Am I missing something? dark mirror question

[Mister Sir]

I been playing skul for some amount of hours, enough to beat it many times on normal mode. So I figure ok, I think I know enough about it to go dark mirror and for the most part yeah, harder but manageable, died to inexperience with some specific new enemies but seem fine.

The issue I am having is that upon death I am back to the start, all good, right? Wrong. In every skul video that I see there this entire mechanical contraption people having that allows them to select skul of their choice, starter items, etc. Do I need to beat the hard mode once to unlock it or how do you even get this? Cause now it's just empty place with passed out witch.

[faza]

that is a mod - choose any skulls, items and quintessences at the start of a run. Is up to you. some people got pride, so they won't use mod and try to win all 10 levels first. While others, might find it too frustrating, so they cleared all 10 levels using mods.

[Mister Sir]

huh it makes sense I guess since they do all sort of request runs and stuff but that makes it much more lamer lol

[OO0nMe]

No just to be clear, if you clear DM1-10 you slowly unlock those mechanical contraptions which add new gameplay elements as a reward. And yes, that includes picking 2 starter skulls, 2 starter items, etc.

Once you start to unlock certain stuff, builds get more and more powerfull/unfair too as difficulty ramps up.

[WillSP]

Originally posted by Mister Sir:

huh it makes sense I guess since they do all sort of request runs and stuff but that makes it much more lamer lol

It's not a mod

You slowly unlock everything with each Mirror Level you beat, Beating DM 0 should get you the skull selection box and the item one comes soon after.

As for what Random said, there is a mod that some content creators use that improves the passives to also include more powerful items, skulls and quintessences. Without it you can only choose 2 Basic or Rare Skulls and 2 Basic Items.

[Mister Sir]

makes sense, just beat dif 0 and got skull and item boxes. What about omens though? When those start dropping?

[wishstruck]

beating diff 2 i believe. although I have checked most of them and the downsides do not seems to be worth what they offer.

[deatheven13]

You'll also eventually unlock an upgrade for your skull selector that gives you rare skulls. Items stay at common though which was the big sad.
I still wish there was a way to get 2 random skulls at the beginning as well on hard mode since I find it super hard to not just pick Water / Bomber all the time since it's my favorite combo.

[Reorx]

Not a mod, but some mod can add more options such as selecting legendary skulls and items