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Einwand posted:Retriggers stack additively. Thanks. Had a very close run with the plasma deck where I wasn't sure which cards to make bonus where retriggers were a major factor of the last hand. Won, but good to know for next time.
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Currently bashing my head against green deck orange stakes. I wonder how many of the difficulty level complaints this deck is singlehandedly responsible for, because I'm definitely feeling a lot of complaints a lot harder now. It's great at tearing up the lower stakes which makes it a popular choice, but it's deceptive because your economy gets worse the harder the game gets and it's absolutely miserable if you ever fall behind the curve. The interest system normally acts as a sort of consolation prize for bad luck at shops: there's a tradeoff between spending money to get stronger versus saving money to get more money later, so good/bad shop rolls make for a series of interesting tradeoffs. Green deck entirely lacks this catch-up mechanism, if you don't find good stuff to spend your money on then you get less money in the future. It does let you double dip on extra hands/discard since they give you more money, but the flip side is that a lot of conventional economy jokers get hosed over; not only does everything related to interest become irrelevant, it also penalizes anything that requires you to spend plays/discards for benefit. So by the time you get to orange stake your ability to make money is crippled and many alternate avenues of making money/strengthening your deck long term are either unavailable or else penalize your economy further.
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Rocket+campfire is such a strong combo. You can use the income from rocket to churn rerolls in the shop and buy/sell useless planet and arcana cards to pump up the campfire bonus. Had a bit of luck leading to probably my best run so far - a negative trading card to prune my deck, a bloodstone/brainstorm combo to get 2x on cards scoring proccing, a rocket/campfire combo to build the campfire up to 8-10x most antes, and a deck full of aces(mult+red seal)/9s(mult+hologram+red seal) with a few steel hearts scattered in to give the bloodstone 20 prod chances per round. My only regret is I didn't quite manage to get my hand down to 20 cards for the achievement. It'll be a while before I get a run going this well again.  
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Mar 10, 2024 06:17
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Lmao I had the wheel actually hit to give me polychrome on a very valuable joker! And immediately paid for it when my Cavendish got eaten.
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lol I got the "win with 4 jokers or less" unlock on orange stake because I duped the joker stencil
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the holy poopacy posted:Currently bashing my head against green deck orange stakes. I wonder how many of the difficulty level complaints this deck is singlehandedly responsible for, because I'm definitely feeling a lot of complaints a lot harder now. It's great at tearing up the lower stakes which makes it a popular choice, but it's deceptive because your economy gets worse the harder the game gets and it's absolutely miserable if you ever fall behind the curve. How I beat gold stake with green deck: I got DNA + Blueprint + Shoot the Moon and x18 worth of mult jokers, my deck had 30 queens by the end of this. I had pretty high base chips from Square joker too so I was just playing high cards into a hand full of queens with as many steels/red stamps as possible. I replaced DNA with Mr Bones before the final boss just in case cause after so many attempts I wasn't taking any chances.  How I beat gold stake with plasma deck: got wee joker and stuntman and some random crap idk 
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 This was a hell of a run. Orange stake, I get some decent jokers polychrome early. Loyalty Card and Vampire are nothing special on their own, but polychrome is nice, and Even Steven is making those 1.5X count for a lot. Then I pick up Brainstorm. THEN Burglar shows up in the shop. "I wonder if I can duplicate Burglar to give myself +3 hands times two and then shove it out of the way when I start playing actual hands." Oh yes, it works. Then I remembered Loyalty Card. Normally a little finnicky, because 6 hands to trigger isn't always going to be there when you need it. Unless you have 9 hands per blind.  I was cackling so hard when I figured this out. Every single blind was an exercise in playing all the odd or face cards in my hand until I had amassed my full house, and then playing who gives a gently caress until Loyalty Card's X4 was active. Then I'd move it to the left and dump my bomb hand for millions of points, where all my previous hands were barely hitting 2k if that. It was absolutely foolproof, and I'd end every blind with 3 unused hands for some big and easy economy. "Nothing can stop me. Easy orange stake victory," I thought. and then the 8th boss blind was revealed as Amber Acorn. The Needle also could have potentially hosed that run but never showed up, thankfully. Amber Acorn thankfully shakes up your cards after they trigger, so I went in with 9 hands as usual. I wasn't sure if Loyalty Card would make its presence known but I was able to successfully figure out its location even without the shaking. The sweetest of victories. Then on ante 10 I hit the psychic and apparently playing anything other than 5 cards does not increase Loyalty Card's counter so lol, run died there. But that was still an exciting run. Actually I guess it would've worked nearly as well even without duping Burglar. But 3 hands of economy extra helped. 
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Finally beat Orange stakes with the Ghost Deck by getting Yorick as my first joker quickly followed by Blueprint  It was a struggle not to lose before fulfilling Yorick's condition but after that I making big business no matter what I played.
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I'm definitely getting salty trying to beat Purple stakes; this is the 3rd time I've had a really good run hit the Ante 8 boss and have it be specifically tailored to shut me down. This time was particularly painful; I had the boss who debuffs all your cards until you sell a joker. But 'lo, I can skip the Small Blind and get a free Negative Joker in the final store, which should solve the problem nicely. And the game gives me a Negative Eternal Joker that doesn't do anything with my build, forcing me to sell one of my good jokers and causing me to fail by about 4k chips.
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Mar 10, 2024 10:43
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Finally got Blueprint, Brainstorm, and Sock and Buskin at the same time, enabling me to reach 100 billion score. Lost when I ran out of glass queens, sadly.
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Mar 10, 2024 10:45
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Finally broke into the 12th ante and wow, scaling gets steep. Least I got my voucher.
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Mar 10, 2024 11:19
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Does the shake from the Amber acorn change the number on the card so that you lose your count? I couldn't really understand what it was doing since the card was upside down and I only saw it the one time
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Mar 10, 2024 15:38
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Sign of success, someone's made a cheat mod for WeMod, and someone also made a nexusmods mod that mucks about with the card system and scoring (basically an easier mode game, negative jokers give additional slots other than the normal +1, etcetera)
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Mar 10, 2024 15:40
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Harold Fjord posted:Does the shake from the Amber acorn change the number on the card so that you lose your count? I couldn't really understand what it was doing since the card was upside down and I only saw it the one time I'm unsure what number you're referring to but it flips all your jokers upside down and shuffles the position. It's meant to screw you if you relied very heavily on positional based jokers (blueprint, brainstorm, xMult, etc)
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Mar 10, 2024 15:41
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the holy poopacy posted:Just bought a cavendish and had it go extinct in the next round. I feel like I should get an achievement for this. Cavendish feels weak for the multiplier it offers It should either be a timed chance of disappearing (like 4 hands or something and then it sets) or have a higher multiplier like popcorn to make it serve as a temporary early game power boost to let you build out the rest of your deck
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Cavendish feels weak for the multiplier it offers I think you're thinking of Gros Michel, which is the +12 mult 1/4 chance of being eaten. Cavendish is X3 mult, 1/1000 chance of being eaten, only shows up if the former has gone extinct first.
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Mar 10, 2024 15:48
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Ah oh poo poo yeah I had no idea. I just thought there was the one banana. That makes a lot more sense now and I guess addresses my complaint with the original. drat Balatro, you continue to surprise me
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Mar 10, 2024 16:35
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i desire a third, even more powerful type of banana
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DM me
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i desire a third, even more powerful type of banana There should be one that only spawns after you lose your Cavendish but that would make every completionist very mad. I've never seen it happen, not even when I ran 3 cavendish at the same time.
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Mar 10, 2024 17:06
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i desire a third, even more powerful type of banana That sort of thing is difficult to make scale well. Started playing yesterday and I’m looking forward to opening it up on the plane tonight and teleporting to California.
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Mar 10, 2024 18:05
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i desire a third, even more powerful type of banana The Plantain: retriggers all cards three times, 1 in 1000000 chance to uninstall the game and delete your profile.
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Mar 10, 2024 18:18
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i desire a third, even more powerful type of banana 
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Relyssa posted:I'm unsure what number you're referring to but it flips all your jokers upside down and shuffles the position. It's meant to screw you if you relied very heavily on positional based jokers (blueprint, brainstorm, xMult, etc) It's worth noting that it only shuffles them one time. If you watch your jokers after your first hand you can figure out where they are based on what they do and move them back into position.
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Mar 10, 2024 18:48
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Finished the last two challenges. Golden needle was still the toughest imo. Jokerless was mostly about getting the right tarots to hit (justice, world, hermit) to build a reliable flush deck. You learn a lot about strategy doing the challenges, but more for surviving blinds than stacking huge numbers for ante 12+. I had neglected maximizing glass/mult cards, and they make a big difference. Glass cards offer a lot more utility than steel, given the choice.
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Mar 10, 2024 18:52
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i desire a third, even more powerful type of banana Gros Michel is 1/4 Cavendish is X3 Plantain... Raises your mult to the power of 2
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Mar 10, 2024 19:10
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the holy poopacy posted:The Plantain: retriggers all cards three times, 1 in 1000000 chance to uninstall the game and delete your profile. I like it
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finally made it to ante 12 thanks to Midas Mask + Vampire, they even showed up at the same time in the store
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Subjunctive posted:That sort of thing is difficult to make scale well. It's a banana, Michael. How hard could it scale, 10X?
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Big Mad Drongo posted:It's a banana, Michael. How hard could it scale, 10X? God damnit. 
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https://twitter.com/GreyAlien/status/1766773019278520699?t=ptgQlOISciw9LQFvtJyWKw&s=19
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Balatro was hardly a surprise, it was building buzz all through EA
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Balatro also has the right amount of weird art and music to be compelling, I'd buy it every time over something that looks like a bad horse game.
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DreadUnknown posted:Balatro also has the right amount of weird art and music to be compelling, I'd buy it every time over something that looks like a bad horse game.
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DreadUnknown posted:Balatro also has the right amount of weird art and music to be compelling, I'd buy it every time over something that looks like a bad horse game. That game does have strong horse/“elsa gets a root canal” energy
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Gold stake victory with the yellow deck. Early uncommon offering was Arrowhead, and spectral pack on the same store duplicated it. Got the spade +mult joker shortly after, and constellation and blackboard to round things out. Fishing for a spade flush with only black cards left in hand got me over the finish line, although despite redeeming 20+ planet cards my flush was still only level two by the end. Mother gently caress.
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Devs seething is one of the worst parts about Twitter. Sorry your game didn't do well but stop making GBS threads on other people's work in response. For what it's worth I have the first regency solitaire and it's a pretty fun little casual game, but it doesn't have anything particularly compelling or exciting that would make me buy a sequel.
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victrix posted:https://twitter.com/GreyAlien/status/1766773019278520699?t=ptgQlOISciw9LQFvtJyWKw&s=19 This looks like one of those games with the weird commercials where a woman's husband leaves her and she plays a match 3 game to make her hovel into a mansion.
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