I'm well aware that I'm not the first person to say this, but it is what it is. It's a ridiculous and extremely unfair challenge that frankly has no play in the game, as it's nigh impossible in 95/100 cases.Worse still, when it is possible, you're still not safe.I've spent that last 8-10 ingame hours in BoI trying to do it. I figured I'd do nothing else until it was done so that I could get used to the speed of the enemies and figure out how best to try and counter them. Then I get to an XL Womb, and I think; 'Holy sh.t! This is my chance!' I end up clearing what felt like two dozen rooms before I get to the bosses. The first one goes down easily.

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The cell-thing that hops around and splits on death. It was absolutely no challenge for splash-damage mega-buffed Death's Touch.Then I get to Mom's Heart. I'm not doing as much damage to it as I'd like, and it's really a race against time, given the sheer amount of unavoidable damage you take in that fight on SPEED!-mode. But I win!I did it!

I killed Mom's Heart on the SPEED! The trophy drops down from above and my heart is pounding. It's finally over.But of course it isn't. Of course the last of the heart's animations glitches outs and delays that last ring of tears. I end up taking an unavoidable hit from it. There's nothing I can do - My character keels over in front of the trophy.Were none of these challenges tested? If so, how did one that outright breaks the game make it through?

It's ridiculous. Just look at Monstro, and how his attacks are delayed because the game apparently can't keep up with itself. Originally posted by:Speed is not that bad because it has item rooms.You can restart the run until you get a really good first floor item (Mom's Knife, Magic Mushroom, Tech X, Cricket's Head, etc).BRAINS! And Ultra Hard are markedly worse.I disagree. Just basically requires you to roll the dice until you get an early Pyromaniac. At that point it becomes trivial.

But as the commenter after you pointed out, even if you don't get that, your skill is at least a relevant factor.In SPEED! You're entirely luck-dependent. If no mapping is available to you (A likely scenario, as grinding out money isn't really an option) you just have to pick a direction and hope it's not littered with rooms full of unavoidable damage. A few of those in a row, and there's nothing you can do but just reset. Add to that the need for a level 1 or 2 Brimstone, Death's Touch or Mom's Knife, and it gets comical.Ultra Hard is very tough, but the premise is sound: A little bit of luck combined with the skill needed to make sub-par builds work. Of Brains!, Speed!, and Ultra Hard, Speed is the one that allows you to mitigate difficulty via skill the most.It's harder to get the timing down for avoiding faster enemies and projectiles, but definitely doable. Even a single Emperor card can decrease the difficulty significantly, along with any mapping or high damage item.

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In addition, it has item rooms, so if you've had some frustrating attempts, you can hold 'R' for a couple items until you get a solid starting item OR an XL floor.BRAINS! Removes item rooms, gives low starting stats, and makes many otherwise good items useless because of Blue Baby and the blindfolded attribute.Ultra Hard does the same thing, except to a much greater degree.

Originally posted by:Of Brains!, Speed!, and Ultra Hard, Speed is the one that allows you to mitigate difficulty via skill the most.It's harder to get the timing down for avoiding faster enemies and projectiles, but definitely doable. Even a single Emperor card can decrease the difficulty significantly, along with any mapping or high damage item. In addition, it has item rooms, so if you've had some frustrating attempts, you can hold 'R' for a couple items until you get a solid starting item OR an XL floor.BRAINS! Removes item rooms, gives low starting stats, and makes many otherwise good items useless because of Blue Baby and the blindfolded attribute.Ultra Hard does the same thing, except to a much greater degree.I firmly disagree.Either way, after about 10-12 hours of grinding, I've done the SPEED! After completing it a total of 4 times.It's not a fun challenge.

It's basically asking you to play under gamebreaking conditions.Ultra Hard is extremely annoyed, but it doesn't break the game. Speed actively breaks the game's own rules. Instant hits, unavoidable damage, enemies and rooms that are effectively unbeatable without piercing shots or Brimstone.And despite what people say: Mom's Knife is an awful item for the SPEED! It's leagues behind Death's Touch and Brimstone, both items you can effetively roll into at the start of the run (Brimstone can be obtained through curse rooms leading you to a level 1 Deal with the Devil), as it often demands that you put yourself in a dangerous position. Bomb Flies and turret-style enemies, for example. Enemies that chase you. Quite a few bosses as well.Of course, I didn't have any of those.

I had a Tech.5, Magic Mush and Pentagram. My only Deal with the Devil item was Ceremonial Robes. My spacebar item was Shoop Da Whoop! - An item that's actually remarkably effective on this mode, assuming you can't get your hands on a real Brimstone.But all I reall have to say is: F.ck the SPEED! Originally posted by:Of Brains!, Speed!, and Ultra Hard, Speed is the one that allows you to mitigate difficulty via skill the most.It's harder to get the timing down for avoiding faster enemies and projectiles, but definitely doable. Even a single Emperor card can decrease the difficulty significantly, along with any mapping or high damage item. In addition, it has item rooms, so if you've had some frustrating attempts, you can hold 'R' for a couple items until you get a solid starting item OR an XL floor.BRAINS!

Removes item rooms, gives low starting stats, and makes many otherwise good items useless because of Blue Baby and the blindfolded attribute.Ultra Hard does the same thing, except to a much greater degree. You missing another crusial point in Speed challenge - you have very short time to beat the challenge, so often you have to abandon attempts finding treasure room because you have no time. If timer in speed challenge was removed - it would have been 2 times easier since you no longer forced to rush and worrying about. Originally posted by:Of Brains!, Speed!, and Ultra Hard, Speed is the one that allows you to mitigate difficulty via skill the most.It's harder to get the timing down for avoiding faster enemies and projectiles, but definitely doable. Even a single Emperor card can decrease the difficulty significantly, along with any mapping or high damage item. In addition, it has item rooms, so if you've had some frustrating attempts, you can hold 'R' for a couple items until you get a solid starting item OR an XL floor.BRAINS! Removes item rooms, gives low starting stats, and makes many otherwise good items useless because of Blue Baby and the blindfolded attribute.Ultra Hard does the same thing, except to a much greater degree.

You missing another crusial point in Speed challenge - you have very short time to beat the challenge, so often you have to abandon attempts finding treasure room because you have no time. If timer in speed challenge was removed - it would have been 2 times easier since you no longer forced to rush and worrying about.I actually agree to some extent. One way of balancing the SPEED!

Challenge would be to at least increase the timer to a fair amount of time, if not remove it entirely. It's more than difficult enough to play through the game with every enemy moving at twice their normal speed. The extremely strict timer, giving you 2 minutes average on every floor, is overkill.

A single Curse of the Lost or Curse of the Maze can basically end your challenge.I just beat BRAINS! After spending barely a fraction of the time on it, withou getting neither Host Hat or Pyromaniac. Is definitely far more skill determined than SPEED!

Originally posted by:You missing another crusial point in Speed challenge - you have very short time to beat the challenge, so often you have to abandon attempts finding treasure room because you have no time. If timer in speed challenge was removed - it would have been 2 times easier since you no longer forced to rush and worrying about.I actually agree to some extent.

One way of balancing the SPEED! Challenge would be to at least increase the timer to a fair amount of time, if not remove it entirely. It's more than difficult enough to play through the game with every enemy moving at twice their normal speed. The extremely strict timer, giving you 2 minutes average on every floor, is overkill. A single Curse of the Lost or Curse of the Maze can basically end your challenge.I just beat BRAINS! After spending barely a fraction of the time on it, withou getting neither Host Hat or Pyromaniac. Is definitely far more skill determined than SPEED!

The Antibirth speed challenge is very similiar and was made way better. In there there was no timer, your speed and your tear fire rate is increased as well. This how it supposed to be.And you can beat brains with out explosion immunity. I beat it with only book of revelationships. Originally posted by:There are some riddiculous challenges, but that's the point of them. But i have to admit some of them i dont see myself beating, for example the one giving you damage when your tear doesnt hit an enemy, i have to really scratch my head and ask myself how that is beatable.Funny.

I just beat that earlier today. Took a few tries, but I had a couple of good runs before I finally won.It's really not so bad.

You just have to look at what you've got and then figure out what you need to add to it to make it better.You start out with a very high damage Chocolate Milk. You charge your shot and fire a big bubble. If you get a bit up-close and personal, you practically can't miss. On the first two floors that shouldn't be much of a problem, because you can get fairly close to most enemies.These first couple of floors will determine your run though.

The challenge is very. Well, challenging, if you don't get the tools you need - But luckily you can just reset until you do.So, what are you looking for? That's easy: Anything that gives you spectral tears, like the Ouija Board or Spirit of the Night (In an early Devil Deal) makes the challenge so much easier. You can now fire through obstacles.Penetrative shots through Cupid's Arrow are amazing as well, allow you to hit multiple enemies. Dead Onion will also do the job.For the closest thing to a guaranteed win though: Death's Touch. When fully charged you will fire a massive scythe that has penetration and can even hit enemies taking cover behind obstacles. It'll one-shot just about everything.

From that point on you'll just want to stack damage upgrades. They will make your scythe bigger. As long as you don't just fire willy-nilly, you'll almost be guaranteed to hit your target. Obviously homing shots through Spoon Bender helps too.For a spacebar item I recommend Book of Revelations, Satanic Bible or Crystal Ball. Anything that can help you build some HP, really.You should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES pick up offensive familiars.

Rotten Baby is the only partial exception to this rule. If your familiar hits and kills and enemy you're about to shoot at, you will take damage if you fire too late. If you have to hold in your key, they can also shoot any bombs you set down. As said, Rotten Baby is alright as long as you mind the flies, but the best option is definitely to ignore all familiars that show up.That's it, really.

A fairly easy challenge that seems deceptively hard if you forget how easy it is to effectively break it. The further you get, and the more HP you have, the less of a problem it becomes to occasionally miss a shot. But with a huge tear, it's really not too difficult to guarantee a hit.

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Challenges are unique runs in the game. Isaac typically starts each challenge with one or more specific items which make normal play more difficult. With few exceptions, are not available during challenges.

Each challenge unlocks new content for the game, such as, when completed.General Strategy Most challenges are designed to increase the difficulty of the game in a unique fashion. This doesn't mean all challenges are difficult, however; challenges like are quite easy to beat.

Some challenges do compensate for this by being especially punishing; is a good example of this. Each challenge has certain strategies that can be employed to make the run easier. However, there are a few strategies that can apply to all challenges.

Challenges can be played in, allowing a second player to contribute to the run without being hindered in the same way Isaac is. This is especially useful in any challenge where Isaac is, as the second player will be allowed to fire tears normally. Due to the lack of Treasure Rooms, become much more valuable. Some challenges can be made much easier by making just one deal, but it is worth noting that other challenges reduce Isaac's health to an extent that Devil Deals become too risky. Some rooms (including ) may have Treasure Room items by default.

Since these items are random, results can vary from run to run. Because locked Treasure Rooms won't spawn, keys can be used far more liberally. In addition, and that generate more coins, along with upgraded, can help Isaac acquire a greater range of powerful items. Upon activation, Isaac gains, allowing him to pass over all obstacles in the current room. Instantly kills, and when activated, but will kill Isaac when activated while fighting.

Instantly kills and /. All challenges require defeating Mom, and most require defeating Mom's Heart or It Lives, making this an extremely powerful item, especially in challenges where Mom or Mom's Heart / It Lives is the final boss. Upon use, spawns certain or depending on the floor it is used on.

Will spawn The Bible if used in Womb II, Utero II, or Scarred Womb II, making it a reliable way to acquire The Bible. can spawn items, making them valuable. In some challenges, and the Rerolls all of Isaac's items. Are very useful, allowing that challenge's starting items to be rerolled, thus removing most of the difficulty. NOTE: This changes depending on the challenge. Most challenge pages contain details on the results of rerolling. Using an active item will drop it onto a pedestal on the ground.

Taking damage may result in dropping a passive item. Can also remove starter items. challenges are arguably the most difficult challenges due to Isaac's inability to fire tears. There are several methods to work around this.

Familiars can provide an alternative method of dealing damage. Powerful familiars like ' shadow follows Isaac and stomps on enemies., A Familiar that shoots a thin beam.

Must charge like before shooting., and A demonic familiar that follows Isaac and shoots tears identical to Isaac's in terms of damage, range, fire rate, and effects. Are therefore highly useful items. Throws a short-range boomerang which does a bit of damage and has a high chance to stun the enemy for 2 seconds. Can also be used to grab., Throws out a blue flame that can pass over gaps (but not through rocks). The flame damages anything in its path., and Throws a persistent flame that deals high damage and diminishes as it damages enemies or blocks shots. Are also useful for blindfolded challenges, since they recharge based on a timer, rather than an amount of cleared rooms.

Transforms Isaac into another random character. Can allow Isaac to change into, whose A demonic familiar that follows Isaac and shoots tears identical to Isaac's in terms of damage, range, fire rate, and effects. Overrides the Blindfolded effect by default. Chaos causes items to be chosen from random item pools.

When picked up, drops between 1-6 random pickups on the floor. Is a powerful item in challenges, as it can allow powerful items to be found more commonly, such as in the Shop or after defeating Bosses. Defeating a boss beyond the specified end of the challenge (e.g. Defeating when the goal is to defeat ) will still spawn the trophy. In some longer challenges (e.g.

), using a until it teleports Isaac to the is a viable strategy. Once in the Dark Room, the trophy can be spawned by defeating.Notes. Apart from the achievement related to beating the challenge, all achievements are locked. Also, no will appear in any challenge.

The Challenge reward will not be unlocked unless the trophy is picked up. If a Devil Room or Angel Room appears allowing Isaac to go to or the, the unlock will be forfeited. will not start any challenge with Allows Isaac to re-roll collectible items in the current room into other items, depending on the current room's.Challenges List NameConditionsGoalUnlocked byUnlocks1.: yes: noDefaultComplete2.Starts with:+1.5 tears, -17.62 rangeGives 'Turdy Touch' Effect. Enemies that touch Isaac are changed into.Gives +5 and makes all bombs Butt Bombs that fill the room with gas, damaging and all enemies.Changes all enemies in the room into. Does not work on all enemies ( and are immune).