I have BoI Afterbirth+ and I played a lot of the original but I still kind of suck at it. Other than playing it over and over and over and over and over, what else can I do to get knowledge about good items and play methods?
I have BoI Afterbirth+ and I played a lot of the original but I still kind of suck at it. Other than playing it over and over and over and over and over, what else can I do to get knowledge about good items and play methods?
I have BoI Afterbirth+ and I played a lot of the original but I still kind of suck at it. Other than playing it over and over and over and over and over, what else can I do to get knowledge about good items and play methods?
Sometimes it would be a godsend. Occasionally I get runs where the pills are just balls.
My rule is to always take a pill unless doing so might ruin something or kill me. Even the bad pills can only fool you once and the bad effects aren’t as bad as their opposite good effects are good.
Interesting. I almost always avoid pills like the plague. Good to know, thanks for the advice!
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Yeah, sometimes you get a shitty pool of pills, but it's better to find out early! Some pills are great, especially the one that allows you to swallow a trinket, granting you that trinket's effect permanently.
I will say I almost never take Little Baggy, the item that gives you an extra pill slot, because it also replaces all card and rune drops with pills. Cards and runes are generally a lot more powerful and versatile than most pills you'd want to hang on to. Most of the best pills are typically ones you'd use as soon as possible, like the stat increase, or the one SteevL mentioned that eats your trinket, so extra storage isn't an issue.
The only exceptions I'd say are if you have ended up in a high red heart run and have a couple full health pills for long boss fights like Delirium, or you have a really good use item and are stocking up on energy pills.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
Little Baggy is pretty jank, yeah.
A bit more on pills. For the Gulp pill SteevL mentioned, when you're doing your early pill testing, if you're holding the Left Hand, drop it before taking the pill. Nothing worse than getting to the final floor and being locked into Red Chests only (as they do not have guaranteed item pedestal drops).
Also, if you're doing the Ultra Hard challenge, have some how managed to load up on Red Hearts, and haven't been checking pills on the regular, do not take any you get from the red chests before the Mega Satan fight. If that seems oddly specific, i've had two attempts at that one tanked because i gambled and pulled Hemotemisis (empties all your red heart containers and drops them on the floor, except for the challenge, no hearts will spawn, so now you get to fight Megs on one red heart).
I never pick up the left hand for that reason. Red chests are too high risk/meh reward.
Early guppy's tail and red hand is super good. You're nearly guaranteed becoming guppy.
This lucky penny is bullshit.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
I've been playing the game a lot again lately and noticed that I finally filled out my item list on my main save file!
So I've been working on my second save file. I still haven't beaten Mom's Heart enough for it to be replaced with It Lives, but I've still managed to do hard mode with several characters and get through Sheol. And last night + this morning I had a run with Lazarus where I got access to The Dark Room and ended up getting through 3 victory laps because I was so overpowered. Nice to get that one out of the way!
Hey folks, just wanted to throw a quick question out as a sanity check, yeah?
So i'm working through Keeper's Post-it, and i'm down fighting the Hush for the guaranteed Delirium portal (which was probably not the best idea considering my load-out, but it was that or gamble on one showing up later). So, i've got Spider Mod, and i noticed the Hush Flies, while clearly getting hit, weren't actually taking any damage for a bit after they spawned. Well, at least their HP bar wasn't reflecting damage taken.
So, i'm wondering, i've always thought the Hush Flies were a bit over tanky, but is it really that they just have a period of invincibility when they spawn? It's either that or there was something buggy with Spider Mod (which would be, i suppose, appropriate).
Also, i'll be so glad when i never have to play the keeper again.
Hey folks, just wanted to throw a quick question out as a sanity check, yeah?
So i'm working through Keeper's Post-it, and i'm down fighting the Hush for the guaranteed Delirium portal (which was probably not the best idea considering my load-out, but it was that or gamble on one showing up later). So, i've got Spider Mod, and i noticed the Hush Flies, while clearly getting hit, weren't actually taking any damage for a bit after they spawned. Well, at least their HP bar wasn't reflecting damage taken.
So, i'm wondering, i've always thought the Hush Flies were a bit over tanky, but is it really that they just have a period of invincibility when they spawn? It's either that or there was something buggy with Spider Mod (which would be, i suppose, appropriate).
Also, i'll be so glad when i never have to play the keeper again.
I think they share a collective health bar that goes past what mod spider shows you. It’s a weird coding trick they did that has weird results.
Hey folks, just wanted to throw a quick question out as a sanity check, yeah?
So i'm working through Keeper's Post-it, and i'm down fighting the Hush for the guaranteed Delirium portal (which was probably not the best idea considering my load-out, but it was that or gamble on one showing up later). So, i've got Spider Mod, and i noticed the Hush Flies, while clearly getting hit, weren't actually taking any damage for a bit after they spawned. Well, at least their HP bar wasn't reflecting damage taken.
So, i'm wondering, i've always thought the Hush Flies were a bit over tanky, but is it really that they just have a period of invincibility when they spawn? It's either that or there was something buggy with Spider Mod (which would be, i suppose, appropriate).
Also, i'll be so glad when i never have to play the keeper again.
I think they share a collective health bar that goes past what mod spider shows you. It’s a weird coding trick they did that has weird results.
Ok, that's fair enough. i didn't have a huge damage stat at the time, so maybe the bar was ticking down "off screen." Next time i get there with a beefier load-out i'll pay more attention to if they get erased right off. Thanks for the head's up, josh!
Yeah, I've had countless runs where I'm a walking death machine, and even Hush's damage scaling is no match for my power... and those flies seem to live abnormally long.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
7 month bump? Why would I do this?
Because the BoI prequel, The Legend of Bum-bo, comes out in November and there's a new trailer: https://youtu.be/-sNhPqfJmDs
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It's pretty good.
It's calling to you, Drez. Calling from the Depths.
時計仕掛けの子の丸々太った磁器の顔に表情は無いが、転がりながら、口がカチッと開閉して、腕が上下に動い た。
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Wanna watch a gaijin butcher monsters and the Japanese Language all at once? Sure you do, and now you can!
Spoilers, obviously:
http://platinumgod.co.uk/afterbirth-plus for the quick cheat sheet
And of course there is the wiki.
Thanks.
What's the prevailing thought on unknowns, like pills? Skip 'em? Is there a particular strategy around them?
General principles:
don't use in situations where finding out its a telepill will screw you out of something.
Don't use in tight spaces or dangerous areas in case it's explosive diarrhea or the ipecac effect.
In general just don't use them if something unexpected happening could kill you.
時計仕掛けの子の丸々太った磁器の顔に表情は無いが、転がりながら、口がカチッと開閉して、腕が上下に動い た。
ージョン・タインズ、作家
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Wanna watch a gaijin butcher monsters and the Japanese Language all at once? Sure you do, and now you can!
I'm really glad there's never been a "randomizer" pill like the present of the same name in ToeJame & Earl. That would be brutal.
My rule is to always take a pill unless doing so might ruin something or kill me. Even the bad pills can only fool you once and the bad effects aren’t as bad as their opposite good effects are good.
The only exceptions I'd say are if you have ended up in a high red heart run and have a couple full health pills for long boss fights like Delirium, or you have a really good use item and are stocking up on energy pills.
A bit more on pills. For the Gulp pill SteevL mentioned, when you're doing your early pill testing, if you're holding the Left Hand, drop it before taking the pill. Nothing worse than getting to the final floor and being locked into Red Chests only (as they do not have guaranteed item pedestal drops).
Also, if you're doing the Ultra Hard challenge, have some how managed to load up on Red Hearts, and haven't been checking pills on the regular, do not take any you get from the red chests before the Mega Satan fight. If that seems oddly specific, i've had two attempts at that one tanked because i gambled and pulled Hemotemisis (empties all your red heart containers and drops them on the floor, except for the challenge, no hearts will spawn, so now you get to fight Megs on one red heart).
時計仕掛けの子の丸々太った磁器の顔に表情は無いが、転がりながら、口がカチッと開閉して、腕が上下に動い た。
ージョン・タインズ、作家
ー無名狂師、翻訳者 （俺）
Wanna watch a gaijin butcher monsters and the Japanese Language all at once? Sure you do, and now you can!
Early guppy's tail and red hand is super good. You're nearly guaranteed becoming guppy.
Hearthstone - Webber #1330
3DS: 0920-3235-4071
So I've been working on my second save file. I still haven't beaten Mom's Heart enough for it to be replaced with It Lives, but I've still managed to do hard mode with several characters and get through Sheol. And last night + this morning I had a run with Lazarus where I got access to The Dark Room and ended up getting through 3 victory laps because I was so overpowered. Nice to get that one out of the way!
So i'm working through Keeper's Post-it, and i'm down fighting the Hush for the guaranteed Delirium portal (which was probably not the best idea considering my load-out, but it was that or gamble on one showing up later). So, i've got Spider Mod, and i noticed the Hush Flies, while clearly getting hit, weren't actually taking any damage for a bit after they spawned. Well, at least their HP bar wasn't reflecting damage taken.
So, i'm wondering, i've always thought the Hush Flies were a bit over tanky, but is it really that they just have a period of invincibility when they spawn? It's either that or there was something buggy with Spider Mod (which would be, i suppose, appropriate).
Also, i'll be so glad when i never have to play the keeper again.
時計仕掛けの子の丸々太った磁器の顔に表情は無いが、転がりながら、口がカチッと開閉して、腕が上下に動い た。
ージョン・タインズ、作家
ー無名狂師、翻訳者 （俺）
Wanna watch a gaijin butcher monsters and the Japanese Language all at once? Sure you do, and now you can!
I think they share a collective health bar that goes past what mod spider shows you. It’s a weird coding trick they did that has weird results.
Ok, that's fair enough. i didn't have a huge damage stat at the time, so maybe the bar was ticking down "off screen." Next time i get there with a beefier load-out i'll pay more attention to if they get erased right off. Thanks for the head's up, josh!
時計仕掛けの子の丸々太った磁器の顔に表情は無いが、転がりながら、口がカチッと開閉して、腕が上下に動い た。
ージョン・タインズ、作家
ー無名狂師、翻訳者 （俺）
Wanna watch a gaijin butcher monsters and the Japanese Language all at once? Sure you do, and now you can!
Because the BoI prequel, The Legend of Bum-bo, comes out in November and there's a new trailer: