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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |OT| Pixel Heart Mother
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Napalm_Frank
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Yes. Some that you should have earned can pop up randomly if you keep playing.
No, you're not.
The game it literally unplayable on my train commute when there's any sunlight. I can only see wtf is going on when we go through tunnels. It's like going back to the bad days of OG GBAs and lack of backlighting.
The fucking stupid thing is the PS4 version has a gamma option, where as the Vita - which really needs it - doesn't.
indeed.
I was having a great run and I was obliterating everything in the Chest until RED POOP room. gg
Haunted
Member
The endings are intertwined in all sorts of ways, calling back to each other and relating to the items (and characters) they unlock.
edit: if you want to delve deeper, here's an interesting reading of the game's themes and endings (also following through on themes found in earlier Edmund McMillen games). Edmund himself has praised that article as a very accurate breakdown of the overarching meaning behind BoI.
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I saw that but I was wondering if they also have some sort of story behind them, it'd be pretty nice.
It's really tough in fluorescent lighting like at work, but I'm okay at home where I usually play. Would be impossible outside, and probably on a bus too. I do wish there was a gamma option or something, it does seem very dark.
Maggy is a low tier character, imo, not quite as bad as Eve or ??? but not good at all. She starts with an extra heart but who cares. She's slow and tedious as hell. I'll finish her goals and then never choose her ever, just like vanilla Isaac.
autoduelist
Member
can you explain exactly what this is and how to trigger it? I did one of those hard runs legit, but am curious what this glitch is.
It's fine in my house, though curse of darkness is rough.
I'm doing maggy hard runs right now, and yes, it's a slog. I am getting no upgrades of any worth, either. Heck, i'd consider your run above a 'great' run compared to the ones I've had. And i usually beat the game on hard with isaac... this maggy run is driving me bonkers though.
Eve is way better than maggy. Pop whore and you're ready to go.
I just really hate when the game just loads you up with +health items and nothing else.
Lamb
SerTapTap
Member
Eve is way better now. Her Whore of Babylon triggers at 1 full heart not 1 half like other players, and with Devil Deals being so common and black hearts being a thing it's pretty easy to get her at 1 heart but still have some defence, and you get some positives out of keeping her health low with all the devil rooms.
Oh, wow, straight up bug, then. That sucks. I lost a Chaos Card to it once.
Oh, wow, straight up bug, then. That sucks. I lost a Chaos Card to it once.
Fancy Clown
Member
Soooo I got to mom for the first time and killed her. I started a new run and there all sorts of weird stuff going on like new bosses that don't appear in boss rooms (pride, greed, famine, etc). What do I do from here? Beat it again? Do hard modea. Do the challenges? Try to unlock new characters? This game is addicting as hell but it's also pretty overwhelming because there's a ton of stuff and the game doesn't explain any of it.
As far as building a successful run, Maggy pulls ahead because she can easily leverage her hearts into devil deals on the first several floors. Eve's damage doesn't give her an advantage on the first several floors because the first several floors are easy. After that, her damage increase at 1 heart is not enough to carry her through later floors.
imo
You've only cracked the surface. Keep playing normal mode for now. Try to beat it with new characters. There's much more to do. Beat Mom again and you'll figure out what you need to do on future runs.
SerTapTap
Member
Start by finishing challenges (some of them like Purist and Solar System are not recommended for newbies though), unlocking characters (the non-secret ones are pretty easy with effort, and straightforward) and then try to earn the "boss kill" icons on the character screen for each characters.
As you play it'll become more apparent what you need to do to unlock stuff. "The end" that you found isn't one, keep playing and you'll see what I mean.
Don't start hard mode. Got a loooooong way to go before that's necessary for your next unlocks, and frankly it's not a very fun sort of challenge unless you're already finding it too easy (which I doubt, at this point)
Yep, in agreement with you here. I hope they patch in a gamma slider a la Spelunky.
Citizen_Insane
Member
Guillotine is such a bizarre item haha.
Not sure if I'll pick that one up again.
Got it in the Cathedral and it makes your head turn into an orbital around your body. Not sure if it blocks tears or not. I had technology so it was even weirder trying to hit enemies since tech already has bad hitboxes in this game. Made it hard to go through doors because I kept looking at the head!
It does block tears. I hate the way it makes your tears move around, though. It's very disorienting.
Isaac's heart is another weird one like that that probably is really powerful if someone gets used to it.
Citizen_Insane
Member
I don't know what that is yet but I'm very curious to try it.
It makes
The Lost
I've gotten the coal a couple of times. It's more rare than the head I think.
OniBarubary
Banned
I get Coal like 50/50. I don't mind getting either to be honest because the damage for his head is insanity with a three room charge.
On a side note, I have been avoiding every single spoiler I have seen about all the ARG stuff. I merely know that it exists.
Is there a community, or does anyone want to make another thread or concentrated effort, to do it without any of the data hacking and spoilers? I am interested if it can be done as it was intended with just a few people.
On a side note, I have been avoiding every single spoiler I have seen about all the ARG stuff. I merely know that it exists.
Is there a community, or does anyone want to make another thread or concentrated effort, to do it without any of the data hacking and spoilers? I am interested if it can be done as it was intended with just a few people.
SerTapTap
Member
It'd...be pretty hard to try and find it without spoilers at all, and I can't really state why without spoiling it, sort of the nature of the beast. I'm not aware of any topic about it. I could give the very tiniest (IMO) possible spoiler about how to get started, but it really seems like the sort of thing where people were intended to find it totally on accident and talk amongst themselves to figure it out.
It was a neat idea, but I don't think it was handled super well and I'm not so surprised it was just hacked.
opticalmace
Member
Is this like Spelunky, as in you restart at the beginning when you die?
Citizen_Insane
Member
Yep.
Oh fucking god I'm so pissed.
3 Piece bandage girl, on my way to last boss that should hopefully drop the last piece.
Go into a huge room. 4 unkillable rotating eye lazers in the middle, 4 of the gravity wells, spikes everywhere and mom's hands dropping from the ceiling.
I could not do anything, I'd walk in get sucked into the well and mom's hand would teleport me out.
3 Piece bandage girl, on my way to last boss that should hopefully drop the last piece.
Go into a huge room. 4 unkillable rotating eye lazers in the middle, 4 of the gravity wells, spikes everywhere and mom's hands dropping from the ceiling.
I could not do anything, I'd walk in get sucked into the well and mom's hand would teleport me out.
I can see that, luckily for me my wife isn't that bad at the game so we can play together without much problems... that being said...
both are pretty good for co op. Eve gets instant powered in co op and thus as long as you are decent you can have good early runs... as for maggy with the yum heart you can make up for a poor partner through the first few floors by just using that to keep your health up even if you co op partner keeps losing your hp... granted your partner needs to have some level of skill to the point where they are not constantly losing more than a heart every other room or so.
Citizen_Insane
Member
I think co-op's really fun. I just hate that if the baby has red hearts and gets hit, you lose your devil room chance. Or at least that's how it seemed for me. Made me not want to do co-op until I have soul hearts to give.
the benefit is playing together
I think the co op is fine. I do agree with the other person though, a co op mode where the co op parner is immune and you just can't unlock anything would be good as it would allow an experienced player to take a new play through isaac and teach them the ropes.
SerTapTap
Member
You're playing together, but a run is a half hour to an hour's dedication and they're basically adding fuck all and/or being an active detriment the entire time while their character is unable to receive any of the fun parts of isaac--direct stat changes only, no tear modifiers, no items, no pickups, no choices, nothing. Once I realized that I immediately stopped because I wouldn't subject anyone to that just so I could complete a proper run.
I don't know what is wrong with your version, but on my version my wife gets the tear modifiers. Tiny planet circles both isaac and the baby , both isaac and the baby get tech I know when I picked up brimstone my wife got it as well.
The only thing that the baby doesn't really get is Azazel's attack, most of the other effects affect the baby as well.
and yes she doesn't get the item pick ups and can't pick up objects but that makes sense as double spacebar items would be crazy, and object pick up would make coins behind rocks to easy to get with most characters.
as for choices... the baby can actually play the arcade room fully
SenorArdilla
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If you haven't unlocked the secret boss in the Womb yet then you'll need to get an Angel Room after the Mom's Heart fight.
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