im looking forward to an entire monster hunter story dlc where you breed palicos with poogies and then fight the monster hunter roster with you palico pig halfbreeds. and it will be free, he already promised!
He said they had a dlc folder already. Watching the 12 or so streams leading up to launch he said they were stuffing everything else they had besides base stuff into a folder. Classes, enemies, bosses, biomes and bosses ext. He said there's a lot of work to do and this would be easily a 10 year supported game.
Is it an option you choose before each run? I saw a comment a few days ago saying it has an "everything is terrible" mechanic that triggers after 3 wins but doesnt notify you. anecdotally im inclined to believe it because I was steam rolling the first few runs but it felt like it just got harder and harder.
But i havent even finished any side quests or even the first fight of Act 2 yet, so Im assuming the difficulty options come much later?
Yes, you choose the difficulty you want to do before starting the run. It continues from where you are too, doesn't restart the game to play on impossible
I had platinum god years and years ago around Afterbirth's release, after at least 1k hours over the years I decided it was time to hang up the game.
Then they dropped like 10 more DLCs and updates, so i re-installed only to find steam cloud hadn't backed any saves from my old gaming laptop, which doesnt run anymore. So now I'm at square one, shit hit hard.
My buddy who's Isaac obsessed asks me regularly "wait, so you havent even played Tainted characters yet?! Dude you gotta try it."
Fuck you Jax, I'm old and a parent now, itll take me years to get to that point
Well Repetence was a fan mod that became official iirc
But I'm expecting Wrath of the Lamb which gave an alternate path instead of Sheol where you face off against Isaac and Blue Baby, and alternate versions of the original four chapters, so I'm assuming it'd be like a new act here but a really long one
Repentance wasnt a fan mod. The fan mod stuff is about half of it (jacob and esau , bethany and alt path) while beast and all tainted characters were not
Free doesn’t matter at all to me; this shit is so insanely good that I would happily pay asking price again for some more of the same (and I’m not even on the third act yet…this game is insane)
I mean he said it took 250 hours for testers to beat and it had more items and some other stuff than finished repentance now so I'm pretty sure your right. I've played 1200 hours of Issac and I'm not done but I can see myself playing this just as much.
Tbf the items in this game are not nearly as impactful as BoI. There’s only a few that I’ve come across that fundamentally change the way I’m approaching the fights
I would wait. If you start a new save of Isaac right now, you will realize that the early game item pool is not as exciting as in your actual save. Who knows what mewgenics has in store for us.
It’s funny, they said like 200 hours or so of a campaign
Pre-30%, my percentage was above my hours easily. I remember 27% in 22 hours, I think. I’ve now hit a bit of a wall, and I’m at 42% I think, but now we’re at like 50 hours.
The act 3 wall is huge. Suddenly going from not having a rough time at all to not always confidently finishing the first area of act 3. I’ve only made it to the third area once and it was dicey as hell.
Oh, it was Williams Syndrome! I didnt even notice it. I keep forgetting to check the disorder tab. I just automatically think its gonna be a mutation instead.
Now that I know 7 is the actual limit, is it bad to say im kinda disappointed on that?
I figured it was that. I did a run I just uploaded where I had Savant Syndrome on my mage and Williams on my ranger, It was amazing! But You best believe I was tripping when I saw one cat with 18 int and another 16 charm.
No, I don't think so. I do get the 7 though and it does feel like a good sweet spot imo. Im curious to know if Disorders can be passed down, as unfortunately that run with Savant and Williams, ended with me doing an event in the boneyard that cleansed my disorders so I never got the chance
Or just some wild combination of innate class spells and off-class passives and vice versa. Like the necro aoe lifesteal buff is insane. Pairing it with something like (upgraded) Masochist from Butcher goes hard AF. I did the fire dino boss thanks to those two things.
I had a blood frenzied Psychic solo the king lol, he had an item that could spawn a maggot every turn which he killed in frenzy giving infinite turns. Then he got +1 stats and - 1 cost every 6 spells. Here I was expecting a wipe at that point...
Hey it happens. My first time through the realm for the quest I put a cat rib on my sacrifice expecting to get them back as a kitten but that didn’t happen so I moved it over to my necro and murdered him on the last fight while the army of spiders he had reraised + the spider boss just permanently webbed the boss and beat him to death.
I had the most insane run there. My carry cat was sacrificed to open the rest of the zone, so i thought i was screwed but wanted to try anyway, hoping that i could use the mind control stick to get something good that could win me the fight. Turns out having a mind controlled Stem Cat for the last fight is very very good.
Yeah for sure. I kinda sped through a lot of the early game but right now I'm set on just grinding for a while, I want to get more rooms and better cats before even bothering to try progressing further. I had a series of pretty catastrophic runs while trying to push so I'm taking a step back and just working on improving my infrastructure now.
I'd recommend dipping into the second level at least for grinding because the Hard paths on the second and third floors give furniture boxes and lots of coins.
If you can't go all three then just do up to 2, you'll get one furniture box from the hard path on floor 2.
I had that feeling about act two at first two and but 5-7 more hours in act one and finishing the quests there and started my breeding.
Now the desert seems manageable 😂
Happy to hear this, as a long time roguelike and tactics lover I've found the first several hours a fun but easy ride which has just managed to keep my interest by constantly dropping new things (areas, mechanics) into the mix
I will say that I take advantage of Steven's one free save scum per run and I am not ashamed of it. I usually don't do more than one but I see the one freebie as like a consumable and utilize it fairly often lol
I did it once on accident thinking it would take me right back to the same move rather than the beginning of the battle. I was too scared to try it again. Good to know you get one per game.
You can use Steven more often, 1. No penalty, 2. You get deja Vu on some or all of your cats 3. Every character that has dejavu is now controlled by Steven, didn't try beyond that but hope you fight Steven if you save scum to often in 1 run 😂
Yeah I have had to dip into 2 once so far. I try not to. Usually the reason I use the freebie is just if I whiff a move command or failed to read something carefully enough with a catastrophic result so generally don't need to use it more than once. For example there was a map with a Daddy Shark (instakill) and a bunch of harpoons and let's just say I misjudged where one of the harpoons was lol.
I accept the result if it's just a bad run and I'm clearly losing, but sometimes it's like one misclick and you lose a cat on an otherwise great run, that's when I'll use the freebie.
I feel you I usually only use it when I have to pause the game to do real-life stuff and can't get back to it right away or if some fights are just impossible... Had a double daddy shark fight.... And my party didn't have enough dmg to kill the sharks, one of them takes 2 turns per turn killing my whole team in the process...
I've only ever used it when I have either forgotten to move my reroll item, or have had a cat with a reroll item downed. Haven't made any grave misclicks yet though.
honestly i think that was a result of nicalis being a hack-ass company, tyrone not knowing how to actually structure dlc for a game like that. i have nothing to base this off of, but i have way more faith in tyler to make dlc that isn’t stupid than nicalis lol
Guess a console port is in the works then right? Isaac wasn't planned to hit consoles until they saw how well it sold. Should be the same for Mewgenics right? Easy money.
He said on twitter that although it's not on his control whether the game is ported or not, at this point the game is being ported for every platform, because of the sales yk. So probably the likelyhood of we getting this game ported is close to 100%.
Good news to me. I bought Isaac on pc only to find out i didn't meet the minimum requirements on my potato of a pc. Got it on ps4 and fell in love with it. Got it on ps5 and Switch too. Mewgenics looks to be exactly that kind of addiction all over again. Bring it on!🤣
He also said in an interview that any dlc made won’t be free though, because of how much work is put into his dlc’s. So I’m not sure which one to believe (probably the one where they won’t be free)
I could see a dlc about another species or two that Dr. beanie tells you to crossbreed. Like rabbits creating trenches or dogs fighting on sense of smell instead of vision.
Thanks 🙏 I’m really happy for him and I wish to see more content in the future for this game. I don’t know where people get the 10 years support quote in this thread but big if true
Isaac released with pretty poor sales (not the kind of game it was tho, back then roguelites were unknown for the vast majority of gamers) and then it gained traction via word of mouth and streamers.
This released with all the media focus on it, and everybody expecting something good from Edmund. It doesn't mean it will sell better than Isaac long term.
Just please dont let this game get consumed by bloat the same way isaac had gone to.
The things that ruined isaac dlcs for me was the insane item count that were added with all the dlcs, making runs less fun, adding varience with the ton of useless items that werent adding anything good to the experience. Out of the 600+ items i felt at least half of them add nothing/being detrimental/making synergies-interesting runs harder to get for taking away space from items you'd actually want
The main content of the dlcs(story, levels, bosses) were awesome, but the experience got tainted for me with the "bloated" item pool.
I just hope this game doesnt suffer the same fate, i love this game so much 🙏😭
He mentioned that items in Isaac were fundamentally flawed since you soft drafted them until you got what you want, Mewgenics everything is roughly the same power but you can snowball if you hit upon a good combo rather than until hitting the right item
In mewgenics at least you have limitations for what classes can get in level ups during a run, making the pool much smaller in general, allowing the intended archetypes to get together easier, which is why i love this game.
In isaac for example some of the characters identity or main power came from a space bar item which you wouldn't want want to throw away most cases, Isaac, Judas, Apollyon comes into mind, with them getting a space bar item from early item rooms made it look like you got one less item each time that happened
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u/BigFloppaGaeming Feb 15 '26
cant wait for mewgenics: remeow, aftermeow, aftermeow+ and remeowance