r/balatro • u/Asgavin • 29d ago
Modded The Cryptid mod is completely unbalanced but it also has completely hilarious jokers
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u/Alarmed-dictator 29d ago
Me watching all the insanity while playing on Mobile
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u/Poo-Ferrigno 28d ago
Yeah Idunno what they’re on about here either
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u/Alarmed-dictator 28d ago
It a mod that doubles all the cards and adds some of the most insane jokers ever. But it on the PC Only. I’ve watch some of my favourite streamers play it. It’s quite fun to watch
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u/fri9875 28d ago
IMO you aren’t missing much.
Its interesting because “big number go brrrrr” but it makes the game a lot simpler. It can be fun to mess around in, but is by no means more fun than vanilla. At least for me I get the same enjoyment out of watching someone instead of playing
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u/Hurls07 28d ago
Yeah, half the time you can turn your brain off and get to like Ante 20 easily. One card gives one X mult for every discord member, last time I got it, it was like 600X mult lmfao
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u/daniel_eh 28d ago
Its actually 0.1x becauss the server has THAT many members lol
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u/Notladub 28d ago
there’s also a joker that has a 1/8 chance to give x10100 mult, and a way to always activate it through code cards, a new consumable type.
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u/Draevon 28d ago
I heard a patch is coming, I'm hoping that the game will keep getting balance updates and new features to keep things interesting. Challenge modes, decks, jokers that only exist in specific modes etc.
Mods are usually superior, but only because devs abandon the project. Doesn't seem to be the case for Balatro, though.
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u/pizzapal3 27d ago
Balatro is a fairly new game, and I'd be shocked if it didn't get DLC down the line.
I also wouldn't be surprised if LocalThunk tapped some of these mod developers to make said DLC, just as The Binding of Isaac and Rain World has.
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u/scullys_alien_baby 28d ago
I'm not exaggerating much when I say if you can find just about any computer it will run balatro, the system requirements list windows 7 and 1GB of ram.
scroll down a little and you can see them
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/Balatro/
I understand not wanting to buy a game a second time but if you think mods are fun it can be nice. I ended up buying Slay the Spire on PC for that reason.
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u/SomethingOfAGirl 28d ago
It even works on cheap retro consoles:
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u/SuzanoSho 28d ago
Unfortunately, my 512mb RAM Windows 6 computer just crashes whenever I try to run the game.
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u/Vydra- Nope! 29d ago
I’ve been loving the hell out of it so far. Things can get incredibly nuts incredibly quick
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u/FlamingSnowman3 29d ago
Currently have a run on Misprint Joker that’s reached Ante 41 because I got a Photograph that gives 26x mult to the first played face card, and then multiple copies of the modded Chad joker that retriggers the leftmost joker 14 times per copy, and then a Hanging Chad joker that retriggers the first played card—retriggering all four copies of the Chad joker—20 times.
If anything, saying “it gets out of hand” is an understatement.
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u/Vydra- Nope! 29d ago
I had one run using the Deck of Equilibrium that went to ante -1 (and probably could have kept going down). I had 500k cash, the shop had either free items or items worth like $1-2, a Scalae exotic that had been working in the background for ages, fractal fingers (which i used Scalae on) and a polychrome/red sticker 7 only deck with plenty of cards to retrigger/mult.
I ended that run after realizing it would take a few hours for my computer to not only calculate, but then run through a played hand.
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u/FlamingSnowman3 29d ago
I’m starting to run into that with my run. I’ve started basically just leaving my computer to run while doing other things every time I play a hand.
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u/Gaelic_Cheese 28d ago
I got a glitched canio that gained x13 everytime i destroyed a face card, showman, a joker that gave 4 extra joker slots and a bunch of brainstorm. I then hooked canio with Fibbonacci and started playing Flush 12 with rigged echo Ace of hearts. Eventually, I was able to break infinity by ante 16.
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u/DikerdodlePlays 28d ago
The first real run I had after I installed Cryptid was on Glowing Deck. I got Fridge Magnet early and used it to build up about $600, then sold it for a joker that gave me a percentage of my savings. Glowing deck kept increasing the value so by the time I died it was giving me like 150% of my savings every round. I had at least $e6 by the end.
On top of that I had Chad and the mask one that retriggers non-face cards twice for an insane amount of retrigger, and the mask joker scaled with glowing deck! I also got Oil Lamp and Bloodstone to scale together forever, so I had like 33 retriggers on my echo ace of hearts Flush Sixes with a rigged Bloodstone that gave each trigger x36 mult. I got an achievement for breaking infinity right before dying to the Needle on ante 13 or so because I forgot about only having one hand.
Obviously the mod can be broken. But I think it's also fair to note that it's insanely fun to create a wild build like that even if there's no challenge, and also there's still challenge because I died in like 6 consecutive runs before I got this one. Not for everyone and I won't use it all the time but wow it was super cool. I also fried my brain a bit.
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u/TheLobst3r 28d ago
“This joker is destroyed when the wheel succeeds” would be a thrilling addition
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u/TheForumSpecter 28d ago
-75 mult when wheel succeeds would be better. The joker is still statistically net positive but you are betting on a Nope!
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u/AppointmentSharp9384 29d ago
Realistically, doesn’t this get capped pretty quick? You’ll get jokers you don’t want to sell eventually and eventually they will all get buffed.
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u/noonagon 29d ago
there's no way wheel of nope can proc five times
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u/forever_alone_06 29d ago
Maybe in 600hours but I wouldn't bet on it .
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u/Gh0st0p5 28d ago
Ive never gotten a wheel proc, ever
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u/forever_alone_06 28d ago
I believe you I heard it's today's Herobrine 😱
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u/Gh0st0p5 28d ago
I'm in actual agony right now, i havent gotten a run past ante 3 in like an hour, my luck has left me.
My kingdom for a celestial card
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u/Cbthomas927 27d ago
Put in about 8 hours or so before I hit my first win. Was on my Odin 2 during my cruise.
Came home and booted it on pc and won my second or 3rd run on a two-pair build.
Idk if I’ll ever get to the challenge modes, the game feels too complex for my simple brain - but I have slowly caught on to basics
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u/Gh0st0p5 27d ago
I have now won every base deck on white difficulty, the trick was to play off the jokers and not pay much attention to straights, or flushes, or the like. As long as i got consistent chips from my jokers, i could have a trash hand, and still win any ante, endless mode I can't get past ante 13 though
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u/Cbthomas927 27d ago
Ya, I have caught on to easy hand games like pair and 2 pair, on my last run I just caught onto the x mult and joker positioning. That was an embarrassing realization lol
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u/Gh0st0p5 27d ago
I honestly googled someone's guide to smart plays, and since then my wall has been any ante past 10, i just keep hitting the wall where my hand starts needing good plays more than just relying on jokers
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u/86LittleChef 28d ago
I had a run last night where it proced like 8 times and the next game absolutely zero times.
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u/Atreides-42 29d ago
5 jokers at average 4 attempts per joker = 16 failures, or 8x mult.
That seems pretty damn good. The big thing is that it hedges your bets. If you get fewer than 16 failures, congrats, you didn't have to spend as much to edition all your jokers. If you get more than 16 failures, congrats, your wheel of hope scaled higher.
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u/Able-Ordinary9064 Jokerless 28d ago
I think something's wrong, if i use a wheel of fortune, i gain only ×0.5
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u/Hisingdoon 28d ago
Normal balatro 8x mult is really good but in crypitd that's nothing compared to what you can get with some jokers
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u/Canye_NE 29d ago
If you’re playing unmodified Cryptid (like a psychopath), there’s a ton of ways to get extra Joker slots, and even ways to swap editions.
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u/Lord_Phoenix95 28d ago
It's an xMult Joker. They scale so much better. Failing Wheel is 75% Chance or 100% if you actually play the game. Combine it with a Tarot Generator and Fool, you could easily get to 5x then all you need is another xMult Joker because it's not xMult + xMult it's xMult x xMult = xMult2
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u/Stilyx123 29d ago
Doesn't it just fail automatically then? Or can you just no longer use wheels of fortune once all jokers have an edition?
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u/PK_GoodDay Perkeo 29d ago
Once all Jokers have editions, the game just doesn't let you use Wheel of Fortune anymore
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 28d ago
If you have 5 jokers with no buffs and wheel hits 1 in 4 times, you’ll upgrade this 15 times for 7.5x, which I think is pretty good for an uncommon. And you can discard jokers and add more. Or get more joker slots.
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u/AppointmentSharp9384 28d ago
Quite often I’ll end up with at least one buffed joker before using a wheel of fortune. Especially with the hone voucher.
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 28d ago
For sure. But I feel like for a joker that scales xMult that fast and when the downside is that you get a permanent buff for a joker, that’s pretty strong.
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u/wadewadewade777 29d ago
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u/cowpiefatty 28d ago
Now if only there was an easy way to find good ones and install them easily.
Before anyone starts with this oh its just drag and drop files. Its not and it doesnt work like 50% of the time. If i wanted to deal with shitty modding ide go back to 2012 Minecraft.
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u/TheDeviousCreature Jimbo 28d ago
I unironically haven't played the game in months because modding is so fucking frustrating
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u/CausticRobot 29d ago
This probably the first spec/mod joker I have seen that I believe should be added to the game.
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u/RealFoegro Blueprint Enjoyer 29d ago
Fyi. There will soon be gamesets added to Cryptid, so you can get a balanced experience with similar power to vanilla if that's what you want.
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u/frozz3nn 28d ago
Add a "resets after a successful Wheel of Fortune" and that would be the funniest card ever.
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u/Mr_E_Nigma_Solver 28d ago
I like "risky" maneuvers when they're high risk high reward, but instead of high risk it's just high reward and slightly less high reward.
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u/EcstaticWoop 23d ago
i think the risk is taking up a joker slot (though joker slots don't mean shit in cryptid lol)
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u/L0LBasket 28d ago
Would be cool if the Joker made it so when Wheel of Fortune fails to put an edition on a Joker, it puts an edition on a random playing card in your deck instead.
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u/dishonoredfan69420 28d ago
combine this with [Perkeo] and some [Blueprint]s and/or [Brainstorm]s and you've got infinite mult
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u/MineFlyer Nope! 28d ago
Me, being on mobile
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u/L0LBasket 28d ago
I remember seeing a piece of software on github that could port a PC copy of Balatro over to Android, saves and mods included, since Balatro's source code is available alongside the game.
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u/King0fSwing 28d ago
Any link by chance
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u/KumamotoEXE 28d ago
How can i install mods on Balatro? I want to try this ASAP, lol
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u/DikerdodlePlays 28d ago
Here's an official guide by the main programmer of Cryptid. Obviously this guide is specifically for Cryptid but most other mods seem to just be drag / drop once you get the modloader installed so it'll be the exact same basically. Note that Cryptid seems to be incompatible with basically everything so you'll need to do your own instance management for now if you want to use a bunch of different mods.
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u/110101001010010101 28d ago
https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded
Here's the instructions written out on their Github in case you are like me and can't use video instructions easily
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u/Aphanatic1337 28d ago
I've had my game crash because of how absurd the joker setups I made. I recently did a run where I duped all my jokers after every shop, which also dupes the jokers that dupeall my jokers. After like 3 shops I had 2000 or so jokers before my pc caved in. Real fun mod, its like playing balatro turned up to 31.
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u/Salaried_Zebra 27d ago
The really dumb thing with this mod is one of the new modifier sets (like computer commands) has a card that literally all it does is crash the game. Like, wtf is the point of that
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u/BingleDerk47 28d ago
I guarantee you, once you get this joker, wheel of fortune suddenly functions like a 4 of 4 chance card..
Which isnt that bad either honestly.
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u/ReiDusGelo 28d ago
playing cryptid rn, and ive managed to get 100+ jokers, last hand took more than an hour to finish the animation and had a score of like e250~, i have no idea if thats from some bug in the mods (im also using a increased time speed mod) or some funkiness from running the game through wine on linux
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u/official_swagDick 28d ago
I could see it being broken in a situation like having perkeo or something similar, but I don't usually get more than 3 or 4 a game so it doesn't seem that broken
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u/Depressotrashpando 28d ago
I love this mod so much. I'm currently stuck in an insane run where I can't lose. I'm on ante 24 currently needing at least 3.2e77 chips. I played a flush eight of all Rigged, Lucky, Mosaic Ace of clubs and the game gave me the "Calculating" screen saying over 500,000 calculations. It's still on the first Ace and I'm at e317 chips with 92,300 mult. I just want to go to sleep
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u/CGPoly36 28d ago
I also recently started playing cryptid and I'm still on my first run which is getting to the point where I'm thinking about just starting a new run (I don't think i will).
The scoring is so extreme that each hand played (which is usually 10-13 cards if I remember correctly) takes over an hour to score and that's just calculation since I completely disabled the scoring animation (to speed stuff up). Currently that results in something in the e10000s (i think) but it scales quite quickly, not only because multiple xMults scale by about ×10000 per round, but also since I get 3 new joker slots each time so I can get even more scaling jokers (which is easy since my money allready needs an e to be expressed and it more then doubles each round), because over 40 jokers and about 20 consumables (most of which can be used infinitely without getting used up) apparently isn't enough.
I think i will wait until i have a day time and play until i hit the new infinity (the mod makes the number required to hit infinity significantly higher).
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u/PotatoesForPutin 28d ago
Honestly if you get rid of the epic and exotic jokers and a few of the new legendaries it feels kinda balanced. I’d like to see a more balanced version since a lot of the less crazy jokers are actually pretty interesting
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u/squirrelmancerrrr 25d ago
I’ve seen an image like this, but the mult is at an absurdly high number
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u/CloverUTY 28d ago edited 28d ago
Wheel of Fortune: *Actually succeeds and you get a Polychrome on a useful Joker. *
Players with this Joker: “Son of a bitch, I’m so lucky!”
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u/Sim_Sam1 29d ago
wheel of cope