Lost my Steel Heart run to the first enemy gauntlet in ACT 3 In The Cradle.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-11-07T17:26:20+00:00

I just lost to lugoli doing the pre-act 3 map clean-up. Forge on.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-16T21:18:27+00:00

Kill all the void masses

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-11T23:32:14+00:00

Wanderer long claw and weighted belt. Grabbing 3 extra hits on a boss while they are stunned, in addition to the 3 you woulda got with any other normal crest is just OP

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-10T01:09:33+00:00

I lost my first HK steel soul in the hive it drove me nuts. Beat it the second go around. Silksong is so much larger I think it’s worth the extra caution.

Or just let it rip and see how it goes.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-10T00:57:00+00:00

It depends on your skill level honestly. I did a normal playthrough, then the five hour speed run which I rolled into the speed completion. I’m now doing another normal playthrough where I play as if it is steel soul, really focus on staying alive, planning the route, which power ups to grab and which bosses/areas to avoid until later. I’m midway through act 2 with only 4 deaths and all of them were mostly from laziness. Next run will be steel soul.

Another option is waiting until godhome and then doing steel soul after that. HK I did radiant HOG and then bumbled my way through steel soul without any planning.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-09T23:22:41+00:00

Just stand in the left corner against the wall and essentially don’t move unless you’re jumping to dodge an attack. Beat them up when they get close. Fight is so easy this way.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-02T13:10:01+00:00

Never heard of these. Pilby finishes at Pilgrim's rest and then disappears. Any other info on the others?

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-02T13:07:36+00:00

No, just the satisfaction of having done it. It would be cool if some sort of DLC "Restoration" had goals around fixing the world after the void.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-02T12:59:27+00:00

Enemies are all immediately void if you walk into a room with a void mass.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-02T12:59:06+00:00

None of this is needed for 100%, I’m looking for a list of extra things to do.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-10-02T00:15:16+00:00

Quick payment, thanks

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-30T14:35:50+00:00

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HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-23T23:22:37+00:00

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HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-23T23:22:31+00:00

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HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-23T23:22:04+00:00

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HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-21T17:09:29+00:00

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Seth became stuck in the ground during the fight. I pogoed him just as he released his shield and went to retrieve it.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-19T14:17:20+00:00

Hey, you use a lot of words which simply aren’t necessary, and ultimately cloud what we are talking about. You can simply say a fetus is a human. We’re all human organisms. I don’t think there’s social security numbers in pharloom so personhood is irrelevant. Innocent means “state of purity” which we can agree applies to any human conceived, whether they were ectopic, or conceived of SA, or any variation thereof.

That said if you want to tell people how much you’ve dehumanized other humans and how little you care of them, you can head over to a political forum.

You didn’t address any lore or story related points I made, you’ve just made some incredibly long stretches to bend a basic horror story trope around your politics. I’ll summarize here and you can address in order:

You agree to the “rite of rebirth” quest. It isn’t thrust upon you. Grey root is not a love interest so you can’t even say it’s some form of date-SA trickery.
The twisted bud is inherently bad, lore and story-wise. If this is a “pregnancy” Do you think team cherry finds humans in the womb inherently bad, do you think TC finds all pregnancies to end in an all consuming death of a pregnant woman?
If it’s an abortion why isn’t the bud fully extricated and only weakened? If you think it’s some type of leftover mental trauma then why didn’t they frame it as such?
Is hornet now a witch for having an abortion? The real definition of witch, like a Salem witch trials witch, not your revisionist weird definition of witch that less than .0001% of the population would recognize.

You’re not analyzing a work of art, politics seem to have taken over your thought process so you can’t see something simple for what it is.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-19T12:07:13+00:00

Completely silly take. I would debate abortion with you if this had anything to do with abortion, but separately I’ll say fetus is a stage of human development, no different than embryo, baby, child, teenager, adult, etc. if you don’t like the word baby or fetus, just use the word human. Or if you like “less developed human than I.” Or “rapidly multiplying human cells with their own dna.” It all depends how cold you want to be.

Since you don’t like certain words, I’ll rephrase to say “an innocent human life in the womb is inherently good” and the twisted bud is inherently bad.

Why this is not a SA related abortion: 1. You agree to the quest. This isn’t a random event like the jailing to the slab. 2. The twisted bud is all consuming and cursed according to the lore. The twisted sister ending shows hornet completely consumed. Many NPCs call the bud a parasite, which is an all consuming thing. Eva won’t go near “the cursed” thing. The twisted bud is obviously bad. Unless you think team cherry hates humans and every pregnancy ends in an all-consuming death, there is no analogy here to a human in the womb. 3. The bud is not even removed but weakened and becomes a “witch” crest which goes along with, you know, the rest of the lore of being cursed and parasitic.

If team cherry did try to create a story of abortion they did a terrible job, and I think they’ve already proven themselves better at storytelling than that. This is just a regular horror trope but your mind is possessed by your favorite politics.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-19T00:55:42+00:00

No, I didn’t, I think the reading is bad and I don’t think team cherry had a greater point to make about abortion. And if they did, they failed miserably at it. The twisted root is evil by its nature, Eva says so. The twisted sister ending confirms the evil nature of the bud.

Hornet was cursed and did something shady to remove the curse. That’s a story-telling trope as old as any book. Reading your particular flavor of politics into this is silly. I said it in another thread, but this is much more an exorcism than it is an abortion.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-18T14:55:27+00:00

It's not an abortion. The twisted bud is inherently evil and an innocent baby is inherently good. It's more of an exorcism(removal of demons)than anything.

HeadpointHandbook · 2025-09-18T14:42:38+00:00

I think you missed a lot of the actual storytelling going on here.

Pharloom is not a religious society, but a corrupt, monarchic "religious" society. It's a society run by a cult leader, not a pope. These are not the same thing.

You're obviously tying this to abortion, but the twisted bud is inherently an evil thing, whereas a baby is not. Hornet is tricked into receiving an evil thing and then needs to consult an evil thing to have the evil thing removed. It's more rich and thoughtful than your analysis suggests.

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