QOL change for The Psychic...

[48 YEARS OLD VIRGIN]

The Psychic forces you to play a hand of 5 cards... it should disable the Play button until you do so instead of just telling you a smaller hand won't be counted.

[malogoss]

I think you just tested it yourself. It does not "force you to play 5 cards". If you play less than 5 cards, they don't score, that's it.

Does that matter? Yes. If you have 2 hands left, no discard, with your only high scoring hand being a Flush and you have 4 Clubs in hand, you'll be very happy that the game lets you waste a hand of only 4 cards, even if it does not score.

Players always like more flexibility, not less. So play 5 card hands and everything will be fine.

[revlayle]

As said before, I like that I do not have to choose 5 cards. Sometime I do not have discards but want to get rid of 4 cards, the best way to do that? Play a hand of 4 cards that will not score.

[Vespertellino]

what if you have less than 5 cards in hand? do you have to get softlocked or smth?

[revlayle]

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

what if you have less than 5 cards in hand? do you have to get softlocked or smth?

It's not a softlock, you just will lose at that boss, if something doesn't change before you start the boss. It is the risk of taking on too many Ectoplasms.

Check your boss blind when you start an ante, see if you can roll down during the small/large blinds and find something to raise your hand size (like a a Turtle Bean, Juggler or Troubador) for that ante. It'll be somewhat difficult, but can be done.

EDIT: Finding a Luchador could be useful too, as you can sell it during the boss blind and disabled the boss blind's effects. Chicot legendary will negate boss blinds too, that is waaaay harder to find though.

Same thing will happen to you if you have a Merry Andy or a Stuntman joker, of course you can sell them and discard/redraw to get the hand size back (unless they are eternal, then you would be screwed).

[Vespertellino]

Originally posted by revlayle:

Originally posted by Vespertellino:

what if you have less than 5 cards in hand? do you have to get softlocked or smth?

It's not a softlock, you just will lose at that boss, if something doesn't change before you start the boss. It is the risk of taking on too many Ectoplasms.

Check your boss blind when you start an ante, see if you can roll down during the small/large blinds and find something to raise your hand size (like a a Turtle Bean, Juggler or Troubador) for that ante. It'll be somewhat difficult, but can be done.

Same thing will happen to you if you have a Merry Andy or a Stuntman joker, of course you can sell them and dicard/redraw to get the hand size back (unless they are eternal, then you would be screwed).

That sounds terrible, I'm glad devs made a sensible decision instead

[Void]

It'd be nice if it took an extra click or something. It's enough to snap you back into reality long enough to make sure you know what you're doing.

[Vespertellino]

Originally posted by Void:

It'd be nice if it took an extra click or something. It's enough to snap you back into reality long enough to make sure you know what you're doing.

Or maybe like a better visual indication, a red border around cards that disappears when you select 5
Smth like that

[opie]

You might not want it to score if you're searching for a good card.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Void:

It'd be nice if it took an extra click or something. It's enough to snap you back into reality long enough to make sure you know what you're doing.

IIRC it used to back during the demo days or early after release, then a lot of people complained they were softlocked because they couldn't imagine having to click twice.

[F1Krazy]

Allowing you to play a non-scoring hand also allows you to trigger Matador's effect. At earlier Antes, those $8-per-hand can really come in handy.

[Adeon]

I don't think they should add a unique lose condition just for this ante.

The boss does what it says. If you aren't paying attention that's your loss.

In the demo it didn't even warn you with text.