#RTGAME - How much can we min max this (WE HIT NANEINF)
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https://www.twitch.tv/rtgame we can check the vod of the run
Pre-Birthday Balatro, I must beat Ante 14 specifically to beat mscupcakes (call out stream)
He is playing on the no face deck, black stake
That is what we are checking for
this on experimental?
Yes
There is a legendary on ante 8 I think but Dan skipped it since it would of likely been shit
We should probably check what it is
what is the seed?
look man i dont have the experimental build but cheking the legendary would probably help
seed is literally just "RTGAME"
if its tiboulet it could drasticaly increase score
changing deck to plasma can easily make the output score significantly larger and from when i played it, there was a significant lack of blueprints/brainstorms
so i doubt this can go infinite with steel retriggers
There seed is RTGAME
I jokingly suggested when Dan started “hey Dan you should put RTGAME as the seed”
And apparently
It’s really fucking good
We know there is a legendary soul on ante 8
Dan skipped it
But we know there is a legendary soul on ante 8 that MIGHT be good with this seed
honestly i dont feel getting experimental patch right now but chekking legendary would probably help
Can someone check what the legendary is please?
on second negative tag, it hits trading card so it might enable some absurd things from the legendary joker
I don’t have all the jokers so I can’t run it myself yet
im gonna try it later today
i skipped the legendary on my run too but thats because too many eternals
i also remember finding DNA along the way there
Jesus Christ I can’t believe this seed
I believe someone on the RTGame discord got to fucking ante 17 on this?
Let me check
Oh wait
That’s you

Lmao
I’m stupid
Do you think it can be pushed further
absolutely
for one, i used abandoned deck on black stake and not plasma
second, i used red seal 4s which mightve been red seal kings/queens with triboulet instead
i dont think there were enough of steel card synergies to go that path (baron, mime, showman, brainstorm/blueprint)
we just need someone to go check the legendary soul
@analog remnant
Are you in a run right now
Cool
Ok let’s make a list of info we need
1 check what the legendary soul is on ante 8
2 look for any interesting combos
3 look for vouchers that allow for spectrals in some way
(consumable slot + omen globe / pack prices)
so we're locked to abandoned right?
yes
havent actually tried it myself, does deck influence what you get from a seed?
no
We CAN play it in vanilla deck and see if it would be better there
No face cards might be tough
If the legendary is face card related we might consider switching to a different deck
because of trading card though, we can just dig for face cards with standard packs
if it is we can spectral / strength card
cuz theres a trading card somewhere along the way
somene needs to rush the legendary yoker first tho
We just need someone to check up on what the joker is
So
didnt watch vod but ante 5 idol appears
and a hack
if i could go back i wouldnt have any eternals lol
main deck strategy will probably be idol + hack + bloodstone + OA6 (because all of those appear eventually)
Holy shit Dan is about to get to ante 14
or idol spam with brainstorm/blueprint if anyone can manage to find either one or showman
He ended it on ante 13
@elder imp @raw pike
Since you two are from the RTGame discord I assume you would be interested in this
ah yes, reason i joined the balatro server actually 😅
Fun fact! I am the person who even suggested Dan does this seed
I’m the reason the entire thing happened 
I didn’t know it was this good I just thought “hey Dan it might be cool to check out a seed like RTGame”
HEHEH
well it turned out great!! i would offer to help map the seed but unfortunately i don't have balatro myself yet 🥲
same as pandragora
just here to keep a "bookmark"
as I will kill my productivity if i get the game and i can't have that for now
yeah same here, i'm waiting until i graduate

unfortunately, this post may be deleted after some time (i think after its inactive for a bit)
may want to move it over to rt's server for that reason
welp time to delve into the seed again with plasma deck this time
so what was his record?
first run attempt I got this info:
- Ante 4 Negative Skip -> Negative Trading Card + Hack
- Ante 5 first shop reroll twice(?) -> Idol
- Ante 5 second shop standard pack -> retrigger lucky 4
- Ante 7 Director's cut
- Ante 7 second shop reroll once -> OA6
nothing of note from wraith in spectrals
i dunno if you can get past ante 16
LOL
okay nvm
i dont think re-running would get me any further so this is my second and also probably best possible attempt
maybe i missed something though
there's another one btw (legendary) in like ante 11 or 13 ish
but no legendary at ante 9 is going to matter, at least i dont think so
unlessssss it was perkeo and we had satelite, but neither are true
second run attempt (additional info):
- Ante 5 second shop tarot pack judgement: Showman
- Ante 8 (with Ankh): DNA
- Ante 9 (with Ankh) first shop spectral pack with soul: Yorick (oof)
which seems to be confirmed with other ppl
hmm
im thinking
there's a negative tag in ante 2 right?
if you have overstock you get an oops
i wonder if there's any way for it to land on the oops
you mean the second negative?
the first one lands on the x2 its pretty important imo
you reckon?
well, maybe you survive without it, i know i was close to losing quite afew times
poly invis 
then you get seltzer and you're good.
does the invis hit anything good
ante 10
wow, nice you found something i didn't then, no idea what it hits
when do you get an OA6s in ante 2?
i havent seen that at all yet
if it does hit bloodstone or idol, you could probably go up to ante 19 or maybe 20
idk it was the first run i did on the seed
where i didnt skip anything
idk maybe i fucked something up LOL
but you get oa6s very early
invis didnt hit shit for me
well with or without rerolling, trying the first negative tag a couple of times always gave negative on the Duo
with overstock
idk if theres a way to avoid that, might be worthwhile to just not take the negative tag in the first place
I can push
can we make a gc?
might be easier to rig if we can communicate easily
Notes on 3rd test run:
- Ante 3 shop 3 (after big blind) has red seal 2 of clubs
- Ante 5 Negative tag: Rerolled 7 times and found brainstorm 2nd slot -> hypothetical negative brainstorm if you reroll 14 times without overstock?
Plasma Deck start:
- Round 1: Play 3-7 straight
- Round 2: Play heart flush
- Round 3: Discard for diamond flush. Buy tarot pack for judgement into Scary Face
- Round 4: Discard for spade flush. Buy Arrowhead
- Round 5: Discard for spade flush. Buy spectral pack -> Immolate
- Round 6: Discard for spade flush.
- Round 7: Discard for 3-7 straight with all spades but 4 of diamonds
- Round 8: Discard for spade flush, play full house found. Buy both packs (red seal 2 of clubs from standard, To The Moon from joker). Buy discard voucher(?)
- Round 9: Discard for spade flush. Use Hermit. Reroll once for trading card. Reroll once for Hack. Reroll as many times as possible. (7 times?)
- Round 10: Use Trading Card then discard for spade flush. Reroll twice for NEGATIVE BRAINSTORM
@low thunder
now, i need to check if i can get negative on brainstorm while getting overstock
Plasma Deck start (revised):
- Round 1: Play 3-7 straight
- Round 2: Play heart flush. Buy Overstock
- Round 3: Discard for diamond flush. Buy tarot pack for judgement into Scary Face
- Round 4: Discard for spade flush. Buy Arrowhead
- Round 5: Discard for spade flush. Buy spectral pack -> Immolate. Buy Hone
- Round 6: Discard for spade flush.
- Round 7: Discard for 3-7 straight with all spades but 4 of diamonds
- Round 8: Discard for spade flush, play full house found. Buy both packs (red seal 2 of clubs from standard, To The Moon from joker). Buy discard voucher(?)
- Round 9: Discard for spade flush. Use Hermit. Reroll once for Trading Card and - Hack. Reroll 5 times then go to next blind.
- Round 10: Use Trading Card then discard for spade flush. Reroll once for NEGATIVE BRAINSTORM
Other Notes:
- Ante 5 Shop 1: Reroll twice for idol
- Ante 5 Shop 2: Open tarot pack for Judgement -> Showman
- Ante 6 Shop 1: Do NOT buy spectral pack (Wraith/Ankh)
- Ante 6 (with Ankh) Shop 1: Reroll into OA6s and Totem (replacing showman with totem and not taking OA6s for now)
- Ante 7: Do NOT reroll boss blind (rolls into the Goad, debuffs spades)
progress so far
idol is
odd
why are you brainstorming dna at the end of the round?
did you switch it?
i forgor 💀
all the cards are red sealed lucky, brainstorm is better on idol for now i think
since its 3 * 3 = 9 versus 2 * 4 = 8
currently turning them all into glasses, which hack would be better
no thanks
where would we even vc
i presume you are in the rtgame discord?
well ill be chilling in there
beat you there
here's the optimized run i did, tried to push it as far as it could
here's the details about jokers/deck:
its ogre
if anyone wants to try and push this further, avoid using wheel of fortunes so you can have the opportunity to use Ectoplasm on your jokers
interesting how a run can be that optimized
NICE WORK
goat
if i had some application to read into the seed (which probably does exist) i couldve tried getting more negative jokers. only reason i had a fuck ton of instructions was to reroll manip to land negative on brainstorm, which i tried and successfully calculated
BUT, apparently you can find Perkeo somewhere early if you are using Ghost Deck
at least, thats what somenoe else said
if you get an early perkeo, you can go actual infinite with steels
i dont know if the same negative brainstorm setup will work tho
Eyo gang
Actually insane levels of optimisation here
Very tempted to try this on a future stream just to showcase the absurdity of it
Would this be the route you'd still recommend?
Negative Brainstorm is actually insane too
If you're going to change the deck to get an even higher score, then yes defintely follow their line.
But the negative brainstorm is insane no matter what, huge find you want to follow to that point either way i think
though im not sure if it works out on non-plasma the same way since spade flush is very strong specifically on plasma
i used plasma deck since there didnt appear to be a Perkeo somewhere early (reason why people run ghost instead of plasma)
general game plan is to bank off of Arrowhead for massive chips, then pivot into totem + hack flush fives once you set up your deck properly (all cards are 2 of spades with retrigger)
while i did eventually change the spades into hearts for bloodstone, it would be better to just have only totems and no bloodstones since you dont need Oops! All 6s with only totems
so, keeping showman is the play
also, trading card + DNA somewhere in ante 8 with brainstorm can help fill your deck with glass 2s to make totem consistent
and one more thing: because totem only needs 5 cards to be scored, you only need a handsize of 4 (copy a card twice with DNA + brainstorm to get 5) to play a flush five
so, you should be able to get 2 negative jokers from ectoplasm (or three if you get more hand size from vouchers/jokers), so dont use wheel of fortune on the jokers
im fairly certain this works out on other deck types too (at least ones that dont modify shops, if my understanding of shop rerolls is correct)
im talking about survivability/income, the shops dont change yes
you dont need THAT much survivability, i mostly did the optimization because i originally was planning on rerolling 14 times without overstock
until i realized that i could still get it with overstock
This is several levels ahead of my knowledge but great info nonetheless, thank you very much ❤️
may also need to get 100% jokers, unsure how that interacts with shops
Hey dan
I was the person who even suggested the idea of using the RTGame seed
holy fuck I wasn't expecting it to be so broken jesus
I was losing my mind live during the stream
it was crazy
Your wish etc etc
@drowsy osprey ok let’s try optimising it further
Since if rt wants to do this tomorrow let’s make it as crazy as possible
ok does someone have a dock off all antes and information?
and what is the legendary on ante 8?
do you guys take the mime?
.
kinda sad there is no way to get the mime and baron cus they are both on ante 1
do you have any way to get 11 rerlls on ante 3?
wait is the seed data might be wrong if the round descriptions are accurate
wait is it meant to say rerroll twice on ante 4 for idoll and not ante 5?
nvm
ye no seems pretty optimised there is a baron mime angle that exists here and it might be better, but its probbably not if u really want u can test it out
but this seems pretty optimimised already
i dont think you can find mime/baron early enough
plus, mime/baron arent great unless you have a mass quantity of blueprints/brainstorms and/or you have perkeo
totem works just as well if not better with mass blueprints/brainstorms and there isnt an early perkeo
i dont exactly understand the analyzer but it seems that we may be able to pick up a blueprint in ante 3 or an invisible joker in ante 4
both may be too far away/too expensive tho
wait... this analyzer might be wrong
it says that you find Onyx Agate relatively soon in Ante 2 but you actually find Arrowhead instead
nevermind.
some jokers are correct, some arent? its a lil weird
anyway, there IS a blueprint that can be found in Ante 2 but its really far away
welp, time to draft yet another route
blueprint will certainly make it better, but is it possible to get both blueprint and negative brainstorm?
im not sure worth cheking
because thats a LOT of money in rerolls
gonna check the math soon
technicaly each round can give +15 in rebate value
ah ye the analyzer do be funky
i think its cus the seed logic changed between versions
i found a red seal in a pack early on, but might need to adjust that money for blueprint/negative brainstorm
originally bought the pack in ante 3 but may adjust to ante 5 now
i think packs are locked to ante as well unless its standard pack
ah ok
well the way to improve it if it can be improved is to get the blueprint and to get red seal on all the glass cards
that is what i did
besides the blueprint
in the original run
one other thing is that were using totem, so we only need 5 handsize
cus the legendary was not triboulet right
so we can use ectoplasm twice
legendary was yorick
uuf
the only thing about hand size is that you could argue steel value but negative increase is probably better
steel value is negligible if you dont have mime/barons
ye no i agree
again, wouldve used steel if perkeo was found
ye full steel hand rest after 2 ectos is only 9X mult
seems like u have it figured out so just tell me if u manage to get the blueprint route working
i just got here but are you doing abandoned black stake or plasma white stake
Just got here and read through this whole chat, ngl you are like my hero or something, this is SUPER cool
I don't really get all the intricacies and am still early game, but massive power to all of you guys with this optimisation, this is amazing to watch
im not sure about deck but plasma is by far the best deck for going the farthest
as it balances the equation
sometimes people run ghost deck but thats mostly for perkeo runs
ghost deck would barely do anything here tbh
ye probably not
so i think i can route in blueprint
yo
i just need to see if i can actually pull it off
also question what deck are u using
ye thats what i tought just wanted to be sure
im gonna use plasma since its def best late antes
would be hype if the blueprint route is possible
then i also kinda helped in the optimiasation( not that much tho)
you provided the seed analysis, which notified me that blueprint can be obtained
les go
les gooooooooo
but its possibile
yeah, i think its in an ante 5 shop
yo then this is huge
now heres a question: is going for invisible joker worth it?
probably
best case is another hack
then u copy with blue print idol and get 2 hacks
cuz what im thinking is get showman for multiple idols
i mean another brainstorm/idol is also huge
ik you can get two idols by ante 8 using showman, but i had to sell showman then
2 idols is huge
cuz eventually youll get two more slots from two ectos, which then youd want one more of something you already have
so i think keeping showman is right
ok so run it with me what is ur joker setup when there is an invis joker in the shop
will do
im assuming no ectos have been used
none as of yet (none have been found)
ok what are the jokers u have?
i havent been able to find invisible joker yet
also, im just gonna put the revised version and notify dan
also there is a dna on ante 8 is that worth?
NEW SEED ROUTE @left jacinth
Plasma Deck start v3:
Ante 1 Small Blind: Play 3-7 straight
Ante 1 Big Blind: Play heart flush.
Ante 1 Big Blind Shop: Buy Overstock, then Temperance
Ante 1 Boss Blind: Discard for diamond flush.
Ante 2 Small Blind: Discard for four of a kind 2s. Then, discard for two pair Q/Js.
Ante 2 Small Blind Shop: Buy Arrowhead
Ante 2 Big Blind: Discard for spade flush.
Ante 2 Big Blind Shop: Buy spectral pack -> Immolate
Ante 2 Boss Blind: Discard for spade flush.
Ante 2 Boss Blind Shop: Reroll three times
Ante 3 Small Blind: Discard for spade flush
Ante 3 Small Blind Shop: Reroll three times
Ante 3 Big Blind: Discard for spade flush, play full house found.
Ante 3 Big Blind Shop: Reroll twice then buy Blueprint.
Ante 3 Boss Blind: Discard for spade flush.
Ante 3 Boss Blind Shop: Buy Hermit, then reroll once for Trading Card and Hack. Use Temperance, then reroll 5 times.
Ante 4 Small Blind: Skip for Negative Tag
Ante 4 Big Blind: Use Trading Card then discard for spade flush.
Ante 4 Big Blind Shop: Reroll once for Negative Brainstorm. Buy Discard voucher
Other Notes:
Ante 5 Shop 1: Reroll twice for idol
Ante 5 Shop 2: Open tarot pack for Judgement -> Showman
Ante 6 Shop 1: Do NOT buy spectral pack (Wraith/Ankh)
Ante 6 (with Ankh) Shop 1: Reroll into OA6s and Totem (replacing showman with totem and not taking OA6s for now)
Ante 7: Do NOT reroll boss blind (rolls into the Goad, debuffs spades)
ok so acording too seed data there is a dna and misprint on ante 8
i think rares in the analyzer are accurate
since i found DNA then
ah ok then u could get 2 misprints with showman on ante 8
i took DNA early to setup totem quicker, but you may be able to ignore it for now
at some point you need DNA to duplicate glasses so you dont run out
do you have overstock + or just regular overstock?
regular overstock
whats unfortunate for the new routeis that you skip on getting Hone + Discard vouchers 😦
also ante 7 has a negative walkie talkie
so if u did 4 spam it might do something(not really)
oh this hurts
you could have gotten blueprint in ante 7
but its on the rare backup list
wich means that you have to find a rare u already have
but the shop has no rares
on its list
unlucky
also is the immolate on ante 7 worth?
Thank you ❤️
more optimizations are underway
he's becoming too powerful 
Actually insane science under way
ye no anon is crazy
I'm gonna stream the route tomorrow evening, will absolutely credit yourself
Insane science under way and very much appreciate the routing
Toughest thing I need to remember is thinning the deck appropriately
Did a mock run tonight and lost because the idol chose a jack haha
anon btw i found out there is aura on ante 2 it might be worth insepcting
if its poly
wait is on immolate pack prob not worth
it is
aura is worth or not worth?
welp the blueprint is the only optimiasiation i can find with the data i have
it stops at ante 8
i guess just hunt for poly cards but u probably already do that
getting the dna is very very significant from playing
there is a Deja Vu in a spectral pack post ante 8
wait there is a dusk on ante 5
but i think i screwed up the rng cuz i didnt take Hieroglyph
acording to the data
i dont think dusk is worth a joker slot at ante 5 since you have Hack, Blueprint, Trading Card, Arrowhead, and Totem taking up slots
tho now that i think about it, maybe you dont need hack that early?
i mean if u can get either hack or dusk later its pretty good
Red seal definitely needed somewhere yeah haha. Getting blueprint is genuinely insane in this though
ye it was very deep in rerrolls so its crazy that anon found the route
atleast deep for early antes
i had only 4$ left to spare after doing all rerolls for negative brainstorm
so yes, it was VERY close
for my original optimized run?
ye
you can probably find it in an image in this thread
im gonna go do colleg things then im hopping back onto this
getting blueprint instead of bloodstone is gonna be nice
might be pretty basic but this should be an explentation of the optimal setup with the current route
imma go sleep now
ONE LAST TIME, heres an improved route for this seed
(its gotten so long that i need to put it into a txt file)
its gotten so precise to the point where after rerolling 5times for negative brainstorm setup, you have EXACTLY ONE dollar left. you also have one dollar left (again) after getting Idol, Showman, and your retrigger 4.
@left jacinth i apologize if this ping wakes you up at 6 in the morning
the main change is that there is a lot more optimization of money, which lets you buy both Hanged Man and the Discard voucher in addition to all the rerolls
i will not be sending the final score that i get (cuz thatd be boring) but this is proof of concept of what this seed can do
Thank you, very excited to try this. I'm guessing the reroll for the second idol early is no longer advised too?
nope. youll still probably find it but dont pick it up yet so you can keep trading card/arrowhead for longer.
Thank you!
pretty much all the updated info youll need is in the text document above and all the tips in the "Some Tips" section are relevant for after following all the steps
good work guys rt got really far with this
ye probably its only 3 more triggers but it would probably work
Holy
Fucking
Shit
Guys…
@drowsy osprey
Just had a realisation
There might be a way to get more ectoplasm…
Set up for 6’s and use spectral joker
There is a chance
For e100
Not even just e100.
Way further
The key difference
Is more jokers
Is that if we can keep DNA
We have sustainablity
That means we are no longer restricted to the hand size limit of 5.
Which means we can squeeze one or two more Ectoplasms out of our handsize.
BOTH PROC AT THE SAME TIME
One very specific problem
I dont think Dusk shows up anywhere early
I swear it was up to ante 18 when it first showed up
that might be too late
We can built with face cards
Right?
Make it so every card is considered a face card
Retrigger all face cards
That is one extra joker slot that we take up
However, it can be used as a crutch
Ik sock and buskin is found relatively soon, not sure about pareidoilia
dusk showed up but there was only 1 ectoplasm that showed up
he did not have space for it
plan is to completely forsake Hack and go with Dusk
ah for sock value?
Sock and buskin in ante 2
can you still get blueprint with the sock?
Not before ante2, that screws up the money optimization
ah ok
Might be able to afford blueprint if you dont buy a discard voucher
It’s in ante 2
But that means the voucher pool gets messed up too
Honestly
Good
What the FUCK was that voucher pool
True, the vouchers were very ass this run
ANTIMATTER AT 25???
i mean if u can get animater faster that would be huge
but im not sure thats possible
the only way to get antimater earlier would be to buy more vouchers earlier
Jolteon
i have no idea how voucher queues work, especially if you throw in voucher skip tags too
Is your twitter anon jolteon
No.
it is actually YellowCat (@YellowC53261900) since i used to go by that alias earlier
if i member right vouchers are coded to antes, and if you have a voucher thats supposed to show up on the ante it rolls a backup
only way to get vouchers to show up earlier is to buy more vouchers
oh I havent been in here in a while
actually nuts rtgame showed up in here lol
@low thunder I also vced with anon to assist with build ideas on 4/12
is there any appearance of diet cola?
also, have we checked every negative tag under the sun, including on shop rerolls
i could do the investigating
here's the first one, arrowhead double reroll negative tag
(im looking to see if something happens
first negative tag always lands on duo
doesnt matter since we want to play that blind anyway for immolate money
second negative tag can be maniped to land on brainstorm
third negative tag (somewhere in ante 10-11) always lands on misprint and if you have double tag, faceless joker(?)
basically something always irrelevant
since showman is staying the entire time, i dont think you can manip these
looking at RT's stream, there are no more negative tags until ante 26
i doubt it
my main thing is like
if we spam duplicate arcana packs
couldn't we in theory basically force a soul after a certain point lol
/ so much money
well theres a soul in ante 9 that gives yorick
hmmmm
do the tarot pack skips share the same card pool as the arcana packs in shop?
if they do, then theres no point cuz RT opened every arcana pack and did not find a single soul
plus someone else managed to get a soul but it wasnt perkeo
no
different pool
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
do you see what im seeing
yeah im seeing it
itd be very very annoying to route a path with anaglyph instead of plasma tho since the entire 2-10 antes are done by using only arrowhead + copy jokers
annoying, yes
possibly better for score
also yes
i think ill try the 6th sense idea first
(using retrigger 6s + dusk instead of retrigger 4s + hack)
if i happen to be doing it, but i have no plans on tackling this seed for a few days
understandable
i spent about 5 hours last night minmaxing it before the stream
which i missed 😭
it was mostly trying to squeeze every dollar out of each blind
the most stylish method used was buying temperance in ante 1, then buying egg in ante 4, then using both + hermit to get the money for ante 5
yeah i was reading that
im thinking about anaglyph rn just because i'd need to see what rounds would be worth skipping
i'll keep that in mind since shop rerolls will be the same when playing on plasma deck
wait no
nevermind, you can only test the tarot pack idea with anaglyph
why only the tarots?
wb negatives
ik the next negative isnt until 26
but if a run can get there
:3
i thought the idea was to use double tags on a mega arcana in hopes of getting perkeo to pivot into steel deck
oh that's also an option
cuz idol builds are always capped by how many jokers you can have
well my main thing was the negative could allow for blueprint, brainstorm, retriggers, and other shit
while spamming arcana packs is basically only
soul searching
well, i dont remember any really outstanding jokers in the reroll pool in ante 10-11
so if i manage to get a deck to ante 26 (which i think i can with 6th sense), i will spam rerolls and give you data for that
ok!!!!
i'd love some
im still pretty proud of routing negative brainstorm without a seed analyzer
wait
i would not have routed in the blueprint if i didnt have the analyzer tho
aren't negatives a different pool than normal jokers
spamming rerolls wouldn't work if the negative jokers are always the same
/ different than shop pool
i think the negative TAGS use the shop pool because the jokers are converted into a negative card rather than generating a full negative card
for example, RT found a negative scary face which i found too
this is under the assumption that shop pools are based on ante
because skipping the big blind forces you to open the shop after the boss, you start a new ante
which means that you cannot manipulate the shop with rerolls because it just started a new chain
the same thing happens with the negative tag in ante 10-11, always lands on misprint
main reason why duo negative is ignored is to get immolate for very important money + interest soooo
yeah i know 😭
not like duo negative makes a large impact in the grand scheme of things, its only one 2x when you are doing 25+ of them
average idol run
and perkeo steel technically
also, i assume you are more acclimated to balatro's lingo
what do people call the perkeo strategy archetype?
aka perkeo and spamming steels with baron/mime
oh ok, ill just keep referring to it as perkeo steel
oh i was thinking the perkeo/observatory shenanigans
theres also eternal perkeo ankh/ecto
that one seems so awful to find in a normal run
this seems either sixth sense/seance or just
that deck pilled
ghosty
regardless i think plasma is good for a while, but if you want to push antes a little more you may need to look into switching decks for more time
anaglyph seems good but idk
plasma is effectively squaring your score in a totem build tho, i dont know if thats worth forsaking
maybe im just stubborn
my main idea is basically look for a way to force a card generation
elaborate?
anaglyph arcana pack
or reply to a previous message if you already explained it and i missed it
oh that
test every judgment and soul
that absolutely has potential
i have the attention span of a child rn though
so
i probably could not run that alone
:V
i just want to say if you get perkeo rolling you can easially get nanaif with the telescope upgrade
that's why i want to test anaglyph
but anaglyph is most likely not gonna get that far
i have a lot of anapglyph experience and the deck is preatty weak
ur not going to be able to get the early blueprint and you will most likely loose out on brainstorm
but it would be cool if you manage to find the hidden perkeo angle
if we assume you get a decent early setup before u get the telescope perkeo strat rolling
and we say blueprint is unrealistick
then your score should increase at base by 3.75 at each shop
when you get the third brainstorm
theres also the very slim chance that perkeo just happens to be in a singular tarot pack skip
but at that point, might as well test with anaglyph
if thats the case then it could blow the whole run open
if it is in an initial skip pack around ante 11-20 you can make do with 1 less hack
making it the same run but you do perkeo setup for late game
at that point you can probably hit the kill screen
its a good testing deck
but i mean lets say perkeo is 9 packs deep on ante 11
how are u getting that while not dying
if it is first pack its easy
yeahhhhh
but if you could get perkeo from a skip in around ante 11-20
we may have to uproot our whole build
with plasma then u can give up a hack
and scale way farther for late game
then u have 4 perkeo procs wich is 5X more score each shop
true
earliest arcana pack skip i could find is ante 8, second blind
and the analyzer doesnt read anywhere beyond that
mmm
at least, the one Cadwah provided
we may have to test the packs ourselves
ye i know the analyzer is not deep enough for more optimasation
i found the github that has the code for the analyzer but i dunno if its capable of looking into the tag packs themselves
u kinda have to test all packs but the probability is extremly low for more power
assuming the seeding method remains the same, the only things shifted around by the beta patch are the jokers since some got rarity changes
so the fact that the analyzer is not up to date is irrelevant for arcana packs
ye no the analyzer seemed acurate for packs but it did not include the contents of tag skips
imma be real im not sure there is much more to optimise
the only thing i could think of was glyph
would ghost deck be worth testing either...??
wich would give dusk but i dont know about much more
someone DID say in the RTgame discord that they found perkeo in ghost deck
GUH
buuuuuuuuut i tried it and i couldnt find anything
and when i asked them, they did nto respond
hmmm
mans might have lied for clout
nevermind they did respond, but they say "I dont know"
i dont know how ghost deck helps getting perkeo
if there is some tech i dont know that might be a me issue
my guess is that spectral shop is modified by including spectral packs into the shop pool, which do not affect tarot packs
so changing to ghost will (probably?) not affect the ability to get perkeo
isnt the main reason to run ghost is easy spectral in consumable slot?
but i dont think it helps here
ye those are most of the reasons
only if you can find perkeo
ghost deck for endless is mostly the perkeo deck
while plasma is the everything else deck
problem is that arrowhead carried until ante 10 on plasma
but it will do nothing on any other deck
so to run em you need an entire new strat
abandoned deck (no)
i say the best shot of optimising is cheking all uncheked packs up too ante 20
that includes the extra pack when hieroglyphing
no petroglyph?
as im pretty sure there were alteast 1 skipped pack there
i think rt cheked all petro packs
but i mean chekking all packs is good
that includes buying and selling cola on every skip
so we can test judgements
the judgment pool is fixed btw
how far?
RT did not use every judgement he found, its a possibility
for another blueprint/brainstorm or smth
i remember taking the first wraith (in ante 6?) and it gave something uselss
cant wait to get burnt joker
are wraiths pools in anything specific?
each pack has a set joker in them while i think global jugdments have a global jugdment pool
if you have them in consumable they use a global pool but in packs they are set
so if every fool you use is a jugdment you might see something spicy
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
as you map the entire global jugdment pool
i can try that whenever i redo this run with sixth sense
oh wait
but the entire joker settup was perfect from RT atleast for not having legendary jokers
the main thing i wanted to test was
the only thing that could have made it better was getting a dusk from jugment after the antimater
negative anaglyph, and tarot anaglyph
the sixth sense idea that i had right after the stream was to build around 6s and dusk isntead of 4s and hacks
that way, you can get more consistent ectoplasms/polychrome cards
yo guys how i can search for the app that lets me see the joker queue for a seed?
but dont you have a guaranteed poly from the aura at ante like 15
more poly is good right
for some reason, when I did my run two auras i got were holographic
u only need 1 as u can dupe it with death
i have no fucking clue how rt got poly
😭
it is dependend on wich card u choose if i member right
if you test each card possistion they give differnt things
i mean just copy rt
thats the right card to hit
youre thinking that if i use the same card (i think 2 cards from the left) ill get poly?
sounds about right
i have seen someone play super optimised seeds before and card posistion manip changes the rng
but essentialy yes
ok great, ill keep that in mind
i think that position always gives poly
u might be able to get poly earlier if u test all positions of the first aura
that's so much testing 😭
ye no that sounds missreable
is there a save state mod that might help
you can also just back out before the pack closes
and test again when you are there
i think there are only really 2 optimiastion routes left. 1 is a secret perkeo. 2 is another retriger after getting anitmater wich is really tight
but if u find something let me know
so i was theory crafting how you would pull off the plasma strat with 6th sense
and the conclusion i have come to is that you cannot rely on retrigger 6s and dusk
this is because the whole point of using 6th sense is to get more ectoplasms since you can use at most 3 before you physically cannot use anymore
and because you can only copy cards with DNA on your first hand, exceeding handsize will be a problem
for example: if you have 2 handsize and you copy a retrigger 6 four times so you have a flush five
you need to play at least one more hand to get dusk to trigger (assuming you take no +1 hand vouchers), which means you wont have a flush five by then.
there are two workarounds:
- get more hand size via vouchers, which may be completely random depending on voucher system. if it isnt random, then we know that they are some of the last vouchers we can take, so its not viable.
- use ectoplasm until we have 2-3 ectoplasms in our consumable slot, then sell off 6th sense and use normal hack strats
because i do not want to venture into a 3+ hour run just to test one thing, i will choose the second option
so long as the comparative amount of 6s versus 4s is minimal, the risk of idol selecting the wrong card will be minimal
additionally, because we can get the ectoplasms relatively early (hopefully), the antes do not require retrigger jokers to operate in our favor, so even if it idol lands on 6s we can still play a flush 5
and if it does land on 6s, we would need 2 6s in the deck (if we have 3 copy jokers) or 3 6s (if we have 2 copy jokers), which can definitely be outpaced by 4s assuming we used all copy jokers + DNA on the 4s before getting 6th sense
of course, this is a backup plan in the <5% chance of happening and will not work by ante 15+
BUT, it is theoretically possible. i did see a sixth sense go by in the shop while RT was playing
the last thing left to do... is to confirm that its possible
also, theres the possibility of using pareidoilia (all cards count as face cards) + sock and buskin (retrigger all faces) but pareidoilia wastes a joker/negative slot that could be used for something else
that is the backup-backup strategy
just want to say vouchers are seed dependent
only way to see vouchers earlier is to buy other ones
the experiment was performed and yielded negative results
however, one important thing is that i did manage to pull off two ectoplasms rather than one
had i cut my losses and sold sixth sense to get brainstorm (which i skipped because i thought i had more time/could still get another ecto out of sixth sense) i couldve gone further, which may have gotten me another ectoplasm in a pack
I have found a solution.
oh?
another ecto takes the game a lot farther cus you can take another retrigger
or idol if you manage to get that
How the hell did I miss all of this?
just watched the YT vid, was it ever discovered what the legendary was that Dan skipped? I'm tempted to run this to see what I can figure out
Yorik I believe?
damn!!!
What difficulty is this running on?
white stake, its the best for plasma deck since you get more time + money to setup
Ah, that makes more sense. I hit some odd patches where I was $1-2 shy at ante 3
the only other viable stake to maximize score is black with ghost deck due to eternals + ankh, which basically necessitates perkeo
~~Only other question - on Ante 3 big blind. ~~
Ante 3 Big Blind: Discard for spade flush, play full house of 7/6s found.
Should I be rolling for a flush, then still maintain 7s and 6s while digging for that?
Nevermind, figured it out
lol i just watched his video on this
There is one thing left I need to fix.
How to consistently put Polychrome onto a glass card.
Once that is solved.
It is finished.
I somehow keep stalling out around Ante 11 - even with red seal steel 4s. Maybe I shouldn't be getting rid of trading card in exchange for DNA as early as I do
Oh no
course 3 is being prepared
what score did this get?
for fixing poly try hitting the third card on second aura that should give poly
I did not get polychrome on a card which heavily curtailed the run. I believe I now know how to fix that.
How much time in total have u spent on this one seed, ur level of dedication is insane!!!
I don't know why but I can't get arrowhead to show up
double check that you completed most of your collection and that you are playing on the beta
I didn't know it was on the beta, tyvm!
btw is this score with or without polyu?
the setup was 1 hack, 1 blueprint, 3 totems, and 3 brainstorms with a showman
had i had more money
i couldve replaced the showman with another hack
or another totem
...
wait isnt there any other money optimisations?
not money optimizations
just money
i entered the last few antes with $200
i needed so much more than that
ah i see i mean if u can get 2 gold red sealed cards thats alteast +8 more each blind
until final ecto
ah ok
i mean ur the runner so u know best
its because i found an invis joker
and got another brainstorm
that was not worth it
fuck.
if you enjoy optimizing seeds i have a seed to suggest to you jolteon
my own seed i found
i dont want to do seed optimization unless its for a dumb reason (like this)
owell
is this the dumbest reason you've optimized a seed?
ive never optimized a seed before. so yes, this is the dumbest reason since its the only reason ive found so far
One last thing that I will do before posting the final iteration of the RTGame seed route (which has now reach a 2k word count) is test the last ditch effort for Perkeo with Anaglyph (idea provided by @analog remnant ) since that is realistically the only thing that could possibly beat the optimization that I've set up
Other than what I've done so far, I don't think this seed can go furhter
if that idea does work, i would love to look at it
I think this seed is cool, but by no means a “god seed”, with how absurdly strong perkeo is right now, getting perkeo in ante 1 is pretty much a prerequisite for anything to be considered as a god seed with regards to WR score.
i dont think this seed was meant to be considered as a good seed, rt decided to use his own name and try and optimize that for a challenge rather than a god seed, and second of all getting perkeo early is necessary for a god seed but not ante 1, the wr score seed has perkeo in ante 2 and not ante 1, what makes a seed a god seed are the other factors that follow and that you can use in the rest of the run
this seed was never meant to be a god seed since it doesnt have an early perkeo
but its still a strong seed regardless and itd be fun to push it to its absolute limits
(if it had perkeo, there would be no limit to push because there is literally no limit)
For those of you who were here from the start, I mentioned earlier that someone said they found Perkeo on Ghost deck.
When I tested this, it appeared to be false.
However, I've come to the realization that its possible for card selections to be different between versions
In particular, Souls give different legendary Jokers if you are playing on the Beta or not.
The first Soul card that you find, which is in Ante 9, gives Yorick on the beta but Perkeo on the main.
While I could simply try and route the seed on the current version, I've also noticed that instead of Brainstorm, an Invisible Joker spawns, rendering the whole Negative Brainstorm setup completely useless
In addition to that, there are a lot of other factors that rely heavily on the Beta patch, specifically the early Arrowhead and an easy Sixth Sense in Ante 14.
Then I've come to a very, very important realization.
I can make a cross-update route.
That way, I can play through the earlygame for money + Joker setup, then swap to the main patch when I pick up the Soul, then swap back.
And since both the current patch and beta patch RTGame seed did not house many Steel Perkeo jokers (only one Baron, zero mimes)
I can still use Idol/Flush Five, now with Telescope + Perkeo to scale further.
Anything that you've seen before is going to be snapped in half.
What now lol- I find it so funny you said that 2 hours before a perkeo jumpscare
The score counter shall bow down to me.
We're gonna have a 3rd part to the RTgame seed it seems
Can't wait to see if RT gets to ante 39
(Also mad respect to Jolteon, dude is an absolute legend for committing this much to the bit)
that is, if RT wants to do this again, though with even more shenanigans injected into i
also, i havent tested any of these theories yet
still purely theoretical
just that if it works, itd be very funny for the route to involve savestates (wheel of fortune/ectoplasm), future sight (early game route), and multidimensional travel (swapping game versions)
I can see the title now.
"A stupid, stupid man bankrupts a casino with multidimensional travel"
Also because of how seeds function, it could work. It'd either stick to the state of one of the seeds with beta or vanilla qualities, or it does work and causes the run to take a long time.
So it does work?
I present to you my Magnum Opus: The RTGAME Seed
Aaaand the recording got fucked up
Great
And its only going to go up from here.
And I still have a DNA and Showman
And I still havent gotten the +1 Joker Slot from Antimatter
This is absolutely ludicrous stuff man
Potential for high seeded runs has quite literally doubled
How long did all of this take you to figure out btw?
Ever since the start of this thread, which was nearly 2 weeks ago
Since then, I have lost track of how many hours I've put in
But all i know is I had at least 150 hours worth of playtime before and doing this seed fucked up my statistics big time (i.e. which Joker did I complete the most rounds in)
i feel like seeds being different between the versions and not being related necessarily to the changes of the patch should be something that should be reported to the dev imo
The seeds being ever so slightly different between versions is purely because of rarity changes and how cards are selected from the pool
(at least that's my best guess)
What could've happened is that when Localthunk was balancing Yorick, he rearranged the queue order such that everything else was shifted ever so slightly to cause this discrepency
Tbh the bufoon packs have the biggest effect imo. Once those were added I to the first shop it changes the joker orders in shops alot. For example the previous seeded world record speed run seed is dead now because it no longer gives a stuntman in the first shop or pack last I checked.
That might also be a butterfly effect from Localthunk rebalancing a lot of Jokers by changing the rarities. I've noticed that common and uncommon Jokers are highly inconsistent if you try and get them with the old seed analyzer because there have been a lot of rarity changes in balancing.
Anyway,
Holy e142 👀. Looks like I got some work to do.
I made some particular mistakes that can be corrected in a different run
(such as not going for a third ectoplasm or being too greedy with Showman or occasionally forgetting to optimally use Perkeo)
Hopefully this is able to scale fast enough to reach naneinf.. but I have my doubts
When you gotta move 2-3 jokers every round your bound to slip up once or twice. It's a pain to always remember lol.
I had several rounds on my seed where I forgot to move a blueprint back and it cost me a planet card or two. Which goes a long way.
I remember missing at least 3 whole Jokers shifts, meaning I only copied 1 planet card at least three times soooo yeah
I wonder if it resets the timer on Perishable...
It literally removes your -1 handsize
by starting the run on beta-> going to standard
Yikes!
I bet you also dont have to deal with scaling pack costs
Once the beta hits main tho, you won't be able to freely swap versions so I'm not sure if this is that important of an issue to fix... yet
Yah, + its single player so who really cares if people cheat
but that's.... really interesting
and buggy
I was genuinely surprised and not surprised that swapping versions spawned Perkeo instead of Yorick
i think only baron + mime + steel kings + cryptids can
Well... i'll be honest I dont really feel like routing a steel king + mime run into the RTGame seed
Especially cuz I only found a single Baron and no mimes by Ante 8
yeah it’s been done a lot
Nah you can hit nan-inf with perkeo+ 5flushfive and retriggers. The first person to hit nan inf with perkeo+telescope or w/e its called hit nan-inf without mime/baron.
but i think you need way more planets than getting perkeo in ante 9
to hit nan-inf
agreed, but i gotta work with what ive got
Got the naneinf usinf mime and baron. The run is done on the main version to get the perkeo. There was also a cryptid on ante 9, so started duping it right away
Gotta love how people worked on e142 and this man pulls a inf
As long as there is perkeo, there is inf
That confirms an ante 39 then, neat
depends if u can dupe cryptid fast enough
good shit, still want to try using telescope strats tho for a theoretical consistent naneinf
if that doesnt work, ill try and route a ghost deck version
i dont think observatory scales fast enough with the amount of copy jokers we have in this seed
ive seen 1 inf with observatory but that was with hack and idol
sucks that perkeo spawns so late, but i want to try it anyway
also main engine is still hack and idol
at this point im just holding out for hack/idol instead of baron/mime cuz ive already invested so much into making a hack/idol deck work xd
Actually insane how far yous have been able to push this haha
How on earth is infinity possible
Cryptid + Perkeo
I made a discovery that is probably a semi-gamebreaking glitch where shop outcomes are changed if you swap between versions
The first Soul on beta spawns Yorick on beta and Perkeo on main
So what you can do is start on beta for Brainstorm/Blueprint setup, then swap to main for Perkeo, then swap back for everything else
naneinf is closer to e290 than infinity but
yeah
That is insane haha
This person relied solely on Perkeo + Cryptid with Mime/Baron to break naneinf once
What I want to try is to see if its possible to break naneinf consistently with Perkeo + Observatory
Godspeed
If it is possible would be an honour to showcase again
I can't believe the swapping version things like that's so funny and extreme haha
i mean i dont think its a glitch just sometimes versions change the luck algorithm, i think immolate which goes based on the luck algorithm was changed like 4 or 5 times cuz of that
Not really a glitch but rather an exploit yeah. The different versions have differing shop pools because of rarity changes/balance changes
tbh you cant really say youre closer to infinity compared to a regular number since infinity isnt a number, we have a high score in this game of e2.8m but thats still not infinity
I probably cannot break naneinf with Perkeo/Observatory, so if I can't I'll try and route a ghost-deck version that relies on Baron/Mime (which will likely be drastically easier to pull off)
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