In the last update, Ed and Tyrone “buffed” the Abel item. At least, I believe the change was intended to be a buff. While Abel used to mirror both Isaac’s movement and firing direction, he was adjusted so that he would fire towards Isaac, regardless of which direction Isaac is currently firing.

Personally, I see this change as making Abel worse rather than better. Abel has never been a great item, but there were some cases in which he was useful- before the change. You could direct Abel to take out enemies at a distance, while you stayed out of the line of fire. For example, Abel could shoot wall spiders, flies hovering pits or rocks, nubs, doppelgangers, etc. This was possible because you could effectively control abel’s movement and firing direction by mirroring your own actions. However, now that kind of play is much more difficult, if not impossible. With the recent change you can no longer set the direction of Abel’s shots- good luck hitting wall spiders now.

Meanwhile, Cain’s Other Eye (or COE for short) bounces around the room and fires tears in the direction that Isaac is firing. Because you have no control over the COE's movement, it’s difficult to use this item to intentionally target enemies. I imagine most players do what I do: control Isaac normally and hope that COE’s tears will do some good work on their own. Most of the time, though, it just ends up firing at walls for the entire room.

You probably see where I’m going with this. It would be more useful if COE fired tears towards Isaac in the same way that Abel does now. That way, COE would be more likely to contribute in fights. Then reverse the recent change to Abel, so that the item can be once again used for targeting enemies at a distance. This way both items have their own niche: COE for extra tears in the thick of things, and Abel for directed shots.

And if Ed relayed wants give Abel a little buff, make him scale in damage with Isaac’s tears, in the same way COE is suppose to.

TL;DR: Revert the recent Abel change so we can direct his shots again, and change Cain’s Other Eye so that it fires towards Isaac in the way Abel does now.