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Oxyclean posted:Except strafting around them is nearly impossible in that one caves room with the turrets. Yeah, that's not a great layout. e: VDay posted:The Haunt is actually really easy once you kind of get a pattern down for beating him. It's a little hard to explain but I might make a video about it. I think I was just unlucky because I was fighting as Maggie and I had gotten a speed down, haha.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I'm pretty sure the Blank Card is supposed to be insanely good, I mean pair it with Hierophant and it's like a triple Book of Revelations. Does it really work with runes? You could get some pretty incredible results off a Jera. That sounds like it would work really well with The Battery too. The new Battery is so dope. I really wish there was some sort of editor or debug mode where you could play around with all the different items and mechanics but I totally realize how it could take away a lot of the game's allure.
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I always have a hard time with the Dark One for whatever reason, he's probably the hardest normal boss for me.
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VDay posted:The Haunt is actually really easy once you kind of get a pattern down for beating him. It's a little hard to explain but I might make a video about it. Honestly the hard part for me is killing his little buddies without taking a hit. Also to note, his movement pattern is buggy as gently caress in the second stage and if you walk up to the top where he's sliding back and forth the fucker will basically snap to you and hit you.
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Vakal posted:ET9A Wow I never thought of this. Doesn't that make you immortal?
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Nov 11, 2014 02:19
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loving hell, I'm never going to unlock the Lost at this rate. I can do the other three steps fine but "die to stage two of Satan as Azazel" fucks me over every time. I either fail horribly to get there or I die horribly to the wrong damned stage. Well then I wish they'd add an animation a bit more in depth than "snap to player". Even if it was just an angry face on the Haunt as he does so. \/\/\/
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Nov 11, 2014 02:20
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Alkydere posted:Honestly the hard part for me is killing his little buddies without taking a hit. That's not buggy at all, it's designed to discourage you from trying to cheese him by just staying up high, which would make him ridiculously easy since he only shoots down. And yeah the little guys are probably the most annoying part once you get the big guy's patterns down. The two-at-a-time part is especially harrowing since those fuckers love just bouncing off each other or your tears and suddenly smashing into you. Plus they can shoot, because them flying wasn't hard enough I guess.
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Nov 11, 2014 02:20
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Man, anti-gravity tears are really disappointing. They gave it a cool visual effect when used with the brimstone...but it's just flat out worse to use than just brimstone. Now Guppy, that's a great thing to use with brimstone. Guppy just rules at everything. Good kitty.
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a bloody icon posted:The Haunt seems like an absurdly difficult boss for the first floor, but maybe that's just because that was my first time fighting it Haunt is probably the second worst designed boss in the game. Tedious and dangerous for a lot of characters and it shows up on the first floor. If I didn't care about ~mah winrate~ I'd probably just hold R anytime I saw him on floor 1. Worst is still Mask of Infamy because jesus christ who though this lazy piece of poo poo would be fun or challenging. EDIT: Oh this is gonna be a great Eden run.  
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Finally got my first Cathedral clear. Even with shielded tears and a maxed-out fire rate, I was still down to two hearts by the end because of that loving screenwide beam sweep, gently caress whoever designed that attack. ...As for my actual question, I'm standing here in a Devil Room with Chocolate Milk, and Brimstone is for sale. Will those two still screw each other up, or did they fix that for Rebirth?
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Nov 11, 2014 02:30
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Internet Kraken posted:Haunt is probably the second worst designed boss in the game. Tedious and dangerous for a lot of characters and it shows up on the first floor. If I didn't care about ~mah winrate~ I'd probably just hold R anytime I saw him on floor 1.
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Runcible Spoon posted:Finally got my first Cathedral clear. Even with shielded tears and a maxed-out fire rate, I was still down to two hearts by the end because of that loving screenwide beam sweep, gently caress whoever designed that attack. It doesn't screw it up anymore, I'm not sure if it does anything. Charge time seems the same and it makes the beam a little browner.
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Nov 11, 2014 02:33
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RoboCicero posted:I agree 100% with this. I have no idea how to beat Mask of Infamy quickly with regular tears -- the 2nd form moves quickly enough that the you only have a small window to hit it when you strafe around it and since the window's so small you end up missing 90% of your shots anyhow. It's a bossfight where you figure out the right strategy in seconds but you just end up going in circles landing one shot every five seconds. You don't actually have to even get behind the thing though, you can strafe it and hit it from the side. When you find the right point where to stand it isn't tough at all. But a tough fight if you don't have good speed cause if the Mask gets near you you gotta get away from it. I like Mask of Infamy fight personally.
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RoboCicero posted:I agree 100% with this. I have no idea how to beat Mask of Infamy quickly with regular tears -- the 2nd form moves quickly enough that the you only have a small window to hit it when you strafe around it and since the window's so small you end up missing 90% of your shots anyhow. It's a bossfight where you figure out the right strategy in seconds but you just end up going in circles landing one shot every five seconds. I agree and I've maybe died to the mask once, ever on an already doomed run. You figure him out almost immediately because he's just a scaled up version of the normal masks, and just as obnoxious. Unlike the normal masks he's not even dangerous. And The Haunt really should be a Caves boss. At least then you're likely to have damage/gimmicks that let you deal with him relatively quickly.
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Runcible Spoon posted:Finally got my first Cathedral clear. Even with shielded tears and a maxed-out fire rate, I was still down to two hearts by the end because of that loving screenwide beam sweep, gently caress whoever designed that attack. Standing in the corner dodges the beam sweep 95% of the time. And Brimstone worked with Chocolate milk even in the original, what are you on about?
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Nov 11, 2014 02:40
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The other useful thing to know about the Haunt is that he has a tell for his brimstone attack - if he opens and closes his mouth really quickly, run the hell away. Now the Haunt in the Solar System challenge, that's a run-ender. No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask?
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RatHat posted:Standing in the corner dodges the beam sweep 95% of the time. It's been a while since I've played the original, but if I remember right, Milk + Brim made precharged shots do no damage when you first entered a room while giving Brim no real benefits. It was a total pain in the rear end, and "Don't grab Chocolate Milk with Brimstone" etched its way into my mind. If I'm wrong, though, please let me know so I can feel stupid immediately. EDIT: I grabbed it. In Rebirth, Brimstone just seems to overwrite Chocolate Milk completely, no mini-beams any more. Runcible Spoon fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Nov 11, 2014 |
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It had that bug yeah, but it allowed you to fire off mini-brimstone beams with no charge so that was a good trade-off.
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The jerza (sp?) rune is pretty awesome. It duplicates all drops in a room, including chests. After I found one in the womb, I decided to hold onto it till the Chest, and yep, 8 items to re-roll.
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Nov 11, 2014 02:53
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gently caress pills forever. Had 4 straight runs ruined by pill gambles. Never again.
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octobernight posted:The jerza (sp?) rune is pretty awesome. It duplicates all drops in a room, including chests. After I found one in the womb, I decided to hold onto it till the Chest, and yep, 8 items to re-roll. get the item that lets you hold 2 cards/runes and the blank card and use all 3 in the chest/dark room. 32 items 
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VDay posted:The Haunt is actually really easy once you kind of get a pattern down for beating him. It's a little hard to explain but I might make a video about it. I had a super high rate of fire with Soy Milk and the cumulative knockback just let me safely stand at the top and slowly kill him. He couldn't reach me, even with the lunge.
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RatHat posted:Standing in the corner dodges the beam sweep 95% of the time. I think the beam sweeps will hit 2 corners. If it starts in a corner, then the corners adjacent to that corner are safe. If it doesn't start in a corner, then the corner opposite of it is safe.
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Three questions that aren't immediately apparent: 1. What do Store Upgrade levels do? It's obvious when it's item unlocks, but the in between "Store Level 2" what the hell does that do? 2. Related: I know if you blow up the donation machine it drops some cash but the counter starts over, does this mean that if you've unlocked an item via donations and you blow the machine up, you lose that item? 3. Along with that, are levels/seeds unlock-limited? Just for instance: If I unlock The Nail and find a seed that drops it early and give that seed to someone who hasn't gotten The Nail unlocked, will they get The Nail anyway, or will some other item substitute?
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Cuntpunch posted:Three questions that aren't immediately apparent: 1. Seems to be more items at once. I have store level 3 and it usually has 4 or 5 items on offer. 2. I don't think so, but don't know for sure. 3. They'll get a different item if they don't have that one unlocked.
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Is there any way for me to synchronize mis-matched progress between the PS4 and Vita versions? I've been having that error pop up whenever I try to upload using the PS4, so I gave up on having a unified save and decided to just leave the two desynchronized. However, I just beat Sheol for the first time on the Vita, and I have a lot of stuff in general unlocked on the PS4. I'd kinda like to keep both, but if I can't, it's no big deal. It's my fault for being a big dumb idiot and switching between the two versions, and on top of that, playing as Azazel was super fun so I need to do that on the console anyway.
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The higher-level store (not sure if it's the last upgrade or second-to-last) also gives you two store items instead of just one. Finding a bunch of money in the basement and going into caves with both a compass and treasure map is pretty great.
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Not a Children posted:gently caress pills forever. Had 4 straight runs ruined by pill gambles. Never again. My policy on pills is I always take them when I get them on the first floor or two. After that it depends on how I'm doing. If my run is kind of on the fence then I'll take them later to try to get something good like tears up. "Tears down" on floor one though, is almost always a restart. I'll usually finish the floor but if I don't get something totally amazing I am not going through with it.
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I was a little worried about the damage on this run, then this happened. I'd like the lung more if I didn't get ALL THE TEARS this run. It charges just barely longer than it takes to tip my stick and I haven't got the rhythm down yet.
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Nov 11, 2014 03:54
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Which button on the ps4 controller cycles between two tarot cards?
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Not a Children posted:gently caress pills forever. Had 4 straight runs ruined by pill gambles. Never again. Tell me about it. Here were my pills last run: tears down, health down, puberty, bad trip, range up, lemon party
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So I guess It Lives can spawn those walking red blobs things that just spray bullets in a direction occasionally. Since I had Technology and couldn't kill them fast enough it managed to make the fight chaotic and not fun. And also I lost.
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Finally decided to switch to controller for better control of isaac and it's mostly been going really well. Except earlier today when I finally got the legendary poly brim on my blue baby run and thought I was set, then later in the womb I get my shoulder buttons mixed up and high priestess myself to death :/ At least I killed the boss rush though
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:Finally decided to switch to controller for better control of isaac and it's mostly been going really well. Except earlier today when I finally got the legendary poly brim on my blue baby run and thought I was set, then later in the womb I get my shoulder buttons mixed up and high priestess myself to death :/ At least I killed the boss rush though Yeah. Whatever happened to the tutorial room showing you which button does which item?
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This might be a weird question, but does anyone actually find the boss rush challenging? I find that if I can just about clear every room on a floor and still get to mom in under 20 minutes, I must be pretty god drat powerful. I honestly think it'd be a cakewalk if it wasn't for the carrion queen leaving poo poo everywhere
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LethalFrag is starting up tonight's cast. He's dedicating tonight to challenges tonight if you want to see someone else bang their head against them for a while.
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zolthorg posted:Yeah. Whatever happened to the tutorial room showing you which button does which item? Since you can remap the controls it's not universal anymore.
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I wasn't 100% clear on what was going on throughout a lot of this run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFs68yeizc
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I beat Mom with the clock at 20:01  Also I ruined a really good run with a loving dice room. Ad an eden run set to beat the Chest for the first time, then a dice room gave me poo poo items. Anyone have a list of which rooms do what? I thought I knew them all but evidently not.
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