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I was under the assumption that the game was finished & was pleasantly surprised it wasn't, and very happy they brought back tarot cards to the 8 ball joker! I ended up getting my first blind 14 run and my lord is blind 13 to 14 a massive jump lmao. it turns out the randomness of the discard for $ joker only selects available cards in your deck, and if all of your cards are the same card, you can just make crazy money especially if you have extra discards and copy jokers. I was making 375 a fight just off the discards.
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May 2, 2024 09:18
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Gold stakes is scary so since I unlocked it I’ve been focusing on getting all the Jokers instead. Currently unlocked all but two. One all I gotta do is play four 7 of clubs, which is doable, but the last one is the 100 million hand so I’ll be looking back through the posts about it on the last couple pages pretty soon. Also still have like idk nine vouchers to find?
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May 2, 2024 10:52
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Escobarbarian posted:Gold stakes is scary so since I unlocked it I’ve been focusing on getting all the Jokers instead. Currently unlocked all but two. One all I gotta do is play four 7 of clubs, which is doable, but the last one is the 100 million hand so I’ll be looking back through the posts about it on the last couple pages pretty soon. Also still have like idk nine vouchers to find? If you mouse over the vouchers you don't have on the collection page you can see if there's something you have to do to unlock them, and I'd recommend doing that before going for gold stakes because the last few I unlocked (if you don't want them spoiled, the one after blank and the one after paintbrush) are both really good
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May 2, 2024 14:36
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Escobarbarian posted:Gold stakes is scary so since I unlocked it I’ve been focusing on getting all the Jokers instead. Currently unlocked all but two. One all I gotta do is play four 7 of clubs, which is doable, but the last one is the 100 million hand so I’ll be looking back through the posts about it on the last couple pages pretty soon. Also still have like idk nine vouchers to find? It took me about 8 hours to do orange stake, then I cleared gold in under 30 mins. I changed tack on gold to high card and it was a game changer. 100 million hand took maybe another 8 hours. In the end I eventually got there by getting a steel king with a red chip on it. Then re-rolled the store to get baron (each king in hand gives 1.5x mult) and DNA (if first hand of a round is a single card, copy it and add it to your hand) then cloning the steel king with red chip as much as possible. That was my general strategy but getting the rng onside took an age. I've seen people also do it using the anaglyph deck to get a ton of random negatives but couldn't get that strategy to work for me. I maybe saw the negative token 4 times in those 8 hours. Vouchers, even if you've unlocked the second tier voucher, you still need to buy the first tier in any given run for the 2nd tier voucher to show up in the shop
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May 2, 2024 15:01
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Escobarbarian posted:Gold stakes is scary so since I unlocked it I’ve been focusing on getting all the Jokers instead. Currently unlocked all but two. One all I gotta do is play four 7 of clubs, which is doable, but the last one is the 100 million hand so I’ll be looking back through the posts about it on the last couple pages pretty soon. Also still have like idk nine vouchers to find? you can do gold without all the jokers & vouchers i wrote this in an earlier post but the much more important thing in orange & gold stake is to reroll until you get a free cards & boosters (edit: vouchers are never free!) tag in the 1st or 2nd round of the 1st ante, hopefully get a good joker or two out of that, cruise through the next 2-3 antes, build up money, and try to find great jokers and cards after that i beat gold without Stuntman or Seeing Double. if you've unlocked everything else but those, you should be good to go Whistling Asshole fucked around with this message at 18:26 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 15:04
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I don’t reroll for tags (except clearing black deck, where I’d roll for holographic), but now that the dollar sign one is $25 on the first boss clear I’d say it’s always worth taking. That being said, no shame in resetting if you get lovely jokers in the first three shops. I’ll open the first shop pack if the one in the shop isn’t worth taking
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May 2, 2024 16:31
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Whistling rear end in a top hat posted:you can do gold without all the jokers & vouchers Is the +voucher tag just in hopes of rolling a good voucher?
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May 2, 2024 17:11
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Being on my 'I'm as dumb as poo poo' poo poo on the jokerless challenge. Don't do Five of a kind jacks when this dude can show up!
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May 2, 2024 17:19
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are hieroglyph and petroglyph goated or not? I nearly always take them, but I'm not sure they help the run unless I'm skipping for throwback or something.
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May 2, 2024 17:27
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:are hieroglyph and petroglyph goated or not? I nearly always take them, but I'm not sure they help the run unless I'm skipping for throwback or something. depends, how badly do you need another ante worth of scaling? can you soak -1 hand and -1 discard if you take both? they can be worth it but they're not a slam pick.
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May 2, 2024 18:05
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I think they're always worth it if you can afford the tenbux
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May 2, 2024 18:15
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:are hieroglyph and petroglyph goated or not? I nearly always take them, but I'm not sure they help the run unless I'm skipping for throwback or something. Can be very good. If your build benefits from scaling, you get 3 more rounds to do that. You get 3 more shops to find acana, celestials, better jokers as well. It's usually worth it IMO.
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May 2, 2024 18:15
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I just realized that Flower Pot works with Smeared Joker. Neat! Working up to gold stake and realizing that Green Deck is pretty amazing for clearing stakes. Spend all the money, go for it, and you've got a consistent way to get money.
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May 2, 2024 18:22
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:are hieroglyph and petroglyph goated or not? I nearly always take them, but I'm not sure they help the run unless I'm skipping for throwback or something. I think they're sick at low stakes or if you have an extra hand from Grabber/Nacho Tong (or are running Burglar) but otherwise I avoid them. Three hands is brutal, black deck is hands-down the worst for a reason.
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May 2, 2024 18:29
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Hieroglyph/Petroglyph purchase also depends on the deck I'm running. I'll buy them a lot less if I'm on black deck.
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May 2, 2024 18:29
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Neon Belly posted:Is the +voucher tag just in hopes of rolling a good voucher? i think the voucher tag either replenishes the slot if you've already bought it that ante or adds a 2nd slot if you didn't? not sure actually. but yeah i think either way you'll see a new one
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May 2, 2024 18:29
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Whistling rear end in a top hat posted:i think the voucher tag either replenishes the slot if you've already bought it that ante or adds a 2nd slot if you didn't? not sure actually. but yeah i think either way you'll see a new one It's a good way to consistently see the Seed Money voucher if you're me and playing with the Green Deck.
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May 2, 2024 18:44
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canyoneer posted:I just realized that Flower Pot works with Smeared Joker. Neat! Note that Green Deck blows through the early stakes but falls off hard later on (although probably not as bad as it did pre-patch.) Every difficulty bump is a double whammy because anything that makes it harder to clear blinds also means you get less money, which makes future blinds harder, which means you get even less money...
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May 2, 2024 18:54
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Whistling rear end in a top hat posted:you can do gold without all the jokers & vouchers Yeah, gold stake (especially new gold stake) is not something that needs a unique build like going exponential. You just need to, relative to white stake, additionally: * Not rely on a joker that rolls rental, or already have the econ to support $3/round for it * Not rely longterm on a joker that rolls perishable * Gain 2x the white stake chip target * Not rely on 3 base discards (so basically, Banner is worse and hand fishing is heavily discouraged--otoh, Bandit just gets better) * Not rely on selling a joker that rolls eternal * Not rely on the base $3/round for small blinds ... almost all of which you already did for orange. Any build which fails for reasons other than passing up a rental/taking it and stuffing your econ already would have failed orange, any other build which fails for reasons other than a perishable turning off already would have failed purple, etc.
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May 2, 2024 19:17
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Can Blueprint break if you put it next to a banana?
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May 2, 2024 19:21
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Power of Pecota posted:Personally I’d roll with Yellow, but some of it is personal preference. I did take Painted for another spin post-patch and it took a couple tries for a gold clear but I did get stickers for Runner and Shortcut, which was fun (not that I'm likely to ever finish out Completionist++.) I guess it does get shafted pretty badly by 2/5 bosses, 3/5 if you count the vessel which is an even bigger obstacle than normal; I probably lucked out by rolling the joke boss. I still think it's fun, if a long way from the top tier  
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May 2, 2024 19:33
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El Jeffe posted:Can Blueprint break if you put it next to a banana?
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May 2, 2024 19:39
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Got my first gold clear. Liking the new patch, much easier for scrubs like me
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May 2, 2024 20:02
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Whistling rear end in a top hat posted:you can do gold without all the jokers & vouchers Honestly I don't like the reroll strategy; it feels really tedious sitting there holding R and hoping to get a good tags on the first blind. Personally I prefer to play out the first 2 blinds; you can clear the small blind with a high card straight (8s and higher) or solid flush (average of 8 chips per card) in a single hand and that will give you $7 to use in the initial shop. The large blind can be cleared in 2 hands using a similar setup, even without a joker. If neither shop gave you a joker with with a power boost your run is dead and you restart. It's actually a little easier now with the patch, since that first store will always have a pack you can open with your starting cash.
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May 2, 2024 20:24
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:are hieroglyph and petroglyph goated or not? I nearly always take them, but I'm not sure they help the run unless I'm skipping for throwback or something. Only if the engine is already roaring and you know for sure you can capitalize on the three blinds worth of scaling. I definitely wouldn't do it just to feed a throwback (That would only be like x1.5 extra right?), but just the other day I had constellation with a blueprint, and the vouchers that make planet cards appear x4 times as often as well as chaos the clown, So I was easily able to wring another x4 mult out of it per ante by taking both hieroglyph and petroglyph. Besides, the negative effects can be counteracted with other vouchers so if they are worth your time they pay for themselves
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May 2, 2024 20:54
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Would a Tag that basically allows you to reach a shop without playing an ante be too weak, too strong, or a good idea?
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May 2, 2024 21:01
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Whistling rear end in a top hat posted:you can do gold without all the jokers & vouchers It seems like the start of the game is much easier to get a run going now. Things like $15 on beating boss becoming $25, and uncommon/rare/foil/holo/poly card tags also causing the cards to be free, plus the guaranteed buffoon pack in the first shop. If you have some garbage like 2x boss rerolls on the first ante then yeah, reroll, but I don't think you have to only play when you have e.g. a free cards tag anymore. You can often get past ante 2 without having a decent joker even, if you get at least some half decent tarots and/or planets. It's particularly worth persevering if you get a lot of cash early on, even if you don't get any decent jokers. E:^^^ Maybe a tag that was like "When selecting the next ante, visit the shop first" would be a good one. Probably not too strong because you still need to have money available etc.
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May 2, 2024 21:02
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May 2, 2024 21:17
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smoobles posted:
Any idea what the actual odds were?
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May 2, 2024 21:20
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If I were localthunk I'd definitely just put that into every patch notes as a lil joke
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May 2, 2024 21:23
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pumpinglemma posted:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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May 2, 2024 21:23
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y'all been had
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May 2, 2024 21:31
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Tailscale + Steam Link + running Balatro on a NUC at home and playing Balatro on my iPhone works shockingly well. I wish the mouse option worked better, but on-screen controller is perfectly fine for it. Definitely holding me over until they release an iOS version.
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May 2, 2024 22:12
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I managed to get a gold clear finally without the new patch but I'm looking forward to it dropping on switch Wrt steel cards is there something im doing wrong BC like the baron the multiplier being added before my +mult from jokers doesn't seem that impressive. I managed to get a deck that was mostly steel cards by about ante 5, a disgustingly juiced +mult on hand played (I wanna say supernova?) # and a square joker running at about 110 at that point and while it was a reasonably easy clear on white stake I fell over in endless almost immediately once the serious scaling set in. I had some other X mult as well and it should have been good in theory but it was a bit late (adds X mult for each added card in deck and I was running DNA to dupe steel cards) and probably needed to be a bit higher than x3 by the time I hit endless but I've played decks like this without the steel cards and I'm one shotting most blinds all the way to ante 8 even when the xmult drags a bit behind
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May 2, 2024 22:46
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Aipsh posted:Being on my 'I'm as dumb as poo poo' poo poo on the jokerless challenge. Don't do Five of a kind jacks when this dude can show up! This is very specifically why I keep mentioning the Jokerless strategy is all in on Aces, keep a good mix of suits, Four of a Kind (scales just as well as Five, get access earlier and extra cards held for steels), keep a balance of Glass and Steel. It is Not Hard.
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May 2, 2024 22:52
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Chadzok posted:This is very specifically why I keep mentioning the Jokerless strategy is all in on Aces, keep a good mix of suits, Four of a Kind, keep a balance of Glass and Steel. It is Not Hard. I have not gotten one tarot to make glass on Jokerless yet It'll happen eventually! e: The Blank Voucher still shows up in Jokerless lol RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 2, 2024 |
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May 2, 2024 22:53
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:I managed to get a gold clear finally without the new patch but I'm looking forward to it dropping on switch Get a source of mult that's based on card triggers (which means it gets added in before the steels/baron go off), and/or get red seals on everything and throw in a mime joker if you can to retrigger all your held multipliers.
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May 2, 2024 22:55
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:are hieroglyph and petroglyph goated or not? I nearly always take them, but I'm not sure they help the run unless I'm skipping for throwback or something. One thing I realised is that if you're doing something like Green Joker/Ride the Bus where the scaling is based on hands played, then hieroglyph early can actually be hand negative. Getting three more rounds is 9 hands, but if you've got more than 9 rounds ahead of you then the -1 hand penalty has cost you more future hands. And while you don't always have the luxury of playing every hand if you scale too fast, in the end the point is to scale, and if you're arguing hieroglyph prevents you from overscaling then that's not exactly an advert for it.
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Heavy_D posted:One thing I realised is that if you're doing something like Green Joker/Ride the Bus where the scaling is based on hands played, then hieroglyph early can actually be hand negative. Getting three more rounds is 9 hands, but if you've got more than 9 rounds ahead of you then the -1 hand penalty has cost you more future hands. And while you don't always have the luxury of playing every hand if you scale too fast, in the end the point is to scale, and if you're arguing hieroglyph prevents you from overscaling then that's not exactly an advert for it. drat I never thought of that. Not to mention that you're going back too lower score thresholds with higher multipliers so you are a more likely to spill over
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