I'd say unlock as much as you think you need.

The difficulty gap between AB+ and Rep is immense, so it would be reasonable to have a bunch of good items unlocked from the start.

Unless you're a masochist like me and you start a totally fresh save file in Repentance

I'd also recommend you moving to playing mainly normal mode, because you will be literally raped with the difficulty of hard if you're not prepared

Yeah thanks. I've also learned my lesson after trying hardmode.

You should wait until more patches come out as some important stuff is really unstable.

Originally posted by Blind, the Bound Demon:

I'd say unlock as much as you think you need.

The difficulty gap between AB+ and Rep is immense, so it would be reasonable to have a bunch of good items unlocked from the start.

Unless you're a masochist like me and you start a totally fresh save file in Repentance :dip:

The difficulty gap between AB+ and Repentance is very miniscule in normal mode. You will only really feel the difficulty jump if you have been playing hard mode the whole time, since the vast majority of difficulty tweaks are hard mode exclusive. From my experience, I haven't really been struggling much more than I did in AB+ and have a similar win loss ratio. The main difference I have noticed is a much larger amount of "middle of the road" runs, whereas in AB+ I felt like I either got hilariously overpowered or had practically base stats with no useful items by the end of the run. Now most runs are "I get fairly strong but still need to focus in the endgame." Otherwise, in Repentance the main route is fairly easy with most characters and the alt path while a bit harder only really bares its teeth in the Mausoleum floors and the boss fights in the Corpse, with Downpour and Mines not posing much of a threat.

Originally posted by 11clock:

Originally posted by Blind, the Bound Demon:

I'd say unlock as much as you think you need.

The difficulty gap between AB+ and Rep is immense, so it would be reasonable to have a bunch of good items unlocked from the start.

Unless you're a masochist like me and you start a totally fresh save file in Repentance

The difficulty gap between AB+ and Repentance is very miniscule in normal mode. You will only really feel the difficulty jump if you have been playing hard mode the whole time, since the vast majority of difficulty tweaks are hard mode exclusive.

Yeah, I was talking about hard mode.

Right now during this sale that has 6 hours left.

Originally posted by S.R.:

You should wait until more patches come out as some important stuff is really unstable.

False.

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Right now during this sale that has 6 hours left.

Originally posted by S.R.:

You should wait until more patches come out as some important stuff is really unstable.

False.

You should wait until more patches come out as some important stuff is really unstable, like some new end bosses having issues and game crashes, Steam achievements being completely wiped out with certain processes, characters having issues working and a lot more issues including dailies being buggy. There is no arguing about this, the DLC has serious issues. As for the sale thing, he is only missing Repentance and that doesn't seem to be on sale.

buy it after 500 hours of gameplay

Originally posted by S.R.:

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Right now during this sale that has 6 hours left.



False.

You should wait until more patches come out as some important stuff is really unstable, like some new end bosses having issues and game crashes, Steam achievements being completely wiped out with certain processes, characters having issues working and a lot more issues including dailies being buggy. There is no arguing about this, the DLC has serious issues. As for the sale thing, he is only missing Repentance and that doesn't seem to be on sale.

i think the whole chrashing thing is due to the player's machine,i play using an old notebook i got years ago and i haven't got a single crash on my whole isaac game time,maybe a little fps drop here and there but nothing too big,and the achievements wiping thing is a steam issue i think,if your unlocks have been reseted,just go into stats then secrets and you should get your stuff back,and dailies were always buggy,cant really say much about that

Originally posted by faustow:

Originally posted by S.R.:

You should wait until more patches come out as some important stuff is really unstable, like some new end bosses having issues and game crashes, Steam achievements being completely wiped out with certain processes, characters having issues working and a lot more issues including dailies being buggy. There is no arguing about this, the DLC has serious issues. As for the sale thing, he is only missing Repentance and that doesn't seem to be on sale.

i think the whole chrashing thing is due to the player's machine,i play using an old notebook i got years ago and i haven't got a single crash on my whole isaac game time,maybe a little fps drop here and there but nothing too big,and the achievements wiping thing is a steam issue i think,if your unlocks have been reseted,just go into stats then secrets and you should get your stuff back,and dailies were always buggy,cant really say much about that

You probably just got lucky, the game is rather unstable in certain areas(pray you don't get something like the boss portal on The Void with Card Reader, and the Void portal itself is known to cause crashes after Mega Satan). And the Steam achievement wiping thing is the DLC's fault because the previous games have never been known to do that. Issues started appearing with Repentance.
As for the dailies, they were buggy at first, then they were fixed later on in Afterbirth+ and now they are back to being buggy again. Genius design. I definitely think that they should wait for the next big sale as Repentance might be discounted and will hopefully get more patches until then.

Bugs aside, he should also wait until Jacob and Esau get removed.

Originally posted by S.R.:

Originally posted by faustow:

i think the whole chrashing thing is due to the player's machine,i play using an old notebook i got years ago and i haven't got a single crash on my whole isaac game time,maybe a little fps drop here and there but nothing too big,and the achievements wiping thing is a steam issue i think,if your unlocks have been reseted,just go into stats then secrets and you should get your stuff back,and dailies were always buggy,cant really say much about that

You probably just got lucky, the game is rather unstable in certain areas(pray you don't get something like the boss portal on The Void with Card Reader, and the Void portal itself is known to cause crashes after Mega Satan). And the Steam achievement wiping thing is the DLC's fault because the previous games have never been known to do that. Issues started appearing with Repentance.
As for the dailies, they were buggy at first, then they were fixed later on in Afterbirth+ and now they are back to being buggy again. Genius design. I definitely think that they should wait for the next big sale as Repentance might be discounted and will hopefully get more patches until then.

Bugs aside, he should also wait until Jacob and Esau get removed.

jacob and esau are fine,but when will ed remove the heretic? seriously,i HATE the heretic with all of my beign

Originally posted by faustow:

Originally posted by S.R.:

You probably just got lucky, the game is rather unstable in certain areas(pray you don't get something like the boss portal on The Void with Card Reader, and the Void portal itself is known to cause crashes after Mega Satan). And the Steam achievement wiping thing is the DLC's fault because the previous games have never been known to do that. Issues started appearing with Repentance.
As for the dailies, they were buggy at first, then they were fixed later on in Afterbirth+ and now they are back to being buggy again. Genius design. I definitely think that they should wait for the next big sale as Repentance might be discounted and will hopefully get more patches until then.

Bugs aside, he should also wait until Jacob and Esau get removed.

jacob and esau are fine,but when will ed remove the heretic? seriously,i HATE the heretic with all of my beign

Jacob and Esau I would hardly call ''fine''(they really need to be reworked), but I only ever encountered the Heretic once as he seems to be a very rare boss for some reason so I can't comment on him meaningfully. Great Gideon should also be made more interesting as that boss is Greed mode in the regular campaign which is what everybody wanted.

imagine wanting content to be removed smh

Originally posted by Blind, the Bound Demon:

imagine wanting content to be removed smh

Better no content than bad content.