#h1-discussion
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so the game is pretty fun huh
Hades? for sure
well I tell you what young lad Im doing nothing mush now
Drinking and ruining my in game stats by this
This ->
guy right here is pretty hot tho
No names cuz..
Spoiler again if I tell that?
please dont evade the swear filter @jaunty marsh!
As you wish, Lady Aphrodite
does it count as evading swear filter, when you don't use swear words at all? 
no, thats called listening to the rules 
L-- aspect for rail breaks boss fight #3 lol
How so?
LeBron James is just all around a very strong aspect
works well with a ton of different boon drafts as well
hades but instead of good riddance eurydice says good grief
Eck, F10 blackscreen
but the L-- aspect whenever I use it on boss fight 3 I get Thesseus stuck
hey @rustic escarp, please repost this in #self-promotion! this isnt the channel to promote streams
oh, ok
@hollow hull you can report bugs like that in-game with f10
ive been seeing like this thing in speed runs where go up to a door to enter a new room, press e, and then open the menu, then the door changes, is that a glitch or?
There's a way to change doors with a mirror talent, that might be it
ah
Opening a menu pauses the in-game timer, which is important for speedruns
@hollow hull you can report bugs like that in-game with f10
@rough token Thanks! I had no idea
Sure thing ^.^
stupid question but how big are the voice files of the game?
large
there was like over 15000 lines when nighty night update hit and blood price prob added another few thousand so id say like ~10gb worth is a healthy guess
do not know exact numbers
VO.fsb is 582.612 KB large
What is that in gigs? A bit too sleepy to do the mental conversion
Also! Did you just change your profile picture, letran?
Yes. We have a running gag in the D&D group now, and everyone changed their image to an animal in a jar.
Lol
It's 0.56 GBs, to answer your other question.
o7
thanks :D:D
Fun discovery: you can tick up the plume on the final boss (presumably the butterfly too).
and also get +hp with appropriate mirror ability when exiting the arena
well i finally got my first spear run by just spamming the exploding spear toss
does someone have a good fists guide?
long knuckle feels great with the fists
question: what's everyone's favorite aspect?
either in the whole game or for each weapon
whole game? probably hera
All right after a week off. I'm ready to jam some.
I promised my wife I wouldn't bring my computer on vacation.
Time to get wrecked
Is it bad to use green side of mirror
i personally like chiron more but hera seems cool
as for each weapon, going from left to right:
arthur/guan yu/chaos/hera/demeter/L-----
Is it bad to use green side of mirror
@brisk trail for some of them
Kind of like fiery presence more than shadow presence
Is it bad to use green side of mirror
nope! if they fit your playstyle, then it's fine
like death defiance is 10000% better than stubborn deffiance
Well yeah
but there are some good green ones
Which ones
yeah firey presence is a lot easier to use
eh, 40+ heat runs love stubborn defiance
the last 4 i use green with
eh, 40+ heat runs love stubborn defiance
@flat vapor yeah that makes sense
I'm not good enough to go that high yet tho
I use a few green ones but i dont remember which, save for Dark Regeneration
usually save all of my death defiances for the final boss
I only have 4 unlocked so
once saw a 40+ heat video on YT and the runner was healing back 300 hp for every stubborn defiance
Which is honestly miles better than Cthonic vitality
unlocking more really helps
I can't tell what dark regen really does
@flat vapor i saw that, how did he do that?
going for every heart and getting patroclus's touch of styx+
i think dark regen is the one that heals you when you pick up darkness
Yep!
so he had like 500+ hp?
Might rather have cthonic vitality since it's a constant
That's fair
i like cthonic vitality more
like 400~ but the touch of styx made it so the runner healed back at around 80% i think?
not too sure on the number but i remember 300 hp per specifically
that's pretty good
Well I would go for darkness, I just don't want to depend on it to heal
yeah i get that
I need as much darkness as I can get
I also like how cool DR is when you imagine it. Like, Zag heals by absorbing darkness. That's metal
also, unrelated question, what's everyone's favorite weapon?
Exagryph
yeah that's pretty cool
bow currently
exagryph is fun, i like the aspect of ||lucifer|| a lot with it
ngl +30% damage was worth 5 keys
personally i love the fists
hera/zag/rama/chiron are my personal tiers for bow
wait 30% damage with what?
hera being best
I just go with whatever has the darkness buff
I'm not playing favourites, i say, as all my Exagryph aspects are maxed and all the other weapons are starving
wait 30% damage with what?
@manic tundra I unlocked boiling blood
aspects?
they're a cool thing you get later
oh ok
this game has so much replay value it's insane
I have to feed stygius ive been using it so much but not putting much blood in
if you max out the zag aspect it's really fun
I did max out all ||Zag aspects|| though, cause it felt wrong to max any others first
i get that
i just max out the ones i use first
like aspect of ||Demeter|| is crazy when you max it out
I love the echo of Zag's roar on the charged special
yeah it's such a nice touch
HHHAHHHH
i wonder what they'll do for the ||legendary aspect|| for the fists
I heard people theorize Sekhmet
who's that?
just looked it up, an Egyptian god would be cool
I wonder how that would play?
You want harder? You innocent child...
i mean meg is easy
very
but... ||she's not the only first floor boss you can encounter||
any fun builds to do with guan yu?
get all the spin upgrades with the hammer
no i mean
fun builds
aside atemis xD
if i so much wanted to win i would end up doing a stubborn roots run + full artemis
athena boon or centaur heart
Boon.
athena 100%
And I'm at 4 hp
you're going to almost always want the boon honestly
yeah, boons are really good
also, make it a priority to get the rest of the mirror upgrades, they make life a lot easier
nice!
elysium is pretty hard, and the boss is (in my opinion) the most annoying
definitely not the hardest
but it's just a pain to deal with
yeah it's really good
Same
i think i have like 80 hours in it at this point
That's a lot of hours
wish I had more blood to fix that health reduction
feels great tho
when you do fix the health it becomes a really good weapon
i suck at using it
but i know it's good
you think they'll have different/varying floors in v1?
i love the special
hits super hard with a epic at the start
i think i just killed alecto with like 5-6 spears(?)
I got lucky on my first run and got the spin atk dmg reduction + faster charge
managed to clear it on heat 1 lol
oh, which heats do people typically add on as they ascend heat levels?
What does "your ablilites that can deflect immediately activate doom" mean
I used HP+ as my first one
your abilities that have athena boons on them, when they hit an enemy with doom, the doom goes off immediately
Yea so have the enemy with doom take dash damage and it'll proc the doom immediately
its like a free exalted xD
yoo it's so good
that, plus the combo damage stated in the boon
What weapon do you have?
spear
yes
works best with deflect dash
guess I'll try it
Just spam atk + keep dashing around, and the dmg will stack like crazy
your doom basically doesn't have a timer anymore and does bonus damage
wait so it will indefinetly attack the enemy
yea and keep stacking doom damage/other buffs (doom does more dmg and is delayed)
no so you will atk (doom) dash (proc), atk (doom) dash (proc), repeat
ah
the doom automatically procs as soon as you hit with an athena ability
so if you can spam that really fast, think of every time you atk + dash, you'll get a full doom proc in there
This is too op
so if you get lucky and your doom does ~200 dmg
yeah haha exactly
probably my favourite combo
besides shield special + zeus thunder
Yeah.
It's not super easy to use but it's really strong once you get some Poms and tier 2 boons with it.
doom status might be my favorite
how so?
man I haven't seen aphrodite in like 10 runs lol
so like doom attack+aphrodite special?
I just got my death defiance back, I might have a chance
i only use her for the doom boom duo
basically you want doom special plus impending doom, both leveled up a bit
sorry what do you mean by when you use w/ aphrodite it gives massive damage?
Boss is up next
how does aphrodite enhance doom
have you beat it before?
(doom special because it has higher damage than attack, but attack works too)
@brisk trail How does aphrodite enhance doom builds?
Killed minotaur and theseus's god summoning stuff killed me
thesus is super annoying because of the shield, try taking the minotaur out first
just dash like a maniac
I got a call just before the fight from charon
how does aphrodite enhance doom
duo boon between ares/aphrodite called curse of longing: doom automatically resets on weak enemies, for half damage on each reset
wait for it to be fully charged
yeah
so 200 damage initial, then 100, then 50, etc
then just blast it
Oooh right think i saw that once. Thank you
ngl this sound track is doom tier music
do you guys always take chaos gates?
depends
Hell yes it is, Goldre.
if you get a chaos gate and you see a boon you need its better to pick the boom if you dont have a keepsake guaranteeing it
true
ugh they killed me again
What exactly are the secret stash?
lol tried to heal of of lernie without realizing i had stubbon roots and i can just kill myself to heal back up
@brisk trail
This is the first rogue-like game I've actually enjoyed in like 20 years.
I suck, terribly, but I've been enjoying the game overall.
same
Yeah, I love rogue-like games (Slay the Spire, Night of the Full Moon, etc.) and I can honestly not stop playing this game
I haven't been this addicted to a game in years lol
Got twin fists
the magnetic fists makes everything fun for that weapon i swear
the twin fists are easily my favorite weapon because you just feel so powerful
also the hammer upgrades are just great
So, maybe I am weird, but does Zags new voice lines sound flatter?
like... I feel like he has less emotion
whereas before the update, he had a much more enthusiastic/sarcastic quality
or... maybe I am just insane
how'd you heal up that much? Guan yu?
i don't think his voice lines are flatter, but i'm not too sure what voice lines are new
I think some of the content haven't been extremely personal to Zagreus, so he's just not as emotive as he'd be when talking to Hades.
@hollow hull in regards to your most recent post in #hades-feedback; please report bugs/glitches with the in game bug reporter (F10). The feedback channel is not meant for reporting bugs
Do you guys think ||there should be a way to guarantee Charon boss fight? I’m trying to do the “beat Charon twice in a row” prophecy and got really annoyed on my previous run where I went into shop every time it was available even with no gold, and didn’t see the bag. Even if it’s something crazy like don’t get hit for 3 rooms or clear every room in under 40 secs, just some way to subvert rng and guarantee a Charon boss fight||
Curious to hear some thoughts on this
There are other aspects of controlled rng like rerolling and stuff like that
Or maybe even some way to increase percentage chance if you’re using a certain keepsake or something
Wait you can ||fight charon||
Yeah if you ||go into his store and see a bag of gold behind him you can take it and that initiates a boss fight||
||just know that you WILL be slapped by an oar and it WILL do significantly more damage than you think||
Well
Why would you do that(besides the quest), also that seems borderline impossible to fight him twice in a row
^
Also you get some perks
||300 gold + a discount for the rest of the run on Charon’s stuff||
Ooh
That sounds nice
Combo that with the boon that gives 10 gold(or whatever)per room
Got it one run, and it was borderline best boon(becuase it allowed me to buy so many boons)
But yeah my main issue with it is ||that it’s purely up to chance, apparently there’s only a 20% chance for the bag to actually spawn||
Exactly lol
I wish there was a way to guarantee it
Like buying items to ensure chaos gate
Anything like that
Technically it's 1/10 chance to fight him twice in a row
22% is what ive heard but thats not much of a diff
and it's only on ||mid-biome shops, not in the pre-boss shops or in styx at all||
Speaking about rng, that reminds me, I play with whatever weapon get's the darkness buff and the sword never seems to get it(not that it's my favorite weapon, but I want to play it sometimes)
And also it can only ||spawn at midpoint stores, not the one right before the boss||
one step ahead of u riks :p
u good fam
Anyway I wonder how many runs I’m going to screw over trying to do this prophecy
||Just going to shop even with 0 gold||
Just for a chance
I feel like there has to be some sort of thing to guarantee it
it gives a reason to go to ||midpoint stores now||
I never used to go there beforehand
Noice
Is there a better way to mix up the weapons
Or is it better to stick to one weapon
Goldre I recommend changing it up
Usually I just use whatever give bonus dark
Because you get more rewards if you use different weapons as opposed to only using one
But if you just want to practice and get good with one weapon it’s not the worst thing to just focus on one for a while
But yeah for me I vary it up run to run for different rewards and to get used to all the different play styles/combos you can make
Yeah that's my point
I play with whatever weapon get's the darkness buff and the sword never seems to get it(not that it's my favorite weapon, but I want to play it sometimes)
i play around with other weapons but i rarely if ever get any luck completing runs with anything besides the shield and ||gun||
Jin you have to spoiler mark that
^
Ima ignore that
which aspect? im partial to chaos
Especially with the right combos
Same qaz, I like chaos the most of the ones I’ve tried
I just unlocked fists, but darkness hasn't blessed it yet tho
Oh goldre you should just use it, for me I tried each new weapon as they unlocked
Then once I had tried them all I started seeing which one was picked
yes pls try fists theyre great
Imo that’s the best way to do it
I will then
Just want to unlock all the weapons so I can finish the mirror(nowhere close to maxing it out)
Don't know when I should save up for another death defiance, 500 darkness is steep
id snag stubborn defiance asap but thats personal preference
Isn't that the one that let's you revive once per room
Yeah idk imo do death defiance first, if you play well you can possibly have 3 revives for final boss
Do the other one after
say what u will but i find the safety of having it every room much better than maybe having three at the end
@brisk trail
||mid-biome shops have a 22% chance to have a bag of gold sitting behind charon, with the text "borrow?". picking this up gets you 300 obols, but also gets charon to attack you for shoplifting||
Bringing up alternate mirror stuff, which upgrades are good to have on green
The only mirror upgrades I have on green is fiery presence(I have it unlocked down to Infernal soul)
damn ok
i honestly prefer most of the yellow (green?) ones
if you kill him does he reappear
||as i understand, yes - with discounts for the rest of the run. i dont know how much the discount is tho. it's a very difficult fight, that oar SLAPS||
@brisk trail for me up to that point, i usually have shadow presence, cthonic vitality (i flip that one a lot tho), ruthless reflex, boiling blood, and abyssal soul
@brisk trail @brisk trail might be better to move that discussion to #h1-story-discussion or #h1-builds-and-combat?
sorry for @ing everyone i just wanna make it clear who im addressing .-.
fists are killing me lol
could someone explain these for me?
It feels like low damage unless i stand there for the full combo, low control and low range
move in and out quickly
im playing it terribly wrong but the range does not feel compensated for me
it's a very fast paced weapon
Anyone got a good keepsake?
so that hermes + dashes boon is good?
idk if theres any 'supposed to' as far as that goes
punch as many times as you can safely id think
Dash while holding down the Attack button after either the fourth or fifth hit in the combo and when your Dash-Strike ends you'll seamlessly continue into another combo.
^
Was anyone else not able to get into bastian at all? Especially after playing Hades, theres no way I can go back to that combat
I've yet to try Pie Ur or Train Station Sister
?
I played everything in release order.
Same here, and I can see why'd you think that
fists are killing me lol
@rustic juniper this might be a bit late but for the fists my go-to strategy is just to dash like a maniac and never sit still for too long
because the dash attack does good damage
you can try and go for the whole combo but after you get it immediately dash to reset it
makes sense
so that you're always attacking someone
so that you're always attacking someone
yeeeeeeeeeeeeee
also if you're using the aspect of demeter use the giga cutter whenever you have it
because the damage on it can get insane
What game should we make next?
"How about something that isn't isometric?"
angry glares
thrown out window
fellas level with me on this
how can one have -110% movement speed
chaos do be wildin
but the walking animation is now funny to watch
hgfhdfghjgfd golly
When you're just curious if there's a Hades Discord and there is. 
Am i the only one here that thinks that hammers could use a bit of tweaking? Maybe this is just me, but i feel like the variety on most of them is questionable. Getting only attack upgrades when you run a special build and vice-versa is kinda annoying, and the anvil is so rare that it doesn't really help. Maybe make it so that the hammer always has one attack and one special upgrade, then a random third would be better? What do you fellas think?
I'm starting to come to terms with having the sickest builds and then dying and it doesn't win me the game because I suck 
us couric, us
some hammers are pretty handy
though tbf they shouldnt be a requirement
like legendary aspects REQUIRE some hammers to be functional
...or maybe im bad at using them idk
@buoyant merlin Pyre isn't isometric tho
oh true
Silence.
what is Pyre's view called
Getting only attack upgrades when you run a special build and vice-versa is kinda annoying, and the anvil is so rare that it doesn't really help.
@sullen wasp I would say the mistake you're making is building against the run instead of building with the run. Especially now that every combo has a Duo Boon, you can get a sense of how to make the most of what the run is offering you very quickly in Tartarus. Then you have three biomes to build on that.
That is absolutely true sometimes. However, in a few cases i ended up getting my first hammer in elysium. My point is, you don't always have a choice, and the hammers may, or may not br helpful in that regard, you feel me?
Hmm, you already know that can happen if you didn't see a hammer in Tartarus. So you can build with that in mind to have more flexibility. Like, picking up that Epic Attack boon you see even though you haven't been using Attack or focusing more on your cast because casts don't rely on any hammers.
Things like that.
The only times I feel limited in that way is on very high heats with AP and UC etc. because your choices are very limited.
its weird that the hades and zagreus dialogues at the end of an encounter do not reply to each other
also the hades taunt at the beginning of a run, I dont seem to like its design
the spacing of the letters is a bit odd
@high island well, yes and no. But you get my point. I personaly think that hammers could be a but more structure. I generaly try to not waste boons, in that i won't pick an attack boon if i know i want to spec on on special etc. But of course, if a better oportunity arises, i will go with it. My issue is that sometimes you are well specced in a direction (say rama special build with zeus, jolted, increased thunder strike area and his legendary) befoee even touching the first hammer. I actually had something like this in one of my past few runs in tartarus (3 zeus boons back to back and one in the shop). Of course this is a rare case, but still.
A boon on Attack is never a waste because it fills a core slot that would take priority in your boon offers. It also opens up Duo Boons.
@high island altough you are right, a bit more variety in terms of what i pick, and adapting to the situation won't hurt
I used to feel more like you, but I think that's something that comes with experience and better understanding boon trees.
And also the general structure of runs.
oh they do? thats nice
do you all ever feel bad using an overkill cast on a single skull
poor boyo
@high island true that. I gurdd i try to control my runs a bit too much haha. Most roguelites don't allow it so i kinda feel obligated to do it
i feel no regret over nuking numbskulls
Depends on the Duo, some of them require specific boons, but most of them work with any core boon.
@ruby palm and you should not
Oh wait, that "they do?" was about something else I think lol.
:3
Depends. If the overkill saves time or keeps you save, it's a good idea to do that.
how does quit work? it tells me to clear this chamber to safely quit, but i've already cleared the chamber and picked up the reward
You can only quit if you haven't taken any damage in the chamber yet.
you probably took damage after the reward
So if you've cleared the chamber, you can just enter the next one and quit before you take any damage there.
traps/magma
ohh okay
I feel as a newb, it's a must have to have something that gives hp regen right? Or have a full kit of sturdy? Either that or I suck that bad. I feel like my dmg to the boss dmg ratio's are overbearing. Or am I suppose to dodge even more than I am now?
The final boss (whose identity is considered a spoiler) tends to pretty clearly telegraph his attacks. It's a matter of dodging and weaving, unless you have a build that can either outtank him or massively outdamage him.
please dont evade the swear filter! @narrow summit
hey lads, does anyone know if it's me or Hestia is a bit broken right now
can't reload as consistently as I used to
seems to stumble every second shot
is kinetic launcher affected by increased special speed
Or am I suppose to dodge even more than I am now?
@narrow summit probably! Dash deliberately rather than recklessly—in every chamber. But also, try getting more max HP—200+ is usually a good goal—and just max out your mirror talents and everything.
Just getting more experience with all the boons and better understanding the boon trees will also really help you deal a lot more damage.
@high island Thanks for the tips, I've put a little bit of that together over the past few hours 🙂 there's never a dull moment in this game. It's nuts.
You'll get a feeling eventually for when you need more effective HP vs when you need more damage in your build.
Sometimes I'll leave Tartarus with only ~110 HP, so I'll know I should get some Centaur Hearts soon to get that up to at least close to 200 before the third region.
Yeah, I can safely say I have more luck with 200 hp vs. 60-whatever it is and about 1-2 hearts with that 2hp regen boon. Thanks for the tips, I'll keep it in mind. I think I've died more in this game than Dark Souls 1+2+3 and I'm not even mad. 
Can you not get freezing vortex with hunting blades?
@cyan cloud the hades taunt at the beginning of a run is a memory, which is why zag doesn't respond all the time
@hollow hull please separate your feedback post into two individual messages. I can't vote on it the way it is now.
@high island Understood. I submitted my feedback again with the two ideas split up.
Nice! Thanks! 
My friends and I were talking about the game all day yesterday and we had a few ideas. I also saw the "slow" mode on that channel and just put everything into one message. Should have just waiting and done it right the first time. Thanks for reminding me!
It would be really cool if we could share the random seed of a run with our friends. My friend had an awesome run with hunting blades and it would be neat to be able to load that RNG seed up and play through to try it out. Disable achievements/darkness/whatever you need to in order to keep the single player game state.
@hollow hull Hi sleepykyle. I wanted to mention that the RNG seed doesn't seem to give you the same reward choices even if you make the same choices again.... I tested that just now to make sure... I went until the miniboss in Tartarus (in my case it was the doomstone) and I got a boon from poseidon... after that I gave up.... after that I started again with the same setup, and I made the same decisions... but when I got to the room before the miniboss, it was showing me a Zeus boon reward (for the miniboss room), and the miniboss this time was different (it was one of the multiple armored foes encounter)
Bottom line is... it seems like the game can change some of the rewards later on, even if at the beginning it appears like your run is the same... I'm not sure how it works in the background, but I'm guessing there are some 'middle' RNG seeds that are being generated after the first one?... Not sure if anyone can confirm this.
Just wanted to let you know this, because seeing how the game works right now, even if you could share the RNG seed from the beginning of the game, it seems like the next run could still turn out differently... unless maybe SGG could save 'all the seeds'? (so to speak)
@rugged glacier Interesting! I would bet they have something in-house that allows them to debug specific scenarios. They would have to pull that system to the front end and allow us to create our own "runs".
yeah... they could probably make a log with all the seeds that were generated during the run, and make it so that we can input all of them in the next run... which sounds a bit more complicated I guess, but could work
Just wanted to let y'all know, I saw someone in a stream describe Artemis as an Aro/Ace Arrow Ace, and I just... love it?
I mean, just in general, the depictions of mythological figures in this game are just so good.
I think this game might have actually been the thing that made me more interested in greek mythology.
yeah Artemis is asexual (which is often shortened to ace)
Yeah, I'd just never put it all together, and the phrase was just so perfectly fitting.
that's fair, she's one of my favourite characters in the game out of the yes many incredible characters in Hades 
🏹 🏹 🏹 
Some interpret her way of approaching Zag as romantic or even platonic feelings but i just mmmh nope
I feel like it's more...
You know how teens don't want to go on holidays with only their parents and always want to go with a friend or really just someone their age? I think it's something like that
Also the thing with Callisto, i love how she's clearly her gf but she always brushes it off with "friend" like-
Girl it's okay you can tell me 👀 get out of Narnia
Zag is the cool cousin that hasn't been over since thanksgiving 4 years ago (except he hasn't left home at all)
everyone loves Zag
we love zag
My perspective is that Zagreus is like a pen-pal for Artemis - someone to pour out her heart to. And he sends gifts back to show he cares! The hurt comments during trials show how important this connection is to her. Even after the fight, where most gods say it’s water under the bridge, she’s wary and upset.
And really, she's relatable
The way she pokes fun at the Santa Claus' nature of the gods gifting boons to Zag mechanic? Or the way she fangirls over Achilles and spits out awkardly "...youseehimtellhimhe'sthebestforme!" at the end of that dialogue? She's just
gah
She also fangirls over coronacht, when she asks Zag if she can try it when he comes on Olympus
Hey, question, where can I report a bug?
Press f10 while in game, then alt tab if the bug reporter window doesn't pop up
As the bug reporter might be just sitting behind the game @wintry frigate
That happened to me once as well
nothing happens at all with f10
Did you try alt tabbing?
yeah, spamming f10 tabbing seeing ingame, out of game nothing pops up, no f key works either
Check your key bindings to see what the bug reporter is bound too
ah, changed it to something besides f10, works now ty
No worries ^_^
theyre used for upgrading weapon aspects
weapon aspects?
it sounds like a meme
other variants of main 6 weapons, each one has 3 more, except for fists, it will be added later
when you select a weapon you can hit action button once more, and there will be a menu
of a selected weapon
Pretty sure I can't
Need all weapons unlocked, no?
We need "trophies" and a insignia for steam to complete xD
strange, i was pretty sure it's not nessesary..
Also yeah, achievements would be cool
I will love to hunt the achievements of the game if he could have it xD
they said there will be steam achievements after 1.0 most probably
The prophecies should be the achievements
Admittedly I would like steam achievements, but I can wait till 1.0 for them
achievements are confirmed for 1.0
As long as I don't have to start a new save to get them
its mentioned in #hades-faq
but that sweet sweet v1.0 fresh save!
Hmm
I wish there was some video of Nyx talking available on YT, I wanted to use her as a voice reference for a character of mine xD
but that sweet sweet v1.0 fresh save!
@gusty slate Yeah but... sighs
another 300 hours later to max a save
Nah, if I'm making another 1.0 save I'm wiping the save I currently have
but the history
save that was made during EA, nothing like that will ever be available
nope, some of us just want to experience the events of the game in the intended order
dunno.. experience everything once more in a proper order?
@outer comet hold that thought i'll get back to you on that in like 20-30 min
How soon is 1.0
this year
Oop
@narrow hemlock r u sure? i can record its fine
Also it's not really soon. It's been out for a while now, and this current update is 0.9.
yes...
well, the year is long.. 6 months passed, 9 more to go
true
no i will do you one better, just give my slow internet a moment
Next moth maybe
im scared
No it's not next month, the update came out last month :P or really, just a few weeks ago.
it'll prob be like at minimum 3 months, who knows. most updates were every 2-3 months
depends on how much is left to do
we know we're getting an ending, one last character, one last aspect, and every character still gets content, but we dont know just how much content that is either
just came up with idea.. Zag gets into the past.. back when there were only a few weapons, few gods helped him, fewer enemies.. most people around were wearing cloaks.. smaller house without mosaic.. crystal-like boons.. and noone knows what's going to happen next..
maybe because Chronos wanted to put Zag through some kind of challenge..
or could it be Hypnos?
what now
The remodelation site needs an option to see previously how it would see the object before buy in it
Maybe some "Press X button to see how it would see"
Damn do you really get Titan blood every time you beat the final boss no matter the heat?
once per heat, only up to 20 heat
So no, you don't
If you beat a boss with a weapon at a heat level you cleared before, you get a bunch of darkness. Quite substantial if you beat the last boss.
Ok someone worded it like that when they were talking about farming runs
That was my understanding so just wanted to make sure
Does the 15% extra health heat also apply to bosses
https://66.media.tumblr.com/393a54d51edce8047e7aaab481959baa/c2a1d8a28cfa5515-71/s500x750/764fbcf580b4dfc6b299e9cfac2ec01f0933a266.jpg This is only tangentially relevant, but
I feel like y'all will appreciate it
After I get all the ability unlocks from the contractor that you pay gemstones for, is the only use for them the cosmetic stuff?
You can also trade them up for other resources
"this run is going horribly ill just let myself die"
"Not finished yet."
"Jesus christ fine Zag"
Final boss of the game is Zag's stubborness
Zag is the 'Tis but a scratch! knight
^ even moreso when he has gone through 6 DD's and is at 2hp!
I wish his appearance became more ragged, but that's not possible
The voicelines do reflect his state at least
And like, characters take note of his appearance so he definitely does look more ragged, we just dont see it
True
Which brings me to honestly my favourite Zag Theseus interaction
Perks of being a God, appearance is spotlesss
Where Theseus taunts Zag about being really hurt
And Zag is just too done to be polite anymore
"Theseus? I would appreciate it if you could be more considerate of the substantial effort necessary just to reach this point where I can make you shut your mouth."
the only downside to antagonists remaining antagonists is that i cant have zag being aggressively kind to theseus to the point hes bewildered and upset any time zag shows up
luv theseus, just wanna see him break down
I couldn't dodge the gorgonhead miniboss shockwave. The miniboss in asphodel with the gorgonhead and medusa head.
At the start I couldn't do it either when I first added miniboss upgrades. A month ago (roughly) it seemed fine until now. Now I cannot do it either again.
I also had athena's dash protection. It could be that my timing was off but I was pretty sure my last attempt which killed me had the right timing
Somehow this shockwave attack from the gorgonhead seems the most dificult attack to dodge in this game (finished highest heat so far is 20).
Anyone else has the same experience?
All I do is dash
If it works for you then I guess my timing was off
It didnt work for me
But i heard people say theres a second shockwave so i might have not dodged that? Idk
We talking about the MM version right
@undone moon Divine Dash doesn't give you extra i-frames, and you can't deflect the shockwave, so Divine Dash makes no difference.
MM shockwave is a tough one to dodge x.x
Also, doing an Attack during your dash will cancel your i-frames. Dash-Strikes don't have any invincibility.
So, you'll need to time a regular dash to get through.
Hmm, it felt like I dashed through it and then right after I still got hit
That will often happen if you press an Attack or something else immediately after your dash.
The best way typically to deal with that fight is to use a summon on the Skullcrusher's armor.
I didn't do a conscious dash strike, and i didn't know that would affect my dash protection
Thanks for the info
Final boss, by the way, is a spoiler. 

I've double-dashed perfectly clean through that shockwave, pressed cast, and got hit by the shockwave that by the looks of it was way behind me.
Yeah
Safest way I've found to dodge it is by trying not to dodge diagonally.
Just pierce right through.
My apologies for the spoiler, but it seems you removed it 🙂
I don't know if the hitbox is just that massive and doesn't disappear until it's gone or what, but I've learned to just not press anything after the dash.
you
I assure you, that was neither of us. O' mod in the shadows, thank you.
Not me. I'm not a mod. I have no such powers. 


HEY
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i need a manual just to read this chat, jeez

I just like using thanthink because he's adorable
oh to have a full set of hades themed emotes in that style
Only 150?
I request angry Hades emote
The fact that we don't have 150 Sandra emoji is a crime.
Agreed
Poll:
React with 👍 if I should keep playing and then delete my save and make a new one at 1.0. React with 👎 if I should play other games till 1.0, then delete my current save and play 1.0 when it comes out.
There are 3 save slots though?
Ah I see
I think you can rename the saves and it will just switch over
Now people can just add their reacts on top of mine as a vote.
votes don't budge 
I think you can rename the saves and it will just switch over
@unkempt sleet wdym
I'm not at my pc atm, but the save files should be numbered, so if you change the number you change the slot
You just need to go to your savefile folder, usually Documents/Saved Games/Hades
Your save is named Profile1.sav in the above directory
To move it to slot 2, rename it to Profile2.sav
Reload the game load save slot 2 (yes, even if it shows empty and appears to be a new save), then choose give up, reload once more
Now the game should show your save in slot 2
So you don't need to delete anything.
is there a list somewhere with all the boons there are and their effects?
couldn't find them on the wiki
What do you mean?
They are listed under each God
So there is no single page with all the boons
really? I'll check again, thanks
But organized under each God
found them, thanks!
Np!
I'm guessing the wiki lags behind with the info when there's an update, right?
It's well updated now
or are they automatically extracted from the game somehow?
They are done manually afaik
But it's updated for the recent update, maybe not entirely, but the core stuff is there.
all information is added manually by the community, people have been steadily updating stuff since the update
hmm alright, thanks again
the cheat sheets aren't fully update yet
they still use the Nighty Night update boons
the boon tier charts peach made?
that was actually what i was referring to
Arty's still lists Duo shot
Yeah those are made by Peach xD
the new ones are being worked on
It says info as of v.27191
so it's mostly fine
So you know which one is updated, which one is not
as the only real big changes were to Duo Shot and the new conditions for fully loaded iirc
plus the new stuff for Poseidon
affecting boon progression
From what I can tell, the gods you can possibly encounter are set when the run starts right?
Mostly, yes
From the runs I’ve done I’ve noticed that there is a group of gods that’s basically locked in at the start
I believe there's a pool of 4-5 gods
the seed isn't set in stone, factors within a fight affect it. Its why some runners cast in the first room
to change the rewards after the 1st door
Interesting
You can get 4 different gods to show per run, keepsake notwithstanding
But you can get different set of gods even on the same seed
Once you have boons from 4 gods, those 4 are the ones you'll see. I'm pretty sure if you see 4 but skip 1 of them, you can see a different one instead after that.
Updated diagrams will be done soon. 6 out of 9 already done.
Nice
yeah its less "set by the seed" and more "set by the first boons you pick"
also note that Hermes does not count towards this
his behaviour is unique
Because he doesn’t affect your core abilities
its documented somewhere
Also, if you see 4 in Tartarus but only pick 3 and you force a different one than those 4 in Asphodel, you'll only see the 4 you have, and the one you skipped will be out of the pool.
Boons from Hermes function slightly differently to other Olympians. None of his boons occupy Attack, Special, Cast, Dash, or Call slots, as they are designed to be mixed with and support other gods' boons. In addition, none of Hermes' boons can be enhanced with a Pom of Power.
His boons are in a different item pool than other Olympian boons for the purposes of Fated Authority and Charon's shop. His boon can take priority in appearance even if one equips other gods' keepsake. Additionally, his boons will never spawn as the first chamber's reward or in mini-boss encounters. You can only obtain up to three of his boons in one run - with the third only available in Charon's shop in the Temple of Styx - and he never appears in a Trial of the Gods.
from the wiki
also worth noting that he doesn't have any duos
it's because hermes is special and cooler than the other gods
i think the in-game-stated reason is that he's "less connected to olympus" or something
since he acts as a messenger and spends a lot of his time on psychopomp duties
hence he doesnt have any duos and his boons don't interact with the others
tbf, hermes has the special trait of being closer to the underworld than any other olympian
he's like a hammer that can talk
yeah, like Hermes in Greek Myth is sometimes the one who drags Sysiphus back to the underworld after he avoids Hades and Thanatos by having his wife intentionally mess up his burial
i wouldn't be surprised if we see Hermes in person at some point, seems more likely than the other olympians
Hermes had a lot of Chthonic qualities in general
and besides, his general skillset fits more in line with being a support god, rather than a main one
"gotta go fast"
i kinda wanna see how they'd design attack/special/cast/dash boons for Hermes
lowkey the hardest working god, Hermes was straight hustling as a damn baby and swindled Apollo
i mean, he already has those 
kid was ice cold
the current approach of just adding attack speed feels like it wouldnt really suffice for a full boon
always looking for the next hustle
not interesting enough
I think the reason given in the game is basically "I'm Hermes. I show up where I want, when I want—always at the right place at the right."
i guess the dash could just be the +dashes, it's powerful enough and changes gameplay enough to deserve the slot
and it'd probably be the best dash boon
but the others would need a bit more creativity i think
yeah it works very similarly
he's like a hammer that can talk
Lol missed that
hermes is "soft capped" at 3 instead of 2+anvil
and doesnt show up as often in tartarus
but besides that theyre very similar
Both Hammer and Hermes are capped at 3 though
when a god shows up at the beginning to throw a big boon at you is it intended that you won't see them again or am i just really unlucky
Anvil gives you 2 but takes away 1
its all RNG
yeah but i still see that as a difference worth noting
sometimes you will have runs where you see the got a bunch of times in one region
when a god shows up at the beginning to throw a big boon at you is it intended that you won't see them again or am i just really unlucky
@heady elm did you force that God?
no i was trying to force a different god and then posiden just rolled in and gave me all epic options and then made it to 3rd boss without seeing him again

The god will show up again unless you somehow push them out of the pool. You'd have to be extremely unlucky for them to not show up. I don't know if there's a pseudo RNG that prevents the god from not showing up at all, but I generally don't see that happening.
Man it is frustrating when you reroll boons and 1 of the options is the exact same
does darkness continually increase with heat levels? EG I beat all the bounties at heat 3 and now run it for darkness, will that give me more than a no heat run?
gotta get those fated dice
I think only if you have 5 different Olympian boons from forcing different gods, you'll push one of them out of the pool. Basically, the pool is limited to 4 gods whose boons you have. Might even be open to all 5 but RNG makes it very unlikely for all 5 to show up, but I think it's 4.
Been paying a lot more attention to that kind of stuff recently.
how do you force a god out of the pool if you already have its boon?
If you have 4 from Tartarus and force a different one in Asphodel, 1 of the 4 you picked up in Tartarus won't show up again.
i guess i am asking how you force a new one in tartarus
oh, i always figured they didn't work since i tried it once or twice and didnt get them
you can also start with hammers
might be like how the hammer can prevent the force in the beginning
alma you type to fast
but the first boon you will get will be from that god, even if the first thing you got in a run wasnt a boon
The first few runs in a new save have some scripted appearances from gods that you can't overwrite, but it will work for the next boon that's not scripted.
ah
ya i started playing around with it sort of early so it messed up my assumptions of what worked
Hammer can appear in Tartarus instead, Hermes in the other biomes.
they always work, aside from in those scripted instances and when the first thing you get is a hammer
or hermes, yeah
bc he speedy
so even if a hammer or hermes interupts the next god after that will still be forced?
yep
I'm not 100% sure about the 5th god pushing 1 out of the pool, it just seems like it works that way. I'm still learning to play the system myself.
as long as you see the charge on the keepsake
so could you get to all 7 gods with the right forces after each boss?
Theoretically yeah
there should be an achieve or special ability for doing so
The keepsake will keep forcing the god for any future boons until you pick one up from that god (shops don't count) or switch keepsakes.
Well, there's the Family Favorite mirror talent.
i think at least one will always not show up, for theseus' call
You'd have to force the last one after Theseus anyway.
Theseus used to pick one at random if you had boons from every god before they added Lady Demeter.
But now you can't get all before him anyway, yeah.
interesting
I’ve noticed in a few runs that some of my keepsakes were locked between realms, anyone know why that is?
If you used them before, yoy can't repick them
Oh gotcha
For me the keepsake picking system seems a bit weird: You can't repick a keepsake but you can keep 1 over multiple stages
Also once you pick lateron you can't repick if you made a mistake
You can repick it if you change the game's code to let you repick it. Everything is possible if you set your mind to it. 
yeah, changing the keepsake is what makes it expire
I mean the window where you switch a keepsake closes
also, i think you cant repick because picking the collar and then exiting and picking something else used to restore your health
I toke me a long time to understand that repicking between stages didn't have bad consequences
I like it. Forces you to think about when to use what.
is it hard to brute-force the demeter legendary?
i keep trying but i end up on styx without a chance
I feel it's not a user friendly solution. I hope they will adjust the code so you can repick as long as you don't exit the picking screen
yup
Can be a problem with stuff like skelly, plume, butterfly etc
i feel like its not that hard to get, ive gotten it many times without trying
hope i get it soon then
its no chaos defiance thats for sure
180 hours in, still don't know what that looks like xD
There are some ways that you can build to greatly improve your odds of getting a specific legendary. One of the most important things is filling your core slots (except call) because those have priority when you're offered boons until you fill them.
i have to say im glad i cleared the prophecies when i did, because a lot of boons and hammers got added to the game
Same xD
Though it would've been nice to still know which ones were new just by looking at them
and now theres more..... it seems like i will never clear them 
Another one is avoid t1 boons from her that aren't necessary for her legendary and that open up multiple other t2 boons—because that will just pollute her boon pool with stuff that isn't her legendary.
There will be so much to do for a new Hell Mode save at 1.0
Fated Authority is very useful if you want to gun for a certain legendary or duo. Especially if you still have a bunch of them in the Temple of Styx, the tunnel rewards become basically anything you want. I could clear all prophecies that way, before God's Legacy was even introduced.
Isn't shield kind of broken?
Broken-good or broken-bad?
not really much different than just dashing out of the way
except its harsher on tight deadline
shield's blocking is handy but it's one of its more overrated qualities
which is understandable; it's a lot easier to use than well-timed dashes, so it's more intuitive as one is learning the game
Yeah it helped me get to the end 2 times since I bought the game 2 days ago
that said, aspect of chaos is probably the best aspect in the game
but that's because of the special
Which weapon does aspect of chaos belong to?
shied
shield
after bull rushing, your next special throws more shields
it is fun
Oh I read something like that. Must've missed the aspect name.
but i like the hidden one more
After selecting a weapon, walk up to its spot and interact with it again. The aspect menu will open.
fully upgraded, it throws 5 extra shields (so 6 total)
Yeah I know about the aspect menu
making your special 6x as effective is pretty good, it turns out
("6x as effective" is exaggeration but yeah)
Appreciate the help though
that said, i'm cool with chaos aspect being pretty overtuned just because it's a fairly unique gameplay style
none of the other aspects focus on the shield throw special
they either focus on attack or change the special
Yeah the blitz one makes the shield throw go nuts
The Zagreus one just adds special and attack damage
Does anyone have tips for the final boss' second phase?
Those ghost urns are annoying
Saving call until second phase part 2, using ||bouldy||
Haven't unlocked companions yet
learn the animations; ||i find it easier than the first phase overall due to lack of invulnerability phases and the fact that there's only one thing to focus on||
I usually dash through urns and just keep moving tbh
That’s a better question for #h1-builds-and-combat, btw, due to spoilers
Isn't Sisyphus' companion called Shady?
Who now
I keep hearing ||bouldy||
||it summons bouldy.||
Something like that
That's pretty cool
It does 1000 damage too right?
How much of the boss bar is that? Can use it to quick finish him when he's low enough
Depends on the boss
Talkin' about final boss
Boss health: ||15-16k x2||
BRUH
Someone should confirm that, though
Wait is it really that much?
Final boss is one motherfricker
Someone datamined the info and posted it. That's the source, could be way off but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My DPS must be amazing then
I wish I could refund my titan blood
Still farming that... only... 24 more runs till max bounties
I fricking wasted all my Titan Blood on Varatha's Zagreus aspect
Proxy forgive us 
Can beat with base weapons, don't think there is enough of the resource at that point in time anyways
I misread and thought it gave plus damage to special and plus range and speed to attacks
Then after using all the blood it turns out all the bonuses are for the special only
Nearly gouged my eyes out
spear special is cool though
Yeah it sorta does, I need the hammer upgrade that gives it crit on return
There's a few Daedalus upgrades for the spear throw
It's called "Vicious Skewer"
Wow that's really good damage
+50% damage and +%50% crit chance
Does that stack with Artemis?
That'd be OP
It's how I beat Redacted originally
I think it does stack
Geebus, why are you making poor Proxy work so hard?
And if you can get some other boons for backstabs
Ez dmg
Oop I censored the space my bad
Hypnos does such a good job I gave 'em a place to sle- I mean sit comfortably while doing it
Wdym
I always catch him lackin' at the corridor
His advice is as*s too
"Try not to step on the traps next time."
Thanks m8
I mean, he does have a point
if i were to replace flood shot with demeter cast would i still be able to use artemis duo with poseidon?
help
plis
Should be
I think that duo works on all the casts?
decided not to gamble and im picking the dash
Ok, I personally prefer flood shot with ||dem pos duo||
I've been wondering how many hammers it's possible to encounter per run
2
: |
lmao you deleted it
Well, technically 3
Oh that's cool now
yeah you can get 3 with || the forge at the end||
Oh Charon sells them?
He can, but ||he sometimes sell a forge at the end that lets you have 3 hammergrades||
It's risky though.
How much does that cost?
||charon has a chance to sell them if yyou miss one||
costs like 200 tho
They're so bloody expensive if you miss em 
Interesting
yeah pokeuser
I never miss hammers
I do sometimes
I'd hammer my head on the keyboard if I did



