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Balatro |OT| You Wanna Know How I Got These Cards?
- Thread starter Messofanego
- Start date
- Indie OT
Eight. Worth mentioning that if you use the voucher that gives a -1 to ante and # of hands, you'll have to go through a total of nine antes in all.
So far I have won with 3 of the decks (Blue, Black and Checkered)
My favourite winning run so far has been this:
Fibonacci (Each played Ace, 2, 3, 5 or 8 gives +8 Mult when scored)
Hack (Retrigger each played 2, 3, 4 or 5)
Even Steven (Played cards with even rank give +30 Chips when scored
Odd Todd (Played cards with odd rank give +30 Chips when scored)
Hiker (Every played card permanently gains +4 Chips when scored)
Splash (Every played card counts in scoring)
The strategy at that point was adding card modifiers anywhere and going:
None of my winning runs were strong enough to get past The Pillar though...
My favourite winning run so far has been this:
Fibonacci (Each played Ace, 2, 3, 5 or 8 gives +8 Mult when scored)
Hack (Retrigger each played 2, 3, 4 or 5)
Even Steven (Played cards with even rank give +30 Chips when scored
Odd Todd (Played cards with odd rank give +30 Chips when scored)
Hiker (Every played card permanently gains +4 Chips when scored)
Splash (Every played card counts in scoring)
The strategy at that point was adding card modifiers anywhere and going:
None of my winning runs were strong enough to get past The Pillar though...
Yeah the space joker is OP.
i never beat the demo but now my second try with the full game i won
helps that my flush was like level 20 because of the space joker
I had my two pairs at level 24 lol.
50-60k hands minimum on ante 8, got blessed.
You're about to play your favorite video game of all time, lol
Man I was going to play a run or two and get back to Infinite Wealth and ended up playing for 4 hours straight. Shit is dangerous
When you buy a pack and instead of selecting something, you skip it. It adds 3x multiplier and can stack for each pack you skip. I usually just buy the $3 or $4 packs and skip it unless there's a planet associated with whatever my winning combination is in that run.
Pro tip! When you build a deck around a getting four of a kinds for one specific card make sure you don't accidentally discard your four of a kind and tank the entire run.
Done that many times, such a deflating feeling and don't seem to be able to beat the autosave either with a quick forcequit either, its too fast.
This game is sick, loving it so much and only played two runs. It's got that effortless "number go up" vibe of Luck Be A Landlord, but with more intentionality and gameplay like Slay the Spire. It's right in that middle ground of super approachability without being *quite* as mindless. This is a dangerous game to give free time to.
Endless mode is nuts. The standard 8 ante boss is like 100k chips? After a few more antes we're in the 10s of millions so you gotta scale out of your mind to go much further.
Endless mode is nuts. The standard 8 ante boss is like 100k chips? After a few more antes we're in the 10s of millions so you gotta scale out of your mind to go much further.
i've played the demo for 80~ hours and i know i'm not the only one
My first 3 runs I got cursed with a 300k boss every time at the end of ante 8.
Won my first run using club flushes. Got an early spectral card that converted my hand to one suite and it rolled spades, so I went with that.
Got a flush multi joker and a spade joker, so it worked well.
Clicked endless and lost the big blind there, but a wins a win I guess.
Games definitely fun
Got a flush multi joker and a spade joker, so it worked well.
Clicked endless and lost the big blind there, but a wins a win I guess.
Games definitely fun
Is there a way to get rid of that annoying line that appears horizontally through the screen? If that's by design, that's bad design.
I just played three hours straight. Haven't done that in years.
This is something special. Just hope I don't find that one or two "instant win" combos that's too easy to get. That's usually the downfall of games like this.
This is something special. Just hope I don't find that one or two "instant win" combos that's too easy to get. That's usually the downfall of games like this.
Picked this up today after reading the hype in this thread, Just played 3 hours straight. Really great game. Very addicting. Can't wait to play again tomorrow.
As far as I can tell it reduces the difficulty of your current ante by 1, essentially giving you what should be a run of pretty easy wins in a row to boost your deck with. As someone mentioned above, it means you'll have to clear 9 antes in total instead of 8 to complete a run. Not sure if it's worth the - 1 hand size though..
The only thing you might learn is the hands, but actually playing poker...no cause this isn't poker.
You can leave a run in progress and continue it from the main menu.
this is how you get an unlock as well
this is how you get an unlock as well
Laughed when that popped up. Reminded me of The Binding of Isaac, in a good way, and how some of the secrets/unlocks are behind some really mundane actions.
Not really, and that's fine.
I haven't messed with the tutorial but all you really need to know about poker is the hands and you can use a cheat sheet for that
in general in poker the higher the ranked hand the harder it is to get. In this game you can rig your odds. You aren't messing with the bluffing aspects of poker, and the odds only matter a little. But like as soon as a flush or straight only requires 4 cards instead of 5 the odds of getting those hands drastically increases.
but basically. Use that cheat sheet to keep track of hands and know that building around 4-7 is likely going to be the most consistent (especially if you get the joker the makes the straight or flush more common) As it's important you are consistent to some degree in this game as any bit of bad luck will potentially end your run.
There are in game "odds" for how much each hand is worth and at the start the value will follow that hand chart, but it quickly will change.
There is a rare joker card that negates ALL boss debuffs, and you don't have to expend it - it works for every subsequent boss during a run. I found it with a tarot card iirc
basically what overall floor you are on.
in other thoughts.... I have something truly stupid going on
I am only on the 4th ante and I'm already close to a million points going on... with a better draw and I will break it I think lol.
never mind... a good draw gets me....
which this is what I need to get right now lol
Just played for a few hours, I love this game.
Was able to get to ante 11 as my last game of the day, with my wife screaming at me to go to bed since it's 2AM and I work tomorrow 😂
The jump was crazy on ante 11 though, the small blind was at 7 million out of nowhere, the previous boss was just 1 million.
I also feel the game forces you (in endless) to adjust to higher and higher combos of cards (like full house instead of pairs), which is really fun. My combo of Dual Pairs can only give so many points even at a high level.
I love this game, so glad I bought it. Worth it even for just tonight.
Oh shit there are (mechanic spoilers)
Interesting new poker hands, like 5 of a kind or, more interestingly, a "flush house". I wonder if there are others...?
Indirectly. In general, the new jokers that are unlocked are better than the early-game stuff.
Ooh, first I've seen of this. I'm getting very into deck builder roguelikes (started playing StS last year, Inscryption and Monster Train this year). Think I've gotta give this a shot!
I'd ideally get it on Switch, but only if the performance holds up. How're people finding the performance into the endgame?
I'd ideally get it on Switch, but only if the performance holds up. How're people finding the performance into the endgame?
Switch performance
OP
OP
People on Switch are saying the performance is great.
Best run yet. Started out as a straight deck, then got a card that increased xMultiplier everytime you played a hand that wasn't your highest. Straight hand had been played 10 times, so I started playing other hands. Eventually copied Aces until I had like 20 of them in my deck, along with an Ace joker the points wracked up playing 4&5 of a kind hands.
