Supergiant Games announced the latest Hades patch, which is live in the PC version and still on its way to the Nintendo Switch, will give people more to talk-about in-game. To be specific, more Hades Achilles, Asterius, Charon, and Dusa interactions are in. You can also find a new prophecy and earn extra themes.
While a lot of the additions involved bug fixes and balancing for the roguelike, the Hades update did a lot of work to make approaching the people around Zagreus more appealing. In general, Asterius and Charon should be more talkative. Dusa will also have more to say if you have Zagreus sneak up on her. A lot of this new stuff won’t come up until the Hades late-game or epilogue though, as the new inspect point, prophecy, and Achilles conversation are all billed as endgame material.
Here are the full Hades patch notes from Steam.
Boons & Blessings
- 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
Infernal Arms, Aspects, & Abilities
- 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
Daedalus Hammer Upgrades
- 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
Foes & Encounters
- ‘Trial of the Gods’: increased encounter difficulty in Elysium
- Minor adjustments to foe appearance rates in Tartarus
Mirror of Night
- Fiery Presence: fixed damage bonus not working correctly; adjusted bonus to compensate
House Contractor
- 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)
Fated List of Minor Prophecies
- Added a new Prophecy after the true ending, on the path to the epilogue
Art & Visual FX
- 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
Voice & Narrative
- 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
Miscellaneous
- 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
Bug 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
Hades is available for the Nintendo Switch and PC. This latest Hades patch is immediately available on PCs.
