Fuck anyone who thinks RNG is an actual thing in games.
Well, aside from online casinos and such like which might use true randomness (atmospheric noise or such like) from hardware random number generators, games tend to use pseudorandom numbers that have the characteristics of random numbers.
I mean, it's not TRUE randomness, but in real practise you can't predict them while playing the game so they might as well be.
>that filename
Oh we talking about RNG in XCOM?
Here's the thing about RNG in XCOM. If you think it's there you're about as good at games as DSP. Pic related.
They're the faggots who flip a coin and expect it to land perfectly on its side every time and if it doesn't?
>WHUT?
>WOW
>WHAT A POORLY PROGRAMMED RNG COIN
>HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH
>WOW
>I'M FLIPPING COINS BUT NOTHING'S HAPPENING
>WOW
>scald has a 30% chance to inflict a burn
>zen headbutt has a 10% chance to miss
>real fucking tests have shown, in which both moves were used a hundred times in a new fight each time with no modifiers, that zen headbutt misses far more often than scald does not inflict a burn
what does it mean? who at gamefreak decided that scald has a 30% chance to burn and that zen headbutt has a 10% to miss if that's not the case at all?
>>320711392
This guy is pretty much correct.
A computer, being a logic based machine, can never produce a truly random number - It always has to be deduced logically...
They can however use mathematical functions to produce a number that for all intensive purposes appears to be random
>>320713606
it's the little ones like this where you fucking slip it in during an otherwise completely normal post that I almost get tricked, but not today fucker
>>320713410
>only a hundred times
>game "journalists" failing math yet again
RNG is very much a thing and only a pedantic asshole would waste their time arguing about how it's not "really" random.
If a game is designed well then it won't be obviously rigged. And if it's not, you get 100% Orange Juice's singleplayer campaign.
>>320713410
If you want to know the percents you need to do it infinite times.
>>320714914
ur mom needs to suck my cock infinite times m8
What? You dont believe in rand()? Really?
Have you even seen a D20 in your whole life?
>>320711412
> If you think it's there you're about as good at games as DSP. Pic related.
Dont your image just prove that the RNG is real in X-Com?
SOMEONE PLEASE POST THE OKCUPID PROFILE WITH THE GUY WHO SPENDS HIS NIGHTS PONDERING WHETHER A RANDOMLY GENERATED NUMBER CAN BE TRULY RANDOM THANK YOU VERY MUCH KIND FOLKS
>people who think RNG is an actual thing in nature
>>320715719
It seems to be with quantum phenomenon
>>320715719
>Not believing the chaos theory
>>320713606
>intensive purposes
what perecentage chance does a negative effect need to be before you feel like it's safe to take the risk?
10% chance to go wrong always feels like fucking 100% chance to me, my luck is so shit that I only settle for 5% chance to fuck up
>>320711412
> Here's the thing about RNG in XCOM. If you think it's there you're about as good at games as DSP.
But your image is literally illustrating that the RNG in XCOM is accurate.
>>320711138
All games and computer programs use algorithms to generate random numbers, so I don't understand how thinking "random number generator" is a thing is bad.
Perhaps they're not truly random, but as long as you're incapable of predicting them or the logic behind, they are.
>>320715849
I may not believe in Chaos Theory, but I do believe in Goldblum.
>>320717081
If they're not truly random the outcomes won't be evenly spread. That's bad.
>>320717271
Not all random density probability functions have to be uniform, anon.
And anyway, computers nowadays are capable of very efficient approximations.
>>320715719
>there are people who believe there is no room for deviation in the course of universe
>they will respond not out of their own will, but merely because universe compels them to do so
>>320713410
Pokemon rng is retarded. I've missed twice in a row with a move that had 100% hit chance with no accuracy or evasion modifiers in play and no weather which could have triggered any evasion abilities.
Thank you based RNG Goddess. Please bless me so that I may make sick crits both in your games and in the real world. Amen.
>>320717271
They're effectively random, it's just that a computer can't possibly do random number generation without some kind of seed, meaning it's inherently not entirely random.
There area some (very expensive) ways to do it, like using radioactive decay or background radiation as a seed, but it's still not truly random.
>>320717718
>Praying to RNG in Fire Emblem
>Not realizing the game is literally designed to shit on RNG
>>320715089
What is this mysterious chaos generator?
>>320718147
Man, I would pray for a free cheeseburger.
>>320711392
>games tend to use pseudorandom numbers that have the characteristics of random numbers.
Some early Final Fantasy games used random chances that increase when you fail them. They wanted to not make the player feel the randomness is unfair. I find that kinda brilliant
