What does the weighted dice option do?

[Cat]

I was messing around in the menus earlier and saw this is on by default, it sounds like something that would get someone caught for cheating, but I can't find a tooltip on what it does. Does it help or hinder dice rolls?

[dulany67]

It becomes less random when streaks occur to the player. But that goes for good streaks and bad streaks.

[Aria Athena]

I believe it weights rolls towards the expected uniform distribution, even in small samples, but I have no idea to what degree.

When you roll a d20, you expect each number to appear 5% of the time. While that will happen throughout the course of the game, it will diverge quite a bit in samples of, lets say 100 rolls that may take place during one battle. As you roll, weighted die will be "correcting" itself so the result is closer to the expect average.

For example, if you have 60% accuracy and attack 10 times, weighted die will increase the chance that you actually landing 6/10 hits and will decrease the chances of hitting less or more times.

[dolby]

those guys are abit outdated..
here is the new updated version
directly from the pach notes:

"From now on, loaded dice will only bend RNG in the rolling character's favour. That means you will not be made to miss to make up for a lucky streak of hits."


so good streaks are not effected anymore thank god cos who would want less crits...

[dulany67]

Originally posted by dolby:

those guys are abit outdated..
here is the new updated version
directly from the pach notes:

"From now on, loaded dice will only bend RNG in the rolling character's favour. That means you will not be made to miss to make up for a lucky streak of hits."


so good streaks are not effected anymore thank god cos who would want less crits...

Thanks for the correction.

[Aria Athena]

I didn't know that either.

[Dex]

Originally posted by dolby:

those guys are abit outdated..
here is the new updated version
directly from the pach notes:

"From now on, loaded dice will only bend RNG in the rolling character's favour. That means you will not be made to miss to make up for a lucky streak of hits."


so good streaks are not effected anymore thank god cos who would want less crits...

i figured as much. i played it fairly recently and I was passing way more conversation checks than normal

[Cat]

Thanks for the explanations, good to know weighted in your favour, leaving it on or not is another matter, but I will leave it alone as I'm just about finished with this playthrough of the available content.