Hades News

This small patch contains assorted balance changes, fixes, and improvements, following our v1.0 Launch Update. We should have another patch in the coming weeks. Thanks very much for playing!!

Note: 📢 indicates a change inspired by community feedback!


• Eternal Spear (Guan Yu Aspect): increased attack damage; improved attack input buffering (you now can Dash between strikes)
📢 Twin Fists (Talos Aspect): increased duration of Magnetized effect
📢 Twin Fists (Gilgamesh Aspect): improved input buffering after Dash-Strike
• Adamant Rail (Lucifer Aspect): increased Bombard special bomb travel speed and detonation speed


• Thunder Dash (Zeus): increased scaling from Poms
• Second Wave (Poseidon): adjusted requirements for this to be offered
• Parting Shot (Athena x Aphrodite): no longer offered while using the Shield's Beowulf Aspect
• Calculated Risk (Athena x Dionysus): increased power level
• Crush Shot (Aphrodite): increased scaling from Poms
• Passion Dash (Aphrodite): increased area of effect and scaling from Poms


• Dash Nova (Blade): now offered while using Aspect of Arthur
• Twin Shot (Bow): reduced penalty to max. range
📢 Draining Cutter (Fists): life-drain effect now activates from Aspect of Gilgamesh Maim damage
• Heavy Knuckle (Fists): increased damage


• 'Trial of the Gods': slightly reduced encounter difficulty in Tartarus
• Wretched Thug: slightly reduced appearance rate
📢 Theseus: improved hitbox of his Zeus lightning enchantment on his spear throw


• Adjusted requirements for several miscellaneous Hermes events that were never playing
📢 Minor fixes, changes, and improvements to various narrative events


• Steam: Added choice of rendering configurations when starting the game, including a new Vulkan renderer option, which may lead to better performance and stability on some systems (you can also run this version of Hades.exe directly from the x64Vk folder in your install directory)
📢 Slightly increased chance to find Fishing Points in Chaos
📢 Adjusted timing of when gameplay timer pauses while opening the Codex


📢 Fixed various additional crashes reported by players
📢 Fixed A Friendly Wager (Fated List) prophecy not being fulfilled when expected
📢 Fixed sometimes being able to queue two empowered shots using the Rail's Hestia Aspect
📢 Fixed Deadly Flourish (Artemis) negating the Critical chance of Vicious Skewer (Daedalus - Spear)
📢 Fixed incorrect damage text on the description for Heart Rend (Artemis x Aphrodite)
📢 Fixed an inconsistency in the requirements for being offered Minotaur Rush (Daedalus - Shield) and Sudden Rush (Daedalus - Shield)
📢 Fixed rare issues on older save files preventing players from gifting certain characters in certain cases
📢 Fixed a camera issue interacting with the Bat Cage, All-Seeing in the House of Hades
📢 Fixed instances where Fishing Points could appear when you did not have the Rod of Fishing
• Fixed a minor animation issue when Bloodless foes started moving after attacking
• Other minor fixes

Espous'd in Autumn: life and death alone to wretched mortals from thy power is known: For thine the task according to thy will, life to produce, and all that lives to kill. ~The Hymns of Orpheus - "To Proserpine (Persephone)" (T. Taylor translation)

This patch contains additional improvements, balance changes, voice lines, and fixes following our v1.0 Launch Update. We expect to deploy another patch in the coming weeks. Thank you for playing!!

Note: 📢 indicates a change inspired by community feedback!


• Lightning Reflexes (Zeus): improved scaling from Poms
• Hydraulic Might (Poseidon): increased power scaling at Heroic rarity
• Huge Catch (Poseidon): Conch Shell Keepsake now works as a prerequisite for this to be offered
• Clean Kill (Artemis): improved scaling from Poms


• Heart-Seeking Bow: reduced damage of Volley special (it retains other improvements from the v1.0 update)
• Heart-Seeking Bow (Chiron Aspect): increased arrows from Volley special (offsetting the change above)
• Heart-Seeking Bow (Hera Aspect): additional improvements to interaction with Crush Shot (Aphrodite)
• Twin Fists (Talos Aspect): increased Magnetized damage bonus


• Dash Nova (Blade): increased Sturdy effect duration
• Charged Volley (Bow): increased power level (offsetting the Volley change above)
• Sniper Shot (Bow): increased size of effective area
• Flaring Spin (Spear): increased damage of pulse effect


• 'Trial of the Gods': increased encounter difficulty in Elysium
• Minor adjustments to foe appearance rates in Tartarus


• Fiery Presence: fixed damage bonus not working correctly; adjusted bonus to compensate


• Added Theme, Infinite and Theme, Sonorous, two new late-game decorative themes that spruce up the Boon Info screen and Victory screen (there now are eight unlockable themes in total)


📢 Added a new Prophecy after the true ending, on the path to the epilogue


• Lord Hades' luxurious mane and moustache now animate as well they ought in certain contexts
• Bloodless foes now have a start-moving animation
• Minor visual fixes and improvements to some chambers


📢 Thanatos should make his very first appearance more reliably (once you have met the requirements)
📢 Achilles should grant the Codex more reliably early on
• Added more Charon voice lines for miscellaneous interactions with him
• Added more Asterius voice lines when entering his chamber
• Added more Zagreus voice lines in certain contexts; and a new late-game conversation with Achilles
• Added a new Inspect Point after the epilogue
• Nyx should be more inclined to greet you on approach
• Dusa has a wider variety of remarks when startled
• Fixed issues preventing some repeatable Zeus and Athena dialogue events from playing
• Fixed Zagreus no longer sometimes calling out different types of foes by name in encounters
• Minor fixes, changes, and improvements to various narrative events


• Various updates and improvements to translated content. Cheers to our heroic Community Translators!!
• Adjusted animation and presentation after a successful escape attempt after the true ending
• Added several names to Community Contributors and Special Thanks in the Credits
📢 Various minor performance optimizations
📢 Various minor text changes and fixes


📢 Fixed various additional crashes reported by players
📢 Fixed Mouse Lock not always working properly with multi-display setups
📢 Fixed Sundial, Imported sometimes not appearing as expected from the House Contractor
📢 Fixed additional cases of Codex Index screen displaying incorrect requirements for Boons
📢 Fixed Decorative Themes causing too many 'new inventory' notifications from the House Contractor
📢 Fixed Well Stocked (Achievement) sometimes not unlocking correctly
📢 Fixed Back to Work (Achievement) sometimes not unlocking in the correct chamber
📢 Fixed cases where you could give gifts to Thanatos after he had already shifted away
📢 Fixed cases where you could not interact with Thanatos in the House of Hades
📢 Fixed Orpheus sometimes switching songs when you moved between House of Hades chambers
📢 Fixed effect of Divine Protection (Athena) being visible during a key story scene
📢 Fixed Dusa sometimes embarrassingly getting stuck while flying away in embarrassment
• Other minor fixes

'Night bore hateful Doom and dark Fate and Death, she bore Sleep, she bore the tribe of Dreams.' ~Theogony (Hesiod; M. L. West translation)