Infinite loop :) Pre-workout mix gives you stamina, yoga or meditation lets you draw cards. Meditation also increases the strength, so each workout is stronger. At this point, each glute card gives +400 ;)
2nd try ever so it was on the second deck and i didn't really know what i was doing, plus i declined all deals lol. the only reason i did pretty good for my second time ever was prob because I absolutely love Balatro lmao. Keep it up your game is amazing and other than it being polished which i understand, this is literally amazing. love you bro!
This is pretty nice but there's a mechanic where when you delete a card from you deck you click on it without releasing it. This makes it super easy to accidentally remove the wrong card from your deck.
- really cool game btw I am a fan (of the game, dunno you but I'm sure your cool)
There are two ways that I have found to gain near infinite amount of gains:
Infinite strength/stamina gain!
You have to get all the card into your hand.
You must have these cards yoga, meditate and pre-work out mix(or red snugle but be warned it changes the procedure a bit and you won't be gaining more stamina).
I greatly enjoyed this game, it is the first twist on the balatro style progression system I actively enjoyed (outside of Balatro), and think you have built a very solid foundation to be reiterated on in the final release!
In that vein, I would like to suggest 7 things which would make me enjoy the game even more:
1) More Challenges
The first 5 are great, its just a gameplay style & concept that leaves me wanting more. I immediately thought of 2 possible additions based on the Fat mechanic the game prompts you with every couple of rounds:
Sumo, where you have to balance an equal amount of your gains threshold and fat threshold to win each competition.
Eating Contest, where instead of building the muscles you are exclusively adding to the fat threshold of your character. Every few rounds you are offered the inverse punishment/deal of gaining muscle that you need to get rid of in order to continue building up fat
Addtionally, the T-Rex Card inspired a silly mode idea:
Dinosaur, all it does is swap out the human head and add a tail, which acts as a new muscle group
I could see all of these leading to many new cards being added, which may spark even further ideas for challenges! I have a few further ideas for competitions & individual cards but I don't want to eat up too much of your time!
2) Longer Competition Unlocks
I thought a way to add replayability would be unlocking a longer variant of each after completing them! It could be as simple as adding an extra 5, doubling, or even tripling the amount. Leading to much crazier proportions.
3) Non-Traditional Difficulty Setting
Since the competitions are categorized on difficulty, I thought of a way to add challenge without going the standard route of making the upgrades less accessible each difficulty;
So if Normal is the standard Back, Chest, Glutes, Arms, & Legs; A Hard Mode could divide some of the preexisting muscles into multiple sections. Splitting the Chest into Abs & Pecs, the individual Arms, and Legs into Calves, Thighs, & Hips.
I figured this would add to the comedic sizing while providing with some greater challenge, in there being 9 muscles to work on instead of 5.
Perhaps cards specially made for those groupings could even work in standard gameplay, just offering half the effect. So a card that offers 6 Thigh Gains in Hard would be 3 Leg Gains in Easy.
4) Greater Customization Options
As a Gay Trans Woman playing this, I would really like to play as a woman if possible! I know cloth physics would not mesh well with a game like this; But if there was face & haircut customization, even if they were just presets, it could be fun to customize! Maybe unlockable hats as a cosmetic, so they dont have to scale with the player? And lastly could you let us pick any color for the skin? I think it would be fun to be a big blue or green giant.
5) The Artwork
I was just curious if you are still looking for an artist or artists to collaborate with on Card Art? If you would be okay with a slightly cartoon-ish style, I would happily offer my services!
This could also add a further layer of customization, with cards having different artwork to change between? Or atleast different art than the base when upgrading a card!
6) Sandbox or Endless Mode
This is mostly a by-product of Balatro letting you play until the program literally cant process a higher score maximum; But I think something fun you could unlock after beating all the modes, or maybe for each after beating their hard mode if you go for that idea, is just going as long as you can. The idea of seeing how Kaiju-esque these bodybuilders can get sounds terribly funny.
7) A Single Gameplay Tweak I Would Appreciate
Lastly, if this one thing could be changed during gameplay I would be really happy. I have a bad memory, and I would greatly appreciate if Upgrade packs could stop being offered in the shop if you have nothing currently to upgrade. I found myself buying them, fairly certain I had something to upgrade, only to realize I just lost out on $5 I could've gotten residuals on.
Thank you if read and double thank you if you like any of these suggestions! I have wishlisted and eagerly await for its release on Steam! ^_^
Start with the Zen deck so you can use meditate and yoga to draw cards. After the first day, remove a workout card that you don't want and try to get pre-workout. After you get it, try and get something that boosts gain%. Once you do, try and keep drawing cards until you can only draw meditate/yoga and pre-workout. Use the pre-workout first, then meditate/yoga for infinite stamina. Get as much as you want. Do the same with a card that boosts gain%. After that, you can use a workout card and get a lot of gains.
I achieved an infinite loop with the following combo:
Workout Draw effect in play
Zen Bells.
Red Snule.
Draw until your whole deck is in hand, then play Red Snule and Zen Bells. Play the Kettlebells, which forces the game to redraw both Red Snule and Zen Bells.
Net result: 1 free Kettlebell + infinitely resetting your Glutes.
I'll see if I can come up with a stable infinite loop without needing Workout Draw.
Found an infinite loop w/out Workout Draw: Start with the Zen deck, cut workout cards every time you can, get Pre-Workout Mix, and you can stack just enough cards on the third competition to gain an infinite loop assuming good RNG. I ended up in the Iron Invitational with Twerk and Back cut from my deck and Pre-Workout Mix added, resulting in a deck that can loop infinitely. If you can't find Pre-Workout Mix, Vitamin B+ will work similarly, just with less potency. Thanks @The Gemfish for the idea!
If you get enough gains, you actually wrap around, giving you a score of -2147483648, which is the "highest" you can go in the game it'd be really funny if there was an achievement for this
I really really like the mechanics in this game, it's a fun spin on the Balatro formula and the dude getting YUGER as I play is amazing.
But I really dislike the AI art, It's soulless and really detracts from my enjoyment. I completely understand having to use placeholders, but I would recommend ms paint or paint.net or some such similar.
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ultimate loop experince be like:
Very interesting Balatro inspired game, would love to see the ui improve and ai art removed. Looking forward to steam release.
Finally I did it!!!
Got to e9 gains. pretty good build
My turn >:)
this is the first thing i see clicking on the review section of this game, peak
got me and my friends to 100% the game, if you release a game on steam I can guarantee all of us will buy this
Very fun :3
update when
Do 4 doses of steroid, Chest day.
Overflowing with gains. Steroids stack bro.
it's all negative
I honestly don't no how I got here
complete the game on the deck before the one you want to unlock
how to get custom decks?
I don't you can ₍⑅ᐢ..ᐢ₎
Why is this game genuinely fun lol
what am i doing man. good game but im wondering what im doing right now
actually liked the game until i found out it used ai
They Stated it is temporary it will be changed in the full game
Love it! hope to add an endless mode and a "photo mode" that can be entered alone during gameplay to let the character pose
Well, I can't even see my character any more - I think it's time to cash out the glutes cards and call it a day :)
How long did that take /ᐠ o˕ oマ
I was listening to a podcast - maybe an hour
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How the heck did you even do that?
Infinite loop :) Pre-workout mix gives you stamina, yoga or meditation lets you draw cards. Meditation also increases the strength, so each workout is stronger. At this point, each glute card gives +400 ;)
This is pretty nice but there's a mechanic where when you delete a card from you deck you click on it without releasing it. This makes it super easy to accidentally remove the wrong card from your deck.
- really cool game btw I am a fan (of the game, dunno you but I'm sure your cool)
So I found a way to get near infinite gains is this suppose to occur??? Pls tell me
There are two ways that I have found to gain near infinite amount of gains:
Infinite strength/stamina gain!
You have to get all the card into your hand.
You must have these cards yoga, meditate and pre-work out mix(or red snugle but be warned it changes the procedure a bit and you won't be gaining more stamina).
Procedure:
yoga -> pre-work out mix -> meditate -> repeat
I hope this helped!!! ฅ ^ ≧∇≦^ ฅ
Damn you became God ദ്ദി ᐢ0⩊0 ᐢ)
awesome sauce 😼😼😼
I greatly enjoyed this game, it is the first twist on the balatro style progression system I actively enjoyed (outside of Balatro), and think you have built a very solid foundation to be reiterated on in the final release!
In that vein, I would like to suggest 7 things which would make me enjoy the game even more:
1) More Challenges
The first 5 are great, its just a gameplay style & concept that leaves me wanting more. I immediately thought of 2 possible additions based on the Fat mechanic the game prompts you with every couple of rounds:
Sumo, where you have to balance an equal amount of your gains threshold and fat threshold to win each competition.
Eating Contest, where instead of building the muscles you are exclusively adding to the fat threshold of your character. Every few rounds you are offered the inverse punishment/deal of gaining muscle that you need to get rid of in order to continue building up fat
Addtionally, the T-Rex Card inspired a silly mode idea:
Dinosaur, all it does is swap out the human head and add a tail, which acts as a new muscle group
I could see all of these leading to many new cards being added, which may spark even further ideas for challenges! I have a few further ideas for competitions & individual cards but I don't want to eat up too much of your time!
2) Longer Competition Unlocks
I thought a way to add replayability would be unlocking a longer variant of each after completing them! It could be as simple as adding an extra 5, doubling, or even tripling the amount. Leading to much crazier proportions.
3) Non-Traditional Difficulty Setting
Since the competitions are categorized on difficulty, I thought of a way to add challenge without going the standard route of making the upgrades less accessible each difficulty;
So if Normal is the standard Back, Chest, Glutes, Arms, & Legs; A Hard Mode could divide some of the preexisting muscles into multiple sections. Splitting the Chest into Abs & Pecs, the individual Arms, and Legs into Calves, Thighs, & Hips.
I figured this would add to the comedic sizing while providing with some greater challenge, in there being 9 muscles to work on instead of 5.
Perhaps cards specially made for those groupings could even work in standard gameplay, just offering half the effect. So a card that offers 6 Thigh Gains in Hard would be 3 Leg Gains in Easy.
4) Greater Customization Options
As a Gay Trans Woman playing this, I would really like to play as a woman if possible! I know cloth physics would not mesh well with a game like this; But if there was face & haircut customization, even if they were just presets, it could be fun to customize! Maybe unlockable hats as a cosmetic, so they dont have to scale with the player? And lastly could you let us pick any color for the skin? I think it would be fun to be a big blue or green giant.
5) The Artwork
I was just curious if you are still looking for an artist or artists to collaborate with on Card Art? If you would be okay with a slightly cartoon-ish style, I would happily offer my services!
This could also add a further layer of customization, with cards having different artwork to change between? Or atleast different art than the base when upgrading a card!
6) Sandbox or Endless Mode
This is mostly a by-product of Balatro letting you play until the program literally cant process a higher score maximum; But I think something fun you could unlock after beating all the modes, or maybe for each after beating their hard mode if you go for that idea, is just going as long as you can. The idea of seeing how Kaiju-esque these bodybuilders can get sounds terribly funny.
7) A Single Gameplay Tweak I Would Appreciate
Lastly, if this one thing could be changed during gameplay I would be really happy. I have a bad memory, and I would greatly appreciate if Upgrade packs could stop being offered in the shop if you have nothing currently to upgrade. I found myself buying them, fairly certain I had something to upgrade, only to realize I just lost out on $5 I could've gotten residuals on.
Thank you if read and double thank you if you like any of these suggestions! I have wishlisted and eagerly await for its release on Steam! ^_^
I found a way to get shredded very fast.
Start with the Zen deck so you can use meditate and yoga to draw cards. After the first day, remove a workout card that you don't want and try to get pre-workout. After you get it, try and get something that boosts gain%. Once you do, try and keep drawing cards until you can only draw meditate/yoga and pre-workout. Use the pre-workout first, then meditate/yoga for infinite stamina. Get as much as you want. Do the same with a card that boosts gain%. After that, you can use a workout card and get a lot of gains.
I'm calling it gainsplosion.
What ToT
nothing but legs and arms
and some guy that skipped legs
I achieved an infinite loop with the following combo:
Draw until your whole deck is in hand, then play Red Snule and Zen Bells. Play the Kettlebells, which forces the game to redraw both Red Snule and Zen Bells.
Net result: 1 free Kettlebell + infinitely resetting your Glutes.
I'll see if I can come up with a stable infinite loop without needing Workout Draw.
If you can't find Pre-Workout Mix, Vitamin B+ will work similarly, just with less potency.
Thanks @The Gemfish for the idea!
yuge day is op.now considering you dont have full body massage,its high risk high reward.nerf it pls
damn this is hilarious lol
Now this is a hilarious game, I was getting *jacked*! Ultimately, I failed the Absolute Unit challenge by just a few so gains, so maybe next time!
I don't get it can someone help pls I would appreciate it 😁
This is what i need in life
we need chinese!!!!!!!!
Me: "what the fuck is this?"
Me after failing two runs: "I'm wish listing this"
If you get enough gains, you actually wrap around, giving you a score of -2147483648, which is the "highest" you can go in the game
it'd be really funny if there was an achievement for this
wth
Even better
I have a true gluteus maximus
big boob simulator proof me wrong
Look above you
(my guy was part of the itty bitty titty committee)
I really really like the mechanics in this game, it's a fun spin on the Balatro formula and the dude getting YUGER as I play is amazing.
But I really dislike the AI art, It's soulless and really detracts from my enjoyment. I completely understand having to use placeholders, but I would recommend ms paint or paint.net or some such similar.
tbh i thought it wasnt too bad it just lacked fun yk, color would really improve this game