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Tainted Jacob Rework
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Tags: Lua, Player Characters, Enemies, Tweaks
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28 Feb, 2023 @ 9:37pm
1 Apr, 2023 @ 5:49pm
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Tainted Jacob Rework

Description
This mod makes Tainted Jacob gain broken hearts instead of immediately turning into the lost.

I liked the idea behind Tainted Jacob, but I dislike that his gimmick is that he turns into a harder preexisting character when you get hit by Esau. Now contact with Esau will remove a heart and grant you some broken hearts instead of ending your run. If you have no more hearts to give, then it will revert to turning you into the lost. For balancing, every floor you complete will also remove 1 broken heart.

You can also get some value from those broken hearts because Jacob now starts with Heartbreak, even if you haven't unlocked it yet.

The hope is that Tainted Jacob becomes a more fun and unique character to play, maybe even one to go back to after completing all the achievements.

Let me know if you find any bugs or if you have any comments/suggestions/think its too easy.
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BlueResonant 2 Jul @ 5:26pm 
sounds like a real good way to balance things, but it doesn't seem to work as intended. the heartbreak item used for the effect doesn't seem to be exclusive to the effect, and prevents dying as the lost for a few hits. i don't think this is intentional?
Baditow 13 Jun @ 5:44pm 
jacob except it ruins the character
Gyro 12 May @ 3:14pm 
hey i'd love to use this mod but it doesn't seem to be working properly anymore? in my case jacob does start with heartbreak but he still gets turned into lost form right away when hit by dark esau, only now he gets broken hearts and loses health on top lol. is this a REP+ issue?
Rattius 7 May @ 6:23am 
doesn't appear to work anymore :( just makes me invincible.
AlmondCrush 9 Jul, 2024 @ 1:32am 
thanks it's no longer torture to play this nightmare of a character
Wibiz 5 Apr, 2024 @ 10:38am 
Fantastic mod. This makes the character more playable and less like torture. I did however, change the mod so that only one broken heart gets added, but that was extremely easy to do thanks to your easy to read code and comprehensible commenting!
Dujuki 17 Mar, 2024 @ 3:30am 
great work, makes my fav character even for fun to play
Silvia 26 Nov, 2023 @ 12:14am 
The highly manipulable powerhouse that allowed for free devil deals now hates you for real this time, the mod.
CloudTender 12 Jun, 2023 @ 2:12pm 
This makes the character too hard but good idea and implementation :steamthumbsup:
MrBalloons 11 Jun, 2023 @ 4:33am 
WHERE HAS THIS MOD BEEN?! I can't explain the Pain and insult i felt when i saw it again on the workshop after i don't know how long! It is not the fist time i've spotted this mod, and when i serarhced for it it was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! I'm relieved to have found it by accident again.