Releases: SirMaiquis/Balatro-FinalBoss
Releases · SirMaiquis/Balatro-FinalBoss
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Final Boss 1.1.0
Final Boss 1.1 gives every boss its own personality, makes final bosses transform mid-fight, and lets bosses remember you.
Install
- Mod manager: update or install Final Boss on Thunderstore.
- By hand:
- Download FinalBoss-v1.1.0.zip below.
- Replace your
%AppData%/Balatro/Mods/FinalBossfolder with it.
Requires Steamodded 26.829.0+ and Lovely 0.9.0+.
What's new
- Boss moves: every vanilla boss plays a signature move the moment its effect hits. For example:
- The Hook yanks your cards.
- The Ox drains your money.
- The Arm slams the Raised Fist on your hand level.
- The Wall, Water, Needle and Manacle show your value before and after.
- Curse marks: these stay on cursed cards: suit frames, vines and cracks.
- Final-boss deaths: each final boss has its own:
- Crimson Heart shatters into hearts.
- Verdant Leaf blows away.
- Amber Acorn cracks open.
- Violet Vessel spills out.
- Cerulean Bell rings and breaks.
- Phases: at 50% and 25% HP final bosses transform with a short cinematic, a new line, a stance and a II/III marker. A disabled final boss gets angry instead.
- Phase twists: optional and off by default. Each final boss pushes back once per phase.
- Memory:
- Bosses remember your wins and losses on each profile and greet you accordingly.
- Your nemesis gets a special entrance and a "NEMESIS DEFEATED" moment.
- 10 achievements.
- Settings: Boss moves, Boss phases change the rules, Boss memory.
- Mod authors:
register_encounternow takesmovesanddeathrecipes.
Credits
Showdown music: Balatro (Main Theme) (Orchestral Cover) by Adam Isiah, used with his permission.
Full list: CHANGELOG.md
Final Boss 1.0.0
First release of Final Boss. Bosses talk back, showdowns become cinematic boss fights, and you decide when final bosses appear.
Install
- Install Steamodded 26.829.0 or newer (it brings Lovely 0.9.0 or newer).
- Download FinalBoss-v1.0.0.zip below and extract the
FinalBossfolder into%AppData%/Balatro/Mods. - Start Balatro. Settings are in Mods > Final Boss.
Using a mod manager? Get it from Thunderstore instead.
What's in 1.0.0
- Every boss talks: an intro, reactions to big hands, close calls and your last hand, and a defeat line. That covers all 28 vanilla bosses, plus generic lines for modded bosses, in 15 languages.
- Showdown stage:
- a cinematic intro with a title band;
- a roaming boss chip with an HP bar and damage numbers;
- a living arena that darkens as the boss weakens;
- a slow-motion explosive finale.
- Reactions:
- The boss reacts when your score lands.
- It laughs off weak hands.
- If you play during its speech, it snaps at you.
- Game over: Jimbo mocks you with the boss's catchphrase while the boss laughs beside the panel.
- Showdown schedule: choose when final bosses appear, with a live ante preview in the menu.
- Settings: a themed config menu with independent toggles for dialogue, music, screen effects and cinematics. It respects Balatro's reduced motion setting.
- For mod authors:
FinalBoss.register_encountergives your bosses their own tier, voice, music and effects.
Credits
Showdown music: Balatro (Main Theme) (Orchestral Cover) by Adam Isiah, used with his permission.
Full list: CHANGELOG.md