Even though I didn't learn anything I super appreciate that you make these more beginner focused vids. I've been introducing friends to the game and this is super helpful for those people. Also, shout out for Terminal March. My favorite track from Bastion. Love that oud and steel drum combo.
Still working on getting my first clear. Got this game during the Christmas sale and it's taken up all of my free time when I'm not at work. Made it to the last encounter only once, but I'm still going!
well thought out guide! I can totally see this as being super helpful for newer players to the game, I intend to share this with my friends who I recently bought Hdaes for! I also agree with you about Hell Mode, personally, it's just a pain to unlock everything again so that you can play the way you want to. If you want more difficulty you can always up your heat level and you'd basically have the same experience as in hellmode I'm at a point in the game where I have all the more story and character dialogue done, have fully upgraded and unlocked all aspects & companions, finished all of the fated prophecies, etc.. now just working on the last 2 achievements I need (working on fully upgrading all the keepsakes atm) and increasing the difficulty to push what I can accomplish heat-wise in this game. Thanks again for making these!
Thank you as always.. loving your videos.. they helped me so much... only got the game since the steam release some weeks back.. but with your help.. my fastest run was 15 mins.. I'm dreading looking forward to heat +20 runs.. :S.. getting close.. and it's getting tough.. thanks again for your great advice that helped so much to get this far.... your awesome.. :D
As someone that found your channel when you were bearded af seeing you now without the beard makes you look dad mode af. No shade you rock the look well it just made me think to myself "THERE'S Jawlessdad!"
I feel pretty stupid. I was so looking forward to more new hades content, like dlc and stuff that I saw the words "hermes" and "hammer" and thought "hermes isn't in the game" (I was thinking of Apollo or Helius) and "Oh shit, a new weapon, a fucking hammer or something." I actually thought this video was news or something for dlc... Still, me being an idiot doesn't change the fact that this is a pretty good video that will help a lot of players, thanks for that.
Paul, I’m pretty sure I’ve been offered duo boons in a god challenge room. It’s just never the duo boon the two gods offer together. If that makes sense. If the room is Demeter and Zeus, you can’t get cold fusion. But I’m pretty sure you could still get lightning rod, or blizzard shot, if you had the other prerequisites
@@JawlessPaul finally finished Hades yesterday (last ending)and gotta admit I would not have beaten the final boss without Athena's Dash. In other words you helped me discover it and I wanted to say thanks.
Hey are Erebus gates for sure 5 heat in Tartarus 10 in Asphodel etc? I feel like I've seen some 15 heats in Tartarus before but I could be wrong. Great vid!
I play hell mode. The most important reason is that I can’t enable God mode, because if I play high heat on normal save, it’s really hard for me to not turn on God mode when I got frustrated. I’m far from a good player, but I can collect 5000 darkness in 20 runs, which unlocks enough mirror items to proceed, and I cleared 10 times in 31 runs. So hell mode is not that punishing and I think it’s a good idea.
Hi! Great vids! The question would be: does an Erebus gate count as an extra room, like you have 11 rooms approx, to beat en each "act" so you still get those 11-12 rooms with boon possibilities? For example, you see an Artemis mini-boss fight, and an Erebus gate, you choose Erebus, but form Erebus you have "small picks". will the Artemis room show up again? Or is it like the decision between two rooms? Thank you for the answer, if you may. Cheers, and keep up the good work.
Erebus Gates and Chaos Gates count as rooms the same as an other room EXCEPT if you choose them instead of the penultimate room in a biome. The penultimate room of a biome will always be a choice between the shop and a free boon (or there is no choice and you are forced into the shop). If you choose a Gate over the final shop/free boon in a biome, after finishing that room you will still get the shop/free boon choice. N.B. I am 99% sure this is correct.
good guide. Oh and im surprised you haven't figured this out yet, but not getting duo boons in double boon rooms is entirely intentional. You can tell if for no other reason than duo boons always give special dialogue interaction between the two gods and yourself. In the double boon rooms, the god is always angry at the other god for not getting picked, this would ruin the dialogue between the two for getting a cooperative, duo boon. Its not a bug.
@@JawlessPaul right, but in either case the dialogue for the room is fixed and the dialogue is a requisite for the boons, just thematically it makes sense.
I know supergiant isn’t a post launch content dev, but this game is begging for some. I love it and have more hours than I’d like to admit, but it would be really cool for something to be added, whether it be zones, enemies, weapons, to mirror or the pact. I spent a lot of time with this game but found myself float back to deadcells due to just the sheer amount of content
Food drops from the demeter healing boon. Also if you have eye of lamia then food will drop from enemies. I've never only seen food drop at the end of a room
@@JawlessPaul Yeah, I've seen food drop from enemies, but this dropped once the room was cleared.. It was weird. It actually showed the food as the room reward and everything.
I can't find any info on those interruptions from hades between runs sometimes. He says stuff, you can't skip it and there is like a title each time. Does this affect the game in any way ? Do they ever loop or it's like a story tool ?
@@JawlessPaul Yup it seems to be just that. I also noticed they are random, you can get different one after "giving up" the run so it's exactly what you said JP. Thanks for response ma dudes :)
I swear for some reason i can't get blizzard shot .Though about doing a Beowulf blizzard shot build , but no luck . I can get every other duo no problem though . What am i doing wrong?
@@JawlessPaul so I'm annoyed because I feel like even though I've never used God mode, I can't prove that. And the "real" final difficulty of max heat I can't do unless I make a new file. But I'm a 32 heat max kinda person, so I guess it doesn't affect me all that much.
Any tips for when you s*ck at evasion? Really, I'm so bad at evading, especially with a lot of stuff going on on the screen. For example, I keep getting hit by Theseus spear even after 100 or so runs, because I just CAN'T split my attention between Asterius and Theseus. And evading Asterius is hard enough as it is. Also Asphodel with large amount of enemies + the lava. And I keep walking into traps, which is fine since most don't do so much damage anyway (exception: Styx axes I guess). So this was even to the point when I was ready to stop playing Hades altogether. Fortunately, I toughed it out by farming and maxing my mirror skills. So again the question: is there any tip/strategy/boon that helps when you are bad at evading?
@@JawlessPaul Yeah good point, it helps to recognize the animations also. And as for the Minotaur, your other video really helped. I kept getting hit by his jump attack, never realized he hits with it 3x in a row.
I started playing on hellmode, only gotten up to 34 heat so far but I would say I'm decent at the game. I "kinda" agree with and understand what you say about starting over on hellmode. It'd probably be a hassle, BUT... a hellmode save does add the no invulnerability pact and I personally DO think that's the way the game is meant to be played. Also, though less important, since you can't enable godmode on hellmode saves you can "prove" your records are legit. Purely for bragging rights obv but still...
If that were the way it was meant to be played it wouldn't be optional. Also if someone turns on god mode to clear a high heat I can only ask "Like fucking why?"... You prove nothing to no one. You won't clear a stupid dumb high heat level and pass it off as authentic unless you're trying to impress someone with little to no knowledge of the game in most cases I'd guess and someone that would do that isn't a clown they're the whole circus. If you just want to blitz through the first few runs real fast and get to the meaty bits of the story and deeper character interactions all without learning how to properly play the game and learn the bosses and what not then yeah sure you're not robbing yourself of anything and you can do all of that at zero heat fully powered up. That said if you're actively wanting to progress through the heat levels using god mode at any time just seems counter intuitive and ultimately pointless. Hellmode is neat but trying to pass it off as anything other than adding a packet of Splenda to a gallon of sweet tea with ten lbs of sugar in it is disingenuous af imo. I'm not trying to knock you or rag on you here but It kind of bugs when people want their choice to be the best so bad they actively sabotage other things because they feel like their way is THE way and create fallacies in their head to go along with their personal narrative. Sorry if I came off more offensive than I would have liked to,
@@Zelphiez heated opinions there buddy. And way more offensive than they needed to be, the last part did little to fix that. My thoughts on the matter is, I honestly think Supergiant want people to play the way they want to. Hence the massive number of ways to customize difficulty. I also think they left hellmode as is to keep it legit. The fact that it exists, in a singleplayer game really should not offend you or anyone else. Just dont play it.
I swear you can get a hammer on every level. I've gotten 3 hammers, then the random hammer in the styx. But, I've played over 200 runs and can't remember all of them. 😆
I really enjoyed this guide video. It was very well structured, informative and wonderfully edited. You're getting quite good at this UA-cam thing.
Very kind of you to say! 😊
I'm 50 hours in and I just learned a whole lot from your videos, thanks a bunch!
Sry just wanted to say that your beard is so cool o.o 10/10 would braid
You are welcome!
Even though I didn't learn anything I super appreciate that you make these more beginner focused vids. I've been introducing friends to the game and this is super helpful for those people.
Also, shout out for Terminal March. My favorite track from Bastion. Love that oud and steel drum combo.
Right on! I hope the vids help new folks!
Great to know about all the i-frames! Thanks for a great video!
You are welcome!
Thanks for these great quick tips. Didn't realize we can use codex while selecting boon, really helps when deciding what to build towards.
Yeah! It's huge! I use it all the time
Still working on getting my first clear. Got this game during the Christmas sale and it's taken up all of my free time when I'm not at work. Made it to the last encounter only once, but I'm still going!
Well done! You'll get it eventually!
Wow, love the shave and haircut, brother!
Looking GOOD 🤙💯
Also, great video. I learned something, 200+hrs in and you still teaching me, my dude!
I appreciate that!
@@JawlessPaul right on, brother. Glad this game brought me to you 🤘🤙
Figured out why I never get duo boons from a trial. I thought I was just unlucky 😊
Yeah! It's good to think about and realize you just need to think about the other potential boons that could show up
well thought out guide! I can totally see this as being super helpful for newer players to the game, I intend to share this with my friends who I recently bought Hdaes for! I also agree with you about Hell Mode, personally, it's just a pain to unlock everything again so that you can play the way you want to. If you want more difficulty you can always up your heat level and you'd basically have the same experience as in hellmode I'm at a point in the game where I have all the more story and character dialogue done, have fully upgraded and unlocked all aspects & companions, finished all of the fated prophecies, etc.. now just working on the last 2 achievements I need (working on fully upgrading all the keepsakes atm) and increasing the difficulty to push what I can accomplish heat-wise in this game. Thanks again for making these!
You are welcome!
Thanks Paul! You keep the community well informed.
Yw!
Thank you as always.. loving your videos.. they helped me so much... only got the game since the steam release some weeks back.. but with your help.. my fastest run was 15 mins.. I'm dreading looking forward to heat +20 runs.. :S.. getting close.. and it's getting tough.. thanks again for your great advice that helped so much to get this far.... your awesome.. :D
Thanks! I'm glad the videos have helped!
Hammer guide!? Holy moly that was my idea!
Well, not quite, but still!
Inspired somewhat I suppose! I think Haelian did one of those though
As someone that found your channel when you were bearded af seeing you now without the beard makes you look dad mode af. No shade you rock the look well it just made me think to myself "THERE'S Jawlessdad!"
Haha! Thanks!
I feel pretty stupid. I was so looking forward to more new hades content, like dlc and stuff that I saw the words "hermes" and "hammer" and thought "hermes isn't in the game" (I was thinking of Apollo or Helius) and "Oh shit, a new weapon, a fucking hammer or something." I actually thought this video was news or something for dlc...
Still, me being an idiot doesn't change the fact that this is a pretty good video that will help a lot of players, thanks for that.
Haha sorry if it led you astray!
I see you w the bastion background music 👀
It's so good!
Thank you!!!! This was the exact video that I asked for on one of your previous videos!!!! Thank you again!
You are welcome!
Paul, I’m pretty sure I’ve been offered duo boons in a god challenge room. It’s just never the duo boon the two gods offer together. If that makes sense. If the room is Demeter and Zeus, you can’t get cold fusion. But I’m pretty sure you could still get lightning rod, or blizzard shot, if you had the other prerequisites
Maybe I’m wrong lol, but I swear I’ve seen it happen in runs I’ve done
Well, I suppose I could be wrong but the authorities I've talked to say they can't show up
your guide help me a lot man!! thank you so much😘
I'm glad they've been helpful! Cheers!
Extremely well done video! Would watch again 10/10
Haha thanks! 🤣
Nice editing. Keep it up man!
Thanks! Trying to brush up my editing skills a bit.
Another great guide! Ive learned a lot thats helped me in my runs from you!
Glad to hear it!
You are awesome I can't believe I haven't subscribed before
Thank you so much!
@@JawlessPaul finally finished Hades yesterday (last ending)and gotta admit I would not have beaten the final boss without Athena's Dash. In other words you helped me discover it and I wanted to say thanks.
Hey are Erebus gates for sure 5 heat in Tartarus 10 in Asphodel etc? I feel like I've seen some 15 heats in Tartarus before but I could be wrong. Great vid!
Fairly sure
Looking nice and clean shaven bro! I also shaved today. Feels fresh.
You know, it does feel quite fresh! 😊
Pretty sure chaos gate health entrance fee scales up with run progress and isn't a flat rate
Mmm you are probably right!
I play hell mode. The most important reason is that I can’t enable God mode, because if I play high heat on normal save, it’s really hard for me to not turn on God mode when I got frustrated. I’m far from a good player, but I can collect 5000 darkness in 20 runs, which unlocks enough mirror items to proceed, and I cleared 10 times in 31 runs. So hell mode is not that punishing and I think it’s a good idea.
Hi! Great vids! The question would be: does an Erebus gate count as an extra room, like you have 11 rooms approx, to beat en each "act" so you still get those 11-12 rooms with boon possibilities? For example, you see an Artemis mini-boss fight, and an Erebus gate, you choose Erebus, but form Erebus you have "small picks". will the Artemis room show up again? Or is it like the decision between two rooms? Thank you for the answer, if you may. Cheers, and keep up the good work.
I believe it counts as a room. Anyone know for sure?
Erebus Gates and Chaos Gates count as rooms the same as an other room EXCEPT if you choose them instead of the penultimate room in a biome. The penultimate room of a biome will always be a choice between the shop and a free boon (or there is no choice and you are forced into the shop). If you choose a Gate over the final shop/free boon in a biome, after finishing that room you will still get the shop/free boon choice.
N.B. I am 99% sure this is correct.
i only played hell mode but i always pick the hardest difficulty in any game
This was fantastic
Thanks!
good guide.
Oh and im surprised you haven't figured this out yet, but not getting duo boons in double boon rooms is entirely intentional. You can tell if for no other reason than duo boons always give special dialogue interaction between the two gods and yourself. In the double boon rooms, the god is always angry at the other god for not getting picked, this would ruin the dialogue between the two for getting a cooperative, duo boon.
Its not a bug.
I see what your saying but what I meant is that you can't get a duo from ANY pair of gods. Not just the ones in the trial.
@@JawlessPaul right, but in either case the dialogue for the room is fixed and the dialogue is a requisite for the boons, just thematically it makes sense.
Sub boss room does provide the same upgraded reward than erebus gates, no ? Does it affect boon quality ?
Yes, it is better boon quality.
Very hepfull and i love The format.
I'm glad!
Love your videos
Thank you very much! 😊
Solid information
Thanks!
I started my save in hell mode. No regrets
Nice! Thanks for letting me know!
Dig it, dude.
Thanks Bryan!
thanks for the help remember to feed ur titan all the iron rich food it needs hint hint
Haha!
I know supergiant isn’t a post launch content dev, but this game is begging for some. I love it and have more hours than I’d like to admit, but it would be really cool for something to be added, whether it be zones, enemies, weapons, to mirror or the pact. I spent a lot of time with this game but found myself float back to deadcells due to just the sheer amount of content
I'd love it if they did more!
Reporting this video for fake advertising.
Paul does indeed have a jaw.
😬
Is that your stunned animation at the end?
Lol I guess so!
I started in hell mode since day one, I have not been able to get past Elysium. I get my ass kicked every time I get there.
I ran into a room in my last playthrough that had food as a reward. I've never seen that before. Is that something they added?
Food drops from the demeter healing boon. Also if you have eye of lamia then food will drop from enemies. I've never only seen food drop at the end of a room
@@JawlessPaul Yeah, I've seen food drop from enemies, but this dropped once the room was cleared.. It was weird. It actually showed the food as the room reward and everything.
Altering room rewards can give food rooms or at least it could back in early acces, thats maybe why you got that food reward
I started with a hell mode save file but couldnt beat the game so I started a normal save file instead
Gotcha!
I can't find any info on those interruptions from hades between runs sometimes. He says stuff, you can't skip it and there is like a title each time. Does this affect the game in any way ? Do they ever loop or it's like a story tool ?
Pretty sure it doesent do anything for the run cheers
It's just world-building I think
@@JawlessPaul Yup it seems to be just that. I also noticed they are random, you can get different one after "giving up" the run so it's exactly what you said JP. Thanks for response ma dudes :)
Noice!!!
Noice indeed!
I swear for some reason i can't get blizzard shot .Though about doing a Beowulf blizzard shot build , but no luck . I can get every other duo no problem though . What am i doing wrong?
İ am pretty sure you just cant get it with beowulf. Since it changes the poseidon cast to an explosion from a projectile.
Yeah since it's flood flare rather than flood shot! Might not work with beowulf
man paul where did your beard go
Covid ate it!
Hermes with good hammers can win the game on 10 hit with no boons.
Hermes is pretty incredible!
The n95 seal struggle is real. A shift back to "normal" will be heralded by groups of bearded men in enclosed spaces.
Haha, indeed!
Wow your dad made hearthstone
I wanted to start on hell mode but was advised not to.
You you regret the decision or are you glad you didn't start with Hell mode?
@@JawlessPaul so I'm annoyed because I feel like even though I've never used God mode, I can't prove that. And the "real" final difficulty of max heat I can't do unless I make a new file. But I'm a 32 heat max kinda person, so I guess it doesn't affect me all that much.
Any tips for when you s*ck at evasion? Really, I'm so bad at evading, especially with a lot of stuff going on on the screen. For example, I keep getting hit by Theseus spear even after 100 or so runs, because I just CAN'T split my attention between Asterius and Theseus. And evading Asterius is hard enough as it is. Also Asphodel with large amount of enemies + the lava. And I keep walking into traps, which is fine since most don't do so much damage anyway (exception: Styx axes I guess).
So this was even to the point when I was ready to stop playing Hades altogether. Fortunately, I toughed it out by farming and maxing my mirror skills.
So again the question: is there any tip/strategy/boon that helps when you are bad at evading?
Practice evading easy enemies in Tartarus just watch their attacks and practice dodging right as the enemy attacks.
@@JawlessPaul Yeah good point, it helps to recognize the animations also. And as for the Minotaur, your other video really helped. I kept getting hit by his jump attack, never realized he hits with it 3x in a row.
Can't beat Hades? Better Call Paul
Lol! 🤣
ugh what a cutie
Lol!
I started playing on hellmode, only gotten up to 34 heat so far but I would say I'm decent at the game. I "kinda" agree with and understand what you say about starting over on hellmode. It'd probably be a hassle, BUT... a hellmode save does add the no invulnerability pact and I personally DO think that's the way the game is meant to be played. Also, though less important, since you can't enable godmode on hellmode saves you can "prove" your records are legit. Purely for bragging rights obv but still...
If that were the way it was meant to be played it wouldn't be optional. Also if someone turns on god mode to clear a high heat I can only ask "Like fucking why?"... You prove nothing to no one. You won't clear a stupid dumb high heat level and pass it off as authentic unless you're trying to impress someone with little to no knowledge of the game in most cases I'd guess and someone that would do that isn't a clown they're the whole circus. If you just want to blitz through the first few runs real fast and get to the meaty bits of the story and deeper character interactions all without learning how to properly play the game and learn the bosses and what not then yeah sure you're not robbing yourself of anything and you can do all of that at zero heat fully powered up. That said if you're actively wanting to progress through the heat levels using god mode at any time just seems counter intuitive and ultimately pointless.
Hellmode is neat but trying to pass it off as anything other than adding a packet of Splenda to a gallon of sweet tea with ten lbs of sugar in it is disingenuous af imo. I'm not trying to knock you or rag on you here but It kind of bugs when people want their choice to be the best so bad they actively sabotage other things because they feel like their way is THE way and create fallacies in their head to go along with their personal narrative. Sorry if I came off more offensive than I would have liked to,
@@Zelphiez heated opinions there buddy. And way more offensive than they needed to be, the last part did little to fix that. My thoughts on the matter is, I honestly think Supergiant want people to play the way they want to. Hence the massive number of ways to customize difficulty. I also think they left hellmode as is to keep it legit. The fact that it exists, in a singleplayer game really should not offend you or anyone else. Just dont play it.
Very impressive!
I swear you can get a hammer on every level. I've gotten 3 hammers, then the random hammer in the styx. But, I've played over 200 runs and can't remember all of them. 😆
You could get 3 in early times of the beta maybe you have played at that times?
Yeah, that was back in the day. Now it's only 2 and then you can buy the anvil for an exchange of one your your hammers to get two more.