Tips For Using OCR In Hades
One of the great things about hades is how OCR can be used to read screens where an input is needed. These are limited to things outside of combat as well, so you don't need to be reading and fighting at the same time. Like with any game, when you OCr there is random stuff on the bottom and top of the results, and the important stuff is in the middle.
*Important: If you use the wiki to understand what the OCR is trying to tell you it makes everything a lot easier. This can't be said enough.
Example 1: Artemis Boon Selection
B
o
S O F A RTE
THE ELUSIVE HUNTRESS OF OLYMPUS IS UNEQUALED WITH HER BOW.
M
1
s
CHOOSEONE:
DEADLY STRIKE
Your Attack is stronger, with +15% chance to deal Critical damage.
Attack Damage:
TRUE SHOT
+20%
RARE
ATTACK
Press or hold d touseyour main weapon.
CRITICAL
A devastating blow that deals +200%
damage or greater.
Cast seeks foes, with +10% chance to deal Critical damage.
Your
Cast Damage:
HUNTER DASH
50 80
Your Dash-Strike deals more damage.
Dash-Strike Damage:
+50%
Example 1: The important Stuff From Artemis Boon Selection
B o S O F A RTE THE ELUSIVE HUNTRESS OF OLYMPUS IS UNEQUALED WITH HER BOW. M 1 s CHOOSEONE: DEADLY STRIKE Your Attack is stronger, with +15% chance to deal Critical damage. Attack Damage: TRUE SHOT +20% RARE ATTACK Press or hold d touseyour main weapon. CRITICAL A devastating blow that deals +200% damage or greater. Cast seeks foes, with +10% chance to deal Critical damage. Your Cast Damage: HUNTER DASH 50 80 Your Dash-Strike deals more damage. Dash-Strike Damage: +50%
In the second part of example 1 I simply took out the lines that are not needed. From this you can see exactly what each option is.
Artemis god page on the Hades Wiki
DEADLY STRIKE Your Attack is stronger, with +15% chance to deal Critical damage. TRUE SHOT Cast seeks foes, with +10% chance to deal Critical damage. HUNTER DASH Your Dash-Strike deals more damage.
Example 1: The explination
With this screen you have three boons in the center of the screen. When one is selected there is a bit of fly out text to the right of it. This makes up the majority of the OCR clutter you are presented with. It is giving you the specifics on what the percentages are for the selected boon. This really isn't necessary. You can either get the information from the wiki, or ignore it all together until you get more use to the game.
If you want the options to not wrap simply press the select/share/Back button to bring up the boon viewer, then press circle/B to return to the god's boon selection page. After doing this the options won't wrap and you can be 100% sure what boon you are picking every time. This may be a bug, but for us blind players it is a feature.
Once you get familiar with the game and what it is presenting to you, this isn't any issue at all. It may look like a cluster F*ck at first, but it is quite easy to read.
Example 2: Extended Poseidan Examples
Below are examples of the Poseidan boon selection screen with each of the boons selected individually.
TEMPEST FLOURISH selected
CHOOSEONE: TEMPEST FLOURISH *rcial deals more damage and knocks foes away. Your Special Damage: OCEAN'S BOUNTY Any e, and O chamber rewards are worth more. Reward Value: +600/0 HYDRAULIC MICHT Attack and are stronger the first Your Initial Damage Bonus: +50% +70% EPIC 10 Sec. I n Encounter(s). SPECIAL Press 'Y foryourweapon's unique attack. 149 0
OCEAN'S BOUNTY Selected
CHOOSEONE: TEMPEST FLOURISH *rcial deals more damage and knocks foes away. Your Special Damage: OCEAN'S BOUNTY Any e, and O chamber rewards are worth more. Reward Value: +600/0 HYDRAULIC MICHT Attack and are stronger the first Your Initial Damage Bonus: +50% +70% EPIC 10 Sec. I n Encounter(s). GEMSTONES For House Co ntractor renovations, or for trade. DARKNESS Used to permanently grow stronger. CHARON'S OBOL For purchasing items during escape attempts. All of it is lost on death.
Hydraulic Might Selected
B CHOOSEONE: TEMPEST FLOURISH *rcial deals more damage and knocks foes away. Your Special Damage: OCEAN'S BOUNTY Any e, and O chamber rewards are worth more. Reward Value: +600/0 HYDRAULIC MICHT Attack and *rcial are stronger the first Your Initial Damage Bonus: +50% +70% EPIC 10 Sec. I n Encounter(s). ATTACK Press or hold d touseyour main weapon. SPECIAL Press foryourweapon's unique attack. ENCOUNTER(S) The dangerous kind; Underworld chambers where you must slay your foes to proceed.
Example 2: With the Junk Cut Out
In the below example OCR gets confused with the letter G in "might", and sees it as a C. Also the HYDRAULIC MIGHT description is a cluster F*ck but I know from the wiki that Hydraulic Might Your Attack and Special are stronger the first 10 Seconds in Encounter(s). Common: Initial Damage Bonus: +50% So knowing this. It is actually a pretty good Boon if you are willing /To go all rush down on some monsters right at the start.
CHOOSEONE: TEMPEST FLOURISH *rcial deals more damage and knocks foes away. OCEAN'S BOUNTY Any e, and O chamber rewards are worth more. HYDRAULIC MICHT Your Initial Damage Bonus: Attack and are stronger the first 10 Sec. In Encounter(s).
As you can tell not much useful information is given because of changes in a selected boon. With the way OCR is cutting up the text on the page it is taking these right side fly outs and putting part of them at the bottom of the page. This would be a good time to say the Wiki tells you all of this. That way you only need to know what the names of the boons are, and your big powerful brain can fill in the rest. I've only been playing for a little bit and already I know what the boons are for the first two realms, and I didn't even try to learn them.
Pressing select/share/back on the boon selection screen then circle/B makes it so the menu does not wrap. This is very helpful for making sure you always pick the right boon.
OCR Conclusion
You are going to be given junk text with any OCR reading whether this is in a game or a piece of software you are using. You just have to know how to read the important text. With Hades it is quite easy. I've had software that presents me with more crap I don't want than Hades does. Once you get what is important and what is not then you will have zero issues quickly picking your boon.On other screens like the mirror of night the hades mirror of night page puts all the options in the same order they are in game. The only difference here is the normal ones are on the left and the opposites are on the right. In game this is...well mirrored. The options you have by default are on the right and the opposites are on the left. This screen doesn't wrap either so it makes it very easy to choose what you want. Also when using OCR you can tell what option you are selected on.