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the stake that i would change is the one that takes away the small blind rewards. Not because it's imbalanced or anything, it's just the biggest thing responsible for the run restart spam, at least for me. If I have no reason at all to play the very first blind of the game, there's no reason to not reset until I get a nice reward for skipping. If you got the usual few bucks for the first blind, you're at least more inclined to play it out a bit and see if something pops in the first couple shops.
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Also if you sell Credit Card while in debt you cannot bottom out your debt buying more (obviously). So uh, don't sell CC until you are in the black like I didn't do once.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:32
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Squinky v2.0 posted:the stake that i would change is the one that takes away the small blind rewards. Not because it's imbalanced or anything, it's just the biggest thing responsible for the run restart spam, at least for me. Yeah that one is pretty not fun. I would have that one run like normal but increase the blinds a bit starting ante 2. Another good way to add a chip level would be to make you face multiple boss blinds. Or even at the higher levels have combo boss blinds. You’d have to curate that so it isn’t like two impossible ones, but you could have every 7th card face down AND debuff clubs, or whatever.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:42
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Squinky v2.0 posted:the stake that i would change is the one that takes away the small blind rewards. Not because it's imbalanced or anything, it's just the biggest thing responsible for the run restart spam, at least for me. Yeah it basically forces you to restart your run if you have bad skips but it isn't all that bad later on once you gain a bunch of interest from each round.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:48
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Balatro should disable the ability to discard Queens in honor of Women’s Day.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:55
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Detective No. 27 posted:Balatro should disable the ability to discard Queens in honor of Women’s Day. i for one support Jane Joker on her transition
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Mar 8, 2024 21:59
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Satellite (get $ for each unique planet card played) does not get any bonus from Black Hole, if anyone's wondering about that very specific interaction. I mean it makes sense, its a spectral card not a planet card. Reading the joker explains the joker.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:02
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Relyssa posted:i for one support Jane Joker on her transition There’s no screenings of The People’s Joker in my town. 
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Mar 8, 2024 22:07
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Relyssa posted:i for one support Jane Joker on her transition It takes Strength for a Jack to become a Queen!
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I'm OK with the small blind rewards going away, it makes skip decisions more interesting. Small blinds are often easier than the bosses immediately preceding them and I appreciate that the game makes you consider if you really need that softball round. Relentless scaling is a big hallmark of Balatro and I think it's good that it encourages you to jam the accelerator down while still allowing for a little grace if you desperately need it. It does make the first round pretty lame, but most decks do fine in ante 1 anyhow and those that aren't either have the slingshot capability to make up for it or have bigger problems that the small blind reward isn't going to fix. I do think it's a little weird that it's the very first difficulty bump; it's easier than most of the difficulty modifiers but I really think eternal jokers should have been red chip, they feel a lot more basic and integral to the balance.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:08
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Sit on my Jace posted:It takes Strength for a Jack to become a Queen! 
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Mar 8, 2024 22:11
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I still play the no-reward ante 1 small blind pretty often. $2-3 can be pretty important ante 1.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:12
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the holy poopacy posted:I'm OK with the small blind rewards going away, it makes skip decisions more interesting. Small blinds are often easier than the bosses immediately preceding them and I appreciate that the game makes you consider if you really need that softball round. Relentless scaling is a big hallmark of Balatro and I think it's good that it encourages you to jam the accelerator down while still allowing for a little grace if you desperately need it. I haven't tried Blue yet, but it certainly looks like a step up from the other modifiers.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:13
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Eternal Jokers being the first difficulty step would be a really good change. It's so weird how far up it is.
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TengenNewsEditor posted:I still play the no-reward ante 1 small blind pretty often. $2-3 can be pretty important ante 1. Yeah, it's not worthless. If the big blind has a good skip and the small blind doesn't I'll often do the small blind; if I know I'm going to get a cash infusion from the big blind skip then I can grab anything good from the first shop, and if there's a special joker tag then I'll want a couple extra bucks to make sure I can afford it after the boss blind.
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the holy poopacy posted:Yeah, it's not worthless. If the big blind has a good skip and the small blind doesn't I'll often do the small blind; if I know I'm going to get a cash infusion from the big blind skip then I can grab anything good from the first shop, and if there's a special joker tag then I'll want a couple extra bucks to make sure I can afford it after the boss blind. I'm not sure exactly how often you ought to take it, but it's enough that ante 1 doesn't feel as monotonous as I thought it might be at first.
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Squinky v2.0 posted:Satellite (get $ for each unique planet card played) does not get any bonus from Black Hole, if anyone's wondering about that very specific interaction. quote:Feels Villeneuve posted: Kuros posted:Well no poo poo, a Black Hole isn't a planet. Learn some astronomy.
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Relyssa posted:Eternal Jokers being the first difficulty step would be a really good change. It's so weird how far up it is. This, because the eternal cards can have interesting usecases that switch up the gameplay. Madness etc. The small blind-thing is just a boring "you get less choices now lol"-debuff that makes the game less interesting. Well, I guess it does introduce some different value judgements (is a bad tag on small blind better than the $1-3 or something you might get from it?), but still, I'd prefer it to at least be up in the stake list. Dropbear fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 22:22
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I skipped the first two blinds and got like 40 dollars. First shop after the boss was a negative super position and a saturn. Second shop was a shortcut. Third shop was the order and a saturn. Ok game.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:39
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Can’t beat the loving black deck 🤬🤬🤬
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Can’t beat the loving black deck 🤬🤬🤬
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Nihilarian posted:I skipped the first two blinds and got like 40 dollars. First shop after the boss was a negative super position and a saturn. Second shop was a shortcut. Third shop was the order and a saturn. Ok game. If you reroll a bought out store, new cards become available. Packs won't, but the solo cards will.
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Mar 8, 2024 23:06
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Is there a reset button combo for the game on Steam Deck? For the console version of Isaac it was clicking both sticks + L + R bumpers or something.
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Mar 8, 2024 23:30
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When's someone gonna make a mod that does nerdy spreadsheet calculations on each hand before I play it I feel the urge to minmax but I'm not a fuckin dorkwad
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Mar 8, 2024 23:32
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Waffle! posted:Is there a reset button combo for the game on Steam Deck? For the console version of Isaac it was clicking both sticks + L + R bumpers or something. Wait poo poo for some reason I thought this was the Deck thread itself, not Balatro, oops Squiggle fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 23:34
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I don't get how the spectral card that destroys a random joker to create a copy of a joker works. I thought I'd big brain it by selling all but one non-eternal joker, so then that would be the one that got copied, but it gave me a copy of something I didn't even have. I was already on ante 9 gold stake so I just laughed but I still don't know wtf happened there Anyway, first gold stake down. Checkered. 5 of the last 6 non-boss blinds just skipped because I had Throwback and there was no real significant potential to increase my power that much if I fought them normally. Turned out okay. By the end I was praying my 5 card hand due to Stuntman would only be spades. Also, apparently Blackboard procs regardless if your hand is empty when you play it, which was nice because that would've hosed me if I needed to still be holding a spade or club for each played hand to proc it. Darke GBF fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 23:42
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Darke GBF posted:I don't get how the spectral card that destroys a random joker to create a copy of a joker works. I thought I'd big brain it by selling all but one non-eternal joker, so then that would be the one that got copied, but it gave me a copy of something I didn't even have. I was already on ante 9 gold stake so I just laughed but I still don't know wtf happened there it copies one joker and destroys the rest, and should leave you with two of the same joker and nothing else (not counting eternal jokers) i have no idea how you ended up with something you didn't have to begin with
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Waffle! posted:Is there a reset button combo for the game on Steam Deck? For the console version of Isaac it was clicking both sticks + L + R bumpers or something. Edit your controller config for the game and bind one of the back buttons to the R key. Hold that down to reset the run
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Darke GBF posted:I don't get how the spectral card that destroys a random joker to create a copy of a joker works. I thought I'd big brain it by selling all but one non-eternal joker, so then that would be the one that got copied, but it gave me a copy of something I didn't even have. I was already on ante 9 gold stake so I just laughed but I still don't know wtf happened there Yesterday I copied a foil version of the guy who gives you X3 for only having clubs and spades in hand, made for a really easy run misguided rage fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Had a fun run with the abandoned deck where I hit 2 on ouija and got wee joker up to like 1200 with all of the 5 of a kinds I was playing
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Balatro is back on the Switch eShop in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, albeit with very silly new age ratings (18+ in Europe, M in Australia)
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misguided rage posted:That should be how it works, was it actually the card that gives you a rare joker and takes all your money? Nope, was definitely the one that destroyed a Joker and claims to create a copy. I sold off my Stuntman and one other, and the only non-eternal I had left was a Blackboard. I took the spectral card, it destroyed my Blackboard, and gave me the Joker that gives +mult for pairs, which is not a Joker I had at the time. I was confused but it was really funny.
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The Kins posted:Balatro is back on the Switch eShop in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, albeit with very silly new age ratings (18+ in Europe, M in Australia) Well folks, I suppose this means that the only rational response is to use that M rating for all it's worth.
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Mar 9, 2024 01:56
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this joker says, gently caress you!
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If i'd known debuffing turned off triboulet i would have hit the reroll button ... honestly i just need to hit that button more often
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The Mouth basically softlocked me so I want it not only removed from the game but violently ripped from it's code like a fistful of wires
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Hey now that the Arm can't debuff you below level one can we do something about the Tooth sending you into negatives?
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 I guess it figures that after badmouthing Green Joker/Supernova I'd have a gold stake win with them. Triple polychrome may have helped a little, granted. The 5th joker was Hallucination, which helped generate money tarots to buy more celestial packs to feed Constellation and also let me repeatedly dupe a holo stone cards that I got in an early playing card pack. Really starting to feel the complaints about the constant restarts in a way that I hadn't been before. My playstyle always leaned towards decks with some sort of built in reliability, so I never felt particularly obligated to compulsively restart. But gold stake ante 1 with a deck that has zero starting advantages at all is a special kind of hell, although anaglyph seems reasonably strong overall in the long run. It definitely took me less playtime to get gold on anaglyph than erratic, but part of that is most of my failed runs died immediately whereas erratic can easily limp along to ante 5+ and then hit the wall.
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Gift Card and Swashbuckler is such a good combo. I've won at least 3 games with them. My last run I had 2 Wheels of Fortune work back to back, so that was all my luck for the day.
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 Got my first win last night  (after many runs of bashing my head against a brick wall)! Got The Window as my first boss, went "right well after this I need to specialise into diamonds because I (presumably) won't be getting this boss again", the DNA Joker let me get lots of copies of things like the Ace and Jack of Diamonds (at the cost of a few tight rounds where I only just squeaked the number of chips I needed to beat the blind), and then things like this started happening  (which generated 55,330 chips). I know it's not much in the grand scheme of things, but it's good to finally get that first win.As well as the aforementioned DNA Joker (with support from the Hanging Chad Joker helping to make the most of those single-card hands) and the obvious power of the Scholar and Greedy Joker for this particular run, shout outs to Hiker and Constellation for giving me the staying power to cope with the increasingly nasty blinds. Although I eventually lost to the small blind in Ante 10 - those post-game numbers get nasty huh.
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