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Tiny Myers
Jul 29, 2021

say hello to my little friend


I was really mad that I only unlocked Blueprint really late in considering how useful it is lmao

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El Jeffe
Dec 24, 2009

Tiny Myers posted:

I was really mad that I only unlocked Blueprint really late in considering how useful it is lmao

Blueprint is unlocked by winning your first run. Do you mean Brainstorm?

Tiny Myers
Jul 29, 2021

say hello to my little friend


El Jeffe posted:

Blueprint is unlocked by winning your first run. Do you mean Brainstorm?

Yes sorry I am stupid :negative:

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Brainstorm is very counterintuitive though. If I hadn’t seen it on my title screen saying I needed to discard a royal flush, I wouldn’t have got it. After all, who discards a royal flush?

Jobert
May 21, 2007
Come On!
College Slice
Just had my best round ever with Perkeo and the voucher that gives 1.5x for each planet card. I had over 30 straight planets and got my first "e" scores!

I am playing on mobile and something about drawing all of the negative planet cards really started chugging the graphics though.

Blackbelt Bobman
Jul 17, 2004

I don't need friends! I've been
manipulatin' you since the start!
All so I can something,
something X-Blade!


Red Oktober posted:

Brainstorm is very counterintuitive though. If I hadn’t seen it on my title screen saying I needed to discard a royal flush, I wouldn’t have got it. After all, who discards a royal flush?

You never looked at your collection and checked the unlock requirements for all of the jokers you didn’t have?

Edit: I discarded a Royal Flush during the first gold chip run I won, that’s how well I was doing that run lol it was the Ghost Deck

Blackbelt Bobman fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Feb 6, 2025

Artelier
Jan 23, 2015


Blackbelt Bobman posted:

You never looked at your collection and checked the unlock requirements for all of the jokers you didn’t have
Me, a person with 39 hours playtime: what

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Blackbelt Bobman posted:

You never looked at your collection and checked the unlock requirements for all of the jokers you didn’t have?

Edit: I discarded a Royal Flush during the first gold chip run I won, that’s how well I was doing that run lol it was the Ghost Deck

Yeah, but there were so many that they just sort of glazed over. If there was a way to filter to 'show only locked jokers' that would work.

silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




Red Oktober posted:

Yeah, but there were so many that they just sort of glazed over. If there was a way to filter to 'show only locked jokers' that would work.

eh or just pick one or two and remember those ones while you're running stuff

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy
I'm so close I can taste it, just Flower Pot and Luchador to get Completion++

AshtonDragon
Sep 5, 2011

Slowing picking away at Completionist++. I just had a run where I was going into the final boss ante with a Judgement tarot sitting around, with the only potentially sellable joker being Cavendish. Had the idea that I could sell Cavendish and use Judgement if I get so close to winning that I could clear in the next hand without Cavendish, and sure enough, it paid off. Popped Judgement, and it gave me Invisible Joker. Christ. It feels really good to get a free gold sticker on that one.

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-
Is there a specific meaning to when the chips/mult counters are on fire? I know it means you’re at pretty high numbers for your ante or whatever, but does it actually convey any usable information?

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

super fart shooter posted:

Is there a specific meaning to when the chips/mult counters are on fire? I know it means you’re at pretty high numbers for your ante or whatever, but does it actually convey any usable information?

The fire means the hand you've currently played scores high enough to completely one-shot the blind on its own.

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-
Oh interesting, I thought it might be something like that. And I assume that’s before any RNG stuff is even rolled?

Color Printer
May 9, 2011

You get used to it. I don't
even see the code. All I see
is Ipecac, Scapular, Polyphemus...


The instant the score calculation crosses the threshold, it catches on fire, which intensifies as the score goes up

silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




loving hell black deck, I got 380k or something, I just want to beat you on gold so I can never so do again

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Color Printer posted:

The instant the score calculation crosses the threshold, it catches on fire, which intensifies as the score goes up

Yeah, if it catches fire before you even play your hand, it means whatever hand you're about to play can one-shot the current blind with the base hand score alone, no card scoring or jokers required.

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-

Ariong posted:

Yeah, if it catches fire before you even play your hand, it means whatever hand you're about to play can one-shot the current blind with the base hand score alone, no card scoring or jokers required.

Gotcha. Allow me to explain what prompted me to ask this question:

I just unlocked the anaglyph deck and started my first run with it. First ante I find smeared joker. First blind of ante 2, the tag is "level your flush by 3". So with the free double tag, I'm already at level 7 flush, and finding the flushes with minimal effort. I went through ante 2 and 3 without even any other source of chips or mult and was still getting the flames every time I prepared the first hand, just off the leveling alone. It got me curious, cause usually I only see the flames when I've got a bunch of modifiers and jokers waiting to be calculated, I guess I've just never been this over leveled.

silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




silvergoose posted:

loving hell black deck, I got 380k or something, I just want to beat you on gold so I can never so do again

Okay got it after complaining, with a glorious diamond deck. Just 100M in a hand, jokerless, and thence to the gold stickering

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW
I'm extremely late to this card party but I managed my first win on my lunch break today :toot: I don't really know what I'm doing yet but I lucked out really early with 1) the joker that generates two jokers every time you play a round 2) the voucher that doubles the interest cap and 3) the voucher that lowers prices, so I was basically rotating jokers and hoarding money until I managed to assemble a winning combo:

and I then just played high cards for, like, the next five antes.

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-

YggiDee posted:

I'm extremely late to this card party but I managed my first win on my lunch break today :toot: I don't really know what I'm doing yet but I lucked out really early with 1) the joker that generates two jokers every time you play a round 2) the voucher that doubles the interest cap and 3) the voucher that lowers prices, so I was basically rotating jokers and hoarding money until I managed to assemble a winning combo:

and I then just played high cards for, like, the next five antes.

card sharp has been a part of at least half my winning runs. One of the most reliable sources for big Xmult


super fart shooter posted:

Gotcha. Allow me to explain what prompted me to ask this question:

I just unlocked the anaglyph deck and started my first run with it. First ante I find smeared joker. First blind of ante 2, the tag is "level your flush by 3". So with the free double tag, I'm already at level 7 flush, and finding the flushes with minimal effort. I went through ante 2 and 3 without even any other source of chips or mult and was still getting the flames every time I prepared the first hand, just off the leveling alone. It got me curious, cause usually I only see the flames when I've got a bunch of modifiers and jokers waiting to be calculated, I guess I've just never been this over leveled.

How it's going:



This has turned out to be my best run ever. Flush is now level 30. Many of my face cards are glass. Hanging chad + photograph is insanely busted. My highest hand was over 70 million chips, and that was without the blackboard. I can pretty consistently get it so I play a red flush while holding black cards, it mostly just comes down to how lucky I get with the bloodstone... Hopefully I can break 100 million with this one.

SmallpoxJenkins
Jul 9, 2012


Lmao I keep forgetting that Card Sharp is per *round*, and not per *ante*.

Ror
Oct 21, 2010

😸Everything's 🗞️ purrfect!💯🤟


SmallpoxJenkins posted:

Lmao I keep forgetting that Card Sharp is per *round*, and not per *ante*.

the worst is when you have some other joker that you want to play a single card or something for scaling and then you stumble upon a really good hand and play it without thinking and all of a sudden you’re on your last hand and you realize that you haven’t played your main hand type yet and your card sharp is totally powerless to help you

super fart shooter
Feb 11, 2003

-quacka fat-
Just got 215 mil, hell yeah!!!

Just realizing those are almost ante 12 numbers... still not consistent enough though. We'll see what happens

silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




Just got the 100M and jokerless done in one afternoon, both with telescope, it just solves so many problems

For the 100M, Yorick, Brainstorm, and then just boosting flush up forever with a bunch of steel and other polychrome jokers, it was pretty sweet, never even ended up using the card sharp. Given that I'm done with the deck golds, I think it's just the long path towards completionist++ left! Fabulous game, if I stop here I'll feel very much like I got tons of fun out of it.

Gangringo
Jul 22, 2007

In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one sat.

He chose the path of perpetual contentment.

Telescope and straights will get you pretty far on their own.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
LocalThunk dropped a few tidbits during an interview with Bloomberg of all places, about the "1.1" Gameplay Update coming sometime this year: There will be new Jokers and other features he's not talking about yet, Matador will be overhauled to be less confusing, and he intends on changing Blue Stake in some way.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

The Kins posted:

LocalThunk dropped a few tidbits during an interview with Bloomberg of all places, about the "1.1" Gameplay Update coming sometime this year: There will be new Jokers and other features he's not talking about yet, Matador will be overhauled to be less confusing, and he intends on changing Blue Stake in some way.

why bloomberg???

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy
And after 233 hours, you can add me to the sacred halls of Completionist++. Just got a ridiculous run with constantly retriggering polychrome queens that also allowed me to carry (and find!) my final 2 jokers.



E: just for fun I've carried the run on and I've just hit a new high score. On my very final run for C++. Perfect.

mfcrocker fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Feb 8, 2025

El Jeffe
Dec 24, 2009

The Kins posted:

LocalThunk dropped a few tidbits during an interview with Bloomberg of all places, about the "1.1" Gameplay Update coming sometime this year: There will be new Jokers and other features he's not talking about yet, Matador will be overhauled to be less confusing, and he intends on changing Blue Stake in some way.

Got a copy/paste for non subscribers?

mfcrocker posted:

And after 233 hours, you can add me to the sacred halls of Completionist++. Just got a ridiculous run with constantly retriggering polychrome queens that also allowed me to carry (and find!) my final 2 jokers.



Congrats!

mariooncrack
Dec 27, 2008

El Jeffe posted:

Got a copy/paste for non subscribers?

https://archive.is/FwBtY

take boat
Jul 8, 2006
boat: TAKEN

StrixNebulosa posted:

why bloomberg???

it's funny but the interview was done by Jason Schreier which makes sense

El Jeffe
Dec 24, 2009


Thanks!

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids




:toot:

Matador was my last one. I had several runs make it to the end, but it never showed up in late-game shops for those runs.

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Lots of people hitting C++ this week! Since I just finished it, I'm now aiming to see how long of a winning streak I can get on white stake, with my Completionist++ run as the first win of that streak. On my latest run, I cleared every single blind with one hand - no skips, 24 hands played at the end of ante 8. It was simply Spare Trousers (gains +2 mult if played hand contains a Two Pair) and Joker Stencil (x1 mult for every empty joker slot, including itself). I'm wondering why it says I made 2 new discoveries, since I've already completed everything possible. Maybe this was my first time clearing white stake with those two jokers?

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009



The power of triboulet

A truly great joker

Edit

Oh man the joker that unlocked Stuntman looks pretty good

euphronius fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Feb 8, 2025

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