New Balatro 1.1 leak: At least four new jokers, new voucher and opt-in content
Mere days after telling players 1.1 was "getting closer," LocalThunk returned to the Balatro Discord and started naming things.
The count of new Jokers is the biggest of them. Having previously committed to at least two, the developer posted what he called a "massive leak": there will be at least four (see below). He also confirmed a new trigger condition, "when a card is drawn to hand," which fires during rounds and inside Tarot and Spectral packs. His example was a Joker called 'Ace up your Sleeve', which gives you +1 Mult when an Ace is drawn.
Vouchers are changing as well. A tier 2 voucher named Lunker is in, and the draw will be more towards tier 2, weighted by how many tier 1 vouchers you hold across incomplete sets. The Blue Stake rework has itself been reworked; he scrapped his earlier version a few months ago for one he says fits better.
Blue Stake and Joker reworks will apply to everyone, but the actual new material will be behind a profile checkbox. Achievements will be earnable with it switched off. Steam will also keep a selectable 1.0 branch after the update ships so legacy mods keep working.
Beyond that, there's not much. LocalThunk expects 1.1.0 followed by a 1.1.1 balance pass a month or two later, and said not to expect more than that: no 1.2, and still no official multiplayer. He also said he should never have given a date when he was the only person working on the game and no one had asked him to announce one. The good news is that he will keep dropping leaks, he added, but not a launch window for a Balatro update.
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