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Finally beat a purple stake, orange is going to be rough.
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Mar 8, 2024 10:53
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 This was a funny run. It didn't look promising at first since I had to take 2 middling Eternals to start, but the Polychrome Stencil into Ceremonial Dagger made it all click. My only issue after that point was getting my Square Joker to scale because even a High Card could 2 or 3-shot the blind 
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Mar 8, 2024 13:50
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Finally joined 1.4% of Steam players and beat gold stake after uhhhhh 45 hours of playing. I had multiple runs end in Ante 8, which is a special sort of agonizing. The strategy was Checkered Deck and refresh until the 1st ante has tags for “everything in the next shop is free” and “boss blind adds an extra $15” and then beat the boss blind in two hands. With that start, you open ante 2 with $25, and if the cards in the shop are decent, you’ll have 1 or 2 jokers and maybe a Jupiter. I ended up with an unexpectedly baller combination — Oops All Sixes and Bloodstone (so it’s now a 2 in 3 chance to get a x2 multiplier on every Heart). I got a progressive multiplier with Constellation, a static multiplier in Ramen, and capped it off with Baseball Card. From there, it was just filling the deck with Hearts and Steel. I one-shotted the final boss and it felt real good. Next step is filling out the collection but it’ll be nice to play some low stress games with other decks.
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Mar 8, 2024 14:24
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Aggro posted:Finally joined 1.4% of Steam players and beat gold stake after uhhhhh 45 hours of playing. I had multiple runs end in Ante 8, which is a special sort of agonizing. The strategy was Checkered Deck and refresh until the 1st ante has tags for “everything in the next shop is free” and “boss blind adds an extra $15” and then beat the boss blind in two hands. Congrats  Constellation is stupidly powerful. I'm surprised it's uncommon instead of rare.
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Mar 8, 2024 14:38
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The joker that gets 0.5x mult and eats a joker makes higher stakes much easier. I nearly expect them to nerf it so it only gets a bonus if it actually destroys a joker. I just cleared Checkered gold with it in my first shop, just throwing out high cards for 750k chips.
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Mar 8, 2024 14:49
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I... may have gone slightly overboard with Cloud 9 on this run: Just for fun, anyone want to try and guess what my other Jokers were? Here's a hint - only 2 of them were for scoring.
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Mar 8, 2024 15:29
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I've beaten all the challenges, gotten the highest stake done, and have unlocked and found every single joker. Except 1. Goddamnit Chicot just APPEAR you little rear end in a top hat my completionism is killing me.
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Mar 8, 2024 15:45
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Two Tone Shoes posted:I've beaten all the challenges, gotten the highest stake done, and have unlocked and found every single joker. I feel this, I just need Perkeo for Jokers and the second tier vouchers for +1 Discard and Planet Merchant. I've been running Anaglyph deck for the double tags to use on econ or the voucher tag.
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Two Tone Shoes posted:I've beaten all the challenges, gotten the highest stake done, and have unlocked and found every single joker. Yeah, the Legendary Jokers can be frustrating because you're relying on a 1-in-5 chance from a fairly rare card. Though for me the most frustrating card to get ended up being Stone Joker - it took me a while to realize that the card doesn't even appear unless you've already got stone cards in your deck.
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Mar 8, 2024 15:50
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DaveWoo posted:I... may have gone slightly overboard with Cloud 9 on this run: I'm guessing the "get a random card with a seal at the start of every blind" is in the mix, and probably a tarot joker. Or maybe Perkeo? The ratio of apparent duplications to other tarot effects seems high if you were just generating random tarots. I suppose getting $40+ per round does make for a lot of room to buy tarots though.
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here's a pretty good summary of how my abandoned deck runs went last night   
PhysicsFrenzy fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 16:31
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the holy poopacy posted:I'm guessing the "get a random card with a seal at the start of every blind" is in the mix, and probably a tarot joker. Or maybe Perkeo? The ratio of apparent duplications to other tarot effects seems high if you were just generating random tarots. I suppose getting $40+ per round does make for a lot of room to buy tarots though. Yeah, I've got the Certificate joker that adds a random seal card. No Tarot Joker or Perkeo, though you're right about me having something that's giving extra dupes. Edit: Anyway, here's the answer if anyone's interested:  DaveWoo fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 17:24
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blizzardvizard posted:
Edit I'm dumb it's "High contrast cards" Serperoth fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 17:36
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Looks like Balatro is back on the menu in EU Switch store, in case someone else has been waiting for it! PEGI 18 now, apparently. Good thing all kinds of real money gacha-poo poo is still a-ok.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:41
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I finally beat red last night and rounded out my first five. Now that I understand skips it was super easy. Lots of free holographic Jokers on that run
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Mar 8, 2024 17:46
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Dropbear posted:Looks like Balatro is back on the menu in EU Switch store, in case someone else has been waiting for it! PEGI 18 now, apparently. Good thing all kinds of real money gacha-poo poo is still a-ok. hardcore
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Mar 8, 2024 17:50
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Dropbear posted:Looks like Balatro is back on the menu in EU Switch store, in case someone else has been waiting for it! PEGI 18 now, apparently. Good thing all kinds of real money gacha-poo poo is still a-ok. Does it mean anything at all? I still get spelunky plonked on the suggestion queue when it's on sale even with the PEGI 18 stuff... Maybe it won't be added on the queues of family plans or on accounts that have just PEGI 3 stuff on it but eh.
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Mar 8, 2024 17:53
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Finally getting that Arm nerf 
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Mar 8, 2024 17:53
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It’s BS you don’t get any unlocks from clearing some of the stakes 
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Mar 8, 2024 18:06
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Harold Fjord posted:I finally beat red last night and rounded out my first five. Is there a trick to skips? I'm REALLY loving bad at this game for some reason - I can't even beat the starting difficulty. I've gotten all the way to the last boss with what felt like ridiculous decks only to have it debuff face cards or some other nonsense that was unwinnable. Still having fun though!
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Mar 8, 2024 18:27
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We're talking low level difficulty still. I genuinely thought skipping seemed worse than playing because I wasn't looking closely at all. Now I am properly weighing "do i have money to buy the poly joker? Do i need to just grind up my pants more?" etc. Skip when you get a poly joker and will want to buy a joker. Skip when you get free stuff in the next shop. Don't skip if you need to grind up something. You can't do anything about unwinnable nonsense except reroll if offered. sometimes it does just happen.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:32
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Skips can be super powerful, generally you want to go after skips that give a negative/rare joker in the next shop or have enhanced jokers with polychrome. Other than that some skips will give you a big money boost which is situationally dependent, as well as paring with certain jokers like Throwback which grants a xMult boost based on how many blinds you've skipped so far.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:33
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You just have to look at the skip and see if it's worth what you'd make in that round +5 gold. They become a lot more enticing as stakes go up. Gold per played hand, gold per unused discard, 15 gold after beating boss, double your gold, and mega joker pack are the ones I use most often. Negative skip is tbh a trap (that I will almost always do) most of the time unless you're very far ahead. No Wave fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 18:43
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The downside of skipping is you lose the round benefits and access to the shop. The round benefits are the cash from beating the blind, the hands remaining, and interest. You also lose the chance to power up progressive multipliers. Some of the skip tags are powerful, like ones that guarantee a negative or polychrome joker. Even ones that give a Mega Arcana or Mega Buffoon pack are solid. Depending on your income, the one for +$15 after the boss or double your money up to $40 are good too. The GOAT is the tag that gives you a completely free shop after the next blind. The rest of the tags kinda suck. So, if you have little money, a small number of hands, and a Small Blind, skipping is probably worth it. Just don’t skip so much that you end up without any jokers and The Needle as the boss…
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and then in gold stake you play the small blind because every dollar counts and rare/holo joker at next shop doesn’t mean squat if you can’t afford it and/or clear the first boss blind
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Mar 8, 2024 18:51
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Phone posted:and then in gold stake you play the small blind because every dollar counts and rare/holo joker at next shop doesn’t mean squat if you can’t afford it and/or clear the first boss blind I haven't cleared gold yet, but this is why I like the deck that doesn't get interest, but a static +$ for every unspent hand / discard. If you get a good early joker or two, you can really rake in a ton of money even on small blinds by beating them on turn 1 without using any discards. Gets your economy jumpstarted pretty fast.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:58
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Blueprint + Marble Joker + DNA + heavily upgraded pants + Hologram was a pretty amazing combo, it's fun being able to triple-dip on Blueprint. Still only made it to Ante 12 though, I guess because even my quadratic scaling couldn't keep up with the geometric scaling of the Blinds.
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Waffleopolis posted:
Oh gently caress, that is agonising.
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At least it's not binding of Isaac where they get removed from the pool so the other one can potentially show up again
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Honestly as much as that sucks, Mask on Ante 1 is still an amazing econ pick. You're gonna be just flooded with cash.
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Finally got the completionist achievement with the last thing to get was the upgraded discard voucher.
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Mar 8, 2024 20:18
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TIL if you use a Death tarot to duplicate a mandatory selected card from Cerulean Bell the copy will also be mandatorily selected.  When it picked one of my steel cards I thought I had a clever solution to get an unplayed steel card back into the mix and instead it killed the hand I wanted to build.
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Hah! That's... Not something I would have wanted to figure out the hard way. Sorry, man.
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I can't seem to complete my collection cause the "cards can appear at the shop" voucher's upgrade never shows up in the shop after unlocking it. It doesn't help that it's a voucher that actively makes your runs harder, so I don't want to buy it unless my run is already going great. I even restarted a bunch of times to get the first one to spawn in the first ante, but that seems too tedious. At least I got the "buy 5 vouchers by the end of ante 4" achievement. Hopefully that voucher will get a buff.
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Mar 8, 2024 20:57
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I had to google which Tag I was missing because there's one I've never unlocked: It was Juggle (+3 Hand Size).
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Elman posted:I can't seem to complete my collection cause the "cards can appear at the shop" voucher's upgrade never shows up in the shop after unlocking it. It doesn't help that it's a voucher that actively makes your runs harder, so I don't want to buy it unless my run is already going great. Honestly, run Anaglyph deck white stake. The ability to dupe a ton of money or voucher tags and fish for the upgrade.
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Kuros posted:Honestly, run Anaglyph deck white stake. The ability to dupe a ton of money or voucher tags and fish for the upgrade. Hah that's a good idea, I wonder how many vouchers I could get in a single shop.
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Today I learned that the boss that makes you lose a dollar per card played can put you in debt!
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