
EVEN the good stuff
steam does have a no questions asked refund policy if you've played less than 2 hours
Like, this hero has +X% more damage
Also they refund you a game if you bought it for full price some days before a sale on that game
Well, they do ask questions technically, but your response doesnt matter
Really? that's good to know
I agree some games can't be tested fully in 2 hours
Hell some games can be completed under 2 hours
There are very few games out there that I can't tell if I want refunded or not after 2 hours, but i suppose that'sfair
But you can always try even after 2 hours
the 2 hour cut off is just guaranteed
I played some games for like 24hs before i said "yeah i don't think this is good"
That's a generous amount of time to give a game before making that decision
I'm usually picky when buying any game that is over 20 dollars
I was hesitant to buy octopath traveler since it was 60 bucks but I bought it half off for 30 bucks.. overall a pretty good game.. I just don't really think it's worth 60 bucks??
My biggest issue is when i play an "universally praised game" only to run into literally all the bad things it has by the hour i play
It's hard to gauge a games worth
I actually burned my refund time in Dragon Ball FighterZ just trying the combo exhibition, which doesn't actually teach you how to play the game.
hades though I don't regret buying it at all price
I bought the rest of supergiant's games on sale though
because I just can't afford games for full price
Supergiant is literally one-of-a-kind, though.
i lost 1 tenth of my savings on hades 😦
To expect all games to match up to their virtually perfect standard is folly.
regret it not tho
Oh yeah, I'll refund a game rated with "Overwhelmingly Positive" if I find myself at all frustrated due to UI issues or unclear directions on how to play the game
Supergiant's thing is that they make way too many kinds of games
They've made 3 kinds of games.
And how many games have they made?
4
supergiant can take my entire wallet if they want which i'm fine with because I don't have much to begin with
4 including hades
2 action RPGs, 1 visual novel, 1 roguelite.
Exactly
I'd pay a hundred dollars for this game if I knew how much i'd end up enjoying it
My point is most people could potentially play one of their games and not enjoy the others
mate i'll buy this game AGAIN once it's released on platforms
that's just how good supergiant's games are
There is a lot of quality, but can you say someone with 100hs on Pyre will like Hades the same way?
i dont have mutiple platforms
i'd buy them again just to have them on other platforms.. hopefully the switch
Period.
I bought bastion and transistor on the switch since they were on sale
isn't pyre a visual novel
90%.
Yeah, but I knew I'd like this game because of how consistent these devs are in their aesthetic, even though the only other game I had played was Bastion
It's a weird rugby thing too
The remaining 10% is a sports thing.
I've since bought Transistor and loved it, thinking about Pyre next
You just yeet yourself into their... well, pyre
is it a funeral pyre or a sacrificial pyre?
Yes
I'll admit I haven't played pyre enough to rate it.. and i'm not the type of person to enjoy visual novel games but i'm going to say since supergiant games has created it.. either way it's still a good game if it's coming from them
It's a pie, er....
transistor is a good game too I've played only like a couple of hours on it though
It's also normal to just dislike a genre of game, no matter how well its made
If i think a game is bad, idc it has 95% like ratio on steam
well that's just from my own personal experience of playing 3 of out of 4 games that supergiant currently has
Transistor is fantastic but I wish it was like 10x longer
even though it's not a genre I'm into.. it seems like it's a good game
10x longer might be an exaggeration.
Not for my wish, I'd love to expand that game out to epic proportions
Idk i didnt mind Tran being that short. maybe if it was like an hour longer i dunno
I'd like 10x the OST.
It's an issue tho, sometimes some games commit so much to their story they can't allow more content
oh worm
But the size that it is works for how they made it
Just a billion different tracks that are all as good as The Spine or Gateless.
I actually had this discussion with a friend years ago; Neither of us wanted SGG to get any bigger than an indie studio if it ever meant their games would drop in quality.
It's true that knowing when to end a game, even if it's a few hours long, is something to be appreciated
Knowing when to end any work.
End Me
Breaking Bad ended after 5.5 seasons because extending it any further compromised the story arc.
It's also one of the reasons why I bought both bastion and transistor on the switch and not buying pyre
Thing is, the gameplay is good too
god gateless and the spine are my favourites
Imo the best way to balance this out is lower stakes
can't wait until hades is on the switch though 👀
how good is transistor?
@brave thicket VERY
Yeah, it's extremely tempting to want to draw out something that's immensely popular, but knowing when something has run its course gives that work of art a far better legacy
They allow for more freedom and space to move in the story, and thus more levels and stuff
-IGN
im honestly glad transistor was my introduction to sgg
Bastion was mine. I gotta revisit that game, it's been so long
I am Pyre
im not really that interested in bastion, but im still sneaking around Pyre waiting for a sale to hit
hi pyre, im sy
NBA purgatory
Transistor was so good that I just found it tragic that it was a huge epic and was instead this tiny little masterpiece
I just love the graphic
like
how
can they make it so beautiful
also the pyre wagon is my fav thing about the whole game
Jen Zee and Paige are better than all of us.
I love the artstyle for all of games
no not beeg demon lady
but the wagon
I am bad at drawing transport
but i have a character designed to be a nomad wagon merchant
;-; somebody help me
I just want to draw.. || zag and thanatos together ||
Now I want to buy discord nitro just to use supergiant's emojis
Ah I mixed up those words
GOD HAHAHA

which god?
how do you mix those up
I feel the same way about claude from fire emblem three houses...
emblem fire
It's an actual medical condition
420 houses on emblem fire
I mix words and numbers
really?
yes
hm
happens more often when I speak in person and I also have stuttering issues too
oof indeed
my dad has an issue to even remember someone's name
and they just randomly add the name for the person
👀
like a changed last name
but for some reason car names are the only thing he can remember EXACTLY
like ffs
lmao
can anyone tell me the difference between Nomarch and Monarch?
actually nomarch is the one ruling the nome, which is the province
shrewmouse I just can't with your custom status
I need to charge my switch it died again ffs
yes, i have lost my sanity after a long quarantine, so what?
I require a can of compressed air
I wish I was quarantined
a high schooler not being allowed to go out is like a death sentence
could play hades and animal crossing all day
because my pc is still
and for 3 months
veri hot
Quick reminder that while this conversation is totally kosher for #off-topic-discussion, we really should stick to Hades for this chat.
yes
idk about you but when I was in HS all I wanted to do was stay at home
i need to have a drive to study
I only invested like 30 hours on hades because I have other stuff to do in my life
finals is still not cancelled
otherwise I wouldn't mind sitting on my PC and spending the whole day trying to escape hell
i cant because pc is dusty af and i cant fix it for the time being
so no games or else it goes brrrr
gayming peecee
dw it's not your typical rainbow with water cooling system gaming PC...
i hate rainbow colored
those are for children
I wish a gaming pc can stop advertising rainbow bs
water cooling is good tho, better than air ones, easier to clean, just a risk of installing but find someone to install for you you are gucci
rainbow colored pcs existeth?
it's mostly just the LED lights that people install in their fans or anywhere else in their coputer
I have water cooling parts I can install but i'd rather not
there isn't enough room in the computer for that
honestly I'd rather just have like a color or two lighting up in my computer
I think i'd go with purple or pastel green
i go with none
👀 oh well
woof that depends on your weapon, aspect and current boons andhammers
But also it doesn'tmatter much
#h1-builds-and-combat, depends on your build, but in all honestly unless you REALLY despise the skullcrusher miniboss, go with thunderbolt and save yourself the irritation of blade dash's inability to get status, hunting blades, or anything you'd really want to make a dash attack build worth it
Blade dash is for shredding blue shields and that's most of it, but with engulfing I GUESS it has some very minor CC ability.
id go blade dash then
that said, it does at least have some CC. but personally, I prefer building for status if you use Privileged Status instead of Family Favorite.
Lightning dash is mainly a jolt application tool if you get jolted
i dont have those since lightning is my main build
Still would need static discharge to get a status effect
i have level 3 thunder flourish with rare static discharge
Hmm? If you already have lightning as your main attack, I guess you can take blade for some CC, since you're already spamming enough jolts
okay if lightning is your main build then just stick with it
i think it makes sense to take the epic thunderdash and swap it out for my current rare blade dash
also, neither dash will have a big impact unless you're heavily invested in lightning or blade rifts
what weapon?
What are the other boons in the selection, though?
sheild of chaos
normal electric shot and billowing strength
seems bad wiht my build
Honestly, neither dash will strengthen you much, but you might get zeus legendary so might as well zeus dash
ok thanks then i guess i will get the thunder dash
yeah i think it will be good with static discharge
The times your dash boon makes a big impact are: Athena always, any dash that will apply a status effect if you are running privileged status from the mirror, artemis dash if your main damage is dash-attack, ares dash if you're heavily invested in a ares-cast/blade rift build, and then maybe demeter dash for the chill effect
*a status effect if you have priv stat and don't have that status on another slot, at least
Demeter if on controller. On KBM it's a bit... pants.
yeah, I should have added that
Blade dashes... I GUESS they work if you're already at his legendary and fully decked out, like, DPS is DPS is DPS
Oh, also aphrodite dash for damage reduction
or so you can take advantage of heart rend
but athena dash takes priority over everything almost 100% of the time
tbf, Aphro Dash is kinda annoying to hit with.
Exceptions being nemesis aspect on sword
Nasty is actually quite good in and of itself, bit more reliable/lower investment comparable effect to Ares dash, but ramps up significantly less unless you run black out
Or whatever Dio's dash is called this month :p
or, uh, I guess a fully invested blade rift build
Stagger dash maybe
lol
idk tbh because the wiki needs some updating. Drunken dash
is whats up
lol just got splitting bolt lmao
👌
That's great, that was the reason to take zeus dash
yeah sounds like good rng there
yeah i think i have been quite lucky haha
This game also gives you a lot of ways to manipulate rng, which I love
yeah i feel its intentional all i am getting is zeus and ares boons
Can everyone agree that Zag loves knuckle heads way more than any other fish?
come on you knuckleheads
I caught a knucklehead!
how to be handsome like zagreus?
@novel wasp ah yes the aspect of gordon ramsay
i walk in and i see this
Hi all, a quick question about Hades (which I bought because I should be working on my thesis instead). How does the EA model works with story? I.e. I start playing the game now, I'll progress somewhat in the story, they'll add new things -> I'll miss it?
Story is one of the biggest parts of supergiant experience for me so I'm perfectly happy waiting on 1.0 if it's the only way to get the full story 🙂
Hi all, a quick question about Hades (which I bought because I should be working on my thesis instead). How does the EA model works with story? I.e. I start playing the game now, I'll progress somewhat in the story, they'll add new things -> I'll miss it?
@true tiger Nope, it gets retroactively placed in.
Often if you have passed where it would normally come in, then the next time you talk to that person it is what they talk about
From what I understand, most of what is going to be added is late game and/or the actual ending
at least that's been my experience
You shouldn’t miss much or anything at all
And yeah what he said
There’s also multiple save slots available so you could easily start again to see things if you want
It does sometimes mean someone will mention something that is dismissive after you have befriended them, which can be jarring.
But that's only on massive changes
I know, but somehow I can't replay games even (or especially) if I really like them.
There's something about the first experience 😄
Basically, as you go on, and keep playing, you will constantly get new stuff
There's something about the first experience 😄
@true tiger Then wait for the final built. Hades is an amazing game but somehow limited in how you can play. For now, there are only 4 biomes, hence once you unlocked and tried all combinations of boons and weapons, the novelty is off. Yet, if you are a completionist or a competitive player, you will have lots to do. Some quests are based on specific actions and a numbers of runs done and once the game offers a vast range of challenges which increases the difficulty in many ways.
Also, what about the games length when you want to see most of the story but aren't literally 100 % person?
i.e. how quickly can it be finished if a person isn't super good at these types of games and wants to see most of the world but not necessarily all
(i.e. a person who did all normal challenges (incl. all Sandra's) in pyre, but played it just once, or tried to unlock all combinations & read them in transistor but ... again didn't play new game plus)
I mean, a run, if you do well and beat the final boss, takes 35 mins, but you start again. I mean, I've seen a lot of story, complete 10 times, have about 102 attempts, average at about 26 mins per run so I've done about 44 hours
(when you get better, a run to beat final boss will be about 20 mins)
Oh yeah, the guy below reminded me, you need to upgrade youself, so you won't win first try. It will be about 30-40 runs before you get to end boss, and probably another 10-20 runs before you beat it
@true tiger There are only four biomes for now. You can finish the game as beat the final boss (as it is now) under 10 hours if you are an average player and do not spend time collecting things around. Even when you have beaten the final boss, you won't have unlocked all the weapon and tried all the boons.
Now, the fun is to try many combinations of weapons and boons and try the challenges offered on the run
Cool.
It really depends on you and how you play games and how you enjoy Hades. See @worthy egret sank more than 80 hours in the game and is still far from being bored. Myself, I am a lame player so at high difficulty I find the game more tedious than fun. Some other players will seek those increasing challenges.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not a superfan of rogue-like type of games...
But then again, despite being a HUGE bastion and transistor fan I was putting of playing pyre because I'm absolutely not into sports game... and when I finally bought it a week ago I finished in 3 days due to how awesome it was. Not only the story (Red is still the best character, but overall Pyre is probably the best from supergiant and one of the best overall, especially given its progression) but even the gameplay grew on me after few hours (later rites were blast to play through).
So I thought I might give Hades a chance despite not liking the genre 🙂
Should also mention that
It took me much more than 10 hours to beat the final boss
Which has not much to do with the 80 hours and not being bored but that like
There are vastly different times people take to finish it
I think i took like 30
@true tiger But, the next update is in June, not so far from now. So work on your thesis then in June enjoy the game updated with even more content
And also, this is my first rogue like so i was learning the ropes too
@worthy egret You quite picked the handsome one. Hades sounds and looks gorgeous.
I love this game so much
I just like how I only invested 30 hours on hades so far... but uh.. apparently 50 hours on animal crossing...
get off the stage
new hell rise, son
@alpine stratus I love u dude
Punmaster 3000000000000000000000000000000000000
thank u....
ur welcome
Me: has a really bad nightmare
also me: Zagreus would never treat me like this
no thoughts head empty only Zagreus
I almost won with bow tho
it's hard to beat Hydra with the bow, so nice job
I've beaten it with the wack a mole gloves, shield, and sword
I hated Hydra when she had three additional head stages
but for the shield and sword i had a busted demeter boon
Now she’s pretty ok, try shield or gloves
is anyone able to see messages in #announcements ?
Nope
I'm not
Nope
Not in #readme-first either
nope
I cannot, but I believe it's the announcement about the Pyre NoClip doc being available!
Huh. It loaded on my phone, but not my latptop
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Why does this one server's announcements channel always bug out
it's discord, not the server itself
cause of the mass amount of people the announcements go to
I think it's related to server size but I'm not positive. 🤔
It is. Too many people checking @ one time basically locks people out.
so it's because it's one of those special feed channels?
No
I mean I don't see why a channel would stop loading just because lots of people look at it 🤔
No, this occurred before that feature was implemented.
weird
There's "too many people" and then there's literal thousands of people checking it at once
oh, it loads now!
This happens due to the latter
I think it's the mass of everyone looking I had to reload it but it was fine after that
Just discord things
i cleared 32 heat yesterday!
thank you!
i used the final aspect of the stygian blade
took me about 20something hours of attempts
its quite rough

lmao
i expected the other fury sisters to be appear later on
but i just got rekt by alexa
the green one was easy tho
alecto
alexa is like. the amazon thing. man imagine that but its alecto's voice and all she does is insult you any time you turn it on
"Morning, redblood, what are we screwing up today?"
alecto play scourge of the furies
i would unironically love that
The Styx song is always a great song for the Fury bosses. That and another song. I forgot the name of that one.
two technically. and the only explanation I got in-game was ||she's heavily focused in her work/craft, as per Megaera||.
I personally enjoy the exalted
the guitar is pretty pleasant
if there aren't multiple shield wielding shades throwing shockwaves at me
i cant enjoy the exalted properly because i get flashbacked to shield dudes
"What's that? It's not an attack from behind?" Laughs in Blocked
not that I have trouble backstabbing, it's just that they are more annoying.
throwback to when greatshields dropped their guard a lot less
it took me way too long to realize you can use themirror abilities and swap them for the extra abilities
barge of death though
everytime it starts playing I get pumped up
and why i chant "be barge, be barge, be barge" every time Im loading into an apshodel miniboss
Giant medusa head and giant stomping stone: 
Boat: 
you
you understand me
i love the asphodel minibosses
or well mostly barge but the second one is also sparking joy lately
tartarus miniboss was scary when i was still learning the game but now its like aight
elysium minibosses make me screech and sweat
anyone know if there's more content after the hades fight coming
or is the game done?
elysium minibosses make me screech and sweat
it made me scream of rage mostly but now when I get there I just explode the pink ball and prevent shields from appearing
Elysium minibosses make sense to me, the gorgon and skullcrusher just reminds me of too much HP lost every time I see them.
don't... let it go to your head?
They are! they're VERY different from their base forms (practically their own weapon), but they;re really strong
the upgrades to the weapon are about reducing the hp loss
you regain hp by hitting foes with your spin attack, which is now a moving projectile
@olive escarp I think [Redacted] is the final boss. But we'll see come June
oh, i did not know you can charge the spear round-swing and dash mid charge to unleash it as you move forward
i thought to copy the final boss' move and it works
Oh yeah, that's a thing...
It had been a while since I used spear and I was like, I guess the spin is alright for hydra
first hammer in the second area, second hammer in the third
you regain hp by hitting foes with your spin attack, which is now a moving projectile
@flat vapor i've been using GY from time to time since release, even reached the achievement, and i've known it just now
that's why it was so hard for me to survive
<Perception: 0>
almost killed the final boss for the second time ever
killed him once when i was one hit away
i am getting so much better though
i almost beat ittwice with bow
i used to hate bow but now its mymain weapon
anyone know if there's a way to cheat engine for titian blood?
or mabye edit your save file?

titan blood and ambrosia are an issue only before first time beating the game.. well, if not beating is a requirement, maybe ppl from Hades modding know something..
oh nah, just too much grind
i have the same problem as this dude
i just wanted the blood to test upgrades
but cant refund them since it s not a feature yet
yeah its a bummer
Ya, when I unlocked titan blood for the gun I didn't notice that I could do it for all weapons, since I had just gotten the farthest I had ever with it, I thought it was a reward, so I put all my titan blood in that and I barely use the gun, so that was a big oof moment
I sank 6 titan blood into a weapon I rarely use
yay
X.x
opposite problem.. i've been always afraid to spend titan blood, if i don't know yet if it'll be worth it.. and ended up with everything unlocked and almost nothing upgraded
Ya, it could be cool, like how you can refund your darkness in the mirror at the cost of a key
meanwhile, if you really want to get back that blood
there's a mod to just add anything you want
neet
I'll make a secoind file just to experiment and have fun
what is the best fist aspect atm?
Probably Demeter.
the fingers
what is so good about the final aspect of spear?
Lifesteal
i only have 50 life atm
it cuts it in half
idk how i am supposed to survive things in the final area, especially the boss
Because your HP's so low it sets off one-shot protection really easily and lets you heal even if you do take a big hit
one-shot protection?
the spin attack does decent damage and the special is essentially an on-demand explosive skewer with slightly recued damage
yeah, anything not a trap will not take you from max hp to 0 in my experience
you take a fraction and are invul for like a second
what keepsakes are best with it?
Prob broken spearpoint right?
i just got that, it seems decent atm
That i'm lesss good about because I'm a pierced butterfly diehard, but I've heard artemis is great with it.
which one is artemis? spearpoint?
Arrowhead. Spearpoint is invul if you take damage.
Also if you're antsy about being lower life than usual on the final boss, acorn is way better bang for your buck with spear than the DD from Skelly.
acorn?
so artemis boons are really good for spear i guess?
do you normally go with the coin purse in the beginning?
arty boons are generally just good
Gonna let other people step in for like, keepsake tal, though,k because... again, I'm bad, just go with the flow of RNG, and keep Pierced Butterfly on the whole ways through.
how do you get that one?
Thanatos' keepsake. Gives damage up if you clear a room without taking damage. It's not everyone's thing and isn't optimal to do, but it's fun.
ha, i got 2 duo boons in one run so far on the second area
Poseidon and aphrodite, and artemis and aphrodite
ah wait no
dionysus and aphrodite
and aphrodite and artemis
you confused the drunkard with the seafarer
drunken sailor?
wait w h a t
I'm sure there's a variation of the Greek mythos made by someone that's... hormonal that everyone's a young woman.
I just had a crazy run, and have come to the conclusion that Bull Rush is op af.
shield is OP
I've only ever beaten ||hades|| (finally boss spoilers) once, but have reached a point where I can usually reach them... and I only took 50 damage against them this time, because of the shield + deflecting attack and special + divine protection.
And with the hammer upgrade to make bull rush a lot faster, I just zipped back and forth through the boss till they died.
the blocking is nice but the real value comes from chaos aspect special. you can use it to trigger things like zeus boon, or ares/athena duo a ton for good DPS on bosses, and also get good room clear so you dont take a lot of damage
True, though my chaos aspect is still level 1 soo... sticking with zues aspect till I get more blood.
just do zag aspect then
Nah. I'm not a fan of it's special, even if it is really strong.
I guess. blitz disc just seems so bad though
It's great for stacking things like chill, hangover, or doom (when you get the stacking doom boon)
And it's such a large area, if you give it deflecting, it's crazy. Since you can throw it out reactively without any end-lag, it doesn't make you get hit by follow up attacks.
if you are doing that then the best option would be deflect on it and get ares/athena duo for all the extra damage if you can get an enemy to stay still for it
Yep. My previous win was similar- though I just used the athena dash instead of the shield, since I didn't have it unlocked yet.
The zues aspect of the shield, I mean.
athena dash is best dash
no doubt. There are like 3 cases where you would consider a different dash
but taking athena even then is still great
athena dash is great no matter of what rarity it is
that what makes it the best dash next to Poseidon's dash I feel like
Poseidon dash is okay
I hate Poseidon dash on melee weapons, but I do tons of dash attacks so it makes it really hard to keep doing damage
Poseidon dash destroys most enemies but is pretty useless against bosses
I mean it does good work against most enemies, but the way I play it just makes it hard to get damage on enemies or im at range all the time anyways. I could be dashing through enemies for damage but no
That's what i don't like about poseidon boons
I'm pretty sure I've eaten Flamewheel blasts or had enemies tank the knockback and still hit me in Erebus.
They are not good vs bosses, which is 50% of a boon's effectiveness
How does they pose boon for knock away on bosses even work?
the legendary or the extra damage ones?
are you talking about Wave Pounding, the one that increases the damage of knockback boons?
You get 10, 20, or 30% extra damage against Underworld Bosses.
The damage is additive, not multiplicative, and is generally representative of Poseidon's kit: 
there are 3 or 4 that affect knock back. the extra damage, the second knock back, the extra wall slam damage. isnt there one for an aoe on wall slams?
man imagine if Poseidon kit got a rework
there is, breaking wave does an aoe stun and damage on wall slam. also razor shoals for the dot, and sea storm for the lightning damage
just remove knockback and make rupture a built-in effect
there, fixed
enemies move around all the time, no need to push em
yes. some knock back would still be good like on cast
rupture doesn't stack
it would be similar to Dio but rupture is every 0.2 seconds
Gotcha, Dio v0.4.
You'd be wrong.
rupture also pierces shields
ooh nice
not that it's relevant outside of Elysium
or even in Elysium
and it doesn't so much pierces as it procs on knockback
so even though the action might be blocked, the knockback still triggers rupture
I got an idea
what if Poseidon boons created an AOE knockback explosion around the target (a la Poseidon cast) which pushed surrounding enemies and procced Wall Slam on em
Back before Long Winter, I was thinking that Apollo could have an AoE effect on his boons, but then we got Demeter instead.
and Wave Pounding would be changed to inflict Wall Slam damage on the primary target, with rarities being 25/50/75/100%
I really like that aoe knock back idea
Slam also procs stagger by default, so you won't run into a situation where you knocked someone back and they punched you while sliding
these changes would also make Typhon's Fury and Breaking Wave finally useful outside of Styx
cause the AOE hit is a Slam
S Y N E R G Y
it would just make me want to pick up his boons on most weapons
I mean, that's the point
make him useful. Obviously, the numbers would need some tweaking
can't have 2k slams in Elysium
I would be ok with that. elysium is way to long
Ive always seen poseidons main theme as a smaller enemy destroyer, but severely lacking in boss fights
His call is pretty high priority for most of my builds, and then outside of that, the increased gold boon is handy and anything else Ill pickup to sell for underworld customs
I actually used to hate poseidon
But with the golden bow and rupture effect he's so good
Then if ur lucky enough u can get bonus damage vs bosses to compensate for the uselessness of his boons against bosses
I really like him with chiron bow. knock back on attack and special is great, rupture is a nice bit of DPS, sea storm adds a ton of damage to the special, and the special does knock back redacted, and champions in Elysium
I had a run with legendary, tempest flourish, and sea storm which just melted redacted
but consecutive arrow hits just push the target out of arrows' range, no?
Chiron.
yes, consecutive arrows hits off the special
the special has max range after which the arrows just disappear
I've never seen that happen, I'll have to give it a look next time I play.
is there a way to transfer my saves from epic launcher over to steam if i bought hades on steam?
yeah Im rarely even close to max range with bow
copy the files from epic directory to steam directory
we must play in very different styles, cuz I'm at max range most of the time
Saves automatically transfer, but I don't know why you're bothering since you can just stick Hades on your Taskbar and it runs flawlessly without choking your computer.
ah that easy?
You don't need to do anything.
have you already created a profile in your Steam copy?
fair just like having things in one place, especially since all of the other games are in steam for me
i dont have a steam copy yet, was asking for future reference if it was even possible
it's possible, and from what I'm seeing you don't actually need to move anything
Hades uses its own save folder
just install whichever version and it'll pick up the save
What are the best ckmbinations for shield
I really like zeus on special since it gets lots of room clear and does good damage to bosses, but doom on attack, and deflect on special is really good especially with the duo boon
Athena + Ares, Aphrodite + Dionysus
Hades more like The Binding of Zagreus
Honestly Shade emotes are so adorable I would get Nitro just for them

assuming you wanna waste monney



aight y'all wish me luck, i'm gonna start an excalibur run with dionysus keepsake 
All I can say is why
what are the best weapons in this game currently?
as in stygian blade?
yes
fists? they seems pretty OP
...Imagine if Zagreus could dual wield
2 guns, you say?
imagine if zagreus is armored
Zag needs the other hand at least ocassionally free for Cast though
Oh right theres malphon
Ignore me
what is the strongest shield aspect?
Chaos is the easiest
how or when can i gift ambrosia to people?
Zeus is technically stronger but it's really unpleasant to play
just keep talking to em and you'll find out
get it ab=nd find out
i am getting really lucky here
artemis epic crit for special, chaos giving me an epic boon for more special damage
omg lol
the rage first boss just killed herself on spikes
kind of new, yes
i only beat the final boss once, but i am consistently getting up to him more and more
when i was struggling with hydra just a day prior
on my first time ever making it past the third floor i almost beat the final boss, got him to the second health bar and 25%
thats good!
when i did beat him though, it was with the fist weapon
and i had literally 1 hit from death
i got really lucky and got to buy a death defiance from a lucky pool
just had a 70% dodge chance run
feelsgoodman
and potentially 120% with the new mirror buff
fully upgraded zagreus aspect fists, hermes keepsake, hermes dodge boon, and the new ruthless dodge
i won, if thats necessary to say
i have +206% dash damage
epic lvl 3 hunter dash and slippery lunge
and double edge from hammer so it hits twice
combine that with excalibur doing heavy dashes and jesus
killed hydra in under a minute i think
i almost insta-killed his heads
i am hitting for like 1k a double dash crit or more
WOO HADES GOT BODIED
i could do each of his health gate % parts in 10 seconds or less lol
how does anyone even deal with guan yu? even at the max level -50% hp is impossible to not die with
You scream a lot
I love how given how little hp you have nearly every stronger attack Zag gets hit by he reacts like he's dying
Wretch: bonk
Zagreus: IM FADING
so, any helpful info on how to use it?
I've only used it twice so far, but I tried to play around the spin attack and releasing it into a bigger group of monsters to heal + get hammers that make it faster or bigger
Lucky tooth seems to be a good bet later on, also spiked collar, I really just tried my best to get some deflecting boons up in there. Also do be careful when to use the spin, you can easily get dunked while you're charging it
yup
Your special is also strong so you can kind of kite with it
I had Poseidon on it for knockback, really helped with nemean chariots
umm how do use the potion that i got from the 3rd boss
Your attack with Guan Yu isn’t much to talk about. Now the special and spin slash...
do i need certain amount of hearts ?
@brisk trail Yes. Nectar them up until there's a heart with a lock. Then you need to do a thing (dif w each character) to unlock
You keep it to use it on something you can unlock later or or sell it to the merchant shade
The characters who give you A Thing are ||Thanatos, Skelly, Megaera, Dusa, Sisyphus||
At the house, not Charon
what are the best spear aspects?
I prefer default. If you have it unlocked, Guan Yu is an acquired taste.
is bow any good?
Chiron is alright, some people like Hera, too
I like aspect of Hera, Chiron takes upgrading to get usable imo.
This games truly great now
None of the bow's aspects are "bad."
@worthy egret
https://youtu.be/9FMyk-CHnAk
I added bottling up the fountain 
Small file size demo of ModUtil example mod "Bottle Fountains"
https://www.nexusmods.com/hades/mods/28
https://www.nexusmods.com/hades/mods/27
zagreus spills the nectar on the floor
he's clumsy like that
will we ever see Zag actually trying nectar for himself?
he spills it
he tries to drink it in a mad flurry to get the bottled fountain water
but he just gets the nectar on his clothes
someone tells him to drink the nectar himself for once and he just
@floral belfry choked on nectar is another death
I don't think there's a tipsy effect in-game but it'd surely be funny to have him go tipsy for the chamber where he bottled up in
he tried nectar once.. it had a taste of that 70-cent recycled peach juice..
and he was like, "meh.. nevermore"
what if nectar is extremely psychodelic
I dunno people imply it is
WOW I can't ACCEPT this (it's actually just orange juice)
ambrosia 80% is alcoholic
real question is has anyone tried drinking Titan Blood?
guess it's just a blood.. salty and has a bit of metal taste
dont do it you turn into a sword
i dont think its just blood
but it would probably taste like that
yes
start a titan clinic
^
START A TITAN CLINIC
"DONATE BLOOD! HELP A SHADE! ABSOLUTELY NOT GONNA BE USED FOR POWERING UP TITAN SLAYING NUCLEAR WARHEADS"
I'm sorry Kronos I must diagnose you with Kronic illness
nectar pistol
whats thebest aspect for the boxing gloves
i like Talos but many people like demeter
hmm
Aspect of Mohammed Ali
why does the ademant have so little damage
like its litarly a gun wich makes it more deadly then all of the weapons
Game balance.
Hey guys, I just picked up the game last night, I played bastion when it first came out so I have some experience with this kind of combat. I was able to get to the hydra and almost beat him!
I'm having a difficult time with the bomber skeletons. Particularly the green and orange ones. I can't seem to dodge the bombs very well
I'm having a difficult time with the bomber skeletons. Particularly the green and orange ones. I can't seem to dodge the bombs very well
green is a slow shot that can follow you, and the orange one is a grenade.
usually is preferable to try and predict the orange one, and just dash left/right of the green one
I just spam dash. Its really useful if you have athenas dash boon
or, if you're close to them, just dodging to their sides alredy saves time
high tech strats brought to you by my single braincell
Orange skeletons, Inferno Bombers, also have a move where they drop 3 bombs that all go off very quickly.
I just spam dash. Its really useful if you have athenas dash boon
or you can spam dash like a maniac, like me and most of the server
Green skeletons, Burnflingers, also have a line drive throw in addition to their homing bomb.
spam all ur keys its bound to work sometime
if you have shield, bull rush like you're going to try smashing someone
bc that's actually what you're going to do
I've been enjoying the sword so far
Any tips for the spear too? I couldn't beat the first boss with it.
I couldn't get an aoe charge up with it and I got a hammer upgrade that made the spear aoe MASSIVE
generally for usual spear it's best to focus on the basic attack due to how fast it is.
suggest trying to get Dionysus or Zeus for it
I think an Artemis fits like a glove with the Special
ok so i discovered sth by accident
the assist shot from artemis paired with boxing gloves is op
you can send like 8 arrows at the same time
oh yea forgot about that
shield assist shot is also op
like bull rush anywhere and spam damage with it
I love bull rush so much
what do you use titan blood for?
upgrading weapons
store as much as you can
you can use it to unlock/upgrade new weapon aspects
and some of the aspects are really fun to play with
could someone exactly tell me how to meet thanatos, pls? this is probably not the most original question, i know. i did 30+ runs... still no thanatos :/
it's doing a certain number of runs, he should come fairly soon
I think I unlocked him after run 30 something in Elysium
Hey what does titan blood do?
You prob need to trigger a set of conversations before unlocking Than cutscenes
When you get further in the game, Titan blood is used to upgrade weapons
First and final boss each run give titans
You can also occassionally buy them for 1.5k gold each run right before final boss if you have it.
which conversations?
I'm not sure. Just remember to keep talking with the npcs each run
i had one cutscene with than and nyx but still didn't meet him. so weird...
@wind nest titan blood is a fairly mid-late game resource, after you beat the last boss for the first time
Hey there! Our last major update was in early March, and our next update is planned for June.
This is probably a silly question but which channel would jokes about the Illiad go if they pertain to characters in Hades? Off topic?
Or here?
just found out nyx is a snowbunny
Probably still off-topic overall @merry harbor 😄
Thanks!
@chilly stump Ooh I got a question while you're here! I'm not certain where to uh ask this or put this since I just saw it in a stream and I can't F10 someone else's stream
But is the team aware the tiny vermin still breaks the game's music
It no longer completely breaks the game but the music is still gone
I'm not sure, I'll check!

I have been informed we are still aware! Our patching period for the most recent update has ended, so a fix for it will likely come with the next update (along with a ton of other fixes as well).
Its a minor bug I was just curious if the team knew!
If they didn't I was about to try and get vermin and F10 it
❤️ ty for checking
Yeah of course, thank you for checking if we'd heard about it! We don't have a ton of reports on it overall.
With the bow cluster shot + explosion shot does a lot of damage. Like 6x more than normal
I just got to the minotaur and only got him about half down. What can I do to avoid his charge?
Do I dash through him?
dash through the pillars
Ah clever!
if you get him close then dash through the pillar he will crash into it and stop. you can do something similar with the walls but its harder
his tracking can be finicky sometimes, especially if he's faster for any reason
having faster movement speed or extra dashes usually means you can avoid it no problem, but it's a tricky move to avoid
Man, this game. So frigging good
How many hours and how much dark before I finally am able to escape? I've logged about 20 hours and have 2000 dark
I’d say it depends more on how you fare throughout the escape (luck with boons and such) as well as how well you have familiarized with the game (knowing how each boss attacks, some mechanics, etc)
I wish you good luck with your escape 🍀
I think I got my 1st escape about 30 hours in
Yeah I'm still learning the different synergies. This is one of those games where every loss feels like you're learning something
everyone moves at their own pace! take as long as you need to make your first escape, there's a whole lot more content afterwards to be had
Just solid design all around
@flat vapor makes me happy to hear you say that
I finally "beat" BOI Afterbirth olust
So this is a great follow up
it took me around 100~ tries to make my first escape, and this was around the time when there were only two bosses in the game
now there's a lot more content, before and after the first escape
One run I got three Chaos boons that upped my darkness and wound up with nearly 3k, lol.
If you get athena on dash, you can always just charge Asterius back
Anyways this game is absolutely amazing
dumb question but how do you get the fishing pole i know you buy it where you get renovation stuff... i have bought everything i can so far but haven't escaped yet do i have to escape first before its available
i love the ending of this game
I love everything about this game
Are the other super giant games as good as hades?
really cant wait for early access to end
looking forward to the continuation of the story
so say we all!
Say, what year is it for the humans during the event of Hades?
I tried guessing, but it's really hard to tell.
It would be pretty funny if Zag just comes up to the human world to the 1900s or something
well it's definitely before when there were legends of Arthur and such.
since there is mention of that
That's... pretty early.
and it's definitely around time guan yu after or at the moment of.
they don't have guns yet, according to Ares
really liking the dialogue triggers of this game
even taking a random item like the yarn triggers a different dialogue from theseus
They mentioned ingame that Arthur has yet to be heard of so I'd say before Arthur's time
(That is if memory serves me well)
doesn't Guan Yu predate Arthur?
he does, yeah
oh, I guess Da Vinci could be rail's 4th aspect
Aspect of Arthur gives you damage mitigation but doesn't deflect 
the special's aura slows down projectiles
Or was it damage reduction? Either way, it reduces damage taken
both, actually
Yes! It also slows projectiles!
I just wasn't sure if damage mitigation and damage reduction could be considered the same, that's all
goddamn arthur sword hits like a truck
play with whatever you want
Hell just prevents you from replaying on lower heat and forces certain modifiers
you can practically simulate hell on normal using the same modifiers
No i wouldn't say it is a good place to start for two reasons. Hell mode starts you off with a few mandatory heats (the things that increase difficulty level), which will make progressing through to the end take longer, which makes unlocking the things that will make you stronger take longer. This is in turn will make learning all of the nuances take longer. Secondly, as you raise heat level in normal mode with any given weapon, you're still given the option to go to a lower heat, or no heat, to practice or try different things out. In Hell mode, you are not allowed to play at a heat lower than the last one you beat for any given weapon.
----- I prefer controller, others prefer mouse and keyboard. I'd try both
Thank you very much @primal whale ❤️
I decided to dip into hell mode when I felt like I had accomplished everything I had wanted in normal mode (which provided me enough incentive to still feel like I was making progress and made playing more gratifying). But once you've really gotten the hang of the game, the two modes will honestly feel identical
I played dead cells and that just felt like I wasn't gaining anything for my runs ;__;
Yeah I ran into a similar situation with Hades, but having Hell mode provided me a reason to keep doing runs (albeit a very superficial one, but it worked nonetheless). However, I do still enjoy just doing runs in order to try out certain builds or just see how absolutely over powered I can create a build. And there's also always speed running, which has a very nice community and is definitely another way to set goals
I've got 500+ hours in Hades already and I still love playing it, not to mention there is a lot more content scheduled to be released in the future
you do stop gaining cells at 5BC in Dead Cells
that's not an issue in Hades, you keep getting stuff to unlock for a very long time
So I can select? these abilities i'm getting
is that basically taking them away? cause they are active right now but if I hit A on them they light up? lol
Hi guys is there any info on how soon the game's coming out?
Not until Q3 at the earliest.
Slicing shot or Curse of Agony?
Your attack inflicts doom
your cast sends a blade rift hurtling ahead
after you take damage, inflict doom on nearby enemies
Aspect?
is that the bottom one?
I just get to call on poseidon
are you asking what did I begin with?
Yes.
It was poseidon pretty sure