Hidden stats in the Gungeon: Curse, Coolness, and Magnificence

Detailed video about the hidden stats in the Gungeon. This will help you make decisions on what items to pick up.

[MarioKartWiiGamer]

melee items are cursed since the dungeon only accepts ranged weapons

[sarcasticguy]

Two things:
1) You must have at least 1 curse in order to use the mirror that rarely spawns as it takes you to the "Black Market". You can't use the mirror without at least 1 curse.
2) You can get (essentially) infinite coolness with the Crisis Stone and the Cigarettes. Every time you reload with the Crisis Stone you are briefly invulnerable to all damage. Every time you use the Cigarettes you take a half heart of damage for +1 coolness. Essentially, you trigger a reload of your starter weapon and then immediately use a Cigarette and repeat until satisfied.

[MemeSnack]

I didn’t know about magnificence, damn. Still I think every S tier item is pretty worth picking up

[Jonymankitty]

Fuses can be put out with any gun/item that can put liquid on the ground. Poison or water or oil.

[ThatOneFriendlyDude]

Quick thing about chest magnificence: Chest magnificence has no effect on the items spawned, it only affects the odds of whether or not another A/S chest will spawn. Opening or breaking the chest reduces chest magnificence, but leaving it unopened and unbroken, interestingly enough, will affect the odds of an A/S tier chest spawning for the rest of the run. Therefore, breaking and/or opening every A/S chest you come across is a good idea in order to maximize potential for A-tier and S-tier chests. Aside from that, this is a solid explanation of these stats.

[jessecanez]

I'm playing this on Ps4 and I'm astounded I didn't play this years ago when I first saw it. This vid helped so much in understanding the mechanics of certain and extremely important aspects of this game.

[Index]

Good video. I think it would've been nice if you also showed some examples of items that increase coolness just to make it a bit more demonstrative. I can imagine a newer player watching this and going "Uh, so how exactly do I increase my coolness?"

[daanm]

Oka, this is the most underrated channel ever!

[firstnamelastname]

Great info I didn’t know about even though I unlocked everything, wish I would’ve watched this earlier. Subbed you deserve it!

[_connorsseur]

Nice video, but there's a couple of issues I have with it:

1. Your audio levels are WAY too low. Try speaking louder, getting closer to your microphone, or increasing your volume while editing, because it's really hard for me to hear you! You also sound pretty bored, so I'd try and inject some life into your voice.
2. You forgot to note that jammed enemies always deal contact damage (with the exception of a certain character anyways).

Thanks for the video regardless! I just want to see people improve their content is all!

[iv]

I knew about curse and coolness from the wiki, but I never knew of magnificence

[toasterstrooder]

I feel that the coolness and curse bits will be very useful for me to remember during future runs. Thank you for sharing!

[tokyowetdreams]

Honestly i just wanna thank ya. I have been looking for a video explaining this better all day for a friend of mine since he has a hard time reading things off of his phone without his glasses. This is the only vid i could find that explains any of this in a short video.

[godusopp]

Coolness shouldn't have to be a hidden stat
It doesn't help that barely any items can increase it

[omegaknight]

Just so everyone knows. NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER REACH 10 CURSE.
that "special thing" is so dangerous even the shopkeeper is afraid of it and closes his shop if it happens and you are in the shop.
Just trust me. NEVER.REACH.10.CURSE!

[momijiinubashiri]

hey Mr. ETG your video was of great help and i would love to see you as a higher up youtuber

[Cory-jrid]

I never knew what coolness did or even know about magnificence, thanks.

[aguyontheinternet]

Great vid. Knew about all 3 stats already, but learned something about each of them which isn't something I'm able to say for a lot of videos like this

[qdj]

For Magnificence, can you drop s tier items before entering a chest room (if somehow you know that it is a chest room) and have a higher chance of getting an a or s tier chest? You'd have to immediately run back to avoid the resourceful rat stealing your items but does dropping the items reduce the magnificence?

[sanicpl]

i can't believe the devs went and made stats named "coolness" and "magnificence"


As if a game about bullets shooting guns and you shooting bullets at living bullets isnt fucked up enough