Hades - Early Access “Beefy” Update Live
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A brand new Early Access update is now live for Supergiant Games' roguelite action-RPG Hades. This new update introduces a new biome along with new foes to the game, improves its UI, adds some story events with roughly a thousand of new voice lines, fixes some bugs and more. You can find the complete patch notes in this Reddit thread. Here are some highlights:
HighlightsGeneral Gameplay
- Elysium: rise up to an all-new biome of the Underworld, rife with new perils and mysteries.
- Theseus & the Minotaur: they await you in the afterlife of heroes... who else will you find up there?
- Redesigned Dash: outmaneuver your foes like never before with this newly revised core ability.
- Improved UI: all-new Boon Info display lets you track an even greater number of power-ups.
- New Foes: confront the Exalted and the Nemean Chariot, among other Elysian foes.
- New Boons: look for new God Boons, including all-new 'Exchange' choices.
- New Story Events: including ~1,000 new voice lines! The most added in an update since launch.
Weapons & Powers
- Added the third main biome after Asphodel (good luck up there).
- Boons and other power-up rewards now show up relatively more often as Chamber Reward options.
- You can now find and use more than one Daedalus Hammer per escape attempt.
- Reworked damage scaling from multiple Boons; effects are generally additive rather than multiplicative.
- Olympians will sometimes offer an Exchange of Boons; Exchanges always have a higher power level.
- Added Heroic rarity level for Boons, greater than Epic (note: used with 'Exchange' Boons).
- Poms of Power now yield diminishing returns when repeatedly applied to the same Boons.
- Infernal Troves requiring Skeleton Keys are rarer but yield greater rewards.
- Infernal Gates appear slightly more often.
- Dash: redesigned for a more fluid feel.
- Wrath: reduced meter gain from dealing and receiving damage; meter no longer gained from pillars.
- Stygian Blade: slightly reduced recovery time of Nova special.
- Heart-Seeking Bow: standard shot now staggers foes on-hit; increased stagger duration of Power Shot; reduced recovery time of Volley special.
- Shield of Chaos: increased attack damage; increased knockback for Bull Rush; you are now invulnerable while using Bull Rush.
- Eternal Spear: reduced damage of Throw special; removed recovery time if you retrieve a thrown Spear by moving to it; slightly increased range of Spin Attack to match the visual.
- Adamant Rail: increased speed and reduced recovery of Bombard special; attack projectile hitbox slightly increased (making it more effective against foes' projectile attacks).
