1:09 Isaac running at Mach 2 speed in a room and immediately slashing himself with three rusty razorblades and stabbing a blood IV in his arm is the perfect analogy for this entire game
My first run with this item i took damage immediately after getting it on my like, 3rd floor and took it all the way to beast and it fell while i was in a pesticide cloud and i instinctively dodged it using dark arts without realizing it until my friends on my stream pointed out it was no longer above my head, have yet to see this item since
@@WikiED code of the game explicitly shows that it triggers Damocles chance to fall only if you get hit. Unless the code has been spaghettied, Damocles won't ever fall.
@@silverdededestruction2197 Are you sure? The wiki says it also has a 1/10000 chance to drop every 4th tick or something like that. I've seen the replies, thanks for the info. I must not have read the wiki closely enough or something.
@@nelots1462 They're right, the condition for Damocles to begin checking every 4th tick is taking heart damage that isn't self inflicted (Such as in the case of Blood Donation, Demon Beggars, Curse Rooms, etc.) Because Holy Mantle stops you from taking the damage, it won't ever fall in the case of The Lost unless you get an extra life, in which case as seen in the video, Damocles will eventually fall on the next life.
@@estrelaplatinada6506 Well done. Here come the test results. You are a horrible person, that's what it says, a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.
I feel a bit guilty being praised for patience :| I did not actually wait 16 hours. Cheat Engine made it 5 times faster, so it should be around 3 hours only. And I just left it there and went to sleep lol. I think it is safe to make a conclusion if the sword does not fall after 140 mins. If you find something incorrect, just let me know (maybe with proof as well so that I can verify it).
As a math guy I can say that 140 minutes is more than sufficient. If the game runs at 60fps, there’s a 99.999663% chance the sword would have fallen by then. For just a 99% chance you would only have to wait about 51 minutes.
Tooth and Nail saved my Damocles run with Samson to the Witness. My first item was "Metronome" which on the second use, gave me Damocles. And yes, it didnt go away. I took so many hits, and yet the sword didnt fall on me... for a VERY long time. Guess when it triggered?! On Corpse II. Also, it triggered on the 1 second invincibility of the tooth and nail. That spared me from losing the run, and i beat witness afterwards. I will NEVER forget that run. :3
Tooth and nail is surprisingly good for that, it gives you invulnerability 1/7 of the entire run so having a 1/7 chance of avoiding Damo isn't bad at all
"A sword can hit a basement, in which case everyone will run out before the collision. Those who do not exit the basement will die. Entities automatically leave if a sword is falling, unless it is Isaac, in which the sword is un-dodgeable, and Isaac will _Always die."_
Same, only noticed those recently. Was playing co-op with my bro and he went afk so I just walked in circles around which is when I noticed them. It seems you kinda need to tread the same path or step on the same places to make the prints more and more defined.
I had a Damocles run where I actually had red key. I took it all the way to Delirium where I found R key, so I was min maxing against my better judgement but I opened a red library and inside was a book of shadows, which I grabbed and just instinctually used. It wasn't until one of the boss rooms not giving me 2 items did I realize that the book of shadows saved me from the damocles fall.
@@mithril5155 Okay so explain how: A Dollar, Big Fan, Broken Watch, Dry Baby, Gnawed Leaf, Guardian Angel, Halo of Flies, Holy Mantle, Holy Water, Infamy, Infestation, Isaac's Heart, Leo, Punching Bag, Pyromaniac, Sacrificial Dagger, Samson's Chains, Skatole, Stop Watch, Taurus, Trinity Shield, Circle of Protection, Empty Vessel, Farting Baby, Host Hat, My Shadow, Spider Mod, Sworn Protector, Cone Head, Marbles, Metal Plate, A Pound of Flesh, Astral Projection, Bird's Eye, Blood Puppy, Bot Fly, Cube Baby, Divine Intervention, Guppy's Eye, Heartbreak, Lost Soul, Mucormyosis, Purgatory, Spirit Shackles, Strawman, The Swarm, Tinytoma, Vanishing Twin, Breath of Life, How to Jump, The Nail, The Poop, Unicorn Stump, Dull Razor, Larynx, and Spin to Win have to do with either of those.
Mom is putting the knife above isaac in 2:25 and just watching him having fun until 2:29 she’s just like “Ok Isaac that’s enough fun let me do the sacrifice”
2:56 The blood splatters from dying to damocles is quite gruesome compared to the others which is just a small puddle of blood from where Isaac frickin died Jeez O.O
@@Osvaldatore Well, I get that. And I was just saying what the other person wanted to say. I personally would've liked a way to tell if self hurt did or did not trigger it. Like, an indicator for like one room only, just to confirm it did trigger
As alt eden when you get hit Damocles seems to reroll it self into new Damocles, which is restarting falling fall chance, that makes eden, lost and tainted lost best characters for this item
Cool item idea: Guided Knife “Airtime for days” Idea: The knife can be thrown and can be controlled depending on the direction you are facing. (Ex: facing up, you throw the knife, it can go up and down) The knife retreats back to you when you move or when you turn directions, and can be thrown again.
You know curious, if you can have it in the death certificate room, can you hypothetically die in there and if so what does isaac descibe the room as? Is it the same as the floor or is it a special one?
I feel like it could be really cool if after it fell, it could turn into an item that’s just called “How..?” Idk what it would do, but I just think it’d be neat.
I think that you could react to the sword in time with some form of invincibility. If you wanted to try and survive the fall you could figure out on average the amount of time it should fall, and then wait and try and react once that amount of time has passed after taking damage. No clue how fast the start up of invulnerability items like unicorn horn/stump or book of shadows is, but if it's frame one it could be doable.
ah yes. I also have the same idea. I managed to demo it in this video (timestamp 4:47): th-cam.com/video/7TCrSjAtKRY/w-d-xo.html Testing the theory in repentance is pretty time-consuming however :D
How Glowing Hour Glass works with Damocles? Can you save yourself using it while the sword falls? If this works, will the sword fall at the same time it had fallen before returning?
It's not just because of Damocles, but I am really glad that the game now differentiates between intentional and unintentional damage, because I don't think that used to be a thing - definitely not for Angel/Devil deal chance as far as Curse and Sacrificial rooms are concerned, and I am pretty sure even Blood Bank and Devil Beggar used to ruin chances back in WotL.
The Sword of Damocles is hanging ooover my heeeeeeead And I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the thread Oh, woe is me My life is a misery Oooh, can't you see That I'm at the start of a pretty big downeeeeeeer I woke up this morning with a start when I fell out of bed And left from my dreaming was a feeling of unnameable dread My high is low I'm dressed up with no place to go And all I know Is I'm at the start of a pretty big downeeeer Man I love Rocky Horror Picture Show please watch it
1:09 Isaac running at Mach 2 speed in a room and immediately slashing himself with three rusty razorblades and stabbing a blood IV in his arm is the perfect analogy for this entire game
Little masochist
As an masochist i approve
He's self destructive and disturbed
“Mach 2” literally base speed
@@Johannesburgusjust like his father
1:21 Dang, you really just left him there all excited for 2 hours
Doing my boi hell game dirty like that ain't cool
@@spyshark_5002 he deserves it
He's just thinking about which one to choose
0:10
My man really left the game for more than half a day
at 3:06 you could tell he was walking all those 2 hours by the marks on the floor, really dedicated
TIL Isaac's feet leave footprints...so much detail in this game I've overlooked
That's an incredibly small but charming detail to the game
Wait does it really happen if you walk in the same room for 2 freaking hours?
He speed hacked
@@MrChisponX does what
You waited *hours* just to show us that it works, youre a legend dude.
he used speedhack tho!
@@Lastingbeats Maybe
@@Lastingbeats Pretty sure it was just the I’m Excited! pill
@@ibuj001 in another comment he replied that he used speedhack!
@@AlexAlex-bt8nd у
2:11 Oh hi Delirium
Why is this so accurate
I like the fact that your videos appears in the wikis
Hi
@@HiHi-hl3ki Hi
@@rokavvy2788 Hi
@@HiHi-hl3ki Hi Hi
Hi
My first run with this item i took damage immediately after getting it on my like, 3rd floor and took it all the way to beast and it fell while i was in a pesticide cloud and i instinctively dodged it using dark arts without realizing it until my friends on my stream pointed out it was no longer above my head, have yet to see this item since
God gamer
🍀Luck stat: 100
Bro the damocles got so mad at you it never appeared again
The lava ate it, sorry.
@@Kyumifun 😮
Innocence glitched is such a good song.
YES YES YES AND YES
IKR
YES YES E YEDYSEYEYEYYDYSYD
I know right? How didn't it make it to repentace?
Very yes
0:11 16 hours waiting to show us that damocles is not falling
Gotta make absolutely certain, the last thing you want is your 12 hour tainted lost run to be ended because you didn't test enough
What if that was impossibly lucky run and sword would fall at 17h.
@@WikiED code of the game explicitly shows that it triggers Damocles chance to fall only if you get hit.
Unless the code has been spaghettied, Damocles won't ever fall.
@@silverdededestruction2197 Are you sure? The wiki says it also has a 1/10000 chance to drop every 4th tick or something like that.
I've seen the replies, thanks for the info. I must not have read the wiki closely enough or something.
@@nelots1462 They're right, the condition for Damocles to begin checking every 4th tick is taking heart damage that isn't self inflicted (Such as in the case of Blood Donation, Demon Beggars, Curse Rooms, etc.)
Because Holy Mantle stops you from taking the damage, it won't ever fall in the case of The Lost unless you get an extra life, in which case as seen in the video, Damocles will eventually fall on the next life.
New title: isaac awaits his inevitable death at hours at a time
0:58
Isaac: Why must I suffer all these tests?
Syncer: For science.
You monster.
@@gavros9636 i'll show you a monster
@@gavros9636says the monster.
I know what you did.
@@estrelaplatinada6506 Well done. Here come the test results.
You are a horrible person, that's what it says, a horrible person.
We weren't even testing for that.
I feel a bit guilty being praised for patience :|
I did not actually wait 16 hours. Cheat Engine made it 5 times faster, so it should be around 3 hours only. And I just left it there and went to sleep lol.
I think it is safe to make a conclusion if the sword does not fall after 140 mins.
If you find something incorrect, just let me know (maybe with proof as well so that I can verify it).
As a math guy I can say that 140 minutes is more than sufficient. If the game runs at 60fps, there’s a 99.999663% chance the sword would have fallen by then. For just a 99% chance you would only have to wait about 51 minutes.
still appreciated nonetheless dude
actually according to the wiki, game logic accepts 30 fps.
but yeah still i think it is enough :D
either way, you should know that we appreciate all of your effort for these videos :]
pin your comment homie
So the min score isn't 0...
Good to hear that Isaac knows that he is valuable :D
he values himself for a quarter tho
Can we all just appreciate the amount of patience that went into this video
Tooth and Nail saved my Damocles run with Samson to the Witness.
My first item was "Metronome" which on the second use, gave me Damocles. And yes, it didnt go away.
I took so many hits, and yet the sword didnt fall on me... for a VERY long time. Guess when it triggered?!
On Corpse II. Also, it triggered on the 1 second invincibility of the tooth and nail.
That spared me from losing the run, and i beat witness afterwards.
I will NEVER forget that run. :3
Tooth and nail is surprisingly good for that, it gives you invulnerability 1/7 of the entire run so having a 1/7 chance of avoiding Damo isn't bad at all
@@maxcompton3482 shiny hunters would do that all day
It hurts my soul when he took an hp upgrade in the death certificate room
At least it's not supper
@@NandolfBlockbuster BREAKFAST ENGAGED
“I got breakfast.”
MLP Michael 20XX
2:25 isaac having a fun time being happy until a fucking sword kills him for no reason at all
*Every* character is the lost when you use this bad boy!
The thumbnail is perfect!
i dont understand :(
When you dodge roll directly into a jammed bullet
"A sword can hit a basement, in which case everyone will run out before the collision. Those who do not exit the basement will die. Entities automatically leave if a sword is falling, unless it is Isaac, in which the sword is un-dodgeable, and Isaac will _Always die."_
Classics Sims Bug
0:25 nobody gonna talk about the super lucky curse room? 😭
Why is so lucky. I wouldn't have tale the cat and since I got goat head in the curse room will guarantee than only devil rooms will appear. :/
It is not lucky it is because of damocles swore effect
@@TheJavierMartinez88 but, u still get angel rooms with goat head if u didn't get it from devil rooms...
@@Gaban_ Then I have terrible luck then. u.u
@@TheJavierMartinez88 well yeah if you took the devil deal only devil deals will spawn
At 3:00 does Isaac really leave foot prints when he walks?
I have never noticed them
yes, i also just noticed it during the making of this video :D
I think its whenever he jumps, considering some other comments Iv seen.
It even depends on the character. Some leave blood or bones
Same, only noticed those recently. Was playing co-op with my bro and he went afk so I just walked in circles around which is when I noticed them.
It seems you kinda need to tread the same path or step on the same places to make the prints more and more defined.
Such a nice detail
Taking
You can also use glowing hour glass to rewind the damage in order to reset the falling threat.
that could be good strat. let me see
I like how you call the sword "the falling threat"
Makes it way more ominous
he calls it "the falling threat" when isaac gets hit.
like, an actual threat.
what a legend waiting 16 hours to do a video
yeah wtf
he just speed up game with cheat engine
@@klpliper ...
@@klpliper nope he just edited it to make it faster
@@klpliper shush don't belittle his effort
In year 2022, the game is still running
Syncer: Wait, what was this video about?
I had a Damocles run where I actually had red key. I took it all the way to Delirium where I found R key, so I was min maxing against my better judgement but I opened a red library and inside was a book of shadows, which I grabbed and just instinctually used. It wasn't until one of the boss rooms not giving me 2 items did I realize that the book of shadows saved me from the damocles fall.
So this basically confirms there's like. Fake Invincibility and like LEGIT invincibility.
Dude really have passion with these test yo I appreciate it
0:30 can we talk about this BEAUTIFULL curse room. Like fr goat head and dead cat....
0:23 now thats a dream curse room
So basically just _always_ take this item as lost/tainted lost
Knowing Edmund I bet this isn't in the tainted lost pool.
@@schmingbeefin4473 It is I've taken it a couple of times
@@schmingbeefin4473 It is, actually
@@schmingbeefin4473 How would it not? Only items that are removed from it are HP Ups, some multiple lives, and 1 to 2 quality tier items.
@@mithril5155 Okay so explain how: A Dollar, Big Fan, Broken Watch, Dry Baby, Gnawed Leaf, Guardian Angel, Halo of Flies, Holy Mantle, Holy Water, Infamy, Infestation, Isaac's Heart, Leo, Punching Bag, Pyromaniac, Sacrificial Dagger, Samson's Chains, Skatole, Stop Watch, Taurus, Trinity Shield, Circle of Protection, Empty Vessel, Farting Baby, Host Hat, My Shadow, Spider Mod, Sworn Protector, Cone Head, Marbles, Metal Plate, A Pound of Flesh, Astral Projection, Bird's Eye, Blood Puppy, Bot Fly, Cube Baby, Divine Intervention, Guppy's Eye, Heartbreak, Lost Soul, Mucormyosis, Purgatory, Spirit Shackles, Strawman, The Swarm, Tinytoma, Vanishing Twin, Breath of Life, How to Jump, The Nail, The Poop, Unicorn Stump, Dull Razor, Larynx, and Spin to Win have to do with either of those.
Quantum particles in a box be like 2:11
Mom is putting the knife above isaac in 2:25 and just watching him having fun until 2:29 she’s just like “Ok Isaac that’s enough fun let me do the sacrifice”
The thumbnail looks like that meme with the guy skateboarding with a rake and then getting hit in the face with it.
0:23
Syncer's cursed room: Two Satan's items. One of them totally amazing.
My cursed rooms: TROLL BOMBS ARE UNSTOPPABLE!
One of them was from damocles
both are amazing
2:31 The sync is so satsifying
0:09 wow, standing 16 hours in the same room only to show how Damocles don't fall
poor isaac was happy jumping...then he met his end
*Isaac spamming teleportation*
Damocles: *Yeah, n o*
0:25 Fuckin cracked basement 1 curse room tbh
Items are doubled from damacolous (idk spelling) of course, but yea still cracked
dead cat also negetes the kill effect on the sword too, because you have 9 lives
Love the choice of music
It'd be neat if the sword became a pick-up-abble melee weapon if you survive it.
2:56 The blood splatters from dying to damocles is quite gruesome compared to the others which is just a small puddle of blood from where Isaac frickin died
Jeez O.O
I love the video, that poor devil beggar was left there wait tho : (
man waited for 16 hours for a dagger to fall on him. True respect.
good vid mate!
thanks for the amazing vids
Thumbnail reminds me of “Drunk guy Vs. Bottle,” true classic.
can we please appreciate how fricking much recording material this must have produced?
I wish Damocles had some sort of visual indicator when it's active
That would kinda remove the whole fucking point
@@cactus_juice3217 I don't think they mean when it's about to fall, more like, when it "can" fall (After taking damage)
@@FiatNyx that would also ruin the point
The point of the item is to induce the fear of your run ending at any moment, if you don't remember you took damage that's a you problem
@@Osvaldatore Well, I get that. And I was just saying what the other person wanted to say. I personally would've liked a way to tell if self hurt did or did not trigger it. Like, an indicator for like one room only, just to confirm it did trigger
Holy shit the dedication, i have to subscribe and like, you guys should too. Fair and square
As alt eden when you get hit Damocles seems to reroll it self into new Damocles, which is restarting falling fall chance, that makes eden, lost and tainted lost best characters for this item
if you get damocles as a genesis item it does give you multiple items during genesis and you can pick up 3 items each wave
man that demon beggar just wanted you to choose a skull, you didnt need to let him wait that long like that
2:26 watching this out of context is hilarious
Thank you for the research!
segment 4 and 5 of the thumbnail are terrifying out of context
With every video you release, i wish of installing Antibirth music mod even more
Cool item idea:
Guided Knife
“Airtime for days”
Idea: The knife can be thrown and can be controlled depending on the direction you are facing. (Ex: facing up, you throw the knife, it can go up and down) The knife retreats back to you when you move or when you turn directions, and can be thrown again.
Imagine having tooth and nail and it activates just in time to save you from Damocles.
In total, you waited 27 hours and 30 minutes. Now that's dedication
You know curious, if you can have it in the death certificate room, can you hypothetically die in there and if so what does isaac descibe the room as? Is it the same as the floor or is it a special one?
Since it looks a lot like the red key room at home, it's probably described as a "familiar place"
I feel like it could be really cool if after it fell, it could turn into an item that’s just called “How..?” Idk what it would do, but I just think it’d be neat.
Perhaps a one use piece of it, if you use it, you spawn a second item, so bassically just the regular effect but you have to use it once precisely
thumbnail is just: “yay!!” “euughhh…”
0:59 there is a typo. “Machines” is spelled incorrectly as “Machinces”
Not just the lost but its basically free with lazarus, and whenever you have extra lives
That thumbnail is haunting
0:56 the best part of the song starts
2:16 and again
3:16 and again
That cursed room though I'm jealous now
the item is base on a story the sword is call damocles because the guy name was damocles there is story about it on youtube
The preview reminded me of the meme about kick flipping on a rake
This item seems really good for the Lost/tainted lost and Lazarus.
0:23 godlike cursed room for the start of a run
2:20 I'd like to believe Issac teleported into the falling damocles because it's funnier that way
Tried to pay attention, was too distracted by how good innocence glitched is
The demon gambler waiting two hours for Isaac to pick a skull 😀
what a curse room at the beginning tho
I think that you could react to the sword in time with some form of invincibility. If you wanted to try and survive the fall you could figure out on average the amount of time it should fall, and then wait and try and react once that amount of time has passed after taking damage. No clue how fast the start up of invulnerability items like unicorn horn/stump or book of shadows is, but if it's frame one it could be doable.
ah yes. I also have the same idea.
I managed to demo it in this video (timestamp 4:47): th-cam.com/video/7TCrSjAtKRY/w-d-xo.html
Testing the theory in repentance is pretty time-consuming however :D
I love how the thumbnail says AckAckAckAck
How Glowing Hour Glass works with Damocles? Can you save yourself using it while the sword falls? If this works, will the sword fall at the same time it had fallen before returning?
Pov. your listening to innocence glitched this whole video
Ive never seen Damocles be called the falling threat
i thought the thumbnail was isaac jumping then landing his butt on the damocules handle lmao
In the curse room also you can get the Red Key to find some good items
Anwser. Yes, any form of immunity
your videos are the best
There is some poor sap out there that has died to it immediately after getting hit.
:(
It's not just because of Damocles, but I am really glad that the game now differentiates between intentional and unintentional damage, because I don't think that used to be a thing - definitely not for Angel/Devil deal chance as far as Curse and Sacrificial rooms are concerned, and I am pretty sure even Blood Bank and Devil Beggar used to ruin chances back in WotL.
0:10
DUDE...
You mean, you have just... Left Isaac stay here for 17 hours just to show us that holy mantle break doesn't activate the effect?
I love the thumbnails lol
A couple weeks back, I was playing as Lost and damocles dropped for no reason. I hadn't taken damage or I would have already been dead
Watching the sword gives me anxiety
The Sword of Damocles is hanging ooover my heeeeeeead
And I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the thread
Oh, woe is me
My life is a misery
Oooh, can't you see
That I'm at the start of a pretty big downeeeeeeer
I woke up this morning with a start when I fell out of bed
And left from my dreaming was a feeling of unnameable dread
My high is low
I'm dressed up with no place to go
And all I know
Is I'm at the start of a pretty big downeeeer
Man I love Rocky Horror Picture Show please watch it
That curse room, holy hell, please tell me it wasn't spawned in.
0:09 you really wait for this 16 hours? I apricciate this
2:11 isaac looks like he’s lagging lol
0:55
Does anyone know the soundtrack of this part please?
It's Innocence Glitched - Antibirth OST
"great for lost... downside is greatly mitigated"
more like removed completely.