The Binding of Isaac

I had two Anarchist's Cookbooks in the Void, plus the scatter bomb effect. It's a good thing I had all the other items preventing me from killing myself.

Not outright the most powerful but I had a run recently with Pyromaniac + Locust of Wrath + Curse of the Tower. Good times were had by all.

Came within a inches of beating Ultra Hard twice last night. Both times had OP runs that could definitely have done it but made a few mistakes that cost me.

Definitely need guppy's paw somewhere in there.

Ultra Hard can suck a bag of dicks, but I beat it! Gnawed Leaf plus Midas Touch got me the win. It was the longest game I've every played, took roughly 8 hours. Most of that time was walking into rooms and then walking away from the keyboard to do something else for a while so the enemies could kill themselves. Mega Satan was tense - used Midas Touch on all his adds, but on himself I had to do it the old fashioned way - fortunately I've killed him often enough that I know his attack patterns by heart.

Just so glad I never have to do that challenge again. Honestly, I would have actually enjoyed it if it weren't for the combination of Curse of the Maze and Curse of the Lost. F that noise. Every time I was teleported to a random part of the map with no way to know where I was, I came just a little bit closer to hucking my controller out the window!

Serengeti wrote:

Ultra Hard can suck a bag of dicks, but I beat it! Gnawed Leaf plus Midas Touch got me the win. It was the longest game I've every played, took roughly 8 hours. Most of that time was walking into rooms and then walking away from the keyboard to do something else for a while so the enemies could kill themselves. Mega Satan was tense - used Midas Touch on all his adds, but on himself I had to do it the old fashioned way - fortunately I've killed him often enough that I know his attack patterns by heart.

Just so glad I never have to do that challenge again. Honestly, I would have actually enjoyed it if it weren't for the combination of Curse of the Maze and Curse of the Lost. F that noise. Every time I was teleported to a random part of the map with no way to know where I was, I came just a little bit closer to hucking my controller out the window!

For me it was lucking into a seed where I had a Guppy transformation on the first floor. Curse room with Paw, Collar, Joker card... Devil deal was Tail (which of course I didnt know until I took it).

Maze + Lost as the most annoying thing ever. It took me literally 15 minutes to find the boss room on the Womb XL floor after I had cleared all the rooms I could find.

Okey dokey, finally finished all bosses with all characters and all challenges. Now I just have 8 secrets left to cross off my list. Some of them look rather difficult. Here's what's left for me:

Spoiler:

321 - Complete a Victory Lap, defeating The Lamb
323 - Get a 5-win streak using a different character for each win
325 - Participate in 31 dailies in a row
326 - Defeat The Lamb in under 20 minutes
327 - Defeat The Lamb without picking up hearts, coins, or bombs
336 - Get a 5-win streak in Daily Challenges
337 - Complete 3 Victory Laps and start a 4th
339 - Complete every secret and pick up every item

Ok, tried to do a victory lap twice, both times got instantly teleported to the void after mom. Super annoying when you're trying to go to the dark room intentionally.

Edit: Ok, that's 3 times in a row. Must be triggered by something I'm doing, but I don't know what. Can't be time related - maybe it's because my 3 runs were all super overpowered? Tied to the damage stat, or points maybe? Super frustrating though.

Serengeti wrote:

Ok, tried to do a victory lap twice, both times got instantly teleported to the void after mom. Super annoying when you're trying to go to the dark room intentionally.

Edit: Ok, that's 3 times in a row. Must be triggered by something I'm doing, but I don't know what. Can't be time related - maybe it's because my 3 runs were all super overpowered? Tied to the damage stat, or points maybe? Super frustrating though.

It only happens to me when I'm in the top left corner when I fight Mom (I think) . I've taken to spending almost the whole fight in the bottom right.

If you're a strong enough player to beat Delirium on Lost and Keeper you should be fine with everything you have left. You're definitely better than I am and I got lucky on a few of those though brute-forcing good starts.

The Lamb under 20 mins one I got off a run when I was unlocking Re-Run (brimstone + tammy's head by then).

Tyops wrote:

If you're a strong enough player to beat Delirium on Lost and Keeper you should be fine with everything you have left. You're definitely better than I am and I got lucky on a few of those though brute-forcing good starts.

I've had the advantage of playing one or two Lost runs almost every day for about the last year. Once I completed the 1001% achievement, I pretty much only did dalies and Lost runs. I really like starting with flying and taking devil deals for free, and all those runs really upped my dodging. I think it took me about 10 runs to beat Delirium with the Lost, and about 50 with the Keeper (harder when you can't take devil deals).

I'm probably going to take a break now from + and switch back to Antibirth. Honestly, Antibirth is a much better "expansion" than + in pretty much every way.

The current version of Afterbirth+ has too many DPS check rooms where the damage is avoidable but only if you're above starting damage or have some kind of evasion. There's a few small rooms that are just nasty too. Got nailed yesterday with a small room that has 3x big troll bombs and 3x small spiders. Not sure wtf Im supposed to do there.

Sweet! While working on 326 I managed to complete it, 321 and 337 at the same time!

Edit: Whoa, I just reread the secrets I have left to unlock. Apparently on "325 - Participate in 31 dailies in a row" I skimmed over the "in a row" part. I honestly don't remember the last time I had an entire month when I wasn't out of town for some reason at least 3-4 days. I really hope they rethink that achievement, otherwise I'll never be able to get it

Serengeti wrote:

Sweet! While working on 326 I managed to complete it, 321 and 337 at the same time!

Edit: Whoa, I just reread the secrets I have left to unlock. Apparently on "325 - Participate in 31 dailies in a row" I skimmed over the "in a row" part. I honestly don't remember the last time I had an entire month when I wasn't out of town for some reason at least 3-4 days. I really hope they rethink that achievement, otherwise I'll never be able to get it :-(

Yes, there is a pretty good amount of anger over that one.

Anyone still playing this on a regular basis? Competing in the daily? I've gotten pretty addicted to this again and would love to have some scores to chase. Just picked it up along with afterbirth on steam. Also downloaded antibirth just to check out and can't believe how good it is for a mod, the music is great.

I'm definitely still playing. Not hitting the dailies every day, but fairly often.

For some reason though, greedbutt isn't showing any of my daily scores since Afterbirth+. I'll have to look into that...

Edit: Nevermind, had to switch greedbut to plus mode, now my recent ones are visible.

My greedbutt Afterbirth+ link is here.

OK odd question but... have the gurglings been removed as a boss altogether? I cant even remember the last time I saw them on floors 1/2 rather than in a random non-boss room.

Maybe I'm not super familiar or geeedbutt is a afterbirth+ thing. I didn't end up getting that expansion yet. I'll probably pick it up next time it's on sale. Is it a worth while addition? It's got mixed on steam so I was sure.

How do daily scores even work for people that don't have the + addition? Do they get a different seed or do those items show up for people without the dlc?

Rave wrote:

Maybe I'm not super familiar or geeedbutt is a afterbirth+ thing. I didn't end up getting that expansion yet. I'll probably pick it up next time it's on sale. Is it a worth while addition? It's got mixed on steam so I was sure.

How do daily scores even work for people that don't have the + addition? Do they get a different seed or do those items show up for people without the dlc?

It's definitely worth getting. I have to imagine the daily runs are just different between Afterbirth and Afterbirth+. I found your greedbutt link in the non-plus section, here.

Oh cool thanks I didn't even know that was a thing! Man tempting me into wanting that last dlc for completionist sake lol. I'll be strong though there is so much content in the base and afterbirth it's overwhelming.

Has anyone spent any significant time with antibirth? I did a quick run and unlocked Eve. I couldn't get over how fully fleshed out this mod seems, could be a proper expansion alone. I also like being able to toggle between the two versions and was pleased to find out it didn't disable achievements. Do the steam workshop mods disable them? And if they do and I uninstall them do achievements become available on that save again? Hopefully it's just enabled across all modes. Coming from the PS4 version I'm curious on the mods since that was the major selling point on double dipping. I'm also weary of trying them in case I screw up my game. I'm not normally someone who chases trophys but in roguelikes I do enjoy it.

For $10, you really can't go wrong with Afterbirth+, and there's really no reason to wait - all the new stuff merges into the game smoothly and you'll be able to get achievements from all versions at the same time.

I've spent quite a bit of time with Antibirth. It's absolutely fantastic, worthy of DLC status. It has some bugs, but nothing that cannot be overlooked.

I'm not sure how steam workshop affects achievements, never used it myself.

BTW, the 31 dailies in a row achievement has been patched to 31 dailies total I think. I got it last weekend.

Yeah I ended up with afterbirth+ thanks guys. I've bounce on for atleast the daily every night and it's been a lot of fun. If anyone is playing pretty regular feel free to add me as I only have one other person on my friends list that seems to play with any regularity.

Tyops wrote:

BTW, the 31 dailies in a row achievement has been patched to 31 dailies total I think. I got it last weekend.

Oh, awesome! I was never going to be able to get 31 days in a row.

Tyops wrote:

BTW, the 31 dailies in a row achievement has been patched to 31 dailies total I think. I got it last weekend.

Thank goodness. Some of the dailies are too hard for me, I'd never get 31 dailies in a row even if I played Isaac 31 days in a row. Not to mention it's not reasonable to have time to play a daily every day.

I dont believe you had to beat 31 in a row, just enter them. This would still be the case for the updated achievement, I got it right after dying.

In the last week or so every time I launch Isaac I get a UAC popup. Game works fine, but it's kind of annoying. Anyone else seeing that?

Yup was having the same issue with that pop up, I reinstalled and it's been fine ever since . I also uninstalled antibirth at the same time so that may have also been the issue. Try both if you do have antibirth installed. It didn't really hinder me playing the game but it was annoying enough for me to want to fix.

Reinstalling didn't work for me, but I was able to get around the problem by deleting the installscript.vdf file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Binding of Isaac Rebirth\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2015

It may come back when the game is patched, but for now I can launch it without the UAC prompt.

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In fairness, for save files 2 and 3, I just went to stats, and hit Alt+F2 to copy them over, because no way in hell am I playing this for another 920 hours for no achievement.

What is that, 1000% 3 times?
My wife and I stopped playing for achievements, we're mostly just doing Eve runs but still really enjoying it.

Impressive Bonus_Eruptus! I gotta get back into haven't played much on pc but have managed to put another 50+ hrs into the switch version.