Infinitum posted:

Tibbeh posted:

so I've done about half a dozen runs or so and the highest I've gotten is ante 7. Anyone got tips for deck building because it feels like I'm just throwing poo poo at the wall and its not working. Game's great fun though, it keeps bringing me back even if I'm bad at it

Pollyanna posted:

Holy poo poo I'm really bad at poker, apparently. Any tips?

Kuros posted:

Short form: Early on you need very little in the way of mults/chips to hit thresholds so typically you want one or two economy jokers to build up your funds. From there you slowly change from economy jokers to score/utility jokers to make the blinds. The only reason to keep an economy joker in your pool late game is if it's polychrome, negative or it's actively helping your mult due to effects of other jokers.

As for building the deck itself, typically you build around the jokers you get, not build in anticipation of the jokers you might get. If the game is tossing flush jokers at you and you're building the deck for straights you may lose pretty quickly. All hands can win a run with the right build and foresight.

Long form: Here's a good vid from Haelian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eby9Eva03zU

RoboCicero posted:

Yeah but what about getting two econ jokes and folding to the ante 2 big blind, huh? HUH?

Infinitum posted:

Just call me Johnny SixtyOneHearts


Absolutely busted run. Entire hand was Hearts, and just kept adding more and more and more as the run went on. Convert to Hearts, delete other decks, and making sure I converted as many cards as I could into bonus cards.
Real hero of the run was the Flash Card gaining a +2 multiplier everytime I rerolled the shop & having a ton of Lucky Cards to have a shitloard of money + the Supernova card gaining a multiplier everytime I played a poker hand type(flush). I think I finished the run at 32x, and 40x above is when I couldn't get past the 1/2 million wall on the small blind of Ante 10

Game owns bones.

Jossar posted:

Yeeesh, that's going in the highlight reel. Also added some of the guides to the first page.

Gonna see if I can finish out White Stakes tonight! Or at the very least a couple more decks, since there's so many other games asking to be played as well.

MJeff posted:

Okay, I'm at a crossroads and need some advice.



My Jokers are:
Business Card - Face Cards have a 50% chance to give $2 when scored.
Spare Trousers - Gives +2 mult if playued hands contains a two pair (Currently +70 mult) (Holographic - +10 mult)
Abstract Joker - +3 mult for each Joker card (Currently +15 mult) (Polychrome - x1.5 mult)
THE BULL - +2 chips for every dollar you have (Currently +506 chips) (Polychrome - X1.5 mult)
Card Sharp - X3 Mult if played poker hand has already been played this round.

And the one in the shop is "+13 mult for each Queen in hand".

As implied in my last post, I have FOURTEEN QUEENS in my deck (as well as 7 Kings and 9 Jacks). So this is really tempting! But I dunno who I sell to make it happen. Do I sell Abstract, giving up one of my Polychromes? Do I sell Business Card, giving up my money scaling and slowing down THE BULL? Or do I just not pick up the Queen at all?

err posted:

how does smeared joker work if you have a suit specific bonus? does it count if it's the majority suit?

Ciaphas posted:

is it ba-LA-tro or BAL-a-tro

Jossar posted:

It's always magical when you can get the Wheel to work.

Burned through another couple of challenges this morning. Can't tell if I got lucky, but the Omelette just feels much harder than the rest of them so far. In the vein of "neat little puzzle of what would you do in a forced situation" they're pretty amusing. Definitely room for more of them to be produced.

EDIT: Apparently you can just force the game to register you as having infinity if you score high enough.

https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1b12pbr/sorry_perkeo_but_i_can_do_this_alone_first/

According to the guy who posted the video, at some point Balatro will still consider there to be a fail state (apart from, you know, the game crashing) so you can't just keep doing this for literal eternity.

MJeff posted:

What happens if you take it on Ante 1?

DaveWoo posted:

You go to Ante 0, where the blinds are 100/150/200 chips.

War Wizard posted:

I just got this game after watching a streamer play it terribly. I've won with the first two decks, but both times it was with a Flush Deck. The first time was hearts and I almost removed all spades from the deck, just had 2 left. Pretty fun game.

My second flush deck actually pulled out some full flushes and now I notice I'm missing two planet cards. I'm assuming those are 5 of and kind and 5 flush?

LifeLynx posted:

Yeah there's no avoiding it. I keep getting the "all cards count as face cards" and build face card synergy that then falls apart against a couple of the bosses. I don't know what solution I'd offer if I was developing the game.

You're the guy who did the Isaac videos aren't you? Those were helpful back when I was playing Flash Isaac.

Feels Villeneuve posted:

black hole doesnt count as a planet card for the purposes of the constellation joker. rating this game a thumbs down on steam

Artelier posted:

This card shop triggered my XCOM doubt response

mystes posted:

I don't even understand what the point of having a 1/1000 chance of breaking is, it's so low. I've never had it get destroyed.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Is there a reliable way of cutting cards from decks? Trying to hope for that one loving Tarot card is no way to live.

PostNouveau posted:

Yeah, I usually just dump out of runs rather than go endless. I really do at some point need to try to get one of those copy joker-red seal-retrigger things going at some point to get a 100,000,000 point hand and unlock stuntman, but I don't really feel much of a drive to climb the endless antes outside of that.

Two Tone Shoes posted:

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.

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.

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.

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.

I mean it makes sense, its a spectral card not a planet card. Reading the joker explains the joker.

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Feels Villeneuve posted:

black hole doesnt count as a planet card for the purposes of the constellation joker. rating this game a thumbs down on steam

Kuros posted:

Well no poo poo, a Black Hole isn't a planet. Learn some astronomy.

Oxyclean posted:

Can a single wild card benefit from multiple suit interactions? EG: You have hearts and spades give +4 multi, will a wild trigger both?

Even if so, wild feels honestly a little weak of a modifier when you compare it to the chip and multi tarots giving you two cards. If you're going for suit synergy, suit switcher tarots give you 3 cards, though you need to get the right one, and obviously that's less flexible then wild, but I assume there's not a lot of strats that benefit from wild over just having the specific suit you want? Unless you're trying to dodge suit debuffers, in which case Wild is of zero help.

Would it be too powerful if wild was treated as just a suit and not an enhancement? Or would it be too much for the tarot to convert 2 wilds instead of 1?

Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

I got the legendary that makes a negative copy of a consumable and also got the telescope that gives 1.5x for a consumable planet, while playing the checkered deck.

Yes the 1.5x stack, yes having 10 negative jupiters is amazing.

DrHammond posted:

Does obelisk reset if you play a most-played hand, or does it just stop accumulating additional xmult?

I assumed it was the former, but if latter it might be busted and I need to try.

Setec_Astronomy posted:

While there may not be a story in the game, I just learned a story from playing the game.

Apparently the Perkeo joker is based on the court jester Perkeo of Heidelberg, who was a dwarf that reputedly drank 5-8 gallons of wine a day -- the name is a variation of "Perche no?" which was his response to being asked if he wanted another glass of wine. He was so known for his drinking that he was also put in charge of the castle's wine stocks.

According to legend, he lived into his eighties. He eventually fell ill and went to see a doctor who advised him to drink some water. He died the next day.