#(WIP) Balatro Hevven: A Rhythm Heaven themed mod

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turbid niche
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Balatro Hevven (yes, that is the name) is a mod that aims to integrate some Rhythm Heaven jokers and stuff, while trying to stay fairly vanilla!
The mod, so far, aims to add:

  • About 25 jokers, although that is subject to change
  • Some Tarots, Planet and Spectral cards
  • A brand new consumable type, Flow Cards. These are useable only while in a blind!

The mod is available on Github, and as of right now already has a first (pre)release with every Flow Card implemented as well as a few consumables (but not balanced because I'm terrible at that please help)

There's also a spreadsheet with plans for Jokers and potential other bits and bobs

odd coral
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I thought i'd never see the day when there's a crossover between Balatro and Rhythm Heaven

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But as a Rhythm Heaven fan this is amazing

turbid niche
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I should probably add some more screenshots woops

turbid niche
odd coral
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You

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dark hinge
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honestly

fickle salmon
snow locust
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Would love to see jokers based on specific games in this like the one with the cat and the dog on the planes

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Or monke golf

turbid niche
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Just need to think of effects for those x)

heady steeple
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I wonder if there will be any cards that make you do a rhythm or timing based activity to get a reward

vocal herald
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Yoooooo this is awesome, looking forward to this one

vocal herald
vestal marsh
turbid niche
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yeahhhhhh

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I don't know this one worked before but it broke at some point

vestal marsh
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maybe a mod incompat?

turbid niche
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Turns out testing in a vacuum isn't the same as testing in game x)

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Nah it's my own fault

vestal marsh
turbid niche
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oh shit i forgot to push my changes

vestal marsh
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anyway, is it just me or are some of the consumables incredibly op

vestal marsh
turbid niche
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It might not be you x)

vestal marsh
turbid niche
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On paper they sound alright but in game they might be busted

vestal marsh
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cryptid level bullshittery

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not like i'm complaning

turbid niche
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NOOOOOO

vestal marsh
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i love killing my game

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and jimbo

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and the jolly joker that gets put in his place with cryptid

turbid niche
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Balatro wasn't really made with a rhythm game experience in mind x)

turbid niche
heady steeple
turbid niche
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If you have any idea how I could make it work I'll take it though!

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Would be a bit lame to have a Rhythm game based mod but no rhythm to speak of

heady steeple
turbid niche
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I mean, we do have ways to make time based stuff

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Hmmmm

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Rhythm Test based Tarot that gives money based on how well you do?

heady steeple
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It'd be funny if there were different versions with different beats LOL

turbid niche
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Rhythm Test based Flow that gives <bonus> would actually be a lot funnier x)

turbid niche
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I don't wanna make this easy :p

heady steeple
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nope!

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mmmm

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do you think it would be stretching it if there were a different booster packs for rhythm based consumables?

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possibly also containing jokers too

turbid niche
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I mean apart from Flow Cards who would get theirs after buying a voucher, I don't know about that

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Although now I kinda wanna make a Rhythm Balatro mod which would make the game a lot more rhythm based x)

heady steeple
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Ooo that could be funn

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and bring in like

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different type of rhythm games

turbid niche
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YES

heady steeple
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we need more space channel 5 love bro 💔

turbid niche
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.>

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<.<

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-# i have never played space channel 5

heady steeple
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oh it's a great ps2 rhythm game

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its so underrated LOL

turbid niche
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Oh I know what it is x) Been on my backburner for a while

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vestal hamlet
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Broken interaction with Bunco Cracker cards, with "Superb"(Probably Perfect too), the card gets stuck in the middle of the screen and soft locks your run, rather than discarding and scoring the card. It could be more on Bunco's end, so I don't expect a fix or anything, just thought I would say

turbid niche
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Scoring is still a little broken with these cards I believe, but it's the first I see it softlocking

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When did you download the mod?

vestal hamlet
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It's the latest build, I think it's because the cracker card tries to get discarded/score, I don't remember if it's one of the cards that was enchanted and played, or if it was one of the discarded cards though

surreal prism
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Hevven is so silly

turbid niche
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Cracker card would make a lot of sense actually

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I feel like I need to do something about that, but I'm not quite sure what tbh

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The play action with it is already broken as is x)

turbid niche
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Could probably alter some basegame code though, depends how balanced this feels (I haven't played much Bunco)

turbid niche
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On second thought no, it's going to be a logistical nightmare otherwise
I'll reword the cards to remove the mention of "Discard" and use something else ("Remove from hand"? "Move to Discard pile"?)

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The intent with the Flow Cards is to refresh the hand, not necessarily to "discard"

vestal hamlet
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I mean, as long as it doesn't softlock it's great really, the softlock felt kinda bad is all, thanks for putting in the effort to fix it!

turbid niche
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I mean the effect was jank from the beginning since it was one of the first things I implemented x)

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Made me go back and redo it in a cleaner way

real oriole
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@turbid niche hi

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the title screen ace shakes around madly with your mod installed, do you know why?

dark hinge
real oriole
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uh i can't screen record

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one sec

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@dark hinge it looks like this

dark hinge
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the dev posted the same thing

real oriole
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really? looks very annoying

dark hinge
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tell the dev about that, i think they're adding it because "rhythm"

turbid niche
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X)

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Yeah that's the reason, if you check it should be around the same bpm as the main theme

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I never got around to adjust the values though, it should definitely shake less than that

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There's going to be a setting to toggle it off, whenever I get to adding settings

real oriole
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good to know

turbid niche
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Sadly I don't really have a lot of time to work on it in the week, but I'll make sure to make it my priority

hardy brook
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evening everyone
main artist for the mod here

ripe wharf
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i need this

dark hinge
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devkit let loose

turbid niche
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shhhhhhh

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it never happened

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X)

hardy brook
cloud kite
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oh my god

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my people

dark hinge
dark hinge
turbid niche
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as everyone can see, this mod is indeed a heavy wip

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X)

hardy brook
turbid niche
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I should at least move it so people know what this is about

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(turns a random playing card Negative, is actually Spectral)

dark hinge
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still a really cool mod tho

turbid niche
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Aw

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Thanks

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Wait until you see the Jokers we have in store :p

brave whale
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hi

hardy brook
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hi

brave whale
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peak mod

hardy brook
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idk how big this mod was supposed to be in the beginning but then i invaded and said "hey can i do art" and now this

vestal marsh
hardy brook
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well where is yours

hardy brook
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o.O

vestal marsh
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only thing missing are artists

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so yk

vestal marsh
brave whale
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to be fair i don't really need artists I'm fine

vestal marsh
brave whale
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with just using placeholder

vestal marsh
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said all AAA studios before imploding (excluding nintendo)

brave whale
dark hinge
hardy brook
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reported that before thanks for verifying that its not just me

turbid niche
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Hmmmm

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That's weird

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I am going to preemptively blame Talisman as it worked for me before, but never had Talisman installed

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I'll see what I can do

turbid niche
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Ok yeah it's Talisman

dark hinge
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oh boo, it's always them

turbid niche
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Glad to see I'm not the only one x)

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Fix should be coming soon

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(WIP) Balatro Hevven: A Rhythm Heaven themed mod

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Also probably good to change the name of the thread I suppose

turbid niche
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Alright I think Talisman compat is fixed................?

brave whale
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🔥

turbid niche
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I should probably also send updates here x) A few spectrals

turbid niche
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Small update because I feel like this one's going to take a while to get right

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(Why did nobody else make a tall card yet)

hardy brook
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Because nobody was funny enough

ripe wharf
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LOL

turbid niche
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In the meantime, new enhancement

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"Call and Response: Copies the rank, suit and enhancement of the card on the left"

turbid niche
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Update for this enhancement I'm almost there, just hoping to get the effect to show on the other card and scrub the edition/seal of the other one

turbid niche
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Almost there, just need the end of round effect

turbid niche
turbid niche
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(Munchy Monk in particular is in Spanish here, but that can be changed in the mod's config and is English by default)

heady steeple
hardy brook
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technically they ARE released but you have to download it as bleeding-edge from the dropdown rather than from the releases

turbid niche
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Yeah x)

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I should probably do a release now that we have a buuuuunch more stuff

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Is it good enough to call it a v1? I feel like there's enough content to call it a v1

hardy brook
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perhaps

turbid niche
turbid niche
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Heck I fucked the release wahhh3

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I'll be out for a while so if anyone needs it, it's here

turbid niche
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alien invasion

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You'll also own nothing and be happy

turbid niche
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Not me artificially inflating the amount of Jokers in the mod

elfin musk
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peeks at this mod from around a corner

hardy brook
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hehe

proper plinth
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:D

turbid niche
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Not me artificially inflating the amount of Jokers in the mod

dark hinge
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reference RH Repainted

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and this'll be peak

turbid niche
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That would be so funny

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I just need a good idea for it

hybrid oriole
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The You damien would pry be a good takeaway from repainted

turbid niche
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TRUE

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Forgot about that

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Could make it a Flow Card/sticker like You is

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Maybe make it a more permanent You that has a 1 in 2 to stay in hand, etc.?

turbid niche
hardy brook
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damien

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rigid cradle
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i constantly get these logs btw

INFO - [G] 2025-05-05 00:59:50 :: DEBUG :: rhScoreEoR :: Not a table
INFO - [G] 2025-05-05 00:59:50 :: DEBUG :: rhScoreEoR :: Not a table
INFO - [G] 2025-05-05 00:59:50 :: DEBUG :: rhScoreEoR :: Not a table
INFO - [G] 2025-05-05 01:00:45 :: DEBUG :: rhScoreEoR :: Not a table
INFO - [G] 2025-05-05 01:00:45 :: DEBUG :: rhScoreEoR :: Not a table
INFO - [G] 2025-05-05 01:00:45 :: DEBUG :: rhScoreEoR :: Not a table

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not a big deal but just wanted to point it out

turbid niche
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Woops forgot to remove them

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Alright yeah it's fixed

rigid cradle
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🙏

turbid niche
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There will still be debug messages if you play with a C&R card but there should be less of that x)

turbid niche
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Did nobody tell me that C&R cards would flood the console when you have them in hand

rigid cradle
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they also flood the console whenever

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don't even need them in my hand lol

turbid niche
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Not every single millisecond x)

rigid cradle
rigid cradle
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balatro hevven i want to talk to your manager

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first video is 72 mods and balatro hevven without the part below, second video is with it

# Call & Response - sort highlighted after drag
[[patches]]
[patches.pattern]
target = "cardarea.lua"
pattern = '''
--Set sliding up/down for the hand area
    if self == G.hand then '''
position = "after"
payload = '''
if G.STATE == G.STATES.SELECTING_HAND then
    self.highlighted = rh_sort_highlighted(self)
    self:parse_highlighted()
    for i=1, #G.hand.cards do
        rh_debuff_call_response(G.hand.cards[i], from_blind)
    end 
end
'''
match_indent = true
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a -140 fps debuff is a bit OP

turbid niche
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I'm trying x)

rigid cradle
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-10, or -20 fps would be more balanced i think

turbid niche
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Didn't think it'd Debuff that much but then again

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I don't play with that many mods

rigid cradle
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lmao

turbid niche
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Alright time to find a better place to hook

rigid cradle
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but notice the event queue counter top left?

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that also happens without anything but hevven

turbid niche
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No because I'm on mobile and Discord hates me on there

rigid cradle
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a shit

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well without the lovely patch, the event queue just shows 2

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with the patch, it flickers extremely fast between 2 and idk what

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or between 3 and 4 actually

turbid niche
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I'll check when I'm home, it might be my janky coding

rigid cradle
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it's fine dw

turbid niche
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I know I use event managers to make the card move on the title screen, and I don't think I ever kill it

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Try disabling it and see how it goes (it's a mod config)

rigid cradle
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that fixes the event queue but the fps is still tanked

turbid niche
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Oh yeah the fps is another issue entirely x)

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Just talking about the event queue

rigid cradle
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ye

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i'm just happy i finally found what's causing this fps drop lol

turbid niche
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The fps issue is 100% the place where I hook for the Call & Response shenanigans

rigid cradle
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had to go through every mod 💀

turbid niche
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Sorry x)

rigid cradle
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np

turbid niche
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Question

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Could you be my guinea pig for a bit x)

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Actually nevermind I'm getting around 30fps less in testing

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I think I can test myself

rigid cradle
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nice

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sorry didn't see your message until now

turbid niche
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Actually can you be my guinea pig still? x)

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I think I optimized as well I could, but I'm not sure how well I did

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I don't notice any FPS dip on my end but I vary quite a bit so it might not be obvious

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It's been pushed to main so you can redownload it

rigid cradle
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feel free to ping the shit out of me in the future, so discord at least shows the red notifs

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i'll download it

turbid niche
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@rigid cradle May I mayhaps have your mod list/mods folder so I can try to replicate it on my end

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Because I don't really know where to look for now

turbid niche
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Nevermind had an epiphany, now it should be a lot more bearable?

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please tell me it works well this time

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(Repinging just in case @rigid cradle)

rigid cradle
rigid cradle
rigid cradle
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enabled mods: DebugPlus, 3x Credits, Betmma Jokers, Betmma Vouchers, Bird Jokers, Buffoonery, Cosmos, ExtraCredit, Familiar, Fusion Jokers, Galdur, Handy, Hold For Final Hand Score, JankJonklersMod, Joker Evolution, JokerDisplay, JokerSellValue, KCVanilla, Lobotomy Corporation, Lucky Jimbos: Joker Pack, Lucky Rabbit, Mossed, Neato Jokers, rcBalatro, rcBLib, Redux Arcanum, Reverie, Revo's Vault, Sarcpot, Severed, Showdown, SoulEverything, TIWMIG, TOGA's Stuff, Tsu's Jeopardy, UnStable, Warp Zone!, Balatro Goes Kino, Banner, Better Vouchers This Run UI, Blueprint, Card Sleeves, Custom Suit Order, Handsome Devils, Jank Challenges, Mistigris, More Fluff, Rift-Raft, Seven Deadly Decks, sortatro, Too Many Jokers, Unjankify, UnStableEX, Victin's Collection, Bakery, Betmma Voucher Pack, Cartomancer, Celeste Card Collection, Malverk, Paperback, Prism, Reverse Tarot + Hijinks, Snows Mods, 5 legendary challenges, All in Jest, Balatro+, Grim, Garbshit, Stuffz, SDM_0's Stuff, Plantain, Bmjokers, Card Exporter, Balatro Hevven

turbid niche
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Anyways I genuinely have no idea why it tanks so hard

turbid niche
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I'll try installing all the mods you have, see if it tanks my FPS as much as you when they're all installed, and see if I can use that to test properly

turbid niche
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(Based on Rhythm Heaven Fever/Megamix's practice themes)

hardy brook
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Real

rigid cradle
turbid niche
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I mean I do still need to fix it at some point :p

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I am curious how you managed to get everything working together I'm getting quite a lot of errors

rigid cradle
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atm i can't really tell you anything useful, i'm on forks of forks of forks of multiple mods LMAO

turbid niche
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x)

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I mean I guess what I really want is to slow my game to a crawl so I can see it run even worse when selecting cards anyways x)

rigid cradle
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but wasn't the lag even with just hevven enabled?

turbid niche
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Well, it was at the start

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Then I optimized it somewhat recently so it doesn't run as slow

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In my testing, and the testing I just managed to start right now, it doesn't do anything anymore, it's as stable as can be

rigid cradle
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sounds promising

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then i might give it a try today or tomorrow sometime

turbid niche
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In any case, right now with about 65 mods installed I do have some dips, but they're temporary and it comes back after a little bit

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I assume that's what you're doing anyways but just in case, do make sure you download the source in Github and not the release

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I have zero reasons to think you wouldn't but better safe than sorry :p

turbid niche
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Alright so there's supposed to be a deck going with the mod (of course) which would give flow cards depending on how well you do on a blind, so I'm trying to rank the Flow cards

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I'm feeling unsure so if people who played the mod could tell me what they think that'd be neat

turbid niche
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Nobody told me making mods would involve making charts x)

turbid niche
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New Joker in a bit once I figure out the "played hand doesn't win" bit

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dire tinsel
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is it a wifi thing or do both of these previous videos just not work

turbid niche
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It might be a device thing

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I know some people on iOS can't play the videos for some reason?

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They work fine on my end

turbid niche
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