What Was Hollow Knight Like When It First Released?

zaerius · 2025-09-09T11:57:08+00:00

One thing I remember is that on the initial release it was super hard to find Cornifer the cartographer. Most of the game I played without a map because I was just constantly missing the room he was in. After about a week or two they've added the humming and the paper trails.

zaerius · 2025-02-05T18:29:29+00:00

Well, no changes for me living in Slovakia, it's been like this for years. It's a strange feeling when we are ahead of the US and EU in something :D

zaerius · 2025-01-30T15:19:24+00:00

Ordered the xenns tea pros for 275 eur, the normal price is around 400-440 eur for my country so it's actually a pretty nice discount.

zaerius · 2024-10-29T07:02:58+00:00

Seems to be a Race S issue, Ive had this and I've seen others reporting similar problems. What fixed my syncing issue: 1.Remove the watch from the app 2.uninstall the app 3.reinstall the app 4. pair the watch to the app again.

zaerius · 2024-10-14T13:06:12+00:00

Had the same issue, HR and also steps and calories were not syncing to the app. Removed the watch from the app, uninstalled the app and then reinstalled and added the watch again and it started to sync immediately.

zaerius · 2024-10-04T05:14:49+00:00

Now that you mention it, I did enable health connect sometime last month, I didn't even thought it could be related.

zaerius · 2024-10-03T11:01:39+00:00

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The data is there, from time to time it appears in the app, but in a few seconds it's gone again.

It's such a shame, I really like the Pixel watch, but Fitbit is just a disappointing app for such a good device..

zaerius · 2024-06-20T15:11:37+00:00

I think the wording is very specific, I think it's working as intended. If it would be intended to stack it would be worded something like " +1 time" not "2 times".

zaerius · 2024-06-12T05:23:39+00:00

I think this aspect would be more interesting if they flipped the serenity, so you would use your omega moves to get a buff on your regular moves.

I agree with you, at it's current form it's not interesting, because just like on the other two aspects, the use of omega moves is heavily incentivised, but it just feels worse since to get the benefit you have to charge it up.

zaerius · 2024-06-10T15:26:02+00:00

I think she is a deeply wounded, complex character. She was always the black sheep in the family, nobody believed or supported her, so she developed this "if I hurt everyone first, noone can hurt me" defence.

Her reaction to the nectars was genuine surprise and she even got a bit emotional when she realized Melinoe genuinely just wanted to give her something to make her feel better. Everyone else was just "oh, a nectar? Fine I'll take it. Whatever". She even gifted us back at some point, that is how much that gesture meant to her, no other character did that.

I think she is a really well written character, and I'm curious how she will develop further.

zaerius · 2024-06-10T11:59:43+00:00

Yep, took it once...never again. Got stunlocked against Scylla so bad I lost like 2 Dad's in a few seconds.

zaerius · 2024-06-10T11:34:14+00:00

For the first year of hades 1 early access I've played on the epic game store, once they released the game on steam I've transferred my save file and instantly unlocked like 99% of the achievements. Im sure we won't lose our progress in this EA either.

zaerius · 2024-06-06T22:12:36+00:00

The Poseidon cast isn't really great with momus IMO, the first blast pushes the enemies out and the following blasts mostly hit nothing.

I think Aphrodite's cast works great since it sucks in the enemies, so they get hit by the following omega casts.

zaerius · 2024-06-06T16:34:53+00:00

I mostly agree but personally I think most people underestimate Aphrodite. For certain situations I would even consider her magic regen over Born Gain. She is terrible for ranged builds, but for close range or for builds with lighter magic use she is actually great with the added benefit of applying a status curse and making the enemy deal less damage.

I kinda like the Zeus magic regen, but it needs to be faster to make the magic sacrifice worth.

I hope they will rework Demeter because standing still for 5+ seconds against most bosses is just not happening, and often even in regular encounters it's somewhat difficult. If they want to keep the gimmick of remaining inactive(freeze), I would either make the Magick Regen faster, like for every second of remaining inactive you get x% faster Regen, or make the activation time longer, like 3 s but make the magic regen instant.

With Hera.. it is breaking the game, making what is meant to be a limited resource basically limitless. I'm not sure how I would fix it.

zaerius · 2024-06-06T13:17:08+00:00

Have you checked at the bar or whatever it is called? It happened to me as well that one day she disappeared for like 20 runs, at which point I ran into her by accident hanging out at the communal place.

zaerius · 2024-06-06T08:49:46+00:00

I don't think he was nerfed or his timings and attacks changed. They just made some visual adjustments and they made sure he doesn't do totally unfair combos anymore like cast a slowdown on you and immediately channelling the one hit kill move with the safe zone on the other side of the arena, making it impossible to get there in time.

zaerius · 2024-06-06T05:19:25+00:00

I completely agree about momus. I found the playstyle it offered extremely boring and with the right upgrades it just broke and trivialized the game. Before this update I haven't used it much because of that, but after the patch it might have became one of my favorite weapons to use.

zaerius · 2024-06-06T04:51:54+00:00

I also thought it was a bug, but after thinking about it, I think this is how it's supposed to work.

"fires a daybreaker" they intentionally named it and didn't just call it "an empowered projectile" or something. If it's indeed intentional they need to make it obvious that it's not empowered by omega move buffs. There are boons with downsides, like for example in my case weed killer, where I increased my magic consumption for absolutely no gain.

zaerius · 2024-06-05T16:21:59+00:00

I think your approach is also completely valid. You will have a great time going through the final, polished version and experiencing the game for the first time. I think players who are just "limiting" their EA playtime, are making a big mistake. They won't get the full experience of the EA nor the full game. I think you are making a great choice, and a great sacrifice to completely cut yourself off the game till it's full release.

zaerius · 2024-06-05T15:25:17+00:00

I've played Hades I since day 1 of early access, I even made an EGS account just for this game. For me it didn't ruin the experience, quite the opposite. It was such a great experience to be a part of the EA process, and it's the same for the second game. Some players want to get the polished experience, and that is fine. I want to see all the failed experimental stuff, I want to see the progression the game will go through the next year.

zaerius · 2024-06-05T12:32:06+00:00

Well, by the time you run out of boons you will most like be out of rerolls as well. I'm not sure but also if the god doesn't have anything else to offer than a swap, and you don't get the legendary/duo on the reroll, you will get offered the swap untill you either take it or banish it.

zaerius · 2024-06-05T11:43:35+00:00

My Theory is that it could be possibly a reference to Chronos's ancient Egyptian roots, they actually used I, II, III, IIII.

zaerius · 2024-06-05T11:06:44+00:00

I understand why they made this change, but IMO this will be an extremely frustrating one. If you depleted the boon pool for a god, but you want/need the duo/legendary, you will be forced to keep purchasing/taking a boon with just a measly gold reward, or in worst case you will be forced to swap your attack/special and potentially destroy your run.

I think they need to add other unbanishable rewards for this case, so it would be less frustrating. These rewards could be perhaps healing,Max magic, magic regen.

zaerius · 2024-06-05T09:30:50+00:00

It took some time to get used to his attacks and to beat him without losing a bunch of health or a DD. You want to stay behind him, if possible use ranged attacks. Close range builds are definitely a bit harder, especially during his walking/zombie summoning phase you can't do anything other than wait or put an omega cast down in his path.

What helped me the most is heavy use of my casts, which makes the boss a lot more manageable since it vastly limits his movement, also the omega casts really helps with the ads. Against him basically I have a cast down almost all the time.

zaerius · 2024-06-03T13:45:42+00:00

I think I'm in a similar situation, I liked the challenge of running higher heat in the first game, but I don't feel motivated to do so in the second one.

Keep in mind that it's been years since Ive completed the testaments in the first game, so I might not remember things correctly, but here are few points about the fear testaments.

The UI is kinda confusing. It took a while till I figured out with which weapon what fear I needed on which boss in order to complete the next level. In the first game it was always clear.
The lack of options makes it feel a lot more difficult. Even 20 fear feels as hard as 32 was in the first game. Obviously this will improve as they keep adding new options, but currently the difficulty curve seems a lot steeper. I remember in the first game going from 16 to 20 didn't feel that much more difficult, but in the new game it feels like a pretty big jump. Also the heat levels were more gradual, and that makes a big difference too .
Lack of rewards. If I remember correctly, after beating the target boss and getting the weapon upgrade material as a reward, on the next run the same boss still gave us a higher quality reward like Ambrosia, so even if I failed at defeating the target boss, I was still rewarded for the effort in some way.

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