#h1-discussion

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red tiger
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Getting the board game and zag saying basically "oh wait...I need friends to play this" is so sad ahahha

feral urchin
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add it as a minigame supergiant pls

severe saddle
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Too much sex not enough board games

winter harbor
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He can't lift his weights either

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in spire of being a Greek god

feral urchin
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well that's to be expected

tiny grove
manic bobcat
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tfw your SOs just want you for the sex and not the boardgames.

exotic furnace
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one of the first decorations i get was aphro's poster :D

winter harbor
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Same

feral urchin
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real men get achilles and dionysus

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and then only get aprhodite's to complete the bedroom renovations

winter harbor
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It's what a stereotypical teenage boy would get

feral urchin
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wrong

red tiger
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Still dont have dionysis poster lol

feral urchin
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sad

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it's the best one

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wish there were more posters tho

red tiger
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Got the board game first just yesterday because I got a bunch of gemstones from some quest I finished

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All of the different status effects on monsters from that one pact

exotic furnace
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its a waste if you consider that you can just listen to the songs on the internet, but i purposefully dont do that to make the in-game music feel more special

fluid pivot
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ok, on the bull of minus, how do you avoid his charge? I have 3 charges and yet he alkways manage to catch me in the end

exotic furnace
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you have to take sharp corners

fluid pivot
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can I change through him?

exotic furnace
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and make him run into a wall or pillar

fluid pivot
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charge*

feral urchin
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you can dash through him yeah

red tiger
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I wish there were a toggle on the ingame songs to listen to the vocals instead of just instrumentals if you want

fluid pivot
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ok thanks

distant night
red tiger
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Or you run through the obstacles

distant night
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yeah that too

red tiger
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And he crashes into them

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Is there anyone at all who kills theseus first

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That sounds like a bad idea

exotic furnace
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you can also just have extra speed from hermes and zeus' lightning and just keep zapping him until he gets tired

distant night
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yes

feral urchin
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I always kill thesus first

distant night
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it's easy with the right call

feral urchin
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unless it's the EM version then I kill asterius first

distant night
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you can insta pop him after he reaches stage 2

thorny yarrow
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I just had the choice between a zeus boon and an athena+zeus duo boon.
Never was a choice this easy.

fluid pivot
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ooff

exotic furnace
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i kill theseus first because hes a pompous jerk... no jk i always kill the bull first

red tiger
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I dont want to be avoiding thesus' arrows, the god he summons AND the bull

fluid pivot
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beat him with 8 hp left

distant night
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thats why you insta pop him

feral urchin
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it's way easier to beat thesus first imo

red tiger
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No way

distant night
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later on, yes

red tiger
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Later on? Hmm

distant night
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but not beginner game

red tiger
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still have 4 heat at the most atm

distant night
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yeah, companion with epic call instantly kills theseus

feral urchin
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I never killed the bull first even after my first few times ifghting them

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only reason I kill asterius first is if they're the EM version

exotic furnace
distant night
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i have 20 heat with spear, my fastest elysium bossfight was under 1min 😂

red tiger
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It took me 7 tries to try beating theseuds/asterius my first time

distant night
trim otter
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hi can anyone help me pls

exotic furnace
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well theyre champions, what do you expect

trim otter
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i have a huge crush on dusa

feral urchin
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with the right stuff, even without companions, you can utterly destroy thesus and the bull in a minute, even less

distant night
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if you use artemis call on max is does up to 5k damage in one hit

exotic furnace
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dusa is cute, you dont need help

feral urchin
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^

distant night
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so get your artemis ultra call, get theseus to under 50%, call on artemis, his invincibility wears off and you dont have to deal with him at all

trim otter
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i get too excited when she's around

thorny yarrow
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She does the same. So good fit imo

trim otter
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and when i come back to the house i rush to the lounge

red tiger
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Have you maxed her hearts yet

trim otter
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i'm at the last one

feral urchin
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aphrodite's call destroys thesus on max gauge

red tiger
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I only used aphrodites call once ever and the other enemies didnt seem to be helping me kill another enemy AT ALL

distant night
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aphrodite's ultra only does 2.5k damage

feral urchin
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that's a lot

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of damage

distant night
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aphrodite's call is only helpfull as her ultra against bosses

feral urchin
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does like a third of thesus's health

exotic furnace
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sometimes she does more but i dont understand whyt

red tiger
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Calls are so. Important

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There have been several times I would not have beat the final boss if not for a call being used at max gauge

distant night
feral urchin
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still can help kill him really quickly

winter harbor
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Artemis's call has saved me many times

feral urchin
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so I don't see what the problem is

distant night
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yes indeed

feral urchin
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even if he does live he'll help kill asterius too

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then you whack him once and no more thesus

distant night
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the isnt one, i thought you or somebody said that aphro's ultra call instantly pops theseus in stage 2

feral urchin
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ah

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no

distant night
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which it doesnt

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yea

feral urchin
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but it's close

distant night
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ikr

red tiger
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lol does theseus have extra dialogue when he finds out he accidentally killed his best friend

feral urchin
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artemis's call even when it does crit doesn't seem to do as much damage

distant night
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but it pops hydra instantly to the next stage

feral urchin
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or maybe I have horrible luck with crits

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

red tiger
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Can supergiant make a hades anime please

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I did not enjoy blood of zeus I just want hades anime

distant night
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well it's 10 arrows with 100-130 base damage per arrow, so even without crit it's already 1-1.3k, with a pom you're already by 180 base damage
and crits do 3x the damage, so 3-4k base without pom, 4-5k with just 1-2 poms if epic (which calls usually tend to get)

winter harbor
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"Yes, we're thinking of a Cuphead-like animation thing for our next game. Do you think you can draw and animate 100k frames in the next week?"

distant night
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artemis is amazing

feral urchin
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true

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artemis is very good

distant night
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her duos too

winter harbor
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Unrealistic if you want to keep the art the same

distant night
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aphro and artemis have the best duo boons imo

red tiger
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true there is a LOT of detail in those character portraits

feral urchin
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i keep seeing a lot of the same duo boons

distant night
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like lightning rod? the bane of every duo boon hunter?

feral urchin
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yes

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and 3 of the posideon duos

distant night
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the pom duo is annoying when you get it late

winter harbor
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Same with the epic duo

distant night
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or demeter's boon upgrade, if you get it in tartarus and have decent boons, it's sooo worth it,but in elysium i'll jsut cri

feral urchin
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i always get demeter's boon upgrade when I only have one other boon YESYOU

distant night
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thats sad too

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but if it's a hella good first boon, getting it to be heroic when fighting ||father dearest|| is gonna feel gud c:

feral urchin
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it's never a hella good first boon unfortuantely

glacial narwhal
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WE NEEED NEW MORE ACHIEVEMENTS!!!!

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i 100%'d the game but im craving mroe haha

distant night
feral urchin
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laughs in switch version

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imagine having achievements

distant night
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:c

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switch sounds so sad

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no updates, no achievements, how are you guys doing? do yall need a dusa hug?

feral urchin
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i'm fine

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but can I have a dusa hug anyways

distant night
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comin in with the hug

feral urchin
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yay

trim otter
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i love her

fluid pivot
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when do I get to fish?

cinder lichen
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...How often do you guys think the devs (overall) play Hades for fun in the middle of development?

brisk trail
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id get fired for playing too much and not working HDHFSKALDLF

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but idk

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@fluid pivot I think if you progress the story you unlock it naturally p early, u have to buy it from the contractor

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ik thats not super helpful WAHFJFKSKDLF

muted carbon
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seems theres not allota myth stuff on zag

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darn you overly sarcastic productions

cinder lichen
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I mean like not literally in the middle of development, but in between builds and patches, lol

modest phoenix
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Did I hear Overly Sarcastic Productions???

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I actually have a friend that works in the gaming industry

cinder lichen
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Oh, yeah, Danny, I looked up what god Zagreus was supposed to be, and only think I found was the "Orphic Dionysus" myth

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And then a few run later and after I find that this myth was turned into a literal joke and I love it!

modest phoenix
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The devs arent usually the ones who play the game when testing it out actually

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They have testers to play the game for them
Thats one of my friend's jobs

distant night
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the game is too fun for them to only program it and not snoop to play it themselves

cinder lichen
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I mean that would make sense, but what if I put Gavin on blast for having "Playing Hades" and that's why I ask my question, lol

modest phoenix
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She said that the devs give the testers a list of stuff to do in the game
to make sure its working

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Oh good point

cinder lichen
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lol

distant night
cinder lichen
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You see some of the devs playing the game from time to time. Usually just one or two of them. If it's a big update, such as 1.0, you might definitely see someone. If they aren't developing the game (not saying they aren't), how often do you think they play the game recreationally, even before we got our 1.0?

modest phoenix
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Game testers also have to take note of bugs in the games
and my friend showed me her notes
and it's the funniest thing I ever saw
"feet missing
return of the missing feet
glitching wall
feet?"

cinder lichen
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What, was she testing for one of the Rayman games? lol

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feet

modest phoenix
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nah she works at 2K and was testing one of the basketball games from last year i think

cinder lichen
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Neat sportsball

modest phoenix
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i am a simple nerd
i see a ball and cry

cinder lichen
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Unless it's Pyre

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Then you cry for a different reason...or two

modest phoenix
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oh yeah I wanted to mention
I think its really cool theres a discord for this

foggy lagoon
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recommended mirror choices?

modest phoenix
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oh man good question

cinder lichen
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Just keep Thick Skin, generally.

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High Confidence to me is eh...

foggy lagoon
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and use the other options for the others?

cinder lichen
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Honestly...all of the other mirror choices are very much up to debate

modest phoenix
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oh thats interesting

cinder lichen
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Well, almost entirely depending on preference.

modest phoenix
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I only started playing yesterday
so I'm also wondering what mirror choices to take

cinder lichen
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Alright, meet me in Builds and Combat and let me pull up a list of Mirror Talents for me to make my opinions on. They're all viable, some more than others objectively, but if you want my fullest opinion on this, and I'm certainly interested, I'm gonna start typing that.

foggy lagoon
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nice

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im also new

modest phoenix
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nice!

plain falcon
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Hey, peeps, anyone able to tell Saladin Ahmed the answer to this?
I think the answer is "no", but I'm really bad at the game and haven't progressed very far:
https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/1334224715867688962

I know it's rated T but WITHOUT SPOILERS is there anything intensely gory or sexy or terrible content-wise in Hades? My not quite 11 year old son is very into roguelikes...

winter harbor
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Yeah, I think the answer is no

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the steamiest it gets are implied sex scenes that are fade-to-blacks

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and I guess Aphrodite is nude but they covered her up tastefully with her hair

modest phoenix
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well theres blood in the game
and Aphrodite's design isn't child appropriate I think
It depends on what hes okay with showing her kid

naive falcon
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Ermm, Patch didn't hit the Epic store yet?

modest phoenix
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i dont think so

plain falcon
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I believe Saladin is he/him (he writes comic books)

modest phoenix
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oh thanks for the correction!

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I thought a mom posted that

plain falcon
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Hah, in the time it took me to copy and paste over here suddenly there's like 30-odd replies already

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It had 0 before I grabbed the link

modest phoenix
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oh O:

dusty grail
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Okay so I have every keepsake but the last one, how do I get it?

winter harbor
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Finish the story

dusty grail
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oh

void nova
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daaaamn Hades is steam's second highest rated game of all time after Portal 2, and it's been steadily climbing to get here so here's hoping it can grab that #1 spot! not that portal 2 isn't also great of course

plain falcon
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They don't even seem to be competing in the same space

exotic furnace
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wow seriously

void nova
plain falcon
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Those top 3 look fine to me

red tiger
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Its by percentage though

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So like

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in the same way that a small indie movie on imdb with 20 ratings with 15/20 of them beings 10/10s, can still end up as a 9/10 or so

void nova
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totally

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except Hades has a ton of reviews

red tiger
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But compared to the others

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like factorio or the witcher

void nova
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it has a comparable amount to factorio i'd say

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i mean it's not like the others are orders of magnitude away

plain falcon
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90k is plenty, but that's 35th in order of positive reviews

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TF2 has almost 690k positive (but, also, 43k negative)

thorny crescent
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One of the negative reviews might be mine...

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in my defence the game’s dead

void nova
modest phoenix
void nova
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so it somewhat deemphasizes cases with just a small number of reviews in general

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if i'm reading that right anyway

muted carbon
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sometimes i wish there were emotes for the game

naive falcon
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Oh, I wonder what happened.

red tiger
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what do you mean? there are emotes for the game

muted carbon
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wha?

naive falcon
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I assumed the pending a service outage was over after 24 hours.

muted carbon
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tell me these secrets

red tiger
muted carbon
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lol

red tiger
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theres plenty

muted carbon
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i ment like have zag just like raise his spear or something

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make it a taunt button

red tiger
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Oh IN the game

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eh. he can interact with objects sometimes

muted carbon
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a taunt for each weapon would be nice

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would do nothing, ecept look cool

tacit ember
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bruh

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that would take up a button that controlers dont have

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but for pc that could work fine

muted carbon
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laugths in pc master race

tacit ember
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yes

muted carbon
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but what if

muted carbon
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gamer master race

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oh

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the last spear upgrade

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it has life steal

tacit ember
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yes

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its suposed to bee good

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but idk how to use it

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spear is prob my worst wepon

muted carbon
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oh

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the psin attack is now something thats shot out

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like a milti hit vortex

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that vortex returns its dammage it does back as health

red tiger
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I use pc but controller way more fun with this game

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mouse and keyboard mostly only good for FPS and MMORPGs

tacit ember
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what is psin

red tiger
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and RPGs like skyrim I forget what they're called

tacit ember
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also i have played around with guanyu

muted carbon
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spin

tacit ember
muted carbon
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my typos

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lol

tacit ember
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controler is so good att shoting games

sick torrent
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Did my second attempt of using the spear yesterday after using mostly sword for most of my runs. Got all the way to the top level before getting stomped. It's stupid good at stunlocking enemies to death once their armor's down.

tacit ember
sick torrent
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Yupyup, got to the boss there, even. Couldn't take 'em out yet though.

tacit ember
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spere is low damage i think or maby im just bad

sick torrent
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Oh yeah per-hit it can be kinda shoddy I think

tacit ember
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but guan yu is super high damage but u can only take like 1 hit

muted carbon
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i need to get a way to find more hammers

blissful girder
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Hi

red tiger
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how to get more hammers: be luckier 4head

sick torrent
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I had some good daealus effects that increased its effective range and made each swing split off in three directions though so it was really good at crowd control with its stunlocking

tacit ember
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2 normaly and one anvil

sick torrent
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I thought I picked up three hammers last run but I could be misremembering

tacit ember
patent umbra
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Get one hammer before entering styx. Be lucky and have one show in a tunnel exit. Enter another tunnel and use reward rerolls to get hammer. Come out and get the other hammer. Buy anvil for four hammers.

tacit ember
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u can get hamer is styx?

patent umbra
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If you don't have two upgrades it has a chance to appear as one of the tunnel rewards

tacit ember
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how do u get 4 then?

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can you get 2 hamers in styx tunles @patent umbra

patent umbra
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If you use fated authority to reroll room rewards inside a tunnel, you can get hammer to appear even if it is already locked in a different tunnel

tacit ember
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ahha

red tiger
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hey. here are spoilers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreus . What video game? It's spoilers for a 2000 year old greek myth

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Zagreus (Greek: Ζαγρεύς) was sometimes identified with a god worshipped by the followers of Orphism, the "first Dionysus", a son of Zeus and Persephone, who was dismembered by the Titans and reborn. However, in the earliest mention of Zagreus, he is paired with Gaia (Earth) and called the "highest" god [o...

tacit ember
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what if u get lucky and roll all of the tunes to hamers

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what happens if you roll one of the "boss" tunles to hamer

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does it give u extra good hamers

jaunty vapor
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So I'm planning to go up from heat 1

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what should I turn on?

tacit ember
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em

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the boss thing

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its only for furys and furrys arnt that hard

patent umbra
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no

tacit ember
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why not

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u can still beat meg with more attacks

patent umbra
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Because hammer upgrades don't have rarities

tacit ember
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can u get 5 hamers

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if u roll 2 of them to hamers

patent umbra
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Once you have two hammers, you can't roll another

tacit ember
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why not

patent umbra
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Because you aren't supposed to find more than two in a run

tacit ember
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will having 4 hamers make u op or just meh

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ima try that

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also can you have save stats in hades

jaunty vapor
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the only way you can get more than 2 hammers is with an anvil

tacit ember
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this guy sayed u can get 4

burnt breach
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wow, I didn't notice that they updated Aphrodite's portrait

jaunty vapor
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wait did they?>

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How?

burnt breach
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look

jaunty vapor
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Interesting

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like in tarot card esque form

remote anchor
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Yeah, I think not

jaunty vapor
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Second I saw a boon in the room nah

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but it still looks nice

robust sundial
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looks like a lewd mod

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awaiting banne

jaunty vapor
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Are hades lewd mods a thing that exist?

burnt breach
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this the result of community work

keen scaffold
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I have only been here for 20 seconds

lime grove
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Who wants to see what level I got my Pressure Points boon to

keen scaffold
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I feel like the Skelly sprite looks way less detailed compared to everyone else. That just me? shadeembarassed

plush badge
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Yo how much money do I have to spend to get the sprites for max bonds as pins?

short pivot
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hey everyone, I have died too many times to the bone hydra at like 10% hp, and I finally encountered eurydice....I'm wondering if the ambrosia delight or pom nectar gives a better bonus? any other opinions?

frosty merlin
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If i have a feature suggestion where might I go about leaving it?

plush badge
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Yeah the stickers

stiff aurora
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I cant seem to complete Meg favor, how many times are you suppose to fight the furies?

plush badge
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I just think those would be really neat to have

pliant sparrow
short pivot
severe saddle
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I've gotten 3 hammers without an anvil

pliant sparrow
stiff aurora
pliant sparrow
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Main story takes precedence over individual character stories

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Every individual character also has random dialogues to go thru, so its rng

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Its literally just random

muted carbon
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what happens once you forge a bond?

distant night
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you get a companion from certain individuals and others just get a cute chibi next to their keepsake and i think some special words

muted carbon
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ah

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well me and boat master are buds now

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and companion?

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like what a minion that does stuff?

distant night
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companions are special keepakes

muted carbon
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aaaah

distant night
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they are summonable during encounters

stiff aurora
brisk trail
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Yes.

fair matrix
opal pollen
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Is it of any use to keep a god's keepsake after a boss other than to rank it up ?

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Like, will its effect of the next boon being of that particular god apply more than once per run ?

heavy breach
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I think equipping a god's keepsake after a boss guarantees that the God boon will appear eventually in the next floor

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You might have to go through a couple of chambers before you find it

random ermine
vale drift
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Hey, we are working on it -- thank you for your patience.

random ermine
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Oh, I see. Thank you

red tiger
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Hey are you guys by chance working on the thing where if you press to see the new thing achieved in achilles' book, you often have to scroll down and actually search for the book entry, rather than the thing automatically popping up?

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I'm not the only one who said this we were talking about that in this channel the other day

opal pollen
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Can confirm this is pretty annoying. So much so that I don't bother reading the updated descriptions most of the time.

red tiger
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not sure if he's still here @vale drift

rain thorn
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Doesn't the codex already scroll to the most relevant character?

opal pollen
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Not for me

red tiger
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its just the last thing you read a lot of the time

rain thorn
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I am on a Switch btw, e.g. if I stand next to Orpheus and press L to bring it up it scrolls to Orpheus's page.

red tiger
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or sometimes it will go to the PAGE of the thing you're looking for, but you have to scroll and look for it yourself. im on steam

opal pollen
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Most of the time, it's not even in the correct category and will show the diamond entry.

red tiger
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Yeah it does that zed, but when you get a brand new thing it doesnt

rain thorn
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ah ok

red tiger
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like say I just caught a brand new fish and the symbol of the codex pops up. I have to actually go and look for the new fish

rain thorn
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I must have not paid attention then. I mostly have used it to look up NPC/god info etc.

silver kestrel
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It's working great on Switch

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Always opens to the stuff I recently got or that I'm right next to.

random ermine
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Doesn't show it instantly on PC, last I checked

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Which is what I presume they're talking about

silver kestrel
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Yeah just letting them know Switch version seems to be doing what they want so the code is probably there just something is interfering on PC by the sound of it.

vale drift
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@random ermine and all, the Epic Games Store patch should be back.

random ermine
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Awesome, thanks!

edgy zinc
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Is there a reason Daedalus Hammer boons are usually way better than other boons despite being the same rarity?

distant night
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you cant change them (with the fated dice thingies) and you can have max 2 that you chose yourself (3 if you let fate decise with the amboss)?

edgy zinc
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Ooo, wasn't aware you could only have 2

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That makes sense

opal pollen
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And they always drop in Tartarus and Elysium too, afaik.

sweet prism
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if you don't get one in Tart you can get it in the heated fields

distant night
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they can also drop in styx if you havent gotten one i think

sweet prism
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that too

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but only if you missed or skipped one prior

distant night
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yea

edgy zinc
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Interesting, never noticed that it always spawn

opal pollen
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So it's safe to not pay for one in Charon's shop, it will have to spawn in Asphodel if not bought ?

sweet prism
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there's a small unlucky chance one won't show up to make up for it

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but its very small, or already patched out lol

fleet ibex
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can anyone tell me if chaos stacks with shattered shackles or does chaos overrides it?

opal pollen
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TIL: The "Convenience Fee" punishment doesn't increase the price of the diamond/blood in the Styx shop.

distant night
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huuuuh now i wonder what the absolute max of getting obol per run is o.o

red tiger
#

I have never once bought a diamond/blood in the styx shop

#

And don't plan to unless I need to for some fated list requirement

twilit egret
#

Finally made it to Asphodel for the first time

idle basin
narrow egret
#

so saving 1200 isnt worth it even for new players?

red tiger
#

no way

narrow egret
#

thought i might as well since cant beat hades anyways

red tiger
#

get something that will help you beat him man!

#

spend money at the other charon shops too

narrow egret
#

btw those last items before hades, their prices differ a lot , does that indicate rarity or something or nah?

twilit egret
#

Figures hypnos wasn't around the time I finally managed it

narrow egret
#

like one boon is 150 and next one is 300

molten nymph
#

i took the bloods and diamonds for like 20 runs

#

its not that horrible imo

red tiger
#

Not sure for the boons, but I know for the pom prices, the 300 ones up 2 levels where the 100s are just 1

twilit egret
#

Are diamonds a thing I have to completely escape to get ?

red tiger
#

no

#

you'll get em when you get em

twilit egret
#

I don't have any yet and I want to commute the sentence

red tiger
#

How far have you gotten?

narrow egret
#

2nd floor boss drops them iirc

twilit egret
#

Like I said I just beat the first area ah ok

red tiger
#

Yeah

twilit egret
#

Thanks for the help

#

This game is addicting

red tiger
#

It is dangerously addicting

#

I can not stop thinking about it

twilit egret
#

I resisted the urge to say addicting as hell

red tiger
#

Its like in middle school when I got bought skyrim and all I could think all day is going home to play skyrim

#

Like that was the same for other video games in general, sure but not for as long and specific as just skyrim

opal pollen
#

The game is torturing me, I want to see what happens after every run, as small a reward as it is.

quick ivy
#

I have just made the great, reckless discovery that Refunding everything in the mirror is enough to grant me 25000 darkness. For those in the know, you know what that gets me and I am doing it zaglol

red tiger
#

I am not in the know

#

I'll never get used to that censor

opal pollen
#

Oh snap, I can't even imagine what it might be.

red tiger
#

Oh heck

#

Oh poopie

foggy lagoon
#

did i just downlaod yesterdays patch?

carmine ravine
#

another patch come in today

#

probably smol bugfix

opal pollen
#

If you're not sure, you can see your version on the title screen.

plush citrus
#

@red tiger i agree, i wanna play hades but i am at work right now and my brain is basically that 'just wanna play videogames' song

opal pollen
#

Hades' music has been stuck in my head for the past 5 days straight.

tidal horizon
#

what was in today patch?

brisk trail
tidal horizon
#

yeah i checked, the last patch there is the one from yesterday

#

there was small patch today

brisk trail
#

You on Steam or Epic?

tidal horizon
#

what is epic?

#

steam

distant night
#

epic games store

brisk trail
#

Maybe just a small fix that didn't warrant notes.

#

Sometimes those happen if the first patch didn't iron have all of its kinks ironed out.

idle walrus
#

need hypnos romance

distant night
#

max him for ||hypnos best-bro-mance||

idle walrus
#

interestign

winter harbor
#

Prolly talking about the ||chaos UI theme||

quick ivy
#

Yep ||I have completely reset all mirror progress for chaos UI||

opal pollen
#

Must resist clicking the spoiler, uh.

brisk trail
quick ivy
#

That's just 32 heat with RI4

brisk trail
#

yes

opal pollen
#

This game needs more fish !

plush citrus
#

hades fishing simulator spinoff when

feral urchin
#

it already exists

#

it's called Hades

somber quest
#

if you aren't planning your builds around huge catch you're doing it wrong

twilit egret
#

Hey black lotus I finally got to the second area

#

I knew it was just a matter of time

plush citrus
#

gotta harness that big catch energy
edit: HAHAHA i typo'd an innuendo there oops

silver bone
brisk trail
half frost
#

i can't get the satyr sack in the first chamber can I

brisk trail
#

Nope, second at minimum

half frost
#

figured

distant night
#

(psst, black lotus, did you get to meet the fan?)

brisk trail
#

yessss i talked to them

#

had to thank em for the undying support

distant night
#

did you miss the first interaction or did it sound like the first? :o

brisk trail
#

i'm not sure, zag said smth like "thank you, my good shade" (?)

#

so highly probable

#

might've dashed through them before

distant night
#

yeah kinda sad but glad you got to meet em !

red tiger
#

For a long time there I thought that the satyr sack arrived at only the third chamber every time

#

nope.

#

just happened to be the case for a long ass time

faint flint
#

i play with tight deadline ofd

#

then i just grab the hermes boon that autocharges my call

undone cairn
#

Hey, doesn't "Rare Crop" from Demeter works for the achievement "Thanks, But No Thanks"?

quick ivy
#

Nope. That achievement is specifically for legendary boons

flat vapor
#

don't see why that would, not a legendary boon

undone cairn
#

ohh

quick ivy
#

Rare crop only goes to heroic

undone cairn
#

I thought it was heroic
nevermind then

restive rapids
#

pretty sure rare crop is rare hence its name

#

or epic i don't remember

molten nymph
#

nah, rare crop is a standard boon

#

it can be common, rare, or epic

restive rapids
#

oh

somber quest
#

yeah

#

rarity just affects how many boons it applies to

lone coyote
#

so I can't seem to find any documentation but can you be locked out of character events in hades?

#

also hi

opal pollen
#

What do you mean ?

lone coyote
#

the story beats and character to character interactions that come after meeting certain conditions. can you not meet the conditions at a certain point and be unable to see them in a play through even though you meet them later? I'm going to assume no because of how rogue likes work but <_<

dire pike
#

So far there is only one event I 'missed' so probably don't have much to worry about

#

And it won't block progress of any sort whether you get it or not

lone coyote
#

I mean like every run is different right but I'm worried about getting bad ending /good ending type deal

dire pike
#

No, that's not a thing

lone coyote
#

oh good. I only want what's best for cerberus

quasi ginkgo
#

CerbSticker ❤️ we luv doggo friend

red tiger
#

Hey so I've never gotten to the point where I'm maxxed out at boons and I go to pick another

#

What happens then?

#

Or am I just confused and thats not a thing and it makes more room

quasi ginkgo
#

Oo good q

#

Im curious too

dire pike
#

iirc it just adds a new row

quasi ginkgo
#

Ohh that makes sense ye

plush citrus
#

yeah i've had quite a large number equipped and it's only made extra space

muted phoenix
dire pike
#

ah, I see eris got nerfed but the vfx when it's active is at least more conspicuous

jaunty vapor
#

EM1 is awesome

#

Question

#

does the main Fury change?

dire pike
#

yes

jaunty vapor
#

But yeah still that's really fun

dire pike
#

EM is one of the best pacts

#

Middle Management is alright too

jaunty vapor
#

I'm now up to heat 2

#

spoopy

#

I know this is rather specific

#

but I feel like if another Hermes legendary was added it should like slightly increase the amount of visuals given for attacks

#

like so you can see ||Hades|| spins coming for longer

sweet cipher
#

i'm looking for a tweet that's like a joke of hades saying "i want that twink destroyed"

#

but i can't seem to find it anywhere, does anybody have it perchance?

viscid moss
#

is there a place we can report bugs/wonky game behaviour?

opal pollen
brisk trail
#

could also F10 ingame

opal pollen
#

You can also press f10 in game.

viscid moss
#

thanks zagluv

ember rune
#

can I heal myself in the game?

opal pollen
#

Yes, through various means.

viscid moss
#

eventually, there will be different ways to do it

#

when you start it is rather limited tho, but it's by design

ember rune
#

yeah it's quite limited

opal pollen
#

Upgrades, fountains, special effects, etc. But no potions as you can have in most games.

ember rune
#

but I must admit its playability is better than Dead Cells due to the large script

#

every play is different

lethal socket
#

🎤sawarasenai🥰kimi😸wa⛓️shoujo👻na💅no?✨böKù🌸Wâ🧚ÿARiçHiñ🤴BįCChī😾ńO😩oSû🚣Dà🎉YO💦

viscid moss
#

"large" really doesn't do it justice

ember rune
#

hmm why?

viscid moss
#

its absolutely insane the amount of unique voiced dialogue this game has

sharp fossil
#

^

ember rune
#

Agree

sharp fossil
#

300k

viscid moss
#

im 200 runs in i still find new lines here and there

ember rune
#

wow

sharp fossil
#

mostly written by one dude lmao

ember rune
#

that's insane

opal pollen
#

And how some are very situational too.

#

I love running into the Elysium boss with the string of Ariadne x)

viscid moss
#

there's one that got spoiled by the patch notes i never saw shadeohboy

lethal socket
#

bruh skelly works for ||boatman||

loud valve
#

is it true they got random devs to record some of the voices

sharp fossil
#

not random lol

radiant estuary
#

Yes, kind of

#

Sometimes the placeholder voices turned out to be good enough that they became the actual voices in the end result

opal pollen
#

I love Skelly's voice.

sharp fossil
#

Darren Korb is their audio dude, and he voices Zag and Skelly but he’s had acting experience so it’s not as if he’s some rando

radiant estuary
#

Skelly is probably the main example that comes to mind

sharp fossil
#

and Greg does hypnos

#

i think that’s it

opal pollen
#

I would have never been able to tell he voiced those two, the sound so different.

loud valve
#

me neither

sharp fossil
#

same

viscid moss
#

hypnos is amazing

#

him, theseus and dionysus are just amazingly voiced

#

i'm still floored by the amount of work that went into all the dialogue, they really had a goal in mind when they started the game

tulip acorn
#

Has there been an update on the crosssaves progress?

jaunty vapor
#

Just beat ||Hades|| with 5hp

#

the nerves man

#

the nerves

#

also my first heat 2 run

loud valve
#

congrats

opal pollen
#

I'm there as well. Feels like 8 is so far away.

remote forge
#

Like you know how Meg gives you a hard time for using the power of the mirror? After that if you turn off the mirror talents completely there's a few lines for that.

viscid moss
#

yea, its those that i keep finding here and there

remote forge
#

There are all kinds of details like that.

#

Yeah it's really satisfying.

viscid moss
#

i still remember the first time she mentions my weapon being boring without a hammer upgrade

remote forge
#

Haven't gotten that one haha. Neat.

#

I like her response to Exagryph.

#

"You want me to show you what it does?"

opal pollen
#

They even thought about players winning the very first run in the game, which realistically, no one would ever do.

remote forge
#

"...yes."

remote forge
#

It's nice to give them a little nod.

viscid moss
remote forge
#

I think people give SGG too much credit though. Sure they're amazing at art, fantastic at music, incredible at dialogue and character development...

#

But god they're absolutely terrible at one thing.

brisk trail
#

i wonder if anyone ever beat the game on their first try ever though

#

like not fresh file

remote forge
#

||Disappointing their fans.||

#

How can they even call themselves a game company without that?

#

It's standard practice.

viscid moss
#

where's my boss rush where i fight every olympian god @ SuperGiant??

brisk trail
#

maybe there's a based gamer out there

#

who knows

viscid moss
brisk trail
#

it absolutely is

loud valve
#

should I feel ashamed for only having cleared the game after enabling god mode?

brisk trail
#

no, play the game however you want to

maiden urchin
#

no hammers on first run even

opal pollen
#

It's about time to stop stigmatizing players who play on easier difficulties. If it makes the game more enjoyable for you then go on and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And that's from a Dark Souls absolute fanboy.

stiff aurora
#

I'm trying to unlock Meg's favor. Can I just complete tartarus die and repeat? or do I need to finish a full run to trigger the event, it seems like I did all conversations with her but the heart is still locked

loud valve
#

it's hard to even tell what's going on in later rounds

#

so much stuff happening at once

somber quest
#

fr i dont see why some people cant just let others have fun

opal pollen
#

Cause you're not a real gamer unless the game you're playing feels like a chore /s

viscid moss
#

its more that people invest too much of themselves into games

timber sparrow
#

I forgot to screenshot my first win so that's even more fun

nocturne ginkgo
#

I played before godmode was a thing and loved the game but godmode just lets me turn off my brain and go doomguy

winter harbor
#

Nurturing the pierced butterfly to 30% is hard

rapid forum
#

My friend facetanked EM4 with god mode on

#

It was glorious

#

Lmao

rapid forum
viscid moss
winter harbor
#

I think I got pretty close with the fists before, but it wasn't a max level butterfly at the time

viscid moss
#

or anything ranged really

nocturne ginkgo
#

the first time and only time I did em4 I got the belt and I doubt I'll go back for it in a lil bit I'm just relaxing lol

molten nymph
#

hestia sounds like a great butterfly weapon

rapid forum
#

Is butterfly bonus damage universal?

nocturne ginkgo
#

I'm working on getting all the 4th aspects and man these dialogues don't wanna proc

remote idol
#

Yeah it might be far back in the dialogue queue

viscid moss
honest zephyr
#

hey guys.... not really a spoiler, but feel free to put it behind text if its kind of cool. but what does borrowing money from Chiron do? ( i dont really need it this time, i have everything i want from his shop) but like what happens, i get like + 300 for this shop area, and then when i go to next area i get minis 300 ( even if that makes me negative) and then i have to make it back?

viscid moss
#

on top of the other requirements

nocturne ginkgo
#

see I asked if you need to do that and was told its still random

viscid moss
winter harbor
#

Why don't you try and find out?

honest zephyr
#

ok ok i will

brisk trail
#

have fun

nocturne ginkgo
#

I like after talking with charon enough hermes gives you a prophecy to just stir up drama

viscid moss
nocturne ginkgo
#

interesting

quiet gull
#

It's still random

#

Just gotta keep going

honest zephyr
#

oh this is cool,

#

x D

viscid moss
#

good luck!

honest zephyr
#

im on heat 2. stage 3 and im hitting for 1200 when i crit, im gonna be so fine dude...

#

i have a god bow run again

remote idol
#

Yeah 4th aspect dialogue is random and sometimes other dialogue events take priority

#

And sometimes you need the weapon equipped to trigger it

honest zephyr
#

when i fought one of the furies, i took her to her sheild in 2 hits.. ( 1st immune shield) I JUST GOT ALL THE PERFECT BOONS WAVE 1

#

so i borrowed money from him and || im soo happy i did that. do i get 20% off him forever now? or just till the end of this escape run?||

jaunty vapor
#

end of run

#

iirc

molten nymph
#

end of run, ye

honest zephyr
#

kk

flat vapor
#

you have to renew your subscription every run!

remote idol
#

And you get to keep the gold you "borrowed"

molten nymph
#

...now i never thought about this but does ||charon get affected by MM?||

remote idol
#

MM?

molten nymph
#

middle management

winter harbor
#

He's a boss, not a miniboss

molten nymph
#

miniboss heat

winter harbor
#

so my thinking is no

#

Only modifiers that would affect him are those that affect every encounter

remote idol
#

Yeah minibosses usually dont have healthbars at the top of the screen

brisk trail
#

what does FO2 ||charon|| fight be like i wonder

molten nymph
#

doesnt asterius have it

molten nymph
#

i was on fist

winter harbor
#

But asterius miniboss only changes with EM3

brisk trail
#

understandable

molten nymph
#

oh right

#

yeah that makes sense

cold surge
#

For some reason benefits package 2 feels brutal, I’m fine with benefits package 1

#

I have yet to win with heightened security, routine inspection, or approval process

brisk trail
#

what's the difference? i've been on 2

cold surge
#

Two traits instead of one

#

Some combos are nasty

brisk trail
#

ahh

#

BP witch rooms trash me

winter harbor
#

Heightened security is rough

molten nymph
#

ah yes
phantom summon blue hearts skulls

remote idol
#

Some of the perks on their own are pretty nasty

brisk trail
#

please no

winter harbor
#

Approval process pained me at times too

viscid moss
#

numbskulls with shielding and speed shadefear

brisk trail
#

tiny tartarus room full of skulls

#

makes me wanna die

#

never been so scared of a numbskull before

somber quest
#

lmao

honest zephyr
#

i wish the bot would like just ******** whatever u typed and then asked u edit it so u didnt lose ur message when u swear, its kinda a pain when u type liek a paragraph and then poof it's gone cause u droped an F bomb when ur talking about something excitedly

cold surge
#

Numb skulls being actually threatening was an unpleasant surprise

somber quest
#

i dipped my toe into high heat and immediately noped outta there

winter harbor
#

heightened security makes it way too possible to be oneshot by traps

brisk trail
#

yeah i swear a lot

#

just need to be mindful that im in this server

winter harbor
#

Enjoy taking 100 dmg to the noggin from the spear traps in elysium

viscid moss
#

high heat feels great, really freshens up the game when you get better at lower heat

brisk trail
#

that is true

#

i love and hate it

nocturne ginkgo
#

I have so many successful runs and now how many times I stub a toe on a spike track in the fury fight. Way more than I would like to admit

viscid moss
honest zephyr
#

yea i wanna do heat soon, but god mode has to come off first......

brisk trail
#

40 feels impossible for me right now but maybe when i get the hang of 32

winter harbor
#

I would have settled for two heat but I agree with you

honest zephyr
#

heat caps at 99 right?

brisk trail
#

i will not take HS unless i have to

#

63

molten nymph
#

64

viscid moss
#

i got got very bad when i realized some of the final boss attacks are considered "traps"

winter harbor
#

63 normally, 64 in hell mode

brisk trail
#

no one's done it yet

somber quest
#

whats the highest so far?

molten nymph
#

56?

brisk trail
#

56

winter harbor
#

because hell mode has personal liability, which removes your brief shield of invincibility if you take a ton of damage

remote idol
#

Yeah hard labor and lasting consequences are probably the main obstacles

brisk trail
#

i dont think so

viscid moss
#

time is the main one

brisk trail
#

mirrorless, ap2

#

lc4 is fine if youre used to it

#

i take it at 32

molten nymph
#

its JS, health, and timer

remote idol
#

Max lasting consequences makes me shudder

viscid moss
#

timer only a problem when you got a lot else going on

molten nymph
#

its... not as bad as it seems

winter harbor
#

Does stubborn roots just not work at max LC?

molten nymph
#

stubborn roots works

dusk mantle
#

Eris rail nerfed. Been predicting this forever. RIP. Oh well at least I'm mostly done with my heat runs 😁

brisk trail
#

nerf isn't that bad

#

you'd be spamming special anyway

somber quest
#

eris is still very good

honest zephyr
#

no ones done it without cheating u mean...... and i will be honest, im not into cheating, i have no mods installed, but i did look into some.... seem stupid. like giving urself unlimited health or last stands or like ability to endless reroll boons till u get the perfect rolls, speaking of which ( i kinda wish i had that sometimes i got Hermes 3 times this run and i used 2 reolls on him, i reallyu wanted his attack speed buff, sad times, outta 15 possible boons from him, none 😥 )

winter harbor
#

And tidal dash no longer is one of the requirements for sea storm

molten nymph
#

whoa

brisk trail
#

i mean, if that's enjoyable for u i dont see why not

somber quest
#

yeah that hurts

brisk trail
#

wait, really??????

#

i thought all core poseidon

#

that's what i remember seeing in codex

somber quest
#

i only got to try the tidal dash/sea storm combo once

winter harbor
#

They changed requirements this past patch

molten nymph
#

so seastorm eris is basically ME now

honest zephyr
#

i switch topics, and honestly eris is still pretty good, they nerfed the duration but i think it was like 6 or 8 seconds, now the bonus lasts for 4..... still very good imo

brisk trail
#

if not, then that explains why i haven't gotten seastorm...

molten nymph
#

yeah
4s is still close to permanent

brisk trail
#

for 3 runs yesterday

somber quest
#

it was 8 they halved it

brisk trail
#

dammit im an idiot

#

so all core except dash?

winter harbor
#

The dash was too good

brisk trail
#

i might as well try to get athena on dash

winter harbor
#

I'm guessing you can still activate sea storm effects via dash, but you need another poseidon core boon to enable getting sea storm in the first place

remote idol
#

So does it just not work with seastorm now or just not one of the requirements

brisk trail
#

not a req

molten nymph
#

just not a requirement

honest zephyr
#

yea 4 seconds is fine, like the bonus is so big 75 %.... on all dmg? besides the special can be really good if u get like the 5 cluster and multiple doom effects and doom on ur special.... i got that build once, and my mortor fire was hitting for 500 a shot ( i also had fast hermes special so my q cast faster) so i could litterally just spawm Q and not attack and it would have still been a sub 25 min run.

molten nymph
#

kind of like how fist ME wants athena dash even though its not a requirement

remote idol
#

I can't wait for the switch version to get patched to 4th rail aspect is slightly more usable

#

Cause I enjoy it even now

somber quest
#

im not a fan of hidden rail

remote idol
#

It depends a lot on getting the right boons imo

somber quest
#

it just feels weird

#

imo it should be replaced with eris

#

then we have 2

remote idol
#

I mean that's kind of the purpose of all the hidden aspects

#

They're weirder than the other ones

brisk trail
#

hidden spear is still the weirdest to me

#

but i also dont like spear in general

#

it feels pretty safe to play though

molten nymph
#

it feels safe until you got hit by a sneeze

brisk trail
#

i just don't enjoy it unless i got flurry jab

molten nymph
#

then it doesnt

somber quest
#

built in explosive launcher is pretty nice

honest zephyr
#

quick off topic since someone brought up the switch, i kinda wish i had one to play the exclusives, but im 29.... i dont even play mobile games on my phone anymore.... ..... so if i got a switch it would LITERALLY BE JUST TO PLAY zelda breath and wild and the small hand full of really good exclusives. and for that reason, i don't think it's worth it for me.

nothing against u man, i wish i could play of those games, but honestly. for me i dont want to buy a 500 dollar console just so i can play like 3 games i cant get on pc or playstation haha

nocturne ginkgo
#

4th aspect gun is very fun with athena special

brisk trail
#

who is this in response to

#

i have the exact reason for not getting a switch

#

i only want it to play mh: rise tbh

#

anw i think i've only used spear like 6 times or smth

molten nymph
#

same

brisk trail
#

as well as shield

#

still have those left to 32

#

i need to learn how to do achilles cast

#

i read you need to do a lotta actions per min

winter harbor
#

Spear feels clunkiest to me

brisk trail
#

mine would be shield probs

#

specifically chaos

#

though that's prolly on me

nocturne ginkgo
#

before a few weeks ago the last I was able to play was when swords 4th was released so I'm having so much playing with all the new toys and voice lines still lol

brisk trail
#

throws special, tries to bull rush wait, i can't bull rush? oh

molten nymph
#

i gave up aiming achilles special and gone hades

#

it somehow... worked

somber quest
#

you cant bull rush after special? bruh

molten nymph
#

achiles threw me into a crowd of enemies too often

brisk trail
#

i mean when the shields havent returned

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i do a brain fart

somber quest
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i only play zeus shield really

brisk trail
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to be fair idk the optimal way to play it

remote idol
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Achilles damage boost can be nutty

brisk trail
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so i'll have to study a run

somber quest
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but thats kinda bc i dont have enough blood to unlock the other aspects

brisk trail
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i have never touched hades spear

remote idol
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I did once and I didn't really notice a difference in it

molten nymph
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it becomes significantly better once someone told me you can cancel the charge with a dash to do a moving spin

honest zephyr
# winter harbor Spear feels clunkiest to me

if ur talking about the 4th aspect i found that too when i started, a bit of attack and spead + the triple prong attack from hammer helps a lot...

like i find the 4th aspect is great until you start missing attacks, cause with regular spear, u attack so fast doesnt matter if u miss 1-2- or even three attacks in a row.... with 4 aspect if u miss 3 attacks there goes 5 seconds ( atleast early on)

brisk trail
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so you become like... gasp ||hades||?

molten nymph
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ye lol

somber quest
brisk trail
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what a surprise

pliant sparrow
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4th aspect is great until you die in a few attacks from ||hades||

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but up until then you one shot everything with ur special

brisk trail
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ooooh i wonder how 4th fares with lc4

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you can still heal with it, right?

remote idol
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What does hades spear actually do

somber quest
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spin sweep makes enemies take more damage

viscid moss
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im kinda sad thats all it does, feels like a strictly worse eris

molten nymph
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you can still heal, yeah

pliant sparrow
remote idol
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It's overshadowed by achilles aspect

pliant sparrow
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so slow u end up losing more health than not lol

somber quest
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the damage buff is actually pretty big iirc

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and lasts 10 seconds

viscid moss
brisk trail
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speen

molten nymph
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hades spear marks the enemies with the spin, causing them to take +150% damage from attacks and special

brisk trail
molten nymph
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works great with artemis

somber quest
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double eris dmg and more than double duration

pliant sparrow
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only for attack/special tho

molten nymph
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but marking them actually carries a risk

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unlike eris' free buff

pliant sparrow
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not overall damage

somber quest
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but triple dash attack go brrr

viscid moss
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correct me if im wrong, but doesn't it just add a +150% to attack and special while eris is all damage (including boon damage)?

molten nymph
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yep

pliant sparrow
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does dash attack count as attack in that case?

viscid moss
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yea

molten nymph
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dash attack is attack

honest zephyr
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speaking of artemis, im in a run right now, where im way past crit cap ( not all the time but a good chunk of time) i have umm 15% from bow ( zag aspect) 15% from artemis attacks. ( so 30%) ok ok how is thrill getting past crit cap from that.... i have the red version of when i crit i mark another enemy for crit, which adds 90%.....

winter harbor
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it's like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares

molten nymph
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uhh dio-arte duo adds 25%

somber quest
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:( there are a bunch of builds i want to try but i have so much homework

brisk trail
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hades is your homework

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actually same

jaunty vapor
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Just lost best time by like

molten nymph
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i'm not sure how crit chance stacks up though

viscid moss
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only true build is rushing exclusive access and steam rolling

jaunty vapor
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a second

remote idol
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I got hunting blades with achilles aspect once with fully loaded

honest zephyr
# brisk trail hades is your homework

i got that feeling again today, cause i have 2 hammers on my bow right now ok, one is 300% dmg, the other is 150% on perfect shot. and im wondering how those stack ( honestly if i had a better option i would have teken it, but im not taking like long shot or special upgrades) and i was wondering how they stack...

for example does explosive increase my base dmg by 300? and then when i land the perfect shot that gets amped by 50%?

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linear vs multiplicative stacking.... i play too many games like this..

viscid moss
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im 99% sure all damage (besides base) stacks additively

real fossil
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i think generally bonuses in hades are additive yeah

viscid moss
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so your build will do base perfect shot + 450% of that

quiet gull
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Crit is multiplicative, but everything else is additive, yeah

viscid moss
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it made me sad about crit builds, they aren't as crazy as you think at first

somber quest
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wait crit is multiplicative? wtf

viscid moss
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im p sure crit is also additive

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its just flat +200%

quiet gull
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Nope

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It's actually x3

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It SAYS it's +200%, but it isnt

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It's a triple

viscid moss
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its +200%, leading to 3x base damage

quiet gull
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No no, it multiplies everything

pliant sparrow
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Wiki says Damage = Base Damage
× (1 + Sum of Critical Damage Bonus)
× (1 + Sum of Regular Damage Bonuses)

molten nymph
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it multiplies everything

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game wording be hard

quiet gull
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Heart Rend makes the crit multiplier 4.5

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It used to say +50%, now it says +150%

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The actual functionality didnt change

pliant sparrow
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1+3.5 = 4.5..?

viscid moss
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so criting with an attack with like poseidon boon will do (base x ~100%) x3?

quiet gull
pliant sparrow
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Ah

honest zephyr
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so everything just gets added to base damage so like in a nutshell all the damage equations look like this? ( BD short for base dam and BV short for boon value)

Total damage = (BDxBV1.50) + (BDxBV1.25) + (BDxBV3.00) +(BDxBV1.50)

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etc etc

molten nymph
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i wonder how pp stacks with artemis boons though
like if you have 4%pp and 15% artemis
do you have 19% or 15% and 4%

quiet gull
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No, if you have two +20% attack boons, they add up to +40%

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They are not multiplicative

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Crit chance also stacks additively

molten nymph
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so 19%

ember rune
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any recommended keymap for keyboard + mouse players?

honest zephyr
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so ur 50% boost on base dmage gets put on the original base damage value so lets say that 100 for easy maths, that makes u do 150 now... if u get another 50 % boost it gets added to original base damage again , so it only takes u to 200 ( not 225 which u would get if it used the 150 as the base damage)

quiet gull
honest zephyr
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kk

somber quest
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maybe i should switch to kbm

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i feel like itd be a lot easier to aim

molten nymph
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i like the snappy aim assist

honest zephyr
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maybe man, it's preference, im sticking with mouse and keyboard, but literally every speed runner ( so like arguably the best people trying to min max everything) all use a controler because they value the movement fidelity over the precision point aiming.

molten nymph
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kbm sounds like it would significantly improves hidden gun though

brisk trail
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my friend called me a monster for using KBM

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i'm not sure how it is on controller since i don't use it for any games

honest zephyr
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yea u can only move in 8 directions xD and no speed control, x P

brisk trail
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but the game was primarily made for controller, right? least that's what he said to me

quiet gull
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Yeah

molten nymph
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the title screen says so

remote idol
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Yeah I think the devs even recommend controller

brisk trail
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imagine reading

quiet gull
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If they had intended for people to actually use KBM, they wouldnt have made special the Q key

honest zephyr
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black, i know ps4's natively work on a pc running windows, ( cause i tried) i dont have an xbox, but like microsoft cmon.... i imagine that works too. so it's literally plug it on with a USB and you can play. no downloads or jack.

somber quest
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simple solution

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4 more directional keys for the diagonals

brisk trail
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no

somber quest
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yes

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this is the way of the future

brisk trail
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are the defaults really that bad?

quiet gull
brisk trail
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maybe im just used to them at this point

quiet gull
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Which is stupid as HECK but hey

molten nymph
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lmao literally everyone rebinded it

quiet gull
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Yeah

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That's what I mean, rebinding it is the sign that you are now good with rail

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Or something

molten nymph
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amir pls

quiet gull
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I dunno man, it's BS and they should still change it

molten nymph
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i also rebinded boons to L3 now that i know i want to press it at basically every beginning of late rooms

jaunty vapor
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So on a nemesis run out of the choices of (no prior boons) Doom Attack, Doom Special or Rift Dash which would y'all choose?

honest zephyr
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wow, when ur 5 seconds short of ur 1st sub 20 min run.... (20 min 5 seconds final time).... and i was trying to go for time, and break my record, and i did by about a min and a half with this build. i know i definitely stopped to figuratively scratch my bum a couple times this run ... take take a drink of beer without pausing, or like thinking about which gate i want without pausing....

molten nymph
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doom special

jaunty vapor
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thunks

molten nymph
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you want %damage on your attack for nemesis i think

jaunty vapor
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Ye

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I'm going for artemis

quiet gull
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Or Artemis for even MORE crit

jaunty vapor
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even if I keep forgetting to change off acorn when I start new runs

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for like the

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50th time

pliant sparrow
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or dash strike artemis

jaunty vapor
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I wish you could turn on a need to change keepsake before you start run mode

pliant sparrow
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  • double edge
molten nymph
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you want heartrend somehow right

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i usually just give up the moment i realize i'm on the wrong keepsake lol

jaunty vapor
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Already got double edge

molten nymph
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welp you can't give up now

jaunty vapor
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I haven't given up once

pliant sparrow
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i usually know instantly when the first boon isnt the suspected one

jaunty vapor
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why would I

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I'm on like run 21

pliant sparrow
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cuz u want a good first boon?

molten nymph
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ye

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i give up a lot when i have a good first room

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since giving up gives you the same room

quiet gull
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It doesnt count

pliant sparrow
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or if theres a chaos gate first room thats good too

molten nymph
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like

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double shot hammer room

jaunty vapor
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Oh really?

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That's nice

pliant sparrow
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yah its also good for testing out weapons

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since it resets ur titan blood when you give up

molten nymph
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your last autosave will be the last time you enter the training room

jaunty vapor
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never knew this

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thank you all

honest zephyr
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on that topic, i find most of ur rewards will also be the same.... so liek if u ran athena boon and got 3 boons first u will get those same 3 boons

quiet gull
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You would have known if you had given up at least once!

jaunty vapor
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I'm always happy whenever the fury is meg

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she's always the easiest

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I haven't tho :p

honest zephyr
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also good no know if u were like planning one build. and the game is just feeding the opposite stuff on round 1, so then u mod ur build.

pliant sparrow
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iirc
"When you walk through a door in Hades, a few things happen:

  • A new seed is generated based on a combination of your current seed and your current position in the pseudo-random sequence, and that new seed replaces your current one.
  • The room you entered, including the tile, enemies, and boon rewards, are generated
  • The reward type, chaos/erebus gate, fountain, and wells, are decided for the next room. For example, you might see Poseidon, but the rewards he'll give you haven’t been determined yet.

If you start on a fixed seed, you can 'map' your way through the run, by running it over and over. Casting/summoning before doors changes what the next room has in it. You basically just trial and error your way to a route.

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  • from speedrunning discord
molten nymph
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i'm appreciating tis more and more

jaunty vapor
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Tisiphone is the second best

molten nymph
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alecto can go to hell though

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oh wait

jaunty vapor
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Alecto is just painful

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Tisiphone I need to get more used to

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but is fine

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Meg is ez

vast cypress
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I found tis easiest

pliant sparrow
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meg is p slow to kill she dashes around so often

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tis is easy if u have athena dash

vast cypress
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Tis lets you backstab for like 5 min

molten nymph
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best part about tis is she cuts off her own attacks to change rooms

somber quest
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tis is easiest for me but alecto makes me cry