Hades 2 is an expansive game - there are more things to do than you can shakไe a stick at, and the scope is incredibly impressive. You can be thirty hours into the game and still uncovering secrets and new discoveries, encountering new challenges and collecting new items.
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One particularly bulky feature to unlock is an entirely separate route to th✃e usual path through the underworld towards Tartarus and Chronos. At the Crossroads Training Grounds, a path to the surface bꦐeckons you - but it is sealed with a devilish ward that must be broken. Thankfully, it only takes a little effort.
Hades 2 is currently in Early Access, which 😼means the details below are subject to changes over the course of development.
How To Break The Surface Ward
A key aspect to the breaking of the surface ward spell is to progress the game's story. This will involve meeting and talking to many different characters whenever you have the opportunity to do so. Of note are the Olympians who offer you boons, Hecate at the 🍎Crossroads and during her boss fight, and Chaos, a very powerful and important character.
Eventually, you'll start hearing more and more about the Olympians' plight and how their side of the war is going. This will convince Melinoe to play a r♈ole in the surface battles herself.
You will eventually unlock the Incantation Permeation of Witching-Wards. Casting this will remove the ward on the🍸 staircase to the surface. It requires 🌠the following reagents:
|
Reagent |
Amount |
Source |
|---|---|---|
|
Cinder |
1 |
You obtain these by beating Hecate in Erebus. |
|
Shadow |
1 |
Shadow is obtained from the Shadow Extraction alchemical reci🦩pe, which requires a great d𝄹eal of Ash, Psyche, and Fate Fabric. |
|
Moly |
3 |
You can pick these from the ground in Erebus. |
Fate Fabric is obtained from the Wretဣched Broker and sometimes offered to you by Arachne. You can als🦩o obtain it from some Fated List rewards.
The key step here is to unlock the Shadow recipe obtained from a conversation with Chaos. Make sure you're always taking Chaos Gates when they appear during a run.
Once you break the ward, you can head to the surface. However, you'll find that you have a curse that makes it impossible to survive the air up there.
How To Survive On The Surface
After attempting to survive up on the surface, you'll need to keep talking to every character you encounter to find a solution to this. Again, the key conversation is one with Chaos, who will tell you of the curse and provide you with a possible solution: another Incantation, this time, Unraveling a Fateful Bond.
This new Incantation requires the fol🧜lowing reagents:
|
Reagent |
Amount |
Source |
|---|---|---|
|
Lotus |
2 |
These can be picked up from the groಌund in Oceanus, which is the second region of the underworld route. |
|
Moss |
2 |
These can be picked up fro🌠m the ground in the City of Ephyra, which is the first region of the surface route. This may require multiple trips to the surface - luckily, they tend to appear with high regularity within the first three screens up there. |
|
Nightshade |
2 |
These can be grown from Nightshade Seeds, which are dug up in Erebus, the first region of th💯e underworld route. |
|
Thalamus |
2 |
These can be grown from Origin Seeds, which are dug up in Chaos's realm. Chaos will give you an Origin Seed when they reveal to you the recipe for Unra෴veling a Fateful Bond. |
You will need to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:use the Silver Spade to acquire the N🐠ightshade Seeds and Origin Seeds.
Once you cast this Incantation, Melinoe will be immune to the familial curse that kills her quickly whenever she travels to the surface. This will unlock the surface route as a viable alternative to the underworld route.
While the underworld route is currently complete, the surface route has yet to be finished. There are two full regions to e🌠xplore at the moment, bu🎶t the run will end after beating the second boss.
It is important to note that the surface route provides a far more difficult challenge than the underworld route. The two regions are nothing like you're used to - the City of Ephyra presents you with all of your potential prizes at once and it's important to strategise to pick them in the right order, and the Rift of Thessaly will pit y👍ou against multiple battles with no rewards that take place in cra🐻mped arenas.
For these reasons, it's a good idea to make sure your upgrades are well looked after before taking the upper path to the surface. That said, the resources you will find up there are crucial to your progression, so don't put it off forever💎!
