Duel Links is actually rigged

[Cotton Hill]

so i know this really isnt anything new. people already know that drawing and starting hands are rigged in favor of rarity in cards. this isnt about that.

this is about how the game forces you to play against unfavorable opponents to make you lose.
what made me want to test this is because of recent duels ive been getting matched up against.
heres what happend and heres what i found.

so i was playing a gravekeeper necrovally anti meta deck. and i climbed up to like platnium 3. no problem, but then i started to plateau. i started facing opponents using different wacky decks that were not consistent at all, and seems to be perfect counters to what i had conveniently.

so i decided to switch it up. i started to play lava golem ammazon burn. AS SOON as i switched to that deck. 10 times in a row i faced mirror matches with wevil lava golem. keep in mind i havent faced lava golem not even ONCE my whole climb through platinum. but out of nowhere the game matches me up with mirror matches and other slow player burn decks as soon as i try????

then i switched back to using the old deck. and then everything went back to normal. and im still getting matched up against counters.

in conclusion this game is an absolute rigged. no matter what you do your gonna get forced to lose.

dont even try to play ranked seriously its a joke.

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||eXz|| _sNTx // 構文 eredeti hozzászólása:

I see, that is quite the shame really, i'd love for the game to be more diverse and everything being viable in one form or another and yes i have to admit that meta kills diversity and i guess fun in the process, i mean i do enjoy my decks, both the f2p and p2p versions of them but it's hard to argue that some of the most fun mechanics and gimmick decks are plain worthless compared to meta decks, which is a shame given YGO has so many cool and interesting cards maybe we get the option to open up duel rooms with more custom options so you can ban all meta decks and just play gimmick decks etc. would be really refreshing, you know sometimes i wish i could go back in time to the schoolyard and play with the very first starter deck w/o worrying about every single backrow etc and with fun being the driving factor not competition.

Old play had overpowering backrow, to be honest. And schoolyard, yeah. I started playing in the schoolyard, but today I've been thinking that the original yugioh is for adults, GX for elementary school, 5Ds for high school and college and all the others for pre elementary ppl. LoL. No offense meant.

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Chris Zachary Potter eredeti hozzászólása:

Old play had overpowering backrow, to be honest. And schoolyard, yeah. I started playing in the schoolyard, but today I've been thinking that the original yugioh is for adults, GX for elementary school, 5Ds for high school and college and all the others for pre elementary ppl. LoL. No offense meant.

oh yes for sure but a fissure or trap hole every once in a while was something you could recover from, these days, i mean if you even get to see any traps since most ppl play hand traps, there is close to no recovery if you get caught in a full combo, negate this, negate that, send to grave, negate, banish.
Yes i can see that, i mean arguably YGO got more complex overall, i doubt kids in elementary school can pull off all the combos from a Madolche or Trickstar deck but yes overall if you don't factor in the combo heavy decks they really are braindead, pretty much only thing you need to know is how to establish a Pendulum scale and that's it, rest is reading of effect text :D
And no offense taken, i think everyone who played the TCG recently outside from YCS and WCS (including Qualifiers) would agree, i mean the stuff i see in some of the regionals is just super braindead, a kid i played against really played pendulums to summon 3 BEWD to get a BEUD on the field and i was like dafuq are you doing and that kid was like 10 or so, so yes pendulum summoning is def something even a kindergarten kid can pull off and maybe do even well with it.

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^ Yep, but I meant, even the chars and the scenarios belong to el. school, college, adult zones etc.

And also, if it comes to digital versions of the game, it's even more ridiculous. All "competitive" players have to do is copy a netdeck and then "duel", just by clicking "confirm", "ok" and "cancel" at pop-up card eff windows. I was never into that, so why share my lights (any I might have, most likely none) in public for them?

I'm DLvl17 and all I've been facing during 17 were orange name players (what's that rly, platinum or legend rank?) that were using the AG deck, Six Samurai or Red-Eyes. I've been beating many, just not during the rank-up match, ever. Char decks rock, those guys are just expendable. I may be one of the few grey-named players in DLvl17, cause I haven't seen any others (even during a five hour session in WCS), all have been orange so far.

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||eXz|| _sNTx // 構文 eredeti hozzászólása:

Diệt chủng khựa eredeti hozzászólása:

Dude, most decks in KOG are meta, pay-to-win deck, no debate here.
If you check the most played card, Yubel wasn't even on the list. I changed my deck back to amazoness and guess what, I started facing red-eye, six-sam again.

Do you even understand the concept of "Pay to win" is?
Anything that gives players just a slight advantage by paying money is considered to "pay to win". In this game, the more expensive deck you have, the greater chance you are at winning, NO CONTEST. Also, remember the skill "Kaiba Corp Bling"? That looks like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "pay to win" to me.

Are you mad?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/search/?q=f2p%20kog&restrict_sr=1 here enjoy all the f2p KoG decks, no argument, no debate, no superstituos bs, just straight up facts.

You appearently lack the understanding of p2w, pay 2 win, PAY 2 WIN not PAY 4 ADVANTAGE or PAY 4 CONVENIENCE, pay 2 win means you have to pay to even compete, items that are only obtainable by paying real money that outclass any regular non buyable items and this is not the case at all, Subterrors is free to play friendly only requires one box 9k gems at max if you get super unlucky, enjoy your KoG if you're not braindead, Darklords are f2p friendly, Six Sams are, Metaphys is, you lost sight of what p2w actually is and bc of ppl like you who throw the term p2w around like it's a new way of saying hello the term loses meaning and impact.

KaibaCorp Bling got nerfed so that point is completely irrelevant and to all those very, very, intellectual and smart people believing rarity increases draw chance, how come i never start with my Red Eyes Fusion in duels where i use my Red Eyes deck? I did pay for it, it's f*cking prismatic yet i always have to use Insight to search it, must be my mistake, must be a f*cking glitch in the matrix huh? Also higher chance to draw UR cards based on the deck type you play? Do you guys know how programming works? Do you have any idea how hard it is to implement sh*t like this? For every single "p2w" deck? How did you think oh this sentence right here makes totally sense, i'm totally on to something, Konami better pay me money or i share all your dirty secrets like wtf is wrong with you guys?
Let me simplify this for you guys:
You'd need a database containing all the rarities and cards under certain rarities, then you have to check decks for Archetypes (which is impossible btw but let's assume they do) so code checks for how many cards of a specific archetype you have in your deck, 7 Neos related cards, ok Neos archetype detected, then you need a database to feed the "p2w" meta-decks (a meta that Konami doesn't establish nor cares about outside of championships mind you, it's player generated), ok Neos has been found on the list, now give cards priorities, Neos Fusion=Priority 1 -if Prismatic=priority 0 (100% guaranteed draw on turn 1) and that times X (X=the amount of build enabling and/or defining cards) after that the code takes over the shuffle algorithm and places the right cards on top, player draws, player wins.
Sounds pretty damn stupid doesn't it? and if it sounds pretty reasonable to you then sorry but you have much bigger problems to worry about than how draws get decided in a card game.

People like you are the reason why companies like EA, Konami, Apple even existed.
Check your first link to your "Free to play" deck. https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/ag01yv/deck_f2p_kog_amazoness_control/
We have 11 cards at the rarity of SR, UR that can't be accessed otherwise without opening packs, each card can cost up to 5000 gems to unlock. If you are a F2P player, it is impossible to get this deck in a reasonable amount of time for any season to come, in fact, Dkay has calculated that it will take you an entire year to build decks like this, and nothing else.
Other subterror decks will cost you slightly less than that but since they are in the meta right now, expected to spend at least 20000 gems for those SR cards.
I am engineering at IT so I know how easy to rig the system. The data is calculated after the match was done, so if you win 10 games vs six-sam, the matchmaking will put you on the deck that you are losing the most with, and the same for six-sam, red-eye or P2W user, they will keep getting match-up where they can win the most.
You are so dumb that I don't even want to say anything anymore.
Go check other answers on this thread, you seem like a minority who defending them, while you are still getting your ass beaten, dumbass

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Diệt chủng khựa eredeti hozzászólása:

People like you are the reason why companies like EA, Konami, Apple even existed.
Check your first link to your "Free to play" deck. https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/ag01yv/deck_f2p_kog_amazoness_control/
We have 11 cards at the rarity of SR, UR that can't be accessed otherwise without opening packs, each card can cost up to 5000 gems to unlock. If you are a F2P player, it is impossible to get this deck in a reasonable amount of time for any season to come, in fact, Dkay has calculated that it will take you an entire year to build decks like this, and nothing else.
Other subterror decks will cost you slightly less than that but since they are in the meta right now, expected to spend at least 20000 gems for those SR cards.
I am engineering at IT so I know how easy to rig the system. The data is calculated after the match was done, so if you win 10 games vs six-sam, the matchmaking will put you on the deck that you are losing the most with, and the same for six-sam, red-eye or P2W user, they will keep getting match-up where they can win the most.
You are so dumb that I don't even want to say anything anymore.
Go check other answers on this thread, you seem like a minority who defending them, while you are still getting your ass beaten, dumbass

With a bit of research in the comment section: I haven't spent any money on the game, used to play back in the relinquished harpies meta two years ago and deleted the game, and made a new account about two months ago. You can get both princesses from the UR tickets (don't use dream ticket, use the prismatic and regular one cause it's from a past Mai event). You get swordswoman and amazoness willpower from farming Mai at the gate. Sazank, Needle Ceiling, Canadia, and Onslaught are all in the valiant souls box, which is a great box to open cause you can also get all the cards you need for a masked heroes deck and Geargia, if you're interested in either archetype. I got Sphere Kuriboh from a dream ticket last year, and the WoD's are from Servants of Kings, which is a good minibox with lots of staples like Forbidden Chalice and Draining Shield. Amazoness Queen you get from levelling Mai up, which is a good thing to do if you're a new player cause she also gets Windstorm of Etaqua. Lastly, Hallowed Life Barrier is from the R ticket. Good luck on your deck!

You think it all comes down to gems but no, there are tickets as well and Dekayed calculated something that is purely based on RNG? Wow this guy needs to teach me how to, you know he's using the pack simulator on his website for this stuff or takes the 100% outcome which yes would be that you buy every single pack assuming the card you want is in the last but that's not how RNG works, if you get lucky it could be in your very first pack 3 times in a row.
20k gems for the subterror SRs? Do we play the same game? 2 Umas are enough, 2 Final Battles are enough, exactly the amount that you can get from the box so 9k gems at max and even if you want 3 it is nowhere near 20k.
Funny how everyone is suddenly an IT pro but unless you show me a system like that either in code or functional in the program your claim has no value and is just a claim, i can't prove that i'm right but i can tell you that i have several build defining cards in prismatic and glossy and for some reason i can't draw them first turn, maybe once in 6 duels and i never get matched up against decks i do particularly poor or really well against, i get matched against meta decks and if i don't brick i can usually win the match and if i brick i lose, nothing has been rigged for me.
Oh no i'm by no means the minority, most ppl just don't bother and ppl w/o problems won't check this post in the first place.
Also thanks for the insults, if you can't engage in a conversation w/o throwing insults around, just don't engage in one at all, makes you look really immature.

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Chris Zachary Potter eredeti hozzászólása:

^ Yep, but I meant, even the chars and the scenarios belong to el. school, college, adult zones etc.

And also, if it comes to digital versions of the game, it's even more ridiculous. All "competitive" players have to do is copy a netdeck and then "duel", just by clicking "confirm", "ok" and "cancel" at pop-up card eff windows. I was never into that, so why share my lights (any I might have, most likely none) in public for them?

I'm DLvl17 and all I've been facing during 17 were orange name players (what's that rly, platinum or legend rank?) that were using the AG deck, Six Samurai or Red-Eyes. I've been beating many, just not during the rank-up match, ever. Char decks rock, those guys are just expendable. I may be one of the few grey-named players in DLvl17, cause I haven't seen any others (even during a five hour session in WCS), all have been orange so far.

Yes the video games simplify a lot of things, which is not entirely bad though, imagine calling a judge everytime a rule is unclear but i would still prefer to establish my own chain links and not game given ones.

Is it really that bad? I thought ppl would tryhard for like a week, this makes some of your points a lot more understandable, uhm if i remember correctly orange is plat, gold is legend and red is kog, i think in regards to leveling up DLvl and ranks i lost the sense of lower-mid tiers, i do have f2p accounts to play on lower ranks and to have something to do once i reach KoG but they are Legend as well so they only fall back to plat and it's honestly not that bad there, which is why i thought it is like that across the board but if it's such a grindfest even in bronze silver gold than yes i do agree with you but wouldn't that show that just bc you play meta you are not graced by instant success?

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||eXz|| _sNTx // 構文 eredeti hozzászólása:

but if it's such a grindfest even in bronze silver gold than yes i do agree with you but wouldn't that show that just bc you play meta you are not graced by instant success?

Nothing is certain. All I know is that the game has been raped in such a way that all these foolish combos exist from Bronze to KoG now and that the possibilities are tragically in favour of them. Let's see what that does to the ranking ladders soon enough. Why create a whole game of cards, when you're gonna end up claiming that when it comes to PvP, only a handful of default netdecks are gonna do it? I've been playing all my life, I don't wanna progress through ranks the way a stupid site or company tells me. Even if the whole community follows them. In the end, it's gonna be Red-Eyes vs Red-Eyes, so stupid. It's all this community deserves..

Wow! King of Games! He didn't even draw the separate materials for his fusion, even though he's using a lame 20-card deck, he can't do it. He's gonna fusion cards from his deck, summon Blue-Eyes through me destroying set Kidmodo, or do an op amount of piercing dmg with a lame red coloured Aromage monster while he has 10,000 LP. This isn't yugioh, don't get offended when I call them KoRs, that's what they are.

Anything that makes you win too easily isn't cool. Especially when you realise everyone plays that also, not only yourself. They're filler cards to get people started in yugioh and have them win quickly, cause they don't have the time to study the game, courage to keep trying or smarts to know that this is all about and reach that point themselves by playing the actual game. That's what I think. I know people who read this get potentially offended, but, oh well..

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||eXz|| _sNTx // 構文 eredeti hozzászólása:

Diệt chủng khựa eredeti hozzászólása:

People like you are the reason why companies like EA, Konami, Apple even existed.
Check your first link to your "Free to play" deck. https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/ag01yv/deck_f2p_kog_amazoness_control/
We have 11 cards at the rarity of SR, UR that can't be accessed otherwise without opening packs, each card can cost up to 5000 gems to unlock. If you are a F2P player, it is impossible to get this deck in a reasonable amount of time for any season to come, in fact, Dkay has calculated that it will take you an entire year to build decks like this, and nothing else.
Other subterror decks will cost you slightly less than that but since they are in the meta right now, expected to spend at least 20000 gems for those SR cards.
I am engineering at IT so I know how easy to rig the system. The data is calculated after the match was done, so if you win 10 games vs six-sam, the matchmaking will put you on the deck that you are losing the most with, and the same for six-sam, red-eye or P2W user, they will keep getting match-up where they can win the most.
You are so dumb that I don't even want to say anything anymore.
Go check other answers on this thread, you seem like a minority who defending them, while you are still getting your ass beaten, dumbass

With a bit of research in the comment section: I haven't spent any money on the game, used to play back in the relinquished harpies meta two years ago and deleted the game, and made a new account about two months ago. You can get both princesses from the UR tickets (don't use dream ticket, use the prismatic and regular one cause it's from a past Mai event). You get swordswoman and amazoness willpower from farming Mai at the gate. Sazank, Needle Ceiling, Canadia, and Onslaught are all in the valiant souls box, which is a great box to open cause you can also get all the cards you need for a masked heroes deck and Geargia, if you're interested in either archetype. I got Sphere Kuriboh from a dream ticket last year, and the WoD's are from Servants of Kings, which is a good minibox with lots of staples like Forbidden Chalice and Draining Shield. Amazoness Queen you get from levelling Mai up, which is a good thing to do if you're a new player cause she also gets Windstorm of Etaqua. Lastly, Hallowed Life Barrier is from the R ticket. Good luck on your deck!

You think it all comes down to gems but no, there are tickets as well and Dekayed calculated something that is purely based on RNG? Wow this guy needs to teach me how to, you know he's using the pack simulator on his website for this stuff or takes the 100% outcome which yes would be that you buy every single pack assuming the card you want is in the last but that's not how RNG works, if you get lucky it could be in your very first pack 3 times in a row.
20k gems for the subterror SRs? Do we play the same game? 2 Umas are enough, 2 Final Battles are enough, exactly the amount that you can get from the box so 9k gems at max and even if you want 3 it is nowhere near 20k.
Funny how everyone is suddenly an IT pro but unless you show me a system like that either in code or functional in the program your claim has no value and is just a claim, i can't prove that i'm right but i can tell you that i have several build defining cards in prismatic and glossy and for some reason i can't draw them first turn, maybe once in 6 duels and i never get matched up against decks i do particularly poor or really well against, i get matched against meta decks and if i don't brick i can usually win the match and if i brick i lose, nothing has been rigged for me.
Oh no i'm by no means the minority, most ppl just don't bother and ppl w/o problems won't check this post in the first place.
Also thanks for the insults, if you can't engage in a conversation w/o throwing insults around, just don't engage in one at all, makes you look really immature.

Dude, keep defending Konami while getting your ass beaten.
Your mentality is something that makes you a pleb, no critical thinking, no questioning authority.

[SALMON MOE LESTER]

Yes its obvious rigged game mechanics. They already predict who will win and who will lose. Even if i have balance deck, my starting hand is all monsters like wtf and my opponent has perfect combo. Well this online game is disappointing and annoying compare to the real and actual yugioh duel where they can't rigged or predict.

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Lucky boy eredeti hozzászólása:

Dude, keep defending Konami while getting your ass beaten.
Your mentality is something that makes you a pleb, no critical thinking, no questioning authority.

NOOB CSGO TEAM WEAK ♥♥♥♥♥ eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes its obvious rigged game mechanics. They already predict who will win and who will lose. Even if i have balance deck, my starting hand is all monsters like wtf and my opponent has perfect combo. Well this online game is disappointing and annoying compare to the real and actual yugioh duel where they can't rigged or predict.

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Chris Zachary Potter eredeti hozzászólása:

Anything that makes you win too easily isn't cool. Especially when you realise everyone plays that also, not only yourself. They're filler cards to get people started in yugioh and have them win quickly, cause they don't have the time to study the game, courage to keep trying or smarts to know that this is all about and reach that point themselves by playing the actual game. That's what I think. I know people who read this get potentially offended, but, oh well..

This is 100% correct i have to admit, which is why i play Darklords or Metaphys mainly right now ( i know they are arguably OP and generic as well) and wait for Subterrors to get nerfed so not everyone and their mother is playing it, then again i thought only from plat or maybe from gold onwards ppl would use full meta netdecks and before they would try to climb with their own decks up until the point where they just can't anymore like this guy who made the post about reaching Legend with Morphtronics, i don't really see the point in going all out with AG, Six Sams etc from Rookie, you learn close to nothing about other cards, you hope you get to repeat the same combo 200 matches in a row to get to KoG, now i see why you'd call them brainless.

[Sugar Show]

[Kero Kero]

Dude you wanna talk about rigged, How about how rigged the NPCs are? They ALWAYS have the same openings, and the damn vagabond with his stupid conditions on TOP of the meta decks they provide him. WHO WINS A DUEL WITH A 1 CARD START WHEN YOUR OPPONENT HAS ALL THEIR CARDS ??! Wtf is that game design Konami ?

[Cotton Hill]

||eXz|| _sNTx // 構文 eredeti hozzászólása:

Chris Zachary Potter eredeti hozzászólása:

Both prove something's quite (at least) wrong with them. Cheating and lying about their (wtf!!) gaming identity and paying money (or extra money on other non-free-game cases) to do what again? Just progress faster than others...?

And then they wanna talk and debate with people about stuff as equals....... -_-
Never really gonna happen that way.

Cheating? How do i cheat exactly? Konamis ToS only state account sharing is forbidden not multiple accounts per person and lying about my gaming persona where the ♥♥♥♥ did you get that from? Are you stupid or something like srsly are you?
Also if i would have so much money to waste on 3 different accounts i prob would buy your f*cking opinion, i only pay on one account and the other 2 are f2p.
What let's you assume i talk to you as equals? I consider myself a competitive player and i consider you a RP/troll player, that's nowhere near equals, the only thing i consider us being equal is that we're both humans so i treat you with respect as long as you do the same, which oyu clearly don't so i won't either.

bruh konami has always used shady business practices. HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT THEY DID TO METAL GEAR SOLID.

for konami coding a simple algorithm to make the decks that cost more money so they can make money off of a free to play game isnt far out there in conspiracy land. or a setup that faces you against counters once you win to much.

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Flats eredeti hozzászólása:

bruh konami has always used shady business practices. HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT THEY DID TO METAL GEAR SOLID.

for konami coding a simple algorithm to make the decks that cost more money so they can make money off of a free to play game isnt far out there in conspiracy land. or a setup that faces you against counters once you win to much.

Ok but in all honesty, there are so many ppl looking into the game files, doing datamining, every single patch, do you not think by now it would have been proven, i don't know how close you follow other publishers but activision had a huge sh*tstorm after ppl found out that they deliberately match ppl with MTX against ppl who don't in CoD, as soon as someone finds hard evidence that they indeed fix match making i'm with you but there is no evidence only a handful of ppl complaining about a couple bad matchups and i'm here like, the hell are you guys talking about? Yes, i do play against Six Sams, Koa'ki, Red Exes and all the other meta decks and yes i go on lose streaks every once in a while but no where near enough to make a valid claim that my matches have been rigged, i can't even say i'm on the other side of the spectrum bc i do brick, i don't get all my necessary glossy and prismatic cards in the starting hand, i go on huge loss streaks, sometimes up to 12 before i manage to turn it around, so am i just not part of the rigged system, just like Dkayed isn't bc i see him losing games as well.