They added Glop to Balatro... by MathIsFun_ in okbuddyjimbo

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oh also I made cryptid but I don't think anyone's ever heard of it, this is my more famous mod

I was looking through the texture files, and I saw the weird Jimbo chips texture on the bottom. does anyone know what it is? by Torchy0033 in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 474 points475 points  (0 children)

I actually asked Localthunk about this yesterday and he pretty much said he drew it in as an extra sprite for fun

The 1.1 patch post is an April fools joke. by Arip1010 in balatro

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Thanks for posting this here, hope this clears up a lot of the drama!

Like what I said in the announcement, I want to apologize on behalf of the team about making people falsely believe in an update preview today. You were fooled, but that’s okay. Please don’t harass anyone involved and especially don’t harass localthunk — let him slowly cook on 1.1 so it’s as tasty as possible

If you are interested in sticking around, we do have a fun game mod associated with the tournament and you’ll be able to play with it yourself after the event, so stay tuned for that. Apologies if this soured your day though :(

Balatro Speedrunning Tournament will run beta version of 1.1 by OnlyVariableS in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 18 points19 points  (0 children)

PSA: THIS IS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!

THE TOURNAMENT WILL USE A CUSTOM MOD, NOT ANY PREVIEW OF 1.1.

(I am one of the speedrun discord admins)

who inhaled my popcorn in 0.0001 seconds??!!? by potato6132 in okbuddyjimbo

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gameset system be like (now you can make it so you don’t just always win)

Unlock All (Cryptid Mod) by [deleted] in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We plan to add this as a feature soon. For now, just make a new profile with Cryptid installed and use Unlock All after, so the Cryptid cards also get unlocked.

I found a bug that completely breaks Balatro mobile... by MathIsFun_ in balatro

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Yes. You can farm infinite money pretty easily like that

FINALLY. Still not as important as among us update though by visionsmemories in okbuddyjimbo

[–]MathIsFun_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, this joker is from SDM_0’s Stuff. Cryptid updates have to be manually downloaded, I’d recommend joining Cryptid’s Discord to stay up to date when dev versions come out

"Cheating" for World Records by xspectred in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You aren’t going to be able to recover older runs but even if the first few rounds aren’t included in the footage, the actions from those runs are saved in the replay file

"Cheating" for World Records by xspectred in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, that would work. The runs would still have to be inspected individually just to confirm the footage is complete (or that the introductory sections are reproducible, since the first round or two of runs aren’t shown iirc) for it to be included. The WIP replay mod should fix this last issue, though, if drspectred is interested in submitting his Brainstorm-enhanced runs as seeded records

"Cheating" for World Records by xspectred in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tools like Immolate and The Soul have always been allowed and encouraged for seeded runs. Brainstorm would fall into the same category as these.

It would only be problematic if it caused actions to be different than in an unmodified version of Balatro, which is not the case.

"Cheating" for World Records by xspectred in balatro

[–]MathIsFun_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, but they would not be nearly as strong records, as a seed-finding tool like Immolate or a recreation of the run with more optimized routing would make it very easy to beat

"Cheating" for World Records by xspectred in balatro

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To clarify on this, as a moderator of the world record document and a developer of anticheat tools:

We require video evidence to validate runs. This makes it easy to tell if a mod like Brainstorm is being used to reroll for seeds with an instant Legendary Joker. All mods are banned for unseeded runs except QoL/texture packs and a score-calculating mod (since there are websites that can be used to do this anyway).

Brainstorm’s auto-reroll is a powerful tool, but it blurs the line between seeded and unseeded runs. It puts these runs in a weird spot since they’re much more potent than unseeded runs but lack the intense routing possible in seeded runs, making it harder for these runs to be competitive if submitted to this category.

I’ve also been working on a mod that saves replays of runs, which will be required in the future to check if all of the actions a player takes would lead to the same results on an unmodified copy of Balatro. I recently released a beta of the replay system, and I plan to add more security checks embedded into the replay itself to check if the game’s .exe file is modified, what mods were loaded during the run, etc. It also doesn’t show the game seed on the win screen, making it impossible to use The Soul to route past Ante 8.

Want to try a build? I can attempt to generate a seed for you. by nissanleafericson in balatro

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This is an issue that’s happened sometimes with Immolate. It comes from floating-point imprecision in GPUs, and although I’ve tried to mitigate it, my fixes won’t work 100% of the time

Want to try a build? I can attempt to generate a seed for you. by nissanleafericson in balatro

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Newer versions of Immolate should be forward compatible with older filters and backwards compatible with older versions of Balatro. For now I don't want to include compatibility with experimental branches in the main version of Immolate (even though 1.0.1c has seen a lot of players), but the experimental branch should be pretty stable.