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Also this in the op, please
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Balatro has the Mei seal of approval. 
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Mar 7, 2024 12:06
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Popete posted:Going into the boss that only allows you to play 1 hand type Goes into Psychic (5 cards only) Blindly plays 4 of a kind with no kicker
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Mar 7, 2024 12:32
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 weirdly enough the 1 in 5 chance to proc +20 mult on lucky card happens more than any of the 1/4 chances in my experience.
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Mar 7, 2024 12:45
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I have seen a lucky card proc exactly once, and then it procced both effects at once.
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Mar 7, 2024 13:00
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They're not in the OP, but they're in the second post with all the stuff in it.
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Mar 7, 2024 13:05
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the holy poopacy posted:At black stake and up, some jokers randomly spawn as "eternal" jokers that cannot be sold or destroyed by any means. It's a double-edged sword, since it means you wind up stuck with jokers that you might have wanted to swap out later but it also means you can cheat effects that sacrifice jokers. Yea, it would be nice if more stakes had mixed blessings like that. I actually like playing on black stake because it’s the only way for cards like Madness, Spectral Knife, Ankh, and Hex to be viable at all. I agree with everyone that it seems inevitable that a Polychrome or Negative joker will either be one that disappears or is completely incompatible with the strategy for the run.
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Mar 7, 2024 13:10
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Deceptive Thinker posted:Goes into Psychic (5 cards only) This happens almost every time I get this boss because I always assume it’ll stop you from playing a hand with less than 5 cards
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Mar 7, 2024 13:21
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the holy poopacy posted:At black stake and up, some jokers randomly spawn as "eternal" jokers that cannot be sold or destroyed by any means. It's a double-edged sword, since it means you wind up stuck with jokers that you might have wanted to swap out later but it also means you can cheat effects that sacrifice jokers. Someone brought up the egg the other day and now I want eternal egg and stabby Dagger Joker for ridiculous ridiculous multipliers
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Mar 7, 2024 13:24
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Harold Fjord posted:Someone brought up the egg the other day and now I want eternal egg and stabby Dagger Joker for ridiculous ridiculous multipliers stabby dagger doesn't get multiplier unless it successfully stabs another joker madness will increase its mult no matter what and is much better when you can fill the rest of your slots with eternals
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Mar 7, 2024 13:26
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I have seen a lucky card proc exactly once, and then it procced both effects at once. Lucky cards proc all the time, that is, until you pick up the cat joker and then you never see another proc as you watch your run die
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Mar 7, 2024 13:33
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Balatro has the Mei seal of approval. Where did you get my cat from 
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Mar 7, 2024 13:46
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god it looks so sad
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Mar 7, 2024 13:50
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Everyone complains about wheel of fortune but no one mentions spaceman joker, which might as well read "upgrades played hand one time this game, maybe"
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Mar 7, 2024 14:06
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the holy poopacy posted:Everyone complains about wheel of fortune but no one mentions spaceman joker, which might as well read "upgrades played hand one time this game, maybe" My experience is it hits every hand except for the one you're trying to level up
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Mar 7, 2024 14:08
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The Nebula deck is kicking my rear end. I'm not getting any good jokers and I just spiral from there. I can't seem to generate any chips without spamming flushes and I'm tilted about it.
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Mar 7, 2024 14:35
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Aipsh posted:Where did you get my cat from I adopted her and her sister from a friend's family, so your beef is with them. I'm strictly above board! 
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Mar 7, 2024 14:45
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 Shortly after this I had the boss blind that draws your hand face down and lost by milling myself. Game friggin rules.
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Mar 7, 2024 15:13
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Beat gold stakes without ever seeing a decent x-mult joker, or using any tarot cards, or using any planet cards, or even adding any special cards. Just got an early blueprint, ante 2 burnt joker, ante 5 brainstorm, and went all in on high card. Got it to level 60 and found a supernova in ante 8 to keep up the flat mult. I'm really enjoying going for gold stakes runs instead of endless. I've found endless to be pretty boring and the engine building difficulty on gold really forces you to make good decisions. I think I nearly threw my run buying a telescope voucher and an interest voucher, and then promptly being too broke to even afford to keep interest or buy packs while looking for a x-mult joker.
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Mar 7, 2024 17:00
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the holy poopacy posted:Everyone complains about wheel of fortune but no one mentions spaceman joker, which might as well read "upgrades played hand one time this game, maybe" I used to believe this, but every time I actually check the hands, its basically one in four. I just don't play many hands, I guess.
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Mar 7, 2024 17:05
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 Erratic deck done  Funnily enough clubs actually started out as my weakest suit, had a hell of a time finding moon tarots too. I feel lucky that I never ran into The Club but I still had to sweat several bosses. Ran into The Mouth at a time when I didn't have enough clubs to reliably build a flush with only 2 discards and lucked out being able to dump a heart flush to set the hand type while I was still shaping my hand. Also had to use my "in case of emergency make glass" tarot on The Pillar, which is quite brutal if you rely on fishing for and playing a small subset of your deck. Fed a foil Four Fingers to the final boss, which hurt but wasn't as bad as losing Throwback would have been; I had a death tarot up my sleeve to copy one of my glass cards, but I think I would have beaten it regardless.I think checkered deck is still probably easier than erratic deck, but erratic deck probably has a higher ceiling. You have to be really willing to spend a lot of time staring at your deck composition to play the odds since you can't rely on default assumptions about your deck. Even if you're not playing it super obsessively I think it's still one of the better decks in general, though, and it's fun as hell being able to casually play four of a kind right out of the gate.
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Mar 7, 2024 19:31
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cerious posted:I've found endless to be pretty boring and the engine building difficulty on gold really forces you to make good decisions. Yeah, I usually just dump out of runs rather than go endless. I really do at some point need to try to get one of those copy joker-red seal-retrigger things going at some point to get a 100,000,000 point hand and unlock stuntman, but I don't really feel much of a drive to climb the endless antes outside of that.
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Mar 7, 2024 19:49
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 to close out this orange stake run with the amber acorn (flips and shuffles all jokers at start of round), i had to find both my blueprint and my ancient joker, and figure out which suit was being buffed by ancient joker because i forgot to track it before starting the blind. that was a maximum stress scenario
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Mar 7, 2024 20:09
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this game is stupidly addictive. now if only i could get past ante 11 
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Mar 7, 2024 20:29
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still banging my head agaisnt gold stake. had a run get pretty close last night, dying at the ante 6 boss when I couldnt find any playable hands In general gold doesnt feel all that much harder than orange once you get past the early stages but goddamn does it turn the first few antes into an awful slog
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Mar 7, 2024 21:35
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:this game is stupidly addictive. now if only i could get past ante 11 There’s a reason beating 8 is considered winning. 11 is a “have you broken the game” wall.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:38
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Finally beat the orange stake! Man, the difficulty modifiers could use some tweaking. Why is "small stakes give no reward money so they just become a wasted slog" the first one & making everything above it significantly less fun to play, instead of for example the eternal one which is much more interesting? The orange stake just felt like rerolling the absolute hell out of the first antes until you get something potentially busted enough to get through. My eventual winner-deck (the "no interest, but gain money per unspent hands / discards) never really came together and it was really down to the wire, I think my final hand was a level 2 two-pair with a copied polychrome joker & some big chip bonuses boosting it barely above the line. Not very interested in beating the gold one after that, at least for now
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Mar 7, 2024 22:09
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Wait, how come Balatro got a 18 y/o rating and got blocked in the eshop but Spelunky got the same treatment (for the lucky wheel room minigame of all things) and it's still on sale? Holy poo poo, there must be a lot of games with an inexplicable 18 rating out there, gently caress the Pegi. Well, at least Casinò roulette royale is on sale right now, that's just as damaging as a loving Spelunky run.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:24
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balatro man needs to pay pegi off so we can get the patch on switch
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Mar 7, 2024 23:27
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:this game is stupidly addictive. now if only i could get past ante 11 I lucked out and beat 1.2 million but lost after that. Early game hands and jokers mean everything to a good run it seem.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:53
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Any thoughts on reliably getting to ante 12? Mostly just looking to do endless mode achievements. I figure you probably wanna try to abuse Steel Cards w/ Red Seal as much as possible, so I was kinda thinking starting Anaglyph and stacking double tags until I find a spectral, then try to slim my deck as much as possible/create a completely ridiculous number of copies of a good card. Maybe getting a lot of negatives would help too?
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Mar 8, 2024 01:03
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orange stake/abandoned deck is still kicking my rear end... got to within 3,000 points of beating the boss blind once and since then every attempt has been me getting beaten like a mangy dog
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Mar 8, 2024 01:30
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Dropbear posted:Finally beat the orange stake! Man, the difficulty modifiers could use some tweaking. Why is "small stakes give no reward money so they just become a wasted slog" the first one & making everything above it significantly less fun to play, instead of for example the eternal one which is much more interesting? yeah on orange or above there's no reason to even bother unless your seed has the first tags as boss blind money or free packs + some kind of buffed joker guarantee. I reroll until I get a seed that has those; the other ones are typically just too disadvantaged.
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First attempt at red stakes I got the CCG joker that destroys cards, the spectral "destroy cards for cash," and the spectral "convert a bunch of cards to the same rank" all in the first two blinds. Early rare jokers were the x2 for pairs and x4 for four of a kind, and long story short a deck consisting of nineteen 9s and nothing else is really great; sad I never found Cloud 9 though.
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Mar 8, 2024 02:38
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Brutal Orchestra and Balatro have both cemented in me the belief that roguelites are best when they have really simple rules with really complex interactions. The scaling in this game may be way out of wonk compared to Slay the Spire or Monster Train, but the combinations here feel more satisfying and each smaller decision seems to carry much greater weight. I especially like the increased pace, even if it means you restart runs more often, but I still like that it's easier to tell if you're going to make it or not sooner. It feels like there are fewer circumstances where you kind of lurch through a run with a middling build for an hour like a lot of other deckbuilders. You can complain about the restarts, but I'd rather just find out five or ten minutes in that my deck is dog's rear end doodoo versus several times that length while puttering along making more decisions with less impact per decision. The increased complexity of other deckbuilders seems to simplify them in a contradictory fashion because so many things often just end up worthless - they inevitably pare themselves down because of balancing issues, to a much lesser variety. I feel the balancing issues in Balatro are more obvious and thus easier to work around because the simplicity bars any mechanical or statistical obfuscation that's common in other games. That being said, cards that play X multipliers off of card scoring are corny. Though I guess they're far more feasible if you're upgrading hands or playing cards multiple times.
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This game is so good I got it on switch and on steam too
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Mar 8, 2024 06:11
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, I usually just dump out of runs rather than go endless. I really do at some point need to try to get one of those copy joker-red seal-retrigger things going at some point to get a 100,000,000 point hand and unlock stuntman, but I don't really feel much of a drive to climb the endless antes outside of that. For these unlocks, it's gotta be unseeded right? Basically pray to the RNG, I'm not sure I've ever had a run get me even close to hitting that
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, I usually just dump out of runs rather than go endless. I really do at some point need to try to get one of those copy joker-red seal-retrigger things going at some point to get a 100,000,000 point hand and unlock stuntman, but I don't really feel much of a drive to climb the endless antes outside of that. I have just 3 unlocks left to find so if a run will get me to ante 12, I'll typically roll with it.
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Endless is just another ante or 2 to get unlocks. I just did "score 4 of a kind with only 7 of Spades" and it was literally my second last hand before death, but without aiming for it, I also got "reduce hand size to 5". Only $400 left to go. I feel like I'd have to get to ante 12 just to save up that much. Edit: also lol, if you use a -1 Ante voucher on Ante 9 you have to fight a big boss a second time. Violet Vessel was preferable however. War Wizard fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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 gently caress you gently caress you gently caress YOU! 
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