itt : post moments where the odds were stacked against you

Let's just say "death" spells shouldn't be a thing.

Pokémon's RNG isn't that bad. It's just... everywhere.

The worst thing that happened to me in a Pokémon game was in Sapphire, where I encountered a shiny Wobuffet.
In the Safari Zone.

It ran away.

World of Tanks. You can hit a tank in a spot and do massive damage to it but even though the next shot is in the same spot it does nothing. I don't get what people find so fun about that game. The spotting mechanics and the RNG are shit.

World of Tanks. You can hit a tank in a spot and do massive damage to it but even though the next shot is in the same spot it does nothing. I don't get what people find so fun about that game. The spotting mechanics and the RNG are shit.

Spotting mechanics are fair and balanced.
Damage rolls aren't that bad
Ever since the centeralization patch in 8.7, even the aiming rng isn't that bad. Most of your shots are guaranteed to land in the center third of your reticule.

The only times I really get frustrated by rng are when I play upper teir arty. Waiting near a minute to fire a shot only to have it sail to the short and left edge of your massive reticule...

Destiny has made me hate RNG more than I did in the past.

Destiny's an easy target.

I really dislike RNG in general except when it's used to set up initial conditions. When gameplay is based on RNG and not skill, it's no longer a game but a tedious slot machine. An exception is Borderlands, where you can generally be confident that you won't be wanting for new, better, and more funs guns and gear until endgame, where you start to see more raid elements and more of a grind for the best stuff. At that point, having a cheat program is pretty fun.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on August 15, 2015, 01:25:45 PM

Destiny's an easy target.

I really dislike RNG in general except when it's used to set up initial conditions. When gameplay is based on RNG and not skill, it's no longer a game but a tedious slot machine. An exception is Borderlands, where you can generally be confident that you won't be wanting for new, better, and more funs guns and gear until endgame, where you start to see more raid elements and more of a grind for the best stuff. At that point, having a cheat program is pretty fun.

I only recently played through BL2 and BLTPS again, and I don't think I kept the same guns and gear for more than a level or two throughout the entire game. Can't remember what it's like in the first one, but a few pieces of gear / guns aside, I feel like you still change out your stuff very often. Not that this makes it bad in any way though.

Yeah, and some stuff I'd find myself holding onto for many levels just because I liked the feel of it. An RNG that showers you in really cool gear is great; when you're drowning in crap for hours and hours, with a rare good find here and there, is where it becomes an annoyance.

In Command and Conquer 3, I was playing through Kane's Challenge. Kane's Challenge is 10 missions of you fighting the AI and as you get further into the mode, they get stronger and smarter.

In one of the missions against the Scrin, I lost all my bases and the majority of my forces except for about 5 Stealth Tanks and around 4 Spectres. Stealth Tanks are fast tanks that launch a volley of missiles and can cloak and Spectres are artillery tanks that can also cloak. Those are the only units I had left to destroy a massive base that kept getting bigger and bigger.

The Scrin kept making their OP as fuck Devastator Warships and Annihilator Tripods which I kept destroying with my units. Doing that, all of my units were able to reach full promotion easily where they have increased damage and can repair themselves.

I somehow managed to destroy their entire base and defenses while only losing 1 Spectre. To this day I still don't know how I managed to come back and win like that.

Quote from: DAS WAIFUMEISTER x2 on August 15, 2015, 09:15:50 AM

Spotting mechanics are fair and balanced.

It's not fair and balanced when the game atomically does it for you and you're still spotted for a decent amount of time even though you're outside that tanks line of few and away from that spot. Once you're spotted even though I moved out of that zone I'm still spotted for a period of time no matter where I move. Then there's the buillshit where I'm at that tanks maximum distance and I'm only in the open for a second going at a fast speed and I'm still pinpointed. Having the system doing it for you kills any type of ambush and tactile gameplay. The spotting should only be in the players line of site and it should be up to that player to do it them self. That way it allows tactile playing to be done.

Stay in concealment and learn the spotting ranges of common tanks, as well as the max range and how to avoid it while still firing on tanks that are lit by your team's lights.

Also, get good.

Also, get good.

It's hard to get good at a game where each shot is random on what type of damage it's going to do. Like I said one shot can do damage and the other shot can either do little to no damage.

>"Destiny's RNG is the worst!"
>None of y'all niggas play Warframe