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MJeff posted:Okay, here's another thing about the high stakes that annoys the hell out of me. One thing I wish you could do would be to set up the start, without it being a seeded run. I get that rng is part of the game and theme, but something as simple picking your first tag on Ante 1, maybe among a limited set, would smooth out a lot of the early resets
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War Wizard posted:Edit: oh and does wheel of fortune actually work? I've used it like 8 times and it's always a nope. With ¼ odds I should have gotten something by now. 99% of Balatro players abandon a run right before Wheel Of Fortune makes their Vampire Polychrome
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Feb 29, 2024 23:39
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Dr. Mantis Toboggan posted:I think I hit a new record for the thread. Do you remember any of your early picks? I made it to ante 4 or 5 with the Polychrome Brainstorm, but was really lacking something to give me some initial mult (that would later get X15 or so from that one Joker that gives you x3 if all held cards are Spade or Club
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Aggro posted:Extremely stupid question. How the hell do you build a deck that works that isn’t a Flush deck? I just had a run (that I won, first in a decent few hours  ) that did just that (on white stake, but still).I got a Straight joker early on, so I used that to help out a bit while I progressed, and developed a build around that. My main multiplier was Spare Trousers, so I focused on two pairs and full houses, and I picked up Constellation, and I was picking up every Planet and pack I could find. Cartomancer gave me free Tarots, which I used to manipulate into some easier pairs. Baseball Card was a blessing too, and I just accidentally stumbled into Driver's License, so I was hitting big numbers off of just two pairs, but couldn't make it past Small Blind of Ante 11. What worked for me was finding something that scaled, and focusing towards it, and keeping up with money. Once you break past the $25, you get $5 in interest every round, which helps, and I was able to pick up every non-joker from shops without much worry. Sure, I wasn't going to pass up something Negative, but once I had an engine going, I could focus on my deck, which cards I had more/fewer of (including an Ouija which gave me a bunch of Queens), so by the end I was discarding for As, Qs, 10s, and 8s. Couldn't filter too much, and hand size went down to six, which didn't help, but I was taking all the opportunities I could to edit my deck after I got going.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:32
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Ciaphas posted:i know one hand isn't anything in the grand scheme, and it's a real good unlock, but discarding a royal flush wounded my soul I did that yesterday I think. I already had the unlock
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Just had a sick run with Ghost deck, my first joker was the one that gives x2 if you have a Flush, made it Polychrome, then copied it. My goal was to do no pairs and no straights, and managed both, ended up with like 25 played flushes, and a level of 10, but died around ante 11, wasn't focused too much. Unlocked both jokers I wanted so goal done, and now I'm only missing one blind, I beat the last ante 8 one I was missing for the collection
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No Wave posted:If its ante 1 small blind and my hand is A K K 8 7 5 2 with two or less of each suit I don't know what the correct play is. Holding R 
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Mar 4, 2024 20:50
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War Wizard posted:Skip for negative joker? Doesn't it still apply for the next joker to appear in the shop? Not ideal since you need to play another round, but
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War Wizard posted:So would "doubles all odds" affect this negatively then? 2 in 1000. Yep, just as it would the other banana
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War Wizard posted:Yeah, I was gonna mention this too. Pretty good way out of debt. I'm just wondering if it also works with The Ox (most played hand sets money to 0). It does work with The Ox, saw a video the other day that mentioned it. PostNouveau posted:there isn't multipliers for chips There is, it's the multiplier
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Had a nice little Spare Trousers run with spectral deck. Feels like the one most ripe to get busted, with the free polychrome, but I still died at the ante 8 boss, couldn't but 300k (barely). I want to unlock that joker that unlocks at 400 bucks but my best so far has been around 190, not sure how I can push that Edit: four of a kind should count for Trousers, it's two pairs of the same rank
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Chalks posted:As others have said, it's taking about the number of cards in your deck. The reason it's phrased in this way is because other cards that say "+x per card added to your deck" actually only count cards added after you buy the joker and isn't impacted by removing cards. This one works per card removed no matter when, but it's cancelled out by adding cards. This is an annoyance of mine with the Constellation joker (among others). If it scales per Planet card used, how hard could it be to make it count previously played planets, making it a much easier pickup later on, rather than "tough poo poo, didn't see this early"
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I've been thinking that despite a Tarot raising the rank of cards, there doesn't seem to be a way to manipulate rank downwards. I guess it'd be a downgrade, but I had a bunch of 4s earlier and I'd like to be able to make some 5s into them, for example
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Mar 6, 2024 20:59
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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. For these unlocks, it's gotta be unseeded right? Basically pray to the RNG, I'm not sure I've ever had a run get me even close to hitting that
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blizzardvizard posted:
Edit I'm dumb it's "High contrast cards" Serperoth fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Bad Seafood posted:Beating the game in 12 round is a little tricky. You need to get a deck that scales well early, then you can just skip all the non-boss blinds. If you get the joker that levels up every time you skip a blind, you can force your way through this one pretty painlessly. Pretty sure that's how I did it, pretty much by accident. Still need a bunch: play all Hearts in the deck, $400, 100M, 30 Clubs and 30 Diamonds (wild cards and Painted Joker don't count I imagine?). and more. Hell I don't have any stake other than basic beaten
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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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Fuligin posted:Regency Solitaire and its spinoff Shadowhand are decent games that my partner enjoyed enough to beat and replay, but they arent designed super tightly and they have a narrative focus that means they arent really in the same space as 'poker roguelike' at all so... yeah. Sorry dev guy but you made a game aimed at a much more narrowly scoped audience? Yeah, I've heard Regency Solitaire is a fun enough game, but it's nothing like Balatro, the audience overlap can't be anything other than "small", and the amount of people that were like "I have exactly [equivalent of 15 euro in local currency], guess I better buy Balatro over Regency Solitaire 2 " must be miniscule. Like yeah whatever, sucks to make less money than the other guy, but this is apples to oranges, and it just makes me not care for RS if the dev is gonna whine like that tbh.
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Mar 11, 2024 09:58
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Bad Seafood posted:I feel like putting out a solid demo goes a long way towards putting your game nobody's heard of on the map. It got me to buy Balatro, can confirm. Conversely, the demo not being available anymore is a bummer
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Mar 11, 2024 11:48
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Oh sweet, The Soul and I'm in Ante 9, maybe I'll unlock one of the three I'm missing. I was not missing Yorick  Need to get some good rng soon to push a little, missing a few jokers and a couple of vouchers. Gotta buy more cards. I had a spectral run where I was getting a lot of good going, Spare Trousers, very early Perkeo... made it to ante 11, but you seem to absolutely need retriggers on retriggers to progress, I think the most red seals I've seen in a run has been two. But I might have been able to do better with this run, focused more on doubling and copying than adding stuff.
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Mar 11, 2024 23:45
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Aggro posted:Some random questions: Should show at the same rarity as other uncommon ones, don't think there's something special. I got the Hearts one a few runs ago but it wasn't too great for me Vouchers from what I understand you need to have the base one to get the advanced one, but don't need to "unlock" the advanced one again. So you need Blank to Antimatter, and Hone to get Glow Up, but you don't need 5 foul/mult/poly jokers. As to buying cards, I guess your best bet is being lucky to get it early along with Overstock, but it's cumulative, not in a single run i think. So you can grab as much as you can, when you cab, and work to it
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goblin week posted:i had things to do yesterday evening
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Elman posted:I did Jokerless! Not a good run for getting the "Play all Hearts in your deck in one round" unlock
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Elman posted:Imagine randomly getting this seed: I need this person to have some/all of the following jokers: -Blackboard -Arrowhead -Wrathful Probably gets you through even "debuff Spades" since the mult should be good enough without card effects right? Or do they not trigger the jokers? Veryslightlymad posted:Edit, There's a joker that gains x0.1 mult per Planet card used (doesn't count Black Hole, since that's a Spectral), is that what you mean? Another creates a Planet card. EDIT: Well uh, pray for reroll voucher/joker, but man that seems fun to play, would love to be dropping flush fives all day. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I think it's just a classic case of the average gamer still thinking about the medium the same way they did as a kid, e.g. "It would be so cool if this game had an epic story and you could see the jokers battling against the boss ante when you played your hands and there was a choice and consequence system with dialogue and you could talk to your jokers to build a relationship with them to unlock new abilities and and and" type bullshit where they have no idea how games are made and their contributions mostly amount to daydream delusional poo poo. Story, seeing your allies fight against the boss, choices (ish), dialogue, joker, building relationships to unlock abilities, tarot... Atlus, hire the Balatro guy for Persona 5! Joke aside, that sounds indeed like a game that could be a lot of fun. Not the same kind of fun as Balatro, but it'd be a different game at that point. I get wanting it, but it's weird to want one game to be another. Like, I've got Melvor Idle running right now, I don't need Balatro have like, a mastery level for 5s or whatever. Some RNG mitigation would be nice though, or shuffling of stakes. Green stake as the first one would be a fine place to start, a limitation that's not just restriction, but lets you change things up a bit.
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Put Jimbo as a goldfish opponent, where you can set up your deck/hand/jokers/etc any way you'd like and just see number go up
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Mar 15, 2024 11:37
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Relyssa posted:Black is my favorite solely because eternal jokers are a really fun twist. The game would probably be a lot better if they were way lower on the stake ladder. Thirding this. It's the perfect first stake switch I feel, you get no pure drawback (same money, same blind amounts), but it's still affecting your entire run and choices. I genuinely want to unlock it so I can try it out. Like, example that comes to mind, you have Madness, you need some economy, you might want to refresh or hope for an Eternal, whereas without it you're going to be more cutthroat, since spending money on jokers means it's a bit of a waste (unless you need it at the next blind, of course)
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Aggro posted:
"Diamonds are debuffed"
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