Ever surprise how far you’ll be able to go in Balatro when you get previous these first eight antes and enter countless mode? Certain you’ve. What about when you hit ante 16 and enter the wild reaches of untracked countless mode? Much less possible, however you might need made it on the market a couple of times. Even fewer can be those that have hit an integer so excessive their sport simply bugs out and explodes in an enormous ol’ glitched-white-card-spewing crash.
Nicely, as confirmed and considered extensively by streamer Nandre, you’ll be able to in reality hit Ante 39 and simply straight up explode the videogame to win as a result of 1.8e308, the best quantity it can monitor in your machine within the sport’s code, is not excessive sufficient to win the rating requirement of that ante. Which is… additionally larger than the best quantity your machine will monitor, so it simply shows as “nan”—programmer communicate for “not a quantity.”
Celebrated the Balatro win at The Sport Awards by beating ante 39, the place the required rating is so excessive it crashes the sport.The true ending of Balatro has been claimed. Now I can relaxation… https://t.co/byh4S2Yyq1 pic.twitter.com/P8tU7kRK4iDecember 13, 2024
Nandre reached the aim to have fun everybody’s favourite Roguelike profitable at The Sport Awards 2024.
This places Balatro within the distinguished firm of different arcade-style video games you’ll be able to’t truly hit the “finish” of when taking part in an countless mode as a result of the rating simply retains happening. Tetris, maybe most famously, is a case of this type of highest-possible-scoring by way of breaking the sport. The Basic Tetris World Championship retains an archive of winners for the NES model.
May you go larger nonetheless? Sure, truly you’ll be able to, as a result of—similar to with Tetris ROM hacks—you would mod the sport to deal with ever-absurdly-higher integers with what I can solely assume can be ever-more-absurdly-game-breaking penalties.
Gotta say, although, this makes me need a Balatro championship alongside the identical traces with each play utilizing a set seed. Are we doing that but? Can we try this? We should always all try this.
Anyway, for those who’re right here you most likely love Balatro as a lot as I do and may positively see these moderately unhinged outtakes from the reside motion Balatro trailer.