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That's certainly a more professional way to do it, I like.

Was there anything else? I think some had some suspected that the probabilities displayed on spells/saving throws were wrong.

From the numbers as such I just checked, they seem alright -- I just tried to cast Bane and Charm Person with Shadowheart on a bunch of goblins with CHA 8 each (-1). The DC of her spells is 13, so for the necessary CHA saving throw they needed to roll a 14 each. When casting Bane, one goblin actually succeeded in rolling exactly a 14, the others not. This would be a 35% chance for the Goblins to succeed, ergo a 65% chance of success for Shadowheart.

edit: Unsuccesful throws should arguably been shown in the log too. This currently also applies some for concentration checks, only if concentration is broken, is the saving throw shown (or is it actually vice versa?).

I'd also strongly urge to make no-damage rolls not look like misses in some way, because misses they aren't.

I check from time to time whether the displayed hit percentage match the actual role difficulty. And so far, including advantages, they seem to display correctly. Not so sure on (spell) saving throws for monsters. I can't (or don't know how) examine the enemy's saving throw proficiencies. But when taking educated guesses, they seem to be alright.

I also advanced in the game some more and updated the google sheet. Had a couple of bad rolls for high percentage chances, which "tainted" the results (I am sure in the long run this will disappear again). But currently the 90-95 range only succeeds with a rate of 79%... The other high percentage ranges seem fine though. The low percent ranges are kinda fishy due to a low number of rolls. I might try to take some unfavorable attacks to get more rolls in the low percentage range in.

If someone wants to check this, I do suspect that critical fails are broken. I've seen a bunch with advantage, leading me to think that it might be taking a 1 from either dice to determine crit fails, which is a plausible programming mistake. Otherwise the dice are working, and people are just so bad at math that they think they are missing too much when the chance to hit as been artificially inflated.

Possibly worth checking. That said, with some added luck, even over 50 rolls, rather than ending at the "expected" 81%, we had a 90% to hit ratio with a 81% chance.



I did one test with advantage, but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.. Advantage tends to produce critical hits as opposed to misses (as you're always taking the higher of two rolls), disadvantage vice versa. Could do another advantage test again though, perhaps over a couple more rolls.

Ok, here's 75 rolls on advantage (on a 94% hit chance each). There's quite a lot of question marks in there, which is because I took my Tiefling Wizard again and had her attack from behindn with her staff (D6-1 damage). That means every time she rolled a 2 or less on the D6, no damage. They should REALLY change this either in the animations or otherwise, because I'm sure most confuse these no-damage rolls for misses. They are not.

As expected advantage favors Critical Hits, so nothing unusual again. For there to be a critical miss you'd need to roll TWO 1s with advantage. No big data again, but coupled with my other tests on advantage, this appears to work correctly too.

? hit
20 critical hit
? hit
? hit
16 hit
? hit
5 miss
14 hit
14 hit
17 hit
? hit
5 miss
? hit
? hit
13 hit
? hit
12 hit
18 hit
8 hit
13 hit
8 hit
13 hit
15 hit
? hit
19 hit
19 hit
? hit
12 hit
20 critical hit
6 hit
? hit
? hit
? hit
10 hit
16 hit
17 hit
6 hit
15 hit
19 hit
12 hit
7 hit
2 miss
? hit
20 critical hit
4 miss
2 miss
12 hit
18 hit
? hit
8 hit
15 hit
? hit
19 hit
16 hit
8 hit
? hit
? hit
14 hit
14 hit
15 hit
20 critical hit
8 hit
18 hit
6 hit
15 hit
? hit
10 hit
16 hit
? hit
17 hits
20 critical hit
? hit
13 hit
10 hit
? hit

TOTAL ROLLS: 75
TOTAL HITS: 70
EXPECTED TO HIT RATIO: 94%
TO HIT RATIO: 93,33%

I agree op there is something really not working at this time more than just RNG. And skills / spells / weapons don't seem to be doing their full effects of damage..

Ah, another thing to verify. Who's in?

So, is there anything obviously wrong with the damage roll? DanteYoda brought it up.

Picked a bang average Warlock and let him cast his Eldritch Blast. Eldritch Blast deals 1D10 (1-10) force damage, for an average of 5.50. Opposition doesn't have resistance against that. Here we roll.


4
10
3
8
3
10
10
10
3
2
10
10
5
2
4
4
1
8
4
7
4
3
7
6
7
1
4
4
1
9
7
10
4
9
1
4
1
10
7
9
8
5
7
8
6
8
10
4
3
6


TOTAL ROLLS: 50
TOTAL DAMAGE: 291
EXPECTED AVERAGE: 5.50
AVERAGE DAMAGE: 5.82

Is there something obvious wrong with the damage rolls? Part Deux.

This time I picked a rogue (+3 from dexterity), and let her attack with her short bow. That's 1D6+3 (4-9) for an average of 6.5. However, the opposition has resistance against piercing damage, which slashes it all in half. This time I stopped early, because it was obvious where this was going again.

3
2
2
4
4
4
2
2
2
4
4
3
2
4
3
2
3
4
3
4
3
3
4
2
2
2
5 (CRITICAL HIT)
4
3
3

TOTAL ROLLS: 30
TOTAL DAMAGE: 92
EXPECTED AVERAGE: 3.25
AVERAGE: 3.07

Thanks! I guess I was just that one in 16000, I've rolled around 50 advantage rolls and gotten 4 crit fails, which made me suspect something was broken. I could see it being a real mistake in terms of the engine.

Rolling a 1 is ALWAYS a miss (hence it's called critical miss), even if your total hit modifier is 9 and their AC is only 7, therefore 100% doesn't exist, 1/20 = 5%. And therefore on a normal roll the maximum is 95% assuming your "base hit" > "their AC". This also means that critical hit (20) is also always at least 5% chance no matter what, unless you got a disadvantage roll, then it's 2.5% (2 dice, taking the worst result).
98% I assume has to be a "your base hit" > "their AC" + "advantage roll", because then you will roll 2 dice and take the best result, which is technically 97,5%, but I suppose they rounded it off and having a miss with that means you rolled 2 x 1, really bad luck. Lol

Not sure if you've updated in the meantime, but do you think they may be worth investigating again for bigger sample sizes?


I've also seen another claim: That the percentages on dual-wielding would be bugged.

I've yet to dual-wield anything tbh on this.

Do you mean these guys? I attacked those two for a while now with my party (main fighter two handed axe, Gale cantrips, Lae'zel her sword, Shadowheart mace and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, all blessed but Lae'zel). I mean I'm sure I would have gotten unlucky too at some point, but...



Here are all rolls against them over multiple reloads.

56% attack hit
88% critical hit
65% hit
60% hit
65% hit
60% miss
75% hit
88% hit
60% hit
65% hit
60% hit
56% miss
65% hit
84% critical hit
88% hit
50% miss
65% hit
60% miss
75% miss
65% hit
65% miss
60% miss
75% critical hit
65% miss
65% hit
65% hit
65% hit
65% hit
60% hit
65% hit
84% hit
65% miss
60% hit
65% miss
55% hit

Total rolls:35
Total hits: 25
Average hit chance: 66.54%
To-hit ratio: 71.42%

Well I missed with 100% hit chance as a rogue against a TURRENT soo.. you are just plain out wrong. And the guy above who said that he missed 14 times in a row with 50+ hit chance might have been overexaggerating but not by a lot I had plenty of cases where I simply reload the game because out of 14 hits (And yes I did count them) with 70 hit chance being the fucking lowest i hit twice sooo you know although it is possible to happen it hardly happend once. On top of it all at one point i got so fucking fed up with this BULLSHIT i decided to save and load HIT FOR HIT 51% hit chance it took me 11 loads to hit the target so either I am being unlucky all day every day OR the hit and miss system is BS. Doesn't matter now because I stopped playign the game for the time being until it is fixed stil the problem is there and is real.

How do you miss with a 100% hit chance? Not CRITICAL miss just a miss? My rogue did so obviously the numbers we are shown are not to be trusted. And that 98% hit chance and a miss is nice and all and I could buy it IF it was really bad luck because honestly the amount of misses i get with 98 hit chance is un fucking real! This is a 1 in 50 hits that is supposed to be a miss well it is not ... not even by a long shot.

What is your rogue's base attack + bonus attack for the action you're using and what is the AC of the target? unless your total attack is 12 and their AC 10, you never have a 100% hit (not taking critical miss into account), because even if you have perfect dexterity and you're level 4, your total attack is never more than 6 or 7 (maybe 8 or 9 fully buffed with attack bonuses) unless you used scripts or developer commands to alter them and there aren't a lot of creatures in the game with 10 AC.
Also, as I said, 100% hit chance doesn't exist because you can't remove the 1 from your 20 dice and even if your total attack is 12 with buffs and everything and their AC is only 10, rolling a 1 makes that 13 but it still misses, that's why it's called a critical miss ... a critical miss basically just means you rolled a 1 on your attack dice.

Unsurprisingly from my own experience so far, I see others who actually sit down to take notes find much the same as me (and TyPinOwly). My guess is that people are confused by the rolls that deal no damage, still. They LOOK like misses, but aren't.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/j8xode/rng_testing_how_r_is_the_ng/

There's also a guy on Steam who actually recorded all individual dice over 110 throws on a 65% chance (needed an 8 for a hit).






In the UI, it does. Attack bonus of 5 vs an AC of 7 (needs to roll a 2) on ADVANTAGE. That said, according to this graph, this exists -- even if you rolled two 1s?? http://media.zerohitpoints.com/images/higherthan.png



Going to test it now.

You can get 100% vs prone or unsuspecting enemies.

How does it work though? Technically you could still roll 2 1s.

Anyway, here's 50 100% throws. As usual, advantage favors critical hits over critical misses. Even over these comparably small samples, you can always see where this is headed. I think I have recorded well over 5-600 rolls now in this thread. TyPinOwly contributed some atop of that.If there are bugs right with the RNG, they sure aren't obvious any.

18 hit
15 hit
18 hit
13 hit
19 hit
15 hit
11 hit
14 hit
20 critical hit
14 hit
15 hit
8 hit
14 hit
17 hit
19 hit
15 hit
20 critical hit
20 critical hit
17 hit
15 hit
18 hit
19 hit
17 hit
18 hit
19 hit
12 hit
5 hit
11 hit
19 hit
5 hit
6 hit
16 hit
18 hit
16 hit
16 hit
11 hit
15 hit
14 hit
12 hit
13 hit
16 hit
20 critical hit
16 hit
14 hit
14 hit
20 critical hit
17 hit
18 hit
17 hit
20 critical hit

TOTAL ROLLS: 50
TOTAL HITS: 50
TO-HIT RATIO 100% (as expected)

There's one segment in TyPinOwly's hit charts at the moment that look suspicious, the 90-95% range. So I've increased my sample size for this one and went with a 90% chance. Made a Gyth fighter with an overall attack bonus of +4, and let her melee attack the AC 7 opposition. That's a 90% chance precisely, as she needed to roll at least a 3. This is no cherry picking, I was fortunate enough to be able to explain some of the human psychology at work again. The expectation would be 1 miss in every 10 hits, after all.

19 hit
13 hit
16 hit
18 hit
13 hit
13 hit
1 critical miss*
13 hit
13 hit
15 hit
12 hit
15 hit
17 hit
10 hit
18 hit
18 hit
20 critical hit
17 hit
18 hit
9 hit
8 hit
10 hit
18 hit
1 critical miss*
5 hit
18 hit
9 hit
4 hit
18 hit
9 hit
6 hit
16 hit
3 hit
2 miss*
19 hit
5 hit
7 hit
14 hit
2 miss*
15 hit
5 hit
16 hit
14 hit
11 hit
3 hit
5 hit
---------------------------
1 critical miss*
1 critical miss*
2 miss*
9 hit
6 hit
2 miss*
1 critical miss* WHAT PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER
2 miss*
12 hit
13 hit
13 hit
1 critical miss*
12 hit
1 critical miss*
--------------------------
16 hit
9 hit
18 hit
15 hit
16 hit
9 hit
11 hit
11 hit
11 hit
10 hit
9 hit
8 hit
12 hit
13 hit
15 hit
19 hit
3 hit
15 hit 40 HITS IN A ROW, WHAT PEOPLE WON'T REMEMBER
17 hit
6 hit
6 hit
11 hit
9 hit
7 hit
18 hit
14 hit
14 hit
14 hit
13 hit
14 hit
11 hit
17 hit
16 hit
10 hit
13 hit
10 hit
5 hit
8 hit
18 hit
7 hit
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OVERALL ROLLS: 100
AVERAGE ROLL: 10.85 (EXPECTED 10.5)
TOTAL HITS: 88
TOTAL HITS RATIO: 88% (EXPECTED 90)