Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. A couple of weeks ago the Xbox and PlayStation 5 port of Hades 2 was announced with a memorably thirsty trailer that doubled as a hint about an impending update, featuring a glimpse of a new scene involving Heracles in a bath. Turns out, Supergiant has been working on a lot more than new hot tub content, with post-launch patch two out now on Steam. Here are the featured additions from the top of a significant set of patch notes. Those updates to the Fated Prophecies are a welcome addition, adding Homer-narrated summaries at the end of their sagas so all the work you put into advancing the stories of, say, Echo and Narcissus feel like they pay off—even if it's in the nature of roguelikes that no character who gives you a mechanical benefit can ever change too much. Other tweaks include an additional level of zoom in the accessibility menu, "Recommended for smaller displays", and Icarus-romancers will be pleased to learn he is "less painstakingly reluctant when it comes to trying to forge a bond with him". I'd earned all the achievements and made it to the post-epilogue before I finally got that boy in the bath, so thank goodness for that. On the mechanical side the most notable balancing seems to have been buffs for Ares, who was already one of my favorite gods for Olympus runs. The Grisly Gain boon gives you boosts for picking up plasma that drops out of enemies, and while those buffs only last for one encounter in longer boss fights they add up to a significant swing in your damage output. They're going to be even better now there's an "increased chance of weapon strikes spilling Plasma" and other Ares boons have been reworked or, in the case of Sword Ring, had their damage increased. Though the change that's most li