Enemy rolls rigged?

[MaddMann]

Just finished a fight where the enemy crit my character 14 times in 10 turns. Spent the entire fight wildly running around reviving my own people. I am now 4 hours in, I have scored 3 critical hits total. What the hell is going on?!

[zombygunner]

the die do seem weird and theres no way anyone can prove it.

[Yojo0o]

Are they critting your downed characters? Hits against unconscious targets automatically crit. You mention running around reviving your own people, so if they're attacking those people, they're going to be constantly critting.

[MaddMann]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

Are they critting your downed characters? Hits against unconscious targets automatically crit. You mention running around reviving your own people, so if they're attacking those people, they're going to be constantly critting.

Nope, but with all my characters having an AC of 18 and up, it's ridiculous we are getting killed by goblins and spiders. Just going through some areas I hadn't checked real well, but yeah. Right now it seems the enemy crits on roughly half of their attacks.

[Metallicus]

The dice aren’t rigged, but it isn’t possible for a computer to produce truly random numbers so you can have streaks where they numbers seem unfair. If you ever played on Roll 20 you will know what I mean.

[Hobocop]

I've had this happen before at a table using physical dice. It is what it is.

Also keep in mind that when fighting goblins and spiders, you're probably outnumbered and they will have more chances to roll critical hits through sheer volume of rolls.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Metallicus:

The dice aren’t rigged, but it isn’t possible for a computer to produce truly random numbers so you can have streaks where they numbers seem unfair. If you ever played on Roll 20 you will know what I mean.

Well, yes and no.

A computer can't produce technically truly random numbers because they're in mathematical patterns, but that's not really relevant here.

Streaks are a natural result of randomness - if you didn't get streaks like this at times you wouldn't be getting random results.

14 crits out of however many attacks is pretty unlikely for any given person in any given fight, but among all the battles of all the BG3 players, it's going to happen a bunch.

[RealDealBreaker]

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Originally posted by Metallicus:

The dice aren’t rigged, but it isn’t possible for a computer to produce truly random numbers so you can have streaks where they numbers seem unfair. If you ever played on Roll 20 you will know what I mean.

Well, yes and no.

A computer can't produce technically truly random numbers because they're in mathematical patterns, but that's not really relevant here.

Streaks are a natural result of randomness - if you didn't get streaks like this at times you wouldn't be getting random results.

14 crits out of however many attacks is pretty unlikely for any given person in any given fight, but among all the battles of all the BG3 players, it's going to happen a bunch.

Frankly I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the 14 crits in 10 attacks thing. OP is clearly lying.

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Well, yes and no.

A computer can't produce technically truly random numbers because they're in mathematical patterns, but that's not really relevant here.

Streaks are a natural result of randomness - if you didn't get streaks like this at times you wouldn't be getting random results.

14 crits out of however many attacks is pretty unlikely for any given person in any given fight, but among all the battles of all the BG3 players, it's going to happen a bunch.

Frankly I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the 14 crits in 10 attacks thing. OP is clearly lying.

Well, ten turns. With two attacks per round, that's not impossible, just unlikely.

Given the AI's willingness to attack downed PCs, it's surprising to me that OP says these crits weren't against downed characters.

[Anamayis]

The die are random... Like the pen and paper game. I have played where I crit many times and where I get crited many times.

[Runic Tunic]

I believe quite some time ago a lot of the community got together and did some data mining/data compiling to determine how skewed roll probabilities were. In the end they found it's ~50/50 with a slight preference towards players if I remember correctly. The new mode Larian added in some time ago basically made it very skewed in the players favor.

Not gonna lie, 14 crits in a row sounds sketchy so not sure if you're being serious, but if it really was that high, and since very little to nothing has changed to the roll system since then, it's likely just very bad RNG/cognitive bias. We've all been there OP.

[Edstyles]

Y need to throw the dice better

[steJamJamss]

unlucky haha

[Mr Pibbleton]

You burned up all your bad luck, now buy a powerball ticket.

[MaddMann]

It sounds like I was unlucky. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ though, I about rage quite and uninstalled.

[rollin643]

I am experiencing this heavy it seems on key boss fights, the mound thing did it and i am as i type fighting the gith chick she attacked my lvl 6 rouge w shield and 2 lucky ac 17 she rolled a 18 tot like 25 i rerolled, she rolls a 18 i take 13 dmg whtever, 2nd attack she rolls a fing