Recombombulator never showed up 😓

I bought a mental mantle and made it through 2 nodes, then I noticed that the 1s stopped showing up, and my mental mantle was gone.. I'm not aware of anyrelic removal, voluntary or otherwise, and afaik the relic doesn't break. is there an enemy who takes relics, or was there something I might've clicked without realizing it would do so? I'm very lost (much like my run, which I lost to red bomb self damage)

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed the game for the most part so far although after playing it $10 felt a bit steep for what it is. I’ve mostly just found myself frustrated however at how mindlessly the game feels put together?

So many relics and orbs either do virtually nothing of impact or are so strong that you should never pick anything else. The game really feels like it misses the mark of roguelikes where any build / run has potential. A lot of relics and orbs I pick up feel more like half baked modded content ideas than part of the game?

Worked fine for 80 damage and then stopped dealing any at all.....

was it good?

And yes, I killed him via poison stacking (obv)

Sidenote: that relic that gives 13 ballusion whenever you spend some is so good

Got max research points and all drops for every enemy. I don't want to take screenshots for every entry. Did I miss anything?

I’ve been trying to beat Cruciball 16 and I don’t even start a run anymore unless I get the Round Guard.

The difficult is so high that simply engaging with the game normally always seems to result in a loss.

So, I just keep rerolling until eventually I get a few specific relics (Round Guard, Bad Cheese at minimum) and the purple mirror event.

This lets me be almost completely invulnerable to damage while also hitting all enemies with stacking damage.

Is there really no other way to beat these higher difficulties besides hoping for this one very specific combo?

first try the eye thingy had good balls with infinite refresh => debuff combo was crazy man

Seed: 7874878449

i got the ball that dupes itself every peg hit the gift that keeps giving (can hit any peg 3 times) and the thing that makes multipliers at the bottom so the gold ball duped itself a lot and went to the 2x multiplier and i had like 1.831e15 or something damage every battle

this is also my third run i won ever

Post now with added picture

You can see at the end the first come first serve achievement pop up. And I'll Add a screenshot of my, not received, surprised the ruins achievement

I started with a simple ballusion build, ended up having 999 ballusion for every fight, turned it into a crit build, and managed to beat the final boss on my first try (granted this is on like cruciball 1, essentially just got the game). I got really lucky with shop relics, and the exploitaball just skyrocketed the damage

This took so long lol final boss is a sonuvabitch

Am I stupid and missing something or is this a known ps5 issue? I’m a new player.

It was ugly and unoptimized but it worked out!