Zyruvias's Incremental Overhaul

Zyruvias's Incremental Overhaul Mod Overview

Adds underlying experience systems to tailor Hades' core gameplay loop from roguelike / roguelite to incremental. The boons you acquire from Olympians can earn background experience points based on how effectively you utilize them throughout your runs. Their experience levels increase their in-run strength scaling, and grants you Olympian Currencies that you can use in exchange for more powerful boons, buffs, and mechanics systems.

As you progress, enemies become stronger and more difficult to defeat as well. This infinite cycle can be played to no end, no limit to strength or difficulty depending on your success in the mod.

• []This mod requires you to start a new file, but there is an "Epilogue Conversion" system to give you the choice to start a new file that has everything unlocked and level 1 where appropriate. This is due to the fact that a lot of data gets tracked in your save, and a lot of it does not make sense outside the context of having earned the stats in the mod. Some players would come in with a huge advantage compared to others.

  []This mod drastically shifts the paradigms of the game. Conceptual compatibility with other mods is limited, e.g. new boons from other mods will not be tracked, new aspects from other mods will not be tracked and leveled.

  DISCLAIMER: There are DIRECT plot spoiler texts in the beginning of the mod. Please do not use this mod if you do not want it to be spoiled.

  Core Changes

  The Boon rarity system

  This has been reworked. Instead of four regular rarity tiers, Common, Rare, Epic, Heroic, there are now NINE tiers of rarity.

  • []Common

    []Rare

    []Heroic

    []Supreme

    []Ultimate

    []Transcendental

    []Mythic

    []Olympic

  Along with these tiers of rarity, your rarity bonuses are consolidated to a singular "Rarity Bonus" that is a scaling percent from 100% to... let's say 1,000% for a reasonable efficacy limit. The higher the rarity bonus, the deeper your rarity selection stretches into higher tiers of powerful boon rarities. Some rarity bonuses like Exclusive Access, Yarn of Adrienne, and others have been reworked to add a significant chunk of Rarity Bonus rather than guarantee specific boon outcomes.

  New Experience SystemBoons earn experience proportional to their contribution towards damage, an effect, a measurable outcome in the game. Some boons are simply rewarded experience on activation. Experiment to find out how you can best earn experience to optimize your progression through this mod.

  Boons' Experience system follows a cubic scaling requirement function. God experience is a low exponential function.

  When boons level up:

  • []You gain Olympian Currency for that God equal to the new level of the boon

    []You gain 1% Rarity Bonus for the corresponding god for ALL boon offerings moving forward.

    []You grant Olympian Experience for that God equal to the new level of the boon

  When Gods level up:
  • []You gain an additional 10% Rarity Bonus for that God's boon offerings

    New Upgrade System

    In the courtyard, you can open up one of the cabinets in the corner to access the God Upgrade menu. Here, you can spend the points that you've acquired from leveling up your boons. For version 1. 0. 0, each god has most of the following upgrades:

    • []Rarity Bonus upgrade to increase the rarity of boons you receive for that God

      []New Duo boon between that Olympian and Hermes

      []New Legendary boon that activates within its own boons' unlock trees.

    New BoonsAs previously mentioned, you can unlock new legendary boons for each Olympian, and new Duo boons that unlock with specific combinations of boons from Olympians and HERMES that are extremely powerful.

    ROADMAP

    As of Version 1. 0. 0, there are five major content updates planned for the future. Release dates TBD.

    V1. 1. 0 - Heat and Prestige

    V1. 2. 0+ (In no particular order)

    • []Keepsake, Companion, and Aspect overhaul

      []Pomegranates rework

      []Hammer leveling, hammer rarity. (EPIC CLUSTER ROCKETS, ANYONE?)

      []Void update: Mirror and Chaos expansions

    • ARCADE VERSION