{"id":255361,"date":"2020-01-22T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/you-can-and-should-go-fishing-in-hades\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:30:00","slug":"you-can-and-should-go-fishing-in-hades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/you-can-and-should-go-fishing-in-hades\/","title":{"rendered":"You can (and should!) go fishing in Hades"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"the-long-winter-update-includes-a-new-rod-of-fishing\">The Long Winter update includes a new &#8216;Rod of Fishing&#8217;<\/h2> <p>Will 2020 be the year we all become head-over-heels obsessed with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/why-early-access-is-a-particularly-good-time-to-play-hades-575128.phtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hades<\/em><\/a>?<\/p> <p>I&#8217;m not quite at that point yet, but Supergiant Games&#8217; mythological roguelike action title has only grown more compelling with each passing update. The latest Early Access update, The Long Winter, speaks to me even as a curious outside observer. It adds one of my distractions in all of video games: fishing.<\/p> <p><\/iframe><\/p> <p>These are the big-ticket items for the January 21 update:<\/p> <ul> <li>Demeter: the Goddess of Seasons brings winter to the Underworld! Seek out her powerful Boons.<\/li> <li>Rod of Fishing: capture (&amp; sell!!) Underworld river denizens with this new House Contractor item.<\/li> <li>Aspect of Guan Yu: earn this unique new Aspect of the Eternal Spear, and vanquish your foes.<\/li> <li>Underworld Decor Galore: scores of new items are available at the newly renovated House Contractor.<\/li> <li>New Legendary Keepsake: forge an unbreakable bond with Dusa, and summon her to petrify your foes.<\/li> <li>Boon Info &amp; Victory Screen Update: pin multiple Boons onscreen for easy reference and sharing.<\/li> <li>New Daedalus Hammer Upgrades: look for multiple new upgrades for each weapon.<\/li> <li>New Story Events: uncover new secrets in hours of added narrative (with more than 1,000 new voice lines).<\/li> <\/ul> <p>Some players have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HadesTheGame\/comments\/es8vbl\/this_update_was_too_heavy_handed_with_nerfs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">expressed concerns<\/a> about widespread nerfs, which you can see in the patch notes.<\/p> <p>&#8220;Though I wish our progress on the game could always be linear, we sometimes take steps forwards and sometimes take steps sideways or backwards during Early Access,&#8221; Supergiant Games studio director Amir Rao <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HadesTheGame\/comments\/es8vbl\/this_update_was_too_heavy_handed_with_nerfs\/ff98en9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">said in response<\/a> to those criticisms. &#8220;When it comes to balance, our broad goal is to make sure <em>Hades<\/em> is filled with compelling choices and has a high dynamic range from run to run.&#8221;<\/p> <p>&#8220;After each Major Update, we always make follow-up patches to address any issues we learn about. We&#8217;ll have such a patch this week that makes further tuning changes to the game being discussed.&#8221;<\/p> <p>The Long Winter update trailer also teased the arrival of a new weapon on March 10, 2020.<\/p> <p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1145360\/Hades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Long Winter Update &#8211; Patch Notes<\/a> [Steam]<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":255360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[91,1,97],"tags":[201,210,199,136,111],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":10,"display_name":"Jordan Devore","user_login":"Jordan Devore","user_nicename":"jordan-devore"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>You can (and should!) go fishing in Hades &#8211; 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