A new Hades 2 update 2 is rolling out on PC. According to the official Hades patch 2 notes, the latest update brings gameplay enhancements include encountering additional Olympians, improved rewards, reduced Gold cost of certain items, and adjustments to the appearance order of Olympians.
Previously, a major update added a long list of quality of life improvements. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing issues since the last major patch. Today’s Hades 2 patch 1.04 will address a few of these errors.
Hades 2 Patch 2 Notes – June 5, 2024
General Gameplay
- You can now encounter more Olympians each night and find more Boons/rewards in Erebus
- Increased invulnerability duration after using Death Defiance
- Improved Ash and Psyche rewards can be found in new areas
- You can now harvest repeatedly from Crescent Pick Outcroppings by holding the button
- Toula will stay closer to you during Encounters, especially in the Underworld
- Charon no longer offers Death Defiance items if you don’t need them
- Reduced costs for some shop items
- Adjusted order of when Olympians first appear
- Normalized chances of finding Fishing Points across regions
Nocturnal Arms & Abilities
- Adjusted attributes of various weapon attacks and abilities
Aspects
- Reworked or adjusted several Aspect abilities
Keepsakes
- Increased bonus from Moon Beam (Selene)
Hammer Upgrades
- Removed some upgrades and added new ones for various weapons
Hexes
- Adjusted requirements and effects for Selene’s Hexes
Foes & Encounters
- Various fixes and adjustments to bosses and enemies
Level Design
- More resources in certain areas
- Burning oil slicks extinguish after encounters
- Adjusted oil slick locations
Prophecies
- Updated requirements for some Prophecies
Chaos Trials
- Reduced difficulty of some trials
Oath of the Unseen
- Adjusted effects of some Vows
Menus & UI
- Added new icons
- Can now check offering lists while choosing Boons
- Added warning for last Death Defiance use
- Improved Book of Shadows reliability
- Removed some notifications
- Adjusted layouts and added borders
- Added bug reporting pop-up
Art & VFX
- Reduced intense flashing/strobing effects
Audio
- Added new SFX
- Updated placeholder SFX
Voice & Narrative
- Improved voiceline triggering in certain situations
- Added new voicelines
Misc
- Can now skip out of the family portrait scene faster
- Can rebind keys for full keyboard control
- Timers pause around Charon
- Anvil of Fates requirements adjusted
- Timing hint added to the Underworld Flashback
- Improved controller compatibility
- Updated text descriptions
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Double Up (Poseidon) sometimes doubling Mystery Boons; clarified description
- Fixed Nightmare resources dropping unexpectedly in Chaos Trials
- Fixed Omega moves occasionally becoming unresponsive after being chomped by [REDACTED]
- Fixed [REDACTED]’s deadliest attack occasionally hitting when Melinoë was in a safe spot
- Fixed Umbral Flames Attack preventing Magick regeneration before channeling Omega Attack
- Fixed The Queen and Judgment (Arcana) appearing active with no other Arcana
- Fixed Hearth Gain (Hestia) no longer restoring Magick if chosen as a Sacrifice Boon
- Fixed certain later Oath Testaments for the Sister Blades sometimes not appearing
- Fixed cases where you could go out of bounds using the Argent Skull vs. [REDACTED]
- Fixed visual effects lingering after the [REDACTED] fight
- Fixed Toula vanishing after defeating [REDACTED]
- Fixed additional issues with Sun Worshiper (Apollo)
- Fixed additional issues with Dark Side (Selene)
- Fixed additional issues with Twilight Curse (Selene)
- Fixed a visual issue where [REDACTED] could slide after being snared
- Fixed Spark of Ixion (Charon) causing an issue in [REDACTED]
- Fixed Golden Boughs not marking all [REDACTED] rewards
- Fixed narrative events playing out of sequence
- Fixed Odysseus walking away during Nemesis conversation
- Fixed [REDACTED] leaping away forever
- Fixed Melinoë’s voice reverting after certain [REDACTED] enchantments
- Fixed incorrect [REDACTED] portrait in the Book of Shadows
- Fixed incorrect music in some Chaos Trials
- Fixed a looping sound playing indefinitely
- Fixed objective overlap in the Training Grounds
- Fixed issues on the Victory Screen
- Fixed issues in ultrawide resolutions
- Fixed a crash with Winter Harvest (Demeter) effect repeating
- Fixed various other rare crashes
- Fixed several text errors
- Other minor fixes
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