>In my restless dreams... I see that clown.

So how do I git gud at this shit? Is it just luck or am I being retarded?

>>713852512
it's retarded luck

>>713852512
Luck is a skill

>>713852136 (OP)
I literally dont understand these games. I refunded it immediately.

>>713852512
>>713852603
sub 20 iq

>>713852512
use jokers that sound gay as fuck and will never work

>finally beat Jokerless

>>713852639
Youre brown

>>713852696
and you can't play poker so who's really losing here

>>713852751
I never cared about poker.

>>713852136 (OP)
How is this game so fun? It just doesn't get old.

>>713852136 (OP)
yeah me too. I hate troons as well

>>713852907
it taps into the gambling addict part of your brain you never knew you had

>>713853030
>MFW Ouija gives 2s

>>713852686
Yep
Never again

>try making a build focused around straights or flushes
>inevitably lose on ante 7 or so with nothing I could have done
>go back to two pair runs
pants + constellation mog most other jokers desu

Who here 100%?

>>713853894
>bring a bunch of dead weight or extremely rare jokers to the finish line
>probably playing the same deck the whole time
yeah nah

>>713853894
I immediately toggled all the unlocks so technically yes.

>>713853894
What was your final joker to gold sticker?
mine was glass

>>713854315
Fuckin Luchador.
Motherfucker never showed up for like 3 perfect setups that could facilitate an extra useless joker

the update will NEVER happen

>>713854387
How does anyone have the patience to beat the game on gold stake 40 times? Don't you have anything better to do?

I like to live dangerously

>>713854630
the game is fun. we keep playing because we enjoy it.

>>713854630
If you have a good run with anaglyph you can rack up a lot of negative tags to gather a whole bunch at a time.
Its when you get to <10 jokers is when it gets hard.

>>713852512
You will figure it out eventually. The jokers you probably think arent that useful are actually VERY useful

>>713854654
>No cat

so we all know wheel of fortune is bullshit right

If you get jokers like these your run is pretty much a lock if you can survive to get some decent combos

>>713852512
don't be retarded
the litmus test for if you're a retard is your opinion on obelisk.

>>713855198
Nope!

>get Triboulet
>decide to make my deck focused around this very rare Joker
>Boss Blind is Plant
>lose
>there is absolutely 0 way for Triboulet (a Legendary Joker you never get to use) to counter a common as fuck Boss Blind, and you only ever get two shops to deal with it which is literally never enough time to deal with Plant in any circumstance.

The game is generally well balanced but I genuinely don't know what the fuck the Dev was thinking with this garbage, it's SO bad. A fucking dice roll ended my run, none of my decisions mattered.

>>713855335
Not him but Obelisk is pretty shit. Takes far too long to build up to be useful when other jokers do much better

>>713855314
>no campfire

>>713855543
Campfire requires alot of economy or perkeo to make work right.

>>713855335
>Useless early because you can't waste time on shit hands
>Useless mid because you need actual scaling that will carry you and you won't have enough of a single hand to pivot to or from.
>Useless late because you can't build up the Mult
>anti-synergy with High Card, the strongest Poker Hand.

It's a fascinating Joker because it has a use-case for three different situations and they are all actually worthless in practice.
It will never bad as bad as Square Joker but then what is?

>>713855335
>hit a big blind right when it resets
yeah nah it's shit

The pc version should allow you to use the mobile control as well. The mobile version is alot more intuitive sometimes

>>713855657
>square joker
>bad
yeah, you don't understand this game at all

>>713855657
square joker is hardly bad. it's an easy way to maintain chip balanced against your mults without being tied to one suit, which usually gets you raped.

>>713855314
Face card decks my beloved.

If anyone is struggling to even get their first win.
Just get Hanging Chad and Photograph. That should carry you most of the way

>>713852512
Do you have the Plasma deck yet? If so, remember - don't fuck with any + or x mult Jokers! Just go for the ones you can build the chip values on whenever possible, and skip for foil tags. Up to purple stake with the deck now.

>>713853894
jesus that sounds painful.

>>713855335
I hate it but there was I think one run during my journey to Completionist+ where I was like "This is the perfect moment for this Joker, isn't it? God damnit."
Vagabond is another Joker I hate that had two or three successful runs.

how do you know if you found a special seed?

>>713856239
When everything starts going according to Keikaku.

Ante 1 should have skip tags, prove me wrong.

>>713856349
should NOT*
fuk

>>713856027
Not that guy but Square Joker just feels like it scales way too slow at the expense of extra hand money. Not really that bad since it's a common iirc and it doesn't matter if you have an econ joker though

>>713854654
i wonder if blueprint copies the chance to destroy itself as well

>>713856349
>>713856397
I agree that Small Blind Ante1 is pretty much an auto skip but its the solution to the problem they themselves created with the small blind giving 0 reward

How do I get a lot of money? Sure I've had lots before, but not in the hundreds. If doubling money wasn't capped at 20 it might seem more feasible.
Only thing I can think of is using gift wrap joker with temperance a bunch of times.

>>713856432
i mean that's the nature of the game. it won't last forever and you'll likely sell it for some other shit like wee joker or hiker. then you sell those for some other shit because of a blind that ate it or w/e. either way there's a situation where square joker is better than most chip builders. i'd say the odd/even ones are worse.

I think I got a free win

>>713856649
Ante2 btw

sale balatrito?

>>713856649
You'll fuck this up, just you wait.

Gold stake is LITERALLY impossible. The only people who have beaten it are using cheats or mods.

>>713852136 (OP)
Fun and addicting.

>>713856582
>selling a scaling joker for another scaling joker in the middle of a run
I feel like odd/even jokers are better to take early on than Square because at least then you could use tarots to duplicate the odd/even cards you want to play plus full house. Meanwhile you only get 16 chips max per round (20 with extra hands) with SJ to build and it's like you're not going to see comparable results until you're 3 antes deep, at which point you'd probably want the extra money if you see it early instead

>>713856783
The cat has not triggered once yet. Despite playing like 15 lucky cards. I am getting nervous

>>713856926
No it fucking isn't, it can be done. Shit, I was lucky enough to even get a gold sticker with the Obelisk joker early on.

>>713857017
You're gonna know how I felt when I lost the final ante with Bloodstone, hahaha.

Space joker NEVER triggers. They are LYING about the 1/4 chance.

>>713857178
I just hit Ante5. The cat finally triggered for the first time

>>713852686
>finally beat black deck

pure luck desu

>ante 1 Wee Joker
Thanks for the free run

Do I sell Stuntman for Burglar? I really want to keep Hiker around
>Baron
Abandoned deck

>>713852136 (OP)
Jimbo is a filthy manwhore

>>713857775
nvm I'm stupid I forgot I had that Rebate

>>713857306
>>713857178
>>713857017
>>713856783
>>713856649
2 EZ

>>713858097
I stand corrected. Well done, you.

>>713857034
Cheater.

What in fuck's name happened to JensAlmanac/Polterworx? It seemed like every time I turned around, when I look back the main dev's making yet another paragraphs-long announcement about "wehhh I'm discontinuing the mod i'm deleting everything it's overrrrr". And now it's actually fucking happened and I'm just sitting here wonder what in fuck's name sprouted this catastrophe. This shit was an ambitious mod and then it just all of the sudden vanishes from the face of the planet. Does anyone know what the fuck happened or is everyone else as clueless as I am about it? As far as I can tell moving from Balatro's community to the Garry's Mod community is a major downgrade.

>>713858138
I wont lie I had to Alt+f4 once because my hail mary prayer on a lucky card didnt work. It sent me 2 hands back and I was able to change course. In reality I LOST

>>713856495
It doesn't.

>>713856237
Vagabond is maybe the strongest single joker in the game for winning an 8 ante run. The amount of value you get from 3 to 4 tarot cards per round is unmatched even if you're giving up 5 bucks of interest per round to do it, and you're not always going to be doing that once you start getting gold cards from Vagabond.

How do I beat jonkerless I'm stuck for weeks now jesus...

>>713859963
jonkle your peanus until it fall off and then jimbo appears and says you win

>>713859963
play straights, use lots of saturn cards

I see poke at streamers occasionally and see them getting millions in payout even early on and I've been sitting here in Black Deck never having seen anything higher than 300000

>>713860346
High score isn't done with the Black Deck, it's Plasma Deck since it divides your mult by two then squares it, so e50 mult becomes e100 score. As to you not getting up that high, you have to just learn how to make billions of dollars early so you can reroll the shop to dig for Idol+retrigger jokers and red+glass cards, or baron+mime and red seal kings.

>>713859963
Ouija card and go for 4 or 5 of a kind, during the whole run be using tarot cards to buff your score, death and hanged man are your best friend. In the end, start making glass cards to make the score you need.
In short, just get lucky.

Are wild cards based or cringe?

>>713860664
they suck

>>713860664
only usable if you have ancient joker

i got gold stake on 7 decks, please post clown girls

>>713860664
cringe
flushes are only usable in meme runs

>>713860868
the tag for balatro on gelbooru is surprisingly lacking

>>713860664
>opportunity cost of other enhancements
>makes the card more likely to get disabled by a boss effect

>>713852136 (OP)
>this time i got an idea
>find stencil
>find ankh
guess i'm stencil'n

>>713852512
It's about scaling. Some scaling is strong up front and gets you through early hurdles, but others grow over time to carry you all the way. It's like the opposite of big O efficiency.

>>713856237
>vagabond
>bad
>ante 4, entire deck is buffed
>making 40+ dollars a round anyways off that ace with a gold stamp you copied 10 times, and lucky cards sometimes spitting
>can sell it later and it's benefit will maintain
i love vagabond because it pushes me toward spending more money and is fun practice against getting too greedy. the only reason i wont always pick vagabond, is because i deliberately don't want to only play 1 type of way

Am I wrong in thinking that of raising chips or mult, it's always better to raise whichever of the two is lower (assuming it's raising either by the same flat amount)? It intuitively seems right but idk

>>713860664
This is my problem with it >>713861150, but would a wild stamp instead be any better?

>>713861697
Seems right to me, like:
>10*5 = 50
>9*6 = 54
>8*7 = 56

>>713861729
Wild card not only blurring the suit but also the rank for me

>>713861697
No. Raising chips is valuable up to a point, but X mult only affects mult so it scales harder. Chips should largely be coming from planet cards outside the early game where you haven't had time to scale them yet, or if you've got a strong scaling chips joker that means you can largely skip planet cards like Square, Castle, or Wee.

>>713861729
Wilds are bad, but they double the odds of hitting the right suit for whatever flush hand you're trying to assemble. They just need to never get debuffed by suit bosses and they'd be fine.

>>713861697
Yes but the thing is there are less chips boosting jokers in the game, but they boost chips WAY higher than mult jokers.
Generally, I want one (1) chips joker on a run, unless I'm already playing a hand that makes a bunch of chips without it.
But you are right, evening the scales of multiplication is always the right idea.

what are the best mods that add jokers and change the game? not talking about skin mods

>>713861930
>They just need to never get debuffed by suit bosses and they'd be fine.
holy shit, this

>>713861697
mult is generally stronger to raise since xmult exists and chips can be more easily supplemented by planets or playing stronger poker hands. But of course "generally" is the key word here and if you see a good chip boost it can be wise to take it. Chip boosts are rarer than mult boosts as well.

>>713855335
it was in all my gold stake wins early on but the better I got at making builds the less I used it

>>713859963
you need to be using glass cards throughout the run and hoping they dont pop, have a justice on hand during the violet vessel just to make sure you can get like 3 glass cards in one hand
and you know, obviously stack planet cards to get like atleast 20. open spectral packs and pray you get blue seals

>>713861697
not really wrong, however hands like straights give good chips by default so the effect of +chips aren't going to be as important. for example, if you are getting 170 chips from a straight, and you have a +132 chip joker, its essentially like a x1.6. that isn't bad, however later on xmults become more important, and xmults only effect your mult. chips are more important early game and especially with weaker hands

>>713862038
this is the correct evaluation. Very powerful and can easily carry you, but the restriction shuts off too many other things. Something that you should probably consider when you see it, but not actually take that often.

>>713860664
you will be glad you have them if you play flushes or have specific joker triggers like ancient joker or black board
I kind of hate flushes because the chips scale like shit, but its way easier to play 3 flushes than 3 straights

>>713861697
I just think you need it all, chips mult and Xmult
but I would rather have more mult than chips. another way to easily get around this is by putting all the burden on planet cards like you are doing a jokerless run, just watch out for the flint

>>713852564


this but unironically

>>713862232
The important thing to understand about flushes is that they're not a game winning hand, they're an intermediate step while you work towards flush house/flush five.

>>713856110
that combo is strong enough to get your first gold win or unlock stuntman
I have a really hard time getting stunman until I learned about retriggering photograph and bloodstone with glass heart face cards

>>713856237
vagabond is my favorite set up to get the drivers license cooking, but that shit just never happens

>>713855335
>reach the point where you cannot play any hand without resetting on ante 8

What a funky game. I never use the spectral card that converts all cards to 1 rank but I thought what the hell. But I got all 4's and then I got a 10-4 joker. Getting the DNA was a god send because I managed to clone non stop lucky cards then the dice came later.
You never know how youre gonna win sometimes

easy game easy life

>>713855335
seance is the true litmus test

>>713858613
tl;dr Drama

Longer version, Jen stole a lot of artwork early on, got called out on in, fixed things, then a VERY small number of people refused to move on. Additionally, all the self-insert OC DONUT STEEL cards, and Youtuber cards to get free clicks.
So the entire thing's dead, unless you have the latest version, it's gone permanantly and will never be updated.
In all honesty, they were heavily Alphabet leaning and this was the inevitable outcome, outside of becoming an hero.
As to going to Gmod, agreed, most people have better sandboxes at this point, especially after the Nintendo purge and most adult mods not being available or pay for access. And Tower became it's own seperate thing.

Since Balatro doesn't use a normal invert filter for Negative Jokers, here's a sheet showing what they all look like. I've never seen any of these as clean images, so I fixed that.
>>713863610
Why does absolutely zero percent of that surprise me?

>>713863204
skill issue

>>713864260
huh, the legendaries aren't negatived?

>>713864698
Their backing cards are, but the face sprites aren't since the shader doesn't seem to apply to extra layers (so the same thing applies to Hologram).

>>713852564
>>713862401
indeed

>PMtrannies shitting up the balatro thread

>>713865304
Paper Mario?

>>713866313
project moon AKA Limbus company. its really popular with the "transgendered" people

When's the fucking update!!!

how do you pronounce "balatro"

>>713868070
"balatro"

>>713868070
"buh-LAH-chrow". Anyone who says "BAH-luh-chrow" is an asshole.

>>713868490
>Chrow
wat


it's "Baa-Lah-Tuhro"

Anyone else say "bale-uh-tro"

>>713868542
>wat
tr -> chr is pretty a common sound change in English

I HATE THE PLANT
I HATE THE PLANT
I HATE THE PLANT
I HATE THE PLANT
I HATE THE PLANT

>>713870746
skissue

>>713863610
>then a VERY small number of people refused to move on
You telling me this mod got carpet-bombed because Jen got fucking sensitive that a couple random nobodies tried to ragebait them? Holy fucking shit what a loser, I just lost all respect for the person.

>gambling game

>>713853894
On my way but just recently got Completionist

>>713859963
Focus on either getting full houses or straight. Make sure to duplicate cards and get rid of the weaker one. Getting lucky cards early for a 20$ is recommended. Try repurposing the red seal cards when you get them and they're not the right type

>>713859963
when i play balatro i always try to turn every card in my deck into an ace of a specific suit to get Five of a Flush very frequently. the task gets easier and easier as you go along the run since there's better odds of getting that specific ace. i've never actually done jonkerless, but that's almost always the strat i went for when i played frequently.

>>713852136 (OP)
I love getting the Balatro event in Monster Train 2.

Pick a card, any card!

>>713863610
this is a double fuck you to everyone who liked it because plenty of people unironically sent money their way every time that guy complained about not being able to pay rent this month or whatever the fuck. i saw it happen regularly whenever i checked into the cryptid discord server to see news, and i rolled my eyes every time i saw the finance sob stories, had a feeling it would have a bad ending one way or another. genuinely what was the endgame here?
also yeah the amount of oc donut steel giga overpowered jokers in that mod was cringe as fuck, the other concepts like superpowered vanilla tarots and planets were cool on paper however so that was a waste.

>>713873875
and a triple fuck you to anyone who liked anything from it and wanted to restore it because they also deleted the fucking source code. whoops! now we only have archives of the mod itself.
genuinely how the fuck does someone turn this way about their own work? they put blood sweat and tears into all this shit, even through sickness and financial troubles, and then when they get a little too heated at some random fuckwads on the internet they sperg out and suddenly hate their own work? who the fuck thinks like that?

how much iq do you need to play this game

>>713875082
minimum 140

>>713852512
You are retarded. And also a little luck to find jokers that synergize.

>>713853704
Yeah I got pants ante2 with two pair jokers ante 1 and blueprint ante 5 followed by a -1 ante voucher for the easiest noskill red deck win.

i fucking suck at plasma deck

>>713855335
TRVTH NVKE: the extra effort of having to play around obelisk makes it considerably worse than jokers that provide less value but require no micro-management

>content update
>scheduled for summer 2025
>all of "e3" passes with no announcement
It's getting delayed isn't it?

>>713856168
>don't fuck with any + or x mult Jokers
Really? Not even one?

>>713855335
Only weirdos like this joker

>>713855314
My HEROES... and Thr*wback

>>713852136 (OP)
I just got this game from the Steam sale the other day. Big mistake. I can't stop playing it now and trying to boost pairs/two pairs.

>>713856103
it's the only path, desu

This game ate up my entire summer vacation last year and I severely regret it. Thankfully I've achieved Completionist++ since then so this year should be safe.