Can you even escape from Hades?
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@hungrier said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
@topspin The heat level is too high for this topic
We're all going to hell in a handbasket because of that picture.
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@izzion said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
@hungrier said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
@topspin The heat level is too high for this topic
We're all going to hell in a handbasket because of that picture.
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After talking about fishing I decided to try some fishing runs. It took a couple tries, but I ended up rolling Huge Catch early on (I think one of the first few chambers in Asphodel) and used it to great effect:
I ended up winning that run with the "Fisher King" tagline
But actually, that wasn't my first Fisher King run. In my previous escape, where I didn't equip Poseidon's keepsake and was just doing a normal run, somehow my fishing stood out there as well:
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HL 16, Fisher King.
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FFS the last Skelly trophy takes 32 heat levels?
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@error Welcome to hell.
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Whee! Can't believe it took me this long to figure the Hades fight out. But now it seems to be fairly easy and I seem to pull it off with no or one death defies so I guess I could start using the other death save soon.
I also like the rail a fair bit.
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17 heat level, fell to redacted.
I would have finished my last fate prophecy (all pacts of punishment done).
What really screwed me was I entered the Lernie fight with a chaos curse that damaged me whenever I did a regular attack, so I had to fight him with the weak AF bow special and casts. He ended up taking two revives.
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Aspect of Chiron:
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@hungrier Thankfully does not come with the little red button.
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HL 17
All pact conditions complete.
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Got to hear that song on how it's in the blood. This gave is definitely one of the best rogue likes it there, with just the perfect amount of story to keep going. The gameplay is also very smooth.
Now I just need to get Sisyphus to show up. He's been AWOL since I paid for his contact
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gg ez
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All relationships maxed.
Twothree weapon ultimate forms.
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@error I've got 4 waking phrases uttered. Also I finally beat Redacted with the sword, with Arthur. Rounded out my infernal arms escapes and got the hidden aspect win as well.
On a different run:
E: Make that 5 waking phrases.
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I've unlocked two hidden aspects and finished with one. I have the Chaos Egg quest but haven't completed it yet.
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@hungrier said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
I've unlocked two hidden aspects and finished with one. I have the Chaos Egg quest but haven't completed it yet.
I did the chaos egg thing before I even saw the credits.
It's interesting how the game is unfolding at different paces for us.
I still haven't seen Ice Wine.
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In today's instance of garbage run turns out much better than expected:
Went Zag shield trying to get charged flight for the prophecy, since it doesn't drop with Chaos or Beowulf, and second time was the charm. That was my last duo, and I only have Zag- er, Dio's legendary left.
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@coderpatsy said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
That was my last duo, and I only have Zag- er, Dio's legendary left.
My last few runs I've been trying to complete my boon collection (while also doing silly things like the punishment that makes you sacrifice a boon on each floor). I took a couple tries each to get Demeter's and Dionysus' legendaries, and still have a handful of duos to go
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@error The run before this the game taunted me by giving me Zeus vs Athena trial after I met the reqs for their duo but of course bupkiss. RNG can be so cruel.
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@error said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
I still haven't seen Ice Wine.
Speaking of cruel RNG...
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Well that was much faster than I expected. Though in fairness to @error I specifically keepsaked Dio looking for Ice Wine.
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Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening.
Imagine getting double strike with that. And/or more casts.
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Here's something that I hadn't really thought about, but my last couple runs have demonstrated.
Tidal Dash (with additional dashes) and Breaking Wave pretty much murder everything in the satyr tunnels, at least until you get to the more open room with the miniboss. I've even had it where I knocked a satyr into a wall, and the waves kept knocking him back and forth without me doing anything.
However, I still have had a bad case of the Redacteds lately, where I have a great setup to win but then totally boof it on the last fight
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@hungrier said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
but then totally boof it on the last fight
Have you boofed yet?
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Some notes from my current run:
- Charon was easier than I expected, although his attacks do hit hard
- Death defiance troll engine is in full effect: No Patroclus, and not even any Kiss of Styx in any of the wells so far. And I could definitely afford it
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@hungrier I did end up finding Kiss of Styx, using my last re-roll on a Charon well in the last chamber of the last satyr tunnel. But as it turns out, I didn't need to bother with any of it:
I broke my losing streak by punching him in the nuts
Afterward, Hades had something to say about a different part of my run:
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Getting warmer.
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@error Looks like you might have to start using other weapons again. Or just go for the 32 heat useless trinket.
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@coderpatsy said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
go for the 32 heat useless trinket.
That run did not go well.
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Status: Kind of disappointed that there's no unique dialogue for dying to Charon for the first time, after having beaten him twice before.
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Second clear with the shield. Wait, you can actually block attacks with it? This changes everything.
The fight with redacted is trivial now.
Edit: srsly, aspect of Beowulf with Slicing Flare is freaking broken
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@error said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
Second clear with the shield. Wait, you can actually block attacks with it? This changes everything.
The fight with redacted is trivial now.
Edit: srsly, aspect of Beowulf with Slicing Flare is freaking broken
I had about the same reaction.
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@hungrier Somewhat disappointed again, but not surprised, that it doesn't credit my previous twice in a row ass kicking of Charon towards Hermes' bet. Stupid linear time.
But somehow I got employee of the month, so there's that
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This time I got six cast stones with Aspect of Beowulf (1 from Chaos, 2 from Artemis), and the boon where each cast fires a secondary cast, and my attack hits twice, and lightning strikes when my cast hits.
Get rekt, Redacted.
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@error said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
the boon where each cast fires a secondary cast
How does that work with Beowulf? An extra burst for each stone?
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I've been trying to do some fresh save runs, see how far I get. So far, never got past Meg on the first try; the best I've done is getting to Lernie on the third attempt without any upgrades.
As for Charon, I haven't seen his bag at all in a few runs. It's like this guy doesn't want to fight me
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Escaped with no death defiances used. HL5 Aspect of Beowulf
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@error said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
Escaped with no death defiances used. HL5 Aspect of Beowulf
And again.
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I think this is the first time in the history of this game that this has ever happened:
(Patroclus showed up when I was out of 1-ups)
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No fair spreading poison all around the antidote fountain.
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Second run where the satyr sack was behind the fifth door.
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Smoldering Air makes everything easy.