Hades (Supergiant Games)

Intrinsic said:

Really want to play this but will wait until EA is over. Probably won't run well on my work laptop anyways. These days I never even get to my gaming machine.

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I doubt the EA will be that long. Release maybe late this year, next year at the latest. Version number is already at 0.9, which seems accurate. Tons of content. Even has lots of meta dialogue (not at that part myself) that is clearly only for EA. Genuinely seems like 90% of the game is in already.

Finally beat on the path upwards and got the 'To Be Continued' page, so it's clear that adding in Olympus is still to come.
Right now I'm having the most success with Poseidon/Hera/Hephaestus builds as it has plenty of AE and damage reduction to deal with trash but still enough oomph for Guardians.

I really haven't done much with the alternative forms of the weapons though. It's funny because the pom poms are my second-least-favorite weapon and yet that's what I was using when I got the furthest.

Found the broken thing. I beat upper path, figured "It can't be that easy can it?" Immediately did the lower path, got to Chronos which I had gotten to several times but never even gotten past phase 1. This time, beat him easily.

It's the cast. Hestia has a boon called "Glowing Coal". It turns your cast into a projectile that fires in a line ahead of you. Normally cast either works by you casting it on top of you, then remaining on the ground. Or you can get a boon that makes it follow you. Or you can get a boon where you can mark a spot and cast it stationary there. However, the boon that turns it into a projectile has a second part to it. The description says "Hold Cast to aim a fiery projectile that explodes on impact. The binding circle forms there." You'd think that would mean that where it hits, it sticks to the ground. However, it doesn't, it sticks to the mob, even if they move around.

So force that boon, then get either the Zeus boon for constant lightning damage on cast, or the scorch one. You basically just kite and spam the charged cast. Cerberus didn't even hit me. Can get lucky/unlucky on the damage done by the cast, but all that does is it takes less/more time to kill the guardians.

I assume this will be nerfed to where the cast sticks where it hits. Because as of now, it is outright broken.

Qhue said:

Finally beat

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Eris

on the path upwards and got the 'To Be Continued' page, so it's clear that adding in Olympus is still to come.
Right now I'm having the most success with Poseidon/Hera/Hephaestus builds as it has plenty of AE and damage reduction to deal with trash but still enough oomph for Guardians.

I really haven't done much with the alternative forms of the weapons though. It's funny because the pom poms are my second-least-favorite weapon and yet that's what I was using when I got the furthest.

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Finally beat that last fight on the surface path. Was way easier when I noticed I could use the two pillars to hide and then Whirlwind.

Want to unlock Aspect of Pan for heat seeking Daggers special. But still need farm some stuff to unlock that.

Farming stuff can be a pain truly. At this point I'm doing upper runs just to get the damn driftwood

Lumi said:

btw this is one of the best boss fight songs of all time

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I think they have 3 songs? Might be more, but I think I've heard 3 so far. Also nice detail they added that the songs shift based on which band members you take down first.

I didn't know much about the first one, but I did thoroughly enjoy it. However, if I play the second one it'll be pirated. I'm not giving money to companies that pander to the mentally-ill.

Finally beat Chronus with a random and oddly effective build. Can now earn Nightmare tokens to upgrade the arms further. I'm on night 90 or so, so I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of the game!

Tried it today after a break. Lots of boons are changed and it felt a bit harder. I did manage to beat Chronos with some random wierd Axe build.

When does this officially release?

I think they said

Penance said:

When does this officially release?

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I think they said end of the year when they released Early Access.

Anyone unlocked Familiars in Hades 2? I have like 50h from EA and still no incantation for them.

It's 10/10

Intrinsic said:

I've only had a little bit but so far have done Cerberus a few times. Seems to be a decent step up in DPS / skill check as a ton of shit is going on simultaneously. Unlocked most of the weapons except the umm... damn, now I can't remember the name, after the 3x flying skull weapon, Revaal? Whatever comes next.

Mostly stick to the first weapon that I just call the spear even though I think it is actually a staff. A lot of fun, tons of stuff to do and runs get better and better. I can pretty much cruise to end of Cerberus now regardless of boons.

One annoyance is getting whisked away to Asphodel. It just sucks and currently I dislike the mechanic of being in the middle of a good run and yanked out of it to that crap hole. I imagine like a lot of stuff in Hades 1 though it "changes" with progression.

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Spear is probably my favorite too. Second favorite is the axe but it's 3rd attack is so hard to use because you get animation locked