My favorite Skull aspect delivers at 32 Fear | Hades 2 

"What do the familiars do now...?" With the new system, anything can still show up, but the one you have equipped is extremely weighted above all others, to the point that the others practically won't show up at all. The pets act like a mini-equip, so the fish/ghosts can actually show up still. More importantly to me, they let you skip the minigame for looting the ghosts/fishes.

there was 100% a n input lag on dash and it was driving me crazy, the only gripe i have about the game, but im glad to see theres a solution!

Which aspect is this with the loading thing?

Just noticed the "some friends over for dinner" line from the Cyclops haha, nice Silence of the lambs reference

A big problem with most of the hexes is that you are very vulnerable while using them. Like the animation for all of them you would use mid combat leaves you to be hit

I dont agree that moon water needs a nerf. On higher fear, that heal is essentially non-existent and I actually prefer other hexes cause the gains are so minimal.

Ngl, seeing that I'm not the only one who gets wrecked early in the run is kinda calming.

Just realized while watching this that Polyphemus has green hair because he’s a son of Poseidon. He takes after dad a bit.

the skulls are definitely my favorite. they offer such a unique playstyle. when i first unlocked them i was so disappointed and after a run or two i was like dawg these might be pretty good lol

My thoughts on the hexes: Yeah moon water I think maybe just needs fewer uses, or to heal less? Start with 1 use (maybe even limit to a single use)? Maybe increase the mana cost to like 100-120? Also the upgrade that gives coins is weird and insignificant. Move it to a new hex that is more focused around that… replace it with an effect that reduces the mana cost. Dark side should just apply/include your attack and special boons and benefit from any other such boons that impact attacks and specials. If it could apply curses and scale with your boons I think it would be fine. If I recall lunar ray doesn’t make you invulnerable during the attack which is the big issue I see there (you kinda get stuck in a spot for too long, maybe if you could still dash like zag could with the rail gun). Some builds also just out damage this ability too, so unlike total eclipse it just slows you down sometimes. It needs some juice in short I think. Night bloom Should be like half the mana cost to charge I feel. It’s hard to use and doesn’t do much in most cases. Twilight curse should not target 10 foes and should be cheaper. Honestly if it was like 1 foe but to charge it up was like 30 mana that would be a lot better and actually usable. Could make it 60 mana and target like 2, then path of stars to have it affect more targets. 10 is overkill and the cost to charge it up makes it hard to use in most cases. Wolf howl needs something. The damage it deals isn’t significant enough. If it gave you a buff after using or applied some debuff to the enemies hit… maybe if stunned enemies and/or removed armor effectively then probably be worth it. Idea it applies a curse that makes enemies take 50% more damage (100% to armor) or something. Lastly feel like in general the path of stars is lack luster for some hexes. Not enough increase to power (such upgrades should be double I feel what they are currently), lot of the time these just sort of feel kinda just there, not a desirable choice. Some upgrades in short need to feel more impactful. Moon water perhaps the one case currently where path of stars is too good, more an issue with the hex itself though. Best hexes to me definitely seem to be: Moon Water (kinda like extra death defiances without the death part) Phase Shift (Slow effect is just good) Total Eclipse (kinda just a super omega cast)

“F*** I thought I dashed” is the best summary of my feedback for Hades 2. Love them game though.

Wild that the Zeus boon that Hermes dropped didn't get onioned. Wonder if it matters that you bought it in the City instead of on the Rift, or if that doesn't matter at all...

you are missing a lot of hermes shops. is it on purpose? they are not worth even taking a look? just wondering

I dont even know how to pick 16 fear oath. Everything looked terrible. I miss extreme measures.

I like the aspect - it feels like Beowulf in hades 1 but it doesn’t feel as good because the skulls don’t seem to blow up consistently at the end of the special

My take on Hexes so far is that you can divide them into three or so categories: Good, Good with Path of Stars, and not good. Some of those blue upgrades (Lunar Ray autofire, Wolf Howl Invuln, Eclipse Slowdown, Minion Explosions) are really really helpful! I once did a run where I was basically fully invuln because of the aforementioned Wolf Howl upgrade. Also, since they're based on spending magic, not all builds get to use them at all (and the Night Arcana sucks to take). Oh but the Morph projectile probably just sucks.

Random idea but it would be pretty cool if for extreme measures, Eris gets a bunch of random hammers and upgrades which could have funny interactions with Icarus

On the topic of what they'll do with Ares (and probably Dionysus too), I think it's just difficult to come up with so many different damaging debuffs. I think having multiple similar ones is fine as long as the t2 boons are unique/fun, for example Dio in 1 vs Hestia with stuff like strong drink, slow cooker, bad influence, fire extinguisher, etc. They both revolve mainly around stacking DoT and a little bit of survivability but there's enough differences in how the other boons work to make them unique. Ares and Hephaestus both have delayed damage debuffs, but Ares also has lots of stuff to increase your damage and all the blade rift stuff where Heph from what I've seen is more about long cooldown burst damage explosions and being tanky (or sometimes even wanting to take damage). Similar debuffs, but different everything else

I'm struggling with 16 fear Underworld path and he's casually clearing 32 fear 😆 Edit: Nvm cleared 16 right after this comment, but there ain't no way I'm trying 32!

Dark Side from Selene needs a buff either in damage or duration because five seconds ain't enough for it to be worth it in combat

The biggest issue for me with Polyphemus is all the weird hitboxes for him and his attacks. If the angle isn't managed correctly on his ring attacks (such as if auto-aim pushes you into a mob you didn't intend to go after) then you can get hit 2-3 times by his strong attacks. I think that if he was reworked to do all the same things he does now but with discrete projectiles instead of the strange "ring" AOEs, he'd still have the same intended challenge but you'd be less likely to get multi-hit because you caught a weird angle on the dodge. This also affects his leap collision. His current design almost makes me wonder if SGG is actively using him to test how players respond to certain attack types? Because he has 3 different AOE attacks that all function differently. There's the red ring stomp attack. Then the leap, which is a single slow moving projectile that continue to hit. There's the fast pressure wave attack when he kicks or throws the boulder. And finally, there's the "shockwave" attack where he stomps out a half-ring of earthquakes.

This looks so fun! I messed around with the Aspect on Skelly and thought I had to just wait for them to detonate. Makes sense the idea is to dash through. Looks like a super fun playstyle!

Went back and played a hades 1 run.. it felt so easy to gain power from random unplanned boons. Though Hades 2 has some things that need nerfed, I think more things need to be buffed. Up at higher Fear you just have to have a great build and skill cannot carry you or compensate for underpowered boons/hammers (for most people). I’m mostly talking Fear 24+ where time becomes a huge issue with low output builds.

I wonder if Medea needs to come with a damage resistance while using special buff, or a max HP buff

0:18 each level of the swift runner does 5%, 7.5%, and 10%

is there any way to kill the sheep? i feel i can never get rid of them i either just dance around them or just get hit

Haelian, You're amazing! I hit the like button as soon as I saw it!

balancing the game is great and all but where are the custom decorations? they should focus on what really matters.

Just watching the Cyclops fight gave me stress. Great fight!!!

I thought this aspect was weak asf until i realized you could tap special to dash all 3 skull blasts at the same time lmfaooo

I mean blitz is literally doom with a different trigger like the Zeus Aphrodite duo is the same as Athena ares duo in the first game if you had Athena’s dash

that's my most hated aspect, so double GG :)

How to Activate all 25 Arcanas Simultaneously (AKA *Arcana Of The Ages* in the Fated List) Disclaimer: I haven't Tested It Yet 👀 Step 1: Activate atleast *14 Cards* (if you can activate more thats even better). Step 2: Upgrade *Crystal Figurine* Keep Sake and *Judgement* Arcana to Rank 3. Step 3: *DO NOT UPGRADE ANY OTHER INACTIVE CARDS TO RANK 3* 😳 Step 4: Defeat Hecate and pray that the *Crystal Figurine* Rolls The *Judgement* Arcana. Step 5: Defeat Chronos. Yes.... The *Crystal Figurine* ChooseS Which Cards to Activate based on its Own Rank so If *Judgement* is the only Rank 3 Card then that's the the one it should Roll. Sloppy Game Design.... You shouldnt have to Avoid Upgrading things to Complete a Challenge 🤔 3 Runs so Far and I haven't Rolled *Judgement* Yet 😭

Ah so its not just me that hates the Polyphemus fight. Balance Patch would be nice. I suspect some form of nerf for Staff special and Born again. Wouldnt be surprised about changes to double up, im not sure everything it affects is intentional. Buff to Moon would be nice. I like it mechanically but a lot of the stuff seems undertuned or has bugs (the circle for the Jump doesnt show up so often). Im also not sure if Chronos anti slowdown really needs to affect the moon stuff so much, makes many of them useless.

Its partly an apollo issue, partly just the poms being scaled down moreso in Hades 2 at Heroic rarity due to them being much more common now. I think a small buff to apollo's radius would justify the lessser damage.

The Argent Skull was my least favorite weapon at first. Then the aspect of Medea got me my first two wins against Chronos. The flow I found was loading 2 attacks, then omega special across as many enemies as possible, load the third attack, and do it again the other way. Cast as needed. Aprhodite attack and cast work wonders. Almost anything on special is great.

I know this problem will solve itself when the surface eventually gets more areas, but for the moment it feels really awkward when you get the Hermes shop on the ship.

The word or icon in green is the value that is modified. So it likely went 0/5/10 for level 1/2/3 dash arcana.

I am not 100% but I imagine attack speed for the medea aspect makes loading the shells quicker.

I also tried fear 32 with medea, but lost to a tiny health of final boss. dang speed Eris is crazy😢

Just get rid of the damn sheep

Regards to the dash - originally you had to wait for the shadow behind you to catch up before you could dash again

Can you try aspect of Pan on the sister blades with the spiral knives hammer?

@0:20 5% 7.5% and 10%

23:00 Does attack speed affect the fall speed of skulls...? That might be useful.

Maye we get a bigger god pool after we unlocked dio, ares and athena.

Born Gain is probably going to get nerfed or have a rework.

For moon water, they could change it to a regen effect.

How did you rarify the Apollo attack from common to heroic at 04:17 ?

I don't really like Medea Skull it feels really underwhelming honestly and the fact that you pretty much have no choice but to omega special into enemies or else you're trading damage feels really shit to me

wait, so is charybdis technically a mini boss? i swear i had a run where i fought charybdis *instead* of eris, as in, i beat charybdis, went out the door, and got one of the placeholder end screens where the narrator was like "let's just say melinoë ran into some obstacles and died. the end for now!" and then i was back in the crossroads. my partner had a run where the same thing happened. does anyone know why this is?

Ain't she a beaut :D

i have found myself depending on the immediate dash way too much

just my opion but this is a 1-P game, there should be very little to NO nerfs. buffs should be implemented more then nerfs. if something is just better than everything else, buff the shitty options, dont nerf the good ones.

@haelian, or anyone else, I’m considering getting Early Access but cannot find any official information that I will get the main game after it. Can someone reassure me please? I have copy-pasted this so could someone answer…

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My fave aspect 🥺♥️

What torch aspect is that? Around 00:30s

I believe old dash had wind-up frames compared to the new one

Yes

I honestly think the dash is waaaay better now

I think the current balance for surface bosses is a really good place for their eventual extreme measures to be at I'd say for base Poly take away the hitbox on his jump, the shockwaves on his slow walk, and don't spawn fire barrel throwers. for base Eris, take away the fire tar hazards in the arena, the shotgun attack, and reduce the frequency of +100% damage procs. then when you turn on extreme measures, just revert the bosses to their current states

Personally I think it's not Momus that needs to get nerfed, but the other weapons need to be made better so they stand a chance against it. Compared to Hades, I think weapons are really bad in this game, aside from the staff and the daggers.

Do you unlock the scythe after defeating Chronos? he seems to have different looking weapons from mine....

the skull just doesn't feel nice to use, most of the weapons don't feel good unfortunately

The sprint was faster before update

My first skull run i beated Chronus

no offense to the devs but what we have is playable balance later fix bugs and add content now