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I love the supernova joker I think I am too dumb for obelisk right now, I keep accidentally resetting it
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im enjoying balatro so far, but i wish there were a little more incentive to try anything other than flushes in the early game. tarot cards convert card suit three at a time, which is faster than any other form of card conversion (deleting cards goes 2 at a time, increasing card rank goes 2 at a time, making stone cards or cloning cards goes 1 at a time). Once I have a card suit set up i can start working on a real build to take to the end of the game, but the first three or four antes are tending to play out very similarly every run as a result
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Feb 21, 2024 20:54
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AlphaKeny1 posted:I love the supernova joker Yeah same. I'm sure Obelisk is quite powerful but managing it feels like a pain.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:54
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  I'm a master of video games
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Feb 21, 2024 21:03
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 Had a very good run with an all-face flush build thanks to a legendary joker that gave an extra 1x multiplier every time a face card was destroyed. Could have made it to ante 13 with a little more luck in the shop, only made it to 14 cards burned by the end of the run even taking every tarot and spectral pack opportunity presented as well as glass or purple stamp cards. Never seemed to get the right tarot cards and the glass only broke 3x out of 20 or so uses.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:06
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Had a ridiculous build playing flush five of a kind Kings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqxSRicCZ70
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Feb 21, 2024 21:14
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Wooper posted:Had a ridiculous build playing flush five of a kind Kings. jesus christt
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Feb 21, 2024 21:22
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Popete posted:Yeah same. I'm sure Obelisk is quite powerful but managing it feels like a pain. How does it work anyway? Is it possible to have 2 "main" hands and juggle them or do you have to spam a specific hand and then spread around so it lasts for a while?
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Feb 21, 2024 21:25
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Elman posted:How does it work anyway? Is it possible to have 2 "main" hands and juggle them or do you have to spam a specific hand and then spread around so it lasts for a while?
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Feb 21, 2024 21:33
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Infinitum posted:Just call me Johnny SixtyOneHearts  Move Supernova to the right so the 1.5x procs after all of the mults!
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Feb 21, 2024 21:43
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After you've played for a few hours, crank that game speed up.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:45
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getting the arm early is actually so unfun compared to anything else in this game it's amazing
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Feb 21, 2024 22:10
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Wooper posted:Had a ridiculous build playing flush five of a kind Kings. Gonna see if I can finish out White Stakes tonight! Or at the very least a couple more decks, since there's so many other games asking to be played as well.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:05
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Today I learned: Red seal cards in your hand will re-trigger effects like Raised Fist when they remain in your hand.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:07
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Color Printer posted:getting the arm early is actually so unfun compared to anything else in this game it's amazing The Needle is downright bad game design and completely unfair/unfun. Either you have the set up to one turn the blind or you don't, and even then it's reliant on discards since it cuts out being able to play hands to correct your hand.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:11
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AlphaKeny1 posted:I love the supernova joker I'm too dumb for any of the jokers that make you do work to not reset their bonuses.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:13
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The one that only triggers on face cards is hilariously easy to use.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:17
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Wooper posted:Had a ridiculous build playing flush five of a kind Kings. 
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Feb 21, 2024 23:23
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Okay, got my first ever win. I used the green deck and lucked into jokers that added chips and mults to face cards, plus the one that re-triggers every face card. And then it was all topped off with the joker that multiplied the mults based on how many planet cards you've used. By the end I had it up to 4.5x and my two pair, straight, and flush hands all pumped up. Getting two pair with all face cards was getting me 250,000 per hand. Still lost to ante 10 on Endless, but it felt much better than the 10-20K I was maxing out on previously. And money was never an issue since I was winning most rounds on the first hand. Game good. And it feels good to get better at it.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:41
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Wooper posted:Had a ridiculous build playing flush five of a kind Kings. Extraordinary stuff. Also a tip for new players, you can turn up the speed of cards in the settings, it's a nice feature once you're bored of seeing everything tick slowly.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:52
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Jossar posted:Yeeesh, that's going in the highlight reel. Also added some of the guides to the first page. One thing to put into the guides part, hands and jokers are tallied up from left to right in order in MOST cases. Conditional triggers from jokers will trigger first before triggering other effects in the joker pool from left to right. Example: Your jokers are in order: Campfire (+.5x mult per sold card starting at 1x mult), Scary Face (face cards get +30 chips) and Joker (+4 mult) If you play a three of a kind of Kings and Campfire is at 1.5x, you will trigger the Scary Face first per king, then the Campfire and finally the Joker. The Campfire is mostly wasted due to it going first in front of the +4 mult from the Joker. So you end up with a 7.5 mult as you would get 3 from the hand, then 1.5x from Campfire then +4 from the Joker. If you switch the Joker and Campfire you get: 3 from the hand + 4 from the Joker which is 7 then 1.5x which is 10.5 mult. Adding the chips which would be 150 (30 for the hand + 30 for each king + 90 from the Scary Face) you would have 1125 chips in the first example, but 1575 in the second example. Typical rule of thumb is: +Chips or +Mult goes on the left, anything that does xMult goes on the right. These rules apply to cards/jokers that have Foil, Hologram, Polychrome, Mult, Enhanced, Lucky, or Glass. Kuros fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Feb 21, 2024 23:55
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i had a run with campfire, which boosts its multiplier boost by .5x for every card you sell but resets every ante, and the jokers that give you stuff on selecting a blind (2 common jokers, 1 tarot card). was pretty much mathing out every hand to try to min/max how to maximize campfire without screwing myself. it whipped rear end, this game's great.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:57
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Color Printer posted:getting the arm early is actually so unfun compared to anything else in this game it's amazing okay actually i just really loving hate the arm in general lmfao unless you actually have a bunch of hands boosted, or your central hand boosted really high, if you can't beat it in a single hand you may as well just hit New Run
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Feb 21, 2024 23:59
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patch notes: the arm renamed the finger
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Feb 22, 2024 00:12
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Man you can do some sick stuff with Hack, Fibonacci, and Runner for wheel straights
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Feb 22, 2024 00:14
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 Found a way to make DNA work for me.
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Feb 22, 2024 00:25
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game's loads of fun even when losing; I can barely beat the first boss ante in half my runs and even then I lose regularly to the ante right afterwards 10/10, hands other than 2-pair do not exist to me
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Feb 22, 2024 00:33
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Veryslightlymad posted:Oh lord, you can get the Arm early. That's devastating.
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Feb 22, 2024 00:39
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I think I figured out what I was doing wrong with the black deck--I had been very reluctant to take early skips because the deck starts so weak that taking on anything past the first blind without a shop is risky, but this is the wrong way to look at it. The risk:reward ratio on those early fights is very bad, so black decks might as well YOLO and mash skip. You're still more likely to die on the first boss than other decks, but you'll still probably win, and the losses take under a minute, and the resources from skipping mean you're likely to be in better shape than if you tried to fight your way through anyhow. I still find other decks more consistent overall but I can see the appeal now.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:00
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I would like there to be more space between the reroll and next round buttons, and also a "go back to shop" button. Accidentally walked into the Arm without spending my $100 bux.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:01
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WarEternal posted:
Same: 
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Feb 22, 2024 01:02
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the holy poopacy posted:I think I figured out what I was doing wrong with the black deck--I had been very reluctant to take early skips because the deck starts so weak that taking on anything past the first blind without a shop is risky, but this is the wrong way to look at it. The risk:reward ratio on those early fights is very bad, so black decks might as well YOLO and mash skip. You're still more likely to die on the first boss than other decks, but you'll still probably win, and the losses take under a minute, and the resources from skipping mean you're likely to be in better shape than if you tried to fight your way through anyhow. I still find other decks more consistent overall but I can see the appeal now. I'm just utterly stuck on black deck. Either every run ends with an impossible to beat blind with the amount of cash you've been offered or it dies in the later stages because you're only on 3 hands. I finally got to the last blind and completely died on a 3 discard pull for even one made hand that I was aiming at. Just so frustrating.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:10
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 Oh poo poo, I thought I was hosed but it turns out the timing on Burglar lets you dunk on the needle. gently caress yeah.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:22
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 Y'know, I'm always pleasantly surprised when High Card works out this well. I never expect it to, but this is probably the best run I've had yet.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:24
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 mama mia that's a spicy meatball e: I still died at small blind of ante 12, that's gotta take some deck. I guess I shoulda subbed out one of my worse jokers before it got too late, only got to 175 million across 5 hands at ante 12. WarEternal fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Feb 22, 2024 01:25
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huh. turns out that while debuffed cards dont score, their hands still will. take that Window.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:29
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Yeah you can totally just force through flush decks even if you are built around the one they are targeting with the right set of jokers.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:31
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I wish they would do something to change the first ante. If you don't get offered a flat mult card in your 4 chances you're probably done, and you get maybe one chance to reroll and even if you do you're so far behind in econ. Once I get past that point the mid game of assembling your degen engine is fun.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:42
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Hackan Slash posted:I wish they would do something to change the first ante. If you don't get offered a flat mult card in your 4 chances you're probably done, and you get maybe one chance to reroll and even if you do you're so far behind in econ. It's pretty easy to clear 600 points on the first boss blind without any boosts by fishing for straights or better (although if The Manacle comes up it's harder.) If you manage to get two ~300 point hands you're golden, but playing a straight and then several two pairs is a viable route for most decks too. The black deck is the only deck that seriously struggles to clear the first ante without spending anything and even it has pretty decent odds, especially if good skip rewards are available.
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I've finished all the stakes with ghost deck now and man, the game gets extremely nasty as you get up there. In order you get hit with, 3 -> 0$ reward from small blinds, "required score from antes scales faster for each ante" resulting in ante 8's boss requiring 280k?, "shops can have eternal jokers" which are just jokers that can't be destroyed or sold once you buy them making some lovely throwaway jokers unbuyable, -1 to discards, faster scaling again resulting in 8's boss requiring 360k, booster packs cost $1 more per ante, and lastly -1 to hand size. It felt like a lot of runs were just flat out dead in the first ante due to not being offered any usable early game jokers, and the 2nd ante small blind is basically impossible without anything above the basic deck. Einwand fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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