Since almost all speedruns for 1/3/7/15decks start with plasma getting stuntman, and stuntman being rare in 1.01, what do you think of creating a category excluding either the use of the plasma deck or stuntman joker?
personally restarting many times until RNG gods give you stuntman early is anything but fun to me
at least anaglyph skipping all give you a lot mroe intereresting actions than playing high card every turn
I agree - the current runs are certainly impressive and I enjoy watching them, but it's a little disappointing how they're basically all "choose plasma deck and then get a lot of chips"
It'd be nice if there were different categories for different decks the same way that there are with stakes (specifically for 1 deck random / 1 deck set seed), would add a lot more variety to the submitted runs
I also want a category for every deck. I even reached out to a mod about it. They said they want it too but most mods don't. So, what is the argument against it? Cause random seed white stake 1.0 has 22 runs all of which use Plasma. Boring braindead gameplay plasma. Keep an all decks category so the try hards can still say they reign supreme and then add a category for every deck so that people like me can play what deck they like and actually feel like they can get a time worth submitting to the leaderboards.
I even started to do one submission for each deck on random seed orange and gold. I asked a mod if multiple runs would show on the board since they would be different decks. I did it cause the mod said "since one player can be on the board 15 times for 15 different decks." That's not the case, though. All but the fastest was marked obsolete.
Congrats. If you submit that you'll be the only non-plasma on the boards. Also, if you submit a plasma that is faster your Anaglyph run goes obsolete. Which is exactly why I want to split it by deck. So that every deck can get some love.
I also 100% agree with that, have one default category with all decks and a extra category for each specific deck is the best solution.
I'd like to hear the reasoning for mods not wanting to add different deck classifiers, it'd make speed running this game so much more interesting than it is now because every random seed and set seed run is just plasma with an early stuntman or bull and it gets boring almost instantly
Six days ago I started a group message with all five mods where I outlined my desire for it to be split. I told them multiple reasons why it should be split, informed them that multiple people on the boards want it split, and pointed out the ridiculousness of having some categories that are never ran while denying what people are asking for. So far two of the five have responded and they both agree that it's a good idea and are not opposed to it.
In an older conversation I had with Zedru, one of the mods, they said that the general consensus is that boards be split by playstyle and difficulty, not deck. One of my many arguments is that plasma has a unique playstyle compared to all the other decks. 14 of the 15 decks play similarly to each other. Then you have plasma that plays differently. That one oddball deck being the only viable option when speedrunning is, in my opinion, a problem. As someone who doesn't enjoy the repeat runs until you find stuntman aspect of plasma in random seed, I think it's clear the mods should add deck subcategories. Keep an any deck or all decks default category so the plasma lovers can still show off that it's the fastest overall. This idea has been laid out for the mods in my group message, just waiting for responses from the last three.
Honestly I'm down for that. In addition, remember that challenge speedruns exist if you're looking to do something especially unique - I personally love playing Fragile
At this point I've heard back from three of the five mods. All three seem to think it's a decent idea and none of them are outright against it. The last two mods only mod for Balatro so it's not like they are super busy modding other games. Baboon hasn't made a mod action on here in two months. Gloomy hasn't made a mod action on here in three months.
At this point I believe I have heard from all active mods and none of them have given any reason to not do this. I'm not really sure how to move forward in making this happen. I think I will message the group chat and offer my services to mod for the game and add these subcategories to the boards. Maybe they just don't feel like doing it in which case I will gladly make it happen.
