Hades II News

One Year in Early Access!!

On this day one year ago, we launched Hades II in Early Access!! How the Time flies...

We wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all our players, for all your feedback and patience as we get closer to the finish line. Early Access development has been incredibly exciting and eye-opening for us as we've worked to realize the potential so many of you see in our game.

We're actively working on our next Major Update and will be looking forward to sharing that with you later this spring.

Hades 2 update nerfs the roguelike's new final boss after just one week

Hades 2 patch 8 has just landed in the wake of last week's Warsong update, with developer Supergiant Games tackling notable bugs and issues alongside a range of balance changes for a few weapons, boons, and enemy types that needed them. The studio thanks players for feedback and says it hopes these changes will make for "a smoother play experience as you battle toward the final confrontation," and adds that it's now shifting focus to the game's third major update.

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Early Access Patch 8 Notes

We appreciate all the feedback following last week's Warsong Update! This patch includes fixes and targeted adjustments for a smoother play experience as you battle toward the final confrontation. We're now shifting focus to our third Major Update outlined in our Roadmap. Until then, thank you for playing!

Note: 📢 indicates changes inspired by community feedback!

Nocturnal Arms & Abilities

· Sister Blades: slightly increased speed of the first two strikes in the Attack sequence
· Argent Skull: increased starting number of Shells; reduced Attack recovery time

Aspects of the Nocturnal Arms

· Argent Skull (Melinoë): reduced bonus Power per spent Shell now that the starting number is greater

Boons & Blessings

· Heinous Affront (Zeus x Ares): significantly increased how frequently this can affect foes
📢 Premium Service (Hephaestus): increased power level while using Black Coat (Melinoë)
· Success Rate (Hermes): removed Fig Leaf (Dionysus) as an offering requirement for this

Foes & Dangers

· Typhon: reduced damage and frequency of some attacks; adjusted Life and Armor of some minions; improved camera motion between phases
· Spawn of Typhon: reduced damage of some attacks; reduced range and speed of headbutt attack
· Prometheus: reduced damage of some attacks; other minor changes
· Aetos: slightly increased damage of fly-up attack
· Satyr Sapper: reduced damage of ranged attack
· Auto-Watcher: slightly reduced damage
· Auto-Seeker: reduced damage of ranged attack
· Blasket: reduced damage

Miscellaneous

📢 Improved feedback when gathering Blood Drops from Ares
📢 Increased appearance rate of Poppy Seeds in Tartarus
· Updates and fixes to translations in some languages

Bug Fixes

📢 Fixed certain effects not increasing Moonstone Axe Omega Special channeling speed as expected
📢 Fixed Black Coat Omega Attack having unintentionally reduced range in the previous patch
📢 Fixed Extended Family (Hera) not being affected by Boons from Artemis, Athena, or Dionysus
📢 Fixed Nova Flourish (Apollo) not increasing the area of the Moonstone Axe Omega Special
📢 Fixed Steady Growth (Demeter) sometimes not working correctly
📢 Fixed Mint Condition (Hephaestus) not functioning in the newest Warden encounter in Thessaly
📢 Fixed Gorgon Amulet (Athena) sometimes summoning multiple Athenas in the Mourning Fields
📢 Fixed Fig Leaf (Dionysus) not functioning in the newest Warden encounter in Thessaly
📢 Fixed Hermes sometimes unexpectedly showing up as the first Olympian on the surface over and over after reaching the final confrontation
📢 Fixed several narrative events related to the final confrontation playing or not playing when expected
📢 Fixed visual issues with the Altar of Ashes in ultrawide resolutions
📢 Fixed a visual issue with the numbering on the Death Arcana in the Altar of Ashes
· Other minor fixes

Quote of the Patch

'Zeus now cast his new weapon, pale and blinding, through the fabric of the sky, ripping it end to end; then he hurled another, stronger, at his father: it fell like a white-hot sword thrust with inexorable force.'

~Greek Myths: A New Retelling (C. Higgins)

Hades 2's Athena VA claims that they may be recast in a "popular game"

February 20, 2025, 13:32 PST Supergiant has released a statement saying that it has not recast any of its characters in Hades 2. The full statement has been added further down this article.

The voice behind Athena in both the original Hades and its sequel Hades 2, Marin Miller, has shared a post on their personal BlueSky account claiming that they may be recast in a "particular game that is very popular." According to Miller, if a recast does take place, it isn't because they "stepped away from the character willingly. It's because the employer refused to flip to an interim." In a follow-up post, the voice actor wrote that "it would be SUPER [sic] helpful if you wrote a GIANT [sic] email asking them to flip for their actors."

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Hades 2 gets a giant new update, but the roguelike still can't share 1.0 plans

Despite being in an incomplete early access form, Hades 2 is already a contender to become one of the best roguelikes ever. We'll need to wait until it's totally finished before judging it against its exquisite, genre-leading predecessor, but Supergiant appears to be doing everything right so far. A brand new major update - the second of Hades 2's life so far - has just arrived, and not only does it flesh out, rework, and improve many key systems, it also adds in a final encounter for the surface route that sees you reach the top of Mount Olympus. However, despite the huge amount of content being added, Supergiant says it's still not confident enough to talk about 1.0 plans for Hades 2 just yet.

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