I think Ritual RNG might be messed up.

[Strill]

I've done some testing of the odds of succeeding on masked rituals against pandaemonium, by reloading my save over and over again in single player.

One day, every third cast on pandaemonium would fail, and I would be excommunicated. This happened four times in a row.

Another day, every cast on pandaemonium would succeed. I stopped counting at 25 times in a row.

Are we sure the RNG is actually random? It seems like it's just got a set outcome.

[wilbefast]

Hey there,
Were you reloading a save to attempt this? The random seed is included in the data that we serialise: if you reload and do exactly the same thing, you will get exactly the same result every time. This is by design: catching bugs would be a nightmare if we couldn't rerun a turn and get the same result, and multiplayer matches would desynchronise. It also prevents save-scumming.

[Strill]

Originally posted by wilbefast:

Hey there,
Were you reloading a save to attempt this? The random seed is included in the data that we serialise: if you reload and do exactly the same thing, you will get exactly the same result every time. This is by design: catching bugs would be a nightmare if we couldn't rerun a turn and get the same result, and multiplayer matches would desynchronise. It also prevents save-scumming.

Gotcha. That is what I was doing. That explains it.

[wilbefast]

I'm sorry to hear you went through that process 25 times 😞 It shows a really admirable commitment to empiricism though!