Supergiant Games has shared the notes for Hades 2 Early Access Patch 2. It addresses several bugs and quality-of-life issues in the game, many of which are thanks to feedback from the community. Let’s take a look.

Developer Supergiant Games shared the patch notes for Hades 2 on Steam.

General Gameplay

• You now can encounter up to one additional Olympian each night (as in the previous game)
• You now are likely to find one more Boon or other major reward while in Erebus
• Increased invulnerability duration after your Death Defiance effects activate
• Improved rewards of Ash and Psyche can now be found in Oceanus and the Rift of Thessaly
• You now can press-and-hold to harvest repeatedly from Crescent Pick Outcroppings
• Toula should now stay closer to you in Encounters, especially in the Fields of Mourning
• Nemesis no longer offers Death Defiance items if you do not need to refill the effect
• Reduced Gold cost of Selene's Boon when available in Charon's Shop
• Minor adjustments to the order in which Olympians may first appear early on
• Normalized chances of finding Fishing Points in various regions

Nocturnal Arms & Abilities

• Witch's Staff: Special knocks foes away, but is slightly slower; Omega Special is faster
• Sister Blades: Special staggers standard foes longer; Attack visual FX better match the hitbox
• Umbral Flames: Attacks are stronger and faster; Omega Attack channels faster and uses less magick; Special gives a speed boost, but has reduced damage; Omega Special can be channeled while moving
• Moonstone Axe: reworked Special provides a lingering barrier; Omega Attack channels slightly faster; Omega Special channels faster
• Argent Skull: Omega Attack channels faster and hits a larger area

Aspects of the Nocturnal Arms

• Witch's Staff (Circe): adjusted activation and duration of Serenity effect; Serenity now adds Omega bonus damage that scales with this Aspect's rank
• Witch's Staff (Momus): reworked; each of your Omega Moves automatically fires several times in succession from where you use them
• Sister Blades (Artemis): you will Block again if the effect recharges while you are channeling; Block now takes priority over Dodge and similar effects
• Umbral Flames (Eos): reworked; Omega Attack now fires a slow shot that occasionally creates damage blasts and also copies your Specials
• Moonstone Axe (Melinoë): reworked; now adds Power and Max Life
• Moonstone Axe (Thanatos): reworked; faster Attack adds Critical chance to Omega moves
• Argent Skull (Persephone): you now earn Glory much faster, but only by using your Omega Cast; improved control responsiveness during Omega Special

Keepsakes

• Moon Beam (Selene): increased bonus to Path of Stars upgrades

Daedalus Hammer Upgrades

• Marauder Wallop (Staff): cut from game; replaced with...
• Rapid Thrasher (Staff): new! All your Attacks become faster
• Double Wallop (Staff): cut from game; replaced with...
• Wicked Thrasher (Staff): new! All your Attacks gain bonus Power
• Double Cataclysm (Staff): cut from game; replaced with...
• Mirrored Thrasher (Staff): new! All your Attacks hit twice, but you take more damage
• Rapid Moonshot (Staff): also affects Omega Special
• Dual Moonshot (Staff): also affects Omega Special; reduced range; renamed from Double Moonshot
• Shimmering Moonshot (Staff): also affects Omega Special
• Aetheric Moonburst (Staff): increased Magick restoration from Power Shots
• Concentrated Flurry (Blades): cut from game; replaced with...
• Melting Dart (Blades): new! Your Special destroys a large percentage of a foe's Armor
• Flick Knives (Blades): new! Your Dash-Strike also fires several Special knives in a fan pattern
• Rapid Onslaught (Blades): reworked to also affect Omega Attack; renamed from Marauder Slice
• Hook Knives (Blades): slightly reduced speed of knives returning to you
• Furious Fire (Flames): cut from game; replaced with...
• Mega Spark (Flames): new! All your Attacks travel farther and deal more damage
• Inverted Spark (Flames): new! Dash to make shots from Attacks reverse direction and hit foes again
• Leaden Spark (Flames): new! Your Attacks knock foes away and have bonus Power
• Sustained Spark (Flames): also increases move speed, instead of reducing; formerly Sustained Fire
• Melting Coil (Flames): no longer fires straight; also affects Omega Special; formerly Melting Comet
• Origin Coil (Flames): also affects Omega Special
• Rapid Slash (Axe): reworked to also affect Omega Attack; renamed from Marauder Slash
• Giga Cleaver (Axe): removed two-stage channeling (it always double-fires but uses more Magick)
• Dashing Heave (Axe): removed damage bonus; instead, it now hits twice
• Sidelong Crash (Skull): cut from game; replaced with...
• Mega Driver (Skull): new! Your Specials travel farther and you take less damage while using them
• Colossus Driver (Skull): also affects Omega Special

Hexes of Selene

• Wolf Howl: reduced Magick-spend requirement
• Twilight Curse: greatly reduced Magick-spend requirement; reduced foes afflicted; reduced cast time
• Night Bloom: reduced Magick-spend requirement, effect duration, bonus damage, and cast time
• Lunar Ray: greatly reduced Magick-spend requirement; reduced damage; reduced cast time
• Moon Water: slightly increased Magick-spend requirement; slightly reduced healing
• Dark Side: slightly increased Magick-spend requirement

Foes & Encounters

• Chronos: various fixes and adjustments; there should be fewer cases where he's patently unfair
• Infernal Cerberus: minor adjustments to some attack patterns in the first phase
• Eris: grenade attacks no longer wildly bounce around
• Polyphemus: reduced effectiveness of Mutant Sheep
• Goldwrath: reduced accuracy and tracking of beam attack
• Queen Lamia: slightly increased Armor; increased speed; other minor changes
• Reed-Stalker: increased projectile speed and target distance; reduced rotation speed
• Mourner: slightly increased rotation speed; slightly increased speed while attacking
• Lamia: slightly increased life and Elite armor
• Dire Shambler: reduced tracking speed between attacks
• Hippo: self-destruct area should more closely match the visuals

Level Design & Environments

• Driftwood resources are more common in the Rift of Thessaly (a further increase since last patch)
• Burning Oil Slicks in the Rift of Thessaly will extinguish after Encounters, though may be reignited
• Adjusted Oil Slicks in some locations in the Rift of Thessaly
• Minor fixes to several locations

Fated List of Minor Prophecies

• Clearing Original Sins no longer requires choosing the very rare Barren curse from Chaos

Chaos Trials

• Trial of Heartache: reduced difficulty and adjusted based on Aspect changes
• Trial of Haste: reduced difficulty and adjusted based on Aspect changes

Oath of the Unseen

• Vow of Forsaking: no longer helps ensure you quickly get Duo and Legendary Boons

Menus & UI

• Added many new UI icons for Keepsakes, Weapons, Well of Charon offerings, and more
• Insight Into Offerings (Cauldron) now also lets you check each Olympian's list of offerings in the Book of Shadows while choosing their Boons (or the equivalent with other characters)
• With the prior change, adjusted default key binding for Rarify; some custom bindings have been reset
• Added a warning when you are down to your last use of Death Defiance
• Opening the Book of Shadows should show entries for nearby characters more reliably
• Removed the Unused Grasp notification when exiting the Altar of Ashes while at a high Grasp limit
• Updated Pitch-Black Stone screen to use Aspect-specific icons
• Adjusted input action bar layout at the bottom of the Boon Screen and similar
• Added borders to icons for Selene Hexes on the Gifts of the Moon screen
• Added informational pop-up when using F10 to report bugs
• Other minor changes

Art & Visual FX

• Reduced some full-screen flashing or strobing, such as from time-slow effects

Music & SFX

• Added SFX for when certain active abilities such as Serenity are ready to use
• Updated placeholder SFX for various Keepsakes
• Updated SFX for projectile collisions with Umbral Flames (Moros)

Voice & Narrative

• Unique voice lines should play more reliably when certain incantations are revealed in the Cauldron
• Added voice lines when using Phase Shift (Selene) vs. Chronos (or trying to...)
• More voice lines should play when confiding in Frinos in certain contexts

Miscellaneous

• While brooding over the family portrait in the Crossroads, you may now snap out of it sooner
• You now can fully control the game using keyboard only if you rebind Attack and Special
• All timers now pause while in the presence of Charon
• An Anvil of Fates will no longer be offered in Tartarus if you have not found a Daedalus Hammer
• In the Hades Flashback, adjusted timing of hint for players who don't realize they are in control
• Reduced requirements for the incantation Power to Pause and Reflect to be revealed
• Melinoë now respawns in the center of her magick circle near her tent (she was a bit off before...)
• Improved compatibility with more types of controllers
• Updated text for various upgrades and abilities

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Double Up (Poseidon) sometimes doubling Mystery Boons; clarified description
• Fixed Nightmare resources dropping unexpectedly in Chaos Trials
• Fixed Omega moves occasionally becoming unresponsive after being chomped on by Polyphemus
• Fixed deadliest attack of Chronos occasionally hitting when Melinoë was in a supposedly safe point
• Fixed Umbral Flames Attack preventing Magick regeneration before channeling Omega Attack
• Fixed The Queen and Judgment (Arcana) appearing active while no others Arcana are active
• Fixed Hearth Gain (Hestia) no longer restoring Magick if chosen as a Sacrifice Boon
• Fixed certain later Oath Testaments for the Sister Blades sometimes not appearing as expected
• Fixed cases where you could go out of bounds using the Argent Skull in the battle vs. Chronos
• Fixed more cases of some visual effects vs. Chronos lingering between phases or after the fight
• Fixed Toula unceremoniously vanishing after you vanquish Chronos
• Fixed additional issues with Sun Worshiper (Apollo)
• Fixed additional issues with Dark Side (Selene)
• Fixed additional issues with Twilight Curse (Selene)
• Fixed a visual issue where Headmistress Hecate could appear to slide after snared by your Cast
• Fixed Spark of Ixion (Charon) causing a Chaos Gate to appear in Asphodel?
• Fixed Golden Boughs sometimes not marking all available rewards in the Fields of Mourning
• Fixed several narrative events that could play out of sequence
• Fixed Odysseus rather rudely walking away while in conversation with Nemesis
• Fixed Heracles sometimes leaping away forever
• Fixed Melinoë's voice reverting during her return sequence despite certain Circe enchantments
• Fixed incorrect Echo portrait in the Book of Shadows
• Fixed incorrect music playing in some Chaos Trials, or not playing as intended in some instances
• Fixed rare cases of a looping sound playing indefinitely
• Fixed a rare instance when objectives in the Training Grounds could overlap
• Fixed several minor issues on the Victory Screen that shows when you prevail
• Fixed additional miscellaneous issues when playing in ultrawide resolutions
• Fixed a rare crash in which the effect of Winter Harvest (Demeter) could repeat forever
• Fixed various other rare crashes
• Fixed several text errors
• Other minor fixes

That's everything featured in Patch 2 for Hades 2 Early Access. We shared our thoughts on its Early Access release in a preview last month.