#prismatic-trials | Risk of Rain | Page 76

burnt compass Apr 2, 2020, 11:27 AM

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cuz that fucked my run multiple times

tender hull Apr 2, 2020, 11:27 AM

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Good thing AAR includes command so you can prevent getting these

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They can still get capacitator yes

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Altho the capacitator was given a 0.3s delay so you could maybe dodge it if you dont stop moving

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You will see a bit of electricity before the actual lightning hits

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 11:31 AM

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yes they do

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the daggers will kill you

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tesla coil i think does too

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brilliant behemoth will damage you too

tender hull Apr 2, 2020, 11:31 AM

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While yes the delay also affects you when youre using capacitator, theres basically no enemy that can get out of the way that fast lol

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Damn tesla coil

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So yeah you gotta be really damn careful around artifact of chaos because you cannot afford to take a lot of hits, if any

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:37 AM

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tesla doesent touch you

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BB will if you hit the ground you are walking on but there is 0 reaason to take i

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way better reds you really need like tesla brainstalks and clover for proc chains

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and ofc stompers so you dont die like a b*tch from falling

tender hull Apr 2, 2020, 11:39 AM

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Would actually stomping hurt you?

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:40 AM

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nope

tender hull Apr 2, 2020, 11:42 AM

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Nice

fair knoll Apr 2, 2020, 12:02 PM

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can you do the ethereal mercenary challenge on the current trial

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since his hp is like 10% to start

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 12:05 PM

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yeah it still works

fair knoll Apr 2, 2020, 12:09 PM

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thanks!

zenith plinth Apr 2, 2020, 12:39 PM

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lmao place 75 hahaha

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 12:48 PM

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Clover might be affecting how drop rates work

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that + better proc chains... maybe second red priority after tesla

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 1:35 PM

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imagine getting 2 reds

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is infusion actually that bad? i'm getting greens and not knowing what to get with them

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 1:38 PM

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I mean if you got good armor 10 hp is a fair bit of wiggle room

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 2:06 PM

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infusion will give you 20 per stack @tough belfry .Use your greens to get ukulele first, then hopoo and wax quails. After that Guillotines till u can one shot most targets and then if ur doing well with dodging try to get the items that can fuel a proc chain (ATG, bands). I think ATG might be able to kill you but it hasnt happend to me so far

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:07 PM

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guillotine is good

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white items are just the plate

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 2:07 PM

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Bucklers seem to do a good job too if you end up getting hit and the armour plate doesent end you

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 2:07 PM

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brooch is worth it

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one

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:07 PM

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plate.

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 2:08 PM

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i'll keep trying infusion

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was going well but i forgot guillotine

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 2:10 PM

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dont need anything like that if you just dont get hit

normal thorn Apr 2, 2020, 2:29 PM

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hey, can you unlock the mercenary unlock with artifact of mertamorpiSYS

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typo oops

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:29 PM

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yeah, this one gives you merc twice

normal thorn Apr 2, 2020, 2:29 PM

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nice

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so it's 3 or 2 floors?

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:30 PM

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2 stages as always

normal thorn Apr 2, 2020, 2:30 PM

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alright

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:30 PM

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i wonder how metamorph would work with prism trials when you get him for only 1 half

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 2:36 PM

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maybe they've actually listened to the community and made it impossible for some seeds

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 2:38 PM

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tfw you dont get any drops S1

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cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 2:42 PM

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yea i almost never get drops s1

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 2:48 PM

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do you just rush the tele and stay in it the whole time and not kill anything

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:54 PM

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all enemy types drop the items, just its safer to rush it than stay

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 2:54 PM

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depends on the enemies and where the tele is and what char you are

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 2:56 PM

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the thing is there's so much unavoidable rng it's useless to grind 10min just to get some unwinnable garbage

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like if enemies get missiles it's gg

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 2:58 PM

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thats the way she goes bud, but if you happen to get good rng you're set

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my current strat is stay s1 for about 7 mins (with the tele active for more spawns) then mostly rush S2 and kill the doppelgangers for an extra 2 free items then start flat out rushing

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 2:59 PM

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I dont think bands have any proc

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 2:59 PM

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arti character is good rng, it really depends on the enemy

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 2:59 PM

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so if you want pure chains then u have to go missiles and ukuleles

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:00 PM

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i like guillotine

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a bit of atg

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:00 PM

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is atg safe? I dont trust it

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I feel like if you get a proc and there happens to be no enemies left it will yeet you out of existence

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:01 PM

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its easy to test that
get 1 person n 1 enemy. 1 person has 1000 atg and kills the enemy.

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try it out

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:02 PM

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your own attacks don't target you, but if they target something attack -- (you) --> enemy then you'll get hit

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:02 PM

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you might wanna try death mark/chronobauble/tritip/ice-band and hope you get artificer/rex/ acrid + if you think you can live with gasoline that helps too

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:02 PM

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so if it goes through you you die
but if a friend is around, it'd also target them...so yeah atg not good

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:02 PM

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its really strong dmg if you have 4 debuffs

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:03 PM

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gas is a big no for me, also damage really isnt that much of an issue other than a few specific mobs that are just 🦀 anyways

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:03 PM

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its 50% more dmg per stack 😄

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no limit

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all sources

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:04 PM

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just get a crowbar and some guillo's and 1 tap everything

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fire works could be a cheesy way to clear out the boss horde of tele events, just run out and open some canisters

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:05 PM

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So these are bad to get:
ATG, Infusion, Daisy, WilloWisp, Dagger, Behemoth, Mask, Vulture

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:06 PM

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if you get a lot of armor I could see infusion being ok

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wonder if frost relic would make a decent safety net

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:07 PM

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what are good to get?

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does frost relic harm you?

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:07 PM

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tesla is probably just better

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:07 PM

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nah tesla is bad cus of the 10s wait

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:07 PM

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tru

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:07 PM

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frost is active on kill

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:09 PM

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I think desk plant might be god tier

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:10 PM

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huntress normal arrow and glaive, acrid normal m2, rex leech plant, and arti fireball can all hit you if you're running fast enough / looking too far down

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extremely annoying

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:10 PM

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Yo meathook could be really good to, keep everything grouped up so they kill eachother

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:11 PM

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So these are good to get:
Fireworks, Slug, Drink, Meat, Medkit, Tooth, Hoof, Plate, Brooch, Times
Seed, Guillotine, Stealthkit, Buckler, Uke, Horn, Quail
All reds except Dagger, Behemoth, Mask, Vulture

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:11 PM

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I wonder if self dmg from friendly fire is a good idea, maybe atleast have it only come from items

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:11 PM

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wait wouldn't vultures kill you too?

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shit it would

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:12 PM

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would aegis be bad?

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since u have really low hp

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:12 PM

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also I just wanna say squid polyp is the stupidest item in the game

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its just worse fireworks

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:13 PM

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and stacking it gives it more atk speed and not dmg lmao

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:13 PM

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aegis would be bad

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:13 PM

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Yo would chronobauble actually be decent? -60% movement speed would be useful for certain enemies

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wait

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:14 PM

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well imo after patch having 1 chronobouble anywhere is not a bad idea

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:15 PM

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does rusty key actually give you a lockbox in this

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:15 PM

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yes

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:15 PM

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oh dang grabbing 1 of those probably worth

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but I suck at finding the box so maybe not

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How do fuel cells work with the equip changing artifact? Like if you have 2 charges can you just instantly use whats next or is it just fodder

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:17 PM

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after extensive testing of not picking up fuel cells i concluded that i don't know

loud sparrow Apr 2, 2020, 3:18 PM

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so every character becomes merc yeah?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:18 PM

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yes

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:19 PM

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what equipment do you use in your runs btw?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:19 PM

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lol

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:19 PM

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all of them

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:20 PM

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but since you can pick have you decided what is the best?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:20 PM

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we can?

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:20 PM

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huh?

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if you do AAR

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you can choose what you pick yea?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:21 PM

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no

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:21 PM

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I mean if you get an equip drop you can get something for 1 use

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cube is the best imo

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:21 PM

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ah

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there is only 1 use?

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I dont know all the artifacts

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:22 PM

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one of the artifacts changes your equip on every use

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:22 PM

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oh

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:23 PM

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if you could keep 1 equip I'd probably say helfire tincture and slap some razorwire on dat ass

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:23 PM

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ill test out the fuel cell thing

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:24 PM

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i'd say a rundown is that it's just a normal run except you start as a random character who changes every stage with 10% health and 500% damage, no chests spawn so you have to get items which you get to choose from elite enemies of any predetermined type per stage who also spawn twice as often, have half the health, and drop bombs and spawn a wisp on death. they can also hurt each other and you can hurt yourself, especially by falling since damage is doubled, and also some random guy shows up every 10 minutes and tries to kill you

loud sparrow Apr 2, 2020, 3:24 PM

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i wanted to help someone get ballista as huntress but everyone just becomes merc so now they have ethereal

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:25 PM

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fuel cell thing is a nogo

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:25 PM

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soulbound catalyst could be interesting for a red since theres so many enemies constantly dying

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:25 PM

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what enemies are a gg, are hard, and are easy to go against?

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:25 PM

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depends on who you ask, its somewhat personal preference

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golems can go eat butt though

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:26 PM

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do you get same alternative skills for each character that you have set up beforehand in menu?

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:26 PM

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wisps are a gg

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jellies are hard

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beetles are the easiest

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:28 PM

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my tier list is
Mushrooms > Imps > Bison > Parents > Beetles > Jellyfish > Lemurian > Vulture > Wisp > Clayboi > Solus

zenith plinth Apr 2, 2020, 3:28 PM

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Jellies are easy for hook mama

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:29 PM

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that's objectively wrong, don't listen to it

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doesn't include golems, brass contraptions, elder lemurians etc., and is all out of order, 2/10

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:29 PM

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worlds #1 ethereal golden boy destroyed by smol mushrooms

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because those are instant resets

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well not golems and brass

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:30 PM

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brass contraptions are free and gave me the easiest run to stage 6 of my life

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:30 PM

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golems can actually be dummy easy and good to farm for drops if you get a good tele spot

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:33 PM

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so is it normal that 80% of my deaths are me killing myself or am i just especially bad at this game

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:33 PM

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did you know that you can drop a command ball?

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slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:36 PM

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nah thats pretty normal, I just had a run when I got rex and puffed myself off high ground 2 seconds in and died to fall damage

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:37 PM

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yea i drop a ton

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:37 PM

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i wish there was a quick restart button

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:38 PM

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hopoo is too busy making stupid lunar stuff to add something useful like that (:

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:41 PM

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true

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big sad, as merc too

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tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 3:50 PM

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what movement items do you guys take

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i got to stage 5 for the first time and died to stone golems because i was arti

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:50 PM

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ion surge arti bro cmon act like a bunny zigzags

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:51 PM

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i take ones that increase my speed

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 3:51 PM

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interesting

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:52 PM

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https://www.twitch.tv/iforgotwho streaming attempts for a bit, on s3 rn

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 3:52 PM

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WAIT A FUCKIN MINUTE I JUST SURVIVED -2 HEALTH THANKS TO MERC R WHAT

grand wraith Apr 2, 2020, 3:54 PM

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ah

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:56 PM

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stacking 4 bucklers and 2 damage reduction still gets you 1tapped by a vulture

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starting to think that's not the way to go

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 3:56 PM

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infusion

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:)))))

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:57 PM

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wow +10hp

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 3:57 PM

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10hp is huge

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that's like double your starting health

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 3:57 PM

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u dont have osp with glass artifact?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:57 PM

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no lol

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that would be easy

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 3:57 PM

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uh y'all ever have an s1 with literally 0 enemies

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 3:58 PM

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i had a bug once where tp didnt spawn anything

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 4:00 PM

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had my first self shot as huntress lol

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 4:02 PM

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huntress went from best to worst character really quickly once i realized you can shoot yourself

grand wraith Apr 2, 2020, 4:04 PM

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huh, how

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 4:06 PM

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with your bow

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 4:09 PM

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look straight down

grand wraith Apr 2, 2020, 4:11 PM

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epic, i'm gonna try that

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 4:13 PM

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ok jellies are moving to the bototm of my tier list

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 4:16 PM

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my stage 2 boss was a single blazing alloy vulture

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ok so how do you skip stage 5

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first time i just did tp normally since imps were free but brass contraptions definitely weren't

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 4:32 PM

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If you'd rather do artifact zone you can drop down and take artifact portal instead

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Then you dont have to do 5th map teleporter event

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Just have to find the right spot and have something to break fall

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 4:34 PM

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i'd really rather not

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someone said you can skip though

fervent stag Apr 2, 2020, 4:34 PM

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Only way to skip 5 is by going to artifact zone instead

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Unless I am missing something too

zenith plinth Apr 2, 2020, 4:40 PM

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does anyone know the range of huntress' M1

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 4:41 PM

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you can try it on a crystal since they don't move

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@slim lintel

📎 mushroom.mp4

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 4:58 PM

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so I think enemies spawned by an enemy shrine may have an improved chance to drop items

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:01 PM

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ok so being the absolute idiot that i am i decided to clear gold coast

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you dont get to choose what you get, it's halcyon seed no matter what

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the boss guy that you summon with the item nukes everything

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but dies in like 3 seconds

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:04 PM

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wtf

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apparently if you use huntress R at the same time as you shoot a normal m1 you shoot yourself

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rip I had like 30 items scattered on the stage s4

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:05 PM

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too many ways to kill yourself as huntress

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my strat is only arrow and glaive, keep camera angle above horizon level

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:07 PM

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I wonder how that made it past QA

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Oh right, gearbox QA

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:08 PM

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projectiles should not be able to hurt the player within 0.x seconds of them shooting it

midnight shuttle Apr 2, 2020, 5:13 PM

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anybody found the fastest route for this prismatic trial?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:19 PM

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yea i'm pretty sure the #1 guy even got a negative time

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:26 PM

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https://clips.twitch.tv/EphemeralEasyKathyKevinTurtle

Twitch

what - Clip of iforgotwho - Twitch Clips

Clip of iforgotwho Playing Risk of Rain 2 - Clipped by iforgotwho

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cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:27 PM

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yea that's pretty common

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you were moving backwards at the right angle for that to happen

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you should try not moving backwards and shooting at the same time

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:28 PM

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I'm so pissed though, there was like actually 20 or so items on the ground

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:28 PM

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dead run anyways

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wtf is fresh meat for

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:28 PM

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regen

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:28 PM

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i need to regen my iq after seeing that

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:28 PM

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its pro strats dude

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trying to test shit we normally wouldnt do just to make sure

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I had an abundance of items

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:35 PM

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i definitely think more dmg is good

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for later stages ur kinda screwed if you get something bad

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maybe a core of 3 crowbars + 3 guillotines would be enough

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:38 PM

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yeah def liking crowbars

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:38 PM

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also i unironically think gold coast is the way to go

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time is stopped

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:38 PM

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I mean sure if you can get it

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:41 PM

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also mult's doppelganger description is pretty funny

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"right tool for the wrong job"

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 5:48 PM

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acrid can kill themselves by looking down with rclick

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:48 PM

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very old news

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so can rex's leech plant ability

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huntress arrow, arti fireball

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mult grenade

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all my deaths are just me killing myself

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:53 PM

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leech seed has never effected me? Or does it only hurt you if your in the initial explosion when it creates the aoe

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 5:53 PM

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no, it's a projectile so if you aim it right it'll hit you

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 5:54 PM

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oh cool

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lol I just realized they finally got rid of the completely unused prismatic trial voice channel

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 6:07 PM

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wouldn't've noticed lol

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 6:55 PM

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just a bit of gameplay i guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYEBArwZiHk

YouTube

Cabbage

Risk of Rain 2 (All Artifacts / Monsoon) - Clearing the Gilded Coast

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i still dont see this being possible with bad rng like golems

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 7:45 PM

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alloy vultures as tp boss is still bugged, twice now that it doesn't actually spawn anything

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 7:55 PM

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yeah I had an s1 with vultures and not a single mob spawned the entire stage

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 7:57 PM

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so bazaar is cheating but gilded coast isn't? drizzle_hmm

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 7:59 PM

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yes :)

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also i tested what would happen if i summon alloy worship unit, two of them spawn and 1tap you so i would not recommend

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 8:00 PM

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Void fields give you more items than gold coast

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 8:00 PM

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how do they 1 tap you

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 8:01 PM

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And if you don't like the mob you can just leave unlike gc. Costs 1 healing item to do it and u get endless grind now that the cells don't charge unless ur inside them

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:01 PM

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the shield

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an equipment drone will also reroll its item

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it spawned meteors on me

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:30 PM

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it just keeps happening

📎 fdsdsffds.mp4

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 8:31 PM

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I hate engi in this challenge so much

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dont think I've ever cleared a stage as engi

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:31 PM

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i got him 3 times in a row

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stage 2 3 and 4

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 8:31 PM

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oof

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:31 PM

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brass contraptions, vultures, then bisons

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really put my nonexistent engi skills to the test

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 8:40 PM

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use the other turret, its got limited range

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:40 PM

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no

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 8:41 PM

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I actually thought about trying them, did you already cabbage?

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actually yeah normal turrets are def better nvm

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those lil shit turrets just get themselves killed or get stuck in a corner

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 8:42 PM

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but they dont kill you. which is better

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 8:43 PM

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I mean they're not gonna kill a single thing before they die, engi fully relies on the turrets for this challenge and the fact they can kill things from campy spots relatively safely

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 8:44 PM

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have you actually tried them?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:44 PM

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havent tried them but the dmg from the others is definitely necessary

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btw i just got solus probes on stage 2, nothing is safe

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 8:45 PM

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No, but considering their short range and bad AI and having 1 hp I see them instantly dying to a bomb or glacial explosion

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it's hard enough to keep the stationary turrets alive in this

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on commando do you use nade or no

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kinda feel like the aoe would be nice, but so is the stun

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 8:52 PM

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stun from R is unreliable, get 3-4 stun items and ur set. nade can clear out mobs and bosses much faster

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 8:59 PM

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i use nade

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you literally can't make this up

📎 gamesucks.mp4

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like i dont even understand

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:05 PM

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just use balista and dont spam M1

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:05 PM

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lmao

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:05 PM

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i cant do stuff like that if i have ballista

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much easier for hide and seek cc

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but that isn't supposed to work like that

twilit sky Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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you keep doing it to yourself really

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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tfw an imp spawns on top of you and attacks literally frame1

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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what do you mean it didn't even have the sideways indicator

twilit sky Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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yeah but

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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it literally said it would target the floor

twilit sky Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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you should know it can go sidewyas

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:08 PM

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it goes sideways when it is sideways on a wall

twilit sky Apr 2, 2020, 9:09 PM

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yeah you hit a tree

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:09 PM

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when it says it'll target the floor i dont expect that

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but the indicator was on the floor, completely parallel

twilit sky Apr 2, 2020, 9:09 PM

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or one of the boxes even

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:09 PM

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I really wish either enemies couldnt get teddies or teddy was reworked to be armor instead of this stupid ass dodge crap

twilit sky Apr 2, 2020, 9:09 PM

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it was on the floor

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then your cursor drifted down and right

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onto the side of the box

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:11 PM

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last frame before i clicked

📎 20_04_02_357.png

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:12 PM

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one pixel from the golem's side

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:13 PM

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looks like center is aimed at the inside edge of the planter

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:13 PM

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yea ok good one i guess

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this self damage thing is tilting me lol

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:13 PM

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this challenge is so bs but I'm addicted to it for some reason

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:14 PM

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i would've done it day 1 if it wasn't for this self damage thing

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i swear 80% of my deaths are to myself

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:20 PM

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evolution is what makes this stupid af, self dmg is fun

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otherwise will-o spam and gg

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:21 PM

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what

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:21 PM

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self damage would be ok if it was more fair

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i wouldnt say that hitting yourself with projectiles because you had your camera tilted the wrong way is fair

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:23 PM

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they will probbably debug this

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:28 PM

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just had a thought, berserkers should be pretty good overall since you're basically always gonna be activating it

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:28 PM

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yup, but you first need ukuleles and atgs

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its a good speed buff but when it suddenly stops it can kill you

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:29 PM

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like a car

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:33 PM

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i swear wetlands went from worst to best map for this AAR

mystic elbow Apr 2, 2020, 9:40 PM

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how do you complete the mercenary ethereal challenge

fallow plover Apr 2, 2020, 9:40 PM

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What is the reward for the prismatic trials

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:42 PM

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an item

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you complete the ethereal challenge by not getting hit

fallow plover Apr 2, 2020, 9:42 PM

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What is the item

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:43 PM

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harvester's scythe

fallow plover Apr 2, 2020, 9:44 PM

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Well I already have it unlocked

mystic elbow Apr 2, 2020, 9:44 PM

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is not getting hit the only way? do personal shield generators count as not dipping below 100%?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:44 PM

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no

icy urchin Apr 2, 2020, 9:45 PM

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shields count towards max hp, but barrier doesn't, so Topaz_Brooch helps

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 9:45 PM

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anyone reach oblit AAR Monsoon ?

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:46 PM

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no

icy urchin Apr 2, 2020, 9:46 PM

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during some pts you could use drones and turrets to do the dmg for you

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 9:46 PM

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we're too busy killing ourselves

mystic elbow Apr 2, 2020, 9:46 PM

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AAR?

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:47 PM

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i still think 2p might work better for this crap

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All Artifacts Run

icy urchin Apr 2, 2020, 9:47 PM

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all artifacts run

mystic elbow Apr 2, 2020, 9:47 PM

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ahhhhh, thanks

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:47 PM

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this is just way too rng heavy

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everything from whether items drop, to which mobs spawn, which char you get, what equipment you get, what items the mobs get, everything is random

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we'll get it eventually lol

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 9:48 PM

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the item drops should be increased in chance def def

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even in base game its not worth it

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:51 PM

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post stage 4 when you are killing somethning constantly it works much better

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:52 PM

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yea but at that time you cant actually grab items until stage is over

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 9:52 PM

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yep

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:52 PM

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or if ur really fast / lucky

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:52 PM

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or if ur in a duo where the other guy is guarding you

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:53 PM

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cant guard against something spawning on top of you and 1shotting you

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:53 PM

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ill make a macro that autoselects certain items, think that will help a bit

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:53 PM

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why dont you make a macro to clear the entire game while ur at it

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 9:54 PM

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a tas

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tas a bot to do it

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:54 PM

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challenge goes down one step at a time, if i cant clear it with the abuses i cant clear it without them.

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:54 PM

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meh imo it's just bashing your head against it until ur lucky once

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:55 PM

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plus already got proof of concept with rex so its deffo doable

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 9:55 PM

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a tas would be hard i guess

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maybe a self-learning ai

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:55 PM

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ill submit the full vid for the art contest once its done and i swear if it doesent win imam ditch gaming alltogether

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:56 PM

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lmao what

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i would submit my gilded coast clear if it wasn't absolute garbage

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 9:58 PM

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any winning run will be garbage but remmember devs have gone through this at least a bit so they might appreaciate the suffering

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 9:58 PM

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im convinced they did 2 runs and called it

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there's no way this is playtested

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took me 3 seconds to shoot myself as huntress

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:01 PM

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conspiracy theory: they came up with this challenge to trick all morons still doing PT weekly to playtest it for the hotfix patch

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:02 PM

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LMAO

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ur actually right now that i think about it

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we're the only idiots to try something like this

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 10:02 PM

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speedrunners also doing it

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:02 PM

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everyone who unlocked all artifacts probably turned them all once, died in 5 seconds and quit

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:03 PM

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@indigo snow pin pls

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lmao guess how many people got all artifacts on day one the legit way

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:03 PM

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lol artifacts was the only think i cared about

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rushed how to unlock 'em, and just started looping on repeat while getting people to verify what patterns unlocked what

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:06 PM

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the one on the bottom of the moment fractued log was the worst, i rly wanna know whos the dude that discovered it

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:07 PM

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i still have no idea why someone decided to rush the scavenger in a moment whole 30 minutes after the update

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or saw some random arrangements of objects in scorched acres and decided to get an aerial view

indigo snow Apr 2, 2020, 10:08 PM

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pin wht

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:08 PM

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conspiracy theory^

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those 2 were sorta clear, the pots and masks are in the middle of nowhere on that hill which was kidna obvious. but thee log and the one thats invisible without setting your bringhtness to 200% in the bazar...

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:11 PM

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yea

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i found like 1 myself

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realized people were just spamming the same screenshots on repeat so i just made a doc lol

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and then leeched off of it to unlock them

icy urchin Apr 2, 2020, 10:11 PM

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I found the bazar one on my own

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:13 PM

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I do think all artifacts was tested, its just that it was tested by gearbox QA so literal monkeys slapping controllers

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:14 PM

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QA should be crowdsourced to players with no internet

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well nuff jokes back to the grind

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:16 PM

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nah it's breaktime for me

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:17 PM

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ive played with command and sacrifice on for so long ive forgotten how to loot

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:18 PM

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I'll never get over how the first update was delayed for 1-2 weeks because slow gearbox QA and within like 10 mins of the update coming out tons of people found a massive multiplayer bug that happened just by playing for a bit

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:20 PM

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well tbh its a small team, they probbably produce a ton of bugs and some things just get through. Afaik QA is done in rounds

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regardless Chaos was the main selling point i used to get all my friends to pick it up and suicide by M1 is not gucci

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new theory: this is all an elaborate april's fools ploy and we are the joke

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:22 PM

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My gripe here is they're a small team with a game in EA and they don't use EA for its actual purpose

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:22 PM

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well they did bring out like half of the game mechanics into the game over the last 3 updates

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i imagine artifacts took a ton of code rearranging, tbh surprised there arent any major exploits

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:23 PM

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and when all the bugs that slip past QA pop up to the general populace we're lucky if they get patched within 3 months because they seem to really hate updating between "content updates"

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:25 PM

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yh i think they should always do a hotfix 10-14 days after a patch releases to adress at least the things that can be fixed quickly but were just some blokes with a lot of free time and 0 brain cells anyway

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arti's alt M1 has been crap forever now and its still not getting a fix, and Acrid got a pure downgrade of an alt M2, sometimes devs just do their own thing

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:28 PM

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ok but hopoo specifically came in here to say that they're gonna fix the huntress issue so at least give them credit for that

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:28 PM

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yeah I'll give em that, I just can't believe that got past QA

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:28 PM

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he did? nice

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:29 PM

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they could just ignore everything but they've also addressed the issue with sacrifice not dropping a lot of items early game

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so they're actually checking with the community

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:30 PM

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ofc, most of their patchnotes are thigns that float in the feedback channel, this is just nitpicking

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somethng being good doesent mean it cant be better

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plus they did release a massive lore dump for theorycrafting geeks which was nice

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:31 PM

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lore snore

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gameing

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:34 PM

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ror's lore is pretty good

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:34 PM

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yea if i wanted lore i'd go read a book but i get some people are into that

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:37 PM

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yeah same I know the first game had a lore horde so it makes sense they kinda wanted to double down on it with the sequal

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:37 PM

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u tried void fields yet? it narrows RNG down to get beetles or shrooms

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:37 PM

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void field seems like cheating

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:38 PM

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idk ur not spending lunars if it's a natural spawn

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:38 PM

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it should be fine to spend a couple of lunars

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:38 PM

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but at that point it's pointless rng grind so i dont want to

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:38 PM

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or wait how does that even work you barely have any hp to make it from node to node or just leave to be safe

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:38 PM

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you dont do that

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also you have enough HP since it attacks as a % base

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you need 1 shroom/seed/healing item u leave the cell and grind items

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its sorta cheating but also not rly

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:39 PM

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so whats the ideal set for aar

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

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ideal set?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

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10 tesla coils and a crowbar

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

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realistically

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

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9 tesla coils and 2 crowbars

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

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1 rusted key for sure, easy free items

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the plates

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

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doesnt the key get used up

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

#

what

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

#

what

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:40 PM

#

what

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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you really dont play this game do you

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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no

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i had to learn acrid from scratch

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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this is my setup https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jufDL85OXUtcgYs8WjjwE8GdY7-37Pdi5kjKKPQ4n7k/edit?usp=sharing

Google Docs

AAR strategy spreadheet

Sheet1

Player,Character skills,M1/passive,m2,Util,spec,Whites,Greens,Reds&Lunar
Nik(Rex under %5hp),Mando,-,phase blast,tac slide,sup fire,armour,Ukulele
Huntress,flurry,-,phase blink,ballista,NRG,or,Quail x2
Mult,autonail/rebar,-,-,-,hoof x2,Ukulele
Engi,-,spider,bubble,mob...

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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it doesnt get used up

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its basically a free item every stage

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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then why cant you just spam keys

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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and it does progressively get better with each key

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true, why not try it out cabbage

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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there's no way it doesn't use the key

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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it doesnt scale how many free boxes you get per stage

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it doesnt use the key

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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i have 600 hours in this game

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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thats how it works base game

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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wtf you're up to 600 hours

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it doesent use the key lol

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it never uses the key

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

#

📎 20_04_02_358.png

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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you only ahev 600??

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it uses the key

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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600 hours n didnt even know that fact

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it 100% does NOT use the key

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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oh nvm i got 700 felt like a 1000

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it DOESNT

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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it definitely does

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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I have 160 hours n know this fact

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:42 PM

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i have more hours so im right

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

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you don't play

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

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oh wait u have more hours than me ok ur right

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

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I only have 454, I used to be way ahead of you on hours I guess that ethereal youtube grind really put you up

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

#

📎 unknown.png

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

#

X STOP

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

#

the god number

#

so whats stopping us from just
spamming key?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

#

it uses the key

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:43 PM

#

get tons of key, get a higher chance to get a red

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:44 PM

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it doesnt use the key you dense head of cabbage

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:44 PM

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or just trade ur greens for daggers and buy glass ezy

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:44 PM

#

https://riskofrain2.gamepedia.com/Rusted_Key

Risk of Rain 2 Wiki

Rusted Key

The Rusted Key is a new item in Risk of Rain 2.
Whenever a new stage is entered, a Rusty Lockbox will spawn with the rarity of the contents based on how many Rusted Keys the entire party had when entering the stage.
This item is unique in the fact that it doesn't modify the cu...

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:44 PM

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@slim lintel u wanna know a secret

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:44 PM

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sure tell me ur secrets

#

sweet lil nothins

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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Its on the page

📎 unknown.png

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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i spent well over 50 hours grinding my 20 stage run

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lmao

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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hes trolling u

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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oh right you did speedruns

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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lol

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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its not april fools bro cmon bro

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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20 stage runs at that

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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wait it's actually not used?

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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its legit not used are you high on the devils cabbage

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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im going to slap you cabbage

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:45 PM

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then it's broken

oak willow Apr 2, 2020, 10:46 PM

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pls I have like 10 hours in the game I need to know

solemn fiber Apr 2, 2020, 10:46 PM

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so whats literally stopping us from spamming key on the AAR

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:46 PM

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the wiki is wrong

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:46 PM

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its not broken, cuz box is hard to find

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esp for ppl with R/G colourblindness

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:46 PM

#

you can also have like 20 keys and still get a white 90% of the time

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:46 PM

#

what

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 10:47 PM

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white is better in all artifacts anyway

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:47 PM

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and cabbage why would the key get used, then it'd literally be a pointless item

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:47 PM

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because u stack like 5 until opening and get a legendary

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:47 PM

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you'd be lucky to get a green with 5

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:47 PM

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command didnt exist until 5 days ago

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:48 PM

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dont think any more than 1 is good for aar

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:48 PM

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^lmoa no 5 and greens half the time

#

but if you want red just go to bazzar after s3

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i swear the first person to complete this will be using daggers

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 10:49 PM

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bazaar is cheating

#

the first person to complete this will be using infusion

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:49 PM

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if u think daggers are good u haven't tried them

#

the first person to complete this will be some rando who got good rng

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:50 PM

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i tried them if u stick to wall ur safe

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:50 PM

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lol just stick to a wall yeah ur right

#

i'd rather not play russian roulette

#

tesla coil is much better

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:51 PM

#

id rather not play russian roulette
does AAR

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:51 PM

#

gottem

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:51 PM

#

i mean

#

ur not wrong lol

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:52 PM

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give it a try

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:52 PM

#

i did?

#

i was in the stupid tunnel on wetlands with jellyfish and got ganked

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:52 PM

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im done for tonight cant spend another second looking at acrids tail

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:52 PM

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i literally had to go out in the open to not get wrecked by jellyfish

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:53 PM

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bad tele RNG

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:53 PM

#

brass contraptions in abyssal depths cave was bad rng

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

#

minecraftdad69 give us your wisdom

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

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i like how there's absolutely 0 context for that

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

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minecraftdad69 for first all artifacts run

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

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he was typing in chat

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

#

i know

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

#

I think I spooked him off

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:54 PM

#

which equipments can screw you up with gesture in total? Preon, Capacitor, backup and egg?

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

#

meteor

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

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wait can capacitor target you like huntress

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

#

no

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

#

wtf

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

#

pls no

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

#

it actually probably can

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:55 PM

#

thats assisted suicide

#

RoR2 is staged in germany confirmed

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:56 PM

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i love when i use the backup, go up on a hill, and one of the drones literally goes in my face and shoots me with 0 context

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:56 PM

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^the cause of that is that all turrets default state is staring at you

#

i used to buy turrets in my early attempts and randomly die when all mosnters dissapear

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:57 PM

#

also i think the run where my arrow rain went sideways for no reason was won

#

that fire aspect thing was absolutely broken

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:57 PM

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you mean not having a trash equipment is gud

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 10:58 PM

#

thoughts on crowdfunder?

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:58 PM

#

video proof of someone killing themselves with capacitor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD3TwFgPgZE

YouTube

Blargenheimer

Strike Me Down Zeus

yuh

▶ Play video

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I dont think I've seen CF at all doing aar

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 10:58 PM

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i laughed outloud

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:58 PM

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wait ur right

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 10:58 PM

#

you can get it from equipment drops and it doesn't swap out

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 10:58 PM

#

o rly

#

well thats S+ tier

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 10:59 PM

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it isn't though?

#

what would that be good for

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:00 PM

#

wasting money

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:00 PM

#

extra dps

#

extra proc chains

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:00 PM

#

money -> exp

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:00 PM

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for that 2 seconds time save for difficulty scaling

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:00 PM

#

exp -> health

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:00 PM

#

infusion -> health but you don't like that

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:01 PM

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i tried the infusion strat, grabbed 2 and my head got infused with the ground after a vulture 1tapped me

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:01 PM

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and you sitll pick teadybears lol

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:01 PM

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you didnt have enough 🅱️ ucklers

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:01 PM

#

get armour

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:01 PM

#

no

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:01 PM

#

take brooch and it's +20hp rather than +10

#

that's value

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

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if they return brooch OSP this will be ezy

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

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no matter how tanky you are ur not gonna survive brass contraption / vultures

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

#

pls hopoo

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

#

speed and damage is much better

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

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armor and HP is about alloys and claybois not just ending your run so you can still go on

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

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i grab a tiny bit of armor to deal with the wisps spawning out of corpses but that's it

#

stack armor and hp to prevent stuff from ending your run and other stuff will end it

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:03 PM

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^i get a razorwire sometimes to deal with those

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:03 PM

#

razorwire is a scam

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:03 PM

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lowkey will get dio next time i get a red

#

play the cowards game

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:03 PM

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i was thinking the same thing

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but then i realized that's not how i wanna be

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:04 PM

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your more maso then the rest of us u dont count

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doing ethereal every single week

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3 days*

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:04 PM

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3 days*

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:04 PM

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3 days*

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:04 PM

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o

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:05 PM

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fuck it lets do a 3p and get this shit done for once

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:05 PM

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connection too bad

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:05 PM

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stream it

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i'll provide emotional support

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:05 PM

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109775240996273380

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:05 PM

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you didnt give me any emotional support

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:06 PM

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i was busy with my own runs

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:06 PM

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wtf is a 109775240996273380

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:06 PM

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lobby id

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:06 PM

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you can join via clipboard

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600+ hours and this boi knows nothing about the game

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:06 PM

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who is NikolaMX

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:06 PM

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I am

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my regular acc

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:07 PM

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ok that was fun

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:07 PM

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@slim lintel hopp on

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rip

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:07 PM

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corona ate our internet

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:08 PM

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nvm cabbage is doing his solo thing anyway

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:08 PM

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the nodes are flooded with normies watching netflix at 4k instead of gameing

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:09 PM

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you playing from a college dorm or sth

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:10 PM

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no

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cabbage might be

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:10 PM

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cox

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:10 PM

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ew cox

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what kind of dumbass company names themselves cox

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:11 PM

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they know they're a monopoly and they wanna rub it in

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:19 PM

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huh, you ever seen pylon just go right through the ground like its not even there

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feel like stuff is falling through the floor a lot more

tough belfry Apr 2, 2020, 11:20 PM

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nah that's happened loads for me before

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:20 PM

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umbra huntress sank through sirens and ended a s4 run today with that shitty hitscan

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:37 PM

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dang, lost a s5 run with 2 red items because i dashed into a bomb that fell from the sky since my tesla coil killed some wisp that floated upwards

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absolutely 0 room for error lol

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:41 PM

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ok how the hell do you deal with brass contrap and lemurians it feels like no matted how fast I am or how fast I move one of them manages to mlg 360 no scope my ass

cyan stratus Apr 2, 2020, 11:47 PM

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u learn about tangents right

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just make sure ur never running at or away from one in a straight line

slim lintel Apr 2, 2020, 11:48 PM

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kinda hard when they spawn in a circle around you constantly

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also beetles suck ass

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I just went afk for like 10 mins while my turrets killed stuff and came back to nothing

soft acorn Apr 2, 2020, 11:51 PM

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hopoo feather to counter breass, hopoo feather to counter lem

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ezy

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dies from fall dmg again

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 12:05 AM

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i got a red drop from a beetle stage 1

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 12:15 AM

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dagger

fresh plume Apr 3, 2020, 12:33 AM

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Is current trial good for doing Ethereal merc?

sharp canyon Apr 3, 2020, 12:35 AM

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@fresh plume can't say it is, you get a random survivor each time so I don't think it will count for it

fresh plume Apr 3, 2020, 12:36 AM

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um... no?

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for me at least

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double monster spawn/half hp, FF and random monster spawns

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those are at least mine artifacts on current trial

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i would appreceate info when its good ocassion to complete it

frank hill Apr 3, 2020, 12:58 AM

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random spawns means u have a high likelyhood of something scary spawning so i dont like it

slim lintel Apr 3, 2020, 12:59 AM

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your name and picture fit this channel so perfectly 🦀

fresh plume Apr 3, 2020, 1:00 AM

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yeah i think i pass. Mushrooms, golems, imps, wisps

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and wisps spawn in pack of 6-8

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 1:48 AM

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oh lol merc ethereal is actually not easy now

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interesting

silent abyss Apr 3, 2020, 1:51 AM

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Do the trials actively change on PC?

tawdry copper Apr 3, 2020, 1:51 AM

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yes, they change every few days

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 1:52 AM

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wait trials in general are kinda ruined with this tp charge now

silent abyss Apr 3, 2020, 1:52 AM

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Modifiers on console have just been Rich and Meander since I picked it up.

tawdry copper Apr 3, 2020, 1:52 AM

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oh, consoles don't have artifacts yet

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before artifacts, all trials had only those modifiers

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 1:52 AM

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you guys are on your own for ethereal on this trial lol

silent abyss Apr 3, 2020, 1:52 AM

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Ah.

tawdry copper Apr 3, 2020, 1:53 AM

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without artifacts the only things that change between each trial are the stages, enemies and items

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 1:53 AM

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dis' be da run

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s1

silent abyss Apr 3, 2020, 1:53 AM

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I look forward to getting the artifacts then.

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 1:53 AM

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that is most definitely not the run

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oh wait s1 wtf

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 1:57 AM

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dis be not da run

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solus on s3 with bleed

slim lintel Apr 3, 2020, 1:58 AM

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shoulda taken armor scraps woulda been fine

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 1:58 AM

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i honestly thought the random item pick would miraculously make it

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biggest waste of rng of the week

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 2:20 AM

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w/e lol

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 2:35 AM

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umbra or suicide?

slim lintel Apr 3, 2020, 2:40 AM

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its cabbage I'd go with suicide, also the umbras seem to hit like wet noodles if they decide to even do anything at all

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 2:45 AM

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arti umbra with tesla and uk could deffo take you out

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still better than huntress umbra on speed

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 2:49 AM

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no i tried to fireball a lemurian and the fireball hit the back of my head instead

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 2:58 AM

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ah u trying the classic wallhacks

green patrol Apr 3, 2020, 2:59 AM

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you actually have to charge the tele now?

slim lintel Apr 3, 2020, 3:00 AM

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trials are dead

solemn fiber Apr 3, 2020, 3:03 AM

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well if trials are dead... @cyan stratus record your AAR's n post them

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 3:03 AM

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already posted one my guy

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just not a full run yet

solemn fiber Apr 3, 2020, 3:04 AM

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AAR #1 / #19 - Very late post

📎 cabbage.mp4

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 3:19 AM

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yo does it happen to you to get no boss from time to time?

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S1 vultures no boss spawned

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 3:30 AM

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yes

spring marsh Apr 3, 2020, 3:31 AM

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@cyan stratus have you done the current trial?

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 3:33 AM

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ethereal is that u?

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cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 3:47 AM

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no i havent

solemn fiber Apr 3, 2020, 3:54 AM

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people now assume my cabbage post with you posting a trial ;o

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amazing progress made here today

spring marsh Apr 3, 2020, 4:34 AM

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yup lmao i 100% thought thats why it was there

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 4:42 AM

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lmao and how do you guys not get bosses on vultures, I always do

proud dagger Apr 3, 2020, 10:09 AM

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Lol I never actually tried getting mercenaries’ ethereal, it used to be easy?

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It always just sounded too hard for me, I never successfully avoid damage, haha.

icy urchin Apr 3, 2020, 10:16 AM

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there were braindead easy pt-s where you shouldn't have had trouble getting it

twilit sky Apr 3, 2020, 10:27 AM

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if y’all are trying to do AAR just take some atgs and bottle rockets

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stacks very well

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and full crit of course

crimson veldt Apr 3, 2020, 10:50 AM

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wait did they make item spawns RNG in trials?

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that makes ethereal pretty hard i guess

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it was easier to just plan out a route with good items xD

gaunt charm Apr 3, 2020, 11:18 AM

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is there something against cheaters ?

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elfin plinth Apr 3, 2020, 11:19 AM

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no

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 11:20 AM

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you ask because you're a cheater?

elfin plinth Apr 3, 2020, 11:20 AM

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.-.

restive wraith Apr 3, 2020, 11:22 AM

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do people still post when a good prismatic trail for mercs ethereal is out

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 11:23 AM

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this update completely changed trials so if ethereal is possible someone will probably do it

restive wraith Apr 3, 2020, 11:23 AM

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oh what changed

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 11:24 AM

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random artifacts are on so it's possible you might not even get to play merc

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but if it's still the trial in pins this one is super easy

gaunt charm Apr 3, 2020, 11:26 AM

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F then

drifting pasture Apr 3, 2020, 12:58 PM

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That's iiiiit

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I was so close from the sub 2:50 but I got yeeted out of the tp radius for 2 seconds

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 1:13 PM

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🦀

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gaunt charm Apr 3, 2020, 1:33 PM

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wow 2:36 is fast

upper nymph Apr 3, 2020, 2:24 PM

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wow -35792:36.25 so fast

gaunt charm Apr 3, 2020, 2:27 PM

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some good mechanics i guess

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 2:28 PM

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that's how fast you can go when you turn on your monitor

drifting pasture Apr 3, 2020, 2:40 PM

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wow nice

frank hill Apr 3, 2020, 3:07 PM

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how do u even do it in 40 seconds

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let alone going back in time while you do it

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 3:10 PM

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paper shell Apr 3, 2020, 3:40 PM

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any tips for getting the mercenary's 2nd special ability?

green patrol Apr 3, 2020, 3:42 PM

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pray you get a wandering vagrent second boss and instantkill it using your shift

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also spam shift and R

paper shell Apr 3, 2020, 3:50 PM

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ty it just seems practically impossible for me to get that skill 😩

drifting heron Apr 3, 2020, 3:52 PM

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I think its much easier on some trials than others

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as barrier dmg taken doesn't count

icy urchin Apr 3, 2020, 3:53 PM

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oh, ethereal

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 4:25 PM

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It's easier because swarm and brooch

uncut plank Apr 3, 2020, 5:20 PM

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what're the first 2 stages?

brazen sun Apr 3, 2020, 5:24 PM

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Last seed was great for ethereal, I was lucky and discovered that fact with only 4 hours left (did it in about 2 or less).

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Look for another glass artifact seed in the future.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlhXrJAMORw

YouTube

ReaperEOD

I Am Ethereal

My Ethereal Challenge run, finally did it!

▶ Play video

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Can give those looking for Ethereal combos to look out for.

clever sequoia Apr 3, 2020, 5:31 PM

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today's trial is

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real hard

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 6:01 PM

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nonono

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i figured a thing out

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if you use the ||artifact teleporter, you can avoid the second boss altogether||

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you really only have to do one stage for this week

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the first boss is a little hard with the overloading stone golems, but not impossible

paper shell Apr 3, 2020, 6:23 PM

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oh i might try that out

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 6:25 PM

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there's a uke behind where you spawn on the first stage I think to deal with the wisps

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because chaos is on you can just hide and most of the stone golems will murder each other for the horde of many overloading golems

midnight shuttle Apr 3, 2020, 7:11 PM

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@gleaming wasp what's an artifact teleporter

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 7:12 PM

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uhhhh

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the big thing at the bottom of the map

midnight shuttle Apr 3, 2020, 7:14 PM

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hmm?

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 7:14 PM

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Have you played the new update?

midnight shuttle Apr 3, 2020, 7:15 PM

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a bit

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 7:15 PM

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have you gotten any artifacts?

midnight shuttle Apr 3, 2020, 7:15 PM

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not yet

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 7:15 PM

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Oh then yeah that's why you don't know what it is

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I'll spoiler it

fallen dagger Apr 3, 2020, 7:22 PM

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I can't play the update yet, as I am not a chad who has a good PC I just have a xbone which the update isn't out on xbox yet.

midnight shuttle Apr 3, 2020, 7:33 PM

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ok i found the artifact thingy and got sub 4min time

drifting pasture Apr 3, 2020, 7:55 PM

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For this prismatic you don't need any item

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You take loader and just grapple your way to tp

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 7:57 PM

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I'm talkin ethereal

silent hazel Apr 3, 2020, 8:37 PM

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any tips for this seed for merc? seems tri tip ukulele and energy are the only useful items on first stage

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 8:43 PM

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uploading a video right now

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was gonna stop doing these but felt bad lol

clever mountain Apr 3, 2020, 8:51 PM

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tired of the grind?

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 8:51 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AQZ5fKg3c4

YouTube

Cabbage

Risk of Rain 2 - Prismatic Trial 4/2/20 - Mercenary Ethereal Achiev...

artifacts add a bit of difficulty to this

the golems will not target each other unless one accidentally hits another while trying to hit you, then the damaged golem's aggro will switch to whatever damaged it.

▶ Play video

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nah i was just grinding all artifact obliteration instead

clever mountain Apr 3, 2020, 9:00 PM

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oh I see

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and how's the progress on that

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 9:01 PM

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still haven't gotten past stage 6 because im bad

odd fulcrum Apr 3, 2020, 9:13 PM

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hey cabbage is the mercenary dash instakill patched or is it still in the game?

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 9:15 PM

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still in the game

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 9:44 PM

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ye, farthest I get is stage 5 atm

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die while charging tp

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 9:44 PM

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i just get completely walled by golems

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golems end runs b/c their spawn rate is way too high for how strong they are

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 9:45 PM

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yup, so many lasers to cheese thru

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 9:45 PM

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i dont think that golems and vultures should even be stage 1 options

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vultures are pretty doable but both seem too powerful to be on stage 1

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 9:46 PM

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I know I could do this too quite easily if I just got stride of heresy but I haven't tried yet

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and if I can, i'd rather not cheese so hard

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 9:46 PM

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yea im doing a challenge to not use lunars

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or use cheeses like item farm on paused stage

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 9:46 PM

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or that

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i was tempted when I got like 10 items in one stage, just dipped tho

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 9:47 PM

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nah farming is fine but if you go to gold coast / void fields and get some free mob then the run would be really easy

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since time is paused there

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 9:48 PM

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true

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 9:56 PM

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golems have 5x the drop chance of beetles idk if you can farm them they are probs the second best starter

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also might be a valid strategy to stick around s1 for 20 minutes until you have godrun items and then proceed

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 10:15 PM

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"godrun" is hard to get because everything one shots you

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:15 PM

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@slim lintel stage 5 btw

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i can dodge everything except these stupid randomly spraying mushrooms sniping me midair

slim lintel Apr 3, 2020, 10:16 PM

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only time I've been killed by a shroom has been because its aoe was on a weird jagged rock and was hitting way higher than I ever would have imagined it hitting

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or one of them sniping me from behind a random rock while I was picking an item

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:17 PM

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they randomly aggro onto each other and just fill the sky with unpredictable garbage

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was a really good run too and then i saw stage 5 mushrooms like wtf

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i'd rather have golems at that point

slim lintel Apr 3, 2020, 10:17 PM

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damn should have popped open parsec and let me take over

gleaming wasp Apr 3, 2020, 10:18 PM

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what if they added the spitter from RoR1 to make life even worse

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:19 PM

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btw this works pretty well

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tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 10:20 PM

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is 4 brooches really necessary

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:20 PM

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except remove the brooches and add teddy bears those things are garbage

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 10:22 PM

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ukulele coes before guillotine imo, i get it as first unless im on a shit class that cant run away

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:26 PM

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i disagree

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 10:29 PM

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of?

lapis beacon Apr 3, 2020, 10:29 PM

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at stage 45 game crashed bc tone of elite parents in one place

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:30 PM

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you got that far with all artifacts??

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 10:33 PM

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wrong channel this is #allartifacts

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 10:33 PM

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as far as I know when you have that artifact they don't spawn

lapis beacon Apr 3, 2020, 10:35 PM

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sorry i stay on wrong channel thanks @tough belfry

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:37 PM

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parents? they definitely spawn

vapid merlin Apr 3, 2020, 10:37 PM

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i meant printers

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he deleted some stuff

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 10:39 PM

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btw wig got 11:45 CE if you didn't see already

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 10:48 PM

#

o

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wait that's really fast

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who's wig?

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oh wait nvm i remember that guy

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yea he's pretty good lol

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have you done runs yet?

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 10:49 PM

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i did one

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and didn't get portal stage 1 then got mushrooms as a boss outside the zone

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so it was slow af 13:50

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going to do more tomorrow

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all artifacts is too hard for me

solemn fiber Apr 3, 2020, 11:26 PM

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#20

📎 cabbage.mp4

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@spring marsh now it is

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 11:38 PM

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ok so the command artifact does really poorly in the first 2-5 minutes of the game, so there are very low odds of getting anything. you are better off waiting out all of S1 and TPing around 10 minutes when you kill the 1st umbra. you will leave s1 with 6-8 items, more if you got vultures and a lot of levels so following stages will be ezy

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 11:39 PM

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are the following stages actually ezy though

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 11:40 PM

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additionally mobs that spawn during TP event have a much higher drop rate so camping out of the area and farming for 10 mins seems to be the best strategy outisde of expliting VF or GC

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its easier when you have enough mobility, strong mobs will 1tap you regardless and weak ones scale slower than you can farm armour plates

tough belfry Apr 3, 2020, 11:43 PM

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idk what spawns at what time/stage

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or how it's chosen

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but increasing difficulty by farming seems like you're setting yourself up to get stone golem hell

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 11:44 PM

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its based on director credits just like a regular run, the higher the difficulty the more likely u r to get strong enemies. Good news is drop also scales off of dificulty in addition to time

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stone golems and vultures stop being a hell when you have 6 NRG drinks and a few proc chain greens and feathers, im thinking of rying out stuns again but mobility reigns supreme

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plus biggest danger comes not from how high enemy lvl is but from their items which is inevitable so you might as well get enough decent ones early on and then play the RNG game

cyan stratus Apr 3, 2020, 11:51 PM

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yeah but i'm not about to farm s1 10 minutes just to get some trash rng later on. feels like complete garbage when there's nothing you can do after wasting so much time

soft acorn Apr 3, 2020, 11:53 PM

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you have much higher chance of surviveing BS wisps with bleed if you have 3 ukuleles and snore speed like a wallstreet stock trader. but you do you and we will see what works

tender hull Apr 4, 2020, 12:39 AM

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Im having a rough time getting past stage 2 with all artifacts on monsoon lol

north leaf Apr 4, 2020, 1:17 AM

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I'm having a rough time unlocking Merc's alt special
Not dropping below 100% HP is a LOT harder when prismatic trials now possess the ability to do things like double spawn rates and only spawn elites and etc.

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 1:40 AM

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this one is easy since all you have to do is not get hit

tender hull Apr 4, 2020, 1:41 AM

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Is this one still the one with glass artifact?

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 1:46 AM

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no

north leaf Apr 4, 2020, 1:53 AM

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wisps are the main problem because their attacks are hitscan, making them incredibly hard to avoid. They're top priority in a fight
but if they spawn in droves of 6 or 8 at a time and are nicely spread out, they're pretty safe from you as Merc, giving them plenty of time to squeeze in a random blast that ruins your run.

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 1:56 AM

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just grab the brooch and tank if you need

gleaming wasp Apr 4, 2020, 2:00 AM

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there's a uke behind where you spawn if you're really having trouble with the wisps

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 2:04 AM

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dont do that it staggers the spawns and makes your life hell during the tp event

pearl onyx Apr 4, 2020, 2:55 AM

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Just dont get hit ez

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Also an option: waiting for a run with glass artifact enabled

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It's what I'd do

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 3:15 AM

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it's extremely easy on this seed since you only have to do 1 stage

daring minnow Apr 4, 2020, 3:29 AM

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Isn't that every trial

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 3:33 AM

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yes but you have to do it twice on most

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 3:45 AM

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On console we must have a different seed since we don't have the update yet, this one is so annoying. I can get past the first stage without getting hit but my problem is the second stage. HoW aM i SuPpoSeD tO bEaT aN oVeRlOaDeD ImP oVeRlOrD

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I can't focus on the little enemies due to it being an Imp overlord and I am m e l e e aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 3:52 AM

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@tough belfry lol

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this new item kinda good

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there's a lot of rng in the run now, much more than before

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 3:59 AM

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well now aren't all the WR's gone?

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invalid

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:00 AM

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nah they're just much slower

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:00 AM

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cus the oblit stage is stage 9/10

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so any before this update is now invalid aint it?

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:00 AM

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i mean it's not faster than what's possible now so why would they be

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but im not a real speedrunner so i dont really get to decide anyways

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some guy already got a 11:45

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but that was my first completed run

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:01 AM

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im not a real speedrunner
wr holder

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:01 AM

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not anymore

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:01 AM

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wig

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still a wr holder actually, celestial monsoon

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n 20 stages

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:02 AM

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i mean all those times are outdated now

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:02 AM

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yeah true

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so anything from before 1 week ago is invalid as all heck

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:03 AM

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meh the category is really stupid now

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it always has been though lol

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:04 AM

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Celestial
Celestial coop
Celestial monsoon
20 stages

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on all except Wig is valid

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so that means you can do it cabbage!

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Wait, i feel like they should delete one of the categories n replace it with AAR Monsoon

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:05 AM

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no

fair tartan Apr 4, 2020, 4:28 AM

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WAIT

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Merc's special is basically free, just beat level 1 and you can use the artifact thing to skip the second level

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:30 AM

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"artifact thing"

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 4:30 AM

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NOT FOR ME.

CONSOLE DOESN'T HAVE THE UPDATE AND WE DON'T SHARE THE SAME SEED MY IS ANNOYING AND IT JUST MAKES ME want to go into a corner and be very sad

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:(

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:30 AM

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yep deal

fair tartan Apr 4, 2020, 4:30 AM

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ohhh I see, that's unfortunate

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:31 AM

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whats that artifact thing

fair tartan Apr 4, 2020, 4:31 AM

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by artifact thing I mean it's the new stage, if you enter the code on the artifact portal thing it skips the stage

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 4:31 AM

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My second stage has an overloaded Imp overlord

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 4:31 AM

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oh yeah true

fair tartan Apr 4, 2020, 4:40 AM

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where there's a brooch there's a way AHHHHH

tender hull Apr 4, 2020, 4:42 AM

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Oh right stage 5 is basically free

zenith plinth Apr 4, 2020, 4:47 AM

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im struggling so badly trying to get ethereal but these wisps

fair tartan Apr 4, 2020, 4:50 AM

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I wonder what kind of evil person would create a challenge like this

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 4:51 AM

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@slim lintel btw rex is dead for trials now, you finally got what you wanted lol

tender hull Apr 4, 2020, 4:56 AM

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Wut

cloud mesa Apr 4, 2020, 5:09 AM

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Would the current trial be a good first one for someone that's never done one?

gleaming estuary Apr 4, 2020, 5:38 AM

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the actual gigabrain strat of using the artifact portal in sky meadow

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 5:39 AM

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maybe you can think of a faster pattern

short oxide Apr 4, 2020, 5:42 AM

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god that number 6 spot with a minute gap is too big

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 5:43 AM

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my time is fastest legit so far

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but should be pretty easy to beat

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 5:44 AM

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Trials are dead to me, this update made them fubar

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 5:47 AM

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agree

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 5:47 AM

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I thought there'd be 1-2 artifacts per seed not 5, crystals still arent fixed (afaik) among other things

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and the tele thing but thats getting fixed

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i think

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 5:50 AM

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there are 3

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 5:50 AM

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oh so is it a random number between 1-5 for artifacts or somethin

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theres a few artifacts that are cool for trials but most of them make it just stupid or more annoying than need be

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"oh hey the artifact where enemies drop items, time to farm s1 until the tele boss drops a preon for a free win"

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unless enemies dropping items is seeded somehow which I HIGHLY doubt

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 5:53 AM

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oh that gets me excited lol

austere flume Apr 4, 2020, 5:58 AM

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In what way are crystals bugged?

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 6:01 AM

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sometimes they don't cause knockback like they're supposed to

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which is heavily used in speedrunning trials for a speed boost

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Having to reset a good run because a crystal decided to be a pee hole isnt a good feeling

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 6:07 AM

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they're not used anymore

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 6:07 AM

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#20.5 - A loader prismatic run

📎 cabbage.mp4

clear plover Apr 4, 2020, 6:28 AM

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is this a good trail for merc challenge?

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 6:29 AM

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yes

gleaming wasp Apr 4, 2020, 7:31 AM

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I think they just hit the little random roll button on the lower right

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 7:36 AM

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wtf is this, a speedrun vid with deaths?

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you're trying to bait me in to running this I can feel it

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 7:52 AM

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? what

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oh i forgot to cut it wtf

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man i'm so washed up im not even looking at what i upload anymore

soft jetty Apr 4, 2020, 8:42 AM

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Can I unlock mercenary skill "complete prismatic trails without falling below 100% health" now?

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 8:53 AM

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yes

soft jetty Apr 4, 2020, 9:05 AM

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ok thnaks

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thanks*

soft acorn Apr 4, 2020, 9:17 AM

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good news is AAR will get much easier when swarms/command/suicide are fixed, bad news is ATGs are probbably gonna kill you anyway

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 9:36 AM

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yea im on semi hiatus on all-artifacts and just trying to get sub 11 CE now

soft acorn Apr 4, 2020, 10:00 AM

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artifacts allowed or nah?

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id imagin glass + chaos + spite ezy under 11

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"ezy"

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 10:21 AM

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ofc

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and no, wtf

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it's just lunar rng farm with the new teleporter reduction item

soft acorn Apr 4, 2020, 10:43 AM

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ah right i almost forgot about that due to how bad it is with aar

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whats the current one, like 13-14?

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 11:05 AM

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on previous patch it was capped at 13min but i already got sub12 easily on this patch it's much faster

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 11:05 AM

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all artifacts will be a speedrun category probably

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lunars and characters locked allowed though

cyan stratus Apr 4, 2020, 11:06 AM

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yeah i really would rather not

soft acorn Apr 4, 2020, 11:07 AM

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mando/rex make it easy

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 11:25 AM

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Trying to get the merc achievement

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is making me die on the inside

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 11:43 AM

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How. Just, why and how.

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 11:44 AM

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hey others did it

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this seed is a good one

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 11:44 AM

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just copy cabbage's video

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 11:45 AM

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seeing as you skip an entire stage instead of having to wait an additional 2 minutes

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 11:45 AM

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also wtf 3k views on the all artifacts vid

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 11:45 AM

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I don't get the same spawn rng

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its mostly wisps by the end

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but ill keep trying ig

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 11:47 AM

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cabbage just upload more all artifacts and you'll be #1 ror2 content creator in no time

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 11:48 AM

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do it

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 11:48 AM

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just finish a run with lunars and people will be like OMG UR SO GOOD WTF

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 11:50 AM

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ok so apparently not killing the mushroom right at the start causes wisps to spawn instead of mushrooms later in the teleporter event

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interesting

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 11:53 AM

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it's probably just time but if you have a route that's consistent use that

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 12:16 PM

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It's hard to remain consistent when the enemy spawns aren't consistent in placement and often inconvenient

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But I'll keep trying

tiny pier Apr 4, 2020, 12:30 PM

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so how are you even supposed to make sure you can dodge all damage as merc in this mode?

clear plover Apr 4, 2020, 1:00 PM

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Holy fuck it took 3 and a half hours but I got the merc alt R

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Good night

indigo snow Apr 4, 2020, 1:05 PM

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Clap

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 1:07 PM

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wait are speedruns really not using command rn

tough belfry Apr 4, 2020, 1:11 PM

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they are?

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 1:22 PM

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Is there a better way to quick restart

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than just exit to menu

solemn fiber Apr 4, 2020, 1:38 PM

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no

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 1:40 PM

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The wisps.

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My god

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 2:57 PM

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cabbage are any artifacts used in ce runs

fervent stag Apr 4, 2020, 4:04 PM

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I think speed runs are much more "valuable" if they all use command

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 5:48 PM

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The prismatic trials have made me depressed. I was so close, I beat the first and second stage but right as I was about to use the teleporter a greater wisp hit me. I lost because I just wanted to get out of there with out getting hit, I was so close to unlocking that alt special and it was pulled out for right under me. It has made me so very sad. There is literally nothing easier I can do,console doesn't have the update.

pale idol Apr 4, 2020, 5:58 PM

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I hate that Mercenary alt special unlock condition

soft acorn Apr 4, 2020, 5:58 PM

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devs add a git gud challenge
everyone still rioting 3 months later

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despite cabbage basically serving it on a platter every few days

pale idol Apr 4, 2020, 5:58 PM

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Just retool it as yet another alternate skin unlock instead

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Cuz we can't all be Cabbage. XD

soft acorn Apr 4, 2020, 6:00 PM

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play as rex
literally BE cabbage

elfin plinth Apr 4, 2020, 6:04 PM

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cabbage on robot legs

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 6:05 PM

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I've been trying my best but like I just can't do it, I wanna cry cause of that run. I went from being super happy and pumped up to straight up depressed and unmotivated to do anything.

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makes me want to commit that DBD bubba noise while he's swinging his chainsaw.mp4

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 6:27 PM

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merc challenge has never been easier, artifacts and the fact that if the new stage shows up its basically a 1 stage trial makes it completely trivial

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 6:33 PM

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I don't have the update, console doesn't have it for a good while

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So I am left to sit here and suffer through it

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 6:34 PM

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Is there any way to increase FOV?

brazen sun Apr 4, 2020, 6:34 PM

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Just be patient it'll happen, artifacts is a core concept in Risk of Rain, it'll come. I had to wait for the update and I'm sure release on PC was probably as long as you'll have to wait since getting access to it on console. 😛

slim lintel Apr 4, 2020, 6:36 PM

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I can actually see the merc challenge being a real PoS on console but I don't want PC content to get nerfed due to console shortcomings, maybe they can alter the challenges slightly for pc vs console

fallen dagger Apr 4, 2020, 6:44 PM

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with each time I try the more and more drained I am. Like I get it, skills should be tough and difficult to get but like, this? Its stupid. 1 hp down and my entire run is ruined. I've been at this for three days and its only getting more frustrating and less easy.

tiny forge Apr 4, 2020, 6:45 PM

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I've had two runs where I was right at the end but those jellyfish decided to appear! Fun! Fun!