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New Mantis should give -1 cost to the card she copies or something to give it an advantage over your opponent's copy.

Thanos and HE (Leech) decks nerfed, Destroy untouched.

The Leech nerf actually helps Destroy a lot because Death and Knull were completely useless when Leech'd but not eligible anymore.

So it looks like Destroy is poised to take over the meta again.

I have a feeling there are little tiebreakers like the first game.

Whoever you pick to help in the beach fight probably has an impact but IDK

With Cloud you need to roll, then hold attack and he'll fly up into the air with them.

Tifa has a move called Gale something that gets her airborne.

Yeah Brock Samson or other Venture Bros representation would be awesome.

The new clips of the game they did show looked pretty good honestly. It's hard to put my finger on it but it feels slightly less jank.

The rumor a few weeks ago was that gleamium is in the battle pass but it's a very small amount like 150 or 200 or something.

It also said they're taking the Halo approach of allowing you to work through previous battlepasses at any time.

Kinda the opposite but I started listening to a new podcast a lot while I was playing Bravely Default 2. So now whenever I listen to that podcast I think of BD2.

If I play Shuri then the next card needs to be in her lane to get doubled.

But then if I double a card I can't play a 1 drop because Taskmaster will copy it the next turn.

I had fun with this game but it got a little stale as a solo queuer. Some of those new gadgets look fun though.

Lopen posted...

Main benefit to doing Shuri I can see is doing

Hope -> Shuri -> Magneto (which loads their guys against big Magneto) > Taskmaster

If you're just using Shuri on vision I don't see what Hope is actually adding

Yeah Magneto is in the deck too but I find myself needing the flexibility to move Vision on turn 6 most of the time.

I'm running a deck from Regis that uses Shuri and Vision mostly. But then the problem is that if I have 6 energy on turn 5 I can't play a 1 drop because I need to Taskmaster on turn 6.

And I can't start the turn with a 1 drop because I need Shuri to hit Vision lol.

Maybe this deck just sucks

I find myself not really being able to take advantage of the extra energy that Hope gives me. Most of the time it just lets me play a 6 drop and a 1 drop on turn 6.

Yeah he didn't click for me until I did his combat trial.

Well I thought she could only trigger once a turn which was still strong but not crazy.

Are these devs ever going to learn that cost reduction and extra energy are too strong of effects? Hope having vanilla stats and giving 1-3 extra energy a turn is insane. Did they forget you can move cards out of her lane or something?

I'm so confused how this card got released compared to other energy giving cards like Electro.

Oh yeah I meant that Hope feels more important to the deck than Elsa now.

Jeez Hope is a lot stronger than I thought in that case. I thought it was only able to trigger once a turn.

I'm already getting sick of running into this Hope deck. It's basically just the old Elsa deck but using Hope instead of Elsa.

Uhh if you play 3 cards into Hope's lane does she get 3 extra energy the next turn? I didn't think it worked like that so can anyone confirm?

Sephiroth's private file at Shinra HQ should really have a giant "DO NOT SEND TO NIBELHEIM" message at the top too.

Like surely someone in the company knew that would cause an issue right.

It was pretty stupid to make that post 1 day before the Xbox showcase and not have anything to show there. Xbox even tweeted back at them the day before!

But I'm sure we'll see something in the next week.

One of the recent rumors said that they're taking the Halo approach and making it so that previous battlepasses don't expire. I think that's a much better approach compared to the FOMO impulse purchase model.

Also some rumored characters:

Joker
Barbie
Beetlejuice
Wicked Witch (Wizard of Oz)
Samurai Jack
Paul Atreides (voiced by Timothee Chalamet because he likes video games)

I played the "beta" for about 150 hours so I'm excited for it to come back and hopefully fix at least some of the issues.

Yeah ultimately I think that's my problem with deckbuilding roguelikes too. I don't like the thought that some runs are just completely unwinnable.

If I play a game like Isaac or Dead Cells then I could technically win every run with enough skill. But that's just not possible in a game like Balatro with so much randomness.

But it does make the runs where your build gets online more satisfying. I'm just not sure those runs are common enough to keep me hooked beyond the 20-30 hours I've played.

Yeah I see Pixie as being a worse Mr Negative to be honest but we'll see how it goes. Sure it'll be OP when it high rolls but how often is that happening.

Yeah the replayability comes from the randomness in each run. So you might find a joker in one run that makes your high cards give more points. Or you might find one that allows your straights and flushes to be played with 4 cards instead of 5. So you're building a strategy based on the cards you find in a run.

You also unlock new decks each time you win so beating the game with each deck can be a challenge. Decks have slight differences like a deck with no face cards or a deck where every card is either a heart or spade.

I'm working on trying to beat the Purple Stake with the Blue deck and it does feel like I'm getting into the habit of restarting runs if I don't have anything by the end of the first round.

You don't get any money for the first blind after a certain stake so the tag you get for skipping is really important because a lot of them are useless. So I wish there was more balance between the tags.

Also boss blinds are a good idea in concept but sometimes they just completely stop your whole build which is annoying. That happens in all of these deckbuilding games I suppose, and rerolling exists, but it's still frustrating.

I had one run where the Crimson Heart kept disabling my 2-3 necessary jokers each hand instead of hitting my utility ones lol.

My copy from Amazon said delivery by 10pm and now it's 3 stops away thank the lord.

I kinda wish there was a "fake score" or "preview score" feature before you play a hand. Sometimes I think my hand is going to be close to winning/losing and I don't want to sit there and do all of the math to make sure.

I know there are jokers that add random chance stuff but you could just approximate those or something.

I've been getting insanely lucky on some of these challenge runs, to the point where it makes me wonder if everyone gets the same luck.

I was doing the Medusa challenge that adds a bunch of stone cards to your deck and the first Joker I found gave me +25 per stone card in my deck. Then I found Red Card and just started skipping packs. Found a few other multipliers and it was busted. I was hitting 300k in Ante 4 lol

Yeah the telescope voucher does make certain builds a little too easy to achieve but I don't think planets are really that strong.

Is this a joke Amazon?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6b8b2a24.png

FF16 Remake will fix all of the issues in 2050

After you beat a run you can also continue to try to get to Ante 12 and 16 but the numbers start going crazy.

Something else that I figured out early that isn't obvious is that you can rearrange your jokers and how cards are scored during a hand. It does tell you early that everything scores left to right but I didn't put it together that I need to put my multiplier jokers at the end of the chain.

Or if you have a straight you can rearrange to put your high card on the left if you have a joker that doubles your first card in a hand or something like that.

Yeah and there's already another boss that only lets you score each hand type once I believe so I don't get the strategy design behind the debuff boss.

Yeah some of the boss debuffs are a little too strong like the one that permanently downgrades any hand types you use.

So if you have a rank 4 flush and you play a flush during that boss then it permanently gets downgraded to 3 and so on.

Also the extra big blind boss and the 1 hand bosses can be killers depending on when you get them. The 1 hand boss should transform of your other hands into discards or something so you can try to have a better chance.

MacArrowny posted...

Will you play both routes of SMTV when you get it?

It would depend on how different they are and how much I'm enjoying the game. It's obviously a little different here compared to something like Persona 5 Royal where it's just a complete upgrade I missed by playing the game too early.

As someone who pretty much only plays through a game 1 time it does bug me that Atlus always seems to do this special edition. It works out for me here since I never played the original SMTV but it makes me want to wait to play Persona 6 until the inevitable 2nd edition.

This game is indeed a lot of fun but I did win my first run immediately after the 1st tutorial run. Not sure if I got lucky or if this game is easy but I'm sure it has ramping difficulty modes like all deckbuilders.

I literally 1 shot the final boss with 112,000 points on the first hand.

I have never heard of this game and I will probably be buying this game today.

Blanka really is cuckoo in this game, too much safe stuff.

https://openai.com/sora

There's obviously still some AI wonkiness in these videos but some of them are already looking pretty good.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/playstation-4-final-phase-of-lifecycle/

This article was in 2018 so still 2.5 years away from PS5.

I'd say we're 3-4 years away from a PS6 still.

You couldn't pay me to watch this with this game coming out in a few weeks. I don't need any more hype

At this point it feels like the only difference between consoles is the games. It's not like the PS3 era where there was value in a blu ray player.

Xbox putting their big games on PS5 makes me really confused why anyone would buy an Xbox at that point.