Health Up/Down pills exploit at Devil Deals

[Caliban]

So I just had a regular Isaac run because I'm still terrified of playing The Lost or getting the other achievements, and I ended up in a DD with two red hearts, one Health Down pill and the deal was Lord of the Pit.

Since I was feeling a little funky, I decided to take the deal and then use the pill. As soon as I took the item, all my hearts disappeared and I used the Health Down pill (which became Health Up), and got an empty red heart container, which I took to the Womb 1 and eventually filled and got more items (and won the run).

Is this a common practice or is the empty heart a bug? This makes the "killing yourself at a DD" much more manageable.

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[Chubblezap]

Health Down pills become Health Up pills when you are below 1 heart or less, similar to how Bad Trip pills become Full Health pills under the same conditions.

[All talk and no fight]

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

Health Down pills become Health Up pills when you are below 1 heart or less, similar to how Bad Trip pills become Full Health pills under the same conditions.

He knows that, he was stating that he traded all of his health away to the lord of the pit, but then he used his pill, granting him an empty red health containter, so essentially he had no health, but he did not die

[Chubblezap]

Originally posted by Hitler did nothing wrong:

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

Health Down pills become Health Up pills when you are below 1 heart or less, similar to how Bad Trip pills become Full Health pills under the same conditions.

He knows that, he was stating that he traded all of his health away to the lord of the pit, but then he used his pill, granting him an empty red health containter, so essentially he had no health, but he did not die

I see, I was assuming he only lost his RED hearts, but still had some blue/black ones left. That would be a bug, then.

[All talk and no fight]

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

Originally posted by Hitler did nothing wrong:

He knows that, he was stating that he traded all of his health away to the lord of the pit, but then he used his pill, granting him an empty red health containter, so essentially he had no health, but he did not die

I see, I was assuming he only lost his RED hearts, but still had some blue/black ones left. That would be a bug, then.

Now that you said that, i could be mistaken too, unless he clarifies for us, we wont know if he had some soul hearts left over. Maybe ill try it myself

[Caliban]

I didn't have any soul hearts, only two red hearts. What happened is that during the few frames where I didn't have any health (when you hold the item over your head), I used the pill, which increased my health but didn't fill it.

I don't really know why it happened, but if you see the screenshot, I only had an empty red heart container indeed.

[Anro]

Here's another good exploit if you have XI Strength (card)
-Make sure you've got at least one heart container
-Enter a devil room
-If there are two items on the room, take the one that uses the most hearts
-Pop the card
-Take the second one
-Leave like nothing happened
It worked on vanilla Isaac and it still works. :3

[All talk and no fight]

Originally posted by Bald Boy:

I didn't have any soul hearts, only two red hearts. What happened is that during the few frames where I didn't have any health (when you hold the item over your head), I used the pill, which increased my health but didn't fill it.

I don't really know why it happened, but if you see the screenshot, I only had an empty red heart container indeed.

Well then, thats settled. Its either a bug, or its purposely meant to be like that