now i realize what OTP was talking about in post#110... there's no score bonus for doing hush on the daily, only boss rush. bleh, shouldn't have bothered with doing it today, but still did quite well 

Good to know the Hush is worthless on Dailies as well as tedious in general :> 

 

Doing the daily will delete any run you have in progress. 

 

 

It seems the answer is actually: You get 4444 for doing Boss Rush, and 5555 for doing Hush, but can only get one or the other, and Boss Rush takes precedence. 

Seems like a bug really, both should give a bonus together.
I wish there was a Daily Average score like in Spelunky (which had it as the average of your 10 best scores). 

Not sure a 'Top 10 Average' would work here, there's a lot more variance in the scoring potential of each day than Spelunky had, and Spelunky's scoring system really felt a lot more risk vs reward due to the Ghost mechanic. Isaac's score system rewards good play, but doesn't really give a ton of incentive for risk other than the Boss Rush/Hush bonus. 

So instead calculate it with rankings instead of score? The average of your 10 best daily rankings or something. 

Did everyone go for boss rush? Interested to know turtling is a comparable tactic. 

While the daily backend system works fine, the frontend feels incomplete. Things like ranking and so on would more accessible and attractive to play. 

Bal: yeah, that would be a cool idea... too bad it seems they only keep 1 week's worth of leaderboard though (you can only scroll back that far in game at least).

ijed: I didn't make it in time for Boss Rush today... I hate Anti-Grav tears. Luckily there's The Pact in one of the curse rooms and you get stupidly strong so it doesn't matter that your tears are wonky and annoying to shoot. Fruitcake too. Fun and the explosions from it's random Ipecac shots got me several tinted rocks I would've missed. 

Yeah antigrav isn't fun, but it seems its been buffed and ups your tear rate more than it did before.

Today I got a whole load of different stuff from the curse and devil rooms as well as fruitcake/pact I had god's flesh, head of the keeper, mom's perfume and I think some other mod as well but I can't remember what it was.

Interesting run... but I ran out of time and it was either eat or play. 

When? 

 

Lost with Holy Mantle and no item rooms. Couldn't get any deals with the Devil, saw Chaos in the shop and thought it was the way to victory.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=552403996


Never again. 

If The Lost starting with both Holy Mantle and the D4 is genius or retarded. On one hand you've got a very strong risk/reward element, because you could potentially become a superb character, at the cost of losing the mantle... but on the other hand you could replace it with utter shit and die 5 seconds later. 

According to Ijed, after like 2 rerolls you get Mom's Knife... but still likely not worth it imo, Holy Mantle is the best you can get. D4 is kinda dumb on him once you get Mantle. 

Well there are 3 items that make the lost a playable character - mantle, dead cat and stopwatch.

He also needs a lot of damage / ROF items to ease the amount of concentration needed and not make the rooms so drawn out that you eventually crack.

If it was me, I'd have him start with a passive item which destroys 1 other item each time he's killed, but then brings him back to life. If you run out of items and die then you die for reals.

This would have to be immune to the D4 to have any point. 

Reading this thread is like listening to people talk about sports. I have no idea what's going on. 

it's nice to know i'm not the only one. :} 

 

Is that he can shit on the floor of rooms that displease him. 

https://twitter.com/iamisaacsbody/status/665475939166371840

There was some ARG going on that ended with people finding a poster with a phone number with a message and then finding a Greed statue in real life... and apparently has unlocked a new character that we can now get by maxing out the Greed Mode donation machine