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Preordered, is the HQ filter the only one included?

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;46039506]Preordered, is the HQ filter the only one included?[/QUOTE] Not sure what you mean by "HQ filter", but there will be a lot more filters.

[QUOTE=Blueplastic;46039878]Not sure what you mean by "HQ filter", but there will be a lot more filters.[/QUOTE] I think he's talking about this one [url]http://i.imgur.com/XiRzi7R.png[/url]

Since Leo is one of the items shown off in that stream a while ago. It's safe to say that the other 11 zodiacs are going to appear as items as well. While fruitless, I thought it'd be a fun exercise to ruminate about their potential capabilities. Here's a reminder of what they all are. Aries - The Ram Taurus - The Bull Gemini - The Twins Cancer - The Crab Leo - The Lion Virgo - The Maiden Libra - The Scales Scorpio - The Scorpion Sagittarius - The Archer Capricorn - The Goat-horned Aquarius - The Water-Bearer Pisces - The Fish Taurus; Don't Mess (Isaac gets a large pair of blood-tipped bull horns) Speed up. Walking without firing, stopping, or changing direction for more than 4 tiles of distance will make Isaac invincible and deal high contact damage. Stopping, changing direction, or firing will strip Isaac of this bonus. Mess with the bull and you get the horns. Gemini; Severed Ties (Isaac's gets a parasitic twin dragged along by an umbilical cord, much like a familiar) Using the item will detach the twin from Isaac for the duration of the room. Twin has flight and attacks like a stronger but more-wild Dead Bird. 4-room recharge. Libra; Justice is blind (Isaac is blindfolded) Big damage up. Attacks randomly deviate in a cone in the direction he's facing. Rooms are now permanently darkened. Racking my brains on what the others could be and this is going to result in zero sum since the items are most certainly already made and in the game, but it's fun to make educated guesses based solely on context.

Presumably the Scorpio item might be some sort of poison effect or melee attack, though both would be cool, kinda like applying the Common Cold to Mom's Knife. To think assassins spend all that time and effort buying/making poisons when they could just sneeze on a dagger and call it a day.

I'm happy [url]http://puu.sh/bIR0D/f585729cae.jpg[/url]

Oh my Isaac, this is ridiculous. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMR0Aldn6WU[/media]

New shit was added to the bandcamp (apparently one of these was already there but still) [img]http://i.imgur.com/2fKvzhc.png?1[/img] What could they be for??? Who knows, probably some rare event that can happen at any time given the lack of location info. ALSO [img]http://i.imgur.com/jJdOwIW.png?1[/img] Might be another stream going down tonight. Keep an eye on Edmund's twitter: [url]https://twitter.com/EdmundMcMillenn[/url]

[QUOTE=postal;46053099]New shit was added to the bandcamp (apparently one of these was already there but still) [img]http://i.imgur.com/2fKvzhc.png?1[/img] What could they be for??? Who knows, probably some rare event that can happen at any time given the lack of location info. [/QUOTE] Ambush is for minibosses and the gauntlets. Ed made mention on his site that it was among the tracks that were forgotten to be uploaded to bandcamp at first. The Calm is possible to be a track that plays upon clearing a boss, miniboss, or gauntlet. At least the name can imply that. [editline]22nd September 2014[/editline] Blog updated. Hardmode focus. Bosses drop no hearts and curses are out the whazoo. The HUD gets an icon to indicate that you're in hardmode so your friends don't doubt you when you show off your inevitable screenshots. Hard mode has some unlocks gated behind it. If you meet the requirements for a normal-difficulty challenge while in hardmode, both secrets will be unlocked instead of requiring you to go down a difficulty to do it again. Character select shows a winstreak counter. It also shows just how far each character has made it through the game, so you'll not need to remember if it was Eve or ??? that has yet to beat the Chest, you can just look for yourself easily. [img]http://media.tumblr.com/da506f65ae7bfb2adf3eafe67f14a826/tumblr_inline_ncc46iERHl1rq0wgw.jpg[/img] Also Danielle's stream was the hidden link for the week, the stream's yet to start yet though. Also if you're blind, there's a new character on the CSS where the locked chest used to be and we assumed that ??? would be on the CSS screen. Aesthetic redesign or yet another new character? Time will tell.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;46053130]Also if you're blind, there's a new character on the CSS where the locked chest used to be and we assumed that ??? would be on the CSS screen. Aesthetic redesign or yet another new character? Time will tell.[/QUOTE] Well he did mention there are three new characters. I suppose the one with blank eyes is Eden since he looks so generic, so that leaves us with two characters we haven't seen yet. One of them looks somewhat demonic so I suppose (s)he is the black heart oriented one, as for the other, we can't really see much from that picture. Hard mode is going to be awesome, I can really imagine myself sinking a few hundred hours into it at least. I don't care how utterly broken and frustrating it's going to be, the unlocks and bragging rights alone are going to make it worth it.

I fell asleep before the stream started but the VOD's up if anyone wants to catch up with it. [url]http://www.twitch.tv/mrsmcmillen/b/571343012[/url] It's got the same opacity as last time so don't get your hopes too high. Summary of what happens: They play hardmode again. In addition to what was in the blog post, it's apparent that they're taking double damage long before the Womb stages. New baby type, can't really tell what it does. Has got a big smile like :D Returning items: Spoon Bender, The Belt Dizzy pisses on the floor. Not gameplay but funny nonetheless. Duke of Flies has a new movement pattern. Instead of bouncing around only off of walls, he seems to change direction at random now. Not going to make him that much harder but hey there could be more that wasn't easy to see. Danielle dies. New baby type. Looks to be designed after how Isaac's head looks when using Book of Belial. They use a spike room and Ed knows exactly when it'll pay out. "You have to use it twice." We know that it's supposed to pay out when you're brought to a singular heart but it seems to pay out consistently instead of a chance to pay out. Returning item: Money=Power Ed dies to Dingle shortly before Danielle does. New baby type. Has a big happy face like c: with wide-set eyes. Couldn't tell any differences. New item that we've seen before but not in-depth: Monstro's Lung. Charges like brimestone, attacks like Monstro. New fly type. Can't really tell what it's doing to attack but it has a movement similar to a boom fly and doesn't explode on-death. New baby type. He's grumpy-lookin' Ed confirms that the leave-room-and-return-for-bigger-explosion bug with bombs is fixed as he tries to use it and fails. Danielle dies to Larry Jr. But not actually Larry Jr, it's the unnamed alt of Larry Jr that has the chance to spawn wherever Larry could. Normal-mode run. New baby. The baby is missing everything from the mouth up. Can't tell any gameplay differences. Returning item: Mitre, Toothpicks. New spider type. He's got longer legs and stands taller than the enemy I mistook for a redesigned Trite back in the trailer. This one scurries away slowly but gets killed before he gets a chance to attack. The audio layering becomes more obvious in this build. Extra channels of music are activated when Ed and Danielle enter a large room stuffed with enemies. In Basement, this plays some guitar riffs to accompany the main melody. Bible appears in the shop after having picked up a holy item that has the description "You feel blessed." Faith in action instead of just being the Rosary's doing. New trinket. Cartridge: I remember These. It appears as an NES cart with a sad face printed where the game's sticker goes. It seems to randomly activate the Gamekid's effect upon killing an enemy. Also new invuln jingle for Gamekid/Unicorn Horn/Chariot. New character unlocked: Lazarus. The unlock conditions are hazy for him, but Ed teased that he'd talk about new characters next Monday. At the same time, they unlocked Challenge 5, the tank and Challenge 10, Cursed. Unlock conditions for that are hazy too, since neither of them took damage during the fight where they unlocked it which is what you'd expect given the challenge's name. In both runs where these were unlocked (here and PAX), the message only appeared after having picked up the boss's item. Zodiac item: Cancer. HP up + you feel protected. This is the item that visually gave Isaac claws in the Rebirth trailer. Seems to give him 3 soul hearts as well. So it's basically Super Bandage unless the "protected" attribute carries some passive effects. Mom's Pill Bottle appears in the shop. A donation threshold happens at 20 cents, but the machine jammed when Danielle puts a single coin in to bring it up to 19. Instead of 10 good coin runs now it'll take maybe 200 normal-ish visits if you assume the machine won't jam until 5 cents get deposited first. It's grindy but we'll find ways to break this shit. Also who knows what happens if you try to bomb the donation machine. I smell potential secrets. Monstro can spawn with Gapers. Yeah it's not that hard but it's more difficult than with no cronies. New baby type, seems to have a large slit in its forehead. It takes 2 heart containers instead of 1 from Isaac. Isaac was taking damage while the Cartridge was active. However the invuln music wasn't playing, so something's up. It carried over to the next floor so I'm certain that it's a bug. New boss item. A snack: Hp up. It's a doggie treat. Grants 1 half-filled heart container. We get a new room type. The doors lock behind you immediately and enemies spawn in like the Gauntlet rooms despite you not having picked anything up. We also get to faintly hear a new track which we can assume is Ambush. The room icon is two swords, whereas regular gauntlet is a single sword and boss gauntlet is a bloodied sword. Also ambushing enemies no longer spawn out of thin air, they fall from above so you have a second to react to their shadows before they come in and deal contact damage. Something triggers to give P2 invulnerability, might be the Cartridge it's hard to tell since we don't know the technicalities behind what activates it in the first place. Returning item: Lemon Mishap. It's not as bad anymore. It stays out for longer and seems to do more damage. Habit appears in the shop relatively early given how powerful it is and how little is donated at this point. Donation machine stays jammed for the entire run even on later floors. Something is giving Isaac the visual effect of Scapular and I can't tell what it is. It might be Cancer but there are so many items interacting now that I can't be sure. New baby type. Looks like a sad version of a pacman ghost. We get our first taste of double trouble. 2 Dukes of Flies appear, and the titlecard reflects this too. <3 is in the boss pool too now, not just treasure pool. New baby type. Has an eyepatch. Presumably has the same tear mechanics as Cain. Danielle dies to a Boney. The End.

Nice job with the summary. fyi tho [QUOTE=Psychopath12;46056331] Duke of Flies has a new movement pattern. Instead of bouncing around only off of walls, he seems to change direction at random now. Not going to make him that much harder but hey there could be more that wasn't easy to see.[/QUOTE] I'm fairly certain that was just his response to getting hit, which isn't something new as he did that in standard BOI as well. [QUOTE=Psychopath12;46056331] Something triggers to give P2 invulnerability, might be the Cartridge it's hard to tell since we don't know the technicalities behind what activates it in the first place.[/QUOTE] It was the cartridge. It happens for both players, its just P1 was glitching out on the animation, hence Edmund constantly yelling at Tyrone. [QUOTE=Psychopath12;46056331] New spider type. He's got longer legs and stands taller than the enemy I mistook for a redesigned Trite back in the trailer. This one scurries away slowly but gets killed before he gets a chance to attack.[/QUOTE] It squatted down to lay a smaller spider, so it's basically like a more mobile and less random version of that moving spider egg sac I guess. Also not sure but i think that was another new spider enemy at 19:12? Just charged at him then after dying turned into a smaller spider. It looked a bit bigger and different I think from the other big spider from WOTL but it happens so fucking FAST

[QUOTE=postal;46058923]Nice job with the summary. fyi tho I'm fairly certain that was just his response to getting hit, which isn't something new as he did that in standard BOI as well. [/quote] That was my hunch, but Duke turned around so cleanly and didn't seem to actually be responding to the shots from P2 which leads me to believe that it's based on something new. [quote]It was the cartridge. It happens for both players, its just P1 was glitching out on the animation, hence Edmund constantly yelling at Tyrone. [/quote] I was writing the summary as I was watching, it wasn't until later in the VOD that it was blatantly clear what was happening. The requirements for activation still seem a bit masked, although a chance on-kill seems the most likely as the first time it activated was right after Danielle killed a segment of Larry Jr. [quote]It squatted down to lay a smaller spider, so it's basically like a more mobile and less random version of that moving spider egg sac I guess. Also not sure but i think that was another new spider enemy at 19:12? Just charged at him then after dying turned into a smaller spider. It looked a bit bigger and different I think from the other big spider from WOTL but it happens so fucking FAST[/QUOTE] You are most certainly correct. I did a double-take on that scene since I didn't even notice a difference my first watch. The two seem to be the same enemy type. Similar to boom flies, there are subspecies within their class that allows either of them to spawn in a given location but their behavior is very slightly different. It's the same governing rule that allows trites to spawn where hoppers do, gazing globins and globins, psychic maws in place of maws, gish in place of clotty, and so forth. Also I missed this in my tl;dr of the stream. Toothpicks is in the boss pool now. It's a tears + shot speed up so it's not godawful anymore. We've known about the stat improvement but not the addition into the boss pool. And the Bible appearing in the shop could be placebo for the Mitre's "blessing" attribute. It could happen independently but given the history with the Rosary it's pretty safe to assume since Ed wants piety to be important as an attribute in some way.

So I guess a whole line of Zodiac sign items are confirmed. We've already seen crab claws for Cancer, a lion's mane for Leo... maybe Virgo comes with a chastity belt...

Since we know that zodiac items are a thing, I'll be expecting a secret that's based on your computer's time/date. Pick up the zodiac that corresponds to today's date and a Fortune Teller and you unlock the Horoscope or something. I wouldn't put it past them to try to hide a secret behind that kind of method. It'd definitely make it difficult for the BoI subreddit to pin down exactly as people meet unlock requirements at their own pace and may have conflicting information when they don't consider the calendar.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;46065329]Since we know that zodiac items are a thing, I'll be expecting a secret that's based on your computer's time/date. Pick up the zodiac that corresponds to today's date and a Fortune Teller and you unlock the Horoscope or something. I wouldn't put it past them to try to hide a secret behind that kind of method. It'd definitely make it difficult for the BoI subreddit to pin down exactly as people meet unlock requirements at their own pace and may have conflicting information when they don't consider the calendar.[/QUOTE] Seeing as there's only 12 signs of the Zodiac, it'll probably be figured out pretty fast, depending on how rare Zodiac items are.

Unless he counts the oft-forgotten thirteenth sign, Ophiuchus the Serpent-Bearer, which not many folks do.

Remember this hidden image? [img]http://i.imgur.com/2hpWP4R.png[/img] I think that might be [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel]Azazel[/url]. It's the only picture of him where we can see part of his name, and even though he is still locked, the text below him clearly doesn't say "LOCKED". Azazel is a name seen several times in the Bible, always referring to a fallen angel. It also seems to be a somewhat common name for demonic characters in fiction, in particular [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel_(Asimov)]this one[/url], which is a pretty amusing coincidence. And most importantly it matches the above picture pretty damn well. [img]http://media.tumblr.com/da506f65ae7bfb2adf3eafe67f14a826/tumblr_inline_ncc46iERHl1rq0wgw.jpg[/img] You can even see what he looks like in this image from this week's blog post. Completely black, with what appears to be a pair of horns. Looks pretty much like a fallen angel to me. I just hope he's not the "Fallen Angel" from the new level, or if he is, I hope he will be interesting to fight.

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;46037043]boi looked nice but that was less 'innovative artstyle' and more 'this is what it looks like when you draw things with the brush in flash'[/QUOTE] For me the issue isn't so much that it's pixel art, but more it wasn't adapted well into pixel art. Like, to me it looks less like he actually made pixel art and more like he made the art normally without pixel art in mind, then just lowered the res.

[QUOTE=SirLemon;46074347]For me the issue isn't so much that it's pixel art, but more it wasn't adapted well into pixel art. Like, to me it looks less like he actually made pixel art and more like he made the art normally without pixel art in mind, then just lowered the res.[/QUOTE] That's pretty much exactly what happened. Ed drew the art as a quick sketch, then a pixelartist used the reference material to make the art we have now. Keep in mind that doing it this way freed up Ed's time to focus on things other than art.

[url]http://bindingofisaac.com/post/98656451214/isaac-turns-3[/url] [quote]3 years to this day The Binding of Isaac was released on steam and after well over 3 million copies sold it still continues to be played obsessively by its ever growing fan base. to celebrate this occasion we put isaac on sale for 90% off! (the cheapest its ever been!).. that’s right you can buy the binding of isaac for less than 75 cents! [img]http://media.tumblr.com/ff450a49ce322f4b9ab8cdea4ec9f9fa/tumblr_inline_ncmikng8A51rq0wgw.jpg[/img] but as we all know, you already own it, so think of this as your chance to become a true hero! buy a round of isaac for everyone at the bar! “ISAAC FOR EVERYONE” you’ll scream as you throw steam gifts at your buddy list. or better yet, buy copies now then gift them later when its back at full price so you dont look like a cheap ass! either way you should buy more copies so people will like you more! —————————————- i could go on for days here about the dev of isaac, its meaning and origins in celebration of isaac turning 3… but i think its best done in a video format. a while back the guys that made IGTM made a mini doc called Binding of Isaac Origins, as part of the Super Special edition of IGTM. well this week you can see it fo free on youtube! im constantly asked about the hows and whys when it comes to isaac, and if you have any burning questions about it, this video should cover them all. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMqFTuMECeA[/media][/quote] [quote]- the 1st title for the game was Love Sick, and the 1st build was code named “Tears”, the title “Mom” was also considered before settling on The Binding of Isaac. - the games title is not only a play on the biblical story of the same name, but also a play on the word structure of The Legend of Zelda - the sound when you pick up a key is a play on the same sound in gauntlet, i also did this in smb. - the original game took me and Florian less than 3 months part time to finish, it was originally planned to be a free flash game that i was going to sell to a sponsor, but after demoing it to a few other devs they convinced me to release it on steam. - steam had suggested the game sell at 9.99, but we set it to 4.99 because i assumed it was far too weird and inaccessible to catch on and i wanted more to play it. - the wrath of the lamb expansion was actually started because my wife Danielle 100%ed the game and wanted more content. (she had well over 500 hours clocked in by that time). - isaac was originally going to featured 8 bit art, but i decided to go with the hand drawn look to save time. this is why the icon for isaac is an 8bit image. - ??? (aka blue baby) is a reference to my 1st “game” dead baby dressup and the mascot called “the blue baby”, also my screen name on newgrounds. - there was an item in the Halloween update called “the pumpkin mask” that got cut because i hated it. it can still be seen in game when an item goes into an “undefined” state, but has no function. - The Sad Onion was the 1st item ever made. In Isaac’s initial design the game featured only 20 items, almost all were just stat padding items which later became the “boss pool”. - Spoon bender is a reference to uri geller. - the way isaac wears moms bra is a reference to weird science. - the necronomicon is an obvious evil dead reference. - a lot of the drug references in he game are references to alice in wonderland, a story the game also mirrors ( as well as mario ). - the teleporter is a nod to Spelunky, one of the games biggest influences. (aside from zelda of course) - the dead bird comes from a comic i did about my childhood called thicker than water . - a lot of isaacs themes reference the movie psycho. - the icon for brimstone is an alchemy symbol that means Sulfur [/quote]

I got two copies of Binding of Isaac, who wants some?

So, uh, looks like Ed forgot about Monday I like how the posts came in around 7-8 pm originally, then slowly started getting later and later when they came in around 11-12 pm, until the point where it's Tuesday now

[QUOTE=austin0331;46110663]So, uh, looks like Ed forgot about Monday I like how the posts came in around 7-8 pm originally, then slowly started getting later and later when they came in around 11-12 pm, until the point where it's Tuesday now[/QUOTE] He lives on the west coast, it's only 10 pm there. [img]http://puu.sh/bTDmI/25b84b9fb4.png[/img] Prepare your faces. [editline]30th September 2014[/editline] Lazarus has arrived (at least once you have 4 soul hearts or more at once). [quote]what does he do? how does he play? im not going to tell you! but i will say he feels like a maggy type character to me…[/quote] :I [img]http://i.imgur.com/bzTjBzY.gif[/img] BRWN SNKE

I expect Lazarus will have lots of soul hearts and few red hearts to start off (I'd even say NO red hearts, due to Lazarus' poor health in the parable). He'll probably also have a starting item that allows generation of soul hearts. [sp]now watch as he's based off of eternal/black hearts[/sp]

[QUOTE=Arctic-Zone;46112413]I expect Lazarus will have lots of soul hearts and few red hearts to start off (I'd even say NO red hearts, due to Lazarus' poor health in the parable). He'll probably also have a starting item that allows generation of soul hearts.[/QUOTE] But that would just be an easier version of ???. I hope he's going to be more unique than that.

[QUOTE=_Kilburn;46112555]But that would just be an easier version of ???. I hope he's going to be more unique than that.[/QUOTE] Edmund said Lazarus "feels like a Maggy character" whatever that means. High health? Tanks damage? Something like that. [QUOTE=_Kilburn;46074239]Remember this hidden image? [img]http://i.imgur.com/2hpWP4R.png[/img] I think that might be [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel]Azazel[/url]. [/quote] Yes it is Azazel, someone on reddit unblurred it and it looks pretty much like Azazel. I'll search for the unblurred image now. [editline]Poop Snake[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/pdGdG1M.png[/img]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/2Sfu2vu.png[/t]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TD8rDYP.png[/IMG] Next Monday might be the items released.

red mom can go eat a dick seriously, both satan and isaac are no match for me but I die on fucking red mom for a second time now (each time I had more than 6 hears WTF???)