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[Binding of Isaac] Get out of the basement and into the cellar. Expansion HERE!
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I though I was never going to beat the new boss with XXX.
I had that, plus the Wafer and the Virus. I beat the boss by repeatedly running into him. The arcade would've been that much better if you had the Bloody Penny.
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I went to almost none of the secret rooms because they're almost impossible to find on XL levels and the ones I did manage to find were all mob secret rooms with nothing good in them.
Very frustrating.
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I tried Samson today and did not get a single good item in the treasure rooms/boss item spawn for a good 20 tries on the first floor.
edit: I don't think I'll ever get The Halo now. I haven't seen the Bible in over a hundred playthroughs
I've gotten the Holy Water like 3 or 4 times in a row now, it's getting stupid. Not only is it a shitty item, it's bugged. I got Harlequin Baby after it and whenever Holy Water was active, H-Baby would be Brother Bobby. If I got hit and shattered the Holy Water, it would turn back into the proper Harlequin Baby. Super annoying. The Bean is showing up a retarded amount of the time too.
Note, on the final level every room has 2-3 bosses in it AND you cannot bomb your way out of the room. You also cannot enter the secret room even if you have an item that shows it (bug?).
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Unfortunately, ??? runs are just about as frustrating... I had a couple runs that were just about there and a lot of runs that were just fucking pathetic. But I just finished my successful run, and though at one point I traded 3 of my 4 spirit hearts for Spirit of the Night and wandered around with 1 heart for a while, I ended up with Dr Fetus, Homing bombs and spirit hearts off the screen, mostly because two of my pills were Balls of Steel and Health Up and I got a lot of both of them during the run. In fact, I didn't even get hit on the Isaac fight, had the Pinking Shears body tearing him up while I fired bombs in from a slightly off angle, hardly had to dodge at all. My meat cube and fly shield took care of the shots that got too close/should've hit me. That said, my dodging is finally getting back up to speed again. Fucking blue baby...
On the ??? runs I did get a bunch of items to my collection though, including the Pinking Shears actually. One of the runs I grabbed 9 Lives for the hell of it and ended up dying on Utero 1 against Conquest, so my deaths finally hit over 100 which kind of sucks because at one point I had almost twice as many Mom kills as deaths... was something like 56 to 100. Now it's like 102 to 117.
I'm missing 10 items to my collection, two of which I've seen before (and recently) and could've sworn I picked up but apparently didn't. The White Pony and Portable Slot were two I saw in today's runs, but thought I had already picked up so I didn't grab them. Otherwise I'm missing Infestation, Rainbow Baby, Dad's Key, Celtic Cross, Ghost Baby, Daddy Long Legs, Switch Blade and Guppy's Hair Ball.
Guess it's back to try to get Large Marge done...
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The Purist feels nearly impossible now, I really wish I would've gotten it done before the rebalancing.
Of course, that doesn't really help that much, I suppose, when the game then decided to not give me a single key for three floors.
I haven't tried it myself but I'd dare say that the game is probably almost broken if you have the expansion and are starting fresh.
It was going ok, not great. I had to fight Ultra Pride on like Caves 1 but whatever, the Left Hand resulted in me getting the Cursed Tail, Guppy's Head and Guppy's Paw from red chests on the Necropolis XL. After I beat Mom, I ported out of the boss room, grabbed the Paw and turned all but one of my hearts into spirit hearts. I then realized that the last item had turned me into Guppy, which I didn't think was anything special until I realized that Guppy apparently has flying by default and the Mulligan. I already had a pretty good fire rate from Tears Up pills, so I was spawning flies pretty damn fast.
I almost got Mama's Boy but I got hit on Womb 2's Boss Challenge room which got me the Pentagram (to go with the Pact and the Mark for my damage ups). Between lots of Balls of Steel pills, lots of red chests spawning from the Left Hand giving spirit hearts, and a couple more real heart upgrades turned into spirit hearts (along with one of two Crystal Balls I got from blown Fortune Tellers), I had to have had somewhere around 40-50 health by the time I got to Isaac. I ripped him apart, didn't even bother dodging, it didn't matter.
The annoying thing is, I had a ton of money, courtesy of a slot machine blowing up into the dollar bill on Necropolis XL, and I ran into 3 different Fortune Tellers, I played them all until they blew up and I didn't get a single Polaroid. Not sure if it would've let me go to the Chest while on the Purist Challenge or not, but god damn. On the room right before Isaac, I got the Tick out of a Fortune Teller, so I swapped the Left Hand for that.
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Edit: Actually, I might not even have the Polaroid unlocked yet... is there an achievement for it? Because of how buggy the title screen was being, I never saw the progress. I know I've beaten Isaac with every character now (I have the achievement for all of their items), but I don't think I ever got an unlock for the Polaroid.
If you cleared Cathedral with everyone, the Polaroid should be showing up. Of course it's an RNG bitch, but it should be on the table. Edmund said that the next update should make Polaroid runs easier.
http://steamcommunity.com/stats/BindingOfIsaac/achievements
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Ended up being a pretty ridiculous run... fairly low damage, but I got Cancer and the Strange Mushroom, so my fire rate was utterly insane. I was also getting heart upgrades left and right. At one point I had 12 containers, got a devil room with Lord of the Pit and The Nail for two hearts each. I already had Book of Rev at that point, but I bought both anyway. I still ended the game with 10 real heart containers and tons of spirit hearts though, so it was all good.
I got the Portable Slot and Celtic Cross for my collection too, so 8 more to go.
Frankly, I think I'm done with this game unless it's patched back to its former glory. It's just a chore as it is now.
Intended behaviour or bug? As it is now, it's pretty much useless.
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Did I?
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Shame it was a waste of time cause I didn't find the Polaroid despite spending over 100 cents on fortune telling machines (they explode much too easily).
This is the look of failure, embrace it:
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Reading the rest of the thread, it appears as though it's a bug in that the effect is supposed to be attached to the Lucky Toe trinket, but it ended up on Bob's Rotten Head instead. Oops.
Anyway, because of this, if you manage to get Bob's Rotten Head and can find some Fortune Teller machines, it may be a bit easier to get the Polaroid.
It sucks a bit, because that run I had where I turned into Guppy, on the floor I turned into Guppy I had been carrying around Bob's Head for most of it and there was one Fortune Teller, but I don't think I played it until after I had picked up Guppy's Head, so I lost the effect. Granted, I think on that run I hadn't yet unlocked the Polaroid, so it wouldn't have done me any good, but still.
I still think there's something severely wrong with the random number generator for this game. I will see the exact same room layout/enemies two rooms in a row all the fucking time. And there are things like, using the D6 to reroll The Poop and having it turn into Lemon Mishap. I've had that happen twice in a row recently, and that just seems like something that really shouldn't happen with as many potential items as there are in the game now. Very strange.
That being said, I think the game being in Flash kind of limits a lot of what could be done. Apparently it 'barely works' as is.
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