Hades 2 gets new region, weapon, familiars, and more in first major early access content update

5 months after bursting into PC early entry, Hades 2 – the sequel to Supergiant Video games’ much-loved 2020 roguelike action-adventure – has simply obtained its first main content material replace, including a brand new area, weapon, and a lot else its patch notes weigh in at over 3,500 phrases.

Hades 2’s Olympic Replace (“virtually mountain-sized!”, exclaims Supergiant) begins with the addition of a brand-new area – one you will in all probability have already got guess primarily based on the identify of at the moment’s launch. If it is concrete info you need, although, we’ll have to delve into spoiler territory – so flip again proper now if you happen to’re delicate to that sort of factor, in any other case I am going to simply get on and make sure Hades 2 gamers can now discover Olympus, the mountain of the gods.

Olympus consists of a number of new places, and Supergiant notes at the moment’s replace additionally provides new places to a number of different current areas. That is alongside an “otherworldly” new weapon – Xinth’s Black Coat, to be extra particular – plus two new allies with distinctive Keepsakes, and two new Animal Familiars (Raki the Raven and Hecuba the Hound) to search out.

Elsewhere in Hades 2’s Olympic Replace, these trying to spruce up the Crossroads a bit now have entry to “dozens” of latest beauty objects, whereas Supergiant additionally guarantees “hours” of latest dialogue (spanning 2,500 new voice strains) as the sport’s plot picks up the tempo due to the arrival of Olympus and its denizens. Different key additions embrace a brand new world map that seems as protagonist Melinoë strikes between areas, plus native assist for Apple’s M1 Macs.

Supergiant’s full patch notes are appropriately supergiant in nature, so I will not be appending the entire thing to the underside of this web page. As an alternative, you will discover all 3,500+ phrases masking Hades 2’s newest additions over on Steam; alternatively, Supermassive has brilliantly launched a virtually 27-minute lengthy dramatic studying of the entire thing.

Hades 2 is presently anticipated to depart early entry subsequent yr, and a launch for unspecified consoles can be on the playing cards. Already, although, it’s kind of of a deal with, with Eurogamer contributor Christian Donlan calling it “comfy and acquainted” and armed with the “energy of shock”.