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overeager overeater posted:Naively, I assumed the Mad World challenge -- where Pareidolia (making all cards face cards) is mandatory -- would stop you from encountering The Plant (which debuffs every face card) I believe they've fixed this in the beta patch
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Been running the challenges, and getting an early Brainstorm that I then doubled up with a Spectral Pack which I was then able to use to triple up on a Vampire made the Medusa challenge a fun breeze as I kept chiseling them stones into +.6%xMult per.
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It's been four hours, give any other boss than Violet Vessel on this attempt to win in 12 rounds you gently caress e: Finally lmao, Stuntman and Anaglyph deck saves the day RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Down to 14 gold stickers to get Completionist++: - Pareidolia* - Business Card* - To Do List - Midas Mask* - Juggler - Stone Joker* - Ancient Joker - Seltzer - Glass Joker - The Trio - The Family - The Tribe* - Chicot - Perkeo* Starred ones I've taken to ante 8 on gold stake before, or in the case of Pareidolia I had to sell out of a negative copy because of The Mark on ante 5 of what would go on to be a successful run. The Family might be my pick for worst gold stake joker pre-patch, I don't know if I've had a single run where I wanted to go for a four of a kind build
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me and a mate ground out the last three challenges (Needle, Cruelty, Jokerless) yesterday and today. the strat was essentially the same for all, amass Aces, a mix of glass and steel, red seals where possible, and pump 4 of a kind. hangman as much as possible, keep the suits varied, you don't need the flush five, too risky with the bosses. with the patched Magician giving 2 lucky cards they're also a nail-biting way of getting by until you've got your glassteels operation running. all in all none of them were as rough as I was expecting, tons of fun, hope he adds more challenges in future. back to gold sealing the decks one by one I guess ^^ oh hello previous poster, four of a kind rules and given just one extra steel is always better than five/flush five. try it! Chadzok fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Start Golden Needle challenge: Slam pick DNA as my first joker Fail Start Jokerless challenge: Slam pick buffoon pack in first shop 
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I think it's just the 1st shop guaranteed one, but there may be more; I haven't dug into Jokerless much yet.
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Scholtz posted:I think it's just the 1st shop guaranteed one, but there may be more; I haven't dug into Jokerless much yet. Buffoon packs are listed in the banned section on the challenge restriction, so it is indeed just the 1st shop guaranteed one.
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Why can't I beat the Green Stake, argh Is it just pure luck, getting high powered jokers early or what? Is a certain deck easier on the Green Stake?
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smoobles posted:Why can't I beat the Green Stake, argh My guess with no other info would be unoptimal economy management. But when in the run do you tend to die?
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smoobles posted:Why can't I beat the Green Stake, argh Gonna have to get green on all decks anyway
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What kind of play time should I expect before winning a very first basic run? I feel like everything I'm trying to do is getting cucked by bad luck. I know the OP says to get jokers that do chips and multi, but the best run I had I got that -1$ per card played boss blind one and then I stalled out unable to improve because I was massively in debt.
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I played for hours before getting a win, you'll get better as you learn which jokers are good and which are JOKES
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For whom the joker tolls 
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Neon Belly posted:For whom the joker tolls Not me, based on Typecast giving me perhaps two jokers an attempt tops e: Actually, drawing anything but a high card when I DO get to ante 5 would be great too, thanks. Got blueprint, brainstorm, card sharp, baron, and two negative tags upcoming and it just wouldn't do it RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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Just had a fun run: double blueprint, burnt joker, DNA, and the .25+xmulti for every card added. I leveled up pair 3x every round, made 3 copies of my best card, and tripled the xmulti. By the end, pair level was around 90 and my xmulti was over 20x. I finally tapped out at the 13th small blind.
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I got jokered!
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I am taking ride the bus every time I see it offered ante 1 and you can't stop me
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:I am taking ride the bus every time I see it offered ante 1 and you can't stop me Just got ride the bus early on abandoned deck on gold stake, followed by an early eternal stuntman. Surely the spectral deck would apply the polychrome to my ride the bus and leave me with a run stomping combo?
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Sometimes Balatro just wants to hurt you.
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smoobles posted:Why can't I beat the Green Stake, argh Of course you do have to win Green Stake with all jokers eventually, but you've gotta start somewhere, and Yellow is definitely a good option there. e: unrelatedly, I made a spreadsheet of my stake progress to date because that's the kind of silly thing I do. I like how immediately upon beating Blue Stake with one deck and unlocking Plasma Deck, I also get Plasma Deck up to Blue Stake  
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https://twitter.com/maxbittker/status/1782645521888247956
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now this is podracing 
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Lucked out and got a royal flush that I could discard in the first blind to unlock a joker. Shockingly I was actually able to pull together and still beat the blind anyway and continue the game. Interested to see the interactions between that joker and blueprint
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if self.ability.name == 'Space Joker' then { return false; }
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LifeLynx posted:if self.ability.name == 'Space Joker' then { Lol
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I don't think I'm patient or lucky enough for Jokerless lmaoLifeLynx posted:if self.ability.name == 'Space Joker' then { Hey this is just the same logic as Bloodstone!
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Okay seriously how the gently caress do you win? Like, even once? Every time I feel like I have a good setup it's throwing something at me to directly counter what I'm doing. Got Pair up to level 10 (partially for achievement, partially because I had the joker for multi on 3 or fewer cards played) and it gave me a boss blind that sets money to 0 if you play a pair. I had a really good set up just now with a good mix of chip add, multiplier, starting to get a really good deck going then it throws "The Wall" at me and does a boss blind that's like three times higher than what it should be. What the gently caress is going on? If I wanted to get hosed over and countered for a specific build path I'd just go slam my head against the loving Battle Tower in pokemon
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flushes are the easy path for beating ante 8 since they're easy to make and offer good scoring with five cards part of it is just getting good enough to recognize that it's less slamming your face into a wall and more bouncing around like a rubber ball through runs also the "sets your money to $0 if you play a pair" uses whatever hand you played the most, not just pairs.
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Zamujasa posted:flushes are the easy path for beating ante 8 since they're easy to make and offer good scoring with five cards This is good advice. A lot of this game is grabbing whatever leverage you can and pulling as much as it will allow you. Flushes are a good bad discard wise obviously because there's 13 to a suit, and with tarot cards you can get that up too 16 19 21 pretty quickly. Not to mention the suit specific Jokers That give plus four for every scored card. The downside is bosses which Nerf particular suits, or set your money to zero if you play your most played hand. I bet you would have more success If you went for jokers that can be upgraded, or allowed you to manipulate your deck. Vagabond is a good example a card that encourages you to be fluid and spend a lot of money, gives you tarot cards to ensure flushes, add mult/chips to cards, etc. hallucination is another really great one that can potentially get you double value for every booster. Temperance alone is a good reason to go this route for the economic freedom it gives you.
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I say this as somebody who really overlooked tarot cards when I first started playing and was just fishing for the most synergistic Jokers every game. It's cool when synergies happen and a big part of getting far, but often you really have to Make your own luck
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Tea Party Crasher posted:I say this as somebody who really overlooked tarot cards when I first started playing and was just fishing for the most synergistic Jokers every game. It's cool when synergies happen and a big part of getting far, but often you really have to Make your own luck Yeah I had a run recently where my jokers were pretty trash but I ended up finding so many tarot cards that my deck was mega buffed. + chips and mult all over the place really carried me through
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This game is a lot of fun, but drat a lot of it comes down to random luck. I have not yet made it through a run and have gotten to Ante 8 like 4-5 times. I think the problem for me is that you always start from nothing and you can't even pick like one starting Joker to make things a little easier. In general I have had the best success by going for Jokers/Planet cards that level up my Two Pairs, since those are pretty easy to have in your hand the majority of the time. But once I get to around Ante 7/8 it's hard to get enough chips per round.
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FlamingLiberal posted:This game is a lot of fun, but drat a lot of it comes down to random luck. I have not yet made it through a run and have gotten to Ante 8 like 4-5 times. I think the problem for me is that you always start from nothing and you can't even pick like one starting Joker to make things a little easier. on the new patch you get a guaranteed joker and buffoon pack in the first shop, which helps a lot.
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Nucular Carmul posted:Okay seriously how the gently caress do you win? Like, even once? Every time I feel like I have a good setup it's throwing something at me to directly counter what I'm doing. Got Pair up to level 10 (partially for achievement, partially because I had the joker for multi on 3 or fewer cards played) and it gave me a boss blind that sets money to 0 if you play a pair. I had a really good set up just now with a good mix of chip add, multiplier, starting to get a really good deck going then it throws "The Wall" at me and does a boss blind that's like three times higher than what it should be. What the gently caress is going on? If I wanted to get hosed over and countered for a specific build path I'd just go slam my head against the loving Battle Tower in pokemon Get a joker that gives you chips Get a joker that gives you mult Get a joker that gives you xmult Play whatever hand triggers those jokers the most and use tarot cards to increase the odds of drawing this hand.
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Of course as soon as I get the legendary Joker that disables all boss blind effects I faceplant on a random blind
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Papes posted:Get a joker that gives you chips if you can get jokers that can scale and give you more of these things as your run progresses that's even better
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