Permanent boon or hammer

[WaterCat]

I have play this game for 23 hrs, have 24 escape attempt, but only once i did manage to defeat the last boss. The rest of it just a pain journey to the outside world. Some journey i end up with a mess combination of boons, because i want to try this, i like to try that, but mostly because i have a bad luck finding boon that suit my play style ( i mean my low reflex style). So is there a plan to implement at least one permanent boon or hammer in the later update? it would be great. Well if it didn't, then i would like to suggest it, i can, right. Just a suggestion.

I didn't suggest to make the game easier, just make it hard to achieve, like you should fill 50 heart bar to a deity, or make it lock for 100.000 darkness in the mirror, or as a blessing from deity through a trial, or something else. My favorite weapon currently is the rail, i survive longer with this weapon. it fun to lob 3 mortar to the enemies while dashing like crazy. But the 3 lob upgrade is really hard to encounter. So if this boon can be made permanently, it would be crazy. Although zagreaus will often end up die miserably, at least i have some fun, without destroying my keyboard :)

[dethtrain]

That'd be a nice mirror upgrade. Start your escape attempt with a daedalus hammer + random boon. I'm not a fan of the ranged weapons, but I had a couple of runs where the hammer upgrade drastically changes gameplay style up (to the point where I think the default modes of the ranged weapons should be changed)

[WaterCat]

Agree, with the default rail, i need a brief moment to reload, exposing zagreus to enemy. Sometime the ammo is empty at the moment i almost kill an enemy, kept pressing the triger without noticing and they damage zagreus instead. But with 3 lob mortar i just feed them that and move away, feed them again, use my dash to chip some of their health, lob again, dash again, rinse and repeat. It so satisfiying and fun to watch.

Im sugesting it because most of the permanent upgrade using titan blood is really not that good. Titan blood is a pain to get, im not even pass my first 1 heat, but that dont really bother me, the fun factor is gameplay tho. So for the rail, it just add ammo, mortaring zagreus to add damage, or first bullet damage. During my journey, none of them really matter. I cant depend on that, because zagreus need to avoid damage most of the time, while doing enough damage to enemies, preserving his life for final battle, because that is the most painful battle of all boss.

Beside that, i notice there still an area that not available yet in this current version, so i bet there are some of them in the next update to the final release, it will be a very long, and more painful, yet could be fun, journey after current final boss. With this implemented, i think it would really helpful for zagreus.

[八云式]

I would just turn on the God Mode. (And I did.)

[WaterCat]

I understand your point, i myself occasionally use cheatmode to some games, but after an hour or so, it got really bored, so i end up leaving that game to soon, searching another game, use cheat again, another game, cheating, another, godmode, so on and on, i end up realizing i waste some money for that behaviour, without satisfying enough to fulfill my hobby. But without that, i play enough hour of fun and adrenalin surge, worth of the money i spend.

[Psymind]

That could be fun I think. I dont like the default moveset of the spear, but once I found a hammer that changed the special into a explosive throw, then I got a few artemis crit buffs and voilá, my special was dealing 150~350 damage per throw, it was crazy fun. That only worked cause I found the hammer right at the first room so I based every other boon on it.

[nash]

The whole game is balanced around the idea that the player configurates his own difficulty.
As usual in a roguelite it starts pretty steap then gets a little easier with the metaprogression,
in this case the mirror.

After you beat the game once you can immediately chose additional modifiers. Godmode in this game grants you damage resistance not immunity.
If you feel it is too easy you can counter it before each run to fit your skills.

[Lorska]

I would suggest leaning towards the kinds of builds that require less input from the user when struggling.

Rail with a mortar type build is a nice idea but if you don't get the triple shot that's an issue. I'd suggest to always start with the chaos trinket and see what your first chaos and deadalus upgrades are. If you get stuff for the special, lean into it, if not focus on Dio and Aphro boons. Poison on attack makes for a very relaxing playstyle and you can use both of their respective trinkets later to for 2 assured encounters. You can safely ignore all other gods with this playstyle, though as usual, Athena is great for defense and Poseidon is just nice for extra rewards.

You can also unlock Poseidon aspect for sword (levelling it up is nice but unlocking it is enough) and go for chaos start again looking for cast upgrades. Most casts work for this but avoid Dio. It's also a very simple playstyle, try to avoid boons that have levels and maybe look for some defensive stuff and have fun nuking things.

I would say the other weapons don't have that easily accessible cookie cutter builds, or they require more investment to reach full potential. Poison builds is how I started beating the last boss before I could get better at other playstyles. Mostly because all the titan blood allowed for those.

[WaterCat]

@nash, at first i though the god mode give zagreus immunity because the sound of it, so never bother to look at it to avoid the temptation lol, this mod would be a huge help.
@Lorska most of the time i avoid aphro and athena because they rarely gave attack boost, just weak status and deflect, so i though just by avoiding damage by dashing far away ill be good, and only used Dio or poseidon boons. I will try that later in my next run. Thank you both for the suggestions.

[Lorska]

oh... Let's just say Aphro turns poison from viable to crazy. Weak will help tremendously in tough boss fights (especially the last 2) and there are other benefits:
1) the duo boon of these two increases max stacks of poison from 5 to 8
2) weak+poison activates the 50% extra damage effect
3) the damage reduction you get from these two goes quite high, making it possible to just face tank the last boss

And don't sleep on Aphro for other builds, the cast is great, 50% damage reduction on anything as a status is really nice and she offers extremely high damage multipliers.

[WaterCat]

Wow i she really that good? I avoid her most of the time... Those combo are crazy. Tanking the last boss?? That would be awesome. Ok i'm definitely gonna try that. thank you