The cost of things in the shop is pretty accurate in terms of value.

No there's just a pool of bosses. Difficulty is altered manually via Heat, which you'll unlock eventually.

I've got some titan blood now, but the weapon upgrades don't unlock until after your first successful run, is that right?

Yeah the incremental upgrades you get with poms are generally not as good as a whole new boon. Cast is one thing I almost always forget to use, although the plus damage when you have casts in enemies is good for bosses.

How many runs is that Moot? Your arcade skills are coming in handy, a lot of people don’t see the big man until the twenties or thirties.

And I'm out, what a game.  

Tempy wrote:

How many runs is that Moot? Your arcade skills are coming in handy, a lot of people don’t see the big man until the twenties or thirties.

Shuffling my feet here, but I started with God mode on, which adds 20% defence to Zagreus, which increases by 2% after every death.  I just finished it with 50% additional defence, which I assume means I died fifteen times.   Even so it was no pushover (actually my final run was, I'm not sure I've ever felt so gloriously powerful in a videogame).  I'd read it was an excellent way of easing the player into the systems/swifter unlocks, which it was as I'm not one to devote hours upon hours to single game, but in fairness I've only seen off the undercard at this stage - the real game starts when I toggle it off again.  I'd usually be done at this stage tbh, but there's absolute no chance I'll stop here.  It's one of the best games I've ever played.

hylian_elf wrote:

... God mode?  There is such a thing?

Yeah, it’s in the options / settings I think.

This feels like when I did the year 9 street run time trial in 12 minutes and the PE teacher said "this is a very, very, very good time" as he clicked the stopwatch and all I could wheeze out after a strong finish was "I went the wrong way sir".

Ah, God Mode explains it. Never touch the stuff myself, heard it rots the old brain. Good work either way.

tin_robot wrote:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

This feels like when I did the year 9 street run time trial in 12 minutes and the PE teacher said "this is a very, very, very good time" as he clicked the stopwatch and all I could wheeze out after a strong finish was "I went the wrong way sir".

Ha!  At least you were honest. I ended up on my school cross country team because I didn't dare tell them that the school's usual cross country route went past my house, so I'd just nipped in there for a drink and a biscuit, then popped back out when I saw the pack running back.  I ended up having to take part in some God-forsaken Regional Cross Country Championship.

(Though coming back to Hades - I'd stopped playing shortly after getting to, and losing to, the Big Man himself a couple of times.  I may have to pop back on at some stage and give God Mode a try, as if my Cross Country experience had taught me nothing.)

And doctors have the audacity to tell us to eat fewer biscuits and exercise more?!

The audacity! Audacity!

Enjoy, Bob.

You'll get there elf. Get to maximising those abilities and you'll be melting him in no time. Also think of what big late game boons you like the best and choose the starting god that will get you to there. Even though it's random you can really influence your path with your choices.

There's lots of ways to do things, but it's typical to use a god accessory to try to get your preferred primary means of dealing damage at the start. 

Something that doesn't ever get explained - once you've had a god turn up they're more likely to be added to the 'pool' of gods you encounter during that run. That means if there's a god you don't want to see, you shouldn't pick up any of their boons from a shop, or choose them 'just because' when it's a choice between them and a pom (for example).

Maybe more worth bearing in mind when you're aiming for a specific build at higher heat levels or speed running, but could be helpful.

Fucking hell. Got to him with 4 resurrects and still died. Got him to a quarter of second bar though. Fucking yellow beams of death.

I think he does only forward for a bit? I tried dashing behind him. But then starts doing 360 degree beams? First time I’ve gotten him that far so was a surprise. 

I made one mistake: took a Daedalus exchange just before him. Had money burning my wallet. It swapped out something I liked for something I didn’t. I thought I would get a choice (not bought it before) but it was random. 

Still learning after all these runs.