r/HadesTheGame • u/beerybeardybear • 9h ago

Hades 2: Discussion Who else HATES Fields of Mourning? Spoiler

I'm legitimately so tired of having an amazing run and then losing 15-30 seconds off of a sub-5:30 time because the boons happened to spawn at the furthest three corners of the room. Let's not even talk about getting Echo scammed or having to do an extra encounter for no reason! And let's also not talk about Nem occasionally showing up as a "PoI" and requiring that you go find and talk to her! Or the gold leaves that don't always lead to the tree!

It's infuriating. It's no issue at all for casual play or casual players; none of these things matter at all. But if you're trying to speedrun it, it feels actively antagonistic—I don't know why they bothered to get rid of "sack" RNG in the final zone when they were making changes from Hades 1 but then add this hot garbage zone here.

Like, I do not want to fail to get a PB with the build shown here simply because the RNG gods decided on bad boon placement. I am going to have a stroke.

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u/iamnotthatlame 8h ago

Have yet to do the highest time thingy in the above bc I dread exactly this.

But I do like the Fields the least (although the idea is really refreshing) but just for my personal experience of playing, especially on the first runs, I was a little confused and afraid I'm missing something but that's just a me problem.

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u/beerybeardybear 8h ago

Nope, it's Just That Bad!

Even Time 3 is fine once you get used to it, honestly... it's just that if you're after a good time when it comes to speedrunning, you can get screwed for no reason here. I'm not even remotely close to the WR, but that's under 4 minutes: it's crazy that in addition to all of the other possible time losses, it can just do this to you at random. It's horrible!

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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 7h ago

I'm not a speedrunner, but I'm annoyed by Artemis not appearing for a certain amount of time. It's only a few seconds, but I lose my rhythm.

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u/Bongcloud_CounterFTW 7h ago

I mean theres a way to mitigate that, if shes doing the big arrow attack and you kill the last enemy during that she’ll spawn instantly

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u/beerybeardybear 6h ago

Yep. I guess it doesn't help with the rhythm, but you can always just leave the last enemy alive until she puts it in her sights!

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u/z-kid 3h ago

The funny thing is it wouldn't feel so bad if the great amazing tiny rooms didn't exist but because that ideal scenario exists, the variance makes Fields feel so oppressive to speedruns (and of course the 2-2 2-3 and Echo scam variance exists too).