Should i just "give up" if the rng sucks?

[<color=#CD3210>Lunatic]

Like for the past 8 runs or so i keep getting the crappiest novice boons that support no builds. Bad or no mana sustains, stupid bonuses to abilities for the weapons i wont use, and awful combos.

I'm beginning to really regret buying this pos game, atleast the first one was really fun.

[Mr. Bunce]

I've never had a run where I couldn't piece together a viable build. Get creative!

[ninemiletree]

Well, you can unlock arcana cards that let you reroll boons, if you're really having that hard of a time with it.

That being said, if you take the time to learn the boons and tehir synergies, there's really very few scenarios wehre you can't find useful boons

[Silyon]

You run into the same kind of situation in Hades 1 or any other roguelike. The point of the genre is to take what you're given and see how far you can get with it. Sometimes you're given trash and have to make trash work. Part of the game.

I will say, once you learn how to use the various weapons the boons you get on a given run hardly matter. Only the Hammer boons fundamentally alter how a weapon works, and none of the god boons replace knowing how the weapons work or what enemy attack patterns look like.

[ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ]

It's fine if you die, it's part of the game. It's like Dark Souls a bit in that way.

You shouldn't need to rely on boons and such to make it. The Sirens though... that's an unfair fight. 3 vs 1. I just got the Axe so, I am hoping I can kill them with that.

I hate when games throw multiple enemies at you in a Boss fight. It's cheap and it isn't a challenge. It's more of an annoyance.

[ShadowDark3]

If you're struggling and don't want to put the time in to learning how to make the most of various boons you should turn on god mode. That's what it's there for.

[VAL]

No if you select give up youll be stuck in an rng loop. Better to complete the run in a death and upgrade home base.

[cckim92]

isn't it the rng initially stay the same even if you give up? Tried that because i dont like heart boon but after replaying it still the same boon

[Dwarvin' Marvin]

No one even knows what's meta yet. Outside of scorch being godawful late game right now, basically everything feels pretty viable to me. The first run I won was with buffing cast, and every weapon has that.

[tbloxham]

I think the issue is that some of the boon packages are just kinda meh at best, with effects that don't help you kill or survive. They only facilitate other things to help you win more, or become functional only if Tarot cards have already given you other bonuses. There's certainly a lot of spit and polish needed here to get 2 up to the same level as 1.

[Rainy Raven]

RNG will stay the same on the route you have taken, it will only start to change until you start to take a different one. E.g. if your first branching appeared at location 3 and you took the left entrance, anything before and after will be the same if you take the left again, but if you takes the right, something different will appear.

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

Yes. Because you know exactly what's good and what's bad. And you've figured out all there is to know about the game after 2 hrs of play.

[<color=#CD3210>Lunatic]

Originally posted by Morton Koopa Jr.:

Yes. Because you know exactly what's good and what's bad. And you've figured out all there is to know about the game after 2 hrs of play.

Sigh, why are most people here just to be sarcastic? Im on night 40 something, most prophecies fullfilled, most boons tried and tested, i have several good build ideas, but then rng kicks you in the balls non stop and it's hard to stay happy with a roguelike.

[Mr. Bunce]

Originally posted by Lunatic Heretic:

Originally posted by Morton Koopa Jr.:

Yes. Because you know exactly what's good and what's bad. And you've figured out all there is to know about the game after 2 hrs of play.

Sigh, why are most people here just to be sarcastic? Im on night 40 something, most prophecies fullfilled, most boons tried and tested, i have several good build ideas, but then rng kicks you in the balls non stop and it's hard to stay happy with a roguelike.

Explain how the RNG is so bad. I’m not seeing it. At all.

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

Originally posted by Lunatic Heretic:

Like for the past 8 runs or so i keep getting the crappiest novice boons that support no builds. Bad or no mana sustains, stupid bonuses to abilities for the weapons i wont use, and awful combos.

I'm beginning to really regret buying this pos game, atleast the first one was really fun.

Yes. It doesn't get better. I refunded over the controls, but I noticed this issue real fast too. The original fundamentally does not have all these issues.

[Watcher Rat]

As you play, you'll both unlock more things to improve your weapons/situation, and that will make runs easier in turn. Even if you get a bad RNG run, it still gives you a chance to practice against enemies to learn for your next run, so it's worth going. That said, try to determine which gods/boons work best with each weapon. If you're taking the weapon that gives you bones, start out with a keepsake from the god that has the better boons, which will let you rarify one of them for some added power. Once you've used the keepsake, swap it out at the end of Erebus for another keepsake and continue onward.

Once you do enough runs, you'll eventually start to power up the aspects of your weapons, that's when you're going to start noticing that the RNG gets a bit less rigid for you, you'll have default bonuses for any given run to work with. Mix that with the practice you've gotten against enemies from your previous runs, and you'll be making pretty consistent progress through the game. Hades 1 worked much the same way with progression, so it operates on a familiar curve.