Current Events > read the upcoming patch notes for the game i like--everything nerfed

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literally everything

(game is balatro, but this is a pattern).

imagine having a breakout success of a game and then thinking "you know what I should do? fuck with everything."

braindead dogshit dumb.

it doesn't bode well either for the developer's attitude. it's a fucking card game. what should you do? ADD FUCKING CARDS. like it's not fucking rocket science. none of the cards were busted, but one of the better ones, which gave +4 multiplier to a certain suit, is nerfed to +3 (which means you flush is now +15 instead of +20). it's a standard "reduced fun by 25%" across the fucking board.

i've never been so disgusted by patch notes in my fucking life. and I played WoW for a decade. I played Overwatch for christ's sake. not even the horrible binding of isaac patches come close.

i guess ill disable the updates on steam, finish playing, and then let that be it.

i never really played slay the spire, maybe that game's good?

I hate updates that nerf things. Just make the other shit stronger you cowards!

Jk but nerfs suck. Not the toys those are fun.

The patch isn't even out yet, it's still in beta.

Many things will probably get changed, like how grossly over-buffed Bloodstone and blue seals are.

Mystereave posted...

Nice name!

That's what used to happen in LoL, WoW and Maple Story all the time.

They would nerf every character and then introduce an OP one that everyone would play.

And then they would nerf that character a few patches later.

https://www.shacknews.com/article/139415/balatro-update-101c-patch-notes?amphtml=1

There's a ton of buffs in here and higher stakes were made easier. Tags buffed too. Straight scaling buffed which was really needed but may not have been enough.

As someone with the rare beat all challenge runs achievement, this update looks like it almost definitely made the entire game easier. It's not bad to adjust dominant strategies that would other discourage players from trying all the other gameplay styles in the game due to not getting enough out of it.

The uncommon/rare/foil joker tags making them also free is a crazy buff to your economy for example.

Doe posted...

https://www.shacknews.com/article/139415/balatro-update-101c-patch-notes?amphtml=1

There's a ton of buffs in here and higher stakes were made easier. Tags buffed too. Straight scaling buffed which was really needed but may not have been enough.

Exactly. Also maybe a couple of Jokers were overnerfed (e.g. Vampire) but this is still a test phase, to gather feedback.

tags buffs dont change making every single card worse.

free bad cards don't do shit for the game; the economy was fine and fun.

uncommon, like burnt, which is hard to use but effective are now rare. great, i'll never fucking see it.

the upper levels are totally changed, despite that they provide a great challenge already.

they needed to just buff red and blue deck, add cards, possibly via expansions that can be turned on and off. instead the developer wants to put time and effort into "tweaking" every single goddamn northernlion strategy that's been uploaded to youtube. we've all seen this in games. this is the type of developer who gets mad at people beating his games.

like it's been said--it's a single player game, not some competitive "e-sport"

add a fucking leaderboard if you want it to be competitive. nerf the bosses, buff the card/decks if you want it easier.

I don't see how anyone could look at those patch notes and say the game is going to be easier or more fun. If that's the developer's attitude it's better to jump ship now. there's nothing to be excited about.

wasted, wasted potential.

add more seals. and more enhancements. add a 5th suit for some runs. add a custom deck creator. add more vouchers. add a texas hold-'em variant, a tarot variant, more new hands, literally anything. this is a huge fucking fumble if the community accepts this bullshit with a tepid smile.

we can read the writing on the wall: they'll "listen" to the community, reverse maybe 10% of the nerf, and throw a huge fucking victory party for themselves while fish-eyed bloggers drool out some facile bullshit about how the system works

didnt read lol

who posted?

TC mad he cant abuse op crap and instead make more fun combos

yea getting shit on by the dev is a really fun combo

im sure the beta testers are loving it

Robot2600 posted...

add more seals. and more enhancements. add a 5th suit for some runs. add a custom deck creator. add more vouchers. add a texas hold-'em variant, a tarot variant, more new hands, literally anything.

Okay that one is a great point. I am curious whether the dev has any plans for these.

Reminds me of the time everyone was having fun in Anthem and Bioware was like "Oh sorry that's a bug we'll have to patch that out."

i thought of a patch that was almost as bad: the time nintendo nerfed bug prices in animal crossing...during covd.

Robot2600 posted...

i thought of a patch that was almost as bad: the time nintendo nerfed bug prices in animal crossing...during covd.

They did what? I wasnt playing at that time.

they fucking slashed the price that you got for selling bugs and also nerfed bugs in general. less bugs. it's like real life, get it? global warming and inflation.

Oh geez. . .

They need to nerf stuff in endgame of devil

Fuck nerfs, I would never play this game knowing the developers do this shit.

Robot2600 posted...

but one of the better ones, which gave +4 multiplier to a certain suit, is nerfed to +3 (which means you flush is now +15 instead of +20). it's a standard "reduced fun by 25%" across the fucking board.

maybe it should have been changed to a +400 multiplier to a suit, which would increase fun by like 10000%

wait no that's not how games work

another reason i don't buy new releases anymore

Robot2600 posted...

who posted?

dang

You realize that if they're nerfing output on overperforming strategies while also reducing the score requirements then overall it's basically net even that results in a wider field of viable options right?

Of course not, your dumb ass didn't even see the numerous buffs all over the patch notes before you decided to complain about "everything" being nerfed (and then doubling down on it for some reason).

Incredible amount of baseless assumptions and babyrage, I'd ask who shit in your cereal this morning but your response would probably be the guy who made Balatro.

pikakaeru posted...

dang

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/88ff2522.jpg

aww

at kajel:

of course i read the fucking notes. idk man im screaming about a game developer which i feel like is my god-given right as a gamer and you're in here making it personal so i don't really want to engage with you at all.

you realize we can have different opinions about video games?

o right im a dumb ass.

rental jokers, jokers that expire, each with a 30% chance to drop in the stores. wake up, it's not cool or new or creative or balancing or fixing shit. that's not fucking fun, it's annoying and bullshit. id rather just have the costs now.

which is another thing--IF the game is getting sooooo much easier then wouldn't the truly hardcore want to be able to play the game as it is now?

it's a catch-22: you can't have it both ways.

you say it's here to :

1) fix busted "overperforming" strategies
2) also it's scaling so it's not doing that
3) also it's easier now so stop complaining?

like this patch, none of that shit makes any sense.

i want to be clear to the ppl who don't know about the game. it's not "nerfing overperforming strategies" it's literally nerfing pretty much any half-decent card. not even the crazy cards. there are buffs, yes, but it's like 97% nerfs and 3 buffs so does that really count?

im trying to say that the entire premise of the patch is to both nerf literally everything and also make the game "easier" as a PR mask to the stupid shit they are doing. yes, there was a problem with an obscure card that could get stuck on 'straight flush' and yes it needed changing, good job. overall though it's a shitty patch that adds no content, spends time--at best--tweaking a bunch of shit that wasn't broken--feels like it's on a whim--

--even if half of this shit doesn't make it into the game, game's fucked and the developer hates fun.

who wants to play a game where the dev hates fun?

why am I even talking to you. if you actually cared about balatro you'd have said something like

"Well I disagree, and I think you should keep an open mind! Let's give the dev a chance" and that would seem reasonable but instead it you typed [The rest of this message was removed by a GameFAQs Moderator].