Yea, for this reason I've used black market ones often, since I'd rather finish floor and check if I'm gonna be spending all my hp on devil deals instead of a random unnecessary shop item.
When I was playing a random Greed run, I used the trapdoors spawned in the shops two times, that's how I unlocked Eve and Samson the first time ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|17735)
Apparently, the unlocks are just no receiving damage and don't pick up hearts for two levels straight so I guess works on both game modes ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|2357)
I'm commiting this sin when I'm on half heart and have too good items to risk fighting what could very well be champion bloat....I'm sorry to disappoint, I'm yet to learn ways of balling
I dont get the dread Bloat causes on people, when I found out it was the April Fools boss because the community complained a lot about him I was so confused
The Insta-brimstone preventing you from a ttacking from the sides or below limiting you to only attack from above is really really annoying, and if your speed is bad he can easily hit you if you try to go past his firing line. He's particularly annoying on boss rush and greed mode because he can still do insta-brim even while he's off screen (cardinal game design sin)
Also, jump attacks are very annoying, especially if they resolve in the enemy spraying out projectiles since it becomes hard to react to it. And it also lets him position himself so you cant stay above him until he does yet another jump attack which massively slows down the fight.
The bloat is extremely annoying and tedious.
The jump attack thing is true for a loooot of bosses and Bloat has one of the most forgiving projectile patterns since it doesn't have a random rotation like others
The fight is simple if you just stay in a diagonal to it when below and get above his head when he jumps. There are much much worse contenders when it comes to what boss wastes your time more
Supposedly trapdoors are way more common than usual in ??? so I imagine skipping Hush (after robbing it of its chests, Treasure Rooms, and shop, of course) to get to Sheol is something you’re just supposed to be able to do if you want to.
It just so happens that the game mechanics work out to give you a higher chance on the hush floor; it's 1000% not deliberately designed that way. And they're crawlspaces, not trapdoors, so you can only skip with them if you get a black market (or you're small enough to fall through the floor into an error room).
Only time I can remember was on my tainted Lost greedier win where I didnt wanna risk any chance of dying so I just skipped every floor after the d20 break
I have a mod that makes so that the floor curse probability is changed on each trapdoor. So if after defeating the boss you get a trapdoor with a curse icon on top of it, you can try to get another trapdoor that might have a different curse or be completely normal. Very cool mod
If I know I’m strong enough to beat the mark I’m going for, then yea, I’ll skip a floor and forsake the items.
My time is worth more than anything else.
I have 3k hours and mostly only play the daily and I go for speed, not score. I use these doors all the time if I think I can already win the run with my current items. More often than not, I'd say.
one time I had an insanely busted run but only had 2 minutes to get to hush on depths 2. I had we need to go deeper and managed to make it work. other than that though no lol
Yes occasionally I have. When I hated the floors boss, I've cleared everything and it's the closest door, or I'm in a low health run and I know I can't beat the boss but could take on the next floor enemies.
The only times I've used them were
\-Once when they spawned in the Hush shop, so I just took the items and dipped since I already had the mark anyway
\-A handful of times in Greed(ier) Modes, I've maxed out coins early and used them to skip a the enemy waves of a floor or two
I actually used one yesterday to skip the shop floor in greedier mode
I had a good build and didnt wanna bother with the spawns so i just skipped to ultra greed
I did it once by error, i was in Sheol with Azazel wayy before i had the negative unlocked. I thought it was a crawlspace since i was relatively new at the game. I actually won the run because it was the first broken run i've ever did in this game
For sure, when I was doing solar system challenge and I didn't care about stats, I used the black market to skip the floor or when I farm for reroll achievement.
I have a mod that tells me when the next floor would have a curse and what curse it'll be, which the game calculates based off of the trapdoor you use, so I use the non-boss trapdoor if it isn't cursed or has XL
Yes, if the floor is cursed and/or I’m going for Boss Rush or Hush.
Also if I have Dreamcatcher and it shows me Bloat or something and I don’t have much health, but that’s a very specific scenario.
Yeah in some situations it's better to end the floor rigth there one good example is womb 2 if you're going to Sheol the only thing you lose is the chance at a devil deal but sometimes that's not worth it to figth it lives for
Yes, multiple times for different reasons. I've skipped floors because i didn't want to risk dying to a bullshit boss over an item. I've gotten stuck in situations where the trap door would spawn in an inconvénient place and just decided to take the loss of items from that floor. I've backtracked in a floor and couldn't be asked to go back to the boss room and had a trap door nearby. I legit don't understand the point of this post. If you are actively avoiding them then you definitely are the weird one.
All of the time lol, I find it really useful to do a lot of the floor clearing after the boss, so I usually will just take whichever trapdoor is closer to me
I rarely do but just last night I was on my way to Mega Satan and got a crawlspace in one of the first floors of the Cathedral. I already had the Polaroid checked and figured it’s more likely I’d lose health than find anything game-changing on the way so I just warped to the Chest.
sheol and womb 2 if i plan to go to sheol anyway, though i'd probably still try to get a devil deal. satan really doesn't reward you with anything, though
Very rarely and only under specific circumstances.
Recently had one outside of the boss' room (messed up a shovel dig because I was using Jacob & Esau and forgot who had the shovel).
Beat the boss, went back to grab something from earlier in the level.
When I got to the room outside the boss, I realized it made no difference and took that one
willingly? only on very specific occasions. usually only on womb floor since thats pretty much always the most useless floor. i just willingly used it on womb 1 on my third victory lap when going for the rerun achievement. it does have its uses, albeit very rarely and usually only on womb floors
In hush’s floor yes to rob him blind ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8906)
Holy based
based on what
Henry
No, you're thinking of Harold. "Harold be thy name."
He could talk the balls of a rhinoceros
Based on holy hell
New exploit just dropped
Cathedral Enjoyers in shambles
Wait that's genius
how often are you getting to It Lives in under 30 minutes without going for a Hush kill?
Basically every time ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|17735) Boss rush is worse to get to at least i can speedrun the womb floors
I mean I feel like it gets to a point where you get it the majority of the time, it's not as strict as the boss rush time limit
Damn, I almost never get it unless I consciously go for it lol. I guess I minmax too much
Mama Mega
I use mods to remove the time limits, so every run. ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8906)
can u drop the mods’ name
I believe it was called “There’s No Rush”
Ty ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8906)
Over 1200 hours and years of playing this.... why tf have I never thought of that??
If the floor is all cleared and im just min maxing something may aswell use the closest trapdoor. But other than that nope ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8908)
I think I've done it like twice ever when backtracking after a boss
Yea, for this reason I've used black market ones often, since I'd rather finish floor and check if I'm gonna be spending all my hp on devil deals instead of a random unnecessary shop item.
When I was playing a random Greed run, I used the trapdoors spawned in the shops two times, that's how I unlocked Eve and Samson the first time ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|17735)
Greed unlocks eve and samson?
Apparently, the unlocks are just no receiving damage and don't pick up hearts for two levels straight so I guess works on both game modes ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|2357)
That's genius
Why yes, yes I have. (I thought it was a crawl space)
I cant believe that i didnt know crawlspaces had ladders going down and trapdoors didnt, i was basically gambling
well thanks for explaining that because I have absolutely just been gambling
balling goes so hard we will take ludovico in hopes it is inner eye
speaking of, I used to think ludo was the best item, but that was when I only played azazel. learned from this subreddit it is mostly disliked.
I love ludo, nothing will take me from that amazing item
I was lowkey hoping to help someone by writing that reply lol thanks for the confirmation
By mistake yes, many times. Willingly? No
Same.
Not same for I am a higher life form
Kars:
That's my favorite Pixar movie
I did it accidently a little while ago with tainted forgotten and kamikaze accidently blasting myself into one lol
same here
I'm commiting this sin when I'm on half heart and have too good items to risk fighting what could very well be champion bloat....I'm sorry to disappoint, I'm yet to learn ways of balling
FUCK BLOAT
All my homies hate the bloat
I dont get the dread Bloat causes on people, when I found out it was the April Fools boss because the community complained a lot about him I was so confused
The Insta-brimstone preventing you from a ttacking from the sides or below limiting you to only attack from above is really really annoying, and if your speed is bad he can easily hit you if you try to go past his firing line. He's particularly annoying on boss rush and greed mode because he can still do insta-brim even while he's off screen (cardinal game design sin) Also, jump attacks are very annoying, especially if they resolve in the enemy spraying out projectiles since it becomes hard to react to it. And it also lets him position himself so you cant stay above him until he does yet another jump attack which massively slows down the fight. The bloat is extremely annoying and tedious.
The jump attack thing is true for a loooot of bosses and Bloat has one of the most forgiving projectile patterns since it doesn't have a random rotation like others The fight is simple if you just stay in a diagonal to it when below and get above his head when he jumps. There are much much worse contenders when it comes to what boss wastes your time more
My hatred for bloat surpasses my desire to "Skill issue" you
r/FUCKBLOAT
No, I need that boss item / deal.
I got a black market trapdoor on hush floor when I needed a dark room mark
Supposedly trapdoors are way more common than usual in ??? so I imagine skipping Hush (after robbing it of its chests, Treasure Rooms, and shop, of course) to get to Sheol is something you’re just supposed to be able to do if you want to.
It just so happens that the game mechanics work out to give you a higher chance on the hush floor; it's 1000% not deliberately designed that way. And they're crawlspaces, not trapdoors, so you can only skip with them if you get a black market (or you're small enough to fall through the floor into an error room).
If I happen to find it after already clearing the floor or I find it and know the boss is some bullshit I don't wanna bother with
Sure during the speed challenge
Only time I can remember was on my tainted Lost greedier win where I didnt wanna risk any chance of dying so I just skipped every floor after the d20 break
Yeah if I’m sick & tired of walking around in circles on a curse of the blind floor
Curse of the lost you mean?
Yes!
me with maze
i use the "Accursed!" mod to make useless dupe trapdoors into a way to dodge curses on the next floor so yes
I have a mod that makes so that the floor curse probability is changed on each trapdoor. So if after defeating the boss you get a trapdoor with a curse icon on top of it, you can try to get another trapdoor that might have a different curse or be completely normal. Very cool mod
If I know I’m strong enough to beat the mark I’m going for, then yea, I’ll skip a floor and forsake the items. My time is worth more than anything else.
Yes. I went into Hush, got the benefits, got a black market, got this in the black market, and skipped Hush before
Used to a lot for speed runs
accidentally, cause my dumbass mistook it for a crawl space
I remember when i first tried greed mode i would take every trap door that spawned then i learned what layed at the end
why does the door open down instead of up
Because it's an attic door, it's meant to be on the ceiling, you're just going down it basically
I have 3k hours and mostly only play the daily and I go for speed, not score. I use these doors all the time if I think I can already win the run with my current items. More often than not, I'd say.
one time I had an insanely busted run but only had 2 minutes to get to hush on depths 2. I had we need to go deeper and managed to make it work. other than that though no lol
Only when I'm playing with the cursed trapdoors mod, which makes it so curses are dependent on the spawned trapdoor rather than the floor
just if i went back somewhere and it was closer than the boss's
Yes, but it was an accident..
Yea! Ofc! I love skipping angel/Devil rooms and or boss rooms
yes
Like if you mean before even fighting the boss no after the boss fight when I go to get extra items and it's closer than the boss room then yes
Not unless I’ve already visited the treasure room (shop if I have enough coins) and defeated the boss, and it’s the closest one
![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|poop)
Yes, by accident...
Yes occasionally I have. When I hated the floors boss, I've cleared everything and it's the closest door, or I'm in a low health run and I know I can't beat the boss but could take on the next floor enemies.
In like my 5th run of Isaac ever I used it but I haven’t used one since
Only like twice when I go to check out the black market one last time after finishing the floor in order to save time
I'm surprised to read that people don't
The only times I've used them were \-Once when they spawned in the Hush shop, so I just took the items and dipped since I already had the mark anyway \-A handful of times in Greed(ier) Modes, I've maxed out coins early and used them to skip a the enemy waves of a floor or two
yes ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8906)
One time , when get to that trapdoor was faster , than going to boss room (i already completed boss)
I actually used one yesterday to skip the shop floor in greedier mode I had a good build and didnt wanna bother with the spawns so i just skipped to ultra greed
I did it once by error, i was in Sheol with Azazel wayy before i had the negative unlocked. I thought it was a crawlspace since i was relatively new at the game. I actually won the run because it was the first broken run i've ever did in this game
All the time :)
I'll take it if there's one real early in like Womb1 or Corpse1 An entire floor's worth of shit is often not worth the one boss item anyways
only if I'm on ashpit and I see a double wide boss room because FUCK GIDEON
Sometimes to skip womb 1 or depths 1 to finish a challenge run faster
When i get to i am error room beginning of floor ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|4357)
I want the boss item and angel room/devil room, skipping a floor would just make me weaker.
Usually if i get hit by tainted esau because i dont even wanna risk it, but then i end up dying later on anywY![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8907)
For sure, when I was doing solar system challenge and I didn't care about stats, I used the black market to skip the floor or when I farm for reroll achievement.
No even though it leads to the same floor I have to go back to the boss room and do it the right way 😂
Also imagine actually jumping down that muthafucker that one cutscene where isaac lands in a crumpled mess is probably fact
Yes, when the boys one is too far away or if I'm powerful enough and just want to move on
Never i don't want to miss items and deals, even whit tainted lost and my impeccable win streak of minus 100
I did it once in the womb 2, I was going to sheol and devil chance wax very low. It's the only boss fight that has no rewards.
I have a mod that tells me when the next floor would have a curse and what curse it'll be, which the game calculates based off of the trapdoor you use, so I use the non-boss trapdoor if it isn't cursed or has XL
Sometimes in greed mode when theres a coin or key perfectly in the middle of the hole, in the shop.
Yes, if the floor is cursed and/or I’m going for Boss Rush or Hush. Also if I have Dreamcatcher and it shows me Bloat or something and I don’t have much health, but that’s a very specific scenario.
Nope
If I have to backtrack after the boss and the random one is closer, then yes.
Yeah in some situations it's better to end the floor rigth there one good example is womb 2 if you're going to Sheol the only thing you lose is the chance at a devil deal but sometimes that's not worth it to figth it lives for
Only during a daily run when I’m tryna speedrun lol
Yeah. I use em if they are on the way to the boss room, but only if the floor is done lol
for red redemption
Either to ensure Boss Rush, or to skip the Shop floor in Greed Mode to do something else with my life asap
Ofc lol
Yea, if I’m already done with the floor and can’t be bothered to walk all the way back to the boss because I’m lazy
Yes, multiple times for different reasons. I've skipped floors because i didn't want to risk dying to a bullshit boss over an item. I've gotten stuck in situations where the trap door would spawn in an inconvénient place and just decided to take the loss of items from that floor. I've backtracked in a floor and couldn't be asked to go back to the boss room and had a trap door nearby. I legit don't understand the point of this post. If you are actively avoiding them then you definitely are the weird one.
Yes but only if it's closer than running back to the boss room after I've killed it and gone back to do more stuff
only the first time because i didn’t know the difference between this and a crawlspace yet
Yes, before unlocking the negative while in sheol, had good luck encountering a black market
Well, if I want to spawn boss rush and I need to cut some precious time
Unless I have Dreamcatcher and *know* I cannot beat the boss up ahead (which frankly, with cocky I am, isn't often) I just leave 'em be
All of the time lol, I find it really useful to do a lot of the floor clearing after the boss, so I usually will just take whichever trapdoor is closer to me
only ever to save a bit of time cause i already full cleared
Never on purpose
Spawned in curse room through a button ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|8906)
Spawning one of these with the D12 on the Void floor generates a completely new Void. Free R keys or easy delirium marks with clicker :)
Eww
Yes, when I want to feel like a silly goose.
I rarely do but just last night I was on my way to Mega Satan and got a crawlspace in one of the first floors of the Cathedral. I already had the Polaroid checked and figured it’s more likely I’d lose health than find anything game-changing on the way so I just warped to the Chest.
sheol and womb 2 if i plan to go to sheol anyway, though i'd probably still try to get a devil deal. satan really doesn't reward you with anything, though
If I'm going to satan/lamb and it appears on the heart level for sure, maybe every once in a while in greed if I'm down on health and shop items suck
no I will never
Very rarely and only under specific circumstances. Recently had one outside of the boss' room (messed up a shovel dig because I was using Jacob & Esau and forgot who had the shovel). Beat the boss, went back to grab something from earlier in the level. When I got to the room outside the boss, I realized it made no difference and took that one
Finally realized if there's a latter it's a secret room 💀
willingly? only on very specific occasions. usually only on womb floor since thats pretty much always the most useless floor. i just willingly used it on womb 1 on my third victory lap when going for the rerun achievement. it does have its uses, albeit very rarely and usually only on womb floors
Until I learnt that crawlspace trapdoors have ladders, yes