Let's talk about "Skull o'Maniac"

[Crétin Singe]

Wtf is this ?

They add the curse thing in the power ups so we can make the game harder, why not.

But why the f*** would I waste one of my passives upgrades slots for this ?

We already have the pentagram as the garbage weapon to dodge when we level up, and now this ?

I'm a bit pissed, I wish I could turn it off so it doesn't pop up during the game.

This """upgrade""" should at least have a cool feature to power up our character and not just only increase the difficulty, I hope they will change it

[Jay Ren]

Escrito originalmente por Cahos Rahne Veloza:

Can you guys confirm this though...

I saw Dex's video on Youtube where he demonstrated this new mechanic even before it dropped as he's on the Beta Branch.

He said Garlic is actually Bad for a Cursed run. Is it though?

He literraly ends up taking garlic to survive his maxed out cursed run. And it was integral. You can see on the glowing bat wave the bats are bearly bring shoved sideways by the axe projectiles untill they touch the garlic where the same projectile yeets them.

It IS a lot harder to use at the start, but the knockback increase became required for survival.

[Furia]

cuz I enjoyed it >_>
https://ibb.co/19rwztc

now I need something even harder.

[Hans]

Escrito originalmente por Cahos Rahne Veloza:

Can you guys confirm this though...

I saw Dex's video on Youtube where he demonstrated this new mechanic even before it dropped as he's on the Beta Branch.

He said Garlic is actually Bad for a Cursed run. Is it though?

I just had a cursed run win solely because of garlic. He's wrong. I ran Lama with curse upgrade maxed and skull'o'mania picked up early in run for fun. 130% curse. I would have died if not for garlic and frost wand combo.

[Hans]

Escrito originalmente por Furia:

cuz I enjoyed it >_>
https://ibb.co/19rwztc

now I need something even harder.

But can you win with this garbage? Terrible rolls. Clock/ Garlic gave me the W. https://gyazo.com/8bca5078561fd3d3be667d43c5847d66

[effulgent]

You certainly don't need garlic to win a 130% cursed run: https://ibb.co/Vgkb6Rj

And as has already been said, the skull is a strong upgrade that I will take 100% of the time in its current form, could honestly use a nerf.

[Rideps]

I forgot to take a picture of my clear screen because I was getting drowsy, but with 4 curse from the shop I ended up with this situation. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/455413316014047232/944830866515984424/unknown.png
That enemy increase is nothing to sneeze at EXP wise. Ended up at 153.

[Izaran]

Post-game challenge for us morons who are getting bored of Green Acres.

[Zabs]

Escrito originalmente por Cahos Rahne Veloza:

Can you guys confirm this though...

I saw Dex's video on Youtube where he demonstrated this new mechanic even before it dropped as he's on the Beta Branch.

He said Garlic is actually Bad for a Cursed run. Is it though?

Garlic on its own... yes... evolved... NO! it helps you survive! add the Whips evolved form and you got a HP drainer

[nortynort]

I just picked up the Skull to unlock it in Collections and managed to get a win. It never dawned on me that I'd have to pick up 5 of them eventually though lol. It was pretty easy in by the end, but I hard stalled taking a second Skull until I absolutely had to. Thunder Loop took first place in DPS for the first time since the enemies were so fast and dense.

[The Highwayman]

Escrito originalmente por Richard Conway:

I'm a bit pissed, I wish I could turn it off so it doesn't pop up during the game.

This """upgrade""" should at least have a cool feature to power up our character and not just only increase the difficulty, I hope they will change it

It's good. You will level up faster and get more gold.

I just did a 100% curse run (maxed powerup & skull) with mortaccio and a pretty sub-optimal build. The enemies still couldn't get close to me, and I wasn't even moving.

The thing is, the game is actually at its hardest in the midgame before you have a chance to level your items up. Extra curse just lets you level up faster to get over that midgame hump.

It's true if your build is REALLY bad you won't be able to keep up at the end, but that was already true to begin with.

Personally if I could turn off items I'd turn off the mask.

[Wiawyr]

I'm sure the faster enemies seem like a problem at the start, but like everyone else has pointed out: higher curse means getting stronger faster. In my last game for the night I was grinding gold for the last two power up levels at 80% curse, I hit level 100 by twenty minutes and completed the stage with just under 81k kills. It makes the middle portion of a run less boring, and the Skull O'Maniac is definitely not a handicap. It would be nice to have an option to toggle the passive item off and automatically start with an additional 50% curse, but we'll see what we'll see.

[Van you see]

Yeah I do hope the dev can make it possible to remove certain upgrade from the pool, even you have to spend money to do so.

[Undying is F U N]

You can Unlock the Skull O Manic by surviving 30 minutes with Lama.

[KorgonZola]

Pentagram is pretty damn great, though.

[vivi]

I unlocked the achievement or skull o maniac and i see 2 "?" spots in my collection? How do i get those items? I have played a few runs after unlocking but nothing new shows up.