Poll of the Day > How do people feel about heat levels in Hades? *possible spoilers*

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Or things like heat levels in other games?

I don't think I'll spoiler cover most things in this topic. Just a warning...

I know many complain about how games can't make it harder without resorting to more health for enemies, and less for the character. But I think the heat levels work pretty well. Some are things like more enemies, more health for them, etc... But some do other things. Like one upgrades the bosses, which does different things. Like the first boss is one of the Fury Sisters. When you use that heat, it make you fight one while one or two of them help out. So, they essentially get more moves. Or when you fight Lernie, the fighting area can change, which changes how you fight them. They also have different heats that do thing like make you give up a boon on different floors, one that reduces you choices of boons, and one that gives armored enemies a perk (per rank). And you get to choose which ones to put on.

I personally like it, and think it's a good way to add challenge to the game. And at your own pace. How you you all feel about it?
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I enjoy it, all of the extra boss stuff is well done, same with the miniboss stuff.
I don't like playing with the time limit, because it clicks something into my brain that makes me not enjoy it, but I have fun with everything else.

I will always murder myself with that +400% trap damage though, because I think I don't get hit by traps, it's free heat. And then I die from lava.

shadowsword87 posted...

I enjoy it, all of the extra boss stuff is well done, same with the miniboss stuff.
I don't like playing with the time limit, because it clicks something into my brain that makes me not enjoy it, but I have fun with everything else.

I will always murder myself with that +400% trap damage though, because I think I don't get hit by traps, it's free heat. And then I die from lava.

Yeah. I havent tried the time limit one. My friend said he might because his times have been pretty fast lately. And the lava has gotten me a couple of times. If you use the last aspect of the sword, though, you can make the lava a non-issue for a little.
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its pretty genius, letting you choose which aspects of hard modes you find the most enjoyable and add them in incrementally

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TheSlinja posted...

its pretty genius, letting you choose which aspects of hard modes you find the most enjoyable and add them in incrementally

Yeah. I really like being able to actually choose how it gets harder. And what level to put it at, as well...
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LinkPizza posted...

Yeah. I havent tried the time limit one. My friend said he might because his times have been pretty fast lately. And the lava has gotten me a couple of times. If you use the last aspect of the sword, though, you can make the lava a non-issue for a little.

I've been getting 20-30 minutes for a run, it's just the fact that I don't like how it makes me feel seeing the timer go down, I feel like I don't have time to check on everything before I leave, despite totally 100% been fine doing it.

shadowsword87 posted...

I've been getting 20-30 minutes for a run, it's just the fact that I don't like how it makes me feel seeing the timer go down, I feel like I don't have time to check on everything before I leave, despite totally 100% been fine doing it.

I know what you mean. Time limits in certain games mess with me. I'm usually not good around them. I don't even really speedrun...
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Theyre fun but theyre really inconsistent

Like you can have the heat at 1 but set it to something really tough, or you can max out extreme measures which adds like 10 or so points of heat, but doesnt actually make the bosses that much tougher if you already know their sequences well

I kinda wish it worked like the ascension levels in Slay the Spire where each completion just added a preset difficulty modifier on subsequent runs

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shadowsword87 posted...

I enjoy it, all of the extra boss stuff is well done, same with the miniboss stuff.
I don't like playing with the time limit, because it clicks something into my brain that makes me not enjoy it, but I have fun with everything else.

I will always murder myself with that +400% trap damage though, because I think I don't get hit by traps, it's free heat. And then I die from lava.

The traps one can really suck because some attacks actually do trap damage, like the bubble things that explode while fighting the last boss

if you have that modifier you pretty much have to dodge every one of those attacks or get the Athena boon that reduces trap damage

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Mead posted...

Theyre fun but theyre really inconsistent

Like you can have the heat at 1 but set it to something really tough, or you can max out extreme measures which adds like 10 or so points of heat, but doesnt actually make the bosses that much tougher if you already know their sequences well

I kinda wish it worked like the ascension levels in Slay the Spire where each completion just added a preset difficulty modifier on subsequent runs

It's true. Because normally, when you go up a level in something, you get one heat. But you get 2 for the next level up, meaning you jump to three heat. So, trying to get to a certain heat level can be a little difficult at times if you want certain ones, but Idk...

Mead posted...

The traps one can really suck because some attacks actually do trap damage, like the bubble things that explode while fighting the last boss

if you have that modifier you pretty much have to dodge every one of those attacks or get the Athena boon that reduces trap damage

Oh. I didn't know about that. I just thought they were just regular attacks. I need to remember this...
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