im starting to question the balance of dice rolls on normal

[Zathra]

i have a AC of 20 without buffs. and this goblin ♥♥♥♥ has an AC less than me but has avoided so many hits from 4 people swinging at him its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. not to mention the fact that if you apparently toss a vial of poison at a foe which should coat the floor it just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ depawns the item like wtf. yea i get that in a sense of mechanics i coulda tossed it anywhere then but it didnt even coat anywhere in poison just deleted it like thats so damn scummy

[RawCode]

take a piece of paper and record all your good rolls, this called confirmation bias.

[Zathra]

Originally posted by RawCode:

take a piece of paper and record all your good rolls, this called confirmation bias.

i cant burn the bad D20 its in my pc screen..i dont know if i have the strength to do it

[Martin]

Have to say that since the hotfix patch.. my dice rolls have gone from avg ok to dire.. I am getting like 1's all the time now, almost every single roll is a fail.

[Zathra]

Originally posted by Martin:

Have to say that since the hotfix patch.. my dice rolls have gone from avg ok to dire.. I am getting like 1's all the time now, almost every single roll is a fail.

yea i almost wanna turn on karma dice but then again idk it sounds stinky. i mean i get a foe having 20+ ac would be tough like my character to hit 9/10 times but damn they make foes seem to be more consistent

[Loquitran]

I'm not one to complain about dice rng. I disabled karmic dice and even with my fails, it was ok. But I've noticed recently an insane amount of failed rolls. My barbarian for example, almost every other turn I get an option for reckless attack because she missed rolling a 1, I'm not even exaggerating. I know this is how probabilities are, but I wouldn't be surprised if the devs found out that there is a small bug with the rng. Although I'm not saying there is, since as someone mentioned, there is some confirmation bias. We usually pay attention to failures, so it may be that.

[Rodis]

Originally posted by Martin:

Have to say that since the hotfix patch.. my dice rolls have gone from avg ok to dire.. I am getting like 1's all the time now, almost every single roll is a fail.

I got this feeling too.

Yesterday I did the Paladins of Tyr fight, and won, but I burnt all my resources and everyone was semi dead. If half my attacks or spells connected, it would've been an easy fight.

So I redid the fight and save scummed everytime I got hit or I miss. I spent the next hour loading the game. I only connected around four attacks on the first try, and some took up to 5 reloads. And the enemies did not have huge ACs. I was constantly failing to hit an AC 12 wizard with a +7 to hit Astarion.

And the enemies? Jesus Christ, they just wouldn't miss.

[Martin]

I am in the village atm, I failed every single roll. And the goblins succeed in every single roll. It isn't possible to fail this many times.. Larian are diddling with the dice rolls.

[TotesAdorbs]

While many people will likely come to post about psychological effects and decry that true RNG is a solved problem which only existed in the ancient days of computer, here's something to keep in mind:

There was a bug with the karmic dice rolls option, which existed in EA for over a year and a half and which was only caught because a player did exhaustive work to manually record over 1300 dice rolls.
Larian's rep posted to confirm that this was a bug and that it would be fixed, less than a week before BG3 launched.

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/159ss0q/comment/jtqhot5/

So yes, Larian is entirely capable of having bugs in their dice roll system, not noticing them, and here is confirmed proof that this is something they were STILL messing about with just days before the official release. It is entirely possible there are still bugs all over the dice rolling system, with or without karmic dice enabled, and that Larian will not be aware of them without their customers doing exhaustive manual labor to find them.

It's certainly not outside the realm of chance that whatever they *fixed* regarding karmic dice rolls, could have resulted in the system being active at times even with the option toggled off in settings, or in some other way having an effect on rolls when the option to not use them should completely disable the whole system.

Hope this helps!

[katzenkrimis]

People can Jedi mind-trick themselves into believing anything in a dice rolling game.

It's paranoia.

Turning Karmic Dice off is as fair as it gets. I have no problems with my rolls.

Only wish a handful of scenarios had different outcomes.

The rest, who cares. Chalk it up as bad luck.

[Quillithe]

Generating RNG for the purposes of rolling a few d20 in combat is simple enough it's nearly impossible to do wrong. It's just an unlucky streak for you perhaps, I've been hitting fine.

[Mathias Giovanni]

You can get a string of failures. If the chance to hit is 50 percent you can easily miss multiple times. And though the goblins are low level like the archers their dex stat is very high. Meaning if you have starting armor they are likely going to hit you. Examine them and check their dex. Isn’t it around 18? That’s really high and means they have at least as good a chance to hit you. And a lot of them means more chances,

So plan accordingly. Use tactics. Use exploding casks. Use alchemist fire. Gain height to get an advantage. Try and ambush with pulling mobs and funneling them to a kill zone.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Also if the archers are above you they have advantage on top. It’s a pretty intense tactical game.

[Zathra]

its weird too because i have had enemys go form not ladning hits on my 20ac with disadvantage to smacking me perfectly and i dont use karma dice. i think the game needs a soft patch for rolls