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[Mesa]

Okay, GOOD NEWS!
Game is now less than 24 hours away from release and available for pre-loadining

BAD NEWS!
It's still encrypted so it won't actually pre-load...yet.

[nenjin]

A midnight release would be sssssssssssswwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttttttttttttt.

[nenjin]

Preload is working now. I restarted my Steam client and it's getting it.

[Mesa]

http://ridiculon.bandcamp.com/]Soundtrack is now out. Sadly us Steam folks are still missing out on the downloads. :C
(HERICIDE HYPE!)

[nenjin]

Yeah, just found that myself. So hyped my eyeballs could explode. So hyped, I did what I couldn't do in a 124 hours of this game: beat Heaven and Sheol with Isaac and Eve.

[Mesa]

Now if only Steam people could download it. I would listen to this at school all day today.
Wait...I have school. ;-;

I hope my teacher lets me leave early (she usually does). Wanna drop in for Northernlion's PRELEASE SCUM stream.

[nenjin]

Ok, the music for the Womb is downright fucked up

[nenjin]

So, the soundtrack is really good. It's crazy when you consider how fast they banged out an entirely new soundtrack for the game. Gone are the playful chip tunes of the original. The entire soundtrack is much heavier, darker, sadder and more disturbed now. Some tracks I'd say are almost too epic for the look of the game, but I didn't find the music for BoI fit all that well until I listened to it for 50 hours.

Isaac is back in about 3 hours. Curse my adult life that prevents me from really playing it until later today!

[ank]

1h ERMERGERD!

[cerapa]

IT IS REALEASED

NO TIME OFR SPELLING

[nenjin]

The game handles differently, IMO. I probably just need time to get used to it, and the new SFX and music. Maybe it's just that it's running at its actual FPS instead of the weird compromised FPS of the original.

Also, it was a feature mentioned months ago, but you were supposed to be able to export an image of your character at the end of your run. I'm not seeing that anywhere (unless it only counts successful runs.)

[nenjin]

No, I agree. It's an odd sensation, particularly when you're so used to the fixed boundaries of the original.

[ank]

Has anyone found out how to play multiplayer? Do you have to have a controller? Which kind?

[nenjin]

Any USB controller should work, Xbox or generic. It just needs to be plugged in and they hit the start button.

[Leafsnail]

My first run went pretty well, I won and also unlocked three characters (Cain, Azazel and Lazarus).  I reduced my health to one with this weird secret devil room thing, but fortunately I was able to scrape through the final fight (the Mom fight felt significantly easier, there was less stamping and her attacks were more telegraphed).

I think I got pretty lucky, I got loads of money, good pill effects and solid stat-boosting items.  See under spoiler for screenshot and item report.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Interesting items:
- Soul Converter (shop bought): Basically the opposite of Guppy's Paw, use it to turn two soul hearts into one real heart container.
- Shielded Tears (item room): My tears traded with enemy ones on collision.  Pretty cool against bullet spammers, could be bad if you have a high damage/low tears build.
- A devil room item that gave me coins whenever I was hurt (I think? Or it might have just increased coin spawns, I certainly got a lot)
- A battery that lets use items store an extra charge (weird secret devil room)
- "Magic fingers" (weird secret devil room): consumed a coin every time I used it, no idea what it actually did.
- Mom's Wig (item room): spawned friendly blue spiders everywhere, the number just seemed to keep increasing.
- A trinket that increases shot speed, and another that increased tear size (I think?)
- "I can see forever" pills: gives you the effect of "I see everything" for one floor, very useful

Interesting rooms:
- A wider variety of locked rooms, which was cool.  Double locked rooms with a lot of minor pickups in them, a library-like room but with four cards instead of books, and a dice room that went dark for some weird reason and gave me four minor pickups including a soul heart (no idea what the room is supposed to be)
- Rooms can now have moving spikes, and also I encountered one where you needed a bomb to advance through it. Also I found some apparently invincible blue fires that didn't do anything else.
- Weirdest room: after blowing up a rock I found a trapdoor.  After going down this trapdoor there was a very brief side-scrolling section (no, really) that came out in this quasi-devil room with four items (shop items I think?) available for one heart each.  This room also had an exit trapdoor and both kinds of beggars.

Really I didn't find any super gamechanging stuff though, I look forward to getting stuff that completely screws with the kind of bullets you're firing.