OT: Video Game Thread Part VIII

[Striiker]

how? I did 10 squad battles games and wanted to fall asleep.

 

[FLYguy3911]

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Ouch.

It's the journey. Not the destination.

 

[FLYguy3911]

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Not much better. I heard Yoro is decent at least.

 

[trostol]

any winning Balatro strategies out there? best i got to was ante 7

 

[Striiker]

Ouch.

It's the journey. Not the destination.

Hell no it isn’t

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Not much better. I heard Yoro is decent at least.

Yeah, none of the big ones but I’d take that over my shit.

None of mine even make my bench, and I assume it’s the same for you?

 

[ponder719]

any winning Balatro strategies out there? best i got to was ante 7

General strategy I use is to focus on one or two hand types (3 of a kind or two pair with pair as a backup is pretty good), find a +Mult Joker or two, a xMult Joker, and purchase all the planet cards for your chosen hand types. You can fill out Jokers with +Chips or a generally useful one, but make sure you put them in the right order. +Chips first, then xChips, then +Mult, then xMult. The ones with other effects, just put them wherever makes sense. Advice from online is don't skip blinds, though I'll do it if it's getting me a free Negative Joker or something like that. Also consider specializing in a couple card values, if you're doing pair/kind, or a given suit if you're doing flush or straight as your primary hand. Just remember that specializing too hard can get you wrecked by the wrong boss blind.

 

[Striiker]

Ouch.

It's the journey. Not the destination.

Much better journey and destination this weekend

11-4 and decent rewards that could improve
with some upgrades.

 

[TB87]

Bought The Great Circle on Steam. Played 6 total minutes due to the game crashing and rebooting my PC nearly 15 times lol. There’s nothing wrong with my settings or PC specs. Windows is updated, drivers updated, etc. Gonna have to wait to enjoy this game on my PS5 I guess

 

[FLYguy3911]

None of mine even make my bench, and I assume it’s the same for you?

I'm going to try Yoro out. He can probably start.

Sesko could make the bench if the Aerial meta comes back lol.

Much better journey and destination this weekend

11-4 and decent rewards that could improve
with some upgrades.

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Nice! I will not be there.

Btw, note to self, don't play Cup games on Sunday morning. Demons in all but 2 games. Something is definitely up with matchmaking though. I smacked some dude in Rivals that had that Odegaard from the Cup Rewards.

 

[ponder719]

Anyone here starting to get stuck in to Civ VII? It's been taking up a lot of my time not already accounted for by Metaphor (which I just finished platinuming today, so I'm setting that aside until the inevitable Royal re-release), and I've been enjoying it, though it needs a lot of polish.

Now to boot up FFVII Rebirth and watch the remaining hours of my life melt away.

 

[Striiker]

I'm going to try Yoro out. He can probably start.

Sesko could make the bench if the Aerial meta comes back lol.


Nice! I will not be there.

Btw, note to self, don't play Cup games on Sunday morning. Demons in all but 2 games. Something is definitely up with matchmaking though. I smacked some dude in Rivals that had that Odegaard from the Cup Rewards.

Yeah, I reconsidered and ended up putting Pau in (moved WW Carlos Alberto to RB) and he was really good. I hear Yoro is great too so maybe we didn’t do as bad as initially thought.

Tried Hero Pele at all? I heard he was good.

And you mean the Maicon cup, right? Damn. You’d think a Sunday morning would be safe. These demons don’t sleep.

 

[trostol]

Anyone here starting to get stuck in to Civ VII? It's been taking up a lot of my time not already accounted for by Metaphor (which I just finished platinuming today, so I'm setting that aside until the inevitable Royal re-release), and I've been enjoying it, though it needs a lot of polish.

Now to boot up FFVII Rebirth and watch the remaining hours of my life melt away.

from what i understood..Civ 7 wasn't that good ...to be fair i haven't been a fan since...either 4 or 5

 

[FLYguy3911]

Tried Hero Pele at all? I heard he was good.

He's not good enough for my attack. Maybe with an evo or the next cup lol.

And you mean the Maicon cup, right? Damn. You’d think a Sunday morning would be safe. These demons don’t sleep.

That's what I was banking on. I turned cross play off so maybe it had something to do with shrinking the pool. Some dude smacked me with an all gold team.

Btw is pack weight horrendous or is it just me? I packed the cheapest card in the promo on Day 1 and haven't packed one since. I opened a 82x20 and got one walkout.

 

[Striiker]

That's what I was banking on. I turned cross play off so maybe it had something to do with shrinking the pool. Some dude smacked me with an all gold team.

Btw is pack weight horrendous or is it just me? I packed the cheapest card in the promo on Day 1 and haven't packed one since. I opened a 82x20 and got one walkout.

I have crossplay off too. Not a chance I’m dealing with PC kids.

Yep, 100% feels like the pack weight is signficantly worse this week. I have a ton of players and like 7 dupe 90+’s from Team 1 and outside of WL rewards I think I have maybe 1 lady from team 2. Didn’t get a single promo player from any of the 84x5s since Friday, plus I saved all of last weeks rivals rewards and got nothing.