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deep pockets for the initial gold, I try to always have 300gold to get 2 early boons
helps with that
I personally am gunning for all the blood I can get
down to personal preference
Getting boons early is way more impactful than getting them late
i use sisyphus keepsake in tartarus to help with the low amount of boons i get
I just want to buy the blood
I don’t need resources, so deep pockets is better for me
Yeah, ummm I really really hate just how low the blood and gems rewards are in rooms
I usually pick a god keepsake to force a god I want
i really like buying the hermes in styx so
I really wish there was like, a way to upgrade that because it's SO paltry compared to all other sources you can get
My usual run is actually Sisyphus-Spearpoint-Acorn-Blossom
normally i wouldnt go acorn in elysium but ||im still new to em3||
Usually coin purse
I usally go preferred boon for weapon->sys if struggling for some reason, either blossom if I love what I got or +gold if gold is low, and then blossom for sure
though as of lately ive had Cerb with me in styx quite a while
Blossom is kind of dependent on situation
if i have low hp i go feather duster
A lot of this is going over my head, but fine
lol
Artemis for examples doesn’t scale well with poms
Oh, yeah, good point, I do sometimes go skelly if it's em4
||sigil of the dead in styx just for the dialogue||
chaos egg in styx for the memes
Hourglass is good actually
LOL chaos's dialogue around that is so funny
For stacking damage and/or extra casts
It would be quite amusing, Child of Hades
OH yeah, hourglass in styx is great if you feel underpowered
that's what got my very first clear on run 7 or so
It’s great in elysium
Getting like, 2 wells and a buncha buffs into ||hades|| is great
And if you take it for multiple stages it piles up
are divine dash and ruthless reflex good together?
I am not a fan of ruthless
does anyone unironically use stubborn defiance?
Yes
How
GAH. The effing chest was next to a doorway i didnt want and it opened the darn door NOO
Basically on high heat it has more of a benefit than downside
I could have had a shop but now im fighting for a key and lost out on a trove I paid to get xD
how high is high heat anyway? 25?
It also allows you to take 4 levels of lasting consequences
i still dont understand if divine dash and ruthless reflex are good together or not?
Depends on who you ask
For some people it starts at 32 for some it’s 40+
But stubborn starts being kinda necessary at like 45
yeah ok i mean
You can also get a DD in addition to your stubborn
i guess that classifies as "anyone" but thats not really casual anymore
If you have used your DD
And you get an extra one
The next room you will have a DD and an SD
you would never need to go that insanely far for bounties
@proper halo it's good, safer than without
Makes mistakes less punishing in long term
ok thx
Ruthless can also work alone
I played for a while before ruthless was even a thing so I can’t get used to it
i understand they both can work alone
i just wanted to know if they synergized well or not
cuz they are kinda different
Ruthless has a nice combo with the hidden fist aspect since it gives additional dashes
i dont even remember what ruthless reflex does
Ruthless activates before a projectile gets close to you so deflecting it shouldn't affect it... hmmm
I just really highly value being able to double dash strike or dash a second time to get out of lava
And greatest reflex isn’t very common
Although if you deflect, dashing into a projectile it will indeed be uselessl if I remember right
is there a way to make ||than|| show up more often or is it just rng
It’s sort of like Stygian soul where if you can compensate for the downside it is probably the better option
Rng
darn it
But I just really like double dash from the start
I started the game playing with ruthless until ~heat 14ish
ruthless is like a counter I guess, dashing into projectile wouldn't activate it* is what I'm trying to say I guess?
at least when I use it, I think ruthless activatesif you dash right before an attack/projectile is about to hit you
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Wow hera aspect is fun with dionysus shot
so is ||beowulf||
Maybe next shield run I'll try that aspect
So I have a question for everyone. I'm trying to get a keepsake out of Hades because its powers sound fun. At what point should I be able to give him the second nectar?
||do you need to be holding vathra the spear for Achilles to give you the apsect or does he just do it after you've met all the requirements||
You don't need to have it equipped
So if I understand correctly, most people play double dash instead of ruthless reflex?
So I have a question for everyone. I'm trying to get a keepsake out of Hades because its powers sound fun. At what point should I be able to give him the second nectar?
@delicate steeple it's RNG
sometimes after a run you can give it, other times you can not
from what I understand
Also, once he and ||Persephone|| converse, if you go to your room and back you can give them both some, sometimes. I sped it up that way actually
Seems maybe a bug tho haha
@quasi olive I don't understand the purpose of ruthless reflex at all
Also, my partner now has Asterius and Theseus ||do a duo attack where they create a wave similar to Hades' skulls, but I personally never got them to do this attack before, do you know what triggers it? ||
So, I sort of want 4th aspect of rail to work for me but it just seems... very slow to kill
Wdym "Partner"
Also, my partner now has Asterius and Theseus ||do a duo attack where they create a wave similar to Hades' skulls, but I personally never got them to do this attack before, do you know what triggers it? ||
@quasi olive I noticed this too! He rushes and hits the shield and does a ||Hades skull|| type shockwave to dodge
Im sad that they didn't do this until I think I used EM3 for the first time
and then went back without it
@quasi olive I don't understand the purpose of ruthless reflex at all
@hardy escarp I just love it as it is free dodge chances and damage, since you always evade attacks, ansmd I personally don't feel the need to use two dashes yet at my level (heat 16 roughly)...
so i have a question
I feel like it's just convenient no matter your heat
does it force you to start over?
and then went back without it
@pseudo onyx Actually she just did! I've not gone back to not using EM3 yet, maybe that's why!
I always dodge WAY too early for ||Hades|| sweep strike and so I really needed the 2 dodges for that, esp EM4, and still I trip up hahaa
after the live update
Wdym "Partner"
@hardy escarp what do you mean?
That's what I asked you pal
@hardy escarp oh sorry I just got the meaning of 'wdym' after I asked the question... ^^
Partner - > girlfriend.
Why do you ask?
I wasn't sure if you meant another person had it happen or once you triggered your companion or something
Oh, interesting! ^^
So I just learned that hades speedrunning goes off the in game clock
which is interesting because the in-game clock pauses on menus
so this 6 minute long speedrun has a 20 minute long video
Oh, I didn't see the categories because dark red on black
I was supes disappointed that there were only seeded and unseeded categories
Hmmm i noticed that the bonus nectar i get from troves dont proc the +1 to abilities thing
hades dont save, anyone fix that problem?
lol GDI, i planned for my chaos buff to end right before boss but a fountain showed up and now I cant use special @ boss xD
Any word on the cross-save patch? Last I hear it was aiming to come out in October. Also I was wondering if it would also allow saves to go from the Switch to PC? I bought the Switch version first and would love to be able to choose to play my save file on either/or, depending on if I'm at home or out and about.
Ahh thanks! I see it there now. I'm still curious if my 2nd question has ever been addressed in regards to the nature of how the cross-save system would work? I want to double-dip and buy it on Steam but only if the cross-save is not a one way transfer.
Cross save should be vise versa afaik
Dunno if there is any confirmation on that tho
That's generally how cross-saves usually work, but this statement has me questioning their implementation of it (taken from their statement after the 1.0 launch):
"We recently announced we're working on cross-saves for Hades, which will let our Early Access players transfer their save data to the Nintendo Switch version of the game."
I'm wondering if you know if there's a way I can submit this question to Supergiant themselves? Or a channel here that has more visibility to direct this question for them
Yes but a one way cross save would be a pretty weird solution imi
yeah I agree, I'm just being paranoid tbh
They'll announce something concrete when they're far enough
No front to you but idk why they should care about your concern specifically when they had a 2 year EA behind them and are still working on patches
They need some time to cool a bit after the past couple of years (this year especially). Can't blame them for that. They'll get to it. They've been pretty open about progress and such generally.
I'm not trying to pressure them into rushing anything out or something, just inquiring on how they are planning on making it work which I'm sure they at least know by now
Guess what I just tried to say, in a backhanded way, was: Patience
You could try asking in #h1-tech-support.
They might know, they might not. -shrugs- It's speculative at this point.
NICE
xD
Say, did Zagreus actually get accused of murder by someone, or was that just a throwaway line by Hypnos that wasn't actually important
I turned off god mode after I started doing EM4 and boy howdy do I have the challenge now on heat 14ish lol
Wait, so you did God mode all that way?
I forgot it was an option tbh
omg !
I'm still doing mostly OK, I am actually doing mostly fine til last boss on EM4, and it's close every time
I just bought hades on my PC (in addition to my switch version) and that reminds me that I can just God Mode my way back to where I currently am in the game
Or wait for cross save
So honestly it wasn't really too much of a benefit if I'm doing about the same but wiping on the last like, 20% of the last boss on extreme
40% DR, +2 every time you die with it on
Up to 80% dr
maybe I'll just save myself some trouble and turn it back on for last boss just to get to 15 heat and do get to do the bonus stuff
No shame in that
If anything, it really underlines that you're playing as a god
I think I'll keep it off at 15, like I said. Seems fair to me so I can do the challenges and stuff in each zone. At that point, I need a lot of the other mats less anyways, so. Makes 15 a really big step up challenge.
maybe will take the time to kite last boss on EM4 and re-learn how to dodge with it on haha
Who cares
Just have fun at whatever you're doing
After a few clears he'll suddenly stop being annoying
That's just roguelites
It's difficult to learn a boss that you spend quite some time to even get to xD
And those enemies he spawns are rather tanky too. And those rings. Oh no not the rings.
if charons got a hammer does it mean i could get 3?
ight

if charons got a hammer does it mean i could get 3?
@brisk trail you can get 3 buffs from hammer if you use the anvil
In last zone from charon
(You lose 1 randomly to get 2)
Styx
potential spoiler
is it ||hades|| zone or
Yeah.
Styx isn't a spoiler
oh ok
It's styx, the 4th zone. Charon has a mega shop in the corner, and he will have an anvil there
does +special add to ||maim||?
@pseudo onyx what?
didn't notice the anvil
Does the +special damage bonuses get added to ||maim||
I have doom epic, and i could swap with aphro heroic
I beat the game for the first time today, but in 25 runs, i have not met Thanatos once
Sry what I'm trying to say is: maim damage is seperate from special damage
ok. Yeah I know it can crit with DR (I never get those gods tho lol)
Privileged status f.e. raises it
this is especially annoying because i need to meet thanatos to fulfill a prophecy and also for the steam achievement
Oh. Well good thing i turned that back on xD
Pressure points also afaik
4th fists is one of the few cases I pop on PS
Ruthless reflex should work too
Trying to math out doom vs +218% special damage on dash upper (I usually dont have the time to do the two hit standard upper)
Obvs you can also take heart rend and clean kill also
You know you can double press special and execute a normal upper after a dash upper?
I find that I often will get hit by the time I land if I do that in later zones
Or if they have armor still
If you start it behind them it should be enough time
Although you obvs shouldn't put yourself in danger just to get an extra special in
I often time "tag" armored foes and zip around doing that, blast nearest then with cast, apply status effects w dash attack is usually what I end up doing to keep my tuckus safe and whittle away armored boys from relative safety from afar
tbh I never liked any of the fists aspects due to a crippling lack of range
Just dash while holding attack
I love 4th aspect. Absolutely fun, especially dash builds, they get so silly
Also long knuckle might help you there
I just run zag aspect and plume
Although I wouldn't recommend it with demeter cause long knuckles mess with auto aim a bit
i already unlocked all aspects but the hiddens and achilles still didnt popped up anything new
On controller
asterius solo encounter
There's a pinned comment in #h1-story-discussion
I think
Tells you how to unlock
But yeah, 4th aspect mitts, keep epic doom special, or swap to heroic aphro special?
It's early so I dont have many boons
I dunno what your build looks like
It took me a long ass time to get them to unlock, happens slowly
how often are you using the special
If you can get divine dash you could go for ME
I dunno what your build looks like
@quaint hatch super early, so not much of anything
how often are you using the special
@flat vapor fairly often, the dash upper, anyways. Yummy damage buff
probably switch then, weak is very nice
better scaling, and you already get a doom-like effect anyways
What's a good best time for a casual player?
Yeah, it was just nice that the doom would hit harder due to the buff already after a moment. I find half the time it just ends up breaking the tiny bit of shield left and feels like a waste tbh
Is sub 10 really hard?
What's a good best time for a casual player?
@woven cipher there's none for a casual
Sub 10 is speedrunner material imo
Wrs lie at around the 6-7 minute mark
I dunno, I think early on, 22~30 min? When I'm trying a little bit, I get around 20. Am trying to get sub 18 someday
My best is 14, I'm trying to challenge myself to a good time and I'm done with this game
So looks like 10 is too hard..
I used the fists
and died to the first boss
I've never died to the first boss before
I haven't died to the first boss when the first boss had a better moveset
Man I just love the fists. It does mean you gotta pay a little bit more attention with bosses tho, esp 4th aspect. +50% damage is a lot esp w/o any weak effects
umm
I was using base fists
I had the kick that replaces your special
i had the cold dash
and i had zeus attacks
I think those are honestly a little rough. And the kick tends to get me into bad situations imho lol
I also had -48% move speed
i took the boon like 5 encounters before the boss
but i had a fountain room, a shop, the npc encounter, and then another shop
Yk encounters≠chambers right?
With fists speed down is brutal
so i was moving half as fast
Would be nice if they added a mechanic that you can equip 2x keepsakes when at high heat
And then add more heat levels
Which would just shift the difficulty up
Sure. But keepsakes are not a huge deal, and would allow us to equip some unused ones, like the god boons with increased rarity
"Keepsakes are not a huge deal"

Imo high heats are supposed to be hell since they're a self set challenge
Higher Heat and different Heat options wouldn't be entirely unwelcome... but there are definitely things I'd rather see any resources go to first.
That’s why adding another slot would create more possibilities to build a solid strategy w/o affecting difficult too much. 40+ is too much RNG dependent
Imo high heats are supposed to be hell since they're a self set challenge
@quaint hatch
More keepsakes would affect difficulty
hmmmm. Concentrated knuckle seems not super great with 4th
Not that much imo too yeah
but rush kick colossus knuckle and concentrated knuckle, none sound great
Colossus was the sturdy hammer right?
yeah
Guess it's p nice making your attacks non interruptible and take -30% dmg while at it
At least compared to the other options imo
sturdy always ends up making me take more damage
I'm trying to figure out, it seems like 40 base damage for rush kick isn't really that much better since i do most dash uppers, and that doesn't do the 2 hits (and already does 40 dmg)
cause i just sit there and eat it
if i get flinched i learn to not be a dummy and move out of enemy attacks
Hmmm. I guess the benefit of rush kick is using my normal special and i'd get +10dmg per hit of the two. Otherwise it's the same. And also the fact it is a gap closer, but I had trouble aiming in the past iirc
...when does Thanatos show up?
i have one win and 25 plays and I. have. not. seen. him. once.
i won the game
Yeah I was going to say
He should be able to appear for you, but as vol1di said, there's rng.
🇷 🇦 🇳 🇩 🇴 🇲
my first patroclus was today as well!! character rng hates me
Patrochilles kill me T.T
...when does Thanatos show up?
@brisk trail Are you on Switch? because the 2nd most recent update, if it hasn't come out, is glitched sometimes
OK, then yea random
I highly suggest using your first nectars for the randomly showing up NPCs in zone 1-3
makes life a bit easier later
I've already spent plenty of nectar
Thought you could get away from me...
I've played this game quite a bit y'know xd
I just saw you hadn't seen Than yet, so, just assumed you haven't gotten too much nectar yet 😛 lol
i haven't seen than yet despite having won a run which confuses me greatly
this also sucks because of the "meet all the characters" quest
...guess who's the only one i need
There was a scene I neeeeeeded to trigger and I only got it today. After almost 200 hours. RNG can be that way.
I didnt see Than til like, after run 12 or so (but the first run I beat was 7 so it threw off a ton of events lol)
Yeah getting stuff done too fast scuffs a lot of stuff
Unhealthy Fixation is just great. I love it vs bosses it interrupts everything when it procs
The healing for EM4, is there a way to deal with it...? I thought it was "break everything" but seems to end up ||healing a whole lot if I try to break stuff||, cost me a run
tho ive died so rarely up til now it's fun hearing some different dialogue!
I thought it was break everything, in that moment don't some glow?
I mean, I personally just let 'em heal because I'm bad lel
Yeah, I've finished like 100ish runs and I only just got the Hades dialogue for ||EM1 where Zag is like "All three sisters fought me that time! :0|| as if he hadn't been doing that for the last like 60 runs ^^
if you sell a boon do you lost your family fav buff from that god?
If you have no other boons from that God, that's what I thought
unless a bug popped up didn't think so
Sorry, just deleted it. I totally forgot I had a chaos boon until it changed in the next room
Thanks though!
Oh no coin given chaos boon forgot that affected safe rooms too
learned that the other day xD
do we have a speedrun discord/channel?
yes, one sec
discord invite found here
thank you friend ❤️
👍
After finishing a run with ||Forced Overtime 2|| I was feeling pretty confident.
So I tried a run with ||Routine Inspection 4|| and died to the first boss.
I probably could have won if not for ||Tisiphone||
No mirror is tough
hey, where can I report a very minor misspelling in the translation of the game?
Probably #hades-localization
ah dang, i missed it when i scrolled through the channels. Thanks 🙂
My god I hate no-hit challenges ;~;
are the shield and spear viable? I've got like 2 escape successes with the other weapons each but i have 0 with the 2 aformentioned. I rarely make it past hydra with either of them
Both are yes
any recommendations on how to use them effectively?
Shield gets a lot of value from poseidon for attack and stuff that has flat damage on bounce
% damage increases on attack, statuses and flat damage boons for special, ideally
Spear is very versatile and can do either
Spin attack's really fun with deflect for example
i just see their damage fall really short in some cases
oh yea, i did a spear run just now and i got to elysium, modded tf outta the spin
I just gave up on the shield tho, I'm not getting anywhere with that one recently
The base attack is high enough you can go for % bonuses but also quick enough you can go for stuff like zeus
Special is a little trickier, it has innate backstab on the pull back (assuming they're facing you of course) which works well with Athena tho
Sounds like you're not using the shield bash often enough, you can get good chunks of damage with that
you mean the charge or throw?
Shield just...slamming stuff into walls
The charge
The charge
Also yeah, abusing wall slams
i try to use it, but i get hit often while charging it
It blocks while charging
How? you're blocking the whole time
....did you not know you can block with the shield?
what doe AFAIK stand for?
As far as I know
as far as I know
ooooooooh
To be fair, I didnt realize you could block with it either for a bit, it's not spelled out as obviously as I'd like :p
I'm only 20 hours in, so im still pretty new
If you practice a bit with the shield you can spin as you charge to block attacks from every direction until you're ready to rush
spin as in look around
oh, that's useful
Yeah you're not locked in to the direction you face when you started to charge
So just block stuff as you do, then aim and fling yourself
It works against ALL attacks
I'm not sure how far in you are, but it can be very useful if you don't have any other abilities that can deflect
Also the charge speed increase/power shot hammers are great
WHILE you charge you keep blocking in that direction too I believe
lasers? like 2nd hades phase/ doomstone thing?
Yes
ight
ALL attacks
alrighty
what about fists?
I remeber getting something taht made me "sturdy" or something like this while attacking
Fists are great for zeus/dio etc. for attack and then stuff like aphro /art etc. on special
Poseidon is fun on fist special, they go flying
Sturdy isn't a total block, but it reduces damage
And since wall slam etc. damage is based on their speed at the time
Fists have been my favorite weapon so far. They're so much fun. Just don't run into attacks with them like I do.
on the topic of fists, is it normal for it to regular attack after the dash attack animation finishes sometimes?
Sturdy prevents you from being interuppted via damage though
yea
And 30% less damage taken, s'nice
Along with deflect it's a good ability to get when you're still learning movement/attack patterns
One of my favorite boons is the one that makes you faster and sturdy after a dash
I mean fists just have a really fast combo so if you don't just tap the button you'll probly keep punching after you dash attack Sai
That's the Hermes boon, right?
ye
I mean, it's always a good ability to get, but once you get better at just dodging damage other stuff becomes more of a priority, is I guess my point
Also you can basically dash at the end of the fist attack string to start up the next one with no downtime
I've always liked the extra dash boon.
oh, my playstyle at this point is just spamming dodge, not timing
i've just unlocked them and im dash attacking in an empty chamber just to test and sometimes it does it even if i just tap, almost as if my mouse is double clicking @lunar cypress
imma give it some more testing
Fists have this thing where you can hold down the attack button and just spam dash to get dash-attacks
could be that i was doing it too fast like u mentioned and ended up weaving a regular attack inbetween dash charges
Hrmn, maybe your mouse sticks down a little or something then, I can't say I've had that happen to me
Or it has some input buffering setting
the other thing is I think the inputs buffer
and dash takes priority over attack, I think?
Generally weaving in the dash attacks and stuff is a good thing at least :p
Dashes take priority over most everything else I think yeah
Call might be the only override
I'm a very button-spammy player and dashes always seem to prioritise immediately after the animation I'm doing
what are the best gods/boons/hammer upgrades for stygius?
I think ||summoning|| takes priority over dashing too, but that's v similar to calls tbh
Stygius is also very versatile, can kinda go either % or flat damage. Zeus is real fun on it for example
mmmm i think thats whats happening yea
Special obviously is better for % based stuff, or things like doom/weak
also ive just noticed im not as fast and coordinated as i'd anticipated haha sometimes i just attack before dashing
what kind of hammer upgrades are the best? i try to experiment around, but I end up going with the ones i'm comfortable with
Cursed Blade exists with Stygius. It can be good, though leaves you very vulnerable to burst damage.
Cursed blade is nice but yeah it's real risky
Health on attack but 60% less max
Yeah. Heals 2 health each hit but you lose 60% max health.
I tried that a few gos ago, I got to elyisium but died to theseus and the minotaur
You become fragile but sustain. BUT if you build some defensive stuff to use during bursts
It can be really strong
Important to note, the healing only occurs on normal attacks, not dash attacks or specials.
Right, yeah you NEED to attack with that on. Wait , it doesn't count dash attacks?
That sucks
Cursed blade is great with Hermes attack speed buff
It is amazing with attack speed.
Dash attacks kinda annoy me with how a lot of stuff doesn't transfer over to them from normals/vice versa
Had a good run with it, until I took 80 damage at once and died.
But that's not something you can build toward meaningfully so it's kinda a gamble
Like Hermes attack speed doesn't seem to
oh yea, that reminds me, trinkets/keepsakes. For now, i only run the murmidon bracer for teh damage reduciton, but should I start using the god specific ones?
God specific ones are great to start a run with
Guarantees a god you want for a build
The Chaos trinket seems really good.
It is
So using 2 different god trinkets on levels 1 and 2 for example
You basically set up your 2 main/planned gods for the run
And from there swap to w/e
It's great for that yeah
I used to use Ares and Athena keepsakes a bunch in my early runs
The Trinket you get from Nyx is pretty good as well, extra damage from backstabs and first hits.
So if there's one or two gods you REALLY want with a weapon type
They're your go-to
Artemis. Always Artemis.
Athena/pos/dio are great to start with due to their support/defensive/% buff boons
Artemis can be amazing yeah
Aphro as well, and Art is great if you build around her
But for main damage dealing it'd vary per weapon
Aphrodite has some amazing boons. They seem mostly defensive at first, but she has some good damage boosts as well.
Aphro is pretty safe because she has the highest base % in the game
Plus weak as a bonus
So she combines well with gods that have additional multipliers or effects
She has a boon that increases damage dealt to enemies inflicted with Weak. Nice additional percentile boost.
is teh festive fog cast any good? I just found out about the damage reduciton boon while standing in the fog
Festive fog can be REALLY good
Festive Fog seems good.
Especially with Zeus duo
base festive fog is nice damage
I try to take it every chance i can
Festive Fog is good if you can get into the timing of lobbing
It's a very good support cast sort of thing, if you just want to fire and forget and still have it help
A good way to practice the timing is to use the Adamant Rail. It's special is very similar.
Trippy shot is amazing, huge damage
And if you get Ice Wine, baby, now you're cooking with gas
Everything just melts
Out of curiousity, does anyone know how long the script for this game is? Like approximate (word count, voice lines)? The game is incredibly well done in the voice work area so I was wondering how long the script of the final product really is. (Just realized this is way off topic lol)
V won't have access to Ice Wine yet, since they haven't ||beat the final boss yet||
Ah, right
Is hades the final boss?
I am VERY surprised that there's no upgrade to have trippy shot cause hangover tho
Cuz i beat hades a few times now
I am VERY surprised that there's no upgrade to have trippy shot cause hangover tho
@lunar cypress It'd be too good
Oh, nvm
I think it's fine that Dio's kit has things that explicitly arent hangover
Not on base but, I figured a dio upgrade would do that or something y'know? Just makes sense
I must have misread something you said earlier, soz
You dont really want more than one source of hangover
I feel like if you implemented it similarly to Peer Pressure it'd be fine
I'm not a huge fan of Hangover. I'd rather have my damage all at once.
Though Dio's Aid is always good
How it fights with itself, how many sources of it are just very weak
Dio aid is good if you have no other hangover yeah, which again is annoying cuz then you have a good who has other boons that're basically poison to your own build
Also, Hangover scales linearly with Poms, so you can just get one hangover boon and boost it to level 30 and it'll deal 38 damage per tick
winter vortex is my favorite call tbh
Now if hangover had INDIVIDUAL stacks for each possible source
Just casually boost it to level 30 yeah
Limited to 5 max each or something still of course
Stacking poison would be nice.
Then it'd be fine
I was just informed that Hangover sources can overwrite each other, so Dio Aid is fine with other hangover sources
Individual stacks would be wild
Once you hit max stacks, new instances of hangover overwrite old ones
They overwrite but it's based on which was applied last, not strongest
Right
So you can take off the stronger stacks with weaker ones
Another reason hangover dash is awful
It's awful for a lot of reasons, but yeah
Just get deflect dash.
I love DoT builds and stuff but I can't bring myself to use it with so many like, stipulations and "rules" of how it works. Stack limit, overwriting, etc.
I feel like the way to resolve that is by having the stacks separated by damage value in code, but only pull the top 5 extant ones when actually calculating damage
But I can see how that could become a nightmare if you have like 6 sources of hangover damage
Is there a single hit damage cap? Or is Hangover just restricted for no reason?
Hangover is not restricted by anything except stack size
The actual damage is not capped
It has no damage cap, just stack size and overwriting
Actually no I guess you wouldn't need dynamic stacks while fighting, you'd just need as many as the maximum possible sources of damage on a build, with the first entry being the damage value?
I have a question about percentage boosts? Do they multiply off eachother, or just the base damage. Example, if I had 100 power and 2 50% boosts, would it be 200 or 225 damage?
Sorry I'm thinking out loud here
I believe most are additive
All boosts are additive, save crit multipliers
It used to be multiplicative but it got...crazy
Ok, so stacking a ton of percentage based damage boosts won't have it scale out of control?
Also, except damage reduction and dodge
aspect of eris is multiplicative
Eris is super special
That’s why Eris is the best aspect in the game
I mean it'll still help your damage but you won't be doing like, double of double of double generally
Makes sense.
I come from the Isaac world of insane damage output being fine as long as it's rare, so I was initially a little disappointed in how constrained the scaling is in Hades, but it makes a lot of sense for this game vs Isaac
Yeah, Isaac runs can get a little ridiculous.
Like, one shotting the final boss ridiculous.
In Isaac runs you can build toward getting every single item in the game, so like I understand wanting to avoid that ^^;
(I would like if it specified additive/multiplicative though in description)
Maybe a toggle option to show more details
That would be nice. 10% looks worse than 15% extra damage, but if the 10% were multiplicative it would be better.
They tried combatting it with bosses that have scaling health to cope with your damage output but IME that just ended up being frustrating
It did. Nothing is fun about Delirium.
BoI is not...balanced well
That's part of the charm though.
Or designed well, as a personal opinion
I was one of the first people to fight Hush when it came out and it was a SLOG
Isaac was designed well up until Afterbirth. Then they started making some...questionable decisions.
I had no idea whether I was doing something wrong
A lot of it was specifically anti-player because Mcmillen started getting annoyed people were playing the game "wrong"
In his view
Afterbirth and Afterbirth+ are still fun, but they definitely have their share of problems.
I have good hope for Repentance, having played a decent amount of Antibirth
Antibirth was amazing.
Just wish it released at a different time, a lot of people didn't get to play it as it released around the same time as Afterbirth.
robably singing
theres a lot of messed up subtitles
in cases like the aletto(i think that's what she's called" fight, they are everywhere
Read my boons wrong lul
Has there been any word on cross-saves? I don't want to sound pushy, just wondering if there's been any news.
#announcements it's delayed
👍 thanks! I feel dumb for not checking there first 😆
Quite a few
I might just not be seeing them then
that's true
i typically don't wander the whole tile set
hands down, theseus is the most annoying enemy in this game
Zagreus commenting, ding at end of rooms
If i don't reel in on the first bite, does the lute stay in the water?
two helpful things about theseus for anyone who hasnt noticed - he walks for a while without turning to face you after he throws the spear, and he's totally open while he's doing his god call thing
Need to watch out for light/sound indicator
<0.34 seconds or something for perfect catch. There is only a maximum of 3 fake bobs, so if 3 fake bobs pop up the 4th bob must be a bite. When a fish bites, a light indicator pops up over the bob.. a splash sound too?
one thing ive been wondering, if you see a god at charon that you havent run into yet, does that mean its "locked in" as one of the gods for htat run, or will you get the chance to get a different god if you pass it up
nope
Just had a run where I only had 3 gods, the 4th was changing whole run because I never picked
ah cool
and same thing with having 3 gods and rerolling a boon reward door for a fourth one i assume (though i wouldnt usually do that)
We need a Nyx emote next 😢
hmm i have no idea if i've received ||hermes' wager|| lol
id think the relevant entry would appear in the prophecy list if i had
geeze i guess i just dreamed that there was a "unlock every aspect" prophecy
i dont see it on the wiki
Yeah that wasn't a thing
Man I would kill for a sticker of Zagreus's little win pose on the banner after each boss fight
theres an achievement for it, not prophecy iirc
quick question, is it possible to get a duo boon for two gods during or after a trial of the gods between both of them?
or should i avoid a trial of the gods between them if i want their duo boon?
i see, but if i encounter either one again later, i can still get the duo boon? or am i locked out for the rest of the run?
ok thanks!
i know they kind of explain it but its still weird how tartarus is kinda what you'd expect asphodel to be and visa versa
my commentary? lol
the beginning of it yes
Anyway, supergiant mentioned something about this? Because i hope they fix it 😦
ive done it on switch and it seems fine to me
it might be an issue with your system specifically?
No, it's not. I've done ||EM4|| several times too, but it is impossible when|| he summons a doomstone||, the fps always drop like a lot. And he did that the my 2 last runs
ah yes love me some doomstone
Sorry to hear that duca. I’ve no problems with it at all on my switch.
That's weird lol i'm pretty sure that my game is up to date ;(
I’ve started seeing Hades taunting me before I begin escape attempts. What does that signify?
nothing really, just flavour text, sometimes backstory type stuff
they are usually flashbacks
🔫
||though post-credits paint these in a different light, or post-credits get different flashbacks that make you and Zag think back more positively anyway||
i finally got my first clear, nine more to go
Grats
back to back 5 sacks!
love me some 5 sack, ez reward + heal
will there be DLC where you can fight all the gods this includes Zeus and Ares and such. I've just been thinking about how cool it would be. i do realise how unlikely this is but still.
that sounds unlikely
like i said
but it definitely sounds cool
or just any DLC at all
What happens if you borrow form Charon
give it a try
just do it
ah
Ah.
free money
I feel like Ima half to fight him lol

nah is free money
is charon
I know you fight him at some point
how could you possibly fight him
He's a generous man
hes a homie
hard to say no 300 free obols
^^^^
more if you have Ocean's Bounty or any Affluence boons
and you'll pay him back of course
Rick 😂
you're only borrowing it
Rip*
I had two Affluence boons one run it was hilarious
He’s in front of me lol
Lost a death defiance 😅
And another
Yea not doing this again 😢
😂
isn't this game supposed to save mid run, if the pc crashes?
It does
congrats
On PC if you crash you can check out #h1-tech-fixes
btw it's actually a spoiler
I love the ||loyalty card|| esp if I'm strong enough in Asphodel + lucky enough to trigger hidden boss there
The ||discounts|| add up tremendously even at Elysium because Styx shop
||who is the hidden boss?||
Sometimes you take hidden boss then drops into Asterius immediately afterwards
Not so fun when you made mistakes along the previous fights and lost a DD or two or even all of them
Right
Well they run ended just now
smh
But it was neat to see Ig
||Also how do you get better at the lyre??||
||Just actually playing it each run?||
yeah
Gotcha
you cant hold down button either
a lot
Ah gotcha
After playing a lot, ||Orpheus|| keeps commenting on how you are getting better
either macro, develop carpal tunnel or just do five every run
||Does it get better over time or is it like “it will be back until you hit the number then it’s good”||
Gotcha
Right

thats not that important
I completely relate
you gotta ||ambrosia enough gods i believe||

so i guess theres actually a need for it
||like gods that give you boons??||
||sobs||
They mean to complete their favors 
:( are these actual spoilers or ..?
yes
Yea
These are partial spoilers
;/
||Are the favors trigger after you get to the locked heart?||
Winter is coming 
Also it's never to early to start celebrating Megi 😉
||depends on god, honestly. poseidon needs mega fish, aphrodite needs relationships, ares needs killing many people including the ones who wear santa hats early||
@mortal isle Yes
i gotta go back 2 studying , , , toodaloo
Bye bye!
||but yes you have to hit them with nectar until you cant||
but remember spoilers channel exists 👀
good luck
Gotcha
||i think zeus, artemis and dionysus are easiest? just talk to em a lot||
||demeter’s cant even be done till post epilogue||
Most of the Olympian's favors are just talking to them 
||poseidon and ares have specific prophecies||
Only a few have an actual goal to achive
||aphro’s might? not sure||
For Example: ||Ares wants you to kill A LOT of things||
but yes get to nectaring them up
Ok cool thank y’all!
dont forget to ambrosia them within the same run to save time
No Problem! Just make sure to remember that there is no escape 
Oh you can?
||ive achieved aphro’s favour then forgot to ambrosia her four times in a run||

yeah you can
Oh wow
Gotcha
since theyre in your pool theyre likely to pop up
True true
Who/What things do you like most? I like Charon shop and Charon well most.
Who/What things do you like most? I like Charon shop and Charon well most.
aphrodite
It's flexible. You can you opt to choose boons you like and avoid if you want.
aphrodite
@brisk trail me too
2nd
I see Aphro simps
achilles is cool too
👀
I love diamond and titan blood
nice, grats
you guys are making more progress than I did when I first start during EA
and now my supergiant collection is complete xD

For beginners
zag nyoomin
Definitely, the game is so much more fun when I got it for cheaper than everyone else XD
xD
|| I finally got the true ending and Persephone's underworld outfit IS SO PRETTY IM CRYING 🥺😭 ||
btw why isn't the discord link on store page of hades?
|| I finally got the true ending and Persephone's underworld outfit IS SO PRETTY IM CRYING 🥺😭 ||
@winter pike that's the main quest, || there is epilogue, too ||
|| I finally got the true ending and Persephone's underworld outfit IS SO PRETTY IM CRYING 🥺😭 ||
@winter pike My only ONLY beef(s) with ||her outfit are that I'm no longer sure if she has pockets, and with her hair up you lose the braid and the anime hair is less apparent.||
I miss the || garden ||
@winter pike My only ONLY beef(s) with ||her outfit are that I'm no longer sure if she has pockets, and with her hair up you lose the braid and the anime hair is less apparent.||
@brisk trail yeah true
I miss the || garden ||
@severe flare same
I feel like Zag is quarantined at home because of Covid-19.😄
He can || no longer go outside ||
Does that make Zag one of the douchebags who got out and party anyways then? 🤔
anyone know a good way of getting titan blood
Check the trader back home after every run
Sometimes you can trade 15 keys for blood
Aside from that, do bounties and buy them at Styx
Pretty much
Yea that's it
Its EA all over again
It's a late game resource sink when you no longer have anything else to spend all this currency on
And you exclusively run Dark Foresight
No
You are thinking of Dark Regeneration
Dark Foresight is +20% chance for gold laurel chambers
Probably
Woo got all the achievements finally.
Only 2nd game I've ever done that on lol. So much fun
i have been sitting here for like three and a half hours trying to get charged volley because it's the last daedalus hammer upgrade i need by farming tartarus with zag aspect bow over and over again and the game hasn't offered it to me a single time
and i am very not happy about this >:(
Pray 🙏
im gonna reboot my game because maybe that'll change the rng seed??
Maybe
Maybe not, really the only thing that changes seed is dying
Giving up keeps the seed
hmm
i would be substantially less opposed to this grind if i thought zag aspect bow was even remotely enjoyable
i only really enjoy charon and rama, but both are incompatible with charged volley
Isn't hera compatible too?
it is but im trying to grind for some demeter duo boons bc i rarely use cast boons and apparently crystal beam is like. awful with hera
shield with 3rd aspect is my favourite weapon
mine is deffo gilgamesh fists
not only can you just say no to damage, you also have a beyblade
especially on dad's skull waves
just face towards them and they do no damage
shield is you can legit say no to damage
just charge up a rush and point towards whatever is about to hit you, you'll block it, it's mad
Can we get source engine ragdoll physics on poseidon knockback effects
lmao
@brisk trail doomstone gets stuck in a door
Man I wish Hades didn't exist
like the existence of it as a game irritates me to an extent you wouldn't believe
Now whenever I play any other roguelite, it just seems so trash in comparison, or most games for that matter.
I have a question, is there a feedback form we can fill for the game? Feel free to ping me
noita is another good one
Grr
I think I’ve said “one more run” for like 4 runs at this point. I can’t put the game down.
Same
playing through it over and over again got me interested if Zagreus was actually the son of hades in mythology
and apparently he was, but at the same time he was sort of forgotten
I think he was the god of madness?
maybe insanity
which makes all this happening in game all the more interesting
I just got Hermes legendary as the first Hermes boon
Thought you needed a prerequsite boon for those
Hermes is a bit special
He fast boi
Also a note about zagreus ||the irl lore for his in fact referenced in the game, with the prank Dionysus and Zag pull on Orpheus, causing him to make this fanciful ode about his supposed history||
I like the Zagreus version where he was the god of nothing and died almost instantly
very reflective
WOOHOO finally beat final boss
one of many victories
honestly
i did not feel like i had a good build
until last level i did the smithing thing
got some insane stuff
kept spamming my q with the bow
what aspect?
first one
if you like spamming q with bow
ive only recently unlocked aspects
How do you get ||aspects||? I've beaten the final boss
you have to trigger a specific cutscene
If you have all the weapons unlocked skelly should've told you by now
just keep going at it
how do I do the spoiler thing?
|| on either side
@brisk trail A darkest dungeon pfp, you are a man of culture I see
Heh
| test |
@hardy cairn twice
Try double Amine
the more you know
so I got || orpheus to sing again after giving him many ambroesias, that made me very hadppy ||
I have unlocked 4 weapons but ||the other two haven't appeared to be unlocked||
so I got || orpheus to sing again after giving him many ambroesias, that made me very hadppy ||
Ive never done that actually
And ive gotten the true ending :P
Leper man, if onyl he wasn't literally a corpse
Im Flallegant main
I dont have the dlc's am poor
vestal is best girl
fight me if you think otherwise
Yes i literally heal myself
Leper man, if onyl he wasn't literally a corpse
@brisk trail he is a stone
A really
Really painful
Stone
ngl I like bounty hunter more
I'll fight you Cascade, with my occultist
Crit 0 heals
oh occultist is great
once healed all my party for crits when I was fighting the swine king
If leper has an ultimate he would probably use a truck instead
He'd still miss 😔
true ;-;
also according to the lore
the vestal is bi, and got yeeted from her church cause of it
Wait what, I thought she was just too horny for her own good
I think the church will deus vult you if you horny abyway
What did I miss
Wait what, I thought she was just too horny for her own good
that, + the bi part
#off-topic-discussion we should move to there
Flag doesnt have lore
Flag doesnt have lore
cause he's a dlc exclusive pleb
oh yeah]
Musketeer has one
forgot about that
Nah wanna know the lore of flag?
go for it
Let's do it general discussion shall we?
yes lets go there
We clogged here enough haha
true lol
Hmm, is there anywhere I can check what the Benefits Package modifiers are? I'm getting a bit confused at them

