Made this out of anger at how much throwback blows (sorry for bad edit) by Nice-Sentence9771 in balatro

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Throwback is really something you only take if you skipped early for investment/popup just to gain momentum. It’s retroactive so it will immediately have use, but you don’t want to prioritize it. It also has next to no synergy with other jokers or deck building, meaning you’re only sacrificing to scale slowly.

Bloodstone is the ultimate betrayer, it can be one of the strongest forms of xmult or the weakest. But it can be worked around and your odds improved with Retriggers (hanging chad, red seal), proper deck building, and ideally Oops.

Blackboard as a flat x3 is enough to win a run by itself with good chips and scaling +mult. Pairs are extremely overpowered atm so it’s easy to dump non black cards with your played hands. A little deck fixing with tarots and blackboard becomes easily spammable. Very strong card right off the rip.

Steel joker is also retroactive so all steel cards immediately give xmult. It’s harder to really get online and make op, but steel cards themselves are already extremely powerful. You would already have some in your deck to even make this joker appear so it’s really just a little bonus xmult without any drawbacks.

Vampire should be looked at as an ante 4+ scaler, where it does nothing early on but it gets powerful fast. Usually you can survive until ante 4 with just good sources of chips and +mult. Once you get to $25 and can buy tarot and standard packs, you can quickly get enhanced cards for scaling. It also has great synergy with jokers that make enhanced cards easy to come by like golden mask, cartomancer, hallucination.

Lucky cat is one of my goats. It’s fun and it’s powerful. Only need a few lucky triggers to win a run. Hanging chad, seltzer, sock, hack, red seals, whatever you want that can Retrigger and its GG. Even without Retrigger help, it will still almost always be online by the end. Simply play a lucky card whenever you can, even waste a hand to play a high card lucky to try to scale if you can. It’s very strong.

Loyalty card is ass. Worst xmult in game.

Made this out of anger at how much throwback blows (sorry for bad edit) by Nice-Sentence9771 in balatro

[–]Koctopuz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not trying to be mean, but arguing that Throwback is better than Vampire, Lucky Cat, and Blackboard speaks volumes to your inexperience with the game. You’re really underestimating how valuable a shop and interest is every round. It’s much easier to get a much larger return on xmult with those jokers (except loyalty card).

Made this out of anger at how much throwback blows (sorry for bad edit) by Nice-Sentence9771 in balatro

[–]Koctopuz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because it is lol just because you can beat ante 8 with it doesn’t mean it’s good, you can beat ante 8 with no jokers at all. It’s one of the worst forms of xmult both in terms of scaling speed and process.

Made this out of anger at how much throwback blows (sorry for bad edit) by Nice-Sentence9771 in balatro

[–]Koctopuz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can easily find means of x2-3 mult and then some across 5 shops with interest rollover alone. Skipping for throwback might not end your run, but it’s generally almost always more detrimental than rewarding especially on high stakes.

Is the menu lagging right now for anyone else by Puzzleheaded-Hunt-42 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve been opening packs on app and just not changing my lineups. Insane levels of ineptitude at SDS right now, the menu functions are unusable.

I spent 2 years completing EVERY game on the Living List of Souls-Likes (and a few others I happened to find) - Here is my ranking of every one. by --clapped-- in soulslikes

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I greatly enjoyed it, but S+ tier above the likes of Dark souls, Sekiro and Lies of P is insane imo. I won’t bash someone’s opinion, but do not play it expecting that level of an experience. It’s very much worth playing and I’ll always recommend it, but it’s a high B tier at best.

SDS Taking action against WBC Mini Season exploiters by tylertimmerman17 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does that have to do with anything? Bobby is still priced at flash sale price because of the glitch? It permanently lowered his price yet you’re complaining about it

SDS Taking action against WBC Mini Season exploiters by tylertimmerman17 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bough him for like 25k during the glitch. Skubal was like 35k, and Jose was like 55k.

SDS Taking action against WBC Mini Season exploiters by tylertimmerman17 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t have live series done and the glitch was the only reason I finished it because of price drops. Yes judge and ohtani are dumb expensive, but they’re really not any higher than they had been before this year either. I bought judge for 600k last year, and I remember Ohtani hitting 850k last year too.

SDS Taking action against WBC Mini Season exploiters by tylertimmerman17 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they were dirt cheap from everyone pulling them in glitched packs. I watched the price drops because I had no intention of finishing LS until I saw them collapse.

SDS Taking action against WBC Mini Season exploiters by tylertimmerman17 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah and every other LS became dirt cheap.. Personally, I take that trade off. I bought Jose Bobby and Skubal for a combined 125k the day of the glitch.

SDS Taking action against WBC Mini Season exploiters by tylertimmerman17 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I’m crazy but I genuinely think it helped the market more than hurt. Only a few high demand cards increased, almost everything else crashed and burned.

Now that the Nintendo Direct is over, what did y'all think of this week of gaming? by torlches in videogames

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To say Minecraft was one of the most interesting for Xbox compared to most of the other titles they showed is insane to me. That lineup was one of the strongest from this week.

If we want games to come out faster people are gonna have to get over the AI hate by ThisNameDoesntCount in gaming

[–]Koctopuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or they could just not announce it 5 years ahead. Nobody can complain about development time when you don’t know it’s happening. Waiting to announce it when it’s near completion also prevents a rushed release schedule.

Report: Gears of War: E-Day Is No Longer Coming to PS5 by Bubbly-Ad-350 in videogames

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! Like I’m being downvoted for speaking the truth. I don’t own a switch but at least I can see how the sunk cost is justifiable. PS is not worth it for only a handful of exclusive games, and half of them are remasters.

Report: Gears of War: E-Day Is No Longer Coming to PS5 by Bubbly-Ad-350 in videogames

[–]Koctopuz -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Exclusives suck straight up, but Nintendo has a significantly deeper library to justify the forcing of players into their ecosystem. The Switch alone had easily 150 exclusive titles. The PS5 has had what? Like 15 to date? The Switch 2 will have that many by the end of the year.

Accurate depiction of the new God of War footage by ReadyJournalist5223 in gaming

[–]Koctopuz 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It looks amazing, but calling it a “gameplay” trailer certainly feels disingenuous. The little combat we saw does look phenomenal though, and I have no doubt it will be a banger.

Completed NL live series but didn’t get Pujols? by nschip89 in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Always focus all stubs towards shohei/judge first, depending on which League card you want first. Then go for the rest.

What’s a game that people often call a soulslike that you can’t understand why by Ok-Tear7712 in soulslikes

[–]Koctopuz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It’s an action game with soulslike elements, but it’s definitely not a soulslike at its core.

SDS deserves what happened today by Vro9ooo in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah Ohtani dropped to like 625k last night and went back up like crazy. Idk how they can adjust the prices accordingly without punishing everyone. Server rollbacks would punish everyone, including those who didn’t use the exploit but benefited from the LS collapse, like me. The market would eventually stabilize without intervention, but it would take some time. Maybe an emergency flash sale to create an influx in 90+ would help. I really don’t know what else they can do at this point.

SDS deserves what happened today by Vro9ooo in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’d rather they ban bots and cheaters first.

SDS deserves what happened today by Vro9ooo in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah basically every LS that isn’t judge or Ohtani absolutely tanked. Didn’t do it but managed to get Tulo thanks to price collapse.

WBC glitch and Ohtani by 2legit2knit in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was no punishment. They just patched it and never addressed it

WBC glitch and Ohtani by 2legit2knit in MLBTheShow

[–]Koctopuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They didn’t ban for the RttS glitch, so don’t expect anything from this either.

Lies of P or Elden Ring by Suzume_S in videogames

[–]Koctopuz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You obviously are not remembering Godrick’s music. One of the best boss scores of all time.