Incorrect Hit Chance Percentage

I just picked up this gem today and am enjoying it so far. 

The only problem that really gets on my nerves is the hit chance %.

Does anyone find that attacks don't actually hit at the true percentage? 

Supposedly my bow hero has a 75% chance to hit when i hover over monsters, but in reality it seems to be the opposite and I end up hitting 1 in 4 shots. This is not just the bow either. Is there any hidden mechanic i may be missing?

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Reply #1 Top

I have found that the percentages are pretty accurate when averaged out over the course of all my games.  However, the rolls in this game are truly random, which unfortunately means that, even at a 75% chance to hit, you can have a string of just bad luck that seems to stretch out forever.  I've had entire fights where almost every roll seemed to be a miss, or my high-dodge people got hit every time.  Unfortunately, that's the nature of luck, and you'll find that in a long enough time frame (think 100+ battles), the percentages are accurate. 

Reply #2 Top

The only one I know for certain is buggy is that it does not take "Fear" status on the attacker or "Fear Cloak" on the defender into consideration.

Sometimes luck rolls.  75% chance to hit is not as high as most folk think ... getting 3 or 4 misses in a row with a 75% chance to hit is not unheard of.  There is no guarantee that every 3 out of every 4 attacks will land successfully.

Reply #3 Top

This is one of the times you need some data. Get like 100 (at least) swings with hit percentages.

But the percentages are accurate from what I've experienced. 

 

Reply #4 Top

This is a form of cognitive bias. You do not notice when the RNG favors you like when you hit 3 30% chances in a row. But you always notice when you miss 3 out of 4 75% chances.

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Quoting Sarudak, reply 5
This is a form of cognitive bias. You do not notice when the RNG favors you like when you hit 3 30% chances in a row. But you always notice when you miss 3 out of 4 75% chances.
End of Sarudak's quote

 

But that's the thing, I'm aware of that concept and kept an eye on it. I guess no one else is experiencing this so maybe I'm just having a really bad streak of luck like some suggested. Not surprising, RNG has never been my friend.

 

Thx for responses guys. Least i know there isn't any hidden mechanics.

Reply #6 Top

Well i have this feeling too. My army spend his time to miss and when they hit it's for a very low damage. In the beta (i stoped a bit after 0.98) i didn't happened.

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Man...I often have it where a lone strong unit is a hair's breathe away from dying and all I need is one more hit against it to finish it off. I move my strongest guy into position and before swinging say to myself "watch me miss", and then swing and it MISSES. This has happened to me soooo many times.

Reply #8 Top

Hey!  If you were more positive the universe might give you a few lucky strikes. ;-) =)

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Quoting StevenAus, reply 9
Hey!  If you were more positive the universe might give you a few lucky strikes.
End of StevenAus's quote

lol. bit of a realist (pessimist) at heart.

Reply #10 Top


Welcome to the party.  There are a couple other things that you are going to love besides when you out and out miss.  Get ready for:

"Clink"

"Dodged"

"Blocked"

and my favorite "-1"

I actually talk to my computer now.  "Swing"  -1  .  Ah dammit  "Swing"  "blocked"  craapppp.

Reply #11 Top

I actually could wind up helping contribute data collection here, as I started what I intended to be a tutorial to my playstyle using a custom sovereign with "Beastlord" profession ... its winding up being a long play-through.  I have 11 hour-ish sections thus far, and what the heck, I'll just keep going.  The early chapters especially are not very good quality, but I should be able to re-read the percentages, record them and note if they resulted in a hit or miss, crunch it through a spreadsheet or somesuch when I finished with the game.

Reply #12 Top

I don't think realist automatically goes with pessimist.  I am a realistic optimist! :D |-) :sun:   In other words, look forward to really good stuff happening, but not getting too worried if it doesn't happen all the time. =)