Crazy New Misprint Exploit

[@CoolExcite]

every balatro university video just got 30 minutes longer

[@niels3653]

ahahahah we're fucked

[@jasinviso]

In best impression,"maybe..."

[@ModeDriver]

My attention span gonna be increasing

[@velvetdraws3452]

that is the biggest understatement, this changes everything rn

[@nejiabdurrahmen]

not really, he already knew about it since its release

[@benro6564]

This means optimal gold stake strategy is looking at misprint in the collection every single hand

[@DallasPurdum]

Dear God that's annoying, I wish I could unlearn this lol

[@BelenosBear]

this part has been annoying me since I learned 🙃

[@TheGreatGario]

nah, doesn't help much when you're really digging for cards, which is why you want to discard most of the time, since it only tells you one of likely five cards you'll receive like yeah, that's nice to know, but you're still gonna discard five so who cares there are niche situations when it can be helpful, i'm sure, but i see this in the same way i see the folk who used point calculators before playing hands: marginally useful sometimes but ultimately a waste of time

[@SomeGalNamedEve]

It really isn't worth it 99% of the time, though. If drawing a specific card in your deck would be absolutely crucial somehow, sure, but you're going to discard multiple cards almost all of the time anyway, it really isn't worth checking Misprint every time you're going to be drawing cards

[@TheGreatGario]

@@SomeGalNamedEve I found precisely one situation so far where it could be worth checking out the misprint: You are looking for a specific card you need to win a round, you have two cards in your deck and a single discard, and your hand is full of gold cards. You would rather discard one card to get the ideal card, but if you discard and don't get it you'll lose. Checking misprint could let you know whether you can discard a single card safely and possibly save you $3 in lost gold you'd otherwise have lost if you played it safe and discarded two cards. Yay, Misprint saved you $3! ... sounds niche but I *have* been in this situation before, and $3 is $3, would've been nice.

[@theghoulishsword2406]

Game changer for checkered deck. Basically tells you what to discard when you draw 4 of each hearts and spades.

[@BelenosBear]

While we were playing checkered localthunk was playing chess

[@AzygousWolf]

@@BelenosBear Wait... I've been playing poker...

[@thacium]

Does it really matter? By probability you are likely to draw the missing one by discarding the other suit anyways.

[@CinderellaCostallas]

@@thacium too many times I've drawn 4 more of the same suit I discarded ;-;

[@Lreclusa]

​@@thaciumit can when you're on certain bosses or with specific jokers, where discarding only 1 card could be more beneficial than dumping 5. You wouldn't want to draw into a hand full of debuffs if you could just draw one and guarantee 3/5 viable cards.

[@bobross2123]

This is an insane find. It gives misprint so much more strength. I do kind of wish it was exclusive to when you actually have the joker with you but either way it is a very unique and helpful card now!

[@Mouthwashh]

You don’t need misprint to use it though, just go to your collection.

[@Squant]

@@Mouthwashh That's what they're saying. They wish you couldn't do it via the collection, probably because it means in order to be super optimal you now have to repeatedly pause the game to look at the damn thing.

[@Artawii]

@@Squanttbh though it’s only one card you see, not super optimal unless you really NEED that one card

[@AdeonWriter]

@@LieutenantVague You very often discard to in hopes of getting better cards. Why discard many, when discarding one but be the one you need?

[@TwentySeventhLetter]

Helpful for drawing that royal flush to beat ante 1 big blind in one hand

[@GothicLordUK]

I've just done some mythbusting. Misprint knows the contents of your Stone Cards!

[@yosher]

Oh my god that’s huge

[@NickiRusin]

WHAT

[@8BitShadow]

so it should also in theory work when you have the '... cards are hidden' blind. though IIRC there's only 'the first drawn cards of each round are hidden' so maybe not.

[@lisatroiani6119]

@@8BitShadow there’s also “face cards are hidden”

[@lisatroiani6119]

@@8BitShadowand “1 in 7 cards are hidden”

[@neverttheguy2670]

Chat just casually giving you eldritch knowledge

[@BelenosBear]

Chatters are the true source of my power

[@lakecityransom]

chat always wins

[@invalid_user_handle]

It's funny, Balatro is written entirely in LUA, meaning it's possible to see it's source code when looking at the game files. Anyone could have gone to the function that handles what text shows up in Misprint's description and found it shows the highest card in the deck, but apparently nobody did that for over half a year.

[@VAN17INO6]

I think the card script contains 4k functions or 4k lines or somethinglike that... it's... beautiful

[@Swing_Bonnie]

That is a really cool Easter Egg ngl, pretty helpful for a lot of niche situations but not game breaking to where you have to check misprint for every discard

[@nigou2706]

Technically it would be the optimal play to do it every turn but it's like calculating your score for every hands : it's too annoying to bother doing it unless you really need it.

[@Mouthwashh]

It’s actually busted for the early game on checkered deck. Small advantages like that snowball your Econ in early game.

[@chastermief839]

i appreciate that you included a clip from the demo just so i didn't have to go back and check

[@BelenosBear]

LocalThunk is a legend for this one

[@DonickPL]

0:47 AMONGUS

[@murphyobv]

Nothing makes sense anymore....

[@BelenosBear]

Misprint has been living a secret life this whole time

[@murphyobv]

@@BelenosBear People sleepin on misprint but he was a the 6th legendary this whole time

[@Paul-A01]

Everything makes sense evermore

[@BDJZeph]

Carl: it doesn't matter, none of this matters.

[@Kaiser25]

Missprint stocks raised by 10 million%

[@soulofwolf9906]

10 misprintillion

[@TheSilly6403]

1 balatrillion+

[@ZR3009]

I thought it was just a jumbled text to fit in the glitches nature. Now it is essential for card gaming.

[@jakepfrag]

The editing is so appropriate for the gravity of this discovery

[@Wauly]

If theres any other hidden tech, my suspicion has been on the blind Pins/Tokens in the top left. You can pick them up and move them around

[@patrykzukowski7471]

Wait a sec.... no, this has to be an oversight. There's no way the dev intended the players to be able to use this "ability" when they don't even own the Joker XD

[@Reddison]

LocalThunk coded it into the game day 1 as an easter egg, since the game was only a niche project at the time.

[@bobbysauce64]

This could be a great secret use of Misprint if they only make it appear when you have it in your deck

[@The-EJ-Factor]

this is like how you could the compass in the UI in Minecraft without crafting it. But also I think that this was intended to be used when you have the joker in hand.

[@Sc4r4byte]

Fun fact, this is the very first mechanic i learned about in Belatro. There will be people like me playing this game now.

[@masterbasher9542]

Ah, card counting. Exploit edition.

[@TheVutswag]

This is like the reveal in Saw it was in front of us this whole goddamn time fuck

[@emidemi7211]

This is fun but I don't think it's nearly as broken as people seem to think it is. It only shows you 1 card. That aside, this is an extremely cool Easter egg, so I'm still here for it lol

[@areadenial2343]

With the checkered deck or smeared joker, it can tell you which suit you'll draw next so you can always guarantee a flush.

[@pairot01]

No, this is HUGE technology. But to use it properly it would grind the game to a halt on every discard decision. On white stake, you can play or discard 6 times before your final hand.

[@Laezar1]

it's at least useful when trying to make flushes, straights or have more than two "two pairs" and need to decide which to discard. Of course it will *probably* give you information on a card you plan to discard but the chance that it gives you useful info, even low means that it's optimal to check everytime the info could sway your decision

[@wingedcatgirl]

I'd think this was intentional if you had to _have_ Misprint to do it, but being exploitable from the Collection is surely a mistake, right?

[@link16600]

Either it's intended and the fact it also works from collection is the actual mistake, or maybe the dev only wanted a random text to appear and coded it as the text is generated using the datas from first card so it looks random and meaning nothing special (and he simply crossed fingers so nobody discover the trick ever). OR, it is intended, but also itended to work from collection, because dev decided that if a player ever realise that stuff he then diserves to use it even in runs where he doesn't have that joker (like, as a reward for his crazy discovery).

[@SeveralGhost]

I think it's part of the "you can look harder for more information but it's more fun to just send it" philosophy I've heard LT talk about

[@revlayle]

Actually you can also use the collection see the current card for Idol or the current suit for Ancient on the boss blind where the jokers are flipped and shuffled.

[@wingedcatgirl]

@@revlayle That's arguably also an error, but I'd say a smaller one, since the information still only benefits you if you have the jokers.

[@HaralHeisto]

@@link16600 Looking at the code, it's clearly intentional. It specifically checks to see if there's an active game context, and if there is gets the card at the top of the deck. If there's no card or you're not in a game, it falls back to 11D. Also, any other joker that has mouseover text that derives from game state (e.g. Fortune teller shows how many arcana cards you've played) also works in the collection, although I can't see anything that would be advantageous to know.

[@rootleft7928]

very funny that this trash card has an incredible use case that does not require you to pick it up

[@Chief_Tyrol_]

Thumbnail goes pretty hard tbh

[@EvilLordCanas]

This is truly forbidden knowledge.

[@aptspire]

Balatro player walks in a casino with a misprinted joker, dealers start sweating

[@AngelDani7697]

“THANK YOU MR SOUP” We all said in unison!! ❤

[@solidzaku2]

The fact that this was in the beta version and was only really uncovered then is incredibly funny.

[@JamesSiggins]

There is so much to this game, I love it, the developers are something special that's for sure.

[@agenttennessee]

I know there is a way to make this information useful to me in a dire situation but I am no closer to doing that than I am of having wheel hit for me.

[@alexo_pog]

i think it should only display it when in your joker inventory, but hide that preview from other areas of the game and i think thats completely fine, since how otherwise unreliable misprint pretty much is, could make it a valuable early pickup

[@redwoodclimber]

This is like when I learned accidentally that if you force close the game on mobile before you end a shop/exit a pack/play a hand it will restart from the beginning of that sequence. Insane.

[@ToyKeeper]

On the one hand, that's really neat. On the other hand, if I actually have to care what cards I draw, I'm probably about to lose anyway. After Ante 1, the game seems to have basically just two ways a blind can go: Either you win in a single hand by a wide margin, or you get a game over. There isn't often much middle ground, where the poker aspect actually matters.

[@JSp8]

Bet you throw darts three at a time too ya unsophisticated goose..

[@Niteshade_]

I noticed it before since i play wayyy too many puzzle games knowing that D S C H means the suits

[@juice6521]

It's crazy that it took everyone this long to spot that when it's right in your face.

[@surrealchemist]

I already enjoyed that card as is, this makes it even better.

[@APerson-14]

It's great . . . only issue I have YOU CAN VIEW IT IN THE COLLECTION

[@json_bourne3812]

The moment when you realise you noticed this months ago, thought it was cool and useful but never thought to check the Joker collection.........

[@elijahkeay3906]

That’s actually wild that nobody noticed this (or at least documented it after finding it) Though I will say I hope it gets patched so that the effect only happens if you actually have misprint as one of your joker slots… having the optimal strategy involve looking in your collection every hand is really repetitive and boring lmao. It would also give some really unique extra value to having misprint

[@essentialbeattherapy4227]

I find this extremely useful for flush decks

[@Fabricio1515]

This is the coolest trick I've seen after the one with 4 fingers to make fake straight flushes

[@NikolajLepka]

Just tested it, can confirm I drew a 13S, a King of Spades

[@WardNightstone]

I just checked it works on the mobile version too so this is def a Feature not a bug it goes by FAST in mobile so i had to watch it come up 3 times before i could catch it thoguh

[@lorenzos2045]

This is a blessing and a curse.

[@ClixonTheOne]

Such is futuresigh, power at a price.

[@Megaman231122]

This game legitimately is eating my brain and taking place

[@BVSSIC]

O yea! I remember this haha, I found this out while modding the game 5/6 months ago because I was creating a mini-misprint joker enhancement. I suppose this WOULD be classified as crazy tech, but yea it makes sense why that got chosen as the seed for the string of the uibox description hahaha

[@StarkMaximum]

I love shit like this. I love when a game developer just says "what if I hide a cool little trick in my game that looks totally innocuous?". It's a great way to get me to keep coming back to your game, just to find new shit.

[@PhinTheOx]

You’re wrinkling my brain!!

[@zerobatsu]

I figured out it shows the top card, but never thought to look in the card list to see it.

[@Rare_Coil]

What the actual jimbo

[@-VexyRS]

Oh my god you could check your next draw before opening arcana/spectral packs!

[@TheGreatGario]

holy shit, *what*

[@TheGreatGario]

just tested and confirmed myself, i am actually in disbelief

[@silentstorm5757]

I hope they remove this functionality from the collection, because that's both too strong and too annoying to check. Would be cool to keep it when you actually have the joker

[@opalpersonal]

i love the cinematic thump every fucking time 😂knowledge of the universe...

[@machinate]

"thank you mister Soup" - is that a Worlds Beyond Number reference?

[@kfpemployeeno.568]

Jimbo's game is truly Jimbofied on all levels.

[@artalogue]

northenlion is crying

[@JrIcify]

He doesn't need this because he has green joker.

[@artalogue]

@@JrIcify right

[@pepper_rex]

Be funny if it’s intentional and a reference to the baccarat “cheating ring” that worked of cards back pattern being misprinted.

[@duesenantrieb8272]

Looool I noticed this back then and thought this was the point of the joker... Since I found the random mult lacking

[@Boney9551]

Another 10 trillion to LocalThunk

[@Mariorox1956]

Oh my god I've been sleeping on Misprint up until now. Thanks for the new strat 👍

[@maiddresses5153]

What mind to you need to possess to notice a milisecond of numbers and letters and then correlate them to cards you drawing😭😭

[@thegoat9219]

Thats actually awesome

[@RaceBandit]

I never noticed. Checkered Deck enjoyers, rejoice!

[@mylifeisfunny8911]

Dude has discovered the easy mode

[@moonscorchedd]

i believed way too hard in misprint when i first played i feel so correct now

[@cc_256]

I can see it being usable, if you have 4 cards of one suit, and 4 cards of other suit, and you want to go for flush, checking it might give you answer to which one to discard!

[@spad_overolls]

one correction - it shows you the bottom card of the deck, not the top one. balatro draws cards from the bottom of the deck

[@otherlego]

Doesn’t really matter tbh

[@The-toast]

Even if this is true this effectively does not matter

[@flamingscar5263]

It's a virtual deck made of pixels There is no "bottom" or "top"

[@fairy__nova]

Can you stop

[@BeanatomicWally]

Delete this

[@ColossoLCS]

Bro, what? Insane.

[@nurgle7797]

0:55 Or as I like to say: "We are all Balatro"

[@puppyclo]

Thank you Soup!!! 💖

[@PopcornMax179]

So it's a hidden feature of that card.

[@acarbonbasedlifeform70]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Balatro

[@louisgobin1416]

I knew this joker had something special

[@roarkviolet1912]

When i started playing balatro and got misprint for the first time i thought the error text was some really high plus mult and that what mult you got was tied to what it was showing when you played your hand... I stared directly and and with purpose at misprints "error" text for at least an hour trying to see if that was a thing and never noticed.

[@tinycatfriend]

oh thats wild! not sure how i'll use this but i'm sure i'll find a way. also someone should update the wiki!

[@Alcorenshi]

THIS IS INSANE

[@megalogoro6388]

This is forbidden knowledge

[@MiroslawHorbal]

well shit... thats good to know after 300h

[@CoolSs]

this sound like illegal tech, i love it.

[@mickaelcaramelo8458]

I want the tech that tell me if wheel of fortune will hit or say "Nope"

[@TheWaInut]

Well darn. I wish i kept being ignorant to this because now its all I will think about

[@celestialTangle]

does this also work in the shop to know the first card of an Arcana or Spectral pack?

[@RiverWilliamson]

My brain is on fire

[@AllineVayn]

YOOO THATS ME, Im famous :)

[@poppip10]

yorick :D

[@sketchystuff9508]

no way... is that the number 1 yorick fan

[@poppip10]

@@sketchystuff9508 correct

[@antsweaters]

wtf vayn jumpscare

[@DsPGfj]

Earned a new sub with this

[@AnthonyVolpe]

Holy shit.

[@4g3nt06]

LocalThunk and Jimbo laughing at the playerbase rn.

[@QuietThePro]

As someone trying to get 100% achievements this will make it slightly more likely I'll pull a card that I need by knowing the 1st one!

[@stormRed]

This is a little bit like drawing an extra card

[@VAN17INO6]

my mind imploded

[@FirekingBarong]

This is great for high card builds where you want specific cards in hand and play specific cards, since you fixed the deck to a point where knowing 1 card is much more value. For every other situation where you just discard 5 cards anyway, it probably isnt worth ^^

[@zigaudrey]

Misprint Mishap Madness

[@aajjeee]

this has been known forever

[@vaquri]

I need a Balatro for idiots vid

[@Night_Hawk_475]

honestly I kinda like this tech - but I do wish it required you had the actual card and didn't work from the collection. Would make it slightly less annoying - since now I feel obligated to check it through collection nearly every hand where it could remotely matter.

[@Cakauu]

Holy shit! It does actually work!!!!

[@Djellowman]

What does it display when the top card is a stone card?

[@BelenosBear]

It shows the rank and suit of the stone card as if it wasn't stone kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3yZlKibeZemaaM

[@michaelwx1]

Could help with discarding with Blackboard