Hades

Probably a stupid question but does it make any difference when you lock that little yellow icon onto the buffs you've got? I can't work out what thats for

Digging the fistos.

Is the cast as useless as it seems?

Beat Meg on my 7th run. Basically stopped frantically button mushing and took my time. Used the spear. Loving it. Saved at the beginning of the 2nd area. Lunch time.

That's one of the good ones. Can absolutely demolish bosses with builds based on it.

You can do cast builds that break the game in half.

The trick initially is to get a good base cast (or anything) and build on it rather than spreading thinly. Like get posoidons cast, knock away damage, wall splat damage and so on and soon your cast starts hurling everything into the wall and one shotting things

You can also combine an Artemis boon that makes enemies take damage when your shard is dislodged from them with a Hermes boon that makes your cast dislodge much faster. That can be serious damage.

Well I sure hope that 4th area gets easier every time. Because I lost all 3 lives there like they were nothing.

Yeah, my build was so reliant on parrying there that I was dashing about all over the place so I never really acclimatised and got schooled after about 3 of those gates in the main hub area.

It's the laser cunts that really do for me when there are loads of them in a room. I lose so much health trying to deal with them quickly.

Any of the new PS5 players triggered the ]alternate version of the

Bosses can get different forms after you kill them a set number of times. After that happens, they will select a form at random for each run. The biggest changes are on the first boss. For the second and third, it's more that they get slightly different attack patterns.

After you've done your first successful escape, you'll get access to the Pact of Punishment, which lets you continue to get new rewards from runs, in exchange for adding modifiers that make them harder. One of the big one is Extreme Measures, each rank of which significantly changes (and makes harder) the boss for an an area, starting with the first and working upwards.

The Extreme Measures versions of the bosses are pretty insane, the last boss in particular.

So yeah, I wasn't far off seeing the first boss change...

Managed to get through her but lost my 2 death defiances. She doesn't show up that often right?

Right?

Did a spear run and got the last boss down to a cat's whisker of health before choking. It's frustrating as fuck when a good run ends, but that was something else!

Did another run with the final weapon, which was my first win on PC too IIRC (the hammer buff that changes special to +300% damage and wider area and then get whatever boons you can that compliments that)
Managed it with a spare life still in the bag that time around.