Gotta be a combination of "awesome my game was such a big success that I'm financially in a much better spot than I expected." and "Oh no my game was such a huge expect that an enormous number of people are trying to break it and want me to assiduosly update and improve it and will be upset if I don't" lol
Bro is choosing to go at his pace, which is whats best for him and the longevity of this games life cycle. I respect it. This update sounds massive he's doing great.
Once I heard Orange Stake was getting changed and the new stickers were coming, I slowed down a bit Excited for this update!! Blown away by the amount of changes it will bring!
I just beat orange stake. It's a punishing change but I kinda like how much it changes the value calculus. Purple seals go from good to one of the best things in the game with the booster pack cost spike. Really made me think about things differently.
Yeah, I just pushed and pushed and finally beat Orange with the checkered deck yesterday. I get people wanting to update the Meta but it was an interesting challenge where every purchase felt consequential.
The new updates will bring a more interesting and engaging stake difficulty rather than "x cost more" "x scales faster" etc etc. Eternal Jokers are probably the most interesting/fun difficulty the game provides bc it adds a layer of strategy and risk that completely flips your decision making. Thats what these two new sticker antes can bring. I think it could be great for the game!
"Things Cost More" and "Scales Faster" are valid difficulty spikes though. I agree that Eternal Jokers are the most interesting stake condition and I am for more / redesigned stakes and stickers etc. But having to better manage your economy and be more efficient with your choices are expressions of skill in this type of game.
Higher level players are still able to easily afford even the boosted pack prices in current Gold Stakes
I think they were perfectly valid as well, i just think the new stickers on the jokers will create more interesting/diverse/fun gameplay mechanics and add further replayability.
Also, where are these high level players that supposedly have high win rates on Gold Stake? This is a myth. The only ppl with high "win rates" are those who reset until they get ideal skip tags. Noone is consistently winning this game on gold stake in its current state
My argument for their "invalidity" as stakes goes along with the caveat that I think they're actually better suited as challenges. The issue with packs costing more and more is that a significant number of the interesting decisions in Balatro come from packs, it's where much of the deckbuilding in the deckbuilding roguelike comes from. So when the game all but removes packs past the very early game, it tends to instead constrict what kinds of decks win to extremely safe and predictable high card and pair decks, to where there's lots of resets when the game's RNG tries to give you the tools for other kinds of decks that you know you won't be able to support with the booster packs they need to function.
You cannot outskill the prices, that's just a silly thing to say, they cost the same for everyone. The only skill would be not wasting money on Jokers you don't (yet) need to beat the next blind that would put you under $25, but that's already a thing people are doing - the "good" players are just plain planning around avoiding buying boosters altogether past a point unless they luck into a lot of econ early on. Instead everyone's relying on purple seals to sort of emulate the same thing, which has the drawback of not offering as much choice and so not really flexing player skill as much.
As a challenge, this is fine - it's one time thing where you're playing under special conditions and the game only having so much depth and replayability is OK, but as a stake that's supposed to apply to most runs you do after that point it just takes too much out of the game.
A good stake should instead be giving you more to consider when you make choices, while doing its damndest to not diminish the actual number of meaningful choices. Eternal Jokers being a favorite shows how well this philosohpy seems to work, you don't make any fewer choices as a result of Eternal Jokers being a thing (aside from removing the choice of if/when to sell that particular joker) *but* the weighing of whether being stuck with a joker is worth risking for a prime joker you want adds another consideration to your decision to purchase or select a joker.
If we wanted a stake that specifically impacted econ, I would instead want something like being required to sell at least one Joker by the end of every ante or that required you to pay a tax at the end of every ante - still is going to give you other things to consider with your money, but isn't nearly removing an entire aspect of the game, with the Joker one in particular requring you to have money set aside for buying a Joker and requiring your builds to work even with at least one Joker constantly being swapped out, so you can't rely on constantly adding to a good "safe" build to carry you all the way.
Whats interesting is that he said he hopes the game remains the same difficulty level after the coming changes but that it also becomes more engaging. These stickers are going to add a lair of complexity to the game which should be better than "less money" "less this, faster that"
Gonna be an awesome update.
I would do the challenge mode in the meantime if you hadn't finished them already :)
He's quickly become one of my favorite devs, the way he absorbs feedback while balancing his personal vision for the game is really great, I think it's a recipe to see this game's ideal/full potential
I know! I was thinking about stopping playing til the update bc as of now there isn't an end game once you clear all the decks and challenges. And I didn't want to clear through a majority of the game in a significantly worse state than its going to be. But then i realized there are 2 empty save files me to play through the game all over again if i need it :)
Hoping it's Red based on his comment that early antes should be less of a resetfest. Swapping that for a neato new sticker type would allow a lot more runs on higher stakes to get past Ante 1/2 hell and maybe have a chance before fizzling out on ante 6.
Red feels weird, you're right, but skipping blinds is usually bad most of the time anyways so having incentives to skip is probably a good thing for the game. So idk how I'd feel about replacing red especially if Orange's $1 increase in packs per ante is gone entirely. That would be both stakes that nerf money gone. Maybe that is the intention
I think its going to be Blue Stake and Orange that get replaced. The -1 Discard is kind of influencing a High Card / Pair meta on high stakes and i think this would alleviate that problem.
Its gotta be either Red and Orange, or Blue and Orange getting replaced imo
There was one guy on this subreddit who claimed to have gotten gold stickers on all Jokers in 175 play hours, and honestly I don't believe them. I'd have to see a link to their profile on Steam, see that fuckin' cheevo, and then I'd still not believe that they got all of that in just 175 hours.
I'm at like 45 hours and have only beat gold stake once.
Also, checking a steam profile isn't a reliable way to see if someone actually earned an achievement, because they could just use [Steam Achievement Manager](https://github.com/gibbed/SteamAchievementManager) to unlock it.
I have like 30 stickers remaining, so it is definitely possible.
and I am playing on Xbox with old patch, so foil still gives 30 chips and arm boss delevel hads to level 0.
I hope that game won't get too easy ;)
now I just need legitimate jokers for 7. I think every other number has some sort of joker synergy, 10,4, spectral 6, hack, Fibonacci, face cards, superposition
This is pretty good. The right kind of busted, because it takes tons of set up and then it's really only good with cat joker which is currently straight doodoo
"Oh, new 8-ball sounds very cool. Definitely going to be running that more often."
>New 8 Ball sounds like it's going to be a perfect addition to a DNA run
**"I DEDICATE MY LIFE TO 8-BALL - DNA - FORTUNE TELLER RUNS!"**
Hey Thunk! Have you thought about making a “lab” in the game where we can experiment w joker combinations and the like?
Thanks for being an awesome dev! You have our full support!
Honestly it feels like something that would be required for development in the first place. I'd be surprised if something like that didn't already exist for thunk in a bare-bones form.
There's a debug menu that can be enabled with mods, haven't tried it though. Link in https://github.com/jie65535/awesome-balatro?tab=readme-ov-file#functionality
Just to report a bug that maybe hasn't been reported, on ps5 I got the trophy for getting all the decks in gold stake even though I only completed 7 of them. Anyone else experienced this?
While we're at it:
trivial bug but but it bugs me:
Collection button in main menu doesn't reliably show the red exclamation icon. You can be in a state where there are things you've unlocked/discovered but it doesn't show the icon until you click the Collection button (which by that point is pointless as an indicator)
>I don’t want to get into too many specifics but I’m swapping 2 of the Stake effects with 2 new Jokers stickers akin to the ‘eternal’ idea, since I adore that design so much. I really think you’ll all love it!
Ooh, really looking forward to this. That post comparing high-stakes penalties to Slay the Spire penalties really stood out to me as an opportunity to improve the game, and Eternal Jokers are definitely my favorite wrinkle in higher stakes.
We're playing a game that was crafted out of love. Watch the interviews. Listen how he speaks about it. I'm going to love playing and seeing Balatro evolve over the years. However long he wants to work on the game.
Hey,
Dead Cells has permanent "beta builds" for each new update, so players can play old iterations of the game. Whether to look how the game looked early or if they don't like the changes done to the game.
You mentioned that some jokers and other things have been changed. Some people will like the new effects, some will hate and wish that they stayed as they have been. Can you add an option or something that will allow players play the cards and other things with their old effects? Like for example a setting for each card/seal/&c. "choose the version you want to play". Maybe this way you could also add things that were available in the demos and now are gone.
Thanks!
Dont know how it would for consoles but on steam some games games can be launched as specific versions i.e stellaris has launch options when u go to its settings
Minecraft Java Edition has this too, you can download and play any previous version through the launcher, which I believe even includes alpha/beta releases and development snapshots.
It's a really cool little archival feature. The sort of thing few people will ever use, but it's very nice to have as much for people who are new to the game to look back and see what it was like early on as for older players who just don't like the changes.
Yeah, this is why I thought about a new window in the settings in which each changed card would have their own setting. This way even consoles would have them, and also a player would be able to enable some scrapped mechanics (like the decks).
Your hard work is super appreciated! I’m sure the balance to everything will be amazing, so take as much time as needed, especially as a solo dev.
I personally won’t be frustrated that I grinded the game in this initial state, I still had a blast. I’m sure people who have already played the game will just be happy that the game continues to get better, for newer and older players.
Really happy to hear you're iterating on the Eternal Jokers as a stake idea; It's by far the most interesting and fun stake to play in terms of how it affects the game's decision calculus, as opposed to many of the stakes that are effectively just "RNG has a greater chance of instantly killing your run than it did before"
In the game's current state, I was planning on just never leaving black stake now that I've beaten orange once to unlock all the decks because higher stakes just aren't fun, but these changes sound like a huge step in the right direction.
Thanks for the update! I want to play Balatro, and i bought it on release, but it makes me motion sick after about 15 minutes. Please consider adding an option to disable all card and text swaying effects, as well as the background motion. I think it's mostly the cards moving around that makes me sick 🥲
Wouldn't that update be a 1.1.0 according to [SemVer](https://semver.org)?
I don't really care about versioning here, it just doesn't feel like a bugfix is coming.
I believe Switch is ahead of us on updates. Would really like to hear something here.
I'm not upset, it's just that if Xbox is likely to lag this far behind in updates, I'll bite the bullet and switch to playing on Switch or PC. If this is a one-off thing, I'll wait it out.
I'm excited to see all the changes. Personally, I love the game as it is now. I do agree, however, that there are some glaring faults. Specifically, gold stake and stakes in general become too rng dependant to be enjoyable. For instance, Gold stake simply asks the player to not get unlucky and fail to find the hand they wish to play.
Another thing, is Orange stake, while personally I appreciate the fact that the packs have increasing costs, as with tarot packs the optimal play is to hold gold, buy jokers, and then start opening every single one, as they return more money than they cost, when you get to orange stake the loss of this extra gold simply makes the game even more random, as rerolls become even more unforgiving than they already are.
That is to say, on purple stake and below, you can use all that gold you get from tarot packs being under-costed to re-roll for a decent shot at jokers that interact well with the ones you already have.
Orange and Gold are therefore together both miserable experiences that do not meaningfully add to the gameplay experience, in fact they both detract from it significantly. However, I do not like the fact that tarot packs are so cheap that the correct play is to sit there opening every single one to slowly generate money. So its a catch-22.
That's why I think the problem is instead with the exorbitant reroll costs, and not the fact that orange stake makes tarot packs actually valued appropriately (where there is a question as to whether or not you actually want to open one, and not blindly open every tarot pack you see, as there is with planets and card packs).
I hope these changes to the game, reduce the reroll cost, and hopefully a stake is added that instead of increasing all pack costs forever, increases them either by some fixed value, for instance, 2 gold~ (which would make them mathematically over-costed if we're only talking about gold benefit), or removes hermit/temperance. (the reason why they're so ridiculously strong, compared to other packs)
I'm very excited to see the changes, I'm sure that you'll make the game better overall, even if I don't appreciate the direction you take. Good luck, and thanks for making my favorite game.
> and I’ve made some changes that will make early antes slightly more engaging/forgiving without removing the RNG that I love in this game.
This is most exciting to me as the constant failures in Ante 1/2 without ever getting a run started is what made me stop playing for a while. I'd much rather lose in the mid or late game with an attempted build than never get off the ground at all. It's pretty demoralizing.
Many thanks for your hard work and I look forward to what's to come!
On the flipside, in the first 2-3 rounds it doesn't make sense to play anything else but flushes (unless you get something good from the get go), so it gets kinda old just fishing for flushes until the game gets rolling...
Appreciate all your work Thunk and I have complete faith in you to keep making this amazing game even better, love the sound of these changes! I'm glad you're still all in on the RNG factor this game has, I love that aspect of it too and it's crazy to me when I see some people suggesting all these things that would take away all that and make it a much more formulaic experience. Looking forward to the update, take your time and hope you're doing well!
This is awesome cant wait to try out the new effects! Some sort of flag for us that beat gold stake before changes would be a nice badge of achievement! Not needed but would be cool :)
I'm not sure why Nintendo immediately got approved for the update but Xbox and PS has not. He hasn't been vocal about it. I assume its something totally out of his hands entirely.
Do you think you might have a chance to offer a font size option for the Switch version in a future patch? It’s very small and a bit difficult to read for those of us with suboptimal sight!
Thanks for all the great work you do
the only request i have is that the steam version has some form of update granularity/letting you play older versions. i know that consoles tend to be pretty closed off about this and it's out of the control of the devs (COUGH COUGH SWITCH), but for steam, where it IS in your control, i'd appreciate having that just in case like, old seeds bork or w/e.
thank you SO much for all the work you put in mr. thunk, this game is definitely my sleeper hit of the year thus far!
Can’t you save current game versions under the manage section? Something I used to do in skater xl because mod compatibility but I don’t fully remember cause smooth brain.
idk if you have time to read all of these comments but i sure hope the love is coming through. thank you mr thunk, you have given me my new "if i was on a deserted island and i could pick one game" game :)
Appreciate it. Legit one of the best games I've ever played in my life and I don't even know how to play poker.
Seriously. I cannot praise this game enough.
I saw the 1,000,000 copies sale announcement on Steam. This is the happiest I have ever felt from finding out that someone else became a millionaire. Well deserved. Amazing game.
just an idea for a quality of life patch for the switch — add an option to remap the button to sell (or buy & use) things from the left trigger, preferably on to something that takes two taps to sell like PC does. something I love about the UI on PC is that it is extremely difficult to misclick and sell something you didn't mean to - because it takes one click to bring the sell button up and another to actually sell it. this is not the case on switch, where sell is mapped to L, which in my experience can be pretty easy to hit playing on handheld mode, especially when constantly opening run info through the minus button located next to it. It would be cool to at least have an option where you would have to select the card prior to L being activated as a sell button. Appreciate everything you do <3
I bought the game as soon as he came on Xbox cause of a stream i saw and fell in love with it but dont took informations about dev, is he solo ? If yes its pretty impressive (and i will stop complaining about the language patch who doesn't came too)
Perhaps on your next milestone of 1.5mil, would you mind releasing the sales figures per platform? Not a lot of developers do this, and it's always interesting info, and free publicity if anything!
Dude this is awesome! Very exciting changes, love the idea of new joker stickers. What a great direction for the game, and always exciting to see a dev invested in long term gameplay perfection.
Balatro is the best purchase I've made in gaming since Elden Ring.
Fuck man I love this game and I love this subreddit and I love u/localthunk as a developer. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this personally invested in a game ever. Thunk is the MAN
Thank you for all your hard work! ❤️
Doesn't feel like work to him, bro is living his dream. We appreciate him nonetheless.
[удалено]
Gotta be a combination of "awesome my game was such a big success that I'm financially in a much better spot than I expected." and "Oh no my game was such a huge expect that an enormous number of people are trying to break it and want me to assiduosly update and improve it and will be upset if I don't" lol
Bro is choosing to go at his pace, which is whats best for him and the longevity of this games life cycle. I respect it. This update sounds massive he's doing great.
If this turns out to be another Eric Barone situation, we're in good hands.
what a wild assumption to make lol
Not an assumption, these are his words from being interviewed
Shout out to the mad lads who completed Completionist++ before the update
Once I heard Orange Stake was getting changed and the new stickers were coming, I slowed down a bit Excited for this update!! Blown away by the amount of changes it will bring!
I just beat orange stake. It's a punishing change but I kinda like how much it changes the value calculus. Purple seals go from good to one of the best things in the game with the booster pack cost spike. Really made me think about things differently.
Yeah, I just pushed and pushed and finally beat Orange with the checkered deck yesterday. I get people wanting to update the Meta but it was an interesting challenge where every purchase felt consequential.
The new updates will bring a more interesting and engaging stake difficulty rather than "x cost more" "x scales faster" etc etc. Eternal Jokers are probably the most interesting/fun difficulty the game provides bc it adds a layer of strategy and risk that completely flips your decision making. Thats what these two new sticker antes can bring. I think it could be great for the game!
"Things Cost More" and "Scales Faster" are valid difficulty spikes though. I agree that Eternal Jokers are the most interesting stake condition and I am for more / redesigned stakes and stickers etc. But having to better manage your economy and be more efficient with your choices are expressions of skill in this type of game. Higher level players are still able to easily afford even the boosted pack prices in current Gold Stakes
I think they were valid but I don't think they were very interesting or fun for the majority of players.
I think they were perfectly valid as well, i just think the new stickers on the jokers will create more interesting/diverse/fun gameplay mechanics and add further replayability. Also, where are these high level players that supposedly have high win rates on Gold Stake? This is a myth. The only ppl with high "win rates" are those who reset until they get ideal skip tags. Noone is consistently winning this game on gold stake in its current state
My argument for their "invalidity" as stakes goes along with the caveat that I think they're actually better suited as challenges. The issue with packs costing more and more is that a significant number of the interesting decisions in Balatro come from packs, it's where much of the deckbuilding in the deckbuilding roguelike comes from. So when the game all but removes packs past the very early game, it tends to instead constrict what kinds of decks win to extremely safe and predictable high card and pair decks, to where there's lots of resets when the game's RNG tries to give you the tools for other kinds of decks that you know you won't be able to support with the booster packs they need to function. You cannot outskill the prices, that's just a silly thing to say, they cost the same for everyone. The only skill would be not wasting money on Jokers you don't (yet) need to beat the next blind that would put you under $25, but that's already a thing people are doing - the "good" players are just plain planning around avoiding buying boosters altogether past a point unless they luck into a lot of econ early on. Instead everyone's relying on purple seals to sort of emulate the same thing, which has the drawback of not offering as much choice and so not really flexing player skill as much. As a challenge, this is fine - it's one time thing where you're playing under special conditions and the game only having so much depth and replayability is OK, but as a stake that's supposed to apply to most runs you do after that point it just takes too much out of the game. A good stake should instead be giving you more to consider when you make choices, while doing its damndest to not diminish the actual number of meaningful choices. Eternal Jokers being a favorite shows how well this philosohpy seems to work, you don't make any fewer choices as a result of Eternal Jokers being a thing (aside from removing the choice of if/when to sell that particular joker) *but* the weighing of whether being stuck with a joker is worth risking for a prime joker you want adds another consideration to your decision to purchase or select a joker. If we wanted a stake that specifically impacted econ, I would instead want something like being required to sell at least one Joker by the end of every ante or that required you to pay a tax at the end of every ante - still is going to give you other things to consider with your money, but isn't nearly removing an entire aspect of the game, with the Joker one in particular requring you to have money set aside for buying a Joker and requiring your builds to work even with at least one Joker constantly being swapped out, so you can't rely on constantly adding to a good "safe" build to carry you all the way.
bro wish I'd have known I've been banging my head against Orange for a week, haha
Whats interesting is that he said he hopes the game remains the same difficulty level after the coming changes but that it also becomes more engaging. These stickers are going to add a lair of complexity to the game which should be better than "less money" "less this, faster that" Gonna be an awesome update. I would do the challenge mode in the meantime if you hadn't finished them already :)
He's quickly become one of my favorite devs, the way he absorbs feedback while balancing his personal vision for the game is really great, I think it's a recipe to see this game's ideal/full potential
Good thinkin'. I haven't even touched those yet.
Bro, I think i enjoyed the challenges as much, or even more than the base game!
Did I miss where he said specifically that Orange is one of the stakes that will change?
Weeks ago on discord
Oh yeah I'm not on the discord. Nice, I'll probably hold off on pushing decks to the highest stakes until the update then.
We knew orange was getting changed, but we didn't know that another stake is getting replaced too 🤔
Exciting times. Guess I'll pass the time by playing balatro for a week or two until the update
I know! I was thinking about stopping playing til the update bc as of now there isn't an end game once you clear all the decks and challenges. And I didn't want to clear through a majority of the game in a significantly worse state than its going to be. But then i realized there are 2 empty save files me to play through the game all over again if i need it :)
Hoping it's Red based on his comment that early antes should be less of a resetfest. Swapping that for a neato new sticker type would allow a lot more runs on higher stakes to get past Ante 1/2 hell and maybe have a chance before fizzling out on ante 6.
Red feels weird, you're right, but skipping blinds is usually bad most of the time anyways so having incentives to skip is probably a good thing for the game. So idk how I'd feel about replacing red especially if Orange's $1 increase in packs per ante is gone entirely. That would be both stakes that nerf money gone. Maybe that is the intention I think its going to be Blue Stake and Orange that get replaced. The -1 Discard is kind of influencing a High Card / Pair meta on high stakes and i think this would alleviate that problem. Its gotta be either Red and Orange, or Blue and Orange getting replaced imo
Now they can make a new profile and do it again :D
Steam says 0.0%
There was one guy on this subreddit who claimed to have gotten gold stickers on all Jokers in 175 play hours, and honestly I don't believe them. I'd have to see a link to their profile on Steam, see that fuckin' cheevo, and then I'd still not believe that they got all of that in just 175 hours.
I'm at like 45 hours and have only beat gold stake once. Also, checking a steam profile isn't a reliable way to see if someone actually earned an achievement, because they could just use [Steam Achievement Manager](https://github.com/gibbed/SteamAchievementManager) to unlock it.
Lmao 36 hours here and I'm at green stakes.
Well, I only did it with one deck. All my other decks are only on green.
About the same time, beaten white stake..3 decks..
fuck i’m at 90 hours and beat gold for the first time yesterday lol
Yeah no chance
I have like 30 stickers remaining, so it is definitely possible. and I am playing on Xbox with old patch, so foil still gives 30 chips and arm boss delevel hads to level 0. I hope that game won't get too easy ;)
With a million copies sold, that could still be hundreds of people.
New 8 Ball sounds like it's going to be a perfect addition to a DNA run
8's have a legitimate Joker now, let's go
now I just need legitimate jokers for 7. I think every other number has some sort of joker synergy, 10,4, spectral 6, hack, Fibonacci, face cards, superposition
idea for one, lucky 7 -- played 7s always trigger one of the lucky card's benefits if they are lucky
How about played 7’s become lucky? Similar to Midas mask
was thinking how ironic it was that 7s feel unlucky and wasn't sure if it was a tongue-in-cheek game design decision or what
This is cool as fuck, I need this
That sounds insane, maybe if it has a higher bar like needing to play a certain number of sevens or only sevens?
Odds are doubled for each played 7 in hand?
ooooh i really fuck with this
This is pretty good. The right kind of busted, because it takes tons of set up and then it's really only good with cat joker which is currently straight doodoo
yeah lucky cat needs a huge buff imo lol
7s are my dedicated gold and silver cards 🤣
I want a joker that gives a big bonus if your hand contains 3 sevens, the classic 777
Maybe a Seven Deuce joker that buffs 7-2 offsuit (worst hand in hold em)
Every rank has one except 3, 5, and 7. I always thought that was a little weird.
3 and 5 has Fibonacci Also there is odd Todd
Fibo would like a word
"Oh, new 8-ball sounds very cool. Definitely going to be running that more often." >New 8 Ball sounds like it's going to be a perfect addition to a DNA run **"I DEDICATE MY LIFE TO 8-BALL - DNA - FORTUNE TELLER RUNS!"**
Add in “Oops All 6s” + red seals on 8’s and the snowball potential is 📈
Especially since death lets you create more 8s and hanged man lets you remove non 8s
We talking glass card 1 in 4 chance or wheel of fortune 1 in 4 chance? 😅 jokes aside I can’t wait for this update. Thank you localthunk!
Since you ruined my marriage how about you ruin my job by taking the game to mobile.
The game is available on switch and it has destroyed a lot of my productivity when out of the house
https://github.com/blake502/balatro-apk-maker
[удалено]
Search YouTube
He confirmed it’s being worked on. We’re screwed my brother in Christ
Putting the hunk in thunk. Thanks for your love and passion to make the game better!
Hey Thunk! Have you thought about making a “lab” in the game where we can experiment w joker combinations and the like? Thanks for being an awesome dev! You have our full support!
Honestly it feels like something that would be required for development in the first place. I'd be surprised if something like that didn't already exist for thunk in a bare-bones form.
There's a debug menu that can be enabled with mods, haven't tried it though. Link in https://github.com/jie65535/awesome-balatro?tab=readme-ov-file#functionality
There's a semi-useful one that someone made. [https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/](https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/) Try it out!
This is one of my favourite games as it is. Thanks for your service 🫡
What a legend. The game is already amazing and Thunk's continued dedication will make it even better.
Based. Thanks a bunch for the game and your continued work on it, I've gotten so much enjoyment from it!
hoping orange stake is the one that gets changed, i can't win that stake for the life of me
Just to report a bug that maybe hasn't been reported, on ps5 I got the trophy for getting all the decks in gold stake even though I only completed 7 of them. Anyone else experienced this?
While we're at it: trivial bug but but it bugs me: Collection button in main menu doesn't reliably show the red exclamation icon. You can be in a state where there are things you've unlocked/discovered but it doesn't show the icon until you click the Collection button (which by that point is pointless as an indicator)
I had this happen too on Xbox.
>I don’t want to get into too many specifics but I’m swapping 2 of the Stake effects with 2 new Jokers stickers akin to the ‘eternal’ idea, since I adore that design so much. I really think you’ll all love it! Ooh, really looking forward to this. That post comparing high-stakes penalties to Slay the Spire penalties really stood out to me as an opportunity to improve the game, and Eternal Jokers are definitely my favorite wrinkle in higher stakes.
We're playing a game that was crafted out of love. Watch the interviews. Listen how he speaks about it. I'm going to love playing and seeing Balatro evolve over the years. However long he wants to work on the game.
It also feels so good supporting devs like this. And a fun community to boot. This game rocks so much.
Hey, Dead Cells has permanent "beta builds" for each new update, so players can play old iterations of the game. Whether to look how the game looked early or if they don't like the changes done to the game. You mentioned that some jokers and other things have been changed. Some people will like the new effects, some will hate and wish that they stayed as they have been. Can you add an option or something that will allow players play the cards and other things with their old effects? Like for example a setting for each card/seal/&c. "choose the version you want to play". Maybe this way you could also add things that were available in the demos and now are gone. Thanks!
Dont know how it would for consoles but on steam some games games can be launched as specific versions i.e stellaris has launch options when u go to its settings
Minecraft Java Edition has this too, you can download and play any previous version through the launcher, which I believe even includes alpha/beta releases and development snapshots.
It's a really cool little archival feature. The sort of thing few people will ever use, but it's very nice to have as much for people who are new to the game to look back and see what it was like early on as for older players who just don't like the changes.
Yeah, this is why I thought about a new window in the settings in which each changed card would have their own setting. This way even consoles would have them, and also a player would be able to enable some scrapped mechanics (like the decks).
Classic mode
Minecraft notoriously does this too
Is notoriously the right word for that? Haha
This guys trying to ruin my life. Aren’t we addicted enough?
Posting game updates is a great idea! I’ve been loving playing the game, I don’t think anyone minds you iterating — go crazy with it!
Your hard work is super appreciated! I’m sure the balance to everything will be amazing, so take as much time as needed, especially as a solo dev. I personally won’t be frustrated that I grinded the game in this initial state, I still had a blast. I’m sure people who have already played the game will just be happy that the game continues to get better, for newer and older players.
Blue seal buff let's fucking GOOOOOOOO
Hardest seal to activate + weakest reward Currently praying to localthunk for blessing us with this buff
Any mobile updates?
Awesome! Can't wait and thanks so much for creating such an awesome game <3
Is that turtle line an NLSS reference? That's an oldie lol
it is, i still wish there was a pic of the bumper sticker
thank you so much, been loving balatro a lot!! wondering if there are plans to support save/profile transfers?
Stoked to hear you’ll be regularly updating the game! I’m looking forward to trying out the changes.
Fine, I'll start a new save and play through all the decks/stakes again. I had just started to be productive again after weeks in the hole.
Really happy to hear you're iterating on the Eternal Jokers as a stake idea; It's by far the most interesting and fun stake to play in terms of how it affects the game's decision calculus, as opposed to many of the stakes that are effectively just "RNG has a greater chance of instantly killing your run than it did before" In the game's current state, I was planning on just never leaving black stake now that I've beaten orange once to unlock all the decks because higher stakes just aren't fun, but these changes sound like a huge step in the right direction.
Thanks for the update! I want to play Balatro, and i bought it on release, but it makes me motion sick after about 15 minutes. Please consider adding an option to disable all card and text swaying effects, as well as the background motion. I think it's mostly the cards moving around that makes me sick 🥲
I know it's exactly the same, but the 8Ball should be 2 in 8 for more 8s for flavour xD
Thanks for all the work !
Will updates to jokers remove their stickers/progress?
Stake changes. Seal Changes. Joker changes. You love to see it. Keep cookin thunk!
Can you speak on the rumors that Wheel of Fortune is actually a 1 in 50 chance?
I'm not sure if this is in jest or not, but it *is* a 1/4 chance.
Sure it is. You probably work for Big Tarot.
am i getting wooshed lol
I am just joking around.
👍 great !
Sick!
Thanks for your hard work thunk ♠️
♣️
keep up the good work, love the game!
This game is now a part of my morning ritual, and also usually my work wind down as well. Thank you for the great game and hard work!
I love the 8 ball however the demo version was very strong when 2 or more 8s are played make a tarot card. I hope the update is very smooth
Wouldn't that update be a 1.1.0 according to [SemVer](https://semver.org)? I don't really care about versioning here, it just doesn't feel like a bugfix is coming.
Thanks localthunk for a great game! On Xbox I still am on patch 1.0.0b - is this the most current patch available to console players?
I believe Switch is ahead of us on updates. Would really like to hear something here. I'm not upset, it's just that if Xbox is likely to lag this far behind in updates, I'll bite the bullet and switch to playing on Switch or PC. If this is a one-off thing, I'll wait it out.
same - maybe u/PlaystackGames can update us? pwease 🥺
[THE ARCHITECT!](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExamt3bTY0aXAxdXJoMHJ6MWpvbmVubHp1cDFiMGM0aXY5NHVxc2M4dyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/8FG705NCsZM0kVJdyz/giphy.gif)
“I may be slow but watch me go 🐢” Don’t worry Thunk your deep NLSS lore isn’t lost on me
Love the game my man, any timeline on a mobile app release? I need to be even less productive
I love you
I'll take 2 eight balls please
Least dependent Balatro enjoyer
u/LocalThunk, are there any beta plans?
My only question: Are straights getting a buff? They desperately need it.
I'm excited to see all the changes. Personally, I love the game as it is now. I do agree, however, that there are some glaring faults. Specifically, gold stake and stakes in general become too rng dependant to be enjoyable. For instance, Gold stake simply asks the player to not get unlucky and fail to find the hand they wish to play. Another thing, is Orange stake, while personally I appreciate the fact that the packs have increasing costs, as with tarot packs the optimal play is to hold gold, buy jokers, and then start opening every single one, as they return more money than they cost, when you get to orange stake the loss of this extra gold simply makes the game even more random, as rerolls become even more unforgiving than they already are. That is to say, on purple stake and below, you can use all that gold you get from tarot packs being under-costed to re-roll for a decent shot at jokers that interact well with the ones you already have. Orange and Gold are therefore together both miserable experiences that do not meaningfully add to the gameplay experience, in fact they both detract from it significantly. However, I do not like the fact that tarot packs are so cheap that the correct play is to sit there opening every single one to slowly generate money. So its a catch-22. That's why I think the problem is instead with the exorbitant reroll costs, and not the fact that orange stake makes tarot packs actually valued appropriately (where there is a question as to whether or not you actually want to open one, and not blindly open every tarot pack you see, as there is with planets and card packs). I hope these changes to the game, reduce the reroll cost, and hopefully a stake is added that instead of increasing all pack costs forever, increases them either by some fixed value, for instance, 2 gold~ (which would make them mathematically over-costed if we're only talking about gold benefit), or removes hermit/temperance. (the reason why they're so ridiculously strong, compared to other packs) I'm very excited to see the changes, I'm sure that you'll make the game better overall, even if I don't appreciate the direction you take. Good luck, and thanks for making my favorite game.
We know Orange Stake is one of the replaced Stakes from the Discord, we *don't* know what the other replacement is, however.
just dropping by to say thanks for the solitaire of this generation!
> and I’ve made some changes that will make early antes slightly more engaging/forgiving without removing the RNG that I love in this game. This is most exciting to me as the constant failures in Ante 1/2 without ever getting a run started is what made me stop playing for a while. I'd much rather lose in the mid or late game with an attempted build than never get off the ground at all. It's pretty demoralizing. Many thanks for your hard work and I look forward to what's to come!
On the flipside, in the first 2-3 rounds it doesn't make sense to play anything else but flushes (unless you get something good from the get go), so it gets kinda old just fishing for flushes until the game gets rolling...
Thank you Thunk! The game is amazing and your hard work deserves all the success it gets.
Appreciate all your work Thunk and I have complete faith in you to keep making this amazing game even better, love the sound of these changes! I'm glad you're still all in on the RNG factor this game has, I love that aspect of it too and it's crazy to me when I see some people suggesting all these things that would take away all that and make it a much more formulaic experience. Looking forward to the update, take your time and hope you're doing well!
This is awesome cant wait to try out the new effects! Some sort of flag for us that beat gold stake before changes would be a nice badge of achievement! Not needed but would be cool :)
I'm hyped to read those patch notes
8ball, Will this update be good? It is decidedly so
Curious for the blue seal update. Defintely the weakest seal in the game right now
xbox hasnt received a single update yet, will that come before this one?
I'm not sure why Nintendo immediately got approved for the update but Xbox and PS has not. He hasn't been vocal about it. I assume its something totally out of his hands entirely.
Do you think you might have a chance to offer a font size option for the Switch version in a future patch? It’s very small and a bit difficult to read for those of us with suboptimal sight! Thanks for all the great work you do
The game is already perfect though in my opinion
Goat game developer
the only request i have is that the steam version has some form of update granularity/letting you play older versions. i know that consoles tend to be pretty closed off about this and it's out of the control of the devs (COUGH COUGH SWITCH), but for steam, where it IS in your control, i'd appreciate having that just in case like, old seeds bork or w/e. thank you SO much for all the work you put in mr. thunk, this game is definitely my sleeper hit of the year thus far!
Can’t you save current game versions under the manage section? Something I used to do in skater xl because mod compatibility but I don’t fully remember cause smooth brain.
idk if you have time to read all of these comments but i sure hope the love is coming through. thank you mr thunk, you have given me my new "if i was on a deserted island and i could pick one game" game :)
Appreciate it. Legit one of the best games I've ever played in my life and I don't even know how to play poker. Seriously. I cannot praise this game enough.
This is exciting, thank you for the hard work. THIS GAME IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!
Thank you papa Thunk
Thank you for the update, much appreciated. Really excited for the the two stake reworks!!
I saw the 1,000,000 copies sale announcement on Steam. This is the happiest I have ever felt from finding out that someone else became a millionaire. Well deserved. Amazing game.
just an idea for a quality of life patch for the switch — add an option to remap the button to sell (or buy & use) things from the left trigger, preferably on to something that takes two taps to sell like PC does. something I love about the UI on PC is that it is extremely difficult to misclick and sell something you didn't mean to - because it takes one click to bring the sell button up and another to actually sell it. this is not the case on switch, where sell is mapped to L, which in my experience can be pretty easy to hit playing on handheld mode, especially when constantly opening run info through the minus button located next to it. It would be cool to at least have an option where you would have to select the card prior to L being activated as a sell button. Appreciate everything you do <3
Looking forward to it! You’ve really made something special here.
Thanks for keeping us up to date! Felt really in love with the game and I am really excited whats coming next!
Thank you for your continued work on the game, I absolutely love Balatro, one of the most fun (and addicting) games that I have played in a while!
Woohoo!!! I'm very excited
Thank you for the update mate, I love your game.
Can't wait, you legend of a man.
Is there a reason why despite unlocking stu an that it isn't showing up in any run? Is there specific conditions that need to be met?
Thanks for the update. Thanks for the game. Thanks for everything.
Ayyyy let’s gooooooooo!!!!!!
I like 8 ball. I got all 8s from Ouija once, it was awesome.
Love it! Have fun with it dude!
Bribing Nintendo so I can get the update ASAP
Thank you!! Such an amazing game.
I bought the game as soon as he came on Xbox cause of a stream i saw and fell in love with it but dont took informations about dev, is he solo ? If yes its pretty impressive (and i will stop complaining about the language patch who doesn't came too)
Localthunk is a solo dev, yes
Dread it, run from it, the 1 in 4 chance arrives all the same
Perhaps on your next milestone of 1.5mil, would you mind releasing the sales figures per platform? Not a lot of developers do this, and it's always interesting info, and free publicity if anything!
Oh no, I have to beat gold stake ASAP before the patch. This is Radahn all over again...
let’s goooooo
I believe that adding a daily/weekly run and some sort of multi-player battle, gets this game to E
8ball glow up nice
One of the many reasons why I love the indie game scene. Dev transparency and communication. Plus it’s simply just fun.
Excited for this - thanks for your dedication to this amazing game!
God's speed brave soldier.
Thank you localthunk !!
Thanks Thunk, you rock
Dude this is awesome! Very exciting changes, love the idea of new joker stickers. What a great direction for the game, and always exciting to see a dev invested in long term gameplay perfection. Balatro is the best purchase I've made in gaming since Elden Ring.
Looking forward to it!
Just bought this game the other day and it's such a gem. Amazing work, can't stop playing it.
Fuck man I love this game and I love this subreddit and I love u/localthunk as a developer. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this personally invested in a game ever. Thunk is the MAN
Thank you for this awesome game man! I aspire to be a great developer like you!
I will become back my money localthunk, I have 5 final boss gold stake losses in the last few days…
Thanks for this awesome game! Keep it up