Thread 718106008

>Gold Stake
>Don't find a broken joker in the first 3 shops
>Reset
GOTYAY

damn at least give up a run by ante 4 if you really had a bunch of bad jokerinos by then and your score won't keep up

How can such a badly designed game be so addicting?

>>718106008 (OP)
>Don't find a broken joker in the first 3 shops
>Reset

Have you considered improving?

>>718106008 (OP)
The only flaw with the game is how the higher stakes add nothing and only serve to narrow the path to victory. After I unlocked all the decks, I've only ever played at the lowest stake.

>>718107729
We're talking gold stake, lil bro

>>718108061
Have you considered improving? People have gone from 0% to Completionist++ with 0 losses

>>718106008 (OP)
I will settle for a non-perishable, non-rental suit joker

>>718108242
lol

>>718106008 (OP)
Aren't you just complaining about the core way a lot of roguelike's higher level difficulties work?

>>718108061
skill issue
you're just like people in sts who abandon when they don't get a broken boss swap or elite snipe seed because they're too bad at the game to do anything other than win with broken decks

>>718108061
Gold stake isnt hard anymore, lil bro
Go play unpatched black deck gold stake for a few weeks to learn how the game works

>>718108931
I am playing unpatched, is the thing. That's why I was lolling.

>>718106008 (OP)
The problem is not not getting a broken joker but not getting a +mult joker at all
and when you get it, not getting a xmult joker in later antes

>>718108931
>>718109107
Part 2

>>718109138
You should worry more about economy

gold stake just isnt as fun because anything after black stake is shit because of the -1 discard. actaully just makes the game way worse

>>718109291
This is why I prefer to play Black stake.
More challenge without the annoying -1 Discard.

Thunk has said he's reworking Blue Stake in the coming free update

>>718107584
Literally anything can be addicting if you have a shitty addictive personality.

>>718106008 (OP)
The game peaks at black stake because Eternal Jokers actually present and interesting cost/benefit decision and have interplay with spectral cards that destroy Jokers, or with Madness/Sacrificial Dagger that make them interesting. Everything after that is unfun bullshit that basically stacks RNG shop checks that you need favorable rolls for if you want even a chance of succeeding

>>718109107
>>718109170
Stop torturing yourself like this

>>718106008 (OP)
>Gold Stake
What you described starts happening at green stake but its mild, then it gets overwhelming at blue stake, and purple just destroys the viability of 90% of the jokers in the entire game. Still, I autism'd enough to clear all decks at gold and now only play in white stakes only.

>>718107729
Retard

>>718111068
Skill issue, unironically

>>718110928
You did get a Gold sticker on every joker, right?

I can't go back to Vanilla Balatro after playing Extra Credits mod.

>>718107762
The best stake is Purple I think, all the increased difficulty and scaling but without the perish/rental rng that turns half your joker rolls (Or more considering packs) into unplayable trash

>>718106008 (OP)
I just started this game. I guess it got popular for the familiarity of poker and the aesthetics. Otherwise I find it odd what is basically a math game got so huge.