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Random Hajile posted:It's probably on level 1. I hate when the game tosses up "lol if you can't fly" opportunities before you have a chance to get the tools to exploit them. Yep, floor 1.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:26 |
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Somehow my first successful hard mode run is with Eden and I killed the Lamb. I don't know either my starting build was Kamikaze and Match Book.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:28 |
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Random Hajile posted:It's probably on level 1. I hate when the game tosses up "lol if you can't fly" opportunities before you have a chance to get the tools to exploit them. I'm pretty sure those only show up on Floor 1/2. Basically, "Here's an item you can only get if your Azazel or The Lost" except they never seem to show up when I'm using them.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:35 |
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There are plenty of ways to get flying on floor one (buying Hanged Man or Bible from the shop, finding Lord of the Pit or Spirit of the Night in the Curse Room/devil teleport, finding stuff like Ascendance or Shears in the item room, being Azazel or The Lost), and frankly The Lost can do with a little boost. I think jumping might also work on that layout, although I've never tried it.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:36 |
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Is there any way to tell if you picked the Polaroid or the Negative? I put down the game after entering the Womb and I'm not entirely sure which I picked.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:43 |
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Genocyber posted:Is there any way to tell if you picked the Polaroid or the Negative? I put down the game after entering the Womb and I'm not entirely sure which I picked. The polaroid is white with a black square, negative is black with a white square. E: On the pause screen. Waffle! fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Nov 21, 2014 |
# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:48 |
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It'll show with the rest of the items you picked up on the pause screen.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 23:57 |
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Irony Be My Shield posted:There are plenty of ways to get flying on floor one (buying Hanged Man or Bible from the shop, finding Lord of the Pit or Spirit of the Night in the Curse Room/devil teleport, finding stuff like Ascendance or Shears in the item room, being Azazel or The Lost), and frankly The Lost can do with a little boost. I think jumping might also work on that layout, although I've never tried it. Maybe it's just because I play on hard mostly lately but the times that I have a spare key and money to actually buy one of these things are even rarer than finding this room. I mean it is possible but in my experience it's extremely unlikely.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:00 |
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Dackel posted:And you only need those 3 items for one single moment to become Guppy, you don't need to keep them Specifically, you only need to have had those three items for one single moment each to become Guppy. You can have the Paw, trade it for something else, trade that something else for the Head, trade the Head for something else, and then later pick up a third Guppy item and you'll be Guppy.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:07 |
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So after not learning my lesson on dice rooms, I rerolled another game winning build. This time I got a slightly better outcome... I'm not even sure what all the items were but the key ones seemed to be piercing shots, bobs brain and sad bombs. Before I got the straight worm my range was just less than two squared which meant i blew myself up a few times with the brain but this is the most broken build i've had so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M1wp-1RtBY
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:25 |
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Daddy Longlegs + Gnawed Leaf + We Need To Go Deeper! = guess who just cheesed Satan by digging the whole way down then just standing in the corner? God some things are broken.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:32 |
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Guppy is still great.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:40 |
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TheModernAmerican posted:Somehow my first successful hard mode run is with Eden and I killed the Lamb. I don't know either my starting build was Kamikaze and Match Book. I actually kind of like the Kamikaze item in this game, since it only takes half a heart to use. Early on, red hearts are common while bombs are not and getting all the tinted rocks and secret rooms on the first two floors can make a big difference in the long run.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:44 |
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When my first treasure room is Kamikaze, I immediately hit the R key. I could tough it out and see if my next three items are Polyphemus, Brimstone and Ludovico Technique, but why do then when I can have an actual fun item in the next 10 seconds
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 00:51 |
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Just beat my first Hard mode run, and with my weakest game-winning build so far. I've gotten better at not blowing myself up with Bob's Brain and it was actually useful this time, but the level I spent with that, Daddy Longlegs (before I realized it couldn't hurt me too), and Mom's Toenail was loving harrowing. Also this was pretty fun.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:00 |
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RatHat posted:They can be used if you have a teleport pill/card as well since you aren't damaged by entering them if you have flying. That's true, also a broken horn or something to that effect. Basically you need some help to get out of there without dying.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:04 |
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I just checked and my losing streak is actually only at -260. I thought it was more than that. Anyway, some things I remember off the top of my head: - Holy Mantle acquired 4 times, once via the D4. One of those ended by being blindsided by Krampus and then a red fire and the rest suffered from low damage later in the run. - Brimstone has shown up exactly once, and it was like the fourth run I did with The Lost. - Dead Cat has shown up twice. Both runs died to The Fallen in Depths 1 because I was too slow to outrun the charge and too weak to destroy it fast. - Gnawed Leaf has shown up zero times. Neither has Tiny Planet (although that wouldn't be helpful, I just think it's a neat item). - Epic Fetus has shown up twice, in consecutive runs if I am remembering right. - Undefined has shown up a few times, and once it took me to the I Am Error room either three or four times in a row, letting me get down to Depths 2. I'm starting to lose heart with these The Lost runs. I thought I was better at this game than this, but the early floors are so mind-numbingly awful with him and when I get later in the run every room is nerve-wracking. I think I might go to Plan B and work on other achievements while also finishing up the donation machine so I can hope to luck into the Stopwatch with The Lost or something.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:05 |
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:I just checked and my losing streak is actually only at -260. I thought it was more than that. Anyway, some things I remember off the top of my head: That's why I have two restart points. Point #1 is lovely first item room, point #2 is if I don't feel adequately strong enough after the first devil deal room. There's some exceptions and funny enough one of those exceptions is where I actually won on the chest with him, got nine lives so I kept going even though I wasn't strong. But in my mind there's no point in grinding out Lost runs. You will either be super strong and have a chance, or not be strong enough and guaranteed to lose. If you're having a low damage run I say it's best to just restart. Cause even if you're good enough to get through some of it, you WILL get hit on the later floors unless you're absolutely amazing at dodging.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:10 |
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Eh...I finally found out what Mom's Knife and Ludivico does together, and it's not that great. It's still strong, but I'd rather have Brimstone or Technology any day.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:20 |
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Yeah the hitbox is pretty small on Mom's knife when you combine it with Ludovico. It looks really funny though.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:30 |
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I'm just hoping there's gonna be another invincibility bug, I wish I'd been paying attention when the cat thing was still in. otherwise i am literally never unlocking stuff for the lost. i got to the depths three times and died to random poo poo that should never kill you so i've kind of lost heart with trying edit: i wouldn't be nearly as bothered if they hadn't gated two incredibly cool items behind him
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:30 |
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So does Polycephalus behave really really strangely when you have flight? I was on Azazel and when it showed up in the womb it would just not pop back up for minutes and then come up right on top of me. It knocked out so much of my health I ended up losing a Lamb run. Good news, I've beaten the Lamb 3 times today on 3 different characters. Good thing I'll never actually see what I unlocked because I keep getting fed poo poo items forever. I beat the Lamb with Maggie with the only thing affecting my tears being number 1 and the pact, plus a few fire rate pills and the magician card. That fight took about 3-4 minutes and my hand hurt.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:44 |
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Cheekio posted:Guppy is still great. If you get Guppy mode and then Dr./Epic Fetus you become the cat in the hat. I mean sure, they override the mulligan effect but it's a small price to pay.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:44 |
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So my internet is out, and I'm having a problem starting up Isaac in offline mode. I open the Steam shortcut for it, it tries to connect to the Steam network, then prompts me with the start in offline mode. I do that, then it just pops up another steam message that says it couldn't connect to the Stream network, go to blahblahblah.com for more information. What the gently caress?
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:48 |
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HellCopter posted:When my first treasure room is Kamikaze, I immediately hit the R key. I could tough it out and see if my next three items are Polyphemus, Brimstone and Ludovico Technique, but why do then when I can have an actual fun item in the next 10 seconds
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:49 |
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Just a note: if you get homing tears with Ludovico, you just need to hit an enemy once and the tear will follow it round the room. The effect has limited range, though.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 01:53 |
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:I just checked and my losing streak is actually only at -260. I thought it was more than that. Anyway, some things I remember off the top of my head: The Lost is driving me insane. Every time I think I have a potential good run going the game decides to absolutely screw me. I've gotten Holy Mantle 1st treasure room 4 times, same as you, but in each case the game would only give me 1) only hp up items from bosses, 2) no damage up/tears up/ tear mods at all, 3) red chest only devil rooms and angel rooms with soul hearts, and worst of all 4) no key drops, on Normal for gently caress's sake. I honestly keep hoping for Gnawed Leaf + some kind of passive damage follower but I never see the drat thing. I've managed to beat the Chest and Satan with the Lost too, but I'm beginning to lose hope that I'll ever do Boss Rush or the Lamb. I cant imagine doing this on hard
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 02:09 |
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:I just checked and my losing streak is actually only at -260. I thought it was more than that. Anyway, some things I remember off the top of my head: I did the Lost achievements the last of all my poo poo. Stopwatch helps immensely (though you still have to be on your toes for a lot of bosses/enemies).
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 02:12 |
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Pretty good day. first Dark Room clear, and first Chest clear. The Chest run was amazing, because the synergy between rubber cement and coal is amazing, especially when you combine it with a tear multiplier like the mutant spider.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 02:21 |
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zolthorg posted:Isn't the only use item the really good 1heart = 2 soul hearts paw There's also Guppy's head.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 02:23 |
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I managed to luck out and enter a dice room on the Suicide King challenge and re-roll all of my poo poo so I basically wasn't playing the challenge anymore. then the loving thing goes to the cathedral
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 02:24 |
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I just learned about bombing the angel statues for unlocks (I think?), so I'm running Eden for funsies with my pile of tokens trying to even GET any. Just got one on Depths I, left the boss room to pick up a Sun card I was going to use the next floor, go back, and the Angel Room door is gone. Devil room doors literally have never disappeared for me so far in Rebirth, what the gently caress is the difference here? I'm so annoyed.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:19 |
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There is no difference, devil doors can disappear as well. Go in the devil/angel room first if you plan on going in at all. Though for future reference, you only need to bomb two angel statues in one run for the item and a chance at the optional boss. This also applies to the boss arena, since the door can shut on you if the timer for your run goes over 20 minutes while in Mom's boss room.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:24 |
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If you've got the D6/D100/Perthro, you can kill the angel for his key piece to reroll and as long as you don't pick up both pieces he'll keep dropping them. Especially heinous when you start getting Lost unlocks.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:30 |
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AnonSpore posted:If you've got the D6/D100/Perthro, you can kill the angel for his key piece to reroll and as long as you don't pick up both pieces he'll keep dropping them. Especially heinous when you start getting Lost unlocks. Why have I never thought of doing this on my Isaac runs?
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:31 |
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AnonSpore posted:I did the Lost achievements the last of all my poo poo. Stopwatch helps immensely (though you still have to be on your toes for a lot of bosses/enemies). Good god, you must be infinitely better at this game than I am to have done all the Lost stuff with everything unlocked. I'm almost considering redoing my save just so that I could only unlock what is actually useful for him. By the way, has anyone ever seen a Black Lotus? Apparently it is a very rare secret room pedestal item, but it was news to me that it even existed until I saw it on platinumgod.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:33 |
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AnonSpore posted:If you've got the D6/D100/Perthro, you can kill the angel for his key piece to reroll and as long as you don't pick up both pieces he'll keep dropping them. Especially heinous when you start getting Lost unlocks. Jibo posted:Why have I never thought of doing this on my Isaac runs? Here's a better question: What's with the avatars? Logan 5 posted:Good god, you must be infinitely better at this game than I am to have done all the Lost stuff with everything unlocked. I'm almost considering redoing my save just so that I could only unlock what is actually useful for him. I saw one once, but I passed it up because I was playing as the Lost. I'm not sure if the special item thing still exists, and if it does what counts as a special item, so I passed it up. Someday.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:35 |
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Logan 5 posted:Good god, you must be infinitely better at this game than I am to have done all the Lost stuff with everything unlocked. I'm almost considering redoing my save just so that I could only unlock what is actually useful for him. Nah, just persistent. Also yeah, I've seen black lotus a few times before. The rarest items for me have been transcendence (seen once) and skeleton key (also seen once). Oddly most of my secret room items tend to be either the Necronomicon, infamy, or pyromaniac. Also, secret room items are super rare in general, compared to the original. I'll get one maybe once every ten or so complete runs.
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:42 |
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I made it to the Womb for the first time with the lost, gently caress that room where there's a brimstone spider right at the entrance, that stupid thing sniped me like .5 seconds into the room :/
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# ? Nov 21, 2014 03:45 |
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Logan 5 posted:Good god, you must be infinitely better at this game than I am to have done all the Lost stuff with everything unlocked. I'm almost considering redoing my save just so that I could only unlock what is actually useful for him. I've had several, they usually show up in the secret rooms for me. I think one showed up in an item room once but I'm not sure. It gives you one red heart, one soul heart, and one evil heart.
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