Hades has released early access Patch 026, which fine-tunes various aspects along with bringing balance changes. The patch follows the sixth Major Update which was released a few days before this patch. One major change is that it offers upgrades to the Daedalus Hammer.
For the Daedalus Hammer, upgrades include:
- Flurry Blade (Blade)
- increased damage
- Dashing Wallop (Shield)
- reduced damage
- adjusted hitbox
- Pulverizing Blow (Shield)
- removed the property 'no longer knocks foes away'
- Spread Fire (Rail)
- removed penalty to max. ammo
General gameplay changes focused on the Temple of Styx. These are:
- Slightly increased minimum chamber length of each Temple of Styx Satyr Tunnel
- Foes in Temple of Styx mini-chambers take slightly longer to attack when you first enter
- Slightly reduced frequency of Valuable Urns in Temple of Styx
- Slightly reduced money drops on foes in Temple of Styx
Other updates include:
- Weapons & Powers
- Stygian Blade: reduced damage radius of Nova special
- Shield of Chaos: basic attack no longer knocks foes away
- Boons & Blessings
- Zeus' Aid: reduced duration of Max Gauge Bonus
- Poseidon's Aid: reduced duration, increased damage
- Athena's Aid: reduced duration, reduced power level of Rare and Epic rarity
- Aphrodite's Aid: reworked Max Gauge Bonus; now deals significant damage
- Dionysus' Aid: reduced duration of Max Gauge Bonus
- Thunder Dash (Zeus): reduced damage
- Last Stand (Athena): reduced healing; now offered only once you have at least one Athena Boon
- Deathless Stand (Athena): now offered only once you have at least one Athena Boon
- Life Affirmation (Aphrodite): increased power level
- Foes & Encounters
- Megagorgon: now vulnerable to knock-away effects
- Tisiphone: slightly reduced hitbox on her melee combo to align with the graphic
- Gigantic Vermin: increased damage, increased attack-start range
- Bother: increased damage, increased damage radius
- Snakestone: increased damage, increased tracking speed
- Satyr Cultist: attack now deals a bit of physical damage
- Final Boss: increased damage of various moves; reduced blast speed of shockwave attack; reduced tracking of homing attack; beam attack now destroys rubble; various other adjustments
- Level Design & Environments
- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements to various Temple of Styx chambers
- Minor fixes and improvements to other chambers
The latest changes in the patch, along with those of the previous patches, can be viewed here.
