🕹・game-discussion

[echo owl]

Prolly not actually

[ancient gyro]

brooke and tua

tia*

sonya

[weary whale]

At what point would you consider one “skilled” at the game?

[ancient gyro]

that can differ from person to person

[fringe nebula]

knowing about pairslop

[ancient gyro]

I'll say when they can hit any 5 win streak on gs

[flat tiger]

theres too many different things you can do with the game

[ancient gyro]

with 2oak soup

discarding cards is like half of the skill in this game so i cant really simplify that in a small sentence of skill

[flat tiger]

I think I got a 3 streak on purple and a 3 streak on gold

[sudden reef]

easy on a fixxed deck
Very hard on random deck

[ancient gyro]

what

[sudden reef]

I think I can win like 10 times in blue deck

[ancient gyro]

which is not what you said

[sudden reef]

but if I need to play a random deck each time then gold streak is something I cannot do yet

[ancient gyro]

easy on easy decks*
hard on hard decks*

is what you were trying to say

[sudden reef]

kind of

if you play the same deck each time you get used to it and you can win multiple times (unless is like green deck or black deck)

[flat tiger]

i think both my GS and purple 3 streak is on red/blue/yellow, maybe green? it just happens when I move from deck to deck

[sudden reef]

but yeah I've been playing a long time and I still can't do gold streak over 4 due to bad decks (if I do it randomly)

[ancient gyro]

higher resource variance is usually the streak killer for harder decks

minimizing the risk with certain decisions def helps. it sort of forces the average player to play until they reach a 5 win streak point if ever which I think time plays a factor in skill in addition to decision making and tactical greed

[humble gulch]

That's funny

I instantly get the 5 wins streak when I start a C++ profile

And then I worry a lot less

[ebon condor]

ok but what about a 5 loss streak

[fringe nebula]

kinda doodoo without seed money

but eh

[humble gulch]

I think Violet Vessel has something against you

[fringe nebula]

good enough

[fringe nebula]

it's fine I have x4.5 constel

I score 500k per hand

[humble gulch]

Lmao

[knotty zodiac]

@pale wolf where's the wheel? ante 7 ofc

[knotty zodiac]

y so doodoo

[clear mulch]

eternal tribe

[barren eagle]

yeah

[ebon condor]

how come every time i play black deck im fighting for my life but everytime i play blue deck i get this kinda shit

i was barely even trying to deckfix i just had so much money

[knotty zodiac]

some might say black deck is harder than blue deck 😛

[fringe nebula]

it's true

if you play blue deck, you will get a seed that gives 5 immolates

[barren eagle]

negative banana

[knotty zodiac]

will i break my curse of losing every game after winning two in a row? let's find out

[echo owl]

i hope they nerf violet vessel in 1.1

it's not even funny it's so much harder than like every other final boss blind

[knotty zodiac]

vv is the reason not to let off the gas in an ahead-of-curve run in a5-a7

its job is to keep the tension

[echo owl]

honestly the only way i ever win against it is if i have a ridiculous amount of x mult and mult in general or just like retriggering card scoring x mult build

like the average build i win with gets ripped apart by violet vessel

[knotty zodiac]

yes, the goal of late game is to get a ridiculous amount of xmult/retriggers

well, 2 good ones is usually enough for vv

[echo owl]

2 good x mult oro retriggers

[knotty zodiac]

photochad with a few glass works perfectly fine too

[echo owl]

the one good thing ill say is i feel like im pretty lucky with violet vessel i rarely get it and when i do it's ususally builds that can like oneshot it at that po9int

[fringe nebula]

ante2 shop3

🤔

I don't trust walkie talkie

[humble gulch]

I love erosion

[hollow notch]

anyone wanna take a look at #1200105253559873707 rq, managed to find a very weird very rare softlock.

[earnest flame]

Sounds like confirmation bias more than luck, as in builds that you have that are not powerful enough to oneshot vessel rarely reach ante 8 anyways

[echo owl]

yeah so i dont see violet vessel on those runs

[earnest flame]

But that isn't luck

[echo owl]

true

[heady river]

bye chicot :c

vanish

[hollow notch]

you will not be missed

[humble gulch]

Chicot is so good

If only there was a way of making legendaries eternal

[hollow notch]

yeah

[solar meteor]

cast

[hollow notch]

anyone wanna look in bug reports rq? found a very rare softlock

[humble gulch]

Oh, that's a pretty common softlock

[hollow notch]

really?

[humble gulch]

Yeah

I've seen it a lot

[solar meteor]

rare she says

most commonly posted softlock

[frosty stream]

has anyone here gotten bean bug to work?

[humble gulch]

Yeah

Like, every endless player

[frosty stream]

do you have mods on?

[humble gulch]

No

[frosty stream]

right

i think its impossible with mods on

[west hemlock]

Is bean bug a challenge I haven’t unlocked yet

[frosty stream]

no its a glitch

[west hemlock]

Oh

[humble gulch]

It gives the current bean hand size every time it's debuffed by crimson heart

[west hemlock]

Ahhhh I probably don’t pick up the bean enough to see that

[frosty stream]

i been trying to do it for a while now and even with every mod disabled it wont work

so must be something to do with lovely or something

[solar meteor]

steammodded patched bean bug

[humble gulch]

Also because is an endless strat and it's completely useless for ante 8 wins

[frosty stream]

yeah seems so

is there any way to turn it off to perform the glitch?

[solar meteor]

vanilla balatro or bust

[frosty stream]

damn i just got rid of mods and my save wont launch

so close yet so far

is there a balatro cheat mod in which i can modify my hand size to mimic the result of the vanilla game?

[earnest flame]

Im going mad

[red briar]

it's a shame how madness is the only "destroy" joker that actually can target eternals

[humble gulch]

Destroying is a side effect, it doesn't target eternals

[red briar]

well yeah but

something like dagger is meant to destroy the card to the right

but you cant target eternals with it

[echo owl]

I need your guys’ opinions which tier list is better left or right

[earnest flame]

Name matches

[red briar]

is it not logical to think that tho

[earnest flame]

But it doesnt affect eternals

[red briar]

madness effects eternals tho right?

like it gains the xmult

idk

[crude lagoon]

right

[earnest flame]

It does not gain xmult from destroying

[echo owl]

Pls this is importsnt im arguing with someone

[crude lagoon]

id say right but why is red card so high

[echo owl]

It’s good that’s not a placement I disagree with

[earnest flame]

Independent effects

[crude lagoon]

theres two types of ppl in this world: ppl that like red card and ppl that hate red card

[knotty zodiac]

tfw youre like valve and can't count to 3 anymore

[humble gulch]

It's tied with trousers as the best +mult scaler

Red card has explosive scaling, it speedruns the +40 mult mark

[knotty zodiac]

id put trousers solidly ahead (as it should be, uncommon > common)

trousers can scale +8 per round from round 1
red card requires money, requires skipping packs to proc, and maxes out at +6 per round

[echo sphinx]

trousers so good it starts burning blinds

red card is a bit held back by good tarots (side effect more than anything)

[echo owl]

This is for a debate I’m having rn

[echo sphinx]

im gonna be real honest both have problems

like wdym bloodstone isnt in the basement

[echo owl]

They’re both ante 8 gs tier lists btw and the right one S+ isn’t ordered

[echo sphinx]

oh

ordering i dotn really care much

[echo owl]

If u had to pick one

[echo sphinx]

die

[echo owl]

My bad bro

[echo sphinx]

left cuz there's less ranks

[echo owl]

Let’s fucking go

[echo sphinx]

may i know who authored these

[echo owl]

Left is me right is my friend

[echo sphinx]

o

[grim quest]

Does destroying gros michel with ceremonial dagger permits you to get Cavendish?

[knotty zodiac]

applying lovers to everything for matador value

[knotty zodiac]

no

[grim quest]

Alr

What jokers will you get if you have every joker exept showman

[humble gulch]

Jimbo

[ebon condor]

jimbo

[humble gulch]

And showman

[ebon condor]

and showman yes

[flat tiger]

if you have every joker except showman wont the game only roll jimbo and showman?

mods

[lunar zealot]

was about to ping mods

[flat tiger]

[lunar zealot]

how do they still get past ceremonial dagger channel

what

[obsidian patrol]

jombo

[flat tiger]

well AI are doing anti-bot tests better then humans

if you need stupid humans to be able to pass a test, AI will be able to do it

[obsidian patrol]

theres a difference between discord bots and AI

[flat tiger]

if I am doing discord bots I will make an AI to get pass the entrance test

that should be the first thing they try to do no?

[earnest turtle]

aaand the wife and kids are getting it again 🥰

[obsidian patrol]

the humble luchador

[earnest turtle]

the humble I didn't find a single one + no director's cut in 18 antes (I even took voucher skip tags) 😭

to be honest though I did get lucky to hit the plant so late

balatro shop when it comes to giving you tarot and planet merchant:

[turbid nova]

love when the nanner extinguishes immediately

riff raff work your magic please

[turbid nova]

yipee

[deft sandal]

this run is so horrible to the point that it actually works

[willow frost]

why wouldnt double hanging chad work

[flat tiger]

then its not a horrible run

[deft sandal]

idek what can the chad do, i got that from a judgement

like gluttonous is the only thing it can trigger

lol

I've seen almost 0 +Mult joker in this run

the jokers in the shop are either utilities/chips

[willow frost]

yeah then start utilising them

runner with double chad is really good for the first like 6 antes

[deft sandal]

yeah right, i saw like all the face cards jokers like midas mask

[willow frost]

and then you get glass cards and just start winning entirely

[willow frost]

you can add cards to your deck or strength them

it doesnt have to be no faces thr whole run

[echo owl]

turtle bean gold sticker acquired

[deft sandal]

whatever its just a random run

just trying to look for non-gold stickered jokers

[willow frost]

alright lol

[unique pecan]

Yet another balatro reference in my school

[digital pewter]

damn i did horrible in today's balatrodle

i both lost my streak AND took 7 guesses

i went through every single ability type and only got it right on the winning guess

[deft sandal]

my non-gold stickered jokers are harder to find than both copy jokers

crazy

[digital pewter]

crazy joker

[digital pewter]

what ones do you have left anyways

[deft sandal]

Stuntman, hit the road, Satellite, throwback, Smeared, Troubadour, Arrowhead, Erosion, Stone, Sixth Sense

[unique pecan]

Wow

[deft sandal]

well i beat the run but no new gold stickers

[digital pewter]

two rares is definitely a problem lol

you gotta get yo money up

everything else should be pretty manageable, though smeared might be annoying lol

[willow frost]

i think the rares are fine because youcan rare skip or wraith and theres only 20 rares total and most of the rares are useful and yeah

[unique pecan]

What about getting Gold snickers on things like

Luchandor

[willow frost]

but aint nobody using throwback

[unique pecan]

Invisible

[willow frost]

or smeared but i like smeared

[cedar sable]

BY FAR THE WORST DAILY BALATRODLE I EVER DONE

16 is a new low for me

[willow frost]

holy crap

[glossy forge]

Does shop 1 constellation make sense

[cedar sable]

it's aight

i got shop 1 vagabond once

[willow frost]

vagabond actually does something shop 1 though

[glossy forge]

Shop 1 vaga is a completely different game

Yeah

[willow frost]

constellation just sits there

[cedar sable]

in ghost deck

so i was like

yeah no interest run

i got both flash card and fortune teller

[willow frost]

vagabond gives you temperance and hermit every round though lol

[cedar sable]

not really

but that's like

the 2nd time I'm stalling score

for tarots

1st one for squimbo value

another thing from me is when i play the game for the first time i was like

wow type specific joker sucks

at that time i have no idea it needs to contain that type in a hand played

and on that run

i got the duo and poly vagabond as my xmult jokers

[glossy forge]

Ill just risk the constellation

[cedar sable]

i would tbh

[glossy forge]

Theres a chance that i get screwed by shop 2 and 3 :)

[cedar sable]

planet merchant

[glossy forge]

Im on zodiac, so planets are plenty

BUT feeding constellation is very costly

I need econ one way or the other

[cedar sable]

i would get some boost first before econ

try to get flat mult

maybe summit

[glossy forge]

Constellation was a mistake :)

[cedar sable]

rip

[glossy forge]

I skipped for an econ tag in ante 2 r1

[cedar sable]

i wouldn't

[glossy forge]

Buffoon pack gave me a faceless rental

[knotty zodiac]

what is it?!?!

sold the wrong one lols

[pale wolf]

now you can totally chicot lucha bug a boss blind 😀

[knotty zodiac]

is this basically double chicot bug

[pale wolf]

yes )
(fake

[foggy wolf]

Yo can anyone tell how to find good seeds ??

[pale wolf]

#1156061354076155944

[knotty zodiac]

never done it before, time to look it up lols

[pale wolf]

its not real

[foggy wolf]

But what if i wanted specific seeds

[pale wolf]

they dont combine sadly

[knotty zodiac]

oh

interesting

[foggy wolf]

I wanted a madness seed

[knotty zodiac]

that it works correctly for two different ones but not double chicot

[pale wolf]

on steam you can use brainstorm mod to reroll for a madness seed too

[frank grove]

bang 😭

[barren eagle]

shiny broke boi

[echo owl]

yes

[tranquil cedar]

eggternal

[frank grove]

ok 🔥

[buoyant stratus]

Luchador gonna carry

[buoyant stratus]

I am pretty sure I have only gotten antimatter once pre endless

Charging my phone at a random restaurant so I can go home so imma play balatro

What is this run

I don't remember having it

[frank grove]

what

[green apex]

looks like you got some money

actually you barely got money from the parking

[frank grove]

LMAO

there was a soul earlier in the seed i couldnt take as well in like ante 4 where i couldnt get away with selling rebate 😭

[tawny sluice]

I always take the soul and if I lose I lose

[frank grove]

not too bad 🔥

[native peak]

Is a negative perkeo rare from a soul

[frank grove]

174 flash card 🔥

[native peak]

Ok

I've never gotten past ante 10 lol

I got negative perkeo and negative baron from the same one

[calm furnace]

this run had me malding. almost killed myself drawing and playing all my lucky cards and lucky cat wont scale

[knotty zodiac]

lucha chicot did their jobs

[calm furnace]

but burnt joker wins runs

if i died it would have been 100% on me for skipping the rental eternal chad

chad feeds the cat

[knotty zodiac]

hm

since this is my third run, if i pick rebate, it will lowroll and kill me

[calm furnace]

always pick greed

[knotty zodiac]

always greed

[grim quest]

Btw wths yall highscore

[frank grove]

my highest was like e800 or something

[grim quest]

Modded or just talisman

[hidden bear]

Is Sock and Buskin with Golden Ticket better than Reserved Parking with Mimes? My handsize rn is 59

[median summit]

o7 to a stupidly good run

[median summit]

Do you have oops?

[hidden bear]

Yes

[shell dagger]

No

[frank grove]

vanilla, just using balatro calc site (perkeo cryptids)

[knotty zodiac]

the greed is paying off

[calm furnace]

never stop greeding

balatro is the one game that made my understand why billionares exist

more money = more good

always more money

[hidden bear]

Y'all I was playing an op seed and I js got a natural negative Sock and Buskin and like 20 rerolls later I got a natural negative Golden Ticket

[hidden bear]

Mine is around e600 with black deck,, the runs not over yet though so I can probably reach higher

[echo sphinx]

awww yisss

this sh looks diabolical

[knotty zodiac]

now if only i was offered any scaling xD

[ebon elbow]

i still really despise perishable jokers, its always just annoying when you find a great card, but it cant be part of your build longterm,
its just like antithetical too the aim of the game, which is collect cool jokers, make a strong build, i wish the orange stake was just something different

it does make it harder, and it makes it so you need too think more on the fly, but its still just a pain, id probably rather that the % of jokers which would have been perishable, were just replaced with like tarot or planet cards, in the shop, so jokers were rarer to find,
i think that would make the game harder, but its less of a cortisol spike then when a perishable rare card shows up

[calm furnace]

i cant stop winning with FT god i wish it was a good joker

[lean agate]

aw man this run was pretty good, too bad I couldnt grab the card sharp bcs I run out of money and not popping the immolate earlier (was afraid of deleting the good bonus cards for chips)

dunno if I could beat violet anyway with card sharp lol

[hollow notch]

got what is probably gonna be my hologram pb for awhile(didnt go endless cause im just trying to do all stakes)

also i got a few RTB on abandoned deck but never finished a run with it :c

i just noticed i got 100 wins on mobile now :3

[cloud sinew]

balatro balatrez

[light brook]

yall is it possible to get a cav and a gros at the same time through the use of showman/ankh/invis?

[cloud sinew]

yes

showman doesnt allow gros michel to spawn after its gone extinct though

[light brook]

interesting

makes sense though it is just a yes/no check for a single gros extinction for cav to appear

[hollow mica]

What is the worst vs best vs versitile joker

[light brook]

that’s very subjective to your own playstyle

[eager lance]

funny

[stark charm]

Gg

[eager lance]

?

[stark charm]

You won

[eager lance]

i already won lol

i have scary face on plasma

im not trying to win

[stark charm]

Oh plasma…

[eager lance]

yeah im not taking the combo lol

[stark charm]

I still think planet level would be great

[eager lance]

yeah ill take the free planets

[stark charm]

And tycoon

I think it is merchant here

[eager lance]

yea

thats also cool

but not taking it

clogs up space

[stark charm]

I would take it here since high hand planet can win you the run

But if you go for smth else combo I guess that could work

I think I am changing my name here

[lean agate]

HUGE sixth sense get

[stark charm]

Why is this other’s sixth sense when mine give incantation ectoplasm and useless hex

Also how did you got yourself into that much debt

Wee?

[lean agate]

ante 1 eternal rental burnt joker

and I saw credit card in the same shop as well

and guess why not lol

[turbid nova]

most disgusting photochad game I've ever played

[tight pike]

Purple stake painted done

[tight pike]

I skipped on soul btw

[lean agate]

holy shit, now how important is Directors Cut in gold stake hmm

pairslop

uh

probably not that mportant

[tight pike]

Yay now 2 more times then I'm finally done with painted deck

[tender quarry]

Friend 🙂

There was a chad at the end that objectively was a lot better but I couldn't do it

[eager lance]

going for naneinf without bean bug

[lean agate]

ANOTHER wraith?

[eager lance]

but yea if i wanted to win i would do that

[fading dome]

holy maxed green joker

[bleak hemlock]

ima cute car

[frank grove]

and i just saw nova, this seed just has so many options 😭

[stark charm]

Naninf goldstake huh?

Meh

It is white stake WTH

[stark charm]

500 scaling

[frank grove]

only just got him in ante 8 small blind 😭 gg 🔥

[dreamy creek]

balalala

[eager lance]

yea?

ive done till ante 39 and naneinfed in 2 runs but both of them used crimmson heart bug

so i wanna do it without the bug

[olive raptor]

No Magician ever came...

[lean agate]

my biggest wee, definitely could be 1000 if I was greedier with 2 s high cards

[hollow notch]

nice wee!

[wanton kayak]

guys how do you win blue stake? This is so frustrating. Need Help plz

[rich mauve]

gg

[lean agate]

whoops, so close

[cursive crater]

pairs

[wanton kayak]

pairs? How can pairs help me?

[frank grove]

nice 🔥

[lean agate]

dont think ive ever seen negative droll joker

[lean agate]

more consistent scoring, many good jokers that support pair builds and scales well

[wanton kayak]

ah okay i'll try it out

[ruby vessel]

Is there a reason people say to build towards straights in jokerless?

I feel like they’d be harder to make without hand size upgrades

[lean agate]

strong planet cards scaling, fairly okay to draw

[frank grove]

they scale well, drawing them is easier than 4oak right off the bat, ive had success with both straights and 4oak on jokerless

but straights are just easier to do when you dont get deaths

[ruby vessel]

Yah I just finished docs video on jokerless so figured I’d give it a try

Feels weird to make straights with the blue seal but it clearly works

[lean agate]

iirc saturn planet scaling almost matches the blind scoring, so if you could get like 1.5 saturn per round, youd get juuuust enough score to oneshot any blind

[ruby vessel]

Oh interesting

[pale wolf]

you also get more planet cards in shop bc no jokers

and no buffoon packs

[lean agate]

yyeup, dont forget the planet blocking tech too

[pale wolf]

amogus

[rich mauve]

bala

[cloud sinew]

I love vagabond

[cloud sinew]

blue seals are king

[turbid nova]

This is why straights are the best hand in jokerless

[pale wolf]

actually theyre any rank

[serene forge]

I <3 yuri

[upper spade]

I hate The Wall and Violet Vessel.

[stark charm]

How did one play the entire game without a single magician

[cloud sinew]

no

[exotic silo]

took two consecutive negative tags for the funnies

both were exactly rental Delayed Gratification

[olive raptor]

FoaK + blue seals carry

[cloud sinew]

yay 3 streak

[stark charm]

No like assuming you are opening all the tarot packs the chance you are not getting any is pretty low

[cloud sinew]

burglar on green deck, my beloved

[olive raptor]

true...

[cloud sinew]

especially if youre blocking properly

[olive raptor]

well I got unlucky

[fair flower]

Created a new save file and this is one of the first runs I got. I think this is my 5 or 6th run maybe higher.
Strush is fun

[pale wolf]

ah yes, Foak

the totally unambiguous acronym

[cloud sinew]

the unambiguous F

[olive raptor]

Five of a Kind

[cloud sinew]

5

F could be Four or Five

[devout wasp]

Full of a Kouse

[pale wolf]

or even Free

[turbid nova]

Fifty of a kind

[cloud sinew]

foah, pants on that thang

[random ice]

Fhelpimtrappedinanacronymitssocoldinherepleasethisisntawaytolive of a Kind

[cloud sinew]

they should make a blue deck that isnt a free win

black deck :(

i have an 11% winrate on black deck now

[turbid nova]

I discovered through Balatro that english speakers don’t call four of the same rank a “Poker”

[cloud sinew]

nope

[heavy heron]

how do you know

[cloud sinew]

wins / wins+losses

[heavy heron]

oh so you just kept count?

or does it

say somewhere

[turbid nova]

Balatrostats maybe

[cloud sinew]

i use balatrostats

[heavy heron]

is that a mod…

[cloud sinew]

no

it's a website

[heavy heron]

wait HUH

[turbid nova]

A website

[cloud sinew]

https://www.balatrostats.com/

[heavy heron]

how does it keep track of your stats?

[turbid nova]

Where you upload your savefile

[heavy heron]

i see

[turbid nova]

It’s kept internally in the savefile

[cloud sinew]

you just upload your save file

[heavy heron]

can you upload a mobile save..

prob not

[turbid nova]

But not visible in game

[cloud sinew]

an android one, yes

not iOS

[heavy heron]

damn

[serene forge]

why did you post a gif as a video

[turbid nova]

I have the apple arcade one so I can’t either

I tried

[heavy heron]

damnnnn

i want to see my 1% wr

[turbid nova]

They don’t count the games where you just reset instead of full on losing?

[fair flower]

What does the Joker role mean in this server?

[serene forge]

you can't upload an apple arcade save because apple fucking hates it when you have control over your own things

[turbid nova]

Or do those count as losses as well

[cloud sinew]

those arent counted as losses in your save file, no.

[serene forge]

nope

[cloud sinew]

which is why i force a loss if i do want to reset

[turbid nova]

I guess you can inflate your winrate a bit doing that

[cloud sinew]

yeah

[serene forge]

it only breaks winstreaks

[turbid nova]

Yeah

[serene forge]

but holding r will not unlock mr bones for you

[cloud sinew]

thr thing with winstreaks as well

is that if you die on the ante 8 boss im pretty sure you don't lose your winstreak

[serene forge]

oh huh

[misty mango]

Wait huh, holding R preserves win streak?

[cloud sinew]

no

[turbid nova]

No

[misty mango]

Is it just the starting ante

[turbid nova]

We’re talking abt different things

[heavy heron]

what really

[cloud sinew]

no

[turbid nova]

Oh I didn’t know that

My highest win streak in general is 5

On gold stake probably 1 because I don’t remember doing 2 in a row

[cloud sinew]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1456266030002208952
https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1203546521115693056
and ive seen it happen myself once on switch

[heavy heron]

that’s actually a pretty crazy way to keep a streak

i guess that’s why that number is misleading

there are other ways that the streak number bugs out, too

i’m not sure how they happen but they do; it’s happened to me

[cloud sinew]

it also doesnt take into account challenges :( so i dont have a 20 streak screenshot from when i did CG

[fair flower]

If you hit a new run does the streak just insta reset?

[turbid nova]

If the current run is not finished I think so

[fair flower]

fair

[heavy heron]

yeah it does i think

[lean agate]

holy hand level clutch

each pair scores about 100.900 something

[fair flower]

cav and blackboard are also carrying

[turbid nova]

Blackboard still triggering on debuffed cards

[lean agate]

yyeeup

[turbid nova]

Goat activities

[fair flower]

Oh damn I thought it could

[cloud sinew]

it is

[turbid nova]

It does

[lean agate]

dude even trigger with 0 cards held in gand

[frank grove]

it can

[lean agate]

so goated

[turbid nova]

Yeahh

[fair flower]

oh then that's kinda cool

[lean agate]

i thought ante 1 blackboard would be a trap, bcs its been a long time since i do blackboard first ante

[turbid nova]

No

Ante 1 blackboard is bliss

[cloud sinew]

ante 1 blackboard is very good

lets you safely win in 3 pairs all of a1 pretty much

[lean agate]

yeah i was surprised

[turbid nova]

Yeah just play pair or 2 pair and start fixing suits

[fair flower]

Also fishing for purple seals in standard is also good

[turbid nova]

Yep

[fair flower]

also how does blackboard work with wild cards?

[turbid nova]

And of course gold and steel should always go on dark suits

[turbid nova]

They count

Unless they’re debuffed

If there’s a debuffed diamond or heart it doesn’t trigger

[frank grove]

and if they are debuffed they act as their base suit right?

[turbid nova]

If it’s a club or spade you’re good

Yeah

[fair flower]

Damn I could've extended my endless run yesterday, but now I know

[cloud sinew]

except for flowerpot, yes

[turbid nova]

That’s not intended though right

[cloud sinew]

not intended, it's a bug

[frank grove]

yeah

[fair flower]

poor flowerpot lol

[turbid nova]

Other than that wc are the only thing that make flowerpot somewhat usable

[frank grove]

two pairs, straights are pretty fine with flowerpot

[cloud sinew]

merry andy is a flowerpot synergistic joker as well

you can just play straights and use it like order

[fair flower]

Flowerpot is pretty alright on lower antes, but after blue it becomes much worse

[turbid nova]

Yeah

[lean agate]

wild cards work in logic of whichever suit is convenient at the time

[fair flower]

except debuffs

[turbid nova]

Or inconvenient for the bosses lol

[lean agate]

well, convenient for the game for sure lol

[fair flower]

fair

[turbid nova]

I think it would be fair if wc were not debuffed in suit bosses

[fair flower]

would make wildcards a solid strategy instead of a gimmick imo

[frank grove]

Yeah i think it would make them not the worst enhancement 😭

[turbid nova]

Big hidden buff for ancient joker

Even if you forget to read the boss there’s a workaround

[cloud sinew]

or just

every single on-score build

[lean agate]

as if its not already one of the most solid joker anyway

[pearl hinge]

Blablabla

[cloud sinew]

balaba

[fair flower]

sao true

[south cobalt]

Best strat for beating game in 12 or less rounds?

[fair flower]

Big hidden buff for blueprint and bs

[exotic silo]

Final Legendary Sticker(along with Reserved Parking sticker)

[heavy heron]

i don’t even get why wild cards get debuffed by suit bosses anyway

wild cards say they can count as any suit

so why can’t it count as any suit but the debuffed one…

[fair flower]

maybe it's a bug or an oversight by thunk idk

[turbid nova]

To keep the logic consistent I guess

[cloud sinew]

its intentional

it's paradoxical either way

so he chose one over the other

[fair flower]

yeah ig so

[south cobalt]

Best strat for beating game in 12 or less rounds?

[turbid nova]

If they weren’t then smeared joker would disable every suit boss blind

[cloud sinew]

nah

because smeared is "and", not "any"

[fair flower]

Early throwback and some mult ig

[lean agate]

blackboard for me looked like a pretty hard joker to play with as a beginner, now that my Jimbo prefrontal cortex have fully developed to play pairslop, it's reallly one of the easiest joker to play that proportionally does a lot of impact to your game

[cloud sinew]

actually it's "also", mb

[south cobalt]

Deck suggestion?

[cloud sinew]

NEVERMIND

it IS and

holy shit

[lean agate]

lol thats what i thought 300 playtime hours ago

[cloud sinew]

mhm

[exotic silo]

no deck is better than the other when you're skipping all but a couple of rounds, so I'd suggest Yellow Deck for the money

[cloud sinew]

blackboard my beloved

[cloud sinew]

there are decks that are better than each other when youre skipping

[fair flower]

plasma maybe, idk if others will agree w me

[turbid nova]

My blackboard runs start as pairslop but then you can literally play whatever you want

[turbid nova]

Yellow for sure

[cloud sinew]

plasma white stake is the best for wee and andy unlocks

[fair flower]

What about the 25$ skips though

[south cobalt]

How many rounds can i play before i have to skip every blind?

[cloud sinew]

4

because 8 from bosses are forced

and 12-8 = 4

[fair flower]

what joker is unlocked after beating 12 rounds anyway?

[turbid nova]

Merry andy

+3 discards, -1 hand size

[fair flower]

not bad tbh

[turbid nova]

mf made Yorick get to x18 by ante 8

[exotic silo]

somehow, droll joker keeps evading being stickered

[fair flower]

wdym by stickered?

[turbid nova]

That’s like one of the only hand specific page 1 jokers I know by name

[cloud sinew]

you get stake stickers on jokers for winning a run with it

[turbid nova]

Flush mult right

[cloud sinew]

and C++ is when every joker has gold sticker

[fair flower]

ohh that

[exotic silo]

I only have 12 of them left for C++

[lean agate]

they didnt make Merry Andy to work like Burglar because that would get him into goated joker conversation

[fair flower]

Have you gotten Gros Michel and Bean?

[exotic silo]

Gros Michel, no, but Bean, yes

[cloud sinew]

I only risk cavendish dying by playing this round so im just going to skip

i score enough to win

[fair flower]

smart play

[turbid nova]

Removes all your hands and gives you +3 discards 🗣️

Best joker of all time

[fair flower]

eternal certificate though 😨

[turbid nova]

I’ve taken it

[cloud sinew]

whats the problem

[turbid nova]

Worth it

[cloud sinew]

it gave me so many blue and purple seals

[trail pier]

[turbid nova]

soda?

[fair flower]

you're playing pairs right?

[lean agate]

never punished

[cloud sinew]

yes

[fair flower]

oh then it's no problem then ig

[cloud sinew]

it wouldnt be a problem for most hands id be playing

4 streak, my beloved

[fair flower]

nice

what's the highest gold stake win streak ever?

[lean agate]

idk but pretty sure drspectred got 66 ish

random deck for c++

[cloud sinew]

it was done on blue deck and it's between 88 and 92 iirc, lemme find it

[fair flower]

Blue deck proving it's the best deck in the game lol

[lean agate]

that +1 hand is just huge

[fair flower]

yeah you could even call it massive

[cloud sinew]

93

by suiii

[lean agate]

reminds me how terrible the old gold stake must be, how long did that -1 Hand Gold Stake version even last?

[cloud sinew]

it was -1 handsize

[fair flower]

what's the K supossed to mean lol?\

[lean agate]

wait huh

[turbid nova]

😨

Oh

[lean agate]

I must be seeing things then

[pale wolf]

i cleared 38 gigs of storage from my phone today ✨

[cloud sinew]

thats just their account name initial

[turbid nova]

The user

It’s on a phone

[fair flower]

wait you can connect your google account to balatro?

[turbid nova]

Apple

[cloud sinew]

nono

[fair flower]

oh damn

[cloud sinew]

that's just an overlay

[lean agate]

dude my 128GB has been SCREAMING at me for the past weeks, I need to do that factory reset soon

[cloud sinew]

that's not in the game

[pale wolf]

I believe the longest fully streamed streak is 41

[cloud sinew]

512gb my beloved

[viral raft]

hi folks!

good morning dk

[fair flower]

hello

[turbid nova]

Hi

[viral raft]

how ar u doing?

[viral raft]

Hi Nick

[fair flower]

good wbu

[cloud sinew]

i might end up doing GSG today if i dont fumble on nebula or plasma

[lean agate]

ohmydays the dream of getting that just gets even harder for me lol, started saving but it's been halted since

[viral raft]

good good, i just finish a class

[viral raft]

in 1 hour i have another

sad

[cinder thicket]

POGGERS amirite fellas ✌️😅

[fair flower]

damn

[pale wolf]

i offload my data onto a 1tb bank i got for like 20 bucks online

[lean agate]

whats a GSG? Gold Stake G...? Gauntlet or something

[viral raft]

Hermit on Arcana pack

[cloud sinew]

yes

[viral raft]

yes

[cloud sinew]

gold stake gauntlet

15 winstreak, 1 win on each deck

[pale wolf]

greak

[cinder thicket]

OMFG I ACC DID GET A HERMIT

YOOOO WHAT THE FUCK BRO 😭🙏

[pale wolf]

they were kidding btw

[fair flower]

I gotta try that sometime but without black deck

[viral raft]

see?

[fair flower]

and maybe without erratic too

[cinder thicket]

BLUD THIS GUY IS MY GOD

[viral raft]

always trust in people with ++ in their names

[cinder thicket]

I’ll acc take a bullet for u

[turbid nova]

always gamble ☝️

[fair flower]

always gamble until you lose all money and then blame the game for not giving you econ

[lean agate]

i gen need to lock in to attempt this sometime maybe, im still pretty dang terrible at this game, my highest GS winstreak was just 3 lol

[turbid nova]

I mean it’s ante 1

[viral raft]

neat!
shots him and starts playing his run*

[cloud sinew]

gambling is a very bad survival strategy sadly :(

[fair flower]

That's the idol fan mindset

[lean agate]

I should do Stake climb

[turbid nova]

Low risk high reward move

[viral raft]

tbh gamble in ante 1 is not a good idea 😭

besides buffon pack 4$ which idk if it counts as "gambling"

[cinder thicket]

Shocking twist

[fair flower]

nono you gamble all 8 antes

[viral raft]

yep

really pog

[turbid nova]

Yes

[viral raft]

😱

[turbid nova]

Mail in rebate in the next shop

[viral raft]

what about 10? (takes hiero and petro)

[lean agate]

speaking of gamble, if you have 28 dollars and see 4 dollars and 8 dollars arcana pack, which one do you open first?

[fair flower]

Mime after 1 reroll

[turbid nova]

8 dolla bc I will get hermit

[cloud sinew]

$4

[fair flower]

I go for the 4 dollar one so I see what I get in there so I get a higher chance of getting a fool in the 8 dollar one

I mean so I have something to copy with fool

[lean agate]

yaaaa i do that too

[viral raft]

guys, could you imagine that LT reworks Blue stake but instead of making the game more balance just makes run barely impossible without pair?

[brave goblet]

Another 4 stickers

[viral raft]

what a nightmare

[turbid nova]

I would uninstall

[frank grove]

-2 discards

[viral raft]

-1 hand size

yes, let's go back in time

[cloud sinew]

that would just force high card, not pair

[viral raft]

yeah, like it used to be tbh

[fair flower]

-1 hand

[lean agate]

oh thats interesting

[viral raft]

tbh a High card meta would be worst than the current Pair meta

imagine the builds

omg

[cloud sinew]

opening the $4 gives me a much better chance of putting me up to the next interest breakpoint as i only need $1

[fair flower]

it worked out for me a couple of times but idk if it's just confirmation bias

[brave goblet]

high card locks you out of a ton of basic jonker activations ...

[cloud sinew]

so theres less econ risk

[viral raft]

tbh it would be so funny that the meta on 1.1 was actually hard poker hands to play like strush or flush house

but tbh no idea how

[fair flower]

so you otherwise skip the mega if you don't get a temp or a hermie in the 4 dollar one?

[brave goblet]

if you watch too much balala multiplayer, flush house isn't that hard to enable

[lean agate]

that reminds me I almost died to the manacle like an hour ago because I only played pairs twice with card sharp

that would be devastating

[viral raft]

"Balala multiplayer" this is like saying that Idol isn't that hard to enable because bean can do it before ante 8

[frank grove]

If i have decent enough econ where i can always get above to 25 by the end of the next round then ill open it if not i wouldnt probably

[cloud sinew]

if all the information i have is"$28, $4 arcana and $8 arcana in shop" then probably not, but it's less risk generally

[brave goblet]

Well idol is a different story cause of the lives feature lol

but I meaaaaaan, idol is hard to enable but it's not thaaaaaat hard

[lean agate]

ooohhh okay, hm I need to up my interest game

[fair flower]

ye that's fair

[heavy heron]

i think if i had exactly $28 i’d take the $8 mega; if no money in there, then i skip the $4 and go next

[brave goblet]

four suit jokers and the lovers

[heavy heron]

because even if i don’t find money in there i think getting 2 tarots is always a decent deal

[heavy heron]

ok

LOOFLGJFHH

jokes on you i’m flushing

[viral raft]

Multiplayer is way diff from vanilla Balatro idk if you realice

[brave goblet]

It's very different cause you don't insta die

[lean agate]

blackboard one reroll away trust

[brave goblet]

But the basic mechanics of econ and deckfixing remain pretty much same

[turbid nova]

Yeah but can you get it before endl*ss

[cloud sinew]

and "overscoring" matters

[turbid nova]

otherwise what’s the point

[brave goblet]

I have lots of times actually

[heavy heron]

over scoring is the biggest problem you’ll consistently face in multiplayer

[brave goblet]

or you know you can just go back to square red card

[hollow notch]

just finished all decks on red stack! 35%

[heavy heron]

not a problem you’re AS concerned about in normal

[versed grove]

money?

[cloud sinew]

congrats

[fair flower]

2 or 3 immolates and purple seals gets the job done

[brave goblet]

exactly lol

[cloud sinew]

-15 cards is not enough to get idol online

[frank grove]

just get 3 immolates 😭

[viral raft]

bosses, overscoring, current meta, most of runs are in white stake...yeah i can asure you is kinda different

[hollow notch]

ty

[frank grove]

super easy and common thing in everyrun 😭

[brave goblet]

You have four C++s and never tried idoling on gold stake runs?

[hollow notch]

checked was the hardest one for some reason

[lean agate]

balatro multiplyer is an entirely different world bcs wdym theres a server with 50k+ members (i forgot actually) and a highly competitive ranked scene

[cloud sinew]

ive had idol be viable in ante 8 once in my past 400 GS runs, and it didnt even appear.

[fair flower]

just use seance

[cloud sinew]

i was scoring an insane amount anyway

[turbid nova]

Just copy the immolate with fool

[hollow notch]

i think i got red, blue, and yellow first try

[frank grove]

ive done idol on gs a8 before doesnt mean its common or often to do 😭

[viral raft]

once but tbh is a waste of time lmao

Idol only works on vanilla balatro when you're already winning lmao

[cloud sinew]

or in a very rare emergency scenario

[turbid nova]

Or if you wanna go kinda far into endless

[viral raft]

yeah but it's even more RNG than any thing on this game

[frank grove]

ive done idolchad with straights on abandoned runs like 5 times in my last 150 abandoned runs 😭

[viral raft]

"endless"🥀

[brave goblet]

5 times good enough

W

[turbid nova]

Didn’t think say he was considering reworking idol

[cloud sinew]

yes

[frank grove]

yeah

[fair flower]

Idol should be common imo because it's already so difficult to get it to work

[cloud sinew]

it is horribly designed for a8

[cloud sinew]

that doesnt really change it

[brave goblet]

Didn't someone propose a change with the way idol selects from the deck

[turbid nova]

Riff Raff nerf

[viral raft]

Idol is awful, literally only made for endless but tbh is just better to go Baron at that point

[fair flower]

makes a slightly better, but yeah it's still not great

[lean agate]

LMFAO

[fair flower]

truee

[cloud sinew]

it's arguably worse actually

[fair flower]

wait why?

[cloud sinew]

because it appears more often and it has no Baseball value

[fair flower]

oh shit I forgot about baseball

[cloud sinew]

also it doesnt fit as a common

[brave goblet]

when you forget to idol block and it takes the place of a rebate or golden joker

[cloud sinew]

commons are meant to be general, versatile.

idol is absolutely not general or versatile

[turbid nova]

And they usually don’t have xmult (exc photo and cav)

[brave goblet]

it's very versatile, it can make any card in your deck score

[viral raft]

Well, atleast Idol have Baseball sinergy

[lean agate]

speaking of uncommon, tell me why Parking used to be an uncommon, how much money did it give

[turbid nova]

What’s a joker you thought was uncommon but it’s actually common
For me it’s Golden ticket

[cloud sinew]

it's not reliable at all

it's 1/52 in a base deck

it's a rotating glass card for a joker slot 😭

[rich mauve]

we definitely would not want to see idol more often

[frank grove]

what

[viral raft]

this is like saying Baron is always good because atleast could gave you 1.5X mult (sometimes)

[turbid nova]

Baron is actually easier to run in ante 8 lol

[brave goblet]

someone didn't catch the sarcasm

idolbrained

r/woooooosh

[turbid nova]

I’ve done it twice 🤑

[cloud sinew]

it was not clear at all

your fault tbh

[brave goblet]

idol being versatile because it makes any cards score has got to be the most obvious dumb take

come on

[cloud sinew]

its a dumb take but it's not clear that it was a joke

[viral raft]

tbh even baron is better than Idol because it "could" work in Pairslop sometimes

like thoses mime steel card builds

[cloud sinew]

it wouldnt be out of character

[turbid nova]

Baron with fist is lowkey really good

[brave goblet]

cause you know it's true it technically does sort of make any card score

[viral raft]

not amazing but yeah, atleast have scoring potential

[fair flower]

Have you seen Roffle's chat?

[viral raft]

same with STM + Baron

[rich mauve]

1-2 x1.5 triggers vs 0 x2 triggers

[turbid nova]

Yeah but that’s less reliable

[rich mauve]

[brave goblet]

Not really, roffle vids kinda bore me

[viral raft]

0-1 x1.5*

[turbid nova]

Since you would be strengthing your queens

[cloud sinew]

the problem with STM + Baron is youre relying on holding 2 different ranks in tandem, and theyre both draw vulnerable

[fair flower]

fair enough

[frank grove]

and steel does the same thing as baron does 😭

[lean agate]

definitely golden ticket, also maybe shoot the moon

[viral raft]

yeah but it may work in runs with good handsize tbh

i don't like the idea but i see it work (sometimes)

[frank grove]

and its much easier to just have random steel in your deck than try to get one specific rank of cards you wouldnt be building into with stm

[viral raft]

i'm not a face card fan

[brave goblet]

well lots of things work in runs with certain aspects going for them (such as idol huehuehue)

[turbid nova]

I thought golden ticket was uncommon bc all the other enhancement specific jokers also are

When riff raff generated it I was confused

[viral raft]

Riff raff

[brave goblet]

Isn't ticket the only enh-specific joker that's common but is also locked by a requirement

[cloud sinew]

no

there's also cavendish

oh

"enh-specific"

[brave goblet]

ye

[cloud sinew]

what do you mean "also locked by a requirement" then

it came free with your "enh-specific"

[frank grove]

yeah

[brave goblet]

You have to play a hand of 5 gold cards before it even shows up in shops at all

otherwise it's locked

[frank grove]

well yeah so is blueprint?

[rich mauve]

uhh

really?

[fair flower]

The only use I see for idol in non endless is if you're gonna die next blind and need any scoring possible, and then you sell it right after you get something more consistent

[brave goblet]

isn't taht golden ticket unlock requirement?

[rich mauve]

I thought that was a onr time thing

[brave goblet]

No I know but that's the unlock requirement

[cloud sinew]

it also doesnt make your statement more specific

[frank grove]

it is a one time thing

[rich mauve]

then it shows up everytime you have at least 1 gold card

[turbid nova]

Someone told me you needed a wild card to see smeared joker in the shop but that’s wrong

[cloud sinew]

the statement would be true even if it was just "isnt ticket the only enh-specific joker that's common"

[turbid nova]

I saw it in shop 1 once

[frank grove]

yeah you could say that about a lot of jokers in the game

[brave goblet]

steel, stone, lucky, and glass are available at the start

[cloud sinew]

glass is not

[turbid nova]

Yes but you need to have the enhancement in the deck for them to show up

[cloud sinew]

you need to have 5 glass cards in your deck

[frank grove]

yeah

[brave goblet]

Oh see there we go, you could've just said that smh

[viral raft]

you need 5?????

[brave goblet]

The unlock experience sure is different on the second playthrough

[cloud sinew]

well glass isnt a common

[viral raft]

ohio scary

[frank grove]

glass is an uncommon joker

[cloud sinew]

so it wasnt relevant to your statement

[exotic silo]

runner was at +195 and xMult was so much that it didn't really matter what hand I played as long as I triggered Walkie Talkie enough or have steels on hand, so Two Pair of 10, 10, 4 and 4 scored 90% of the boss and two High Cards were enough to finish the rest

walkie talkie got its sticker

[lean agate]

it occured to me mid my first gold stake journey that Glass Joker only appeared after I have any glass in my deck, so I realized thats the reason it's among the rarest joker for me to see

[cloud sinew]

glass cards my beloved

i specifically add glass cards so that i can get glass joker

[viral raft]

Glass cards are goated

[cloud sinew]

it scales very quickly

[frank grove]

me too

[brave goblet]

Most new players don't really make use of glass I think

[turbid nova]

Glass joker was the last joker I added to my collection

[frank grove]

i take random glass from mid standard packs just for glass joker

[brave goblet]

cards that break scary

[compact niche]

Straightman

[viral raft]

most new players barely plays anything besides faces cards and flush tbh

[cloud sinew]

every 4 times on average, not really that big of a deal tbh

[exotic silo]

Glass Joker was a really early gold sticker, it sure is a strong joker

[cloud sinew]

also deckthinning

[turbid nova]

An IQ too high??

[fair flower]

I never knew that, if the glass you had breaks does it still stay available in the shop?

[brave goblet]

tell that to new players

[compact niche]

This seed is insanely fun

[brave goblet]

scary face op!!!!

[compact niche]

(This is unseeded but if anyone wants it lmk I'll share once I'm done)

[exotic silo]

in the same vein, Golden Ticket only appears if you have a Gold Card in your deck, and Stone Joker appears if you have a Stone Card

[viral raft]

Odd todd is better than Scary face

🔥

[turbid nova]

Me pulling up to every run with chad, scary face, smiley face, photo and ancient joker

[fair flower]

no wonder I never see stone joker lol

[cloud sinew]

actually though

[turbid nova]

I don’t use stones much

[cloud sinew]

more chips and more ranks in deck

[frank grove]

balatro player when 1 in 4 chance for not glass card breaking: this is guaranteed and bad
balatro player when 1 in 32 chance to instantly die to bloodstone missing: this will never happen

[fair flower]

I only use them for deck fixing in endless and that's pretty much it

[exotic silo]

it's a genuinely good joker too

[viral raft]

yeah, i love odd todd retrigger builds, your chips are always high no matter what

[cloud sinew]

you should be using stones with bus for sure

[turbid nova]

“Noo what if glass card breaks”
“It won’t”

That’s how I play glass

[echo sphinx]

it wont 😭

[lean agate]

95% of my glass cards experience is just pray I find it from the shop outside arcana packs at ante 8 shops

[turbid nova]

It works most of the time

Approximately 75% of the time

🧠

[echo sphinx]

i never use glass as specifically a deckfixing tool because i swear that shit never breaks

[viral raft]

my only bad experience with glass cards is to search my beloved Glass Joker

[echo sphinx]

i had a perkeo run where i just glass the entire deck and i coulnd't get the steam achievement

[brave goblet]

jimbo reads your mind

[turbid nova]

Lucky cat is better 🔥

[brave goblet]

remember if you need your glass not to break, it always breaks

[viral raft]

both are peak

[brave goblet]

therefore, to make indestructible glass, you always pray to smash

[compact niche]

Wtf is this run lmao

[cloud sinew]

you can force glass joker to scale quite easily

[viral raft]

i like Glasses because are fun to play overall

[cloud sinew]

you cant do the same with cat

[viral raft]

Lucky cat ends in a minmax run most of the time

[brave goblet]

IT'S THE STRAIGHT FLUSH RUN

[echo sphinx]

three musketeer strush joker

[turbid nova]

PEAK

[brave goblet]

get rid of that stupid stuntman

[turbid nova]

start buying neptunes

[echo sphinx]

also that stuntman is literally int

[cloud sinew]

its all of their chips

[brave goblet]

I actually once had a strush run that I lost cause I couldn't find any neptunes

[fair flower]

time for strush :D

[viral raft]

it's his chips resources wdym

[echo sphinx]

surely 100 chips is enough for ante 4 green stake

[brave goblet]

yeah ik, get rid of it later obviously

[frank grove]

what

[turbid nova]

Negative seance incoming

[brave goblet]

five ankhs and ouijas

best it can do

[exotic silo]

dopamine

[cloud sinew]

money

[viral raft]

Money = power

[exotic silo]

is it already time

[compact niche]

I just bought 2 in the last shop

[cloud sinew]

yes

also take paintbrush

[fair flower]

it's always time for campfire