Achievements and hell mode

[Raskel]

Hello fellow partners in death, im new to the game but I like it very much and researched a little because I'm playing in hell mode. So I saw in the achievements that if I want to 100% I don't need to play in hell mode (which is nice so it's more reacheable to more people), and I only saw that the benefit of doing hell mode is that you can get more bounties (up to 25 instead of 20). Is it worth it? If you finish the game in normal I know you can raise the pact as much as you want right? Or in hell mode I can increase more since I start with some already? I'm getting better at the game but I don't know if is better I just do normal, or if I feel comfortable with hell mode I should stay with it...
Can someone clarify more the benefits in end game for hell mode for me?
In both game modes if want to do the bounties I need to increase the heat level right? Does it affect much? Or is just the same but you need to do 25 just because you already start with 5 heat levels?
It would be nice if they added and option to turn on hell mode in late game. Well sorry for the long text, thanks for reading <3

[Raskel]

Oh and also, not being able to turn down the heat level in hell mode once you had cleared a run, how does it feel in late game for you guys? It ruins it?... Dosent make a difference? Or make the game better?

[Darth Bokeh]

Hell Mode is just there for the personal challenge. It doesn’t give more rewards of any kind.

In Hell Mode (HM) there is a heat condition enabled by default that isn’t available in normal mode - Personal Liability, which disables an invulnerability shield that automatically pops up after you take burst damage. If it’s important to you that you’re able to play with this enabled, then HM is your only option.

In normal mode, you can increase the heat as much as you like, past the “bounty limit” so if you want to play higher you can (to the same heat level you can with HM). With HM you need to play at a higher heat level (25 instead of 20) for all the bounty rewards and can’t lower it below 5 heat.

I don’t play in HM, so can’t speak from experience with it. I’ve played with all weapons up to heat 20 and finished a heat 32 run once with one weapon. Personally, I’m glad I didn’t choose HM. The mandatory HM heat conditions don’t look too bad, but I don’t know how they would feel at heat 25.

If you ever want to try speed running, a HM save isn’t optimal since it enables heat conditions by default that speed runners might not usually choose. You can, however, download other people’s normal mode save games for that, if you want (https://www.speedrun.com/hades/resources). A potential downside is that loading someone else’s save game may trigger steam achievements from the save you might not have earned yet.

[Raskel]

Originally posted by 1sot0pe:

Hell Mode is just there for the personal challenge. It doesn’t give more rewards of any kind.

In Hell Mode (HM) there is a heat condition enabled by default that isn’t available in normal mode - Personal Liability, which disables an invulnerability shield that automatically pops up after you take burst damage. If it’s important to you that you’re able to play with this enabled, then HM is your only option.

In normal mode, you can increase the heat as much as you like, past the “bounty limit” so if you want to play higher you can (to the same heat level you can with HM). With HM you need to play at a higher heat level (25 instead of 20) for all the bounty rewards and can’t lower it below 5 heat.

I don’t play in HM, so can’t speak from experience with it. I’ve played with all weapons up to heat 20 and finished a heat 32 run once with one weapon. Personally, I’m glad I didn’t choose HM. The mandatory HM heat conditions don’t look too bad, but I don’t know how they would feel at heat 25.

If you ever want to try speed running, a HM save isn’t optimal since it enables heat conditions by default that speed runners might not usually choose. You can, however, download other people’s normal mode save games for that, if you want (https://www.speedrun.com/hades/resources). A potential downside is that loading someone else’s save game may trigger steam achievements from the save you might not have earned yet.

Thank you so much for all info! I thought that HM would demand me to always increase the heat getting stuck in HM 25 in the end always, which is bad for farming i guess, its nice that the mandatory is only 5 them. I think i will do a second save normal then, i think i will enjoy the same way. Then after i do everything which will take a lot of time, i can try the HM save and 100%, thanks a lot <3 it helped me very much <3