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I've been playing my copy of Rebirth off and on for years now, and am close to 100%ing it, I think. Just going through the challenges and trying to get the last completion badge (Hard Boss Rush for the Lost). On my umpteenth Suicide King attempt I decided to look for information on how rare Pyromaniac is to spawn. I kept seeing people referring to a Book of Revelations method of spawning items or messing with the item spawning RNG somehow, but I can't find any information on this BoR method anywhere. Any idea what that's about? The only thing I see is that it makes it more likely to get a horseman and therefore a meat cube/bandage ball. e: Actually since I'm here, a second unrelated question that's been bugging me for a while. For a long time now, there's been a bug where sometimes when I pick up a pedestal item, the game crashes to dash, and when I continue the game it puts me back at the beginning of the level (or, if I remember to continue/exit, back where I did that kindasorta-quicksave). This most often happens when picking up stat boosting items (mostly dmg+), but not always (e.g. it recently happened when picking up one of the horse items). The frequency has also been increasing over time; when it first started happening it only happened once in a great while and only with the dmg+, but now it's about a 10-20% chance for CTD, and the possible items/item combos it happens with has increased. To work around this, I've been habitually exiting then continuing the game every time I pick up a new pedestal item. That way, if the game CTDs I can at least start back in the same room. I also found I can work around this issue in boss rooms specifically, if I pick up the item and then immediately move Isaac over the exit so that he immediately goes to the next level after finishing his "I got item!" animation. e2: Almost forgot--I can also manipulate the crash chance by changing the order I pick things up in. If, say, a Cricket's Head spawns in one room and picking it up crashes me, I can sometimes ignore it and play on, pick up a different item (boss room or elsewhere), then go back and pick up the Cricket's Head and it'll be fine. Is anyone familiar with this bug? Is there anything I can do about it, or do I just have to soldier on? I'm playing on Xbox Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Oct 6, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 18:53 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:06 |
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Serious q: I haven't unlocked The Lost yet and reading about it it seems like a total bitch to even get through Mom on normal difficulty. Is that character just you hating yourself run after run until the stars finally align? loving yup. I hate it. I hate the lost so much but it's the last character i have anything unfinished with. Typically my runs are a lot of me checking what's in the first item room and resetting (dying) if I don't like it or the d4 reroll. Sometimes the first item might be good so I'll see what the first boss has. If the first boss item is also trash I'll reset, and keep doing this until i feel have an okay chance, then continue on. It's insanely luck dependent because your starting tears are hella weak The only reason i was able to get the satan/lamb badges was because i managed to get a dead cat. I used every single life to make it that far. I could have gotten the boss rush badge that run but i hosed up and died, and when i went back in the bosses no longer spawned E: holy mantle owns yeah, but i don't have access to the greed machine
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 19:12 |
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Ariong posted:If you don't mind me asking, why not? Also I'd been playing BoI since the original Flash game, so Wrath of the Lamb seemed like a huge expansion to me at the time. So when I got Rebirth I was like "I'm good with this for a while" lol Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Oct 6, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 19:20 |
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Vidmaster posted:Yeah, it was a rush hitting some of those completion marks with no holy mantle or spectral tears. I think I had a 300 loss streak trying to finish boss rush with the lost for my last one. I got up to around 150ish when i remembered the challenges and was like "i think I'm gonna finish those now actually, gently caress this" lol
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 21:10 |
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Ariong posted:Oh, I assumed you must have it since you talked about D4 rerolls and the Lost starting with the D4 is an Afterbirth thing, at least according to the wiki. Yeah the wikis I've seen have been inconsistent at marking what content goes with what. Once I got confused because one wiki page mentioned The Forgotten without the DLC tag, so for a while I thought it was a Rebirth unlock but nope. FWIW the Rebirth version of Lost starts with D4 and spectral tears.
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 21:35 |
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Just wanted to repost my questions so they don't get lost on the last page: 1. Anyone know what the Book of Revelations/bor method is that I've seen some people post about (e: not here, elsewhere on the internet, sorry)? In the context of somehow manipulating item spawns or the RNG for special items or something 2. Anyone familiar with the Xbox crash to dash bug I've been getting increasingly often when picking up a pedestal item? I've googled it a bunch over the years and haven't found any answers. It seems like a Known/Won't Fix issue but would love if anyone knows anything about it. I've considered uninstalling/clearing cache/reinstalling but I'm paranoid I'd lose my save. Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Oct 6, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 21:58 |
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Tofu Injection posted:The only thing I can think of, other then the horseman thing is if you have the D6, rerolling libraries is usually the easiest way to cycle items out of the pool. Obviously not that helpful with suicide king. For Suicide King, just be running forward when you shoot off Ipecac though and you'lll build shot speed enough that the boomerang effect shouldn't be a problem. if you luck into the shot speed trinket (whip worm i think?) it just becomes a normal ipecac run. Obviously, Brimstone or Mom's Knife trivialize that challenge as well. Ariong posted:When you use the Book of Revelations on a floor where there isn't a set boss (so not depths 2, womb 2, etc) and you haven't fought the boss yet, the chance of the boss being the Horseman associated with that floor is greatly increased. For this reason, if you want to get four Cubes of Meat or four Balls of Bandages (each of which unlocks an item) then getting the Book of Revelations early is the best way to do that, at least in vanilla. With Afterbirth you can get it with a Box of Friends and batteries, and in Afterbirth+ getting four meat cubes is a cinch with the potato peeler. Also, I finished all the challenges last night. I only had Suicide King and Purist left, and managed to beat both of those in a row. I was feeling my oats so I decided to try and go for the hard boss rush as Lost for the threepeat. Didn't happen but that's fine. tbh the one major downside to getting the DLC for me is gonna be all the new completion badges for the Lost, though it sounds like I'll be able to start him off with the mantle, which will help a lot
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2020 15:44 |
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Managed to beat hard boss rush on the lost with a toddler napping on my chest, yesss I think that's everything for rebirth! Just gotta wait for repentance now and hope my progress carries over
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 03:13 |
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Thanks! I'm planning on waiting for Repentance, assuming that AB/AB+ stuff will be included in it. If not then yeah I'll probably grab AB.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 15:49 |
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I got a funny streak once with card mimic + Jira. My wife walked in and was like "What the hell did you do?" and posted it on the internet https://twitter.com/Shubzilla/status/1254205358626598912 Nothing quite as OP as I've seen with other streaks though. Like I saw someone get some ridiculous poo poo going with the suicide card + dead cat Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Oct 16, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 20:49 |
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Yeah I always start a new game if I end up picking up cursed eye
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2020 17:07 |
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PIZZA.BAT posted:The what, now? the super secret rooms (closer to the boss room, only ever share 1 wall with the main map) sometimes will use Dark Room textures and have a single black heart.
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2020 18:26 |
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Looks like greed and greedier modes are selected like the difficulty--does that mean i could unlock all completion marks by just starting out on greedier?
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 16:59 |
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Sad after reading that my favorite OP item, the stopwatch, is nerfed in AB
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2020 21:42 |
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Unrelated to the current discussion but I just had to express how much i hate Envy, the worst most boringest enemy in the game. If i run into Envy on the first floor of a run before I've picked anything up I'll just reset
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2020 00:44 |
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Carpator Diei posted:[Insert lame joke about the new blog post being kinda lovely] Are those helper poops?
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2021 00:47 |
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haha that looks amazing. Looking forward to Repentance
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2021 01:06 |
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Agreed on the curses, curse of the labyrinth owns tho
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 22:05 |
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Color Printer posted:I was gonna have a mod change the thread title but I don't have a good subtitle so help me out here At the very least the first half should be changed to The Binding of Isaac: Repentance Looking forward to playing this co-op with my partner
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2021 15:48 |
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aas Bandit posted:Another stupid (?) question, is Repentance dependent upon Afterbirth/Afterbirth+? I only get the option to buy all three in a bundle and apparently can't buy Repentance alone? Yeah, that's apparently how it works--if you're purchasing on a system where you don't have the others, or this is your first time, you've got to buy the bundle.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 00:14 |
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municipal shrimp posted:
Kind of, it's left-facing though (sauwastika), not the one associated with the nazis.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 04:04 |
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Kawalimus posted:You need one heart *total*, not just red. So theyre tough to get into. Wow that's dumb as all hell
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 17:41 |
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SiKboy posted:Wasnt this always the case with whore of babylon, unless you were eve? oh okay cool. I always liked trying to make Whore of Babylon work for 1/0-red heart runs
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 19:32 |
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Reading everyone's posts like a animal and looking forward to playing this like I'm brand-new again. Just gonna pick up literally everything to see how it's different or changed. Can't wait to gently caress myself over repeatedly as I re-learn which items are awful again I saw someone say cursed eye is good now? How the hell
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 22:52 |
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PostNouveau posted:It no longer teleports you if it's fully charged, only if it's charging I thought that was how it worked before. But I'm probably wrong, I picked it up like a few times ever and only by accident every time after the first
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 23:00 |
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John Murdoch posted:Unless I missed a note in the changelog, the only buff Cursed Eye got is that now it shoots 5 tears at max charge rather than 4. Since at least I started playing it didn't teleport you when fully charged. I always thought it was a bit underrated, at least if you're not prone to getting hit every five seconds. Only need to get hit once when you've got a tough boss almost dead to get teleported out of the room and have to start over again (or reset)
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 23:27 |
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Inzombiac posted:I imported my save, thinking I was missing a few things and now I'm basically back to a fresh save. Wow, that's like getting 200 more hours of content for free!
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 21:45 |
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Gasmask posted:Yeah but it sucks that I only find this out by digging around after the fact. Surely the big brains at Steam could figure out a way to detect I’m on Mac OS and say ‘hey you can’t play this lol’ when I was buying it. Yeah it's not uncommon for most sites and applications these days to detect your OS and check compatibility. I'm not too familiar with Steam so I'm not sure if this is a Steam issue, or they just forgot to configure BoI to check compatibility. At least you should be able to refund it without hassle. Maybe a dumb question, but what's the feasibility of running a Windows VM for BoI? Or would that eat too many resources
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2021 19:29 |
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Co-op is a great challenge and it feels well balanced. My partner and I were able to beat Mom once, and then almost beat the heart once, in our first 6 hours lol. I actually don't even mind starting all over from the beginning, because we're experiencing all the content from Afterbirth and onward for the first time, so that plus co-op practically makes it a brand new game for us. Game good
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2021 20:16 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:06 |
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Futaba Anzu posted:how so? it sounds actually amazing? unless it only accounts item count from just one character? From the wiki: quote:If used as Jacob and Esau, both the characters will get all their items removed, but you'll be only presented with replacement pedestals for items removed from the character using Genesis, likely resulting in a net item loss.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 21:54 |