Binding of Isaac: Epiphany: Wave 5 Patch Notes

Wave 5 has released! Here is a categorized list of all the changes in this update:

====== GAMEPLAY CHANGES ======
- Tarnished Samson and his unlocks have been added to the game!

- Tarnished Cain adjustments:
   * TR Cain's starting damage and range now match his regular and tainted forms
   * TR Cain has a completely new unlock method that matches our current standards
   * Improved TR Cain's Birthright: it now also improves most bag synergies
- Throwing Bag changes:
   * Throwing bag has now been added to item pools
   * 40+ new bag types have been added
   * Throwing Bag has new stat interactions:
      ~ The Range stat, in addition to the old effect, now also affects how many times the bag will bounce before hitting the floor
      ~ The Tears stat, in addition to the old effect, now also affects the charging speed of the throwing bag
   * Many bags have gotten revised effects
   * Bagged golden collectibles now count as 2 items while only taking up 1 bag item slot
   * Some stats have been given brand new interactions with Throwing Bag
   * Throwing Bag's bag queue now shuffles upon entering a room (new bag order is displayed as second half-transparent queue under main bag queue UI)
   * Improved EID support for Throwing Bag synergies
   * The sound effect that plays when a bomb is placed in Throwing Bag is now significantly more noticeable

- Golden Items changes
    * 20+ new Golden Item synergies have been added for active items that didn't previously have effects
    * The chance for Golden items to spawn has been decreased from 1% to 0.6%

- Book of Virtues now has a synergy with itself where the number of wisps created upon using an active item will be multiplied by the number of Books of Virtues that you have
    * This also means that BoV now has a golden item synergy

- Added AgentCucco's Damocles API
    * Because of this, Golden Damocles now functions as expected

- Broken Dice will spawn Blight in place of pure health ups
     * Blight is an item with no effect

- Blighted dice now shares its charges with Broken Dice
    * Losing charges reverts it back to Broken Dice, while still retaining leftover Blighted Dice charges
    * Consuming a golden collectible with Broken Dice gives double charge, allowing the item to be used twice before becoming Broken Dice
    * If the player has The Battery, consuming collectibles with Broken Dice can overcharge Blighted Dice

- The passive versions of Damocles, Book of Belial, and Book of Virtues can no longer be seen or interacted with by TR Isaac's inventory limit or Blighted Dice/Essence of Isaac

- Essence of the Keeper now converts everything in the room to gold at the cost of luck
    * Items -2, Trinkets -1, Pickups -0.25

- Tarnished Isaac's unlocks have been changed
    * Story Cube has been renamed to Chance Cube and has a new effect and unlock method
        ~ Chance to convert enemies in active rooms into pickups with increasing risk of failing. Chance of failing can be reduced by consuming pickups in cleared rooms
    * Empty Deck is a new misc unlock that uses the old effect of Story Cube
    * Isaac's Delirium unlock is now D5, a dice active that rerolls trinkets into other trinkets

- True Love changed to a passive item with a new effect
     * True Love new effect: Increases the odds of finding hearts of the same type that you have

- Bad Company rework: Greeds bought with Bad Company have increased HP and stage HP, but no longer spawn Hoppers

- Three new challenges have been added:
    * Dealmaker - unlocks Coin Case
    * Overwhelming Odds - unlocks Chance Cube
    * He Who Casts The First Stone - unlocks Revolt

- Thirty Pieces of Silver has been rebalanced:
    * Now only gives 3 coins instead of 30
    * Damage scaling has now been overhauled

- First Page Rebalanced:
    * Is now a single-use active item
    * Spawns an exact clone of your character that uses the same items as you had when you used it.
    * The clone no longer dies when reaching a new floor, and will persist until it is killed

- Savage Chains changes:
    * Walking in a single direction for long enough while chained will cause the chains to break
    * Taking damage will cause the chains to break
    * Your movement is now slightly less restricted while chained
    * Reintroduced in the game
    * Savage Chains has its sprite reworked

- "Chains of Pain" has been renamed to "Kin's Curse" and has a new sprite
- Cardiac Arrest's bleeding now removes an extra half heart of bleeding upon losing a heart container (3 → 4)
- The chance for Twisted Rocks to spawn black hearts has been decreased from 60% to 40%

- Broken Halo Improvements:
    * Pit sprite has been updated
    * Can now spawn more pickup types
    * Consistent layouts

- The way that the second Cracked Key is given to the player during the Ascent Dimensional Key route has been changed
    * Instead of spawning the second Cracked Key upon entering the Home floor, the key is instead given to you inside of the room where you pick up the Dimensional Key

- Cardiac Arrest's quality has been reduced to 3
- Golden Cobweb's quality has been increased to 2
- Tarnished Maggy's bonus heart threshold now shows a ? while Curse of the Unknown is active
- Weird Heart can no longer roll into Golden Hearts, and existing Golden Hearts will be preserved through the reroll
- Old knife has had its sprite changed
- Old knife can be now sacrificed with sacrificial altar
- Old knife now charges slightly faster
- Using Turnover via Void now costs no money
- Prices for Turnover are now separate for each player
- Flat damage bonuses are now affected by character/collectible damage multipliers
- Golden Cobweb now only consistently replaces vanilla flies and spiders; Modded flies and spiders now have a luck-based chance to have the midas effect applied rather than always being replaced
- If a locked tarnished character is selected from the co-op menu, when the character is turned into Isaac, that player now receives a D6 and a bomb to match Isaac's starting kit
- Multitools have now a 2% chance to replace a key (down from 10%)
- Tasty Pennies have now a 2% chance to replace a penny (down from 5%)
- Tasty Pennies can no longer replace coins produced by blood donation machines
- Dark Rock's damage increase has been buffed to +1.5 (from +0.5)
- Dark Rock's quality has been increased from 1 to 2


====== COSMETIC CHANGES ======
- The title screen logo for Epiphany has been redone
- Tarnished Cain has had his sprites revised and new custom animations have been added
- Tarnished Isaac's stage transition sprite has been updated
- Significantly improved HUD elements' compatibility with co-op
- Added extra Epiphany-related icons for Minimap API

- EID Improvements
    * Updated a lot of descriptions, including translated ones
    * TR characters' pocket actives now have different descriptions depending on the player's character

- Updated the in-game descriptions for the following items
    * Zip Bombs
    * Capsule D7
    * True Love
    * All "House 2 of" cards
    * House Queen of Hearts
    * ! Card
    * Drawn Card
    * Essence of the Keeper

- Shop items spawned by Turnover now create a poof effect
- The DSS menu has been improved
- Throwing Bag now plays a sound when it picks up a bomb
- Added a config menu option to disable Twisted Rock voice lines
- The graphic for Tarnished Judas's broken heart deals has been updated
- A message is now shown if the Tarnished Character menu fails to load

====== BUG FIXES ======
- Fixed selecting "Random" in the tarnished character menu causing issues when Tarnished Judas or Tarnished Eden was selected
- A plethora of bugs involving Golden Items have been resolved due to a partial code rewrite
- Fixed an issue where Dimensional Key would become unobtainable in a run where the Corpse floor generated with Curse of the Labyrinth
- Fixed Turnover not being properly positioned when using the paper display setting and the player has Book of Virtues of Birthright Book of Belial
- Fixed Your Soul and Store Credit not working correctly when playing as Tarnished Keeper
- Fixed a bug where Cardiac Arrest's HUD would disappear when dropping the item even if the player was still bleeding
- Epiphany character API's persistent item giver no longer gives items during the Mines chase due to it causing the player to be unable to pick up the key piece
- Fixed an issue where Old Knife could damage friendly enemies
- Fixed an issue where TR Magdalene wouldn't consume Repentance+ red hearts for her bonus heart mechanic
- Fixed an issue where the player would retain pentashot when starting as TR Keeper and then changing their character type during the run
- Fixed an issue where placed zip bombs could sometimes be invisible under certain circumstances
- Fixed an issue where zip bombs placed by the player could sometimes damage the player in ways that normally placed bombs wouldn't (e.g. brimstone bombs)
- Fixed Fiend Folio's Stud pickup not being obtainable by Tarnished Keeper
- Fixed Throwing Bag being able to hit friendly enemies
- Fixed an issue where key blocks unlocked using a Multitool would respawn upon exiting and re-entering the room
- TR Keeper now has a small delay before he is able to turn collectibles from opened chests into coins.
- Fixed HUD elements for TR characters not rendering while in "The Future" stage
- Fixed an issue where character portraits would not render correctly when viewing them through the Encyclopedia mod
- Fixed the Old Knife item not working properly in co-op


====== API CHANGES ======
- Added the function `AddGoldenActiveSynergy` to allow custom golden active synergies to be created
- Added a callback called `TARNISHED_PLAYER_INIT` which runs when a tarnished character is loaded at the start of a run
  * This takes a PlayerType value as a limiter and passes `EntityPlayer` as a parameter
  * This callback replaces the previously used charInitFunction property, which has now been removed
- Fixed an issue where certain combinations of hearts would not be given correctly
- If not specified, the red heart container count is now 0 by default
- Additional red heart containers (bone hearts not counted) are now filled by default
- Characters added through the Epiphany API are now selectable via the co-op menu