Dissident favoring lobby host issue

[Pandorra]

Although my friends and I really enjoy this game we've been noticing an issue with who gets the role of Dissident the first few matches in a lobby. We've tried a few different occasions and found that the person hosting lobbies get the role of Dissident within the first 2-3 matches, almost always guaranteed. After that they're still at a higher possibility of getting that role throughout the rest of the matches. To the point in a full lobby of 8, 1 player did not get the Dissident role till we had them host the lobby. We were wondering if anyone else has had this issue with lobby host being favored as well and hope to see either a change to the randomizer to make it less predictable. We all really enjoy this game and look forward to what it has in store for future updates.

[Katia_Ballsoff]

Not necessarily the host but it seems to give the role of dissident 2-3 times in a row to the same person while some almost never get it.
in a way I suppose it keeps you on your toes but if it becomes a pattern it'll ruin the gameplay for sure

[avaciil]

Hi! Was the person that got dissident practically not at all until I hosted lobby in OP's post. Was pretty shocked to not get it at all during 2-3 hours worth of matches. We all really enjoy this game a lot more than some other cooperative/versus games so we would love to see some sort of check to prevent someone from getting dissident more than 3 matches in a row tbh. It's something we noticed from 3 different days and sessions of the game with host getting dissident within first few matches. Additionally, sometimes it pairs up certain folk more often than others (we had a 2-3 matches in a row where dissidents were the exact same folk beside the host).

[siege]

Doubt. I was host of my session for 6 hours straight and didn't get a single dissident role. 6-8 players. games with 2 dissidents.

[avaciil]

Originally posted by Ensiege:

Doubt. I was host of my session for 6 hours straight and didn't get a single dissident role. 6-8 players. games with 2 dissidents.

We appreciate you letting us know that there's even games where host never gets it. Knowing you didn't get dissident for a single game in 6 hours, we feel like this probably means maybe the randomizer/shuffle needs some adjustment or check to avoid the same folk getting dissident multiple times or allow people that haven't gotten it to have a higher chance.

[Captain_Milkshakes]

I don't think it has anything to do with being host or not.

We (my group of friends) have had sessions where someone has gotten Dissident several times in the three-ish hours we usually play. To the point where only one or two players will actually get to play Dissident.

There's something weird about how the randomization is actually handled, to the point where I think its truly random, without taking any other factors into account.

[jellycrowned]

I've gotten Dissident like 3-4 times in a row while hosting (on numerous sessions with different people). Whether or not its a host issue, it just shows that the randomization of roles needs some tweaking to spread out the dissidents.

[Brumble]

It's actually common knowledge if the host "force starts" the game, the dissident will usually get the same role 2-3 times in a row.

Everyone must ready up for the role to be selected randomly.

[Pandorra]

Originally posted by Brumble:

It's actually common knowledge if the host "force starts" the game, the dissident will usually get the same role 2-3 times in a row.

Everyone must ready up for the role to be selected randomly.

I had no clue that was how the game would function if the host started the match, so I appreciate you informing us of that. However we kept having this issue with everyone readying up for those matches.

[keese]

Originally posted by Brumble:

It's actually common knowledge if the host "force starts" the game, the dissident will usually get the same role 2-3 times in a row.

Everyone must ready up for the role to be selected randomly.

i'm 99% sure this is just anecdotal and that the game is selecting the dissidents randomly.