TURTLE BEAN BUG CANNOT BE REPRODUCED AT ANTE 8 WITH CRIMSON HEART (STEAMODDED)

[huyhoisg-lang]

Hi everyone,

I’m reporting an issue related to Turtle Bean interaction at Ante 8 when facing Crimson Heart under Steamodded.

In vanilla Balatro, it was previously possible to use the Turtle Bean bug at Ante 8 by entering the boss fight where Crimson Heart disables 1 Joker, then exiting to the main menu and re-entering the run. The deck size/state would remain in the bugged state (e.g., 15/10 instead of correcting to 15/15), allowing the exploit to function.

• However, when running the game with Steamodded, this behavior no longer works:
• Crimson Heart disables 1 Joker as expected.
• After exiting to the main menu and reloading the run, the deck state resets correctly.
• The previous Turtle Bean bug state does not persist.

As a result, the exploit cannot be reproduced.

It seems that Steamodded may be reinitializing or validating deck/Joker state on reload, preventing the vanilla behavior from occurring.

Questions:

• Is Steamodded intentionally fixing this state inconsistency?
• Is there an additional validation step on reload that differs from vanilla?
• Has anyone successfully reproduced the original Turtle Bean behavior on the latest Steamodded version?

I’ve tested multiple times but cannot reproduce the bug anymore under Steamodded.

[Aurelius7309]

As also noted in 1501a release notes, this exploit was fixed unintentionally; we have no intention of fixing vanilla bugs that affect gameplay in any way. An "unfix" for this unintentional fix is still being worked on.