Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Die rolls do not seem random.

Larian-- You must have programmed some rider on die rolls when players are rolling.

Ive noticed that as Im paying though (im in underdark atm) that my most frequent attack roll is 1-4 on a 20 sided die- and that with +6 to hit.

No joking here.

I can be behind an enemy, show 72% to 92% to it and I will constantly roll 1-4.

Ive learned to save the game after every succesful atk roll, because I literally miss 90% of my attacks.

On the flip side-- enemies rarely if ever miss me.


My ranger has defensive dueling, wears +1 scale, and has 17 dex. That makes my AC 19 when attacked with melee weapons.
Now I dont mind getting hit every now and then, but when monsters hit me 90% of the time for 20-30 damage- its a no win unless you save after every single player/mob attack.

Please look into these die rolls you programmed-- there is something wrong.

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Not noticed so far but will be on the lookout.

Yeah I miss about 90% of my 80% and up attacks. Combat is mostly just me smacking air. The Ai however is able to hit me through castle walls with 0 vision on me from their position so that's a thing. Though this is EA so I get there are bugs

They feel a lot better than they did a few days ago, I do think they changed something. I havent gone to the underdark since the patch yet, that was where most of my misses were egregious. I want to check if its doing light and elevation right, it was doing some funky stuff with dark vision and dancing lights and how it determined it all.

They're random. That's the thing about randomness. It's random. 😅

But seriously, I have a stats and maths major friend who has terrible luck with dice. He even went to buy casino dice just to get as much of a fair roll as possible and still rolled like dog shit. I've had hot dice for me consistently that went cold as soon as he touched it. There's something to be said for technique but I've see this dude play hundreds of hours of tabletop, and it's unreal.

Interesting enough, I got the feeling in some situations that the "random" was less random than it deserved. I had to shoot for a 3 or higher and got 1 on the dice roll. Ity's suspicious but that's why we have file saves....

It's a fake randomizer tweaked in favor of the enemy. That's just how it is. So they want you to abuse all the D:OS stuff and mechanics to overcome it.

Why would you let him touch your dice dude? That dude has some kind of curse or something, better jail the dice for good.

Source?

One thing to do is have a conversation that will have rolls, save it, pick it, write down roll. Do it like 10 times (time consuming I know). Last week I got something like 4,1,3,8,5,3,4,4,1,6,15 (the DC). I havent done it on this patch yet, I probably should. It was baaad for a while.

Been having the same issues, enemies hit all the time and my ppl miss all the time despite high hit %

Also failing a 3 strength check as a fighter with 19 strength...feels bad

I'm pretty sure my d20 on skill checks is actually a d12. The amount of 5's and under I roll is absurd.

This is mainly human brains being notoriously bad with randomness. They think random, but expect something else entirelly. Given the many rolls over a playthrough, let alone across multiple ones for hundreds of thousands of players, even hugely unlikely events become a dead certainty to happen to someone.

https://youtu.be/MEewLWDpscA?t=1500

Aditionally, confirmation bias. If your brain is bend on that something fishy is going on, it will focus on the many times the dice went against you, whilst the times the opponents had bad rolls are being ignored. There are many way more elegant (and less player trust breaking) ways to make a game harder, some of which quite easy to implement, plus having a rigged dice is not D&D which the game is trying to emulate.

As a person who rolled several natural ones in a row over the last couple of months in 5e I find this game is more kind to me.

However, I do feel there is an added perception of low rolls because they subtract modifiers from the DC.

so you were rolling like my DM, which is why he's our DM.

I think I need to be introduced to your DM, I have questions for him xD

No dev anywhere manipulates rng against the player.

I want you to sit quietly and think about why a dev would ever do that? What benefit do they get from doing so? What are the alternatives to doing this? Then I want you to consider the negatives that might occur from doing so. Now, using logic and keeping in mind the goal is to sell games, come to a conclusion.

Usually it's the other way around, so that questions of (un)fairness hurtint reputation and sales don't crop up. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/116071/Analysis_Game_AI__Our_Cheatin_Hearts.php

Just roll this long enough, you are guaranteed to get a couple interesting sequences. https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

Dunno about manipulating RNG against the player, but plenty of devs everywhere do manipulate the gameplay in the AI's favor. Just look at any strategy game in existence where the AI just ignores penalties the players has to put up with lol. In the case of BG3, even if it's not RNG, it is most certainly manipulated in favor of my dreaded arch nemesis: the Gnolls.

I think the dice is just too random, if you ever know a game called Dota2 they have an elegant system to handle randomness called PRD, pseudo-randomness. This makes the chance that u miss in a row less frequently while the average miss chance is not affected.