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[REP] The Depressed (Standalone)

10/10 funnyness

This is just an unfun challenge mod. While you can’t get stat downs, all your star ups last so short, you can’t enjoy them, so most of the time you will be running around with near-basic stats.

Good concept, very bad practice. This character makes most items useless, not fun

the downtrodden?!

i don't think the tainted counterpart is... well justifiable as a tainted version (i know a lot of people have said this already). perhaps you could have a larger drain but a reset of the values it takes way each floor? it differ's enough and does provide a challenge but it rewards you in a way by continuing on, which i think is a good message to get out there (with those with depression and stuff), it's prob too much to ask so... just have a good day

If you plan on making any changes to the Desolate with the new modpack in order to make him playable, I have an interesting suggestion. The original rock bottom records what your stats would have been if its effect hadn't been applied, so you could implement "shadow stats" similar to how the real rock bottom works. The stat drain affects your applied stats, and not your true, behind-the-scene stats. That way, whenever a stat up is collected, using damage as an example, your damage would increase back to what it would be if there were no stat drain, plus the new stat upgrade. Then, your stats would continue to drain from there, at a quick rate. I think cracked crown is boring, and that this would be a good alternative.

The Depressed is really fun though, and I'm excited to see his new pocket item. Great job on the mod!

Wait, so your tainted character's "gimmick" is that he's worse in every way? That kind defeats the point of a tainted character. Look at literally every other tainted character and they have at least *something* they can gain out of their gimmick. Even Jacob -- who's whole thing is being chased by an extremely dangerous enemy 24/7 -- can use it to their advantage to kill other enemies.

Why would anyone ever want to play as The Desolated?

To all further comments, I'll be releasing this character in a bigger mod with some changes. I'll post here once it is released. It has a few improvements, however the Desolate will stay terrible most likely

@baymaxjax Nothing, it is simply a worse version of The Depressed

@serbiangoat1 In the bigger mod, The Depressed will start with a pocket active called "Anti Depressant", which will stop the draining of stats for the current room. From my testing, that new version is actually kinda fun, so I hope you and others will enjoy that version better. (it also enables min-maxing a little, as you can spend unlimited amount of time in the room you activated it in)
It will also start with 2 soul hearts instead of one, although I may not keep that as from my own testing, it's become a bit too easy for my own taste. We'll see!

What’s the difference between the depressed and the desolate? Because it seems like tainted depressed is just the normal version with eye sores and low health.

also i feel like this character should start with high stats to balance, but even with that this character would still suck because those stats will be gone in 3 minutes max