🂡 Balatro Thread 🂠

[Danann]

I feel like the thumbnail here does a good job at summarizing my point. One of the appeals of Jokers in Balatro (be it base game or most mods like Cryptid) is that every Joker is unique and identifiable.

Ironically, that mod (now known as Polterworx) had just been discontinued today as Jen got sick of faggots talking about "stolen assets" (despite this being the internet where property is only a cryptid pushed by IP-holding companies), and also deleted the whole thing....heard from a friend on Discord that they even banned distribution of it.
Oh, and by faggots, I mean everyone there is a faggot as they got a whole selection of pride roles too, including fringe bisexual clones like abrosexual there.

 

[Valstrax]

Ironically, that mod (now known as Polterworx) had just been discontinued today as Jen got sick of faggots talking about "stolen assets" (despite this being the internet where property is only a cryptid pushed by IP-holding companies), and also deleted the whole thing....heard from a friend on Discord that they even banned distribution of it.
Oh, and by faggots, I mean everyone there is a faggot as they got a whole selection of pride roles too, including fringe bisexual clones like abrosexual there.
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Stolen assets? Okay, I'll bite. What's the drama about?

 

[Anti Snigger]

Stolen assets? Okay, I'll bite. What's the drama about?

a lot of balatro modders used permissive licenses without realizing it meant their shit was copyleft

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I finally completed my first Black Chip/Red Deck run (did Blue Deck first, I think that's easier) and I still feel that it's bullshit because of some very lucky hands, getting Hologram in the first ante and later getting Blueprint, to the point where I was able to beat the finisher blind in one hand.

RNG still dominates too much. Some of the boss blinds are annoying but very doable, while getting something like The Needle or The Pillar can completely ruin your run, especially if it comes at the wrong time.

 

[ScurvyRat]

RNG still dominates too much. Some of the boss blinds are annoying but very doable, while getting something like The Needle or The Pillar can completely ruin your run, especially if it comes at the wrong time.

Part of being a good player is being able to roll with what the game gives you, even when its dogshit. For my gold stake runs I was resetting a lot, but since I'm not allowed to reset with the Ballocke, I've been learning how to play with what I'm given. It sucks dick.


Congrats on the W btw

 

[147573952589676412927]

I can't fucking beat gold-stake because I'm retarded and It's driving me insane.

 

[Anti Snigger]

I can't fucking beat gold-stake because I'm retarded and It's driving me insane.

You'll genuinely have your best odds rolling for baron-mime and shit like Triboulet or photochad. You can beat it with other strats, but those kind of things are way more consistent. My favorite gold stake win personally is the one where I found a seltzer and blueprint on ante 6 while having a bloodstone, I just skipped the blinds and bum rushed it and barely squeaked by.

 

[Intel Core Ultra 7 265k]

Ironically, that mod (now known as Polterworx) had just been discontinued today as Jen got sick of faggots talking about "stolen assets" (despite this being the internet where property is only a cryptid pushed by IP-holding companies), and also deleted the whole thing....heard from a friend on Discord that they even banned distribution of it.
Oh, and by faggots, I mean everyone there is a faggot as they got a whole selection of pride roles too, including fringe bisexual clones like abrosexual there.
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Mod was never good anyway almost every joker was an instant win button and does cryptid absolutely 0 justice

 

[Rango Dango]

Mod was never good anyway almost every joker was an instant win button and does cryptid absolutely 0 justice

i mean the mod didn't focus on the normal balatro gameplay, it was mainly for the number go up crowd

 

[Intel Core Ultra 7 265k]

i mean the mod didn't focus on the normal balatro gameplay, it was mainly for the number go up crowd

True

 

[ScurvyRat]

You'll genuinely have your best odds rolling for baron-mime and shit like Triboulet or photochad. You can beat it with other strats, but those kind of things are way more consistent. My favorite gold stake win personally is the one where I found a seltzer and blueprint on ante 6 while having a bloodstone, I just skipped the blinds and bum rushed it and barely squeaked by.

I hate the way you play this game

 

[Anti Snigger]

I hate the way you play this game

As for the first part of my post, it is undeniable that certain strategies and combinations of jokers are more successful, period.
As for the second, you're just being autistic

 

[ScurvyRat]

As for the first part of my post, it is undeniable that certain strategies and combinations of jokers are more successful, period.
As for the second, you're just being autistic

You're optimizing the fun out of the game. I never go into a run with a strategy in mind. Sure, I know valuable combos, but aiming for one or the other is just insane to me.

You're right tho, I am autistic as fuck.

 

[Anti Snigger]

You're optimizing the fun out of the game. I never go into a run with a strategy in mind. Sure, I know valuable combos, but aiming for one or the other is just insane to me.

It's in large part me being a mathematician, in anything with numbers, I'm always running them in the back of my mind. Also, to be fair to myself, I was bringing up those strats to cheese gold stake, and I mentioned the bloodstone thing as an example where I beat it without doing the 'meta'.

You're right tho, I am autistic as fuck.

We both play balatro, I'm casting stones in glass houses

 

[ScurvyRat]

We both play balatro, I'm casting stones in glass houses

We both got Completionist++
The autism is so thick you could cut it with it with the Ceremonial Dagger

 

[ForgedBlades]

Had a really good run just now, this is the first time I managed to hit e notation. Run died on the next hand due to shit discard luck. It was very dependent on being dealt kings and queens. Oh well. I was holding onto those tags for negative jokers but it didn't come.

 

[Dirty Mattress]

One of the appeals of Jokers in Balatro (be it base game or most mods like Cryptid) is that every Joker is unique and identifiable.

This is my favorite aspect about the game, because when you start to make the connections between the artwork of the cards and the effects they give, playing at x4 speed without barely reading what any joker does is really fun. It makes you think a lot more on the fly which is the funnest part of this game. Check out a mod called All In Jest. It's a little buggy but it currently adds 200 jokers with amazing artwork that I would consider surpasses the base game, which is already very good. It also adds some tarots and spectrals that bring some new interesting mechanics.

Other mods I can recommend which I haven't seen mentioned that much in this thread are Bunco, Codex Arcanum, Paperback and Unstable.

 

[Valstrax]

This is my favorite aspect about the game, because when you start to make the connections between the artwork of the cards and the effects they give, playing at x4 speed without barely reading what any joker does is really fun. It makes you think a lot more on the fly which is the funnest part of this game.

Mod was never good anyway almost every joker was an instant win button and does cryptid absolutely 0 justice

This is Bloodstone, it's an uncommon Joker that is widely regarded as one of the best in the game. With a 1 in 2 chance, it can give you x1.5 mult for every Heart in your played hand. Once you see it, you associate the Joker with the effect, it's simple and to the point.


Fuck if I know what this thing does.

 

[Intel Core Ultra 7 265k]

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This is Bloodstone, it's an uncommon Joker that is widely regarded as one of the best in the game. With a 1 in 2 chance, it can give you x1.5 mult for every Heart in your played hand. Once you see it, you associate the Joker with the effect, it's simple and to the point.

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Fuck if I know what this thing does.

Edit: If the image link fucked up (which is probably did), this is Kosmos.

It is fucked up try something else

 

[Valstrax]

It is fucked up try something else

Fixed it, still stand by what I said though.

"Kosmos is an Omnipotent joker, and the only Omnipotent joker in POLTERWORX. Kosmos is obtained by using the Omega consumable Balatro's Soul and cannot be acquired through any other means.

Kosmos has the ability to directly effect the operator level between your Chips and Mult, increasing it from x to ^, then to ^^ up to {25000}. Selling or using various cards adds to Kosmos' Malice counter, when the requirement is reached, Malice resets to 0, the requirement increases by ^1.13, and your operator level goes up by 1.

Kosmos cannot be debuffed or destroyed in any way, and is permaeternal."

In all honesty, this sounds stupid as hell.