Reduce Ante 1 base blind size to 200

[gilded temple]

I'm not sure how people would feel about this, but I think making the base blind requirement 200 for Ante 1 would help solve the problem of the earlygame being difficult.
Pretty much any Flush, Straight, or Full House will get at least 200, so you're less likely to reset because you didn't clear the blind in 1 hand. I don't think it would make the game too much easier, it would just make it easier to get runs off the ground. What do you think?

[tall wraith]

200/300/400?

[gilded temple]

Yep

[tall wraith]

perchance

[latent river]

Would ante 0 be changed

[lone flare]

idk if this is too warranted

ante 1 is the earliest and is reasonably beaten jokerless already

so this seems unnecessary

[latent river]

It's better for blackgold, that's a plus

[lone flare]

if the issue is one decks difficulty than that deck should be buffed.

[latent river]

I think the needle could be an ante 1 boss if this was the case

[lone flare]

i dont think black needs a big buff since its identity is the hard deck. but if this is the only reason to nerf ante 1 then why

[wraith charm]

black's identity shouldn't be the "hard deck"

[lone flare]

ante 1 shouldnt be free is all im saying

[wraith charm]

it's hard because it's weak

[lone flare]

well buff the deck itself dont nerf ante 1 to be practically free

thats literally my point

[wraith charm]

right now it's sometimes free, based on luck

[lone flare]

make hook not an ante 1 boss is what id do

fuck the hook

[wraith charm]

given that the early game is usually the hardest part of balatro i feel like removing the luck from, say, oneshotting the small blind is a good idea

the alternative is to make it so that you can't oneshot the small blind

but that just moves the luck onto two-shotting

[gilded temple]

I feel like Ante 1 has kind of an awkward difficulty on high stakes regardless of deck

[restive root]

I'm gonna say it : 1st ante is the most boring part of the game just give us a random joker to start at least

[calm berry]

I agree

Though 200 is a little less

I think it's ok here

At 300

Black deck should get a compensatory buff

[latent river]

But a flush can make it.
(4) * (35+2+3+4+5+7) = 4 * 56 = 224 > 200

[lone flare]

thate blue stakes fault i feel and we need to evaluate that with the idea blue stake doesnt take a discard anymore (since lets be honest no changes are coming till the big update)

im still not keen on that change since making ante 1 pretty much free feels weird to me personally

[calm berry]

Oh shit I forgot that the needle uses base blind values

Yeah I really don't see why not

[pine pebble]

i mean, Checkered and especially Plasma do this

abandoned too, although a bit less

[pine pebble]

I don't see the problem with the first ante being free. At that point, you're unlikely to have a settled build, so it's just annoying

[long frost]

200 might be a little small

250 maybe?

[gilded temple]

Yeah, perhaps 250 would be good, although that does mean the Big Blind has a score requirement not ending with 0

[latent river]

Now that you say it. Does every base/small blind end in 00.

[gilded temple]

Yep

At least I think so

[latent river]

Do you mean [insert yep emoji]

[gilded temple]

:yep:, I do

[tall wraith]

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