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Flushes are really useful early on because they're easier to build than other big hands but in the long run hand values tend to become less and less important compared to what your joker bonuses get you (and hand-specific joker bonuses tend to not be great.) Early on getting a couple levels in flush or one of the flush-based jokers is nice to get you started but you usually don't want to build around it.
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# ? May 28, 2024 14:39 |
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Looks like modders already got two new suits into the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFBwbpyMyU
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 01:22 |
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err posted:i fuckking regret unlocking everything now i cant go for achievements Chicot just won't leave me alone.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 01:23 |
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goddamn dna to just copy steel cards over and over owns so hard
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 01:23 |
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The DNA joker is great until it becomes instinctual to just play one card and then you blink and remember you're on the Mouth.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 01:25 |
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Game managed to turbo gently caress my PS5 in a way no other game has before - just froze after playing a hand, but the music was playing as normal and still connected to the Pulse headset. Couldn’t access the home menu and the PS5 wouldn’t turn off even holding down the power button had to fully unplug it to get it working again. Very odd
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 01:42 |
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Bad Seafood posted:The DNA joker is great until it becomes instinctual to just play one card and then you blink and remember you're on the Mouth. it's always the fuckin psychic for me
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 02:12 |
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This game is loving stupid This run also got me the completionist (I sold the legendary joker I needed for the torn one ) and ROI cheevos
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 03:28 |
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How do you deal with Purple Stake on upward? The lower stakes I can handle just fine on the checkered deck (the one with only spades and hearts) for reliable flushes, but after that it seems based on RNG whether you can get crucial jokers early enough to counteract the blinds going up exponentially or have to restart the run. Also, with the whole "small blind does not give money" debuff, do you just skip it for the skip reward or what? I find that, unless you've got a Golden Joker or have enough money for interest to kick in, it's better to just skip. This also factors into the RNG thing I mentioned above since an early ante skip bonus that says "gives money based on number of skips/hands played/etc" seems useless and warrants a new run.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 03:28 |
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:How do you deal with Purple Stake on upward? The lower stakes I can handle just fine on the checkered deck (the one with only spades and hearts) for reliable flushes, but after that it seems based on RNG whether you can get crucial jokers early enough to counteract the blinds going up exponentially or have to restart the run. As soon as small blind stops giving money I start looking for good skips on that, and probably the round after it. Some kind of economy for one, and a polychrome or other buffed joker for the other is usually a good combo, and the first boss can always be beaten by fishing for flushes or full houses. So you ideally end the first boss with around $23 or a free shop voucher, and a buffed joker in shop to jumpstart your run. Anything with +mult or decent +chips will power you through ante 2 to stabilize economy and create a decent run. Still some luck element present even at that point but that's the minimum to get a passing run started, for me.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 03:37 |
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So close to beating purple stakes.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 03:54 |
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You need to find a playable joker in your first 3 shops or you die. Skipping the first shop gets rid of a third of those opportunities. I don't think it's worth the 5 dollar tag. Mega buffoon is very worth it though.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 04:02 |
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Taking the small blind isn't that bad. Obviously skips get more attractive but $3 should generally not be a huge part of your overall income. Often getting another shop roll is more important than the monetary reward. It does make a bigger difference for the very first round in the game since you get no interest and have lots of stuff to buy, but a bad 1st round skip isn't necessarily fatal (at least for stronger decks.)
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 04:04 |
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The thing with a bad first round skip is that you can just press the new run button to change it
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 04:51 |
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Darke GBF posted:As soon as small blind stops giving money I start looking for good skips on that, and probably the round after it. Some kind of economy for one, and a polychrome or other buffed joker for the other is usually a good combo, and the first boss can always be beaten by fishing for flushes or full houses. So you ideally end the first boss with around $23 or a free shop voucher, and a buffed joker in shop to jumpstart your run. Anything with +mult or decent +chips will power you through ante 2 to stabilize economy and create a decent run. Still some luck element present even at that point but that's the minimum to get a passing run started, for me. Unfortunately on the higher stakes I sit there for a random 0-5 minutes rerolling the small blind skip until it's the free packs and cards next shop. I can't decide if I'm ruining the game for myself or I'm just doing it because gambling rules. sometimes 5 minutes 'R'ing, get to shop, oops all planets. _RRRR_
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 13:08 |
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The no gold on small blind-stake really should be adjusted so that it only works from ante 2.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 13:09 |
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Chadzok posted:Unfortunately on the higher stakes I sit there for a random 0-5 minutes rerolling the small blind skip until it's the free packs and cards next shop. Yep. Same thing for the later challenges. Ideally, it’s the Free Shop and $15 for the boss. Start ante 2 with a couple of decent jokers and either a decent tarot card or planet. There’s really no point in trying to compete a run otherwise.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 13:57 |
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Orio posted:The no gold on small blind-stake really should be adjusted so that it only works from ante 2. The game could really use a "choose a starting tag" thing like the meow blessing on slay the spire
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 14:18 |
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Deceptive Thinker posted:The game could really use a "choose a starting tag" thing like the meow blessing on slay the spire I can see why the dev wouldn't want to do that, but at the same time, I'm just going to reroll until I get a halfway decent set of tags at higher stakes anyway, so why torture me?
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 15:32 |
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I basically just reroll until I get a pack, money tag, or if I'm getting tired of it a holographic tag because typically I can't afford the polychrome on the first big blind. Get out of here +3 hand size
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 15:48 |
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Finally free of the specter of Jokerless, now I can go back to playing the game the fun way again.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 15:48 |
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RBA Starblade posted:I basically just reroll until I get a pack, money tag, or if I'm getting tired of it a holographic tag because typically I can't afford the polychrome on the first big blind. +3 hand size can be ok on gold stake if the big blind has a really good tag (probably just the $15 for beating a boss.) Hammer skip twice and chaos dunk the boss blind, which would otherwise be a gamble on most decks without any chance to buy improvements.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 16:01 |
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lmao this game
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 21:13 |
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For the first time in like 60 hours between demo and release, I exhausted my deck in a round. Had no idea that's an instant game over, never even considered it and blindly thought the deck reshuffles. Huh.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 21:47 |
roomtwofifteen posted:For the first time in like 60 hours between demo and release, I exhausted my deck in a round. Had no idea that's an instant game over, never even considered it and blindly thought the deck reshuffles. Huh. Only about 30 hours, but I was already wondering what happened when you ran out of cards
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I'm gonna be honest up front and confess that I have not read the OP or any of the thread and offer my apologies in advance for kramering in here to ask this question but I'm doing it anyway. What's the deal with the Hieroglyph voucher? What's the point of it? Why does it scare me? Has anyone itt ever used it to any benefit?
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 23:57 |
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It's good as long as you can get more value than +1 hands during an extra ante.
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# ? Mar 23, 2024 23:59 |
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Dick Bastardly posted:I'm gonna be honest up front and confess that I have not read the OP or any of the thread and offer my apologies in advance for kramering in here to ask this question but I'm doing it anyway. it gives you another ante's worth of rounds to improve your scaling if you have jokers that benefit from that sort of thing
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 00:02 |
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More shop chances, more time to improve your scaling jokers. Or if you want to avoid a harder boss for a bit.
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 00:13 |
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important note: if you go from 9 to 8 you have to fight one of the end bosses again
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 00:15 |
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Just beat Black Deck Gold Stake with this insane set of jokers: Between the doubled Certificate and the doubled DNA, I was increasing my Hologram multiplier by a full 1x every single round. It was up to 16x by the time I beat the Ante 8 boss.
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 04:35 |
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DaveWoo posted:Just beat Black Deck Gold Stake with this insane set of jokers: drat that looks like a fun run
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 07:25 |
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DaveWoo posted:Just beat Black Deck Gold Stake with this insane set of jokers: I'm interested to see what your deck looked like by the end.
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 07:37 |
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War Wizard posted:I'm interested to see what your deck looked like by the end.
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 08:49 |
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please help me uncover this deep lore the balatro wiki says that the driver's license has the name "jeb joker" and has this image to go with it it makes no mention of any other name, nor have i seen anyone else talk about this. HOWEVER in my game her name is CLEARLY "jen joker"
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 11:52 |
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War Wizard posted:I'm interested to see what your deck looked like by the end. I pulled an Ace with Hierophant and Red Seal early on and just kept duping the hell out of it
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 13:41 |
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he modded out a direct political attack, trying to hide skeletons in closets, cancellable offense. stop playing Balatro immediately.
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 13:43 |
Your Computer posted:please help me uncover this deep lore Huh, that's interesting. I still had the demo so I checked and there it's Jeb, but the release version has Jen
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# ? Mar 24, 2024 16:57 |
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The signature still says Jeb either way
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# ? May 28, 2024 14:39 |
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Name should have been Joe Kerr.
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