Chronos difficulty is a bit overtuned

[Lahoo Eckbert]

I got to him twice so far, both attempts I had pretty good builds and even then he has a huge health pool and the aoe damage he dishes out is hard to avoid. Much harder fight than Hades.

[DanZinagri]

I'm almost wondering if stuff is so tuned-up just to slow progression during early-access. Because compared to the first Hades it feels like once i reach the cerberus fight i'm taking absurd amount of damage. Like 50-80 points of damage anytime i'm hit.

I get the name of the game is to not get hit, but it feels like it scales a bit silly very quick, especially considering how it feels like certain weapons scale very poorly.

[Orzeker]

Had the same feeling, I reach chronos every time but I can't beat him even if I'm fully stacked in hp and 3 rez. He's really not well telegraphed and for some reason his attacks are super fast.
Doesn't help that he can dish out 30+ damage easy per hit.

[Sebs]

Originally posted by DanZinagri:

I'm almost wondering if stuff is so tuned-up just to slow progression during early-access. Because compared to the first Hades it feels like once i reach the cerberus fight i'm taking absurd amount of damage. Like 50-80 points of damage anytime i'm hit.

I get the name of the game is to not get hit, but it feels like it scales a bit silly very quick, especially considering how it feels like certain weapons scale very poorly.

its not necessarily overtuned but it is made intentionally artificially harder early, the "blessing" from strife makes it so the later bosses and enemies do massively more damage than normally.

the first times i got to chronos his spinny scythe throw did a massive 80 damage each time because of the strife debuff, without it it does like 30 damage which is still a lot but not super bad, however i do have problems with the tells of chronos, all his animations seem so similar and there is barely any indication which one he is going to do next

[Tiny Rooseveld]

I feel he is definitely a bit to punishing. I remember beating Hades in the original game on my second try and pretty much every try after that. With Hades 2 I'm 25 hours in now and I haven't beaten him once. I get to him on most runs but he's a massive difficulty wall for me personally.

I had some builds with the axe that had extremely high damage and with that one I got pretty close but on weaker builds I just loose the war of attrition against him. Not getting hit at is just not feasible to me in longer battles.

I also lost a lot of runs where my build just didn't come together at all. I guess that's to be expected in early access though so lets hope they just create more viable combinations of boons so Chronos feels doable with more then just the most optimal builds.

[Gungnir]

Game definitely feels significantly harder than the first. the bosses deal too much damage, and with the weapons feeling slow, and dashing feeling clunkier, its even worse. but man am i having a blast!

[Janicorn]

Originally posted by Orzeker:

Had the same feeling, I reach chronos every time but I can't beat him even if I'm fully stacked in hp and 3 rez. He's really not well telegraphed and for some reason his attacks are super fast.
Doesn't help that he can dish out 30+ damage easy per hit.

same for me..

[Ting]

If the dash wasn't so bad, I think things would be fine on a lot of these encounters; it just feels like nomatter how much you spam spacebar, the game will not accept dash inputs in animations and it just hurts the gameplay so much.

You end up taking damage and always have that feeling of "this really isn't my fault." Never had this issue in Hades 1.

[Khali]

He is super hard. Twice I got a really good build running and reached him with full health and 2 revives, and had like 250 health.
Beginning of phase 2 he just one shot me before the fight even started for 850 damage or something. This seems over the top

[Yeshua]

First phase is actually easy for me, the second one is a nightmare tho, the 999 damage attacks, they're really too much. But again, he is cronos, he is supposed to be really broken lmao.

[ele]

Anything that is clearly telegraphed hurts a lot more because it's expected you avoid it.

[Yeshua]

Originally posted by Ting:

If the dash wasn't so bad, I think things would be fine on a lot of these encounters; it just feels like nomatter how much you spam spacebar, the game will not accept dash inputs in animations and it just hurts the gameplay so much.

You end up taking damage and always have that feeling of "this really isn't my fault." Never had this issue in Hades 1.

I think dash is okay, it has a little cooldown now because the sprint but if you know how to use the sprint you can get really broken, I remember that in one run activating the sprint made 600 damage + another 600 after 4 seconds. In the first phase cronos life bar just dissapeared with me sprinting around him lol

[Overeagerdragon]

The devs have admitted both Chronos and Eris are harder now than they should be as a stopgap measure to prevent people from clearing the game whilst they dev more content and balance stuff

[Tiny Tyrant]

Originally posted by Overeagerdragon:

The devs have admitted both Chronos and Eris are harder now than they should be as a stopgap measure to prevent people from clearing the game whilst they dev more content and balance stuff

I'm not trying to be accusatory or anything but can you tell me where they said that? It would vindicate me, because I can get to both Chronos and Eris no problem but they, especially Eris, feel like hitting a brick wall going 80. It feels jarring.

[Usagi]

When you get selene's hex, which make you invulnerable for 5 seconds, good mana pool and mana regen - you can faceroll chronos

[Soracifer]

i got him on third (or fourth) fight, is way more hard than Hades... but maybe it's just that right now dosent feel like you can make very op build.
I Find eris more easy, her attack are predictable, with the axe you can easly parry most of her stronger direct attack