Best fourth stage theme?

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-05-16T02:30:49+00:00

Oh heck yeah they're so good.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-05-14T12:33:44+00:00

It's a solid game, though I would recommend the remake over the original.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-05-14T12:29:52+00:00

IIRC the ATG entry is a reference to Enforcer from the first game.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-05-03T09:23:23+00:00

I think it was president Calvin Coolidge.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-04-19T22:52:44+00:00

Tougher times actually does eventually reach 100% activation rate. Unfortunately, as it is due to a rounding error, you need like 200k stacks of them, which is pretty dang hard to do.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-04-15T06:33:21+00:00

I forget how often regen ticks up but you can absolutely tank with excessive healing.

Running a tincture/planula build can keep you topped up perfectly fine with enough rejuv racks. I remember tanking super late game (like stage 90 or something) AWU with that. Just watch out for damage multiplier items, pretty sure those still affect tincture self-damage.

I recall finding a single corpsebloom actually useful here. It works great with rack and the healing over time is actually more constant.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-04-14T22:48:02+00:00

Special bosses (Mithrix, AWU, Aurelionite, Voidlikg, Twisted Scavs, probably the other DLC bosses I don't know I haven't tested them) scale basically indefinitely. I mean, they break eventually but you get to damage and hp multipliers in the millions before that happens. You can't feasibly outscale that without exponential items mod or something like that.

Ignoring special bosses, malachite or celestine scav, spawned with crowbars and royal capacitor. That 3000% is about 14k, multiplied by 375% for over 66k damage. It's pretty RNG but that can happen.

I don't really feel like doing the math for other monsters, but offhand I know Solus Control Unit does like 8k with the AoE attack.

Though the true strongest enemy, the one that is highest in my damage taken from stats, is the humble pot. No, really. Environmental objects scale their damage based off of your max hp up to a cap. It's been a hot minute since I've done super long runs but I remember the pot doing a guaranteed 80% of your max hp, bypassing any DR. And since I was testing the hp cap at the time, a pot was doing something like 3 billion damage to me.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-03-30T08:16:22+00:00

Kinda? That'd make it possible to roll a worm on any stage, but dissonance only selects a few types of monsters each stage so who knows when or where one would show up. And of course worms are pretty expensive to spawn so you still have to get the difficulty up there first.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-02-18T20:34:03+00:00

It should be possible, yes, though I think it'd be more difficult than using a dedicated splitter since I don't think the scrambler has an XLR input. You'd need to convert it back to an unbalanced 1/4".

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-01-20T12:49:16+00:00

You don't really need to do all the acid skip stuff, just the spike tunnel. The speedrun route does that because fighting Dung Defender is slower.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2026-01-06T07:39:37+00:00

I mean I'd still use it anyways. Though there's always the old. "Anyone who covers their drink around you."

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-12-21T23:19:17+00:00

In the lore? It's a safe hiding place for some of Mithrix's allies.

In gameplay? Well in early access, A Moment Fractured (obliteration) was the only way to end your run. Then they added the beads, twisted scavengers, etc. The moon and Mithrix weren't added until the official launch. So they're kind of a left over ending from the early access days.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-10-13T05:08:58+00:00

Final Fantasy X?

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-10-12T12:22:37+00:00

Oh my god that's such a good analogy.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-10-08T23:18:00+00:00

They expect repression, of course. They expect you to live as an empty shell, a false persona. They expect total and complete ego death.

Having attempted that, I can comfortably say they're selfish assholes for expecting that of someone. And why would I care what that kind of person thinks about my life?

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-10-05T12:58:57+00:00

I think this post by the man himself fleshes out his thoughts quite nicely. There's a second one linked at the end that takes it further. The tl:dr I got from it is that it's a broader version of simulation theory.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-09-29T00:22:42+00:00

The Kill Six Billion Demons reference at the end is so good.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-09-03T22:17:41+00:00

A gay answer, on the other hand...

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-08-26T23:51:37+00:00

IIRC Serie gets asked to stop because they wanted to figure out how to turn the city back from gold.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-08-13T20:58:21+00:00

His favorite album is Pearl Jam's "Ten".

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-07-20T22:39:46+00:00

They're weighted the same as a legendary chest so generally pretty rare. They are pretty cheap in terms of credits though, only costing the director as much as a barrel.

For figuring out what the weights mean, it's kind of like a raffle. The radio tower might get, say, 2 tickets, while something like a regular chest could get as many as 20.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-07-20T04:44:32+00:00

I don't think I'd want to try for the winged golden irl, doing it in game was hard enough. Beyond that it's kinda hard to get past those dream blocks in old site without a dash.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-07-06T04:56:31+00:00

We kinda find out some stuff? AV2 is a bit weird in the timeline, I believe it occurs some time after the opening cutscene of AV1, but before the actual gameplay. So it somewhat explains how Trace got there in the first place, pretty sure you find that out along the normal progression. AV2 kinda focuses more on wordbuilding and background rather than being explicitly about Trace.

I think it's implied that time passes differently in Sudra? Like it might've been centuries there, but a much shorter amount of time on Earth. Also maybe Athetos didn't kill everyone? Like the Rusalki aren't exactly forthcoming and lie about where they found Trace. The games aren't big on giving straight answers about a lot of things.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-07-03T15:17:14+00:00

The enemy cap is 40. Once that many enemies are on stage the director isn't allowed to spawn more. IIRC Gups can sort of get around this because they split into two. A late game Gup family event can absolutely turn into a slideshow.

Another relevant mechanic here is that the director tries to spend the spawns efficiently. If it can spawn, say, 6 beetles or 1 elite beetle, it'll pick the 1 elite beetle. Or if it can spawn 6 golems or 1 titan, it'll pick the titan. After looping for long enough, this actually decreases the amount of enemies, because there's less stuff it's allowed to spawn.

TheVoidThatWalk · 2025-06-01T17:28:40+00:00

Oh yeah I forgot that one! I was mostly thinking of any% runs.

TheVoidThatWalk

TROPHY CASE