This happened to me the first time I got to 2nd phase and it seemed scripted almost. And then the next time, I got a lucky situation where I avoided the mechanic not in the usual way and then when I went back the next 4 times I had no idea what was happening and had to look up how the one shot attack worked.
When you get the pact of punishment 2.0, you can see they expect the exact same time through stages as the first game.
It's really rough the first time for sure. After a spell, it becomes fine and then grew on me.
Well the second one in the surface is kind of playing extra duty to fit as the current "ending", and there are clearly meant to be more that aren't in there yet. I don't think they'd feel like they were missing anything if they were 2 out of 4 instead of 2 out of 2. This is where the game feels most obviously unfinished (which is exactly how it advertises itself, so that's fine)
Someone mentioned that in this interview, the answer is sadly no.
My heart sinks when I see her Q show up. I really dislike her cast.
You can actually block the sheep thing; it's not an autohit.
I thought I tried that once and it didn't work. I have dodged this shot, but it takes so many dodges that it seems best to let it hit you right away.
Fully agreed, I'm doing those extra challenge runs and while most are fun and challenging all the umbral flames are one are just near impossible/annoyance.. it barely seems to do damage/upkeep DPS, slow main cast etc. Not a fan of the skulls either, other weapons are all great.
Lacking fun and feel I agree with but I think they are pretty just just for letting you move a lot and dodge whenever while attacking, plus you can spam the specials to keep damage lingering on the screen for a long time. I got my first no revives completion with them though so I'm probably bias
TLDR: It has almost twice the content of the original Hades' 1.0 version.
This is a good summary and I'll add that while the story isn't complete, its very very far along. There is not a story conclusion right now, and there'll probably be 3-6 more of the story segments (like where Zagreus goes to rest in the first game) added. But the amount of dialogue and character interactions right now is really high, maybe close to %90 there.
I really hope Theseus is actually supe cordial to melinoe, confirming he was just deep into kaydabe in Hades 1 and he asks Melinoe to relay a message to Zagreus - "Tell Zagreus not to work himself into a shoot"
haha, I will check out those patch notes now... here's hoping I'm way too high.
The trick is that you often time don't necessarily want to be inside the Cast after you use it. For some builds you do, but what I like doing is weaving in, getting some hits in, firing off my Omega cast for damage over time, then peacing back out. It freezing enemies in place by default also makes for great crowd control and lets you be more mobile, in my experience. If you get one of the boons that lets you fire your cast, it feels like you're really off to the races.
