Current Events > Hades 2 early access is out now

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/Hades_II/

Came here to post this

Already bought and DLing, though realistically I won't get to it until I finish LaD

I never really got into the first game, seemed like something i would have enjoyed when i was younger though

They're saying this early access build already has more environments, enemies, and voiced characters than the full release of Hades

Ruddager posted...

They're saying this early access build already has more environments, enemies, and voiced characters than the full release of Hades

Thats awesome, but I still avoid early access. Ill happily buy it at full release though. Loved the first game.

While I trust supergiant to release an Early Access game worth playing, I've played every single one of their games and in every instance I waited until full release. For people who are anticipating putting hundreds of hours into this game I absolutely get why they would want to start now, but as someone who's likely to play through it just enough to get the true ending and then move on, what I'm looking for just isn't there yet.

Fucking A!

I am so not ready for this game right now though. I just gotta wait.

Not going to bother with Hades 2 unless they add a custom mode.

roguelites work surprisingly well for the early access model

Fuck yeah

Tyranthraxus posted...

Not going to bother with Hades 2 unless they add a custom mode.

what do you mean by custom mode?

Hades had plenty of options for how you wanted runs to go with the heat system

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Early access is PC only, yeah.

thronedfire2 posted...

what do you mean by custom mode?

Hades had plenty of options for how you wanted runs to go with the heat system

The custom mode from Dead Cells essentially. The heat system in hades is the equivalent to dead cells boss stem cells. Hades doesn't have a custom mode equivalent.

A custom mode in Hades would theoretically allow you to:

• Enable or Disable certain blessings from appearing.
• Raise / Lower the amount of money you get
• Alter the number of times you're allowed to summon
• Alter the gauge fill rate
• Alter the number of Hammer upgrades you're allowed to have at once.
• Alter cast charges

Etc.

The point is to try out creative strategies for fun. Like maybe you want to play using only Athena blessings. Or maybe you want no blessings at all but you want every hammer at the same time. Or maybe you turn off all blessings and hammers but give yourself unlimited summons.

Shit like that is why I'm still playing dead cells and not Hades.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The custom mode from Dead Cells essentially. The heat system in hades is the equivalent to dead cells boss stem cells. Hades doesn't have a custom mode equivalent.

A custom mode in Hades would theoretically allow you to:
* Enable or Disable certain blessings from appearing.
* Raise / Lower the amount of money you get
* Alter the number of times you're allowed to summon
* Alter the gauge fill rate
* Alter the number of Hammer upgrades you're allowed to have at once.
* Alter cast charges
Etc.

The point is to try out creative strategies for fun. Like maybe you want to play using only Athena blessings. Or maybe you want no blessings at all but you want every hammer at the same time. Or maybe you turn off all blessings and hammers but give yourself unlimited summons.

Shit like that is why I'm still playing dead cells and not Hades.

You can mostly control your blessings in Hades. I don't think it's possible to *only* get blessings from one god, and I'm not sure why you'd want to. but you can definitely influence the first couple you get. most of the rest of that can be influenced by boons and items. I have to wonder how all those options effect the balance though. Hammer upgrades can already be 1 per ability, anything stacking would probably be way too OP.

I will have to play Dead Cells more since that sounds interesting, but I think I'm the opposite of you. I put 120 hours into Hades the first 3 weeks it was out, and only played Dead Cells for like 2 hours so far >_>

thronedfire2 posted...

You can mostly control your blessings in Hades

Kinda but not really. Once you pick 4 different blessings then only those gods will ever appear again but you can easily be put in a situation where you're forced to take a blessing you don't want.

It's less of an issue in dead cells since you can always just destroy anything you find for a little cash and there's no restrictions on what can appear outside of the restrictions you set in custom mode.

s0nicfan posted...

While I trust supergiant to release an Early Access game worth playing, I've played every single one of their games and in every instance I waited until full release. For people who are anticipating putting hundreds of hours into this game I absolutely get why they would want to start now, but as someone who's likely to play through it just enough to get the true ending and then move on, what I'm looking for just isn't there yet.

I get this viewpoint, but I bought it anyway just to support the devs. One of the few ones I'd do this for

Ill buy it closer to release. I dont want to play an unfinished product and burn myself out on it before it has all its content. I have no doubt whats there is already great though and Im looking forward to it, I wonder if CE will still be online when it releases

solosnake posted...

I never really got into the first game, seemed like something i would have enjoyed when i was younger though

Ive had games like this but it was usually because they were really simplistic or childish. Hades is neither.

My only complaint about EA so far is that Narcissus doesn't have a portrait yet and I DESPERATELY want to see it.