one-armed dwarf Posted December 24, 2024 Share Posted December 24, 2024 Balatro is probably the one game that sort of does work well multithreaded with other stuff But yeah I could never just context switch huge games like that. Feel like UFO would blow his mind cause that game is literally that madness as a gameplay concept I've been doing the challenges in this, did one where you have to keep your chips total less than your cash. Was fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I’m thick as fuck! Just read someone mention how different the + multiplier and X multipliers are. For some reason my dumb brain has been seeing them as basically the same thing! Like, why would I ever get an incremental 0.25x joker? Now it makes sense! Also mentioned how the positioning of jokers is mega important in this role - as in make sure your + ones are before the X ones. Fffuuuuuuucccckkkk!!! I’ve just obliterated 3 decks I was struggling with before now without even trying with this new knowledge. A little PSA for anyone who’s been as dumb as me or just to laugh at me. FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Yup, and all your played cards run first, I think, then cards in hand then jokers, left to right. Best to have it like +chips, +mult, xmult, I think. It's why the 'jumble the jokers up' boss mechanic can either be a nothingburger or absolutely devastating. Multiply 100 chips by 10 and then add 10 mult and then add 50 chips. Or add 50 chips to 100, add 10 mult and multiply that by 10, big difference. I think, I don't intend on doing the math there lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 I finally won a game on the orange stake to unlock the last deck. The last deck is the Erratic Deck, where the suit and rank of the cards are random. It's quite fun to play because the cards you get in your deck have a big influence in what kind of strategy you go for in that run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Wait, hang on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I said Balatro was getting easy but man, turns out Black Deck has hands 🤕 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I hate the black deck. I beat it once and then put it away where I never have to look at it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I'm on the black stake of the black deck, when it introduces eternal jokers It really feels like the first two antes are the hardest. You should target an easy hand like pair or something, but i always turn my nose up at eternal common jokers. Which is probably my main issue, not being flexible to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 What is the difference between deck and stake? Isn’t stake difficulty and deck modifiers? I just unlocked the yellow deck. I see why this game is so fun. It’s the pinging of the multipliers and watching the numbers go bang, bang! BANG! It’s got the same kind of energy as drumroll as it hypes up with each multiplier ping I was just playing and easy scoring 20,000 per round then got too greedy and tried discarding all my cards trying to force a hand and never got it, on my last round crashed out at just over 2k playing high cards lol It’s definitely a very fun game. It’s a little bit manipulative because it’s just throwing higher and higher numbers which ups that dopamine, but seems like it’s backed up by legit game design as opposed to a clicker or a loot game that just has you hunting for the next thing Although there is a little bit of that in it as well Like this a lot actually. Playing on my phone so those little rumbles with the multipliers is very effective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Every deck has its own unique gimmicks, I can't remember what yellow does but black deck limits you to 3 hands which requires some very harsh economy in decision making, but you get an extra Joker slot so it's all about being really clever with the build you have. The stakes are additional conditions that increase difficulty. I can't remember all of them but as mentioned black stake makes certain jokers permanent. You can't sell or destroy them, tho you can actually build around this if you have a build which benefits from indestructible jokers. The stakes stack and will also include things like paying rent on a Joker, so you have to get your economy rolling early on with interest earned and stuff. The orange stake is the last stake, I think that's the one where you rent jokers iirc. Painted deck is the one deck I beat orange on and is like the opposite of Black deck, you only have 4 Jokers but a very large hand so it's one deck where straight builds might make sense maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Wait, can you discard more than 1 card at a time? HAVE I BEEN PLAYING WITH ONE HAND BEHIND MY BACK? It’s 2:20am and I’m posting about Balatro I’m not going to say it but I will let you figure out how it’s been going 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 😂😂 ok now I don’t feel so bad about the joker order & multiplier thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Thought this would be ideal to play handheld on the NS and in most part it really is - very addictive and quite intuitive. However, text size is pretty small (readable, but a sizing option would have been welcome - reducing CRT effect helps a bit) and an 'undo' button - for those times when you inadvertently hit X discarding rather than submitting a great hand 😞. Oh and a reminder when you're submitting a hand that says "Hey Dumbo you've got a consumable card that will give you n extra points - do you actually want to use it.....?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Sometimes you don't want to use the consumable card tho, eg if you have the Joker which increases the sell value of jokers and consumables each round 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 One thing I thought I would struggle with which has proven correct so far is thinking about more than 2 things at once It’s sort of like Dragon Age where there are all these stats, all these moves, all these passive effects, all these combos, etc. it’s like I dunno, man, you choose Except in Balatro the build is actually life and death so you have to really try to put things together and understand how one thing will affect another, and I’m fucking terrible at stuff like that. The counting is really hard as well. My best run last night came down to do I want to do a level 4 straight or a level 3 flush and I looked at all my cards and Jokers oh man I don’t fucking know This game is fun but too much of it might be too complicated for me. re discarding. I played the tutorial a week ago or something and only just getting in to it now. I watched a quick video of someone playing last night to see if I could learn anything and the first thing I saw them do was discard multiple cards at once and I was in shock like I didn’t expect to learn that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 You're not really meant to count the chips you're going to get, it's more like can you make an educated guess at the magnitude of it when combining all the different effects and played/on-hand bonuses. How fast does the build scale is the question. Which is still pretty complicated but you can look at it from a higher level than counting everything. Like being real, your build probably isn't very good if you're doing straights and flushes cause it's hard to build a deck which massages the odds nicely for both, unless you're trying to build for straight flush. Which has the least favorable odds of all unless you get really lucky with the jokers and tarots. Even then, I dunno, I think straight flush is the biggest of all scams* *(to be clear, all my opinion, potentially or likely wrong) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 1 hour ago, one-armed dwarf said: Like being real, your build probably isn't very good if you're doing straights and flushes Literally dealing the hand I’m dealt That was my best run. I’ve had other runs where 2 pair was levelling up, or was just trying to hang on to a good combination of Jokers. But haven’t beaten a deck yet. Got up to Ante 7 on Red Deck so far One thing I realised after I stopped playing last night is I need to focus on building my chips up more. I think that’s been a big problem for me so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Well it's not totally deterministic, you definitely have wiggle room to fish for other builds depending on your economy, shop rerolls etc. How you deal with the shop and build up cash in this game is probably, IMO, the single most important thing about the game. More than anything else. Maximising opportunity through maximising the amount of choices you get to make. That, and having a flexible build which doesn't require fishing for specific suits and cards. Especially when you're doing boss fights which discard cards or hide them or whatever. I wish I was better at stuff like algorithms cause there's certain things I could probably conceptualise better. Like, chips being impactful up to a point where it becomes more about + and x mult. But where is that threshold, it's pretty ambiguous. The purple stake forces you to really come to terms with how much you've been ignoring things like this cause it scales so fast. It's the hardest stake to get used to, for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Is it best to keep on playing with the Red Deck until I beat all the antes for it, or should I play around with the other decks too (or does it just come down to personal preference)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 I just go by preference, I like sticking with a deck cause I start to hone in on a build strategy for that specific deck. You'll probably unlock stuff faster if you switch around tho. I've not beaten red deck yet, beyond the first couple stakes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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