With Hades II already being greater than its 2020 predecessor, it’s laborious to consider the sequel to Supergiant’s blockbuster action-roguelite remains to be in Early Entry. Effectively, now there’s much more of the sport to discover because of the Olympic replace. That is the most important and most enjoyable patch the sport has acquired but, including a brand new weapon, a brand new area, and new gods to satisfy, amongst different issues.
As you might have gathered from the replace’s title, the brand new area is Olympus, the house of the gods. The trailer additionally reveals off new and returning faces resembling Athena, Prometheus (voiced by Closing Fantasy XVI’s Ben Starr), and a really dressed-down Dionysus. It additionally introduces the ultimate weapon within the recreation’s arsenal, Xinth the Black Coat. The brand new armament seems to be to show your playstyle into a mixture of fist-forward fight alongside the flexibility to fireside off rockets at enemies. Which is to say it seems to be badass. Different highlights laid out by Supergiant embody two new familiars, extra customization on the Crossroads, an expanded story, a world map, and Mac help.
There are additionally numerous fixes and tweaks to pre-existing facets of the sport. Maybe probably the most noteworthy is a change to the Chronos boss battle that can make lots of people completely satisfied. With the Olympic replace now you can pause the grueling encounter with out having to fret in regards to the titan unpausing it and taking away your temporary respite.
Supergiant notes that there’s nonetheless lots extra to come back and that the following main replace will most definitely not be the sport’s final earlier than a full launch. As for when that subsequent main replace will likely be, Supergiant says the crew is aiming for early 2025. Till then, you possibly can dig into all the brand new stuff within the Olympic replace. You possibly can see the complete listing of additives and modifications within the patch notes right here.
