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wasted_in_time, do games w Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!

Good for them… Still have yet to win a run.

Cris16228,

How many hours in? Just curious, I’m bad at it but I got my first win ~16 hours in, are you doing something wrong?

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

I believe in you!

GissaMittJobb,

Balatro University has some good guides if you’re looking to improve.

Skullgrid,
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Cris16228,

Thanks for this! Saving and checking them but… I’m more a “Look at me playing a game and tell me what I did wrong at the end” kind of player

calabast,

I was going to say “ahh, too bad the Internet isn’t really helpful for that method of learning”, but with AI who knows, maybe that’ll be something your computer can do before too long

Cris16228,

I don’t really understand your comment - sorry! - but I’ve played some games with the plasma deck and I still have to understand how to play exactly with it, I do good-ish at first but after a few rounds/first boss I do so little numbers and I can’t win, having someone watching what I do wrong and telling me would be great

ABCDE,

I could have a go at that.

makeshiftreaper,

For plasma specifically I’d focus on high additive chip jokers. While that’s normally bad advice, consider how crazy good a card with +50 mult on it would be. Now consider that a +100 chip joker is effectively a +50 chip/+50 mult (I know that’s not technically true but I’m illustrating a point). Also eventually you do hit a point of diminishing returns because plasma prevents you from having a super high multiplier or chips, so like every build, total score multipliers are the best

Cris16228,

The one who played it before me said it was best to get the X multi jokers so I always ignored the + multi ones and even the X multi final score… I tried but I don’t exactly know which ones do that. I should try with what you said and see if it works, thanks! Which poker hand is better with it?

makeshiftreaper,

It’s hard to offer strong heuristics for Balatro because you could theoretically build up to a point where you’ve got a crazy high multiplier but if your chips are low it doesn’t matter.

For example let’s say you’ve got a face card 4 of a kind build going with: Pareidolia, Zany, Smiley, Trio, and Family jokers. These give you (respectively) all cards are face cards, +12 mult for 3 of a kind, +20 mult for each hand (all cards are face cards), x3 mult, x4 mult for a total of 384 multiplier! On base 4 of a kind this is

60x([7+12+20]x3x4)=28,080

However if you were to drop smiley face (+5 mult per face) for scary face (+30 chips per face card) which by almost every heuristic is a bad decision your score becomes:

(60+120)x([7+12]x3x4)=41,040

Which is a way bigger score!

So while people can offer general advice like stack high chips on plasma, always go for total score multipliers, etc. sometimes you just have to evaluate your specific build and figure out the best play

Finally outside of decks like abandoned and checkered which are specifically made to get certain hands, there isn’t a “best” hand to go for. The highest possible scores I’ve seen all come from high card builds but most normal players won’t get those. I’ve won two of a kind runs, flush 5 runs, straight runs, flush runs. You just have to evaluate your deck and tarot cards to see your options

Cris16228,

This is interesting to know since I would love to win at least one game with plasma since people said it the funniest deck but for some reasons I can’t get past ante 2/3. I’m going to try to play a game or 2 trying to buy chip jokers and tarots hoping for the best, I do really need to understand better jokers and synergies between them

Prunebutt,

Maybe experiment a bit more. That way, you can deduce yousrelf what works and what doesn’t.

Cris16228,

The problem is, like I said in another comment, is I can’t understand exactly how to play the plasma deck but I’ll keep trying!

Prunebutt,

Well, you must have already got quite a bit of experienge then, since that one get unlocked after the second most difficult stake, right? Have you tried focusing on chips, instead of mult? Chips are way easier to raise.

Cris16228,

No, the only suggestion I’ve got for the plasma deck is to try getting the X multi jokers but failed

rockerface,

With the plasma deck you don’t need to balance the chips with multiplier, as it does that for you. So what you want to do is to go all in on either chips or multiplier. Usually it’s easier to get chips bonuses early, and then, when you have the opportunity, to pivot into massive multiplier multiples. Or just keep going with chips, if you have enough levels on your main hand - that might be enough to get you through ante 8 on lower stakes

Cris16228,

+chips and +multi? Or X multi? I can try to play with more +chips jokers/cards

rockerface,

Start with +chips and look for an opportunity to get a lot of X multi in one go, if possible. If not, just double down on +chips

Cris16228,

Thanks for your help! I’m going to try it

RincewindThreepwood,
@RincewindThreepwood@lemmy.world avatar

lol. I feel you! My max Ante was 7. Everything after that seems impossible :D

ivanafterall,
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The most-satisfying part is when you stumble onto the right Joker combination and realize, “Oh snap, I think this is the one.”

makeshiftreaper,

Conversely the worst is when that happens and a bad boss blind screws your run

RincewindThreepwood,
@RincewindThreepwood@lemmy.world avatar

The worst one I think is the one where you can only play one hand. I hate that one, because in most cases it’s game over for me 😆

makeshiftreaper, (edited )

Generally some good advice is that Balatro is a math game first and foremost so you want to focus on things that raise your score the quickest. So adding chips is ok, adding multiplier is better, and multiplying your total is the best.

For example let’s say you are playing straights and you have a 10-6 with level 3 straights. So you’d have:

10+9+8+7+6=40

(40+90)x10=1300

So let’s compare how jokers impact that score:

Devious joker: +100 chips if you have a straight

(40+90+100)x10=2300

Crazy joker: +12 mult if you have a straight

(40+90)x(10+12)=2860

The order: x3 mult if you have a straight

(40+90)x(10x3)=3900

You can see those are very big differences! It’s also helpful to pay attention to the order of your cards. Generally Balatro cards are scored left to right. The most important thing is to take any card that multiplies any part of your score on the right so you can add as much to the score as possible, then you multiply that number

So in short: multiplier jokers are best, additive multiplier jokers are good, additive chip jokers are ok, and pay attention to the order of your jokers/played cards

sushibowl,

This is basically correct but i would add sometimes it’s better to add chips than to add mult. For example, if your score is something like:


<span style="color:#323232;">10 x 50 = 500
</span>

Adding +50 mult here would give you 10x100=1000 points. Adding +50 chips will give you 60x50=3000 points.

Adding to the lowest of the two numbers improves your score the most. Especially early game, mult is much lower than chips, so you want to improve mult. However once you have some good mult jokers improving chips becomes important. Especially in high card based decks, where you get very few chips from your hand.

If the multiplier jokers come in, the picture can change again. It makes adding mult more valuable because the addition will be multiplied.

BluesF,

One thing to watch out for though, is that if you focus exclusively on mult, eventually the scale tips and chips become more valuable.

You’re always ultimately doing c * m, chips times mult, right? Increasing c by 1 increases your total by…

(c+1)*m - (c*m) = (c + 1 - c) * m = m

And vice versa for increasing m by 1. So, whichever is higher - your total mult or total chips - you should increase the other one. Usually this means increase mult, but building a bit multiplier can quickly make it outpace your chips for some hands.

Bluewall,

How long have you been trying.

astrsk, do games w Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!
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For anyone interested in game development: Balatro is made with Love2D. Which means the exe you download from steam can be unzipped using just about any zip program (might need to change the file extension from exe to zip) and the whole source code and 2D asset files are available for perusing. Not even obfuscated, full variable names and comments available to inspect as a real world example of a working game that has sold like hotcakes because the end result is good. Let it inspire you, let it teach you :)

lanolinoil,
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VERY COOL! I have used Love for some simple stuff before but I didn’t realize balatro was built in it.

mikwee,
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Yoooooo awesome! Even source-available games are better than proprietary games.

drislands,

Oh shit, that’s amazing! That could be a real learning opportunity for folks interested in starting game dev like me!

Daxtron2,

Thus also applies to many games made with Unity as well. It just requires a program like ILSpy to view it all.

grue, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.
Vittelius,

thanks, I’ve fixed it

Lumisal, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.

Suomi Perkele!!!

Good luck to Sweden on getting second place so far though

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited ) do gaming w Guitar Hero clone...with characters/venues?

With clones, You’re not going to get custom characters or custom venues. So get that out of the your head now.

Download clone hero and never look back. Works on Linux (steam deck)

Be grateful that clone hero allows you to play every single guitar hero and rock band song that ever existed in one game.

highduc, do gaming w I uninstalled RDR2 out of frustation after 100+ hours

I finally lost it with all the spoon-feeding and the hand-holding during missions, and when daddy rockstar did not like it when I did not play EXACTLY how they wanted me to, standing in the wrong spot - mission failed, try a different strategy - mission failed, jumped directly outside Danbury’s window - guess what - mission failed because Danbury just had a divine vision and destroyed the documents in a second. Fuck this shit.

I’m not necessarily with you on the other points. I guess I’m used to NPCs only spewing generic, canned lines. But this sucks so much. Huge issue imo.

Flamekebab, do gaming w Guitar Hero clone...with characters/venues?
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I'm curious about this as well - without the background stuff it feels kinda abstract and lifeless to me.

BuboScandiacus, do gaming w Thoughts on Space Games, Part 1: Top-5 AAA Games
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Why didn’t I know of X4 before ? And why can’t I subscribe to people on lemmy, your post is so good !

the_toast_is_gone, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.

Man, this is getting signatures fast. Good luck, Europe!

sven, do gaming w Guitar Hero clone...with characters/venues?

clonehero.netThe best I have seen is Clone Hero. I had a good time with it in Windows with drums a few years ago. They are super slow on development though. No characters. No venues that I know of. But there are many songs out there. And it seems to work pretty well. Even did multiplayer over the internet.

They have moved around the song database since I last played but looks like it’s here now. rhythmverse.co

BmeBenji,

I got my brother, who is not Linux-savvy, set up playing Clone Hero on his Steam Deck while I was thousands of miles away and it played with no input lag basically out of the box on SteamOS. If you’re looking for a good Guitar Hero experience on Linux with lots of custom songs, Clone Hero is for you.

If you’re looking for Guitar Hero with characters, venues, and no input lag on Linux I have nothing to suggest. :/

magic_lobster_party, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.

Unacceptable! Sweden is supposed to be first!

mke,

So close…! You can still be second, go for it!

magic_lobster_party,

I’ve already done my part. Waiting for the rest of us

AnEilifintChorcra, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.

Even if your coutry reaches 100% and you haven’t signed, please still do incase some signatures are invalid

TIP – It is better to collect more signatures than required. Sometimes the national authorities might not be able to validate all the statements of support you provide.

citizens-initiative.europa.eu/how-it-works_en

Vittelius,

Also just getting 100% in 7 countries is not ging to be enough to reach 1 million votes total.

So you should keep signing it either way. Every vote still counts

Banichan, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.
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Hubris

Vittelius,

?

DaddleDew, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.

Awesome job, Ross

rotkehle, do gaming w #StopKillingGames update: Finland just passed the threshold.

let’s gooooo!

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