🂡 Balatro Thread 🂠

[ScurvyRat]

I saw someone get a Canio up to X1488
The possibilities are endless

 

[419]

the most you'd have gotten from Triboulet was an effective X4-X20 (depending on how many Kings/Queens you played)

Came back to this post a month after I wrote it and I've just been wincing at the fact that I can't edit it after all that time has passed. How did I fuck up my arithmetic that bad when I initially made this post that I forgot how exponentials work? Triboulet on his own is an effective X2-X32 depending on the cards played (from X2^1 to X2^5) and copying him with the Blueprint takes that to X2^2 = X4 at the lowest and X2^10 = X1024 at the highest.

@ForgedBlades did nothing wrong, I was just being retarded back then.

 

[ScurvyRat]

@419 I am 3 jokers away from 100%.
Hit the road
Credit Card
Luchador

 

[Anti Snigger]

Once I figured out that retrigger mogs everything, every playthrough has become a bit formulaic, especially on higher stakes

 

[419]

@419 I am 3 jokers away from 100%.
Hit the road
Credit Card
Luchador

Nice, those should hopefully not be too difficult now that you're on the home stretch. Hit the Road just takes some decent deck-fixing to be consistent in providing very strong XMult (obviously, the more discards you have from vouchers and either Drunkard or Merry Andy, the better).

The other two are maybe a bit more contentious.

• Credit Card was among the earlier Gold Stickers I managed to get, but I don't remember a thing about how I got it. It can be a very good utility piece at the start of the run when you haven't already got good econ but land on a very good shop you'd miss out on otherwise, though it ultimately becomes more and more useless by the time you have a decent money engine going. I imagine you could make it work quite nicely in a Vagabond-centred run, considering the requirement then of staying poor (debt obviously helps with that).
• Luchador is one of those Jokers whose utility only comes from getting rid of it, so keeping it around until the end completely renders it as dead weight, but it's an Uncommon Joker. At the very least you can eke some value out of it as a result if you find a Baseball Card.

Once I figured out that retrigger mogs everything, every playthrough has become a bit formulaic, especially on higher stakes

I mean, not necessarily. If you don't manage to find any re-trigger Jokers at all you still have to be resourceful and almost everything else still has at least some niche situation or use case that makes it strong enough. Photochad isn't the end-all-be-all.

 

[ScurvyRat]

Nice, those should hopefully not be too difficult now that you're on the home stretch.

Nah its been pretty fine. I can win at gold stake with 1 or 2 jokers so the strat has been:
Get a decent run goin on hex deck.
Grind for money
keep an eye out for the jokers I need
reroll on ante 8 for the jokers until i find one or run out of money.

Once I figured out that retrigger mogs everything, every playthrough has become a bit formulaic, especially on higher stakes

It doesn't. You've simply found one of the many ways to play this game.

 

[419]

I can win at gold stake with 1 or 2 jokers

Jesus, how? Like, consistently winning runs with no more than 2 Jokers? Unless you're finding Madness or both Photo and Chad at once every first shop or you're really focusing on deck-fixing and enhancements (fuck trying to do Jokerless outside of the actual challenge run) I can't think of many ways to do that consistently.

 

[ScurvyRat]

Jesus, how? Like, consistently winning runs with no more than 2 Jokers? Unless you're finding Madness or both Photo and Chad at once every first shop or you're really focusing on deck-fixing and enhancements (fuck trying to do Jokerless outside of the actual challenge run) I can't think of many ways to do that consistently.

Yea Madness is good for this.
pretty much any 2 scaling jokers can win a run. Particularly when its something like Canio, constellation or Stencil Joker with square joker or spare trousers.
The issue I've been running into isn't skill based, its RNG based, sadly. I've had many, many runs now where I win, but I couldn't find any new jokers along the way.

I think the only Joker in the whole game that I truly hate is Obelisk. Fuck that joker. I used it one time to get the gold sticker but I will never use that stupid piece of shit ever again.

 

[Alex Yiik]

I got Completionist+ about a week ago and then did two back to back insanely productive Anaglyph deck runs with negative tags that filled in a lot of gold stickers. I know the effectiveness of that will wear off once I get closer to filling them all, but I have 41 golds left and the shotgun approach still pays off. Plus when you get 6 negative jokers chances are you can use whatever you have to free up a couple regular slots to deliberately pick something good for your run.

I also want to give a special mention to the Friends of Jimbo collabs and how they've put it in my mind to try out some really good games. I got obsessed with both 1000xRESIST and Slay the Princess which have become two of my favorite sci-fi and horror stories respectively. I might check out Bugsnax or Cult of the Lamb next.

 

[ScurvyRat]

I might check out Bugsnax or Cult of the Lamb next.

Binding of Isaac needs to be played before either of those, if you haven't

 

[Alex Yiik]

Binding of Isaac needs to be played before either of those, if you haven't

I tend to not like rogue likes because of how long it takes before I know what any decision I make is actually going to do. Balatro is an exception because the rules are simple and most joker and card effects are explained clearly and up front.

That said, I'm open to trying out Rebirth because my experience with Isaac is from the ancient original version which I hated but I know that's not how it is at all anymore.

 

[ScurvyRat]

I tend to not like rogue likes because of how long it takes before I know what any decision I make is actually going to do. Balatro is an exception because the rules are simple and most joker and card effects are explained clearly and up front.

That said, I'm open to trying out Rebirth because my experience with Isaac is from the ancient original version which I hated but I know that's not how it is at all anymore.

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Brother, that's the OLD flash game version. He remade it in a different engine and added thousands of hours of content.
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the one you want, preferably with all the DLC.

 

[419]

I think the only Joker in the whole game that I truly hate is Obelisk. Fuck that joker. I used it one time to get the gold sticker but I will never use that stupid piece of shit ever again.

Now, now, I will not stand for the Obelisk slander. in the runs I've had with it during C++, even after getting the Sticker on it, it was a godsend and all it took was an early-to-mid-game pivot from the one hand type I had already spammed.

Don't believe me? Here's a second opinion, watch it and weep.

 

[ScurvyRat]

Now, now, I will not stand for the Obelisk slander. in the runs I've had with it during C++, even after getting the Sticker on it, it was a godsend and all it took was an early-to-mid-game pivot from the one hand type I had already spammed.

Don't believe me? Here's a second opinion, watch it and weep.

Ah yes, I have seen that one.
I stand by what I said, but I'm willing to admit the real problem may be

Spoiler

a skill issue

 

[Anti Snigger]

It doesn't. You've simply found one of the many ways to play this game

I am physically incapable of not falling victim to the law of dominant strategy

 

[Valstrax]

Finally bought the game, been playing it almost nonstop for the past week. Just managed to unlock my first deck yesterday.

 

[Coon Cheese]

What is the appeal of this game? like half my friends on steam have like a minimum of 300 hours on this game. it's just a card game, I assume the game play loop is super addictive.

 

[Anti Snigger]

What is the appeal of this game? like half my friends on steam have like a minimum of 300 hours on this game. it's just a card game, I assume the game play loop is super addictive.

It's very zen, I'll be watching TV shows in the evening and just play it while I do so, easily kill a few hours every night doing that

 

[Valstrax]

What is the appeal of this game? like half my friends on steam have like a minimum of 300 hours on this game. it's just a card game, I assume the game play loop is super addictive.

It's very zen, I'll be watching TV shows in the evening and just play it while I do so, easily kill a few hours every night doing that

Finding the perfect combination of Jokers for a run is very satisfying. Dopamine hit unlimited.

 

[Anti Snigger]

Finding the perfect combination of Jokers for a run is very satisfying

It's also fun when you play through a really garbage run and it accidentally works. I once got to ante 19 using poor man's trib, and it's still my highest ante.

Spoiler: poor man's trib

This is what I call it when you have ballot and photograph, usually with a blueprint or brainstorm