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add it as a minigame supergiant pls
Too much sex not enough board games
well that's to be expected
xd
tfw your SOs just want you for the sex and not the boardgames.
one of the first decorations i get was aphro's poster :D
Same
real men get achilles and dionysus
and then only get aprhodite's to complete the bedroom renovations
It's what a stereotypical teenage boy would get
wrong
Still dont have dionysis poster lol
Got the board game first just yesterday because I got a bunch of gemstones from some quest I finished
All of the different status effects on monsters from that one pact
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
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
you have to take sharp corners
can I change through him?
and make him run into a wall or pillar
run
charge*
you can dash through him yeah
I wish there were a toggle on the ingame songs to listen to the vocals instead of just instrumentals if you want
ok thanks
you ca force him to slam into the walls
Or you run through the obstacles
yeah that too
And he crashes into them
Is there anyone at all who kills theseus first
That sounds like a bad idea
you can also just have extra speed from hermes and zeus' lightning and just keep zapping him until he gets tired
yes
I always kill thesus first
it's easy with the right call
unless it's the EM version then I kill asterius first
you can insta pop him after he reaches stage 2
I just had the choice between a zeus boon and an athena+zeus duo boon.
Never was a choice this easy.
ooff
i kill theseus first because hes a pompous jerk... no jk i always kill the bull first
I dont want to be avoiding thesus' arrows, the god he summons AND the bull
beat him with 8 hp left
thats why you insta pop him
it's way easier to beat thesus first imo
No way
later on, yes
Later on? Hmm
but not beginner game
still have 4 heat at the most atm
yeah, companion with epic call instantly kills theseus
I never killed the bull first even after my first few times ifghting them
only reason I kill asterius first is if they're the EM version
really? how much health does he have?
i have 20 heat with spear, my fastest elysium bossfight was under 1min 😂
It took me 7 tries to try beating theseuds/asterius my first time
only 9k
hi can anyone help me pls
well theyre champions, what do you expect
i have a huge crush on dusa
with the right stuff, even without companions, you can utterly destroy thesus and the bull in a minute, even less
if you use artemis call on max is does up to 5k damage in one hit
dusa is cute, you dont need help
^
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
i get too excited when she's around
She does the same. So good fit imo
and when i come back to the house i rush to the lounge
Have you maxed her hearts yet
i'm at the last one
aphrodite's call destroys thesus on max gauge
I only used aphrodites call once ever and the other enemies didnt seem to be helping me kill another enemy AT ALL
aphrodite's ultra only does 2.5k damage
aphrodite's call is only helpfull as her ultra against bosses
does like a third of thesus's health
sometimes she does more but i dont understand whyt
Calls are so. Important
There have been several times I would not have beat the final boss if not for a call being used at max gauge
yes it is, jsut saying that theseus' 50% is 4.5k accordign to the wiki
still can help kill him really quickly
Artemis's call has saved me many times
so I don't see what the problem is
yes indeed
even if he does live he'll help kill asterius too
then you whack him once and no more thesus
the isnt one, i thought you or somebody said that aphro's ultra call instantly pops theseus in stage 2
but it's close
ikr
lol does theseus have extra dialogue when he finds out he accidentally killed his best friend
artemis's call even when it does crit doesn't seem to do as much damage
but it pops hydra instantly to the next stage
Can supergiant make a hades anime please
I did not enjoy blood of zeus I just want hades anime
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)
"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?"
artemis is amazing
her duos too
Unrealistic if you want to keep the art the same
aphro and artemis have the best duo boons imo
true there is a LOT of detail in those character portraits
i keep seeing a lot of the same duo boons
like lightning rod? the bane of every duo boon hunter?
the pom duo is annoying when you get it late
Same with the epic duo
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
i always get demeter's boon upgrade when I only have one other boon 
thats sad too
but if it's a hella good first boon, getting it to be heroic when fighting ||father dearest|| is gonna feel gud c:
it's never a hella good first boon unfortuantely
amen
:c
switch sounds so sad
no updates, no achievements, how are you guys doing? do yall need a dusa hug?
i love her
when do I get to fish?
...How often do you guys think the devs (overall) play Hades for fun in the middle of development?
id get fired for playing too much and not working HDHFSKALDLF
but idk
@fluid pivot I think if you progress the story you unlock it naturally p early, u have to buy it from the contractor
ik thats not super helpful WAHFJFKSKDLF
I mean like not literally in the middle of development, but in between builds and patches, lol
Did I hear Overly Sarcastic Productions???

I actually have a friend that works in the gaming industry
Oh, yeah, Danny, I looked up what god Zagreus was supposed to be, and only think I found was the "Orphic Dionysus" myth
And then a few run later and after I find that this myth was turned into a literal joke and I love it!
The devs arent usually the ones who play the game when testing it out actually
They have testers to play the game for them
Thats one of my friend's jobs
the game is too fun for them to only program it and not snoop to play it themselves
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
She said that the devs give the testers a list of stuff to do in the game
to make sure its working
Oh good point
lol
oh my, good timing with the question lmao
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?
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?"
nah she works at 2K and was testing one of the basketball games from last year i think
Neat sportsball
i am a simple nerd
i see a ball and cry
oh yeah I wanted to mention
I think its really cool theres a discord for this
recommended mirror choices?
oh man good question
and use the other options for the others?
Honestly...all of the other mirror choices are very much up to debate
oh thats interesting
Well, almost entirely depending on preference.
I only started playing yesterday
so I'm also wondering what mirror choices to take
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.
nice!
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...
Yeah, I think the answer is no
the steamiest it gets are implied sex scenes that are fade-to-blacks
and I guess Aphrodite is nude but they covered her up tastefully with her hair
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
Ermm, Patch didn't hit the Epic store yet?
i dont think so
I believe Saladin is he/him (he writes comic books)
Hah, in the time it took me to copy and paste over here suddenly there's like 30-odd replies already
It had 0 before I grabbed the link
oh O:
Okay so I have every keepsake but the last one, how do I get it?
Finish the story
oh
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
They don't even seem to be competing in the same space
wow seriously
going off this anyway:
Those top 3 look fine to me
Its by percentage though
So like
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
it has a comparable amount to factorio i'd say
i mean it's not like the others are orders of magnitude away
90k is plenty, but that's 35th in order of positive reviews
TF2 has almost 690k positive (but, also, 43k negative)

so it somewhat deemphasizes cases with just a small number of reviews in general
if i'm reading that right anyway
sometimes i wish there were emotes for the game
Oh, I wonder what happened.
what do you mean? there are emotes for the game
wha?
I assumed the pending a service outage was over after 24 hours.
tell me these secrets

lol
theres plenty
bruh
that would take up a button that controlers dont have
but for pc that could work fine
laugths in pc master race
yes
but what if
oh
the psin attack is now something thats shot out
like a milti hit vortex
that vortex returns its dammage it does back as health
I use pc but controller way more fun with this game
mouse and keyboard mostly only good for FPS and MMORPGs
what is psin
and RPGs like skyrim I forget what they're called
also i have played around with guanyu
spin
ding dong your opinion is wrong
controler is so good att shoting games
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.
what do u mean by top level styx?
Yupyup, got to the boss there, even. Couldn't take 'em out yet though.
spere is low damage i think or maby im just bad
Oh yeah per-hit it can be kinda shoddy I think
but guan yu is super high damage but u can only take like 1 hit
i need to get a way to find more hammers
Hi
how to get more hammers: be luckier 4head
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
u can get max 3
2 normaly and one anvil
I thought I picked up three hammers last run but I could be misremembering
yes that good
u cant? u can get 3 from byeing anvill at final shop
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.
u can get hamer is styx?
If you don't have two upgrades it has a chance to appear as one of the tunnel rewards
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
ahha
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...
what if u get lucky and roll all of the tunes to hamers
what happens if you roll one of the "boss" tunles to hamer
does it give u extra good hamers
no
Because hammer upgrades don't have rarities
Once you have two hammers, you can't roll another
Because you aren't supposed to find more than two in a run
will having 4 hamers make u op or just meh
ima try that
also can you have save stats in hades
the only way you can get more than 2 hammers is with an anvil
this guy sayed u can get 4
wow, I didn't notice that they updated Aphrodite's portrait
Yeah, I think not
Are hades lewd mods a thing that exist?
I have only been here for 20 seconds
Who wants to see what level I got my Pressure Points boon to
I feel like the Skelly sprite looks way less detailed compared to everyone else. That just me? 
Yo how much money do I have to spend to get the sprites for max bonds as pins?
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?
do you mean the stickers?
If i have a feature suggestion where might I go about leaving it?
Yeah the stickers
I cant seem to complete Meg favor, how many times are you suppose to fight the furies?
I just think those would be really neat to have
- ambrosia delight if ur core boons are low rarity
- pom nectar if ur core boons are at a decent rarity but need levels to scale
- third option if u want a higher chance at legendary/duo boons
sounds good, thanks. I understood the last choice but couldn't quite decipher the pros/cons of the first two
I've gotten 3 hammers without an anvil
Just continue playing itll come up eventually
even if I beat the credits? I saw the conversation of when she gets her stuff from the room on youtube and it seems like it was suppose to happen earlier
Main story takes precedence over individual character stories
Every individual character also has random dialogues to go thru, so its rng
Its literally just random
what happens once you forge a bond?
you get a companion from certain individuals and others just get a cute chibi next to their keepsake and i think some special words
ah
well me and boat master are buds now
and companion?
like what a minion that does stuff?
companions are special keepakes
aaaah
they are summonable during encounters
can I still unlock hearts and favors after the epilogue?
Yes.
Yep! There's one god you won't be able to proceed until after the epilogue
Is it of any use to keep a god's keepsake after a boss other than to rank it up ?
Like, will its effect of the next boon being of that particular god apply more than once per run ?
I think equipping a god's keepsake after a boss guarantees that the God boon will appear eventually in the next floor
You might have to go through a couple of chambers before you find it
@vale drift Epic Store services are operational again: https://status.epicgames.com/
Any chance we could get the update pushed out today?
Hey, we are working on it -- thank you for your patience.
Oh, I see. Thank you
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?
I'm not the only one who said this we were talking about that in this channel the other day
Can confirm this is pretty annoying. So much so that I don't bother reading the updated descriptions most of the time.
not sure if he's still here @vale drift
Doesn't the codex already scroll to the most relevant character?
Not for me
its just the last thing you read a lot of the time
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.
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
Most of the time, it's not even in the correct category and will show the diamond entry.
Yeah it does that zed, but when you get a brand new thing it doesnt
ah ok
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
I must have not paid attention then. I mostly have used it to look up NPC/god info etc.
It's working great on Switch
Always opens to the stuff I recently got or that I'm right next to.
Doesn't show it instantly on PC, last I checked
Which is what I presume they're talking about
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.
@random ermine and all, the Epic Games Store patch should be back.
Awesome, thanks!
Is there a reason Daedalus Hammer boons are usually way better than other boons despite being the same rarity?
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)?
And they always drop in Tartarus and Elysium too, afaik.
if you don't get one in Tart you can get it in the heated fields
they can also drop in styx if you havent gotten one i think
yea
Interesting, never noticed that it always spawn
So it's safe to not pay for one in Charon's shop, it will have to spawn in Asphodel if not bought ?
there's a small unlucky chance one won't show up to make up for it
but its very small, or already patched out lol
can anyone tell me if chaos stacks with shattered shackles or does chaos overrides it?
TIL: The "Convenience Fee" punishment doesn't increase the price of the diamond/blood in the Styx shop.
huuuuh now i wonder what the absolute max of getting obol per run is o.o
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
Finally made it to Asphodel for the first time
I did once or twice because I had too much money left
so saving 1200 isnt worth it even for new players?
no way
thought i might as well since cant beat hades anyways
get something that will help you beat him man!
spend money at the other charon shops too
btw those last items before hades, their prices differ a lot , does that indicate rarity or something or nah?
Figures hypnos wasn't around the time I finally managed it
like one boon is 150 and next one is 300
Not sure for the boons, but I know for the pom prices, the 300 ones up 2 levels where the 100s are just 1
Are diamonds a thing I have to completely escape to get ?
I don't have any yet and I want to commute the sentence
How far have you gotten?
2nd floor boss drops them iirc
Like I said I just beat the first area ah ok
Yeah
I resisted the urge to say addicting as hell
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
The game is torturing me, I want to see what happens after every run, as small a reward as it is.
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 
Oh snap, I can't even imagine what it might be.
did i just downlaod yesterdays patch?
If you're not sure, you can see your version on the title screen.
@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
Hades' music has been stuck in my head for the past 5 days straight.
what was in today patch?
Check #hades-patch-notes
yeah i checked, the last patch there is the one from yesterday
there was small patch today
You on Steam or Epic?
epic games store
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.
need hypnos romance
max him for ||hypnos best-bro-mance||
interestign
What is the thing though?
Prolly talking about the ||chaos UI theme||
Yep ||I have completely reset all mirror progress for chaos UI||
Must resist clicking the spoiler, uh.
now do 32 heat mirrorless
That's just 32 heat with RI4
yes
This game needs more fish !
hades fishing simulator spinoff when
if you aren't planning your builds around huge catch you're doing it wrong
Hey black lotus I finally got to the second area
I knew it was just a matter of time
gotta harness that big catch energy
edit: HAHAHA i typo'd an innuendo there oops
That's the galaxy brain play. :3
Nice! You'll be zoomin through the bosses before u know it
i can't get the satyr sack in the first chamber can I
Nope, second at minimum
figured
(psst, black lotus, did you get to meet the fan?)
did you miss the first interaction or did it sound like the first? :o
i'm not sure, zag said smth like "thank you, my good shade" (?)
so highly probable
might've dashed through them before
yeah kinda sad but glad you got to meet em !
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
i play with tight deadline ofd
then i just grab the hermes boon that autocharges my call
Hey, doesn't "Rare Crop" from Demeter works for the achievement "Thanks, But No Thanks"?
Nope. That achievement is specifically for legendary boons
don't see why that would, not a legendary boon
ohh
Rare crop only goes to heroic
I thought it was heroic
nevermind then
oh
so I can't seem to find any documentation but can you be locked out of character events in hades?
also hi
What do you mean ?
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 <_<
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
I mean like every run is different right but I'm worried about getting bad ending /good ending type deal
No, that's not a thing
oh good. I only want what's best for cerberus
❤️ we luv doggo friend
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
iirc it just adds a new row
Ohh that makes sense ye
yeah i've had quite a large number equipped and it's only made extra space

ah, I see eris got nerfed but the vfx when it's active is at least more conspicuous
yes
But yeah still that's really fun
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
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?
is there a place we can report bugs/wonky game behaviour?
could also F10 ingame
You can also press
in game.
thanks 
can I heal myself in the game?
Yes, through various means.
eventually, there will be different ways to do it
when you start it is rather limited tho, but it's by design
yeah it's quite limited
Upgrades, fountains, special effects, etc. But no potions as you can have in most games.
but I must admit its playability is better than Dead Cells due to the large script
every play is different
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"large" really doesn't do it justice
hmm why?
its absolutely insane the amount of unique voiced dialogue this game has
^
Agree
300k
im 200 runs in i still find new lines here and there
wow
mostly written by one dude lmao
that's insane
And how some are very situational too.
I love running into the Elysium boss with the string of Ariadne x)
there's one that got spoiled by the patch notes i never saw 
bruh skelly works for ||boatman||
is it true they got random devs to record some of the voices
not random lol
Yes, kind of
Sometimes the placeholder voices turned out to be good enough that they became the actual voices in the end result
I love Skelly's voice.
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
Skelly is probably the main example that comes to mind
I would have never been able to tell he voiced those two, the sound so different.
me neither
same
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
Has there been an update on the crosssaves progress?
Just beat ||Hades|| with 5hp
the nerves man
the nerves
also my first heat 2 run
congrats
I'm there as well. Feels like 8 is so far away.
There's dozens of contextual lines most players will never actually hear, which is quite impressive.
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.
yea, its those that i keep finding here and there
i still remember the first time she mentions my weapon being boring without a hammer upgrade
Haven't gotten that one haha. Neat.
I like her response to Exagryph.
"You want me to show you what it does?"
They even thought about players winning the very first run in the game, which realistically, no one would ever do.
"...yes."
I mean during the beta they probably realized just how insane speed runners and challenge runners can be.
It's nice to give them a little nod.
i almost got there on a fresh file, now i wanna give it another go 😫
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.
i wonder if anyone ever beat the game on their first try ever though
like not fresh file
||Disappointing their fans.||
How can they even call themselves a game company without that?
It's standard practice.
Strong doubt.
where's my boss rush where i fight every olympian god @ SuperGiant??
first run has a lot of things excluded, makes it suuuuuuuper hard even if you know what youre doing
it absolutely is
should I feel ashamed for only having cleared the game after enabling god mode?
no, play the game however you want to
no hammers on first run even
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.
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
it's hard to even tell what's going on in later rounds
so much stuff happening at once
fr i dont see why some people cant just let others have fun
Cause you're not a real gamer unless the game you're playing feels like a chore /s
its more that people invest too much of themselves into games
I forgot to screenshot my first win so that's even more fun
I played before godmode was a thing and loved the game but godmode just lets me turn off my brain and go doomguy
Nurturing the pierced butterfly to 30% is hard
Yep, barely got it after few runs
bow + poseidon are your friends
I think I got pretty close with the fists before, but it wasn't a max level butterfly at the time
or anything ranged really
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
hestia sounds like a great butterfly weapon
Is butterfly bonus damage universal?
I'm working on getting all the 4th aspects and man these dialogues don't wanna proc
Yeah it might be far back in the dialogue queue
you may need to ||speak to the specific person with that weapon equipped so that they notice it first||
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?
on top of the other requirements
see I asked if you need to do that and was told its still random
the best way is to experience it yourself 😋
Why don't you try and find out?
ok ok i will
have fun
I like after talking with charon enough hermes gives you a prophecy to just stir up drama
for a long time i was just missing the rail, i spoke to ||Zeus||, they mentioned it, and got it the next time i spoke
interesting
good luck!
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
Yeah 4th aspect dialogue is random and sometimes other dialogue events take priority
And sometimes you need the weapon equipped to trigger it
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?||
end of run, ye
kk
you have to renew your subscription every run!
And you get to keep the gold you "borrowed"
...now i never thought about this but does ||charon get affected by MM?||
MM?
middle management
He's a boss, not a miniboss
miniboss heat
so my thinking is no
Only modifiers that would affect him are those that affect every encounter
Yeah minibosses usually dont have healthbars at the top of the screen
what does FO2 ||charon|| fight be like i wonder
doesnt asterius have it
tried, regretted
i was on fist
But asterius miniboss only changes with EM3
understandable
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
what's the difference? i've been on 2
Heightened security is rough
Some of the perks on their own are pretty nasty
please no
Approval process pained me at times too
numbskulls with shielding and speed 
tiny tartarus room full of skulls
makes me wanna die
never been so scared of a numbskull before
lmao
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
Numb skulls being actually threatening was an unpleasant surprise
i dipped my toe into high heat and immediately noped outta there
heightened security makes it way too possible to be oneshot by traps
Enjoy taking 100 dmg to the noggin from the spear traps in elysium
high heat feels great, really freshens up the game when you get better at lower heat
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
500% trap damage is worth at least 3 heat, i'll die on this hill
yea i wanna do heat soon, but god mode has to come off first......
40 feels impossible for me right now but maybe when i get the hang of 32
I would have settled for two heat but I agree with you
heat caps at 99 right?
64
i got got very bad when i realized some of the final boss attacks are considered "traps"
63 normally, 64 in hell mode
no one's done it yet
whats the highest so far?
this is whyyy
56?
56
because hell mode has personal liability, which removes your brief shield of invincibility if you take a ton of damage
Yeah hard labor and lasting consequences are probably the main obstacles
i dont think so
time is the main one
its JS, health, and timer
Max lasting consequences makes me shudder
timer only a problem when you got a lot else going on
its... not as bad as it seems
Does stubborn roots just not work at max LC?
stubborn roots works
Eris rail nerfed. Been predicting this forever. RIP. Oh well at least I'm mostly done with my heat runs 😁
eris is still very good
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 😥 )
And tidal dash no longer is one of the requirements for sea storm
whoa
i mean, if that's enjoyable for u i dont see why not
yeah that hurts
wait, really??????
i thought all core poseidon
that's what i remember seeing in codex
i only got to try the tidal dash/sea storm combo once
They changed requirements this past patch
so seastorm eris is basically ME now
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
if not, then that explains why i haven't gotten seastorm...
yeah
4s is still close to permanent
for 3 runs yesterday
it was 8 they halved it
The dash was too good
i might as well try to get athena on dash
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
So does it just not work with seastorm now or just not one of the requirements
not a req
just not a requirement
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.
kind of like how fist ME wants athena dash even though its not a requirement
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
im not a fan of hidden rail
It depends a lot on getting the right boons imo
I mean that's kind of the purpose of all the hidden aspects
They're weirder than the other ones
hidden spear is still the weirdest to me
but i also dont like spear in general
it feels pretty safe to play though
it feels safe until you got hit by a sneeze
i just don't enjoy it unless i got flurry jab
then it doesnt
built in explosive launcher is pretty nice
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
4th aspect gun is very fun with athena special
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
same
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
Spear feels clunkiest to me
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
throws special, tries to bull rush wait, i can't bull rush? oh
you cant bull rush after special? bruh
achiles threw me into a crowd of enemies too often
i only play zeus shield really
to be fair idk the optimal way to play it
Achilles damage boost can be nutty
so i'll have to study a run
but thats kinda bc i dont have enough blood to unlock the other aspects
i have never touched hades spear
I did once and I didn't really notice a difference in it
it becomes significantly better once someone told me you can cancel the charge with a dash to do a moving spin
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)
so you become like... gasp ||hades||?
ye lol

what a surprise
4th aspect is great until you die in a few attacks from ||hades||
but up until then you one shot everything with ur special
What does hades spear actually do
spin sweep makes enemies take more damage
im kinda sad thats all it does, feels like a strictly worse eris
you can still heal, yeah
imagine actually healing with it, lc or not
It's overshadowed by achilles aspect
so slow u end up losing more health than not lol
spin charge speed uuuuuuuuuuup!
speen
hades spear marks the enemies with the spin, causing them to take +150% damage from attacks and special

works great with artemis
double eris dmg and more than double duration
only for attack/special tho
not overall damage
but triple dash attack go brrr
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)?
yep
does dash attack count as attack in that case?
yea
dash attack is attack
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%.....
it's like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares
uhh dio-arte duo adds 25%
:( there are a bunch of builds i want to try but i have so much homework
Just lost best time by like
i'm not sure how crit chance stacks up though
only true build is rushing exclusive access and steam rolling
a second
I got hunting blades with achilles aspect once with fully loaded
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%?
linear vs multiplicative stacking.... i play too many games like this..
im 99% sure all damage (besides base) stacks additively
i think generally bonuses in hades are additive yeah
so your build will do base perfect shot + 450% of that
Crit is multiplicative, but everything else is additive, yeah
it made me sad about crit builds, they aren't as crazy as you think at first
wait crit is multiplicative? wtf
its +200%, leading to 3x base damage
No no, it multiplies everything
Wiki says Damage = Base Damage
× (1 + Sum of Critical Damage Bonus)
× (1 + Sum of Regular Damage Bonuses)
Heart Rend makes the crit multiplier 4.5
It used to say +50%, now it says +150%
The actual functionality didnt change
1+3.5 = 4.5..?
so criting with an attack with like poseidon boon will do (base x ~100%) x3?
Like I said, it's really badly worded
Ah
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)
etc etc
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%
No, if you have two +20% attack boons, they add up to +40%
They are not multiplicative
Crit chance also stacks additively
so 19%
any recommended keymap for keyboard + mouse players?
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)
Get a mouse with extra thumb buttons and rebind special and cast to those
Correct
kk
i like the snappy aim assist
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.
kbm sounds like it would significantly improves hidden gun though
my friend called me a monster for using KBM
i'm not sure how it is on controller since i don't use it for any games
yea u can only move in 8 directions xD and no speed control, x P
but the game was primarily made for controller, right? least that's what he said to me
Yeah
the title screen says so
Yeah I think the devs even recommend controller
imagine reading
If they had intended for people to actually use KBM, they wouldnt have made special the Q key
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.
no
but
R3 reload
are the defaults really that bad?
Amir literally said "that's part of the learning curve of playing rail"
maybe im just used to them at this point
Which is stupid as HECK but hey
lmao literally everyone rebinded it
Yeah
That's what I mean, rebinding it is the sign that you are now good with rail
Or something
amir pls
I dunno man, it's BS and they should still change it
i also rebinded boons to L3 now that i know i want to press it at basically every beginning of late rooms
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?
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....
doom special
thunks
you want %damage on your attack for nemesis i think
Or Artemis for even MORE crit
even if I keep forgetting to change off acorn when I start new runs
for like the
50th time
or dash strike artemis
I wish you could turn on a need to change keepsake before you start run mode
- double edge
you want heartrend somehow right
i usually just give up the moment i realize i'm on the wrong keepsake lol
Already got double edge
welp you can't give up now
I haven't given up once
i usually know instantly when the first boon isnt the suspected one
cuz u want a good first boon?
ye
i give up a lot when i have a good first room
since giving up gives you the same room
Giving up just resets you back to the weapon room, like the run never happened
It doesnt count
or if theres a chaos gate first room thats good too
yah its also good for testing out weapons
since it resets ur titan blood when you give up
your last autosave will be the last time you enter the training room
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
You would have known if you had given up at least once!
I'm always happy whenever the fury is meg
she's always the easiest
I haven't tho :p
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.
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.
- from speedrunning discord
i'm appreciating tis more and more
Tisiphone is the second best
Alecto is just painful
Tisiphone I need to get more used to
but is fine
Meg is ez
I found tis easiest
meg is p slow to kill she dashes around so often
tis is easy if u have athena dash
Tis lets you backstab for like 5 min
best part about tis is she cuts off her own attacks to change rooms
tis is easiest for me but alecto makes me cry







