I'm not sure if this would be against the spirit of the challenge, but a potential strategy you could do is after beating depths 2/mum, pause the game and take a 30min - 1 hour break. A lot of lategame deaths are from either a lapse in concentration or misplays, and giving your brain a rest before the hardest section of the challenge might prevent those from happening.
For me its usually the opposite, gotta play while fired up because i get in the "flow" of the game, if i stop and then come back like 20 mins later i find myself dying to stupid mistakes like floor spikes or getting hit while i shouldnt have
I love how this is one of your best runs not from it being the luckiest but how well you optimized it. this video and run really does feel like the culmination of so many tricks and strats you did, big or small all used together. I'd reckon you would've beaten this run tenfolds if this run had half the luck of your other great runs. So in other words I can't wait until you finally beat it!
Gg's gamer, this was one of the best, most skillfull runs up till now! This run is a combination of all the strategies and a proof that you really just need a bit of speed and perfection to go far. To be fair, that "wheel of fortune?" Play was definitely the worst but also what gave you what you needed to survive the cathedral as well as you did. Spoilers I was sad to see the run end like that, if only ace of spades was better. This is definitely proof that you WILL sooner or later get THE run, maybe a gulp! Run, maybe a pickup run. But for sure, you will kill that crying baby. Can't wait to see the next "gulp!" Run where you use the cream of the crop in terms of strategy to get the oh so satifying "win streak: 1"
this run was absolutely beautiful. proving the value of just straight up spending bombs for combat and playing well. I think honestly, resources are king in itemless now for your government mandated mawsitpsiik info comment. Did you know Pretty Fly instantly kills "small" flies despite dealing no contact dmg (for example, it kills attack flies, green flies, yellow flies, but not boom flies or the charge stealer flies). not the most useful when you don't want to touch flies in the first place, but could help some situations with green or yellow flies I also think you should be valuing super secret rooms much more. pills have proven to be the real make or break of a run's luck and there's multiole super secrets that spiral off into 3-5 pills, from wooden chests and whatnot
incredible play as usual. going so far with so little probably makes this your most impressive run yet. something that may be worth keeping in mind with ace of spades and other trinkets like it is that they add a bonus chance for their specific consumable to various types of drops (tinted rocks, machines exploding, and of course chests). this is why if you have child's heart you might get a red heart drop from a tinted rock for some reason. in any case it may be worth using excess bombs on tinted rocks with some of these trinkets, but who knows.
If you found gulp on this run, I’m confident you would have won. Even if you only gulped perfection, having high luck with ace of spades and temporarily using broken needle and ???’s soul would have provided massive utility, while still letting you get tons of bombs
That’s an insane run. Honestly after seeing how far bombs have gotten you with basically base DPS, I legit think the only reliable wincon of the challenge is getting to cathedral with 20+ bombs, enough to get to Isaac and maybe a single DPS card. That means bombing for mushrooms/skulls might not be as worth it as it looks, and that perfection is better than most DPS trinkets.
Even with perfection they were still pretty far from 20 bombs at the cathedral; without dps sources the amount of bombs you need spend goes up quite a bit too
I would actually argue that playing the reverse wheel was the correct play! Yes, there was a 1/6 chance to basically lose the run on the spot, but sometimes you need to make swingy plays to achieve hard accomplishments.
There was a 3/6 chance of getting a reroll of pick ups, a 2/6 chance of nothing and a 1/6 of losing the run, I feel like it was worth it to try and get another holy or chaos card
27:42 now you see i suspected you'd get that type of room, so i thought you could have taken the x marked skull fool card with yourself. From room before, just in case
I'm not sure if this would be against the spirit of the challenge, but a potential strategy you could do is after beating depths 2/mum, pause the game and take a 30min - 1 hour break. A lot of lategame deaths are from either a lapse in concentration or misplays, and giving your brain a rest before the hardest section of the challenge might prevent those from happening.
For me its usually the opposite, gotta play while fired up because i get in the "flow" of the game, if i stop and then come back like 20 mins later i find myself dying to stupid mistakes like floor spikes or getting hit while i shouldnt have
Using the fool to check for red mom and then ducking krampus with it might be my favorite play of this series. Great stuff yet again
The foreshadowing is there. This feels like the run
it wasn't
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I love how this is one of your best runs not from it being the luckiest but how well you optimized it. this video and run really does feel like the culmination of so many tricks and strats you did, big or small all used together. I'd reckon you would've beaten this run tenfolds if this run had half the luck of your other great runs. So in other words I can't wait until you finally beat it!
Gg's gamer, this was one of the best, most skillfull runs up till now! This run is a combination of all the strategies and a proof that you really just need a bit of speed and perfection to go far.
To be fair, that "wheel of fortune?" Play was definitely the worst but also what gave you what you needed to survive the cathedral as well as you did.
Spoilers
I was sad to see the run end like that, if only ace of spades was better. This is definitely proof that you WILL sooner or later get THE run, maybe a gulp! Run, maybe a pickup run. But for sure, you will kill that crying baby.
Can't wait to see the next "gulp!" Run where you use the cream of the crop in terms of strategy to get the oh so satifying "win streak: 1"
this run was absolutely beautiful. proving the value of just straight up spending bombs for combat and playing well. I think honestly, resources are king in itemless
now for your government mandated mawsitpsiik info comment. Did you know Pretty Fly instantly kills "small" flies despite dealing no contact dmg (for example, it kills attack flies, green flies, yellow flies, but not boom flies or the charge stealer flies). not the most useful when you don't want to touch flies in the first place, but could help some situations with green or yellow flies
I also think you should be valuing super secret rooms much more. pills have proven to be the real make or break of a run's luck and there's multiole super secrets that spiral off into 3-5 pills, from wooden chests and whatnot
incredible play as usual. going so far with so little probably makes this your most impressive run yet.
something that may be worth keeping in mind with ace of spades and other trinkets like it is that they add a bonus chance for their specific consumable to various types of drops (tinted rocks, machines exploding, and of course chests). this is why if you have child's heart you might get a red heart drop from a tinted rock for some reason. in any case it may be worth using excess bombs on tinted rocks with some of these trinkets, but who knows.
I'm so happy I found your channel!
If you found gulp on this run, I’m confident you would have won. Even if you only gulped perfection, having high luck with ace of spades and temporarily using broken needle and ???’s soul would have provided massive utility, while still letting you get tons of bombs
Congratulations on your brilliant attempt ☀️
That’s an insane run. Honestly after seeing how far bombs have gotten you with basically base DPS, I legit think the only reliable wincon of the challenge is getting to cathedral with 20+ bombs, enough to get to Isaac and maybe a single DPS card.
That means bombing for mushrooms/skulls might not be as worth it as it looks, and that perfection is better than most DPS trinkets.
Even with perfection they were still pretty far from 20 bombs at the cathedral; without dps sources the amount of bombs you need spend goes up quite a bit too
yeah i agree i dont think bombing mushrooms and skulls is worth unless its >3
I feel like a chaos card + jera is a better alternative but very unlikely
I would actually argue that playing the reverse wheel was the correct play! Yes, there was a 1/6 chance to basically lose the run on the spot, but sometimes you need to make swingy plays to achieve hard accomplishments.
There was a 3/6 chance of getting a reroll of pick ups, a 2/6 chance of nothing and a 1/6 of losing the run, I feel like it was worth it to try and get another holy or chaos card
you just need another soul of Lilith run you haven't had one in a while, and your skills are there now i think you could do it
it's coming really soon, and once you do i'm gonna go through the whole series of videos
Well, let's see!
You've been getting closer, maybe this is the run where you hit it. Hoping for it
27:42 now you see i suspected you'd get that type of room, so i thought you could have taken the x marked skull fool card with yourself. From room before, just in case
In case you don’t know: placing a bomb at the beginning of the Mom fight guarantees a hit.
Wof = wall of flesh?
Wall of Broken Shortswords
Gob, do you ban abusing drops from minibosses? like reentering greed/sloth?
Do you know if exists any manipulation to generate dice rooms? Because a "forget me now" in C2-D1 with perfection could be huge
Is soul of the forgotten allowed? If yes, i would suggest saving it for the It Lives!/Isaac fight, because it's 6 free hits and bonus DPS
I’m pumped by your claims you better have cooked
Edit: 22 coins? Damn I’m guessing that was full when you first decided to do this
WPPPP
So far so close