Balatro: I suck so much at this game and cant stop playing

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TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Wait, Splash is bad? I�ve not got very far into this yet but that one seems pretty powerful to me

# ¿ Jun 16, 2024 23:07

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# ¿ Mar 22, 2025 07:30

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Divinity Original Sin instead of Baldur�s Gate III?

# ¿ Dec 12, 2024 23:21

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Aggro posted:

Gotta say, I still love posts like this because it reminds me how good this game is. Early on, people are stoked to win runs on the most basic difficulty. As people play more, they focus on beating the highest difficult with every possible joker in the game. Meanwhile, the game never actually changes (I guess you unlock jokers along the way but there are no permanent upgrades).

I�ve been playing this on and off for a while and the other night was the first time I unlocked / acquired Certificate; can�t remember exactly what other Jokers I had but I copied enough cards that it was the first time I felt like I had a glimpse at the kind of run where every card in the deck is a sealed / modified little powerhouse of its own :getin:

# ¿ Dec 28, 2024 02:46

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Is there a general rule of thumb for what cards to make gold / steel / blue sealed? I vacillate between �cards I won�t ever want to play in my main score generator� on the basis they need to be held in hand, and �cards I might/ will play in my main score generator� on the basis that I can then still use them in an emergency.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2025 14:33

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

gvibes posted:

I suck so much at this game and can�t stop playing.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2025 23:47

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

The Masochist
�4 Mult
Shuffles all jokers after every hand

TACD fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Jan 29, 2025

# ¿ Jan 29, 2025 13:53

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Hungry Squirrel posted:

Card changes every round.

This reminds me, is it a beginner�s fallacy for me to basically disregard jokers with the card/suit/hand changes every round aspect? The suit one I can maybe see paired with smeared joker but the others always seem way too unreliable to bother with.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2025 19:24

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Power of Pecota posted:

You can think of it as three layers:

- Enhancements (Bonus Cards, Mult Cards, Steel Cards, Glass Cards, Lucky Cards, Wild Cards, Stone Cards)
- Modifiers (Foil, Holographic, Polychrome)
- Seals (Blue, Red, Gold, Purple)

Playing cards can have exactly one modifier for each of those layers, and if you try to add a second it'll overwrite the first.

I�ve read this explanation before but it�s only just occurred to me that this means you could have, like, a foil glass card? Or a polychrome stone card??

# ¿ Jan 30, 2025 13:30

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Whoo, managed to unlock Stuntman with the dream team of Hanging Chad, Photograph, Brainstorm, and Blueprint. Also had Scary Face which didn�t hurt. What a fun combo :cool:

# ¿ Feb 13, 2025 23:58

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

It�s so satisfying to come up against Verdant Leaf and just power through without selling a goddamn thing :cool:

# ¿ Feb 20, 2025 10:06

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# ¿ Mar 22, 2025 07:30

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

That�s good but where and how do PEGI classifications matter nowadays?

E: Well, the article says it being rated 18 meant it was pulled from sale in �some countries� but does not expand at all on which ones 🙃

TACD fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Feb 24, 2025

# ¿ Feb 24, 2025 21:10

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