🕹・game-discussion

[shell rock]

double yuri

[modest siren]

😎

[serene forge]

plasma deck

[shell rock]

i thought the opposite of bloodstone was onyx agate

[pale wolf]

do you love plasma deck

[serene forge]

NO

[pale wolf]

oh gosh

[frank grove]

oh thank the lords

[shell rock]

a reliable rock that always gives mult, and its on a better suit

[pale wolf]

maybe the opposite is shoot the moon

[modest siren]

I feel like ice cream might be the opposite of bloodstone. Gives +chips instead of xmult. Always gives instead of sometimes. Goes away on its own instead of being destroyed by you

[shell rock]

maybe the opposite is oops all 6's

[pale wolf]

held in hand, rank based instead of suit based, +mult... there's no held in hand chips or i woulda done that trust me

[frank grove]

i wish i could see the last time i used bloodstone

must've been months ago at this point

[pale wolf]

stone joker is the closest

[frank grove]

well i guess castle, its not play its discard? maybe?

[pale wolf]

still suit based

and random

i think stone joker is perfect actually

[frank grove]

yeah

[pale wolf]

too bad it also sucks

and is uncommon

[frank grove]

yeah, stone joker being uncommon is so weird?

[modest siren]

I had a run where I got marble joker and stone joker on plasma right at the start and just won

[potent tree]

what flavor is this i wonder

[modest siren]

But otherwise you kinda just cry about it

[modest siren]

[REDACTED]

[fervent wolf]

Should've had me fr

[modest siren]

You didn't show

[potent tree]

is kami knocking on your door?

[fervent wolf]

Yes....help me

[pale wolf]

i was testing something for stone cards and went on medusa challenge deck and got stone joker and then vampire

[potent tree]

nah, i'm taking this popcorn and watching the movie about to unfold

[fervent wolf]

I'm just sidetracked sometimes. I was trying to decide if I wanted to wear Holo or Foil

[modest siren]

Negative

[fervent wolf]

I couldn't find my negative outfit

[wary crypt]

Orange stake beat on erratic (who needed uncommons anyways)

[modest siren]

Send your evil twin

Classic photochad combo

[lunar zealot]

Fuck you

[wary crypt]

I couldn’t find any negative ones

[analog mulch]

IT MISSED BY FUCKING ONE MANNNNNNNNN

[frank grove]

hold r time

[wary crypt]

Just sell trading

Blueprint better(I just don’t like trading card half the time)

[analog mulch]

It was before the final round lol

[wary crypt]

Ah

[analog mulch]

Neg BP is just Sexy

[wary crypt]

You play on mobile?

[shell rock]

yes

[analog mulch]

I have on mobile and steam

I'm at work so mobile rn

[potent tree]

we clear this right chat?

oh wait

that's a flush house...

[frank grove]

😭

poly gold cards look so clean

[potent tree]

i have 5 aces and 1 queen left.

alr how about this.

e11, sheesh

[frank grove]

nice

[surreal pier]

If I have photochad + blueprint it's always better to copy the photo right?

[potent tree]

i think we're good

[potent tree]

yes

if you get another copy joker copy chad with that one

[frank grove]

yeah, unless you have glass, want money from luckys, or have red seals

[surreal pier]

Not considering additional retriggers effects ofc

[surreal pier]

Wouldn't it still be better to copy photo?

[potent tree]

in general, odd number of copy jokers = copy more photo, even number = split evenly

[frank grove]

you roughly want to balance retriggers and scoring

[potent tree]

if you have 1 copying chad and 1 copying photo you get 10 total triggers of photo. if you copy photo twice and chad 0 times you only get 9 activations

[surreal pier]

Cuz like
Base is 2³
BP on Photo is 4³
2xBP on Photo would be 8³ no?

[plain briar]

should i get showman and if so what do i replace with

[surreal pier]

Oh wait

Ooooh i get the ifea

Idea

[surreal pier]

That makes sense

[potent tree]

yeah it's helpful to know

[surreal pier]

Cruz then it's 4⁵

Aight that's goated

[tacit quail]

+2 sticker, wily joker + hit the road (clutch wraith last shop pull)

[surreal pier]

Also what is that?

A mod or site?

[frank grove]

site, just search balatro calc should be first result

[wary crypt]

Noice

[surreal pier]

Oh damn, thanks for lettin' me know

[modest snow]

do I get rid of sock for the brainstorm here?

[frank grove]

it optimizes joker order if you dont know what would give you the best score in tough situations but eventually you just get a feel of what to copy and when

[potent tree]

unfortunately that's the end of the run. but still i like where i got to. constellation x9

[surreal pier]

Get rid of blueprint

[analog mulch]

Easy enough

[surreal pier]

Jokes aside uhh, to be fair idk how getting rid of it would improve the build

[frank grove]

with 3 copys on faceless you could probably get away with getting rid of ticket?

[tacit quail]

Crazy judgment pull

[surreal pier]

Cuz brainstorm would effectively be a retrigger still no?

[wary crypt]

Yup

[surreal pier]

Or that

Sock is too good an asset there

[modest snow]

ngl completely forgot I had that guy

[surreal pier]

You could say his face wasn't memorable

[modest snow]

lol

[fervent wolf]

Me n him faced the facts that we would never see face to face

[surreal pier]

Face cards

[fervent wolf]

Are mid

[analog mulch]

You can say that again, just really poor timing

[tacit quail]

why u paused

tf we lookin at

[surreal pier]

I forgot if scary face in portuguese balatro is still "Realeza Assustadora"

[frank grove]

the non eternal bp with madness

[tacit quail]

uuuhh

[surreal pier]

(Realeza is the term for face cards, but face is "rosto")

[lunar zealot]

what a shop

[tacit quail]

inshalah this build will do something in ante 3

[lunar zealot]

shame you have no miney

you need that nacho tong too

[tacit quail]

nah im good

[twilit hedge]

Wow, Campfire was goated this run, got a blueprint last second to beat Violet Vessel

[tacit quail]

i got the nacho tong

[amber forge]

Started out rough, but now I've got something going

[tacit quail]

is it better to double copy runner or walkie talkie rn

i think walkie talkie for the mult

[frank grove]

with only one 10, probably double copy walkie

[tacit quail]

its tight

yeh

[merry shore]

vagabond gaming

[vocal rose]

what the fuck is that setup

[tacit quail]

which is better

i need a calc

[merry shore]

mid setup ngl vagabond saved me is all

[frank grove]

one on runner one of agate probaby?

[inner storm]

is there any news on the 2025 update?

[tacit quail]

so 63x1.4 x 210 or 630 x 21x1.4

oh i never thought of that

[heavy heron]

nahhh you got the flush house levels + lusty mult for the glass

[tacit quail]

yeah i try it

[heavy heron]

it's a decent ante 8 build

[frank grove]

i think itll be like 23-24k or smth on that setup

[tacit quail]

no it was like 47k

[frank grove]

probably more with levels though

[potent tree]

guys...if boss is heart debuffer and AJ is on hearts currently can i survive the blind and use this later?

[frank grove]

yeah

[tacit quail]

lv3

[merry shore]

i got like flush five lol i was so inspicuous on like taking lucky cat or the idol even

[heavy heron]

wait wait

[heavy heron]

is next blind small blind or big blind?

[merry shore]

shouldve trusted my gut but hey that was a fun run

[heavy heron]

because you can counter boss

with AJ

[potent tree]

the head is the next blind

[heavy heron]

AJ can never roll onto the same suit twice

[tacit quail]

les try it

[potent tree]

that's why i asked if i'd be able to survive the blind lol

[tacit quail]

85k with+20 proc

[heavy heron]

meaning if it's big blind, and you're on hearts, play big blind and you're guaranteed to not roll into hearts for boss

if it's big blind, and NOT hearts, you skip

[potent tree]

this is the shop after big blind dawg

[heavy heron]

to not risk it

[potent tree]

no avoiding it

[heavy heron]

oh then yeah you're dead

you had to skip sooner

[tacit quail]

hrrnnn regular mult... but its not got peak of agate

[frank grove]

nice!

[potent tree]

i don't even have it purchased is the problem

it just happened to land on hearts in this shop

so bad luck

[heavy heron]

well how do you plan on beating the boss?

[frank grove]

and its rental you dont really have the econ for it

[heavy heron]

what's your flush level?

[potent tree]

1

[heavy heron]

you might as well buy it, it's a good long-term joker for the whole run

just find a way to survive this boss

[potent tree]

BRAINSTORM

[heavy heron]

the thing is brainstorm doesn't do much for you rn sadly

[heavy heron]

LOOLLL

[heavy heron]

you need to find some mult i'm ngl

[frank grove]

oh its plasma

[heavy heron]

OH

it's plasma..

[frank grove]

you should be fineeeee

[heavy heron]

do you have any chips

[frank grove]

just copy the chad

[potent tree]

i'll get it surely...

[heavy heron]

i'm nto that familiar w plasma but i'm pretty sure you can get by with basic hands here

[frank grove]

and thats like + 30 chips, you should be fine

[heavy heron]

(splash probably dies)

do you have any levels in anything?

[potent tree]

i'm keeping splash just for rough gem

[frank grove]

i would get rid of golden joker with copying chad with gem

[heavy heron]

i see

[tacit quail]

you ain touching my straight level bro i onyx agate you

[potent tree]

oh i have level 2 fullhouse

i'll be fine.

[frank grove]

yeah

[heavy heron]

yup

[potent tree]

plus devil and chariot from emperor so i'm set

[frank grove]

yeah you're chilling

[potent tree]

wait i can hex something

selling both gem and splash

[frank grove]

hex doesnt do much on plasma

[potent tree]

damn AJ got hexed. that's unfortunate

NON PERISHABLE CHAD

[frank grove]

huge

[potent tree]

thunk wants me to win this run

do i take crafty for the chips? or nah

[tacit quail]

am fuuuucked

[potent tree]

it's eternal

[tacit quail]

i need a pivot asap

[frank grove]

with aj you probably dont have to?

[potent tree]

probably not i guess.

[frank grove]

whats your straight level ?

[tacit quail]

6

doesnt score massive tho

cuz the +mult

unless i full copy chips and go crazy with straight luck

?

on 400k blind

[buoyant bison]

just sell runner and copy constellation

[frank grove]

hope to find a clubs changer, probably sell runner? and then copy const on final hand

[tacit quail]

u think runner not worth?

also yeah wow double copy const would prolly work now

[frank grove]

with lvl 6 straight and a 2x on const it probably isnt doing all that much with const copys

[potent tree]

i might be screwed. boss is the mouth, do i take vagabond as a last resort

[buoyant bison]

are you even relying on card enhancements

[frank grove]

you cant draw a flush in 2 discards?

[tacit quail]

no just onyx

[potent tree]

last round i didn't that's for sure

0 suit modifications

[tacit quail]

wait useful +mult if i sell onyx and then double copy const

[potent tree]

just one extra diamond

[frank grove]

could take troub for hand size to help ?

[buoyant bison]

if you sell onyx then you didn’t even have a reason to sell a joker lmao

[potent tree]

true...maybe that is the play since a flush with this combination hits 800k

[tacit quail]

if i play straight i dont need to sell a joker

yes

thats what im saying

[frank grove]

you're beating boss in one hand anyway you probably dont need to dig that far anyway

[buoyant bison]

just find a glass card and sell either runner or onyx

[tacit quail]

so i need a straight pivot rn because it doesnt clear in 2 rn i think

[frank grove]

i think selling runner is just the plan

[tacit quail]

with 2 straights

it doesnt clear

[buoyant bison]

are you running pairs or something

[tacit quail]

let alone without runner

[buoyant bison]

scale constellation

Idk why you’re not copying it rn anyway

[potent tree]

do i just play the diamond flush or trust that a spade will appear?

[frank grove]

whats aj on?

[potent tree]

spades

[buoyant bison]

2x is x8 3x is x27 do what you can

[frank grove]

play the diamond flush probably, thats safer

[tacit quail]

yeh

[potent tree]

i drew only 1 spade after that and none in the next discard. so i'll have to skip the planet level for now sadly

but we survived the blind.

[frank grove]

nice

[serene forge]

I hate Rebel Inc

[tacit quail]

WOW it only pulled my straight on the last hand of 5

gg this wins

no new stickers kinda mad

but the rerolls didnt give me anything so i just put swash in there

[serene forge]

shouldve played pairs smh my head

[tacit quail]

330 runner was crucial

yall sleep on runner

[serene forge]

no i'm not

330 chips for pairs is huge

[frank grove]

im telling you, if you sold it in the blind with oynx you probably would still win

[tacit quail]

yes but 4 jokers is shit

[frank grove]

you can win gs with just 3

[tacit quail]

i dont bend to it

no its a principle

fuck verdant leaf

:sob

i saw that

[potent tree]

well NOW i can reliably draw into a flush...

[serene forge]

here win

[hybrid tendon]

lmao

[serene forge]

please

[tacit quail]

maybe a here win

[serene forge]

yeah gg

[tacit quail]

as long i play it right

[cloud sinew]

@pale wolf just figured out a new application for savescumming

wheel hits arent ante based so

[frank grove]

you only need to find scaling mult and you just win

[cloud sinew]

if you get a wheel hit on jokers you dont really care about rn

[tacit quail]

yeh

[cloud sinew]

you can save it for when you want it to hit

[tacit quail]

i love square joker i legit be playing fucking anything to underscore to scale it

k 8 4 2 yay

[frank grove]

wof hits arent ante based?

[round shadow]

well that's a way to win gold stake

[modest snow]

spent all of my money trying to get luchador :(

[cloud sinew]

from my testing they are completely not ante based.
the probability that they are ante based but i just got really bad RNG was like 1/4096

[frank grove]

i looked at the analyzer it doesnt look like they are, thats crazy??

i dont personally like save scumming as a concept but thats kinda neat

[cloud sinew]

yeah

[serene forge]

shouldve built a different suit to avoid that

[cloud sinew]

if im doing winstreaks i dont savescum

[tacit quail]

true high card enjoyers know what im doing

[serene forge]

i always get mad whenever i see people get angry at how space joker upgrades high cards

[frank grove]

i fucking HATE michel

[modest snow]

I figured it wouldve been more likely to get luchador than change most of my cards to another suit and hope idol hits

[amber forge]

Pretty good run for how bad it started

[tacit quail]

bro i dont want 8 dollar double tag rn bye bozo not buying u

[serene forge]

damn speedy edit

[frank grove]

😭

[serene forge]

erm actually its 4 dollar double tag

[frank grove]

less

nvm

i forgot how foil worked for a second

[serene forge]

he forgor

[tacit quail]

high card is NOT suffering today

[frank grove]

also sell value rounds down right, like a 7 dollar thing sells for 3 not 4

[serene forge]

yes

[frank grove]

give me .5 dollar, ive been scammed

[potent tree]

not worth taking photo here right?

[cloud sinew]

the optimisation paid off....
I sold my perishable rebate before entering the shop

[cloud sinew]

not worth

[potent tree]

figured. might as well check for bp tho

in the pack

i found hologram instead. eh, i get 63m a hand now

i can make do without it.

[pale wolf]

makes sense

[tacit quail]

nahh i had to pull 4 queens. save me

this the dumbest game of balatro ive done in a while

Fuck you bro

i dont REQUIRE splash

• plant gg

runs deads

[modest siren]

I don't know how I'm jsut running into this for the firrst time, but does mime not re-activate blackboard?

Logically I feel like it should

[potent tree]

nope

[modest siren]

bruh

[tacit quail]

This is how it looks to lose at photochad runs but this is actually a very niche "lost a Shoot the Moon run"

[deft sandal]

i got a trib just when I'm fixing my decks to all 5

[tacit quail]

sell

[deft sandal]

+$10 ig

i just gonna hold on to it for temperance value

since i haven't find a replacement

[tacit quail]

if i pull a good rare this kinda nice for later

[weak relic]

First time actually depleting ts

Oh...

[frank grove]

it also goes below 1

right?

[tacit quail]

i think it pops

[weak relic]

Nah screw it

[tacit quail]

ok so cartomancer -> hex and then pull wraith

okayyyy this is interesting

[frank grove]

oh it does, ive never got it below like 1.8 before 😭

[unreal iron]

waow

win?

[potent tree]

just one more and i can throw this deck away for at least the next several weeks

[lost vault]

meow

[unreal iron]

you need +mult tbf

[tacit quail]

hahahaha it spawned wheel and then polyed

[deft sandal]

guess I'm going for Wild Kings

[lost vault]

bro came out

gaytomancer

[tacit quail]

i know its rental but this could just be win right here

• i only have 1$

so its buyable

[weak relic]

Alright imma kill space joker cuz I already scaled my main poker hand that much already

[modest siren]

Well, if only mime worked with blackboard. I had parking and negative parking, brainstorm, negative license, blackboard, card sharp, and mime

Lost in ante 10 smh

[lost vault]

would be tuff to comeback from

[tacit quail]

i got money magic

[deft sandal]

I dont even know where to go from here

[tacit quail]

as i said

[lost vault]

howzers?

[tacit quail]

immolate with 0$ left

magic

i know it

[lost vault]

lucky

[weak relic]

Immolate my favorite

[deft sandal]

uhh

[potent tree]

spooky helix.

[deft sandal]

this is like the best seed I've ever played

[buoyant bison]

hmm

[tacit quail]

oh i lost

i didnt expect that

mis calc

[lost vault]

damn

[molten shore]

Are there any Balatro University runs that are more informational than others to watch? If so which ones do you recommend?

[lost vault]

i think he has like
a balatro lessons series

[tacit quail]

feeling really square rn

[lost vault]

showman

[weak relic]

Ecto hitting the wrong joker as usual

[buoyant bison]

his gold stake everyday videos are good enough tbh

[buoyant bison]

that's hilarious

[frank grove]

I loveee zodiac deck

[buoyant bison]

well you can get 6/5 jokers now I think

[molten shore]

Ok gotcha, I just sometimes get overwhelmed by the amount of runs he does and what deck he's playing, and probably overthink which ones to watch maybe

[frank grove]

the neg invis thing is soooo weird

[buoyant bison]

he mostly plays ghost deck cuz it's the most fun

[frank grove]

honestly just watching as he goes through decisions in the first like few antes on each deck is a good place to start

[weak relic]

It didn't hit my dice

[molten shore]

Thank you

[weak relic]

Smh

I want my probability to be high asf

[frank grove]

because he roughly outlines why like you can take some earlier risks on ghost and checkered and stuff and explains that pretty well

[tacit quail]

man i hate being on a run where i can outscore easy but i reroll and dont get any nonsticker joker

[frank grove]

yeah the shops on gold kinda suck

[potent tree]

do i drop andy for mime?

boss is hook

[tacit quail]

yay i guess. but no golds. r

i would won without card sharp anyways

last shop pickup

[potent tree]

well, that's that. mime didn't help much sadly

[shell rock]

can this naneinf

[weak relic]

Rip my driving license

[modest siren]

I feel like you uhh, might have already

[shell rock]

maybe

not even copying my retriggers, but i think that might actually crash the game-

[tacit quail]

mods

[shell rock]

yes there are mods here
-# should i not ask that question here?

[tacit quail]

idk just no clue what it means so

too much

why do you have 2000 hands

allso

[shell rock]

well, maybe

the 2000 hands is because misprint deck on cryptid randomizes almost all numbers, so i have a burger that gives me +17 hands and a lot of joker retriggers

[tacit quail]

this run kinda funny

skip tags <3

the rare good econ skip run

[runic lodge]

Beat blue stake for the first time

[tacit quail]

rip nuked by this guy

[hot plank]

just had my first gold stake win with canio on zodiac deck

[minor sequoia]

Won the first purple stake i ever attempted

[lunar gate]

8 gold and todd

[potent tree]

chat idk if i have the patience to finish plasma gold stake tonight...

[hot plank]

very colourful jokers 😭

[lunar gate]

you have
trust

[minor sequoia]

Poly nova was a wheel of fortune

[potent tree]

i somehow made it through the first 7 stakes already today

but it's 1am

so technically, yesterday

[minor sequoia]

Yo est lets go

[potent tree]

yes indeed

nice banner. i haven't played ssbu in a while

[minor sequoia]

Thanks its from a clip i made

[hot plank]

is that even ultimate

[minor sequoia]

Yeppers

[potent tree]

sephiroth hasn't been in any previous games afaik

[minor sequoia]

Sephiroth has been in the game for 5 years now

Crazy

My banner shows a vulnerable ganon reaching out for the stage, with sephiroth at the ready to deny ganon his salvation from falling to his doom

[potent tree]

2 frame'd

[minor sequoia]

Here is that clip btw

Fun fact i recorded the song by holding my phones mic up to my school chromebook

[tired drum]

omg he won with 67%

[minor sequoia]

sigh it was a simpler time back then

I think they meant balatro to be the game discussed in this channel, but here we are dicussing games in general

[somber geode]

I have no clue how to win on plasma

consistently that is

I can consistently win on other decks but not plasma black or nebula deck

[potent tree]

hold on...is this it?

[minor sequoia]

Have you tried joker combos centered around scoring chips?

[potent tree]

or xmult

[wintry ice]

you have to go all in on one or the other

that's the big problem with that deck

[somber geode]

yeah

the scaling is just brutal cause purple stake scaling x2

[potent tree]

we lost to needle. damn

bro...that sucks.

[blazing grove]

what club skins are those?

[potent tree]

potion craft

[blazing grove]

ohh

[cloud sinew]

DTD Diamonds my beloved

[potent tree]

i just found it funny the queen is a guy here

once again, failure.

[mystic bear]

hi everyone, am new here! I've been enjoying this game a whole lot. I'm currently doing a rather trollish build using a seed I found on Reddit.

[lost vault]

certificate is goated

[mellow cypress]

peculiar

[night bridge]

Goated game

[glossy forge]

chiGOAT

[mellow cypress]

chicot best legendary

not even contested

life good

many chiclet

[rustic aspen]

phew...

[potent tree]

congrats

so close...and yet so far.

got extremely unlucky with invisibles

[pearl moss]

Why you missing 1 joker

[potent tree]

i couldn't find another eternal to pad madness

[pearl moss]

Madness only proc on small and big bind

[potent tree]

yeah and i can't skip if i want any hope of surviving

i wasn't gonna survive big blind

[pearl moss]

If you have bought something for the crimson debuff after the big bind you may have a chance at winning

Ahh

[potent tree]

i got 450k with 3 hands in small blind

because i had hiero

no grabber appeared during the run

[mellow cypress]

now, I think I live if I make this gambit

if I sell blueprint

I got flush 5 and a poly king I am about to copy....

[pearl moss]

Why not sell chichot

Is 3 gonna do anything

[mellow cypress]

manacle

[pearl moss]

[mellow cypress]

for every chicot after the first you get +1 handsize

permanent

(I havent hit manacle yet)

[pearl moss]

Oh

[mellow cypress]

😁

[pearl moss]

Is that intended though

[mellow cypress]

no

so what

?!

😁

[pearl moss]

Dev should nerf it then

[mellow cypress]

abusing bugs for silly reasons is completely fine

it is a single player game

I am choosing to abuse it

because I find it fun

didnt get any ectos tho so run dead

[mellow cypress]

also does stuff like this

[latent egret]

its better to copy the red seal

[ivory portal]

Hi

How do you make obelisk work

Early game

[mellow cypress]

no strengths its a trib mate

if I got strengths no shit I would<3

[latent egret]

you dont

[ivory portal]

Really

[latent egret]

its useless until ante 3-4

[ivory portal]

Isn't there like an obelisk fan here

[latent egret]

depending on your skill level

[latent egret]

yes

[ivory portal]

I'm not good

LOL

speak of the devil

Oh it's you

ITS YOU

😭

[latent egret]

always has been

[ivory portal]

Didn't read ur name

Just saw u typing

[latent egret]

so basically with obelisk you need to spam pairs until you get 8-15 then play anything else that comes up

[ivory portal]

I knew it

[latent egret]

keep high cards for the times its only necessary

[ivory portal]

Then u play high card

Coach me pls

Can I share screen

[latent egret]

lol im in a car right now

[ivory portal]

There's no vc in this server ??

And ur texting ???

[latent egret]

you also need basic scaling + mult

and some source of chips, 100-150 is enough more often than not

[latent egret]

never said i was i the drivers seat

although i could be

[ivory portal]

Wait

So @latent egret

Do I play pair

Or high card

[latent egret]

pair

[ivory portal]

Which one do I farm the mult

Okok

[latent egret]

because you want a « joker »

like some hand you can always play

focus as hard as you can on playing pairs only

once you pivot

after at least 12 pairs id say

[ivory portal]

Lol I fked up nvm

[latent egret]

you play the highest ranking hand available

[ivory portal]

Ahhhh

[latent egret]

like flush/straight/3oak/2pair

in that order

[ivory portal]

I see very smart

Thank you

YO

is that rare

I skipped 2 antes

Both were negative joker

Is that stupid af or what

[bleak hemlock]

rawr

[latent egret]

kinda

before orange stake its decent

[ivory portal]

I mean

It's alright

[ivory portal]

Broooo

Wtf is that

😮😮

[bleak hemlock]

modded

[ivory portal]

So much more I need to find

Ah okay

[latent egret]

but basically you should never skip besides 25$ first or second round

[bleak hemlock]

and ik ik #⚙・modding-general but still

[ivory portal]

I skipped that

[bleak hemlock]

rawr

[ivory portal]

My first ante

[bleak hemlock]

^^^ 🙏

[ivory portal]

I double skipped

[latent egret]

youll learn eventually that skipping is almost always bad

[bleak hemlock]

dont do that

[ivory portal]

It was both +25

Then I got double negative joker

[ivory portal]

Really

Early on I think it's okay

[latent egret]

its in the top 3 of why new players lose

[bleak hemlock]

the only time thats a good idea on gold stake (the only stake where you get punished) is plasma

avoid skipping yea

[ivory portal]

I'm only on the second one

It's okay

I've only beaten green

[latent egret]

only the 25$ once

the rest of the time you should not skip

youll learn eventually

[bleak hemlock]

the only other times are kinda SUPER niche cases like a reroll or something but yea no skippo

[ivory portal]

I will learn

Even negative joker ?

Or rare joker

I always skip them

[bleak hemlock]

never

[ivory portal]

Alright

[bleak hemlock]

after investment the distant second is maybe like coupon in ante 1 idk

but a very distant second

negative skip is only to be taken when you do the funi on anaglyph

[heady narwhal]

there are a few tags that can save your life as well. like top-up / buffoon in ante 2, handy tag if your econ is struggling later on, boss tag, etc etc

a1 coupon tag is fine-ish up to orange stake but on gold stake it's garbage because of rentals

[calm furnace]

i take coupon if i have red card and not enough money to scale it and i need the mult

all my goats in one run 🥲

[calm furnace]

handy is better than investment mid late game

not only it pays better on average but its an instant money injection

[twin lantern]

Mail in rebate sucks

[latent egret]

⁉️

[twin lantern]

Its ass man

Overrated

[obsidian patrol]

What

[rotund solstice]

can anyone give me some advice on what I should do in this shop?

im currently trying to deck fix to red seal glass heart kings

bit of a ways to go tho lol

[stiff ore]

i just got fucked over because 4 of a kind superseeded flush, despite flush being upgraded 11 times

[acoustic kettle]

Hello non water drinkers

[wanton oracle]

Hello 60C water drinker

[past nebula]

doubt i would have gotten the money, but god if i had just bought the voucher and there could have been a chance to buy BS 😭

yeah i got unlucky

or well, made bad desicions in the end

[lunar zealot]

ello ello

[quartz ember]

photo->oops

[lunar zealot]

well

i see the problem

you're very poor

[past nebula]

no yeah i got that

i was foolish and bought the two planet packs for more jupiters, and nothing

but already with a interesting start this new round

[quartz ember]

ah

ccitbp enjoyer

[lunar zealot]

Make better economic decisions i would say

don't needlessly overspend but also underspending also kills you

[past nebula]

i know.

[vital nacelle]

bingo

[acoustic kettle]

Better than 0 C water

[rotund solstice]

how do seeded runs work in terms of jokers that appear in the shop

will people see different jokers if they reroll differently or will they just see the same jokers but maybe at different times

[acoustic kettle]

There's a shop queue

[pale wolf]

Same queue per ante

[acoustic kettle]

The shop queue changes per ante

[rotund solstice]

ok so ill see the same jokers per ante regardless how I reroll or what jokers I take?

unless there is a showman or something

[pale wolf]

You can reroll deeper in ante 1 than somebody else and see Jokers that they will never see for the rest of their run

but for single player gameplay it does not matter to think about what you're missing on the queue

[acoustic kettle]

Reroll matters

As the queue is different every ante

[rotund solstice]

gotcha

[acoustic kettle]

So if the seed has a blueprint like 5 rerolls deep in ante 3 then you have to do the same to get it

[rotund solstice]

yea but just in ante 3, like my rerolls in the entire run wont affect ante 3

or what jokers I take

[acoustic kettle]

Just in ante 3

Ye

[rotund solstice]

gotchu

thanks!

[deft sandal]

holy shit, 3 money shots in a row

[rich mauve]

what does it even do?

[deft sandal]

x1.5 mult

and nothing

[rich mauve]

actually it did a lot of things thanks to the ante 1 rocket

[quartz ember]

blocks crimson heart

[wanton oracle]

Which queue does the game use if I redeem hieroglyph

[pale wolf]

it continues using the current ante

Like it just changes the number that the ante says, the queues will still be in the same order

[waxen fable]

U can go in debt up to 20 bucks

When u reach -19 u cant spend anymore

This is the best black deck joker u can ask for

[tiny magnet]

-I stop playing the game to focus on other stuff
-Right now, 5am and with no sleep, I decided to play again
-Got a gold stake win on Blue deck
-GG

[quartz ember]

uhh, not really

[pale wolf]

not true

you can buy $1 things at -$19

[waxen fable]

Didn't know

[rich mauve]

you can get 1$ cards or double discount voucher makes things 1$

[pale wolf]

It's not really worth using credit card because you miss out on interest for no reason besides 20-40 extra dollars of spending once, -1 joker slot

It's more of a get out of jail free card like luchador, but for expensive jokers

[rich mauve]

I mean

either I was gonna use it or restart

decided to play it

but yes it's bad

but it worked more than obelisk for me

[wispy coral]

purple stake done 😋

[plain briar]

what mods should i get for quality of life

[wispy coral]

The "drag to choose cards" one 100%

[plain briar]

is it called handy?

i see it alot when i watch bean

[wispy coral]

Idk

[pale wolf]

handy, joker display, talisman perhaps, brainstorm for rerolling seeds

[frank cape]

is saturn mod considerable?

[pale wolf]

yea

[plain briar]

could u explain the last 2 mods?

[pale wolf]

brainstorm rerolls seeds until it finds one with your entered parameters

and talisman increases the score cap from naneinf

[rich mauve]

e.g. if you want to start with perkeo

[rotund solstice]

is there a mod that calculautes your hand? I think Fantom's is broken

[plain briar]

so that helps me get better and more consistent runs

[pale wolf]

there's some calculator mod

[plain briar]

is that a mod for someone who is more experienced or doesnt matter too much

coz ive only played a month

[pale wolf]

yea its filtered seed runs, was made for rolling legendaries for special naneinf runs but you can use it for whatever you want

its just like "hey i wanna play a run with this joker" so you plug it in and you get an entirely random seed that you only know will have the thing you want

[rich mauve]

doesn't matter too much but you can learn which joker placement is better with it

[pale wolf]

<@&1133519078540185692>

it took a second to load for me, didnt know if it was a scam

[craggy hearth]

They may have been my alt look at the Lol

[rich mauve]

or your does hand oneshot the blind or not

kinda cool

[pale wolf]

i dont think calculator mod is good tbh

mental calc is part of the skill of the game, thats not qol thats game assistance

[plain briar]

does the brainstorm mod ruin balatros randomness or actually make it more fun

[pale wolf]

its the same game

you know exactly 1 point of data about the seed and nothing else

if you're new to the game you dont need any mods though

[rich mauve]

it's like minecraft

you just choose where you want to start

[pale wolf]

joker display is convenient but besides that the rest are made to help you play faster or more specific runs

[waxen fable]

Fun if u want a peak start

[pale wolf]

not really necessary for beginners

[pale wolf]

how is that like minecraft

😭

[plain briar]

blue stake is the highest ive beat

[waxen fable]

U can choose what u want in a seed

[pale wolf]

i'd just play the game

[plain briar]

so brainstorm would be for later

but handy and joker display are good for quaility of life?

[waxen fable]

Purple stake is the hardest, u should really try to beat it and get used to the blind scaling

[pale wolf]

why not just

[rich mauve]

tbh

[pale wolf]

download them and try it

[plain briar]

yea ive tried its pretty tough

[pale wolf]

keep in mind that occasionally modded makes the game do unpredictable broken things

[plain briar]

ight fair

[rich mauve]

I don't recommend using mods without 100% ing the game (or if you're bored)

[waxen fable]

Yes, this is how the usual suspects are born

[pale wolf]

esp when going back to "unmodded"

woops

wrong reply

[weak seal]

thoughts on Blackboard?
(in general)

[pale wolf]

its a very good joker, especially in the pair meta we have for high stakes ante 8 gameplay

top 10?

likely

[latent egret]

the best non scaling xmult joker for gs probably

all things considered

cav would take it ofc if not for the spawn condition

[pale wolf]

cavendish is arguably more conditional because it might be more than 1 in 1000 to completely fail blackboard draw odds at the same point in the game you'd normally get a cavendish

even without the spawn condition

blackboard is essentially guaranteed with very light fixing

it is not great for larger hands like flush because being able to throw the red cards in your played hand even if they dont score is massive for blackboard

[rose jolt]

Last night I had a filthy joker setup. DNA, photochad, the duo, baron. Then guess what the boss blind was 😔

[tacit stream]

The Goad

[weak seal]

the fish?

[pale wolf]

verdant lead

[rocky tiger]

Disable all numbered cards

[rose jolt]

The Plant

[tacit stream]

Verdant Lead: All Steel cards are debuffed

[weak seal]

ah, i see

[rose jolt]

My deck was like 30 kings

[rocky tiger]

The plant acting like the grim reaper bro 😭 he pulls up and its time for you to go

[weak seal]

la planta es diabólica

[rose jolt]

The Wall showing up when I’m barely scraping by:

[rocky tiger]

The walls never killed me i dont think

[pale wolf]

huh

[rocky tiger]

At least the plant is so free when you dont run face cards

[weak seal]

the wall's pretty stressful for me too (im a casual tbh)

[rose jolt]

It’s all good though followed that up with blueprint, chad, sock and buskin, negative oops, negative acrobat, lucky cat, polychrome steel

Highest scoring run I ever had by far

[rocky tiger]

Im also a bit of a casual, i dont think anyone needs to play a lot to get good, really about patience in thinking and decision making

The thing is usually for me the boss completely disables my strat and i either die or do some glass card clutch, or i score like 71e above round req so the wall doesnt really do much

[plain briar]

im downloading the steammod to mod balatro

where can i find the directory files

[rocky tiger]

Thered a good yt tutorial look for a vid with a guy who has a facecam in like 144p

Hes got like a purple intro i think

[plain briar]

ZAINOTV

[rocky tiger]

Yep

[pale wolf]

#⚙・modding-general

this is the section for modding

[plain briar]

thanks

didnt have that channel visable

[rocky tiger]

Ur less fun than the plant 😔

[pale wolf]

imagine relying on face card builds

couldnt be me

[rocky tiger]

I try to avoid it but somehow i blink and suddenly i sold my entire setup for sock smiley

[pale wolf]

i photochad it up sometimes

[rocky tiger]

I try to never play photochad

Because its just not fun needs a big nerf imo

[pale wolf]

i like win

and is fun

[rocky tiger]

They should make photo do the first two face cards but only one time for each

On the last trigger

[pale wolf]

how about chad only retriggers number cards

and aces

[rocky tiger]

True thats balanced

[pale wolf]

:^)

i'm pretty sure photochad will stay intact because it still doesnt actually represent a signficiant portion of high level gameplay and its iconic

[rocky tiger]

looks inside
sees photochad

Is bigger ragebait than photochad itself

[rose jolt]

Up until like 3 days ago I thought that photochad was a nickname people gave photograph instead of the name for the combo

[pale wolf]

lol

[weak seal]

same

[wispy nimbus]

What is a joker sprite

[acoustic kettle]

Sprite of a joker

[pale wolf]

sprite is the image

essentially

[quartz ember]

sprite = spirit but tangible

[pale wolf]

sprite = diet cola /s

[crisp condor]

hello beings

[queen dock]

I've been playing so much gold stake it's like so surprising how different White stake is

Like I don't actually have to think?!

[crisp condor]

there's a gold stake ?

[queen dock]

Yes.

[crisp condor]

im only at green stake

[acoustic kettle]

So real

[queen dock]

You lll learn soon enough

[crisp condor]

0_0

[dusty void]

What do I get

Yes this is unseeded btw

[queen dock]

Depending on how many kings you have in your deck I personally would go for the baron instead of Chad or Showman if you really need the mult

[dusty void]

Uhh let me send my deck then

[queen dock]

I cannot make the play for you but I would probably get rid of the Chad personally for the baron DNA without any blueprints or brainstorm won't do much you should work on getting deaths and strengths for those Queens

[dusty void]

Hmm

Yea I see what you men

No fs baron would be betterr

[wary zodiac]

Finally

[dusty void]

Cryptid?

No not

That's just a negative castle 🥀

I'm an idiot but alr thanks

[coarse silo]

The king has been slayed

[wary zodiac]

25 ante 32 run later i finally broke the barrier

My journey has came to an end

[tender bone]

do i sell anything to get showman

[quartz ember]

ok you dont take anything before your deck can at least draw your kings, though maybe replace showman with dna?

[queen dock]

I think DNA would be a bad choice only getting one king wouldn't do much they are only on red stake so they still have three discards

And it would also make getting deck fixing a bit harder because then you're loading your deck with non Red seal kings

[dusty void]

...Otter you would not fucking believe me

[wintry lynx]

hey guys

oops

[dusty void]

Help 😭

[queen dock]

Wow

[dusty void]

WHAT IS THIS SERD

[queen dock]

Probably selling a mine

[dusty void]

Yea

But mine is $2

Sell value

[queen dock]

Oh you don't have enough money

[dusty void]

Should I sell 2?

[queen dock]

What's in your fool

[dusty void]

Uhh

Wheel of fortune

😔

[silk cobalt]

Oof not enough moneh, sell a mime and the fool to afford

[dusty void]

Mime is 2 fool is 1

I'd be a dollar short

[silk cobalt]

Ohh yah am brainded XD

[wintry lynx]

this is my 3rd day of playing balatro what do I do help me

[queen dock]

Well rip the wheel and maybe you get poly Chrome

[dusty void]

Oh

You right

[queen dock]

Otherwise just go next

[nova elk]

do i reroll or take ancient?

[dusty void]

Okay it was not a wheel

It was a strength.

Guess I'm gonna keep going

I got e14 last round anyways

I have time

[wintry lynx]

sorry wrong screen shot heres a more zoomed in image

[weak seal]

mimaron.. 👑

[wintry lynx]

this game is my life now nothing else matters

[dusty void]

Otter writing an essay rn

[queen dock]

Since you don't have a blueprint or antimatter this may not be able to have the power to Nan. You should split your steel into half gold you'll be making 12 gold per card and you still get the x multiplier

[dusty void]

Oh alr

I'm still on ante 8 though

[queen dock]

Seems to me your econ is struggling

[dusty void]

So I still have time

Alright you're right

I'll get some gold in

[queen dock]

You'll need it

This was my Nan the only reason why it nan is because I got lucky with a natural negative brainstorm but incredibly unlucky with red seals I have zero

[wintry ice]

sell sock

or

[queen dock]

I wish I had the energy to live stream the game I'm not a top-tier player but if I had to rank myself using OverWatch competitive I think I would be Masters

[wintry ice]

actually sell summit instead

[queen dock]

Why not three oak chips and summit and pick up both those uncommons right there

Or would that be a silly play

[stable owl]

How do you have so much hand size

[queen dock]

Or maybe sell abstract and summit and put three oak chips card in the very front so the +mult goes off before it all the times mult

[queen dock]

burglar going into the serpent you play one card and you will always draw three

If you see at the very bottom middle I only have a hand size of seven but the serpent allows me to draw extra cards

[acoustic kettle]

Serpent draws 3 cards regardless of handsize

[stable owl]

So it’s boss dependent
What’s your usual output

[queen dock]

This was 4 months ago

[acoustic kettle]

For naneinf the two easiest ways are definitely burglar or perkeo copying cryptid

[queen dock]

I'm quick estimating probably around e50 ish especially since I didn't have any Red seal

Getting a natural perkeo on unseeded and also a cryptid is much less inconsistent

[dusty void]

Alright otto I gotta decide between a red seal or an ecto

I'm thinking red seal

Then keep going for an antimatter

[queen dock]

Oh crud. I forgot to go clock into work

Hmm since you don't have a blueprint yet I would probably say red seal as well

[dusty void]

But should I make it steel later?

For long run

[queen dock]

I'm sitting in my car doing nothing talking to here when I should be starting my machines

[dusty void]

Balatro is life

[queen dock]

Yes but you shouldn't need it for a couple more antes I think you can still make a few into steel if you want but this discard them looking for gold

[dusty void]

Alright

I'm getting e15 rn

So which ante is that I forgot

[queen dock]

All my hours come from playing at work. I play at least 3 to 4 hours a day at work alone

[dusty void]

😭

[queen dock]

I do not remember I don't play endless that much

[dusty void]

Ah alright

[queen dock]

Right now that is

[dusty void]

But yea I should be fine for the next few

[queen dock]

Currently I'm working on putting gold stickers on every joker. It's aggravating especially stupid flower pot I want to rip off my toes just thinking about stupid flower pot

[dusty void]

Oh c++

[dusty void]

FUCK FLOWER POT 😭

It's just THERE

For no reason

MATADOR IS MORE USEFUL

UNIRONICALLY

[humble dune]

Yeheheh

[queen dock]

It would be great if it worked with wild cards but it doesn't

[dusty void]

That's true

[queen dock]

Verdant leaf coming up soon

No way that would only matter if it was ante8

What if instead of the minus one hand on black deck you had to fight a boss blind every four antes rather than eight

[tall sky]

blue seals just make any doodoo run work

run wouldn't die to the eye cuz managed to one shot the blind using mime steel card + 1.7x conste

and lv 10 venus

[acoustic kettle]

Blue seals are broken

Iy's so good

[acoustic kettle]

bad run
looks inside
12 million

[tall sky]

had another run earlier that was basically a dying flush run get saved because of blue seals again

[acoustic kettle]

[tall sky]

fyi i had like no base mult the entire run

[queen dock]

What if blue seals had a 1 and 2 chance of giving you a planet card rather than always giving you a planet card at the end of the round

[tall sky]

all of it was planets

[queen dock]

Would that make them more balanced or less balanced

[tall sky]

and like a popcorn bucket i picked up after the eye

[acoustic kettle]

You don't need one with 3 big xmults anyway

[tall sky]

trio was ante 8 and constellation was also not early

almost died to the eye for that reason

had to bank on a steel card

[torpid bridge]

I hate slay the spire

Ive spent over 30hrs and the furthest I could go is winning the act 2 boss

🙂

[queen dock]

It's okay I didn't hate nor love it it was pretty fun tho

[torpid bridge]

Oh

Wrong channel

I wanted to talk about it in off-topic chat

[dusty void]

Otto I found a brainstorm finally

Should I replace it with a mime

Or again
Keep going for antimatter

[queen dock]

Probably replace with mime

[dusty void]

Alrighty

[queen dock]

It's effectively both Baron and a mime

[dusty void]

True

Thanks

[queen dock]

Just remember when you play your final hand do the mine shuffle

[dusty void]

Yea ik

[dusty void]

Yk maybe I should quit

[gloomy swallow]

Invisible Joker Gold Staked! 2 more to go!

Current progress

only stone joker and hiker to go

chippy chip