Why doesn't 9 lives work with the lost anymore?

[Peter Trayus]

I wanted to play a casual run as the lost and I picked up dead cat, but I died. Before you were invincible. Now the lost is unplayable.

[Smoughstein]

How about you git gud.

[FhqwhTODD]

They fixed that bug. That's what happened.

[Yes]

Originally posted by Red Clark Duncan:

I wanted to play a casual run as the lost and I picked up dead cat, but I died. Before you were invincible. Now the lost is unplayable.

Casual with the lost?

[The Ripper {Panda}]

Just alt+F4 each time you die. Made a topic about it earlier, for some reason it got modded though.

[SakuraKoi]

and here I was just thinking tabout creating a thread, asking which item works best for The Lost since I just made it barely through an hard run to the Blue Baby thanks to not only the 9 Lives but an additional one granted by chance through Guppys Collar. I do indeed name the dead cat as the best standalone item (and then the free hit per room item). Sadly I made it to the Boss Rush Room in time but was hit in one of the last waves but well, I am not good at this game, probably... I dunno... maybe, maybe not

[Magical Purple Man]

Originally posted by Red Clark Duncan:

I wanted to play a casual run as the lost and I picked up dead cat, but I died. Before you were invincible. Now the lost is unplayable.

2casual4thelost.
The Lost is designed to be the opposite of casual

[Peter Trayus]

Originally posted by Fhqwhgod:

They fixed that bug. That's what happened.

I don't think it was a bug.

[Magical Purple Man]

Originally posted by Red Clark Duncan:

Originally posted by Fhqwhgod:

They fixed that bug. That's what happened.

I don't think it was a bug.

The changelog says otherwise
"Fixed The Lost + Dead Cat exploits"

[EvilShuckle]

Okay... well, now that's not in it anymore, I'm definitely not going to try again. 9 cats was the only thing that made the whole thing at least seem... within the realm of possibilities.

[Nani]

There's still holy mantle, or the possibility to get gnawed leaf with a good source of passive damage, like daddy long legs, the pepper, or the big beatiful fly. I managed to get to ??? with the holy mantle and a neat bundle of items, then dying to his teleport out of unfamiliarity.

Also orbitals like guardian angle, sacrificial dagger, meatboy/bandage girl, smart fly (that would be a nice combo with holy mantle and gnawed leaf) ... I tihnk there are still a lot of ways to make the Lost a bit sturdier.

[GDMFSOB81]

What I hate more about The Lost + Dead Cat is that they still won't let you know how many lives you have when you pick it up. Sloppy coding to just disable the entire HP bar and not leave extra lives visible.

[R3sistance]

Originally posted by GDMFSOB81:

What I hate more about The Lost + Dead Cat is that they still won't let you know how many lives you have when you pick it up. Sloppy coding to just disable the entire HP bar and not leave extra lives visible.

Given that it appears that you weren't meant to have extra lives as the lost to begin with...

[Shrump]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Shrump/screenshot/30725610595385958

Well at least Boss rush and Mom's heart are possible with no dead cat at all, took me a lot of losses and resets though.

God Head looks in the realm of impossibility though, that being said the dead cat invulnerability needed fixing and I'm glad it is fixed.

[FrozenStar]

Oh, are you sad because you cannot cheat anymore?
What a tragedy!

Friggin' fools, creating silly shameful trhreads.