what decides how many stages there are

[Radio Dead]

asking for a friend

Edit: I'm a nub didn't realize the term was looping

[Garble]

wat

[Radio Dead]

well i'm on stage 6 which is the final boss, but i've been in much higher stages before and dont know how. I saw a guy on twitch like 3 hours into a game at about stage 28. So, is there a way to continue adding stages to a game?

[Lilou]

By interacting with the stones around the teleporter before activating it you can change its destination to a random stage 7instead of the boss level ;)

[Garble]

Kind of.

The boss would always be on stage 6 unless you were to loop around to the beginning.
On stage 5 if you interact with the side plates on the teleporter they will close, then if you use start the teleporter event, when it's done you would loop back to stage 1 but it would be stage 6.
You can also loop by using the blue portal and gold portals I believe.
And you can certainly loop using the Bulwark's Ambry portal on stage 5.
As far as I know you can infinitely loop.

You can obliterate on every stage 3 through the celestial portal after looping to end your run if you don't wish to fight the boss. Obliterating also rewards you with Lunar Coins that you can use in future runs.

[Radio Dead]

Originally posted by Lilou:

By interacting with the stones around the teleporter before activating it you can change its destination to a random stage 7instead of the boss level ;)

thanks!@ hahah

[Ittrix]

Yeah, the term is looping.
Basically it's how many stages you can see before you start getting repeats.
Stage 1 is always one of four stages (two environments)
Stage 2 is always one of two stages (two environments)
Stage 3 is always one of two stages (two environments)
Stage 4 is always one of two stages (two environments)
Stage 5 is always Purple.

After that you'll 'loop' back to Stage 1 (assuming you didn't go through to the final boss) and get one of the four stages. So, 5 stages in a loop. The Celestial Portal always appears on stage 3 after the first loop, and the boss' teleporter is always gonna be on stage 5.

[Radio Dead]

Originally posted by Ittrix:

Yeah, the term is looping.
Basically it's how many stages you can see before you start getting repeats.
Stage 1 is always one of four stages (two environments)
Stage 2 is always one of two stages (two environments)
Stage 3 is always one of two stages (two environments)
Stage 4 is always one of two stages (two environments)
Stage 5 is always Purple.

After that you'll 'loop' back to Stage 1 and get one of the four stages. So, 5 stages in a loop. The Celestial Portal always appears on stage 3 after the first loop, and the boss' teleporter is always gonna be on stage 5.

cool cool. this will make my games more interesting

[Eastern Sky]

also know that you can enter artifact stages which are pretty much free items stage every loop if you go to bottom at stage 5 instead of boss teleporter