Endless Mode Is EXTREMELY BROKEN! - Rack and Slay 

I love when a roguelike's balancing is a little imperfect, so that it's technically possible to get a run where you cannot ever lose. It's fun stuff.

When Alexander looked upon the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

"Phase one is complete. You survived phase 2 but can you survive phase 3." Bro became the boss

At a certain point, it went from 'defeat the final boss' to 'you ARE the final boss' and I kind of love that for you. You even have combat phases for your opponents to survive. Incredible.

The 7 ankhs also really ensured that you couldn't die.

47:48 You can see the explosions on his webcam lmao

When you got 70 kills before the round even started, I believe it happened because a bomb spawned on an enemy because there was no space, resulting in a chain reaction.

About 7:30: a circle’s radii are always perpindicular to the tangent line through them, so you don’t have to imagine the tangent line at all, rather you only need the line connecting the centers of the two balls, as that will automatically be perpendicular to the tangent between them.

This video is the definition of "any build can be a good build if you get 20 of every item!"

48:03 "wheres the boss?" sir, you ARE the boss 😂

20:38 the contrast between the mini balls being a donkey and the stars aligning for the impale kill was crazy

- 9:16 "This isn't going to be one of those busted builds" - Me, turning to my laptop, checking remaining time - Editor cutting to preview Comedy

That was the most exciting run of all time. You gotta love when you get so OP the game beats itself without your input.

1) the reason some enemies got bigger was because they were hitting the healing items, similar to how they transformed when hitting the dice 2) i got to true endless on difficulty 10 and decided to go for either level 100 or the game crashing, whichever happened first. several times it got to the stage of "not responding", but it always pulled through. at level 100 i had hundreds of power ups, with my highest being over 150 of the "whoops" power, over 200 shots (i stopped buying anything in the shop around level 60, btw), i maxed out the gold at 9999999, and i had over 1.2 million % shot power i look forward to the inevitable rebalance

33:21 Guys in the top-right are just exchanging gold constantly

6:58 he died becuase he was on the booster tile after it was used at the end of round, it is like the spike wall if you land on it

On the off chance that any dev is reading this: First off, good job, this game looks really fun! The multiple stacking items are cool and feeds the chaos, but I feel like having "Gain a random item" as a thing you can *always* buy takes away player agency. At the very least it should *show* the card for the random items you get so you don't have to scroll around trying to figure out what just happened. Probably more of an issue once endless is a thing, but making what you get clearer would be good. Bonus items you gain from duplicator and such should also show the cards for the bonus items, or at least say "+3 from Duplicators", "+2 from Trinity" and so on on the original card that was duplicated.

-- Roguelikes reunion -- Balatro (wearing a suit, very formal and everything) : to make sure my players keep their interest in me when playing endless mode, I make the requirement scale exponentially while the player can only scale linearly. Rack'n'slay (in a t-shirt, looks drunk and tired from last night) : This is cool and all, but uhh what if you kept the player interested by having THEM scale exponentially while the game barely scales linearly? Balatro (wondering who invited them) : This... doesn't make any sense. Rack'n'slay : CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

When you break a game, you play it until you encounter technical difficulties. It is THEN when you've won a game.

i live at 7:30 where hes like "construct a tangent line where the balls meet and the enemy will go perpendicular to that and your trajectory will reflect off of that line" caus honestly my geometrical self found that tip really helpful

My theory on the balls that are slightly larger than others is from when they pick up a healing item, since enemies don't really have more than 1 hp, they just get bigger.

Bro the intro looked fucking crazy Edit: holy shit I got to the part in the intro and I fell like Dan should have put a flashing light warning

One thing this looks like it suffers from is that a good run like this will always end up with you getting every single item in large quantities. It doesn't look like there can be much difference between god runs, they'll all end up like this. (Especially with random items being so prevalent) However, it does take a while to reach this point, and there are interesting choices to make on the way there.

A perfect ending to showcase how powerful the run became.

thought I’d mention Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers got an update that massively improved presentation

Incredible, 10/10 run. Laughed so hard it hurt at "But can you survive Phase 3??"

You know it's good vid when he opens with "So you know how I said this won't be a busted run? Guess I f**king lied"

with the nonchalant commentary, incredible power and assorting your attacks into "phases", I think you deserve the title of "Frieza of Puzzle Games" or something.

This guy has a bigger library of games then I ever will

I have to wonder if endless mode wasnt in the og, because this is expected to happen every time.

24 red balls VS THE UNMATCHED POWER OF THE SUN BEGIN "PLEASE NO~" KAAABOOOM

Any roguelike that has an endless mode: "Either you die a protagonist, or you live long enough to see yourself become the boss."

i think what happened at 48:16 was that Tyler spawned so many bombs and dealt so much damage that he effectively triggered an overflow error, thus causing the leftover bombs to instantly collide with the spawned enemies, and completely break the entire game. i'm just a guy who likes watching broken builds on youtube. i don't know what happened, i'm just guessing

At 6:53 - The reason the enemy died is because they stopped on a speed booster/teleport pad. When those re-activate for the next shot, any enemy sitting on one will be instantly killed. Probably done so to avoid glitches.

6:48 bro had enough 💀 The traumatization of the events and deaths occuring around him finally caught up 🙏😭

If I was in this situation, I'd keep going until the game crashes

Whoever is responsible for the editing in this video: absolute congratulations

What a perfect ending!

48:17 ahem……..KABOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!😂😂😂 To be honest the developers did saw this and said,you know what I am sick of making games. Let’s make the player become the final boss. We will add endless mode to them to literally create their own final boss, because I am tired at my work😂😂😂

Hey tyler! A few years back you were sponsored to play a game called Nova Drift, and it's getting a 1.0 release real soon! Would highly recommend checking it out if you enjoyed the game, it got a *lot* of new content since you played, including a final boss in 1.0

"Bro stop it's forbidden" absolutely sent me.

I find it funny and a bit ironic that near the end Tyler calls his enemies "nerds"

when Tyler explained how to calculate the direction the enemy ball will go, i kinda got interested in knowing how to calculate where your ball will go

Happy Canada Day 44:47 !

The ending was truly a definition of clusterfuck

so many peak references there, props to the editor

what if the next natural disaster was me? -technoblade

what I would do is just go As long as you can, I would watch a 3-hour stream of just this chaos

lol i think this is the happiest ive seen tyler in awhile

Endless mode added a lot to the game play. Games go from short 5-10 min things to 40+ minutes of lets see how long it takes me to kill everything in one shot.

His shot power.... it's over 9000!

Fitting that you stopped it when your power was over 9000.

Maybe marking a new mode where it’s run by 9 ball rules would make it harder. Have x number of enemies (like how it is now) but now they are numbered themselves instead of just being the boss which is now a 9 instead of an 8. But everything marked as a lower number than the next has to be killed first like the boss, so you take down three 1s before getting to four 2s, etc. just an idea incase the dev looks at these vids and the comments ig

Buying more shots seems to just make endless unloseable

truly satisfying, thank you rack and slay

What happen at the end there? How did a bomb go off in the shop

Really impressed that the game didn't crash in all of that.

This is the most insane thing I have ever seen.

Bro beat the game so hard that he beat a level on the menu

Hey Tyler, will you be bringing back Lorelei and the Laser Eyes or is other stuff on your mind atm?

He carpet bombed the intro

we do a lil dopamine frying 😆

Hi Tyler❤ I’m getting Inscryption later

Truly, the Oppenheimer class.

This straight up looks like a lottery machine

Honestly go to the game crashed would of bin the Victory we were hoping for.

I'm gonna dub the final build "Super America".

48:57 no f’ing bro turned it into an afk game😭

hell yeah, i love this game

I think they should increase the damage taken by falling in the pit and spikes in endless

I would keep going until my PC breaks

Tomorrow, my birthday

try getting to stage, where there is just no free space for any ball

not tyler gaining PU speed at the end there

Picking random items before grabbing the duplicators physically hurt me every time

To all my nerds: the ending of this run is called brownian motion

not going for banker in endless is just cruel

34:30 editor's giving me flashbacks to the worst movie to show a 12 year old

Lets take duplicator which can double items gained, but first lets gain an item, wasting a chance to double it…

Is it just me or did Golden Bandage seem powerful. 2 gold each level, which can potentially be a lot higher if you go down to 3hp out of 7, that's 8 additional gold a level.

In the end it straight up looked like a gamblecore edit

48:18 When you’re so powerful, you can clear TWO levels in one shot! Edit 1: this is GrayStillPlays levels of stupid. Too many 0s were added!

fellas i have a feeling they debuffed trinity and made it more rare

it's luck be a landlord all over again. this is how roguelikes should be, just unbalanced messes they should add a story mode that adds npc balls and if you keep sinking your friendly balls you get a bad ending

This felt like a case of there not being enough scaling in the game, so eventually you are too overpowered and beat endless. Endless endless mode anybody?

just found you a couple days ago! your editing style is unique, clean, concise, and just plain wonderful. I look up to dan as an editor and you as a creator.

ah yes, nuclear fission

Yeah, I quit after like 60-70 rounds. Shot speed of 3500% and everything just explodes in one flash of bright light. Sometimes, the enemies blew up on the next level while picking shop items, leaving an empty arena of blood. lol

When will Tyler get duplicator BEFORE the purchased item? He's done it TWICE so far this video :( Edit: FIVE TIMES IN TOTAL!!!

Rack 🧮 and slay 💅

As crazy as this build turned, it could have been way crazier if he just clicked Duplicator BEFORE buying all those random items.

"Rock and Slay is a perfectly BALANCED game with no EXPLOITS" or some such nonsense. ;p

Happy Canada Day!

You should maybe try this game called cube chaos. It's a pretty fun rougelike which also can allow for crazy builds like this

shame that tyler quit literally right before he actually reached the point where he cleared the entire board while in the selection screen

Higher difficulty might not even matter with a busted buold unless they make obstacles hurt you more or cap some things out. An interesting challenge might be no random items no lootboxes and see how far you can go.

Oh my god, Tyler's editors are insane, the fuckjg. Teeth reference. Im both ashamed that I recognized it and in awe that they were brace enough to reference that on youtube.

I wonder what happens if you actually clear the room before picking your item. Will the item selection screens just stack as the game continues to play itself?

This game would be cool if the map got bigger or if the design of the map changed. Like if there was an L shape map, or a map with a ladder to a balcony area, or a map separate in two by a signualar bridge, etc.

While i think its pretty funny how strong you can be, doesnt looks like it have any variaty build, it will always fall into the exact same result, makes it less entiing to replay