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Samurai's Blade
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Tags: Lua, Items, Graphics, Sound Effects
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29 Jan, 2023 @ 5:15am
8 Nov, 2024 @ 11:14pm
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The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance
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Von Duckling
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Samurai's Blade

Description
A familiar sword wielded by a well-known samurai can now be found in the basement
(Yes, it is Muramasa from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, no this is only half a poop-post.)

This mod works but many synergies are missing. There might also be are BUGS.


Quick update (10/11/24): I've added the item back into the treasure rooms.


This mod only adds a single item called Samurai's Blade which can be found randomly in different item pools(Or be picked up at the starting room if you enable that option in the mod config). Picking up This item changes Isaac's attack to a unique melee weapon.

Samurai's Blade has direct and indirect synergies with vanilla and dlc items that does not directly modify tear behavior, so there is a decent amount to discover.

Although Samurai's Blade has stats of its own, (Swing time, charge-up time, damage, etc.) all of its stats are modified by Isaac's own stats.




Player stats and what they effect:
  • Damage: Directly modifies damage by a factor of player's damage.
  • Fire Delay: Higher fire rate reduces delay between swings.
  • Shot speed: Higher shot speed reduces time required for blade to be charged.
  • Range, Shot height etc.: Increases blade's arc size.
  • Luck : Increases critical hit chance. (For now this is a simple damage increase)


Scaling Upgrades
With the latest update, The item gains strength by dealing damage!


Each upgrade improves the sword's capabilities by a small amount, permanently. Here is a list of upgrades:

: Increases attack damage.
: Increases attack speed.
: Increases damage dealt against bosses.
: Increases charged attack damage.
: Increases arc size / range.

These incremental upgrades are very small, but adds up quickly, making the item much stronger as you deal damage with it!


Also, do note any and all tear effect-based synergies will work but more complex synergies will not as they need custom implementations, some of which are;
  • The Ludovico Technique
  • Brimstone
  • Anything that changes how tears work.

I strongly recommend you to get the Mod Config Menu either Pure or the continued version. There are many options to customize the blade's behavior to your liking.


We have also added a Jetstream Sam costume that gets applied when you pick up the item :)


Now go be a basement samurai or something, I don't really care.

Known issues
  • Large mirror rooms still cause some visual issues. (This is happening because I abused the Sprite rendering in a way I shouldn't have. Unfortunately, a proper fix to this issue would require me to rewrite a large part of the code.)
  • Some enemies have the wrong visual type assigned to them, causing incorrect particles to spawn when they are damaged by the item. (Fixed most of them, let me know if you find more.)
  • Tainted Samson's berserk timer does not increase on getting a kill with the item. (Modding API has no non-read-only field for berserk effect cooldown so this might be impossible to fix without doing something custom.)
  • Swing sounds are stereo, they should be mono. (Not a real issue.)


For implementation details and more info here is the Github link[github.com]

Credits
  • Base sound effects are from Ultimate Sound FX Bundle.
  • Art by Von Duckling.
  • Terrible Programming by me.
  • Metal Gear series and Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance is owned by Konami Holdings Corporation

Popular Discussions View All (1)
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9 Aug, 2024 @ 1:25am
PINNED: Bug Reports
Math-Man
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noodles 1 May @ 3:34am 
I can just farm upgrades using Book of the dead's summons :r
Math-Man  [author] 3 Apr @ 6:52am 
You need a mod config menu mod, either one of the mods listed in the description will do. The default key for the mod config menu is 'L'
panagiotis8002 1 Apr @ 11:57am 
question how do i open config
Math-Man  [author] 20 Mar @ 12:12am 
I haven't tested it on rep+ but it should as far as I know.
ralsei 18 Mar @ 10:30pm 
does it work with rep+?
Detonator_Bomb 29 Jan @ 10:24am 
lets dance!
Dr. Coitus 26 Nov, 2024 @ 4:59pm 
very cool, would be great if it had a collection/pause screen icon.
Noon 11 Nov, 2024 @ 6:44am 
It's understandable, but I would have loved to see some interaction with items like C-section or Brim.
Fun mod nonetheless though.
Math-Man  [author] 8 Nov, 2024 @ 12:55am 
I don't want to say its abandoned but we don't really have spare time to work on this mod anymore. I still try keep up with the bugs and make the occasional qol or balance change but that's about it.

For the second question, item is in a variety of pools but it has a low drop chance. The item can appear in the boss room, as demon beggar drops, secret and ultra secret rooms and it also appears on every greed room.
Noon 7 Nov, 2024 @ 2:07pm 
Two Questions:
First, Is this mod Abandoned? Second, is this item obtainable in game? If so, what Item pool is it in?