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Well I got 3rd in Balls of Steel; that was pretty fun. So out of the three isaac BoS tournaments, I got: 1st place in the 1st one 2nd place in the 2nd one 3rd place in the 3rd one sweet.
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Hyphen-ated posted:Well I got 3rd in Balls of Steel; that was pretty fun. I caught the end. Good job. I remember you saying Probs would be your toughest competitor and that was the case. Hopefully the next tournament you can jump back up to first again!
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CJacobs posted:You're right, implying that it was objectively bad was wrong of me. I do definitely think it's pointless though personally. I just think that if the way to make it reasonable is to mod the game, then the game is not made to be speed ran (speed runned?). This is why I think the scoring system is a good thing, because it's a competitive alternative to speed running that is applicable to this game without anything having to be changed. I do agree that speedrunning for a single good time is kind of boring, (as opposed to racing with an opponent) but some people still do like it, so, good for them. different strokes. Sanctum posted:Enjoy having your tears constantly clipping into walls/rocks and hitting nothing. The dmg/tears up is more than offset by how much you miss as a result. Nah, the guillotine orbital does 7 damage per hit, same as cube of meat. Big fan does 2. If you're missing a lot and getting hit a lot with guillotine, it means you aren't good with the item, not that the item isn't good  . When you're good with it, it's a great item, and you don't need any particular synergies.
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Jun 28, 2015 02:24
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That second run was intense Hyphen-ated. Also the finals 
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Speaking of terrible items, experimental treatment can't get enough hate. Even with terrible stats at the start of an eden runs it somehow still makes me worse. So I have libra and decided to pick up experimental treatment. All my stats are balanced, what could go wrong? Lowered my damage, gained health.  Hyphen-ated posted:Nah, the guillotine orbital does 7 damage per hit, same as cube of meat. Big fan does 2. If you're missing a lot and getting hit a lot with guillotine, it means you aren't good with the item, not that the item isn't good
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omeg posted:That second run was intense Hyphen-ated. Also the finals Yeah, I thought I had the second one for sure, but nope! Also it's crazy that punny won the whole thing without losing a single game, even though it was best 2 out of 3. Sanctum posted:Okay dude, with enough playerskill the mechanical difficulty of aiming tears consistently from a head moving around your body is totally irrelevant. That is probably true, but I don't know anyone with enough skill to make the downsides actually irrelevant! though there are lots of players good enough for the upside to strongly outweigh the downside
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Jun 28, 2015 03:40
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Cursed eye is good with mutant spider or inner eye. You fire off a huge salvo that really ups your dps..
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Sanctum posted:Speaking of terrible items, experimental treatment can't get enough hate. Even with terrible stats at the start of an eden runs it somehow still makes me worse. So I have libra and decided to pick up experimental treatment. All my stats are balanced, what could go wrong? Lowered my damage, gained health. Well, use the extra health to pick up brimstone from the next devil room. 
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Cursed eye is the worst. I picked it up on the first floor and thought I'd just restart. Then I found pyromaniac and IPEC. Infinite health but if you take damage you can restart the room. Argh.
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Jun 28, 2015 12:38
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Ipecac is not an acronym.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Well, use the extra health to pick up brimstone from the next devil room. I think the only time I have ever seen Brimstone in my paltry 40 hours with this game was a blindfolded challenge. At least it also offered me Lil Brimstone. 
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Jun 28, 2015 19:28
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Ugh, finally beat Satan and Isaac with the Lost (on Hard) and the game didn't give me the trophy for either.
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Jun 28, 2015 20:05
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Finally beat The Lamb for the first time ever with Eve, got Spoonbender moms knife. Which at the same time was amazing and baffling. Sometimes the knife would home right to the dude who was on my tail and sometimes it went halfway across the room and just missed this random spider in the corner.
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Rirse posted:Ugh, finally beat Satan and Isaac with the Lost (on Hard) and the game didn't give me the trophy for either. Are you on PS4? I get this sometimes and as far as I can tell it's if I exit a run, upload my save to the cloud, then continue. The only fix I have is to upload the save, delete the local copy, then download the save again. When you do that, missing trophies will pop.
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shmee posted:Are you on PS4? I get this sometimes and as far as I can tell it's if I exit a run, upload my save to the cloud, then continue. The only fix I have is to upload the save, delete the local copy, then download the save again. When you do that, missing trophies will pop. Okay I will do this.
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I've seen some bullshit, but this takes the cake: Not like I used my last bomb either, just haven't had a single bomb drop. e: First room next floor   Sanctum fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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Jun 29, 2015 03:58
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Sanctum posted:I've seen some bullshit, but this takes the cake: You could have used your pill (or dropped it and picked it back up) to get by, you can't pick things up while Isaac is holding his hands above his head to use/pick up an item. Still sucks though.
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Hey, at least it's not WOTL where the polaroid is a trinket and that situation ends your run
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Jun 29, 2015 05:46
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Huh. If you use Credit Card on a shop with a red heart for sale, Dark Bum will just sit on top of the red heart and not pick it up.
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This week's Afterbirth update: horrible claustrophobia!  And a change to the way the 3-Dollar Bill works - it will change modes every few seconds instead of every room. Also there's this.  
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Those are amazing room for Ipecac/fetus/BBF etc 
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Jun 30, 2015 03:56
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Aww the secret link in this post leads to a picture of Guppy. RIP little gup 
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omeg posted:Those are amazing room for Ipecac/fetus/BBF etc Just wait for the double Gurdy Jr. closets. 
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Those tiny rooms are awesome and I can't wait for there to be a challenge that has nothing but those.
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 it's not in my item collection at all; I wasn't playing using a seed and it wasn't a challenge, so I don't get it Hah, I'm actually a total idiot and somehow never picked up the Blue Candle. Got RPG but the trophy never proc'd so I have to do that dumb work around. If it ain't one thing, it's another. But at least I finally did it! Manatee Cannon fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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Strangely, the last item I needed for RPG was the Challenge Belt. I saw it loads of times, but thought I'd already picked it up and never bothered with it for some reason.
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Gromit posted:Strangely, the last item I needed for RPG was the Challenge Belt. I saw it loads of times, but thought I'd already picked it up and never bothered with it for some reason. Should always be picking that one up! +1 damage for 15 cents is totally worth it.
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IMJack posted:This week's Afterbirth update: horrible claustrophobia! Man, I'm working on The Lost runs now, and seeing this makes me think that the there's no way I'm going to even try to RPG Afterbirth.
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Gromit posted:Strangely, the last item I needed for RPG was the Challenge Belt. I saw it loads of times, but thought I'd already picked it up and never bothered with it for some reason. The first time I did it, it was the boomerang. Picked it up on a challenge run and saw how bad it was and never touched it again. Third time was Scissors because I hadn't unlocked them yet, felt pretty good about that.
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cryptoclastic posted:Should always be picking that one up! +1 damage for 15 cents is totally worth it. Plus it makes rare enemies, so you can get more pickups from defeating them. So any challenge they add is usually outweighed by the fact that you'll get more hearts/keys/bombs.
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Here's a fun normal seed: GXRT S8EC The 1st floor goes: -Pyro in treasure room -Shielded tears in secret room -Guppy's paw in curse room -Gemini in crawl space -Wire coat hanger from boss I forget if Eden items are seeded but I started with a cube of meat which is rad.
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cryptoclastic posted:Should always be picking that one up! +1 damage for 15 cents is totally worth it. Exactly. I never pass it up now, which is why it was so weird it was my last item.
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IMJack posted:This week's Afterbirth update: horrible claustrophobia! The last updates have really soured me on the expansion, along with Ed's statement that The Lost is perfect and Fun™. All this RNG bullshit doesn't appeal to me at all, I just don't think it's fun to be screwed over "just because". With just a few changes the game could really be about skill, where you could win a run even with base stats and no items (tedious as it might be), but it seems he'd rather take it in the direction of The Lost where you can lose purely due to RNG. Didn't get flight or a speed up? Have an unwinnable hallway of death.
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The real womb room of flightless doom is this one: Also if you have flight: 
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You do have a point though. I've been playing the wheel of death to see how long a streak I can get (no azazel or maggy because they are both boring) and the curses really kill the fun when you are aiming for consistent wins. Any time I play Eve the plan is always find a spirit heart, get into whore of babylon, and then never get hit. I absolutely cannot afford to lose whore of babylon state until I get something good going. So anytime I get Curse of the Blind I cannot take items unless I happen to have IV bag/guppy's paw/some other way of removing red hearts while keeping spirit hearts. Skipping items is a boring way to play, but I kinda have to with eve.
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I feel like Ed doesn't really get what makes the game fun. He's added fun things to it, but his design process feels more like he's angry that people can get 100 streaks in his game, and less like he's trying to build a fun and balanced game that's hard and random.
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Mystery Machine posted:I feel like Ed doesn't really get what makes the game fun. He's added fun things to it, but his design process feels more like he's angry that people can get 100 streaks in his game, and less like he's trying to build a fun and balanced game that's hard and random. Dude's favorite character is The Lost, of course he doesn't loving get what makes the game fun.
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Looking at those new Womb rooms, I think that I'm just going to play Azazel forever now.
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BoI has always been a relatively good game in spite of itself. It's just getting more... spiteful the more McMillen works on it.
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I guess I'm the only one who thinks those rooms look fun/interesting. I just didn't like that he said they're only going to be as rare as the 4x4 rooms. I was hoping they'd be more rare than that. (I also wonder how they'll work with the rest of the map, seeing as they won't be able to connect at all 4 sides, but I wonder how they'll render on the minimap).
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