I didn’t get a board game set-up yesterday, yes I will be coming back to the Slay the Spire board game. Instead I wanted to hop on early and just do a long stream of Balatro and on my profile for streaming just to see if I could get a win and what I could unlock. It took several runs, but I managed to get a win, see how it went.

Balatro – Unlocks Just In Time

So let’s talk about the unlock system some more. I think I talked about it in comparison to Slay the Spire before. But I like in some ways how Balatro gives them to you for achievements. They are basically saying, we want you to find different ways to win. If you do that, you’ll get more and new things. But not just different ways to win, different ways to play the game.

I tend to play the game where I go of a straight on some suit and see how I can support it with the jokers that I have. It works sometimes and it doesn’t work as well other times. But if I were to plan better I could also be stacking things like pairs, and and two pairs onto that as well because those become more common. In fact, my winning run would have let me really lean into that to get even more multipliers.

But it isn’t just what you’ve skipped that gives you unlocks. But also what you are doing well. If you get enough enhanced cards or enough steel cards, all of those give you unlocks of different jokers. If you play enough tarot cards that unlocks a new deck. And while unlocks do slow down as you go, it is now really shooting for specific things as you play that offers that new challenge. Or weird things, like I still need to buy more blank vouchers.

Do you like unlocks in this type of game? And how do you like to get those achievements or unlocks. Just for playing the game a lot or for doing specific things?

Upcoming Streams

On Monday I play small solo game plays. The schedule is, right now, going to look like gaming every other Monday. A chance to see people in person came up for Monday and as much as I like streaming, it’s good to socialize as well. And I might do more deck construction with Star Wars Unlimited on Mondays as well or pack openings. Right now it’ll be more Slay the Spire.

On Wednesdays, I play solo campaign games. I plan on playing a campaign game coming up. Right now I’m torn between two games. Well, more than that if you watched through the end of the video. And that is more of The 7th Citadel. I plan to keep playing through The Drums of Desolation for a while so join me for that.

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