Mongo Baby

[RoMoon]

So I know there have been a few threads about Mongo Baby, but I'd like to make another one as this baby has destroyed a couple of my runs now. Today I had lil brimstone, the spectral tears baby and little steven, picked up mongo baby and all of those babies disappeared. Mongo baby still fired little psychic tears, spectral tears and normal tears, at a slightly increased rate to what one baby would individually fire but slower than they were firing by themselves, and lil brimstone's effect was totally lost.

This was on a hard run and I was doing fairly well and this totally ruined the run. If this baby is functioning as intended then it's an awful item, as it always seems to be a nerf rather than a buff on any given run.

[what's that smell?]

I found Mongo on Cellar 2, and he ate the demon auto turret, and took on it's abilities with more damage it seemed.

The next floor, the turret was back and mongo didn't do anything for the rest of the game; and I found a lot of followers during the run, yet Mongo just floated.

[Corvus]

mongo will take all the babies you have an get there tears and have better damage

[Netsa]

Just lost Lil' Brimstone after picking up Mongo for the first time. Never picking him up again.

[Sock Puppet]

Mongo ruining lil brimstone is a bug to my knowledge. As for him eating familiars, I'm pretty sure that's also a bug.

[Lucathegreat]

Definitely a bug, I remember one time where he made the devil familiar disappear, but then he reappeared a couple of floors later.

[Blue Candle]

Originally posted by Joki the Disco Bandit:

No one can be sure whether it's an intended mechanic that your other familiars occasionally disappear. It's just not consistent enough to know. It seems he's meant to take on their abilities, but whether it's meant for them to disappear entirely, and only occasionally, is anyone's guess.

We've been experiencing a lot of weird issues with co-op anyway. I've had familiars freeze in place for a few rooms, not doing anything, only for them to return to normal a couple rooms later. I've seen some of my familiars decide to follow my partner for a few rooms, then come back to me.

Last night we found a new oddity, where when my partner would die they'd immediately come back with half a heart, but totally invisible. She could still shoot and move normally, but we couldn't see her at all. When she'd die a 2nd time she'd resurrect as usual with the appropriate number of hearts based on how many I had. Then the cycle would repeat.

In short, co-op definitely has some bugs, and it seems like so does Mongo. The game has some issues with familiars at the moment.

Did you have guppys collar? Probably affects p2 but with glitches.

[RoMoon]

Before I created this thread I closed the game, when I reopened it my lil' brimstone was back, but the other familiar was gone. Mongo Baby still there. Seems like it's meant to take on their powers but sometimes eats them, too. Whether that's intentional or not seems to be unknown!

[Firestorm]

I might add to this. Today I had a rotten baby. Then I took up Mongo baby. My rotten baby disappeared. So i thought this is crap. Later i took up Eve's bird foot (Trinket), and then my rotten baby came back. And now both of my babies are producing flies.

After i quit the game and then continue, my rotten baby disappeared again..

[RoMoon]

Firestorm's comment makes it look increasingly likely that this is all just a bug....

[Quatropus]

Shame, Mongo Baby is by far one of my top ten items.

[Kinne]

I love mongo baby. I don't even care if he eats a familiar

Originally posted by Firestorm:

And now both of my babies are producing flies.

Yup, that's what mongo baby does. He copies one of your familiars. But coding that made a bug where he eats a familiar instead of copy it. Just wait till it gets fixed and you have double lil brimstone, one with half charge time

[RoMoon]

Kinne - Don't even, the very thought makes me jizz my pants (not literally ofc)