🕹・game-discussion

[quartz ember]

any easy one

[hasty harness]

i mean u dont need to build around that cat

[quartz ember]

money to find lucky cat is the most important I assume

[hasty harness]

just make a build thats good enough and carry cat as dead weight

[balmy ridge]

hologram from judgement lol, not a bad start

[dire crater]

Omg

[dire crater]

Speaking of the devil

A mime

but idk what to sell

We got

Oooo im so lazy to take a screenshot

[swift tundra]

I never knew I wanted custom color palettes until I saw this.

[balmy ridge]

trance mod

trans palette

[dire crater]

Fortune teller
Scary very scary face evil exe
Banana
Duo
Photograph

[steady mica]

in the end straights won out despite early case of flush syndrome

[swift tundra]

Is it adjustable to whatever colors you want or is specific to trans colors?

[balmy ridge]

there are alot of palettes

[dire crater]

Trans

[balmy ridge]

i just like this one

i had the red one before

[bleak atlas]

is it too early to make a baron move?

[balmy ridge]

but everyone kept calling me fucked up and evil

[swift tundra]

That's dope I'll have to check that one out

[hasty harness]

you could probably manage it

[soft mango]

Got a nat negative canio but I couldn't do much with him

[pale wolf]

I'm going to use/edit your screenshot for a suggestion btw if thats fine

[dire crater]

You lied to me

[unreal island]

Absolute SNOOZER

Yeah sure whatever

[quartz ember]

no they didnt

[unreal island]

Ngl the more i play balatro the more apparent it is to see that brainstorm is so much more inferior to blueprint

[swift tundra]

best hand seems a little low, did the full spread come together late in the run?

[quartz ember]

hmmmmm.

[dire crater]

It didnt work omggggg

💔

[unreal island]

I kept winning in one/two hands with pair

[dire crater]

🥀

[quartz ember]

who would have thought

[hasty harness]

hmmm

[swift tundra]

ah yeah that make sense

[hasty harness]

i wonder why

[unreal island]

So my supernova gave me like 22 mult by the time i reached acorn

Also i had lije a level 33 pair

So that mightve contributed

[dire crater]

You lisr

[hasty harness]

yeah this is so true

[quartz ember]

surely it should have given 2 planet cards

[dire crater]

Lisr

Liat

[hasty harness]

tho brainstorm is so good

[timber radish]

how many runs/ingame hours did it take you guys to beat ante 8 for the first time ever?

[hasty harness]

u just need to buy another crystal ball!

[unreal island]

Its more delegated to econ purposes

[hasty harness]

that way u can have four consumable slots!

[quartz ember]

1 run

[unreal island]

Like tbh brainstorm is like a x1.75 if u have a +mult joker

[hasty harness]

yeah xmult and +mult with brainstorm can be rough

[timber radish]

damn

[quartz ember]

well I was cheating as I had seen alot of balatro content before

[pale wolf]

the game should have this

[unreal island]

1 run

[dire crater]

This run is so funt

Fun

[unreal island]

Idk the red circle would kinda distract me

[pale wolf]

lol

[hasty harness]

woulda been better if it was 67

[unreal island]

🤣

[pale wolf]

wouldve been better if the math was wrong yea

[hasty harness]

6 7 6 7 6 7

[pale wolf]

😡

[steady mica]

here is it being better with the math wrong

[hasty harness]

very

[quartz ember]

the math equation is completely right tho...

[summer vault]

How do I link my progress from PC to mobile?

[quartz ember]

you dont

[summer vault]

That's fantastic

[quartz ember]

or maybe there was some way with apple, i dont remember?

[summer vault]

tyty, I'll take a look

[pale wolf]

you cannot, sadly

[pale wolf]

android lets you retrieve the save data thru google takeout but you can only go one way, cant put it back on the mobile game

i would be v surprised if there wasnt some kind of cross saving next update

not that next update is imminent

[upper temple]

is burnt joker better than stuff like green joker? Isnt it basically a free base mult upgrade?

[hasty harness]

burnt is good for chips as well

but for + mult

green is obviously better

[upper temple]

Oh yeah cuz once per round

[cloud sinew]

it's poker hand specific which makes it worse in some situations, and it can only scale once per round

[nova junco]

omg hai :D

[upper temple]

Im just confused. Im looking up what other people did to get stuntman and people have all these weird strats. How would chips help? They are only good early on. I love this game I just feel like im missing whats good

[nova junco]

I think burnt is much better than green in every situation except if you just really need some extra score in the early antes

[hasty harness]

u need chips and mult

[upper temple]

You need both??

[hasty harness]

yeah

[obsidian patrol]

ok so

[nova junco]

It depends, if you don't get many hand levels chips are gonna be useful

[obsidian patrol]

imagine you have 500 mult

[obsidian patrol]

but 1 chip

Thats 500 score

Now get 2 chips

Thats 1000

[shell dagger]

for stuntman the easiest strategy uses plasma deck which doesn’t care about chips at all if the goal is 100m points

[upper temple]

I keep forgetting to mention im using plasma deck

[hasty harness]

flint kills burnt if ur relying on it

[shell dagger]

plasma only cares about chips in the earlygame

[hasty harness]

ik u can say the same

just saying

[upper temple]

yeah

[hasty harness]

also repeat hand types

hurts burnt a lot

[nova junco]

Yeah that's true

[shell dagger]

burnt is more comparable to spaceman than green

[hasty harness]

pivoting into x mult in plasma is usually the play but 🤷

[hasty harness]

yea

[scenic sigil]

are we joking how is spaceman and burnt comparable

[nova junco]

Spaceman has the upside that it's useful with bigger hands but it's also less reliable

[upper temple]

im seeing people say to do king glass retriggers and then im hearing that I should go high card holographic scale. And then I see chips and I dont struggle with getting past ante 8 I just have no idea how to get a deck solid enough to scale like that

[scenic sigil]

spaceman is ass and burnt is goated

[upper temple]

I love spaceman

[nova junco]

Or you could upgrade pair multiple times if you're lucky and you're spamming them

[hasty harness]

burnt is better but i wouldnt say spaceman is bad

[shell dagger]

spaceman has oops synergy but if you’re playing pairs it self corrects its scaling

[cloud sinew]

space is goated in most scenarios that burnt is goated in

[shell dagger]

burnt always scales one a round

[upper temple]

Only x mult? I would need flat mult too right?

[scenic sigil]

let me know next time spaceman hits. I do not expect to hear from you

[cloud sinew]

the worst ive had is 26 misses, but that's with me playing for ~900 hours

space is pretty reliable if youre running lobotomy

[nova junco]

Ive had the feeling that on average spaceman hits less than once per round

[shell dagger]

you get flat mult from planets, like once 4oak is level 10 or so you don’t need a joker slot for flat mult

[nova junco]

Ig that just depends on how many hands you play but still

You only get so many hands

[shell dagger]

well EV when 4 hands are played is 1 level

[hasty harness]

last time i had spaceman i had level 6 pairs by ante 2 small blind 💔

[proper turtle]

this might be first time I've lost to amber acorn, I HATE IT NOW

[hasty harness]

amber acorn isnt that bad tho

[nova junco]

Js saying if the first pack had space and burnt I'm taking burnt always

[scenic sigil]

how did you get streamer client

[hasty harness]

well obviously

[shell dagger]

what if the shop also has oops

[scenic sigil]

what was your setup

[upper temple]

what is 4oak. Also shud would this apply in non plasma deck runs too? I usually run high card because I have no idea how to do anything else and I have a hard time getting base mult

[hasty harness]

still taking burnt

[proper turtle]

my build was too dependent on getting the x9 from the straight and blueprint, lost that and the score dipped

[nova junco]

Then I can't afford oops

[scenic sigil]

burnt is already 💯

[hasty harness]

four of a kind

[upper temple]

oooh

[hasty harness]

yeah but after one hand u can tell what jokers are which

[nova junco]

But also no I think with oops space joker can be better than burnt

[proper turtle]

straights with shortcut, spaded dominant

[shell dagger]

4 of a kind, and yes you have even less of a reason to put a joker slot for +mult because 100m is way harder on other decks

[proper turtle]

I couldn't find a single straight 🤣 even with shortcut

[scenic sigil]

that's crazy

[hasty harness]

ur main problem might be only knowing how to play high card

[shell dagger]

4oak with 1 photo 1 chad and 4 glass cards probably scores 100m I think

[upper temple]

i meant like just winning stakes on other decks not the stuntman grind. Is joker mult good there or shud I ignore it like you said for plasma

[shell dagger]

oh right

it depends

[scenic sigil]

yea you should probably figure out how to play more than 1 card

you click or tap on them to select them btw

[hasty harness]

dont ignore + mult

[pale wolf]

chips are important throughout a run, its just that planet levels often make up the bulk of ur chipcount late in a run

[scenic sigil]

you can select multiple

[dire crater]

Wow, shop 1, mime and vagabond

[upper temple]

i just dont know whats good

[nova junco]

WHAT

[dire crater]

Yes

[hasty harness]

please be yellow deck

🤑

[shell dagger]

most of my runs don’t involve a +mult, like on my current save file I have 35 plasma wins and only about 4 of them relied on a scaled +mult joker

[dire crater]

Ghost

[shell dagger]

the rest didn’t pivot from chips or just used planets to pivot

[dire crater]

Whats pivot

[shell dagger]

change what you’re doing

[nova junco]

When you go from one strategy to another

[hasty harness]

on other decks tho u usually want + mult which is what they were asking

[dire crater]

So, playing the game normally

[shell dagger]

yeah fair I misread that

[upper temple]

what about non plasma

[nova junco]

Not every run pivots

[shell dagger]

yes you nearly always want a +mult joker then

[nova junco]

Changing strat in the same run I mean

[upper temple]

interesting

[pale wolf]

obelisk is a pivot joker

[hasty harness]

remember guys always pivot into idol

^^^

[shell dagger]

strength of +mult scalers on non plasma deck is that they’re useful for the whole game, that’s not the case on plasma deck

[proper turtle]

actually won a run today with obelisk, its insane once you get it going, 26-27 pairs and ante 5 I start building it up

it grows crazy fast

[nova junco]

Idol run from earlier

[pale wolf]

very big stack, very safe
nice

[dire crater]

Yo this run might be goated

Now i have 2 vagabonds in ante 1

[plucky shuttle]

we love ankh

[nova junco]

I have 2 cats due to unfortunate invisible

[upper temple]

one last question. Are there any decks I should just not play? Ill try running other hands so I can properly pivot I just want to know if some hands suck or arent good early antes

[languid pecan]

i never run obelisk enough because i never have a good chips joker

[nova junco]

But they were at x50

[dire crater]

No ankh

[plucky shuttle]

invis? showman?

[pale wolf]

I think the entire game is well designed except nebula deck

[hasty harness]

quite literally worst hit lol

[shell dagger]

i wouldn’t recommend skipping out one deck just because

[dire crater]

Nah just joking, it was a ankh in soectral pack

[hasty harness]

just play the game and try new strats

[languid pecan]

guys im gonna be honest i dont like green deck

[shell dagger]

some decks are less interesting than others but still worth playing

[nova junco]

Yeah lol but I didn't wanna sell what at the time was a x40

[upper temple]

Mkay

[pale wolf]

learn the whole game and develop your own opinions/views

see what makes sense

[proper turtle]

also I did it on checkered so could ALWAYS pivot to flushes and it would be relatively decent scoring hand but it didn't matter much with obelisk, I also had hologram so the score went up pretty nice

[pale wolf]

some people call painted the least fun deck and then some other people question if it might be the best deck for streaking

[nova junco]

I mean having only hearts and spades doesn't mean you can always pivot to flushes

[hasty harness]

i like ghost

[languid pecan]

painted deck gets a troubador without the downside

[plucky shuttle]

i dont think you can "pivot" to flushes on checkered deck tbh. i only play that deck to run flushes lol

[nova junco]

You need stuff to actually get your flushes to score

[proper turtle]

it does increase the probability of drawing out flushes more

[pale wolf]

obelisk is honestly pretty awesome on checkered, but usually for the opposite reason as how your game went, usually there's a big flush stack already because they're so easy to play

and then you get to play both pairs and high cards for scaling and barely need to worry at all

[nova junco]

Yes but if your flushes don't score enough you still can't pivot

[proper turtle]

I honestly just wanted to experiment since I got The Duo very early game

so thought

might as well play pairs

[pale wolf]

valid reason to play pairs although
You definitely can play flushes with the duo as well, they can contain pairs

[hasty harness]

why isnt there a solo x mult joker

[pale wolf]

lol

[hasty harness]

x 1 mult per highcard

😄

[proper turtle]

yeah fair, we do have pairs of the same suit

[nova junco]

There is it's X1 if your hand contains a high card

[hasty harness]

[nova junco]

You start with it every run it's just invisible

[hasty harness]

wowwww

i wanna sticker it

[echo breach]

my game broke

[proper turtle]

that is a much safer play with obelisk yeah

[pale wolf]

these technically would only work with high card because high card is strictly defined as the absence of all other poker hands but
thats not the most intuitive

[minor portal]

it may have been the cookie that overdid it

[pale wolf]

#⚙・modding-general

[nova junco]

Technically Jimbo is the contains high card joker

[pale wolf]

did you read the message you replied to

😭

[nova junco]

Yes

[minor portal]

balatro players can't read I thought this was an established fact

[nova junco]

Since when are we having thoughtful and smart conversations in here lmao

[pale wolf]

High card excludes all other poker hands, Jimbo works with all poker hands so he cant be a contains high card

sadgely

I think a contains high card Joker would actually be cool

high card container?

[minor portal]

Lonely Joker

[pale wolf]

idk how type this

[pale wolf]

Loneliest Joker

[crystal field]

x1 if hand contains high card

[gloomy swallow]

Should i rate the jokers i gold staked with based on how good they actually were

[pale wolf]

good reference

[hasty harness]

no gold sticker on cavendih is diabolical

[gloomy swallow]

I have orange sticker on it tho

[nova junco]

Technically it doesn't say high card IS the absence of all other hands, it just says that high card is scored when no other hands are present

[gloomy swallow]

i have it on fucking jimbo tho so it means nothing

[pale wolf]

yeah so it can't have any of the above hands

[unborn cliff]

BRO

MY SAVE IS FUCKED

[scenic sigil]

that sounds like the same thing

[unborn cliff]

???????

[gloomy swallow]

bro got fucked

[unborn cliff]

this is what i get for getting balatro on the school chromebook i guess

[nova junco]

No it just means that any hand will have priority

Like 3oak has priority on pair

[hasty harness]

evil low res egg strikes again

[gloomy swallow]

If i included orange stickers im pretty sure id have more than half on the top

[balmy ridge]

OMG

[crystal field]

getting the gold stickers will be breezy

[pale wolf]

steam?

[balmy ridge]

I FOUND LUCKY CART THIS MIGHT BE IT

[pale wolf]

I'm pretty sure it's fixable

[unborn cliff]

yeah

[gloomy swallow]

r u sure

[unborn cliff]

please goat

save me

[scenic sigil]

I got gold sticker on gros michel yesterday by buying it shop 1 and keeping it until the end

[spring dragon]

Should I take invis?

[crystal field]

not to mention this is one of the funnest scaling xmult options anyway

[pale wolf]

@fading dome might know

[crystal field]

kinda a rare last joker sticker

go crazy

[unborn cliff]

steam says cloud is up to date

[nova junco]

What is invis gonna copy

[gloomy swallow]

Idk bro i think that loadout is fine as is

[scenic sigil]

no

[pale wolf]

yeah it would be fixed through manual editing unless there's a program already made for this situation

[spring dragon]

Alr say less

[pale wolf]

but I'm not familiar with that because I'm Android only

[fading dome]

You lost your collection progress?

[gloomy swallow]

wait u dont have a single sticker on the fucking cat?

da fuq?

not even using it for baseball card?!?!

[crystal field]

I do, its carps last sticker before c++

[gloomy swallow]

yeah i meant to reply to that lmfao

mb

[lost vault]

myah

[unborn cliff]

i have steam on 2 separate devices (pc and school chromebook (yes)) and when i launched the game on my chromebook (i have a special save file to prevent this happening) my collection was gone on all 3 of my saves

i had cryptid and other mods installed on my pc if that means anything

smh maybe i should do my schoolwork

[crystal field]

atleast it was just collection and not the deck wins or stickers

[gloomy swallow]

Thats your last joker sticker???? da fuq??

[shell dagger]

yeah

[gloomy swallow]

ong?

[unborn cliff]

truth nuke

[unborn cliff]

im passing everything bro 😂✌️

[pale wolf]

yeah the collection would mostly be organically replenished with normal play

besides the 2nd tier vouchers

[shell dagger]

pass means nothing get As

[fading dome]

Eh. There's loads of ways to break your save in balatro, but mods is def a way

[crystal field]

unless it requires reunlocking some jokers

[pale wolf]

for some reason I got the impression that's not possible but perhaps

[crystal field]

would not wanna go thru the trouble of the seeing double or merry andy unlock requirements

[fading dome]

Do you need any help getting your progress back or you good with your backups?

[unborn cliff]

i just need a way to get my collection back

[brave fox]

Balatro while at work, life's good

[unborn cliff]

i'd rather not have to rediscover EVERYTHING

[gloomy swallow]

it should be something like devious joker on god

[pale wolf]

I would think maybe if you turn your internet on your home PC off before opening balatro you might be able to retrieve the file that was on it before you went to school

[fading dome]

You were at 100% and you're playing on steam right?

[unborn cliff]

yes

[crystal field]

speedrun white stake a couple times u dont even need to win just grab anything u can

[spring dragon]

Should I Idol?

[unborn cliff]

i lost every deck as well i'd have to play like im on a brand new save

[spring dragon]

You can just unlock all right?

[crystal field]

ohh thats nasty work

[unborn cliff]

this is my main save

[heavy heron]

luchador is just staying for the ride

[unborn cliff]

where i get achievements

[heavy heron]

god i love aces

[spring dragon]

R.I.P.

[unborn cliff]

i looooove steam cloud

[heavy heron]

earlier today another ace run it’s so fun

[pale wolf]

all gold stake stickers with none unlocked is a power move

[unborn cliff]

truth nuke

[heavy heron]

that’s why i got straight As in classes

[fading dome]

You can replace your meta.jkr file with this 100% collection file #1308659944933036083 message and you should get everything back

[unborn cliff]

drspectred

[pale wolf]

click the thing, just because it says unknown doesn't mean it's unclickable 🙂

[crystal field]

mmm smarty pants

[heavy heron]

i graduated from balatro university

[unborn cliff]

where in my files do i find meta.jkr

is it in appdata

[hasty harness]

roaming app data i think

[fading dome]

Yes. See https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Balatro#Save_game_data_location, and make to sure to select the right profile folder (1, 2, or 3)

[unborn cliff]

found it

[gloomy swallow]

Ace importance should be improved upon

there should be more ace jokers

on god

[pale wolf]

whoa I've never seen these menus
theyre different on android

[unborn cliff]

worked

@fading dome thank you very much

it makes sense that that works but WOW that is so easy

[pale wolf]

ty lars

[fading dome]

👍

[unborn cliff]

my goat ❤️‍🩹

[fading dome]

I suggest you make a backup of those savefiles in roaming btw

[unborn cliff]

also i had a run going on plasma so it was super funny to see continue run on a locked deck

[pale wolf]

superposition
scholar
fibonacci
odd todd
no boss blind
grim

no other rank has got it like that tbh

[heavy heron]

i agree

100%

wow i forgot fibonacci exists

i be sleeping on the fibs

[unborn cliff]

me when i sleep on a good joker

[unreal iron]

fibo might just be my favourite joker

[heavy heron]

oh it is good

[unreal iron]

straight up

[heavy heron]

for sure

but i do be sleeping on it

[unreal iron]

no other joker compares

[unborn cliff]

whats everyone's favorite looking negative

[unreal iron]

campfire

[heavy heron]

madness

[unborn cliff]

ball pick

[unreal iron]

is EXTREMELY GOOD

[unborn cliff]

ball knowledge

[spring dragon]

Phenomemal run

[fading dome]

dagger is pretty fire

[minor portal]

sock and buskin

[unborn cliff]

blueprint is a sexy negative

[unreal iron]

honestly anything with background art is heat as a negative

[spring dragon]

Real

[unborn cliff]

beautiful shade of blue

[pale wolf]

I think whiteboard is pretty awesome

[unborn cliff]

flash card and supernova are elite

[unborn cliff]

alright now what about the UGLIEST negative

[pale wolf]

and I think the black glow on obelisk looks sick as fuck

[spring dragon]

Jimbo

[unborn cliff]

brainstorm has a lot of gross colors as a negative

[spring dragon]

True

[unborn cliff]

all the red lines turn into like an ugly shade of unhealthy piss yellow

[pale wolf]

I think brainstorm looks disgusting negative

[unborn cliff]

its so ugly

[gloomy swallow]

face cards
the king to be exact

[spring dragon]

Real

[pale wolf]

this was an independent thought before the chat loaded

[unborn cliff]

also it turns shit brown

[pale wolf]

converging opinions means that brainstorm negative is the worst

[unborn cliff]

negative bloodstone is a top contender

which is funny because it sucks as well

[gloomy swallow]

aces don't even have fucking retriggers based on them

[spring dragon]

It's not that bad

[latent egret]

HELL NO

[spring dragon]

I think that Jimbo is up there

[unborn cliff]

its certainly ugly

[latent egret]

nvm

[pale wolf]

thats one small downside

[lost vault]

pukestone

[latent egret]

reading comprehension diif

[hasty harness]

blueprint negative

is ugly

like super ugly

imo

[lost vault]

i like negative brainstorm

[unborn cliff]

negative chicot is kind of a n ugly shade of green

[lost vault]

f tier rage bait thh

[unborn cliff]

bro

[hasty harness]

no im so serious

i hate negative blueprint

looks

[unborn cliff]

its such a beautiful shade of blue

what are we doing

[hasty harness]

normal blueprint looks so much better

[latent egret]

watermelon

[heavy heron]

i have not seen a negative chicot

[unborn cliff]

this boy is so pretty i love him

[hasty harness]

so ugly

[heavy heron]

who is that

[lost vault]

the background turns vomit green

[heavy heron]

i literally can’t tell

[unborn cliff]

@ kill

[lost vault]

boy?

[unborn cliff]

yeah

[winter pollen]

I just got a straight flush, (6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of clubs) and my dumbass accidentally hit discard instead of play 🥲

[heavy heron]

lowkey though…….

[hasty harness]

negative brainstorm is so much better

[unborn cliff]

because blueprint is a woman

[lost vault]

rude

[unborn cliff]

so negative is a male

[heavy heron]

i love me some green

[unborn cliff]

duh

opposite

[lost vault]

negative dont change you gender

[tranquil oyster]

free brainstorm unlock

[unborn cliff]

the shade of blue on tribas well

oughhh

[gloomy swallow]

negative... uh...
-# fuck I can't think of anything...
you're negative...

[hasty harness]

has to be a royal

[winter pollen]

Does discarding a straight flush unlock brainstorm? I didn’t know that.

[pale wolf]

some of my least favorite negatives

[pale wolf]

only a royal flush

[unreal iron]

im gonna be real most warm colors look so bad as negatives

[lost vault]

lusty is a stinker

[unreal iron]

gotta love piss yellow

[unborn cliff]

so pretty

[gloomy swallow]

DAWG STENCIL JOKER IS AURA

[heavy heron]

bro just has those saved somewhere

[pale wolf]

It's just more boring

[winter pollen]

Ah. I was like “Bruuuuuuuh”

[tranquil oyster]

in hindsight we're pretty lucky that cavendish doesn't depict jimbo eating the banana

[unborn cliff]

elite pick right here

[gloomy swallow]

NO TF IT AINT

[unreal iron]

that looks so yummy

[lost vault]

i like negative shortcat

[hasty harness]

thats so good

[lost vault]

:3

[unreal iron]

when the blue jokers look good as negatives

[lost vault]

ogh and neg dagger

[pale wolf]

also I think negative vagabond is pretty gross

[gloomy swallow]

Cardomancer?

[unreal iron]

and the red ones look like piss

[unborn cliff]

my favorite color is blue

[gloomy swallow]

ugh jucky

[unborn cliff]

yeah for sure

[hasty harness]

negative hit the road

^

[fading dome]

what is this negative erosion hate wtf

[lost vault]

the yellow fit is not it

[dawn forge]

bro i beat ervery deck on gold stake then played a normal run again and it still didnt give me c+ achievement??

[pale wolf]

it looks like he got beat to death and dessicated

[unreal iron]

whose isnt tbf its a really good color

[heavy heron]

oh a negative cartomancer sounds so awesome

[unborn cliff]

negative vampire

[pale wolf]

Normal erosion is prettier

[unborn cliff]

bros doing blackface

[lost vault]

my fave is pink

[whole patio]

just won a run without using a single shop
got a holo Bull and a Green Joker off of Judgments from an Arcana skip that carried all the way to the end, since I never spent any money

[unborn cliff]

robert downey jr over here

[pale wolf]

That's Midas mask

blatant

[unborn cliff]

whatever man

[heavy heron]

that’s awesome

[unreal iron]

this shit would NOT slide on gold stake cro 💔

[unreal iron]

youre copying wrong!!1!1!1

[lost vault]

good thing its not gold stake

[unborn cliff]

gold seal 🤑

[fading dome]

negative erosion is prettier don't @ me

[unreal iron]

seal of true

you have a point

[graceful arrow]

Hello community

[balmy ridge]

i just found out the hook counters grimbo

[whole patio]

wouldn't torture myself with a challenge like that on gold, you'd basically just be re-rolling for hours until you hit a Triboulet

[pale wolf]

if the background of it was blue instead of yellow then I could maybe pretend it's a cherry blossom tree but because it's piss yellow....

[balmy ridge]

each hand is -2 mult

1

[unreal iron]

whats the last joker

[jagged cliff]

Painted deck 💔

[lost vault]

who agrees with negative dagger being fire though

[heavy heron]

so who here knows the trick of the hook + trading card allowing trading card to go off like 4 times

if your hand size is 6

[balmy ridge]

what

[unreal iron]

149/150

your name

[balmy ridge]

oh

lucky cat!!!!!!!!!!!!

and

i have lucky cat!!!!!!!!!!

[dawn forge]

do u not see the gold seal

[unreal iron]

lucky cat last is crazy shit

[crystal field]

worst feeling ever

[unreal iron]

no

i havent

[crystal field]

i hate the hook

[woven spire]

damn gl

[lost vault]

it affects all discard based jokers which is pretty neat

[pale wolf]

looks like you've won the run already though

ggs

[dawn forge]

anyway

where is my completionist+ achievement

[balmy ridge]

thank you slime

[pale wolf]

and this truly does mean every
except delayed gratification

[dawn forge]

i beat every fucking deck on gold and it didnt give it to me

and beat another run

still no achievement

[woven spire]

slime?

[pale wolf]

victory lap bug, complete another run any stake

[unborn cliff]

do it again

[balmy ridge]

hopefully, trying to lock in so i dont fuck it up lol

[pale wolf]

oh

[white zodiac]

damn bro

[unreal iron]

i mean x15 is nothing to scoff at

[dawn forge]

will mods mute me if i ping thunk

[unreal iron]

CAVENDISH BREAK

CAVENDISH BREAK

MANIFESTING

[lost vault]

well yeah delgrat is based on used discards in the round

[dawn forge]

blood sweat and tears for no achievement

[hasty harness]

i mean it makes sense since u have all ur discard still at the end of round right

[pale wolf]

I just realized how funny it is that you are hunting for your last sticker on painted deck
of all decks

[frank crescent]

If you play a single six with Sixth Sense on The Psychic will it still give you a Spectral card or no

[unreal iron]

i honestly like painted deck if i have less stickers

[white zodiac]

that would be a weird deck only c++

[pale wolf]

it will not I believe

[lost vault]

no

[frank crescent]

OK ty

[pale wolf]

genuinely I kind of want to do that

[long oxide]

What do I get rid of for invis

[pale wolf]

oh boy how do I have to unlock painted without winning a deck

[balmy ridge]

it was for specifically lucky cat

[hasty harness]

probably onyx

[balmy ridge]

i figured with a bigger hand i'm seeing more of my cards

thus more lucky cards

[dawn forge]

@pale wolf maybe bc im playing steam modded for balatro?

[violet bear]

The porcelain throne got eroded

[unreal iron]

i need to grind red and painted deck more

[pale wolf]

not okay

[dawn forge]

maybe thats why it didnt give the achievement?

[white zodiac]

I don't think that's possible without the random bug on mobile where it wipes out your progress

[unreal iron]

i WANT to force straights

[balmy ridge]

i did try abandoned cus its a smaller deck but i played too much abandoned its boring

[pale wolf]

That's a possibility, I suppose you could just cheat it to complete the achievement since you actually did the conditions

[dawn forge]

do i have to game over a run for it to give the achievement

[white zodiac]

the bug wipes out your progress but not the decks that are under an unlock requirement where winning is needed

[pale wolf]

I think I'm just going to convert my black++ profile to this

because ive neglected it

[white zodiac]

what the heck

[unreal iron]

quite the youtube title

[white zodiac]

[unreal iron]

it makes sense lowkey

[pale wolf]

i think im not good enough to enjoy purely playing bleck

[violet bear]

Have you considered finding shortcut (the goat) more often

[white zodiac]

that's fair

[unreal iron]

me when i have to find a specific uncommon every single run i do

no

[buoyant ridge]

ez win

[unreal iron]

no i havent

[violet bear]

Yeah its that easy

[pale wolf]

and i kinda think its funny to do the opposite of black deck for c++

[unreal iron]

and i dont plan to because honestly shortcut removes the entire challenge of playing straights entirely

[pale wolf]

2 black wins and then all painted

[hasty harness]

anti synergy the sun is still out with a bunch of vampires still out 0/10

[unreal iron]

it doesnt feel as rewarding

[white zodiac]

that's pretty funny yeah

[unborn cliff]

curious

[violet bear]

Honestly kinda yeah

[white zodiac]

from hard to inconvenient

[unreal iron]

not that i hate shortcut i absolutely love an ante 1 shortcut

[violet bear]

It is incredibly powerful in what it does

[pale wolf]

debug mode

[unreal iron]

but it removes the challenge of playing straights and deckfixing for them

[violet bear]

Yeah it makes straight almost as spammable as pair

With saturn scaling

[unreal iron]

i literally beat plasma deck by forcing straights with an ante 2? shortcut

[violet bear]

Nice

[unreal iron]

literally beat everything just off saturn scaling

[neat haven]

would it benefit me more to sell the zany

[pale wolf]

I was going to say, that doesn't look like you lost

[hasty harness]

same

[pale wolf]

it depends on what your base mult is

[unreal iron]

yummy

[woven spire]

it depends on your hand level

[pale wolf]

you keep zany for now methinks

unless you cant play 3oaks

[unborn cliff]

god i love white stake

[neat haven]

do i take it

[pale wolf]

over zany yea

[hasty harness]

yeah sell zany

[neat haven]

thanks dad

[pale wolf]

I think that plus planet levels just wins?

[balmy ridge]

C++ I DID IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neat haven]

now just play pairs?

[pale wolf]

gz

[balmy ridge]

wait wait

wait wheres my steam achievement

[hasty harness]

congrats

[hasty harness]

gotta beat one more run

for it to count

[balmy ridge]

??

just like any run

[pale wolf]

[balmy ridge]

does white stake work

[hasty harness]

yup

yeah

[balmy ridge]

ok cool

[white zodiac]

I did, the recording was for something else

[balmy ridge]

ty

[pale wolf]

evil purple boss

[white zodiac]

the unsightly streak ender

[pale wolf]

is it better or worse losing your streak at the final boss

[balmy ridge]

im going to celebrate by drinking vodka

[pale wolf]

I think it feels worse to just not play well and die mid run

[white zodiac]

worse in that it blows my entire algorithm

cause after it's just me pity playing for a win with new stickers

[frank crescent]

What the hell game

It pulled only TWO of my kings

[pale wolf]

you have 2

[frank crescent]

Oh thank the heavens above

[white zodiac]

or this

[pale wolf]

peers down and to the right

figures 😎

[frank crescent]

I could have gone for maybe 4 more blinds while trying to find a good xmult source but ig the game just didn't want me to

Alright

[neat haven]

finding out that with the play 4 for flush and straight card triggers a straight flush when you play a straight and a flush made me smile

[white zodiac]

the simple and effective investment trap

[pale wolf]

I really wish the game would change its in-game definition for straight flush to be accurate

just say it's any hand that contains both the straight and a flush and then the other definitions of the hands will finish the meaning

[tiny harbor]

what

what's wrong with actual one

[pale wolf]

The way the game currently describes straight flush, it implies that the consecutive cards must also be the matching suits
which is revealed to be not true with four fingers

[tiny harbor]

who makes straight flushes anyway

it's just good for ante 1-2

[pale wolf]

Seance..ers

[tiny harbor]

ah yea

[pale wolf]

who is making straight flush in ante 1??

😭

[tiny harbor]

luck

[pale wolf]

maybe stumble into it on checkered

but that's not really relevant

[tiny harbor]

i'm a big sixth sense user

sorry for that statement

[hasty harness]

rare instance of seance being helpful

[unborn cliff]

i guess man

[hasty harness]

nat negative seance got me deja vu + 2 ectos

this run

[pale wolf]

people with four fingers

[vale mist]

but four fingers is already contradicting the definitions of flush and straight to begin with

[tiny harbor]

3 fingers
allows straight and flush to use 3 cards
-2 hand size

[pale wolf]

All its changing is the number five to the number four in the definitions, which is pretty self-explanatory from the joker's description

The fact that the flush and the straight don't have to be the same cards is not self-explanatory

what I mean is that the game describes straight flush in a different way from the way the game determines what a straight flush is, which is only revealed through four fingers and is otherwise irrelevant

[woven spire]

you score less points and have less chance and space for steel cards

wouldnt be good ngl

[plucky shuttle]

omw to C+ need to finish nebula and black deck

[white zodiac]

as if ppl use steel in flush runs in the first place 😐

[dry remnant]

damnnn, i got my xmult too early

[vale mist]

mmm ig I'm just thinking of how it may be unintuitive to people reading the definition containing definitions but it's not that hard

[dry remnant]

do i just skip it

[vale mist]

balatro already expects people to understand how matador works anyway

[hasty harness]

id still take it

[balmy ridge]

am i the only one who thinks rarran sucks at balatro

[pale wolf]

it could also just basically repeat the definitions for both straight and flush

[vale mist]

at the benefit of making straight flushes extremely easy to draw

[tiny harbor]

blueprint can show "compatible" and matador can't
they need to fix

[pale wolf]

luchador should specify that it has to be sold in the blind

[tiny harbor]

lmao

[hasty harness]

first time i had a luchador wasnt my proudest moment

[pale wolf]

and it's completely understandable because it is not specified

[white zodiac]

would be nice for matador to match the active/inactive note upon antes

[pale wolf]

It's not like you have to sell diet cola on the blind select screen to get the tag

[valid abyss]

i hate seance

okay bye

[crisp estuary]

Rarely have a faced such a tough decision on a first shop

[vale mist]

isn't that the problem to begin with tho

[valid abyss]

card sharp i think

[balmy ridge]

rarran says chicot like "chick hot" 😭

[shell dagger]

Pants

[buoyant ridge]

even with stuntman i cant beat plasma gold what am i doing wrong

[shell dagger]

You’re trying to do both chips and mult at the same time

[valid abyss]

Merriam Webster says its pronounced "chickit"

[shell dagger]

That makes plasma twice as hard with little benefit

[buoyant ridge]

i need to pivot to mult later but the game didnt gave me what i need

[balmy ridge]

idk who that is

[vale mist]

"contains a straight and a flush" while technically correct can also be like that annoying definition thing where the definition for a term contains the term itself like duh

[buoyant ridge]

i was haoping for mime , baron and blueprint

[balmy ridge]

aren't we all

[shell dagger]

well ofc you won’t win most games if that’s what you’re going for

[buoyant ridge]

since thats the only viable strategy to make mult builds possible on plasma

[shell dagger]

No it isn’t

[valid abyss]

Ohkay

[balmy ridge]

another ragebaiter perchance

[buoyant ridge]

im playing gold stakes on lucky

[tranquil steppe]

I think I made the score

[white zodiac]

erm

[shell dagger]

lucky cat JJ mult plasm gold stake

[pale wolf]

no it tries save space by combining them

[buoyant ridge]

i even watched Balatrouniversity and it didnt help me

[shell dagger]

Idk what this is but it isn’t baron mime

[valid abyss]

about 2000x the score

[buoyant ridge]

because of the huge rng

[eager lynx]

just a spectral run. what should i do here?

[pale wolf]

It's a potential vagabond of vampire

[balmy ridge]

i should save more screenshots i usually just copy paste them with snipping tool

[shell dagger]

then you should know that he rarely mult pivots on plasma gold stake and instead opts for 2 pair chips spam

[eager lynx]

same actually i just did that here

[pale wolf]

I can't not save a screenshot if I want to send it here on my phone

[eager lynx]

i do need some advice though. should i take the photo for maybe the egg or michel?

[pale wolf]

but I do delete them in bulk

[crystal field]

champire

ive been taking it more often recently because for some reason my runs hate giving me other scaling xmult

[balmy ridge]

i'd probably skip photo

[pale wolf]

vampire is awesome

[balmy ridge]

maybe drivers license over smiley depending how close it is to being online

[crystal field]

agreed

and it irks me when ppl suggest its only good w this or that joker

lol

[balmy ridge]

i do like the vamped pire

[pale wolf]

if you think about it vampire and driver's license are supposed to be a paired set

[crystal field]

driving vladdy

[white zodiac]

vamp is technically more versatile than it's two other scaling x mult pack brothers

[woven spire]

how

[valid abyss]

introducing Unsynergy

[eager lynx]

halfway

[crystal field]

constellation hologram?

[pale wolf]

One is super old and lives forever, one is just beginning their life as an adult

they both benefit from enhancements, but vampire wants To steal them while driver's license wants to keep them

[balmy ridge]

yeah i'd maybe take that over smiley since cartomancer should let you activate drivers license pretty soon

[crystal field]

wouldnt it be less versatile as a “pack” joker since not all tarots synergize with vampire

[woven spire]

ohhh

[pale wolf]

I'm mostly joking though I don't think they are supposed to be associated with each other

[tranquil oyster]

this is what one year of no updates does to a man

[woven spire]

it kinda makes sense tho

[crystal field]

i still think its balanced as tarots tend to be more valuable than planets or playing cards (as random in booster packs)

[white zodiac]

jokers, tarot gen, shop weight by default

[woven spire]

lmao

[white zodiac]

spectrals, standard, etc

[tacit quail]

guys just thinkink for comparison

how many hours did yous take for c+

[safe moat]

I got C+

[white zodiac]

[balmy ridge]

this was c++ idk how long for c+

[crystal field]

c+ was hard i hate some of the decks tbh

[tacit quail]

oh damn

im on 320 rn

c+d earlier today

[crystal field]

c+d

💿

[tacit quail]

i guess wasnt trying for first 100 but

[vale mist]

and not understanding how four fingers impacts how a straight flush works before actually encountering it, while problematic, doesn't seem problematic enough to warrant the fixed definition

[balmy ridge]

also new doc upload :DDDD steamhappy steamhappy

[pale wolf]

I had like 98 total hours when I got C+

[vale mist]

and the image reference would also be considered misleading too

[pale wolf]

146 hours when I got C++

[tacit quail]

wtf is your grind

how

[crystal field]

doc is so silly

[dry remnant]

this was a fun ante 8 run

[vale mist]

as in this

[safe moat]

One of the wild runs I had for Anaglyph

[crystal field]

id need to check steam when om home for my hours

[vale wharf]

Cerulean bell 🖕

[crystal field]

but im only abt 2/3 of the way thru c++

[pale wolf]

I have timestamped posts proving mine stuff

[safe moat]

This was with coaching ofc

[balmy ridge]

first 20 seconds he says "i'm gonna play ghost deck because the card back looks like 2 muppets holding hands with their mouths" 😭 😭

[white zodiac]

u got a coach

[safe moat]

For a the most part it was a casual thing

Learned a lot

[crystal field]

i like docs trans texture theme for the spectral cards and ghost deck

[pale wolf]

Blue deck was my last, 97h and some change

[crystal field]

pink > yello

[unborn cliff]

what does pink deck do

[crystal field]

instantly win

[pale wolf]

there are no mentions of the word pink in the game and that messes with me

Pink is the cutest color

[crystal field]

i was thinking since they have the high contrast there could be other color themes like pastel

and then we can have ponk hearts :D

[valid abyss]

hell yeah

[safe moat]

Are the stakes real chip colors?

[crystal field]

yez

[pale wolf]

I don't think chip colors are standardized in poker

[valid abyss]

i think they are though

[crystal field]

the high rollers use solid gold chips in vegas

[valid abyss]

each color means a different amount

[balmy ridge]

lmao

[pale wolf]

so what is purple

[valid abyss]

umm

something probably

search it up

[safe moat]

500

[balmy ridge]

plasmoid

[pale wolf]

they can't be standardized to certain amounts because different stakes of poker games have different amounts

[crystal field]

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65b3c2f30cb08ff4450d15c5/66eb17810ad3eea08e14356b_665b6ce7489652784b07d5fe_tableau_jetons_en.webp

[valid abyss]

AS

you can see

[plucky shuttle]

according to poker .org

[valid abyss]

im always right

[safe moat]

Orange?

[pale wolf]

I mean the state of this list should tell you that it is clearly not standardized

[crystal field]

yellow is prob placeholder for orange and gold

and black and blue stake are reversed from original

[white zodiac]

blue below black is going to annoy me now

[pale wolf]

there's like three different options for every amount

[valid abyss]

yeah but the first five are the same throughout all the lists

[crystal field]

when im playing irl poker and i play my pair instead of royal flush :C

[pale wolf]

they're literally not

In the two images that were posted they are not the same in the first five

[valid abyss]

oh shit i cant see

well um

the first three are the same!!!

[plucky shuttle]

when i lay down my banana, red soccer card, and put on my stuntman helmet for increased scoring

[gilded field]

girlfriend luck goes crazy

[gloomy swallow]

wait huh

[gilded field]

i got this run while on call with my girlfriend

[crystal field]

yep!

and my oops all 6 dice

and if the casino catches u

[gloomy swallow]

you gotta buy her a ring for that now

[crystal field]

u can just say heh.. oops!!

[gilded field]

ante 6 btw

[gloomy swallow]

jesus

gg

[pale wolf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1379214645742796911/1386293152272486561/screen-20250622-062410.mp4?ex=691c4b9b&is=691afa1b&hm=df5f88de446d64d328b584cc0be696b80e7eee3392f966eec1c0cf694600a197&
random gold run

[white zodiac]

erm what the stinky

[crystal field]

blood stonks

[gloomy swallow]

it's all fucking rental

ONLY ONE VOUCHER?!(

[crystal field]

if the other vouchers arent helpful

which is incredibly painful

but def possible

[pale wolf]

what voucher did I have

[gloomy swallow]

discard

[white zodiac]

more like he prob couldn't afford anything lmao

[pale wolf]

pretty good one

[white zodiac]

yar

[floral mural]

run got carried by sattelite. somehow

[pale wolf]

looking at the video now I probably should have just bought paintbrush instead of the pack

[floral mural]

or bbc

[pale wolf]

That was early on in my stickering though

[crystal field]

basebaw

[pale wolf]

I was worse at the game

[crystal field]

😳

[white zodiac]

ignoring paint brush on checkered moment

yeah

[pale wolf]

I mean I assume my deck was pretty impossible to miss on a heart flush

[languid pecan]

what was the most fun one? black deck i can only assume

ill just assume black deck

[pale wolf]

for c+? Black was my first one so I actually knew the least about the game

[languid pecan]

oh golly

[pale wolf]

I would say ghost

[languid pecan]

that sounds horrific

[crystal field]

YE

[languid pecan]

ghost was my first gold stake

[crystal field]

ghost deck best seck

[languid pecan]

black deck was my second

[crystal field]

❤️

[languid pecan]

i cant say i actually did black deck the right way

[pale wolf]

Black was my first and last gold sticker

[white zodiac]

plassma was my first

[languid pecan]

lots of restarting

[crystal field]

black deck was my last deck to gold stake 😭

[languid pecan]

dont worry though ive made it up by playing black deck quite a few times on gold stake after c++

[shrewd solar]

i cannot beat black deck gold stake. its killing me

[pale wolf]

I'm coming up on having twice the number of gold wins as I did when I finished c++

it took me 45 gold wins to c++ and now I have 84

[shrewd solar]

how do you beat gold stake black deck

[languid pecan]

econ jokers im at 71 wins rn in gold stake

[pale wolf]

be good

[languid pecan]

idk how many i had at c++

[crystal field]

for me it was just patience

[tranquil oyster]

smash ur head against the wall several times

[pale wolf]

Two pair is pretty good because of the scoring advantages over pair, just save your money

[willow frost]

double hologram

[soft mango]

Isn't black deck just +1joker?

[pale wolf]

-1 hand

[crystal field]

-1 hand

hand

[tranquil cargo]

get early scoring (+mult ideally), find econ at some point, hold $25 for max interest if you can, etc

[languid pecan]

dont be scared to waste a joker slot on something to help survive early game

even just jimbo (joker) is reasonable

[soft mango]

In my head that's not too bad since I rarely get down to last hand but it probably would be hard

[fading cobalt]

Spaceman procced 3 times in a row

4 TIMES IN A ROW

HOLY

[willow frost]

you should try it then

[pale wolf]

when you're playing high stakes you often need all your hands to win especially early on

[tranquil oyster]

-1 hand also means -1 gold each turn
-1 opportunity to scale green joker and spare trousers

[fading cobalt]

Bro its perishable and is putting in the WORK

[shrewd solar]

is flushes a bad idea for black deck gold?

[pale wolf]

Yes

[crystal field]

just get grabber lawl

[white zodiac]

well first off you can't greed certain early game pickups

[tranquil cargo]

flushes are bad in general

[willow frost]

why specifically those two lol

[floral mural]

flushes beyond ante 1 are kind of bad in general unless youre in checkered

[pale wolf]

I'm starting to enjoy flushes on painted as well

[fading cobalt]

Also supernova and bus

[tranquil oyster]

randomly picked two that scale with hands played. but yeah, you could also include square joker and supernova here.

[fading cobalt]

Could just say any joker that scales with hands lol

[floral mural]

also any removed hand means just less leniency if you miss a discard

[buoyant ridge]

nah, im loosing again on plasma

[floral mural]

black deck has less early cash and less opportunities to score

pairs specifically

i dont enjoy it

i should practice it tho

or not

[fading cobalt]

You're playing pairs on black deck and wonder why you die lol

[pale wolf]

-1 hand is not just -1 hand
its -5 cards of digging power
-33% your remaining hand money
-25% your scoring potential

[white zodiac]

most 5 card hands are extremely humbled on black gs. scoring threshold to card draw frequency proportions do not go well with a deck that essentially leaves you broke for the majority of your runs for the purpose of fixing your deck to any form of 5 card hands

[tranquil oyster]

two chips jokers and two mult jokers?

[floral mural]

i gave up on going for c+ since my non full unlock save is pc and i have no motivation to play balatro on pc now

only on android

i wanna play other things thats all

[buoyant ridge]

yeah i was trying to pivot to mult, but spare trousers wasnt really helpful

[floral mural]

if i have access to a pc

[pale wolf]

You don't have C+?

[buoyant ridge]

because i got it on ante 4

[pale wolf]

honestly surprised

[floral mural]

i have 2 days a week on the save which actually matters to me to go for achievements on

im kind of a case of knows a lot of good strats forgets to actually apply them

[pale wolf]

Have you like, done the conditions for it? between multiple saves maybe

[buoyant ridge]

idk why is everone playing plasma on chips, its eXtremely difficult

but switching from chips to mult is even harder mid game

[lyric shore]

everyone doesnt use chips to win

[pale wolf]

I don't know why you keep playing plasma when you clearly hate it

[raw loom]

Is gold stake black deck supposed to be this level of struggle for everybody

[floral mural]

nope and its mostly since nebula deck and anaglyph are so lame to me and black is ridiculously hard. when im back on pc ill check whats done there but yeah

[pale wolf]

it is the hardest

[buoyant ridge]

i need like 10 joker slots to win on gold stake honestly lol

[floral mural]

i also still have trouble if early game is a struggle

[tranquil oyster]

anaglyph deck is one of the most fun decks wdym
does nothing for 5 antes and then you get six negatives at once

[floral mural]

maybe shoving baaltro university videos in the background of my pokemon za playthrough will let me osmosis that info lol

[pale wolf]

I rather enjoy anaglyph to be honest

[buoyant ridge]

should i take telescope early , i think it isnt a good idea

[fading cobalt]

A 1/5 chance of surviving 💔

Card sharp sucks

[pale wolf]

it is a bad idea

[fading cobalt]

For this specific reason

[raw loom]

Oh don't forget the negative tag skip will be exactly on the ante 8 big blind to make sure you get boned

[tranquil oyster]

probably not, esp since ur running splash

[floral mural]

i dont because anaglyph is kinda boring to me (not as much as nebula that shit is so boring

[fading cobalt]

Everytime I pick up card sharp I get the needle istg