[WR] Hades 2 - Fresh File in 30m 50s 

Well from a canon perspective on fresh file there would be no "again". She would go out and come back on the first night and Hecate would be like you WHAT??? Edit: Nevermind I went to comments before watching the video

There is! He doesn't recognize you and asks "Who might you be?" I haven't read through the whole thing, but there should be a couple frames with it visible in the run if you pause well enough.

@@Museus7 Was actually able to see the whole exchange by using < and > to go frame-by-frame.

Fun fact: They didn't in the first game, but when they saw how speedrunners were playing the game, they added one. So they were already for it when they made Hades II :)

There are also some trees you can activate that do the same, but they take a short time to do so

@@ArgorLp pretty sure you need an incantation for that though

@@BrooklynDoge Really? Never paid attention, but it always worked for me

Yeah its an incantation you have to unlook first

Yeah that a mistake to take, I wasn't aware at that point that Poseidon Legendary was locked behind story progression, so I just kept trying to find it.

I had the Double Up boon from Poseidon, which currently works on poms, so I knew I had a chance for a quick 6 poms, which felt worth the extra chamber.

@@Museus7 Yeah 6 poms is crazy good

Theres still a lot of unbalanced stuff in this game really. I know first game had some OP stuff but it was ususally a near finished build, or bugs like "bad news" boon and Beowulf shield with mirage cast. here its more individual stuff thats unbalanced also the mana system feels not fully adjusted. Its early access, so we wait to see whats changed on that aspect.

I don't actually know how much the arcana cost and which would be valuable, but I think it is unlikely to be worth it since you would need to make up any time you spend farming

It's for sure possible - another speedrunner, Sophie, has a segmented clear where she only died because of a bug with the instakill attack where she was inside the circle, and then easily cleared the fight after reloading the save. I'm sure that a full clear is going to happen soon, probably within the week. It's probably not going to be as fast as 3rd or 4th run for a while though, because of the hammers you unlock after the first run.

It's actually been done by a handful of people already. The run takes longer because you don't have hammers and you have to play a bit safer, but it's definitely doable.

No, it's Scalding Vapor - the Hestia + Poseidon duo boon

bro hepatitis is a sickness

It's random, but you have a limited god pool in Fresh File, so the odds of seeing a specific god are higher. I just got really lucky this run, although by the end I would have liked to see something other than Poseidon

axe w blitz omega attack go burrr . kind of feels like ares boons

Dying 3 times guarantees that you start with Hestia, unlocks both hammers, and pushes Eris back to the Fields instead of Oceanus

You can for sure go through the game on the first run, but it is significantly harder and slower for now

Unlocks some stuff, also prevents Eris from giving you a progressive debuff

Mmmmh Eris can debuff you but if you dont take any damage her debuff is useless ^^

From my understanding it's to do 3 things: -Unlock the hammers for your weapon (1st death) -Push back Eris from spawning in an earlier biome (3rd death) -Force a Hestia boon to appear as the first one (3rd death)

The gold leaves dont lead to each reward, in my experience. They can help you find the first one maybe, but the other ones don't have leaves leading straight to them

The leaves only lead to the tree.

Absolutely, this was only my first completed run, there's a ton of room for improvement.