"Oh no, Zeus is here. This is bad." Greek mythology in a nutshell lmao

Cold Embrace got me my first ever EM4 win back in the day 😂

cold embrace should pierce. Easier to manipulate the beams into hitting your target, so it’s central purpose would be easier to pull off, and it would just be generally better. More of a contender compared to artemis. It could either pierce zag only, so aiming the beam would be easier, or pierce enemies too for a general powee boost as well

the fact that you simply SOLVED Cold Embrace is amazing. Cold Embrace should make the beams wider, but maybe not as lengthy, imitating Aphrodite's Cast. Maybe we could make it reach more with Blown Kiss, too? Amazing insight, Dan!

This is definitely one of the funniest runs of Hades I‘ve ever seen 😂😂

Approximately: 1 pom on beam is 1 dmg per tic for a damage increase of 5*duration, 1 pom on glare is 5 extra tics for a damage increase of 5*current damage. Thus the breakpoint of where poming beam is better than glare is when 5 * current beam duration has to be higher than 5 * current damage. The 5s cancel and you get a surprisingly simple answer that if damage is lower than duration in seconds poming the beam is better, otherwise glare is better.

My last beam run I didn't yet know to use Stygian Soul, but I had Crystal Clarity and 9 casts at the end. That was really fun.

Friend and lover! 19:38 really let out his inner Theseus on that one😂.

I one time crashed the switch version by getting too many crystal beams on the screen at once.

I have an unhealthy fixation for your hades videos. Thanks for tireslessly pumping out hades content after thousands of hours. If you could do a pommed up rip current build I’d be very happy.

This beam run is actually insane. Never even crossed my mind to utilize it like this. Bravo

Both heroes dying at the same time was *chef's kiss*

I think math wise upgrading glacial glare over beam works out to be more dps unless you have very low levels of beam and very very high levels of glare. Like your glare would need to be pushing high teens I'd say while you beam would need to be like level 5 or so. But I think the added utility of extra duration is better than just the dps increase because the dps only matters if the beam hits an enemy and with the beams targeting you, you don't have that uptime so more duration makes it easier to get more damage out of it. Plus if you got the one that causes explosions at max chill, I'd say the duration is always better since you could just auto trigger it every second with enough beams.

imagine being hades sitting up there waiting for zag and then he just starts dropping a billion lasers from your mother in law on the ground

That was awesome. Also, the first time I tried cold embrace, I thought 'I bet if I was good, this would be good' - and, like, I'm not good, but you super are. So fun

Great build. Thanks, I'm building a bastardised version of it with the shield at current, using Doom on the special. It's working really well, haven't had a clear time this fast in a long time.

This has to be one of the craziest runs I've ever seen 😂

5:41 "Nice job throwing that beam directly at the wall Dan well done"😂😂

I like cold embrace with fists. Since you gotta be on top of them anyway. You do miss out on any damage bonuses but it felt the most natural.

Cerberus hates this build because he didnt get to come out and play.

I have such a love/hate relationship with this game. You do 5 runs and it gives you rainbow, then when you finally manage some coherency it's gods you don't really like or the game refuses to give you that one boon your after but that one time when the stars align and you get the build your after it feels sooooo good.

If embrace would have increased or infinite range as well as cast farther away from you that would make it better I think. It could also ether go through terrain or reflect off of you and other casts making like a web between multiple casts and yourself although that sounds like it could be to strong almost.

The title lived up to the hype!!

I come for the clickbait, I stay for the charm

I usually avoid the crystal beam when doing a demeter build... but this video made me want to try this as well

GRAHHHH I LOVE BEAM RUNS

Got my second ever clear today with these icy turrets. Thought the build was pretty garbage and almost restarted, but I'm kinda glad I didn't! I didn't have cold embrace, but I did get glacial glare AND the duo boon that makes the crystals smarter and faster at targeting. I swear, this has to be the easiest (but slowest!) way to beat Hades in the game. Ran around the map picking up and redeploying my shards and just hiding behind the pillars otherwise. Was relatively easy to stay out of his way, because he was slowed almost the entire time.

The second half of the video looks like a Disco Biscuits show lol. I have fun with crystal beam runs. Was one of my first 0 heat clears.

I gotta try this now!!!

im imagining a zeus demeter duo could be beam redirects after hitting an enemy, maybe kinda like lightning phalanx. cbtm

There is only Haelian to pull off a Cold Embrace run !

pom the beam pom the beam we pommin the beam put the pom on the beam

One thing I would make to buff cold embrace would be to make the cast also pierce foes. Imo that could make it better.

Can't believe you embraced your dad to death.

there is something interesting, Hades started at about 80% of full health at phase 3.

amazing man

Title was not click bait. Liked.

Cool stuff. I wonder if it would have been possible/better to to put on Artemis keepsake to try to get her stuff going.

The scuffed runs are THE RUNS.

Lol, I could not see shit in the dad fight. just so many beams out there...

I think the “optimal” Pom choice for beam strength vs CC is more nuanced than you’d think For clearing rooms, upgrading CC falls off very hard because you’ll clear the room before most of the casts come close to reaching their max duration (so increasing damage is more optimal). With the Hades fight specifically though, where there are so many breaks from when you can do damage, being able to drop more beams that stick around longer will make a HUGE difference for the later sections when they stack (as you saw). Other commenters have added other nuance as well that I’ll leave to those threads. Ultimately - at that point the run is likely to succeed regardless… so might as well go CC for the satisfying ending on Hades :)

Ok but imagine if the beam pierced YOU You could just drop every beam in the same spot and run tight circles around it and strobe the room 💀 (that’s obviously not optimal - but would be funny!)

Not sure about beams, but I have definitely seen some pretty crazy fps drops (on Switch OLED) while running Drunken Dash and the extra dash charges.

u actually, in a distorted way, cosplayed hades ultra-beam attack. kinda gives me castlevania sotn vibes alucard's techniques are a variant of his father... cool

this is the goofiest Meme Beam run i have seen in my life

You should try to do another max poms build. That was one of my favorite videos.

DAD MELTED, LMAO

I have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to boons. But I like that you know.

This is very unrelated and late but i recently bought the game and my 5th or 6th win against Hades was the most powerful ive ever been thanks to getting the boon from Dionysus for the lob cast, then a duo from Demeter adding a lot more damage and chill to that, then near the very end another duo for the cast from Zeus that made it strike lightning. It melted bosses and it made me feel like I was actually gooder at the game. (But of course take a loss next run because im not too good)

I don't think that Killing Freeze or Arctic Blast become available with Glacial Glare or Frozen Touch. It's weird because both Glacial Glare and Frozen Touch cause inflict chill which should be the only requirement for Killing Freeze and Arctic Blast, but they aren't listed as options in the prerequisites. This is especially silly when you consider that the only time that Frozen Touch approaches being useful is if it is the only boon that inflicts chill and you have Arctic Blast. Maybe the prerequisite list in the codex is wrong, but I think it just doesn't work.

I've had more than 30-40 runs sp far and reached Elysium twice, still haven't gotten this goddess's boon

I think i just discovered a bug with Parting shot. I'm doing a Butterfly-Hestia run currently with the first Mirror-bonus on Green. I got Parting shot and Hestias Shots now display a "Backstab" when i hit Enemys from behind. Is this allready known? And is the 35% Bonus-Damage from the Dou actully there? If it's unknown: it might be cause i got Bad News ealyer wich is also bugged in that it's Castbonusdamge is Global, thus Parting Shot got added to Bad News.

Oh, so crystal beam is game-breaking.

I think another way Cold Embrace could've been improved is making it a point-cast ability like the Rail Special or Trippy Shot instead of spawning right next to you.

Just got 16 heat fists with this (talos) but with athena to so I backstabed with cold embrace

Hi, question about Hades: when you got a cast like beam or the one from Ares (whirlblade?) do you automatically miss out on the mirror buff of +damage on enemies with a cast shard in them? Thanks

Did you seriously just PHASE Extreme Measures Dad??

Crazy strong build

At the start of the run, I doubted the video title. But it turned out to be true. Glacial Glare OP.

Beaming time

make the beams wider you say? and they penetrate? 😳

Whats the thought process behind using stygian for this? I dont quite get it as ive hardly used it and always use 3 casts. Nvm I get it you can have more casts up with upgrades. Lol I gotta try this more

Artic blast essentially adds 1/10 of its damage to each beam right? So at common its +8 damage to each beam +1 for each rarity. Thats double the damage of a base common crystal beam or 8-11 poms. That said, it wouldn't benefit from cast damage buffs except global damage buffs, so numbers might not add up in practice.

playing this build feels really weird man. nice run

I'm a simple man, I see Beam Meme I click. :)

And the Dog Skip!

Would Cold Embrace on Aspect of Hera (bow) be a good combo? The problem with crystal beams on Hera is that if you shoot through the enemy the beam will be behind them and firing away. But if you have Cold Embrace, then you could shoot through enemies' faces and the laser would hit them in the back.

So wild...

Beam meme!

for any doubters that want to call clickbait, I can confirm the title is true.

I could be wrong but wouldn't glacial glare lose its value once it lasts longer than you are in a an encounter. other than bosses you clear rooms in 10 or maybe 15 seconds, just guessing. Again, I don't know

“now we gotta play geometry wars or whatever” is suuuch a funny line lmaooo wp

You won't be offered Arctic Blast if you only have Demeter's cast and Glacial. You need another core Demeter boon.

I hate that "beams follow me" boon and prefer the beams track faster. Either way, this turned out AB-SO-FUCKING-LUTELY OBSCENE!!! ROFLMAO

When I finished hades last week… I stopped playing spoiler ! I mean like making Persephone be queen of underworld again

How do you get the damage percentage list in the bottom left?

If there a forum or website somewhere for the Speedrun/ High Heat community on what requirements there are for submissions? I just started playing Hades about 3 weeks ago and I'm getting into 25+ Heat, i think i might actually be decent at this game so thought it'd be fun to record runs

How do you display your dps in the bottom left corner ?

Hmm, can the crystal backstab with the aphro+Athena dual boon?

How do you get the damage stats on screen?

why not 3 casts with the demeter artimus duo so they track quickly plus just leveling the demeter boons dmg

What shows you your DPS in the bottom left corner?

How do you gain Charon coins so fast? is it the increased heat?

can you only use meg on EM4?

Algorithms

why is stygian soul dangerous? what did he mean by that?

Me: hell yeah new Haelian! But no chat, will it even feel like a Haelian video? Sultry Haelian: hello friends and lovers Me: we are a go on vibe check, i repeat we are a go on vibe check

I miss Twitch chat :(

first

Recently i broke my controller and it's very hard to play with keyboard 😅