Dice rolls heavily favour >10 with or without karmic dice

[Deri]

I think the games been out long enough that we can all agree that dice rolls favour the less than 10 outcomes. There is no way in "random's sake" that there isn't negative codes written in to favour the enemies.

This game forces save scumming if you don't want to continuously redo fights over and over. It's taken 10+ reloads to hit a 30% but I will miss multiple 70% in a row every single fight / multiple charisma checks.

Karmic dice allows the random high rolls while no karmic dice there's a 5+ crit 1's required before hitting a crit 20.

I've played DnD for decades, this game doesn't have real odds. The more you fail the longer you need to play / save scum, which helps make bg3 look like an amazing game that people want to reply over and over. Dos2 was way better, where was that games social explosion? Where was their game of the year game / record breaking numbers?

[Zygfryd]

Sigh.

[zero]

long story short: it does not

longer story: people have major problems reconizing patterns outside of the obvious ones and it gives you an obvious bias.

[Moffin Bovin]

its that time of the week again.

[Seagal]

Honestly, they (Larian) never should have put the Karmic Dice setting in the game. Having that setting just being there influences peoples minds in a negative way.

I've always just left it off, and sometimes the rolls suck and sometimes they're great. That's how it should be.

I get it if people feel they want to save scum for certain dialogue choices or in certain spots where missing a couple checks means losing out on something important, but save-scumming is never required or needed in combat.

[Xelane]

RNG is one of the easiest things to add to a program/game and most libraries just come with the functions for it by themselves.

With all due respect, I think it's much more likely that you've developed a negative bias because of some of your experiences. It's understandable, but unless you can back up the claim with hard data, there is no reason to assume that Larian intentionally made the game frustrating for kicks and giggles.

[Muhspaceaids]

Originally posted by SpaceiSalie:

Dice rolls heavily favour >10 with or without karmic dice

Originally posted by SpaceiSalie:

I think the games been out long enough that we can all agree that dice rolls favour the less than 10 outcomes. There is no way in "random's sake" that there isn't negative codes written in to favour the enemies.

did tc forget how angle brackets work or am I missing something?

[Moffin Bovin]

Originally posted by Muhspaceaids:

Originally posted by SpaceiSalie:

Dice rolls heavily favour >10 with or without karmic dice

Originally posted by SpaceiSalie:

I think the games been out long enough that we can all agree that dice rolls favour the less than 10 outcomes. There is no way in "random's sake" that there isn't negative codes written in to favour the enemies.

did tc forget how angle brackets work or am I missing something?

typos happen.

i'll allow it.

[Agony_Aunt]

Tell that to me after burning 3 inspiration points to get 3 sub-10 rolls.... grrrr.

[Zoid13]

*tin foil hat

[Rabbit]

Randomly generated results are not going to be perfectly evenly random. It takes thousands of rolls or probably even more to get a proper sample of how fair the results are.

[Quillithe]

Every time people actually collect data they find it's appropriately random, so no

[Fringehunter7719]

I haven't experienced this.

Have you got a favourite streamer or Youtuber who has, who you could link for me to watch? Or perhaps you could download OBS and record some of your own experiences to share?

[Bigt primE]

Originally posted by zero:

long story short: it does not

longer story: people have major problems reconizing patterns outside of the obvious ones and it gives you an obvious bias.

My game experience : low rolls and criticals failure are for me, high rolls and critical success are for the AI unless unless i savescum and the positin are switched.

I won't say it's rigged, i will say the algorithm or it's implementation in this game is ♥♥♥♥. This the only bad things abou this game, but it's really bad and kill all the fun of what could have been a GOTY

[アンジェル]

Did math classes somehow lowered overall quality in the past 40 years?

[Greb]

I swear the guards in Act 3 only know how to roll 25 and above, lol.

Bringing along a Portent Wizard was a mistake, constant interruptions asking along the lines of "Guard needs 25 to hit Minthara. They rolled a 30."

Gets tiresome after a while. I guess that's either a Tactician thing, or the game buffs those guards as punishment for me meting out my own form of justice on every dumb NPC that gets in the way of my adventuring.

Either way I don't play with Karmic Dice on because it sounds kinda lame, as much as missing six attacks from a Fighter in a row against a 70% target sucks, lol.