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[Rex_Nex]

It does, luck increases your chance of a payout.

[Cheeetar]

Huh. The wiki contradicts itself on different pages here, so you're probably right about it.

[Mesa]

I thoght it'd be worthwhile to give this thread a bump in relation to the new upcoming expansion pack (because it's closer to that than just a DLC, even if technically it is a DLC..), called Afterbirth.

Link to Edmund's blog post.

The game expansion will be called Afterbirth.it will come out sometime this year (hopefully around the middle)
this expansion will feature:

- 100+ new items
- a full new game mode that will totally change how you play
- 10 new challenges
- a new playable character
- a new alternate final chapter
- new alt floors
- new game endings
- new final bosses
- tons of new bosses and enemies
- new item pickups, cards, pills, etc.
- tons of new achievements and rewards for beating the game on hard
- new co-op babies
- new transformations
- and more… :|

you could almost get lost in all that new content!it should easily extend the gameplay time by another 100-200 hours…

(also new music)

So yeah, loadsa new content to be looking forward to in a couple of months. I'm ready.

[forsaken1111]

Every time I think I get away from this game, I swear to god...

[nenjin]

The man never ceases to amaze.

[Niveras]

I really don't want another harder hard mode.

[Rex_Nex]

I like the idea of a harder hard mode. Right now you basically have to play Blue Baby for that. Hard Mode right now is fine and is a nice step up in difficulty, but it's not really enough to challenge longtime players. My only complaint is that many of the ways to make the binding of isaac harder (consumable starvation, more enemy HP, more enemies, more champions, more cursed floors) are actually more tedious than difficult & are what hard mode is now. I wouldn't mind things like taking more damage, more expensive items, or removing "popcorn" enemies (like red flies) for more actual threats, though.

Speaking of difficulty, I finished the game outside of The Lost's unlocks (and the unlocks that those lead to), but that's pretty much it for me. The Lost singlehandedly slayed any drive I had to complete this game. He is so miserably unfun and impossibly difficult that I might not give the game more than a glance until the expansion. Everything that's fun about TBoI is completely lost with this guy.

[Pencil_Art]

I had an insane run with the Lost a while ago. I got, among other things, Ludivico, Dead Cat and Death's Touch. Died at Isaac, though.

[LASD]

Earlier in this thread I swore never to touch The Lost as it's too grindy and can't use half of the items in the game and so forth. Then I tried it finally after a 6 month break.

I actually really enjoyed it. It fit my play style perfectly. I always end up taking so many devil deals on every character that I'm practically one hit away from death all the time. And as The Lost you can take all the devil deals all the time. Also you can fly, and you get less boring HP ups.

Having beaten the original Isaac up to Platinum God, Rebirth was mostly smooth sailing for the regular characters. The Lost returned the ridiculously tense runs I had beating with Blue Baby in the original game. Beating Boss Rush without taking any hits with Epic Fetus really got my heart pounding.

You do need some particular items to fare with The Lost, but it's the same for every characters. Some items are crap and some are really good. It's just slightly different ones for The Lost. It seems you pretty much need 2 out of 3 of Stop Watch, Dead Cat and Holy Mantle to have a chance of getting all the way to the end. But the farther along you can get without them, the more likely you are to find them. It seems many people are playing The Lost by resetting on the Basement until they get one of those items and that does seem really frustrating and boring.  I suggest taking it as a challenge. How far can you get with this guy with average items. Don't think about the bosses, they will fall eventually. My Godhead run was me seeing how far I could get with Epic Fetus, as all the guides forbid you from using it.

P.S. I did die about 250 times in the process.

P.P.S. I still think the the Meat Boy/Bandage Girl achievements are kind of bullshit.

[frostshotgg]

For the Meatboy/Bandage Girl achieves, you basically have to get sharp plug+wafer+monster manuel and use that fucker until you have them.

[PrivateNomad]

I finally killed Mom. I got lucky with rainbow tears + controllable tears c:

[Pencil_Art]

Grinding the Lost is pretty terrifying. Dying with Polyphemus and Quad shot kinda hurts.

[Mesa]

Sooo, I believe that while it's no release date announcement or anything, the newest blog post deserves a bump of this thread, which covers some larger details about the new alternate game mode that's coming with the DLC. (there's also this post)

Spoiler: For those who really don't want to get spoiler'd I'm spoilering this for your no-spoil pleasure. (click to show/hide)

So it's basically a spin on a relatively common "survival"/"boss rush" kind of gamemode. I'm usually not a fan of those but with Isaac's combo depth and overall gameplay it could get quite interesting with how you manage your money.

All these money-generating items/trinkets suddenly rise in value (hue). Can't wait for steamrolling the game with some Unicorn Stump/Midas Touch combo (which is already really strong as is, and it's gonna be the Brimstone+Tammy's Head of Greed Mode.).

I wonder how bosses or later floors will work though, seeing as apparently "static" bosses won't be a thing anymore.
My guess is new replacements on those later floors that can spawn instead of the already-existing ones like Satan and Isaac, but I have no idea.

Hopefully the release date's gonna be up next week!

[nenjin]

It's time, once again, for MOAR ISAAC.

News of the expansion totally slipped under my radar, so I just saw the preorder on Steam. Afterbirth (god he's so classy) can be pre-ordered for the sweet, satanic price of $6.66. An instant buy for me.

Features:

Key Features:
Over 100 hours of MORE gameplay
Greed Mode - a whole new way to play, focused on risk/reward
Expanded main game - a new final area with a new final boss
Daily Runs – play a new official run, everyday!
Online Leaderboards - compete for highscore/best time
10 totally new and awesome challenges!
1000+ new room designs, as well as room
MONSTROUSLY UPDATED WEAPON COMBO SYSTEM!
120 new items--not counting tons of new pickups, chests, pills, bombs and cards--taking the item count up beyond 500!
Alternate soundtrack!
Tons of new secret transformations!
MOAR new achievements

Uber secrets including:
Lilith, mother of demons, a totally new playable character
4 new alternate chapters with new enemy types and visual themes
Revised seed code combo system and new special seeds
100+ enemies, with new designs
8 new bosses
Even more rooms FULL OF POOP!
and probably at least 5 other features we can’t remember due to all the crap that we threw into this little monster

I seriously don't have the time available to play this on top of everything else I own :|

Afterbrith makes a mess on your PC screen October 30th.

[Nighthawk]

I don't even know if I'm going to play Greed Mode. I bought it just for the weapon combo revamp.

I can see the bouncing homing poisonous knife-laser shotgun blasts now....