if the Crappy developers of Kingmaker want to have the game cheat so badly, they should have made a separate difficulty like Wasteland 3 did with its Supreme Jerk difficulty that way players can select to play a cheating game if they chose to !! of course the Owl Cat devs are most likely too busy tending to their bruised egos after Baldur's Gate 3 showed them all what a great game should be. heck even Solasta was much better than the pathfinder games in so many ways.
I was bored and wrote a little Python script, the probability of getting at least 23 nat 1 rolls in 299 tries is about 2.8%. So not impossible but it should be very rare. On average one number would be expected 5% of the time, so exactly 15 times in 300 rolls, so the nat 20 seems right.
Okay so one thing you have to understand with Owlcat's Pathfinder series (especially Kingmaker) is that they're designed around being played in real-time-with-pause, not turn-based. Turn-based significantly slows down and turns encounters that were otherwise 1-2 minutes into an hour long slug fest. If I recall correctly, Turn-Based mode wasn't even a thing on the initial release of Pathfinder: Kingmaker, it was added in later, so the game is clearly not balanced around Turn-Based when it comes to the duration/length of a single combat encounter. Like it or not, Owlcat's philosophy to encounter design is based on the idea that you will Quicksave/Quickload frequently, and because of that, you will have prior knowledge of the encounter. This is often why enemies have these 'Answer Me or Lose' effects active, as it is essentially asking the player to read their spells and prepare accordingly for an encounter. Most of the fights become trivial once you're thoroughly buffed up to run through a map, pre-buffing is a big thing in these games. You cast your shield spell, bull's strength, enlarge person, etc... as soon as you even smell an enemy on the map. The action economy rewards pro-active spell casting and punishes reactive spell-casting (i.e casting Shield mid combat thus doing no damage whilst they enemy at least gets the chance to damage you). The game design is quite sadistic in places and there's stat bloat galore on certain enemies, and you'll be matched up against entities that can have anyway upward of 10+ levels on you (at least in Wrath of the Righteous). On higher difficulties, it's very much intended for masochists. That said, it's very much marketed toward veteran CRPG fans, being a continuation for the kind of difficulty found in older titles. As for the Will-o-Wisp casting Shield, good? I want the AI to actually challenge me in a way a competent GM might do so. In contrast to Baldur's Gate 3, all I need to do is cast Darkness and then I can just watch the AI flail around aimlessly with no indication as to what it's doing. There was also a video made by a RU-vidr named The Victorian who also suspected the dice rolls of being fudged, and ran a series of experiments to conclude that the highs and lows averaged out (for Wrath of the Righteous anyway). Sadly I think they took down the video along with many others, can't even pull it up on WayBack Machine. I'm sure you're aware as well with Baldur's Gate 3 that by default you're opted into the Karmic Dice system which very much IS fudging your dice rolls. Everyone typically has a bias against Nat 1s and feels like they see them too much, but in the grand scheme of things the results you got aren't absurdly far apart given the quantity of rolls, not saying you didn't get unlucky. That said, if the Pathfinder games aren't for you, that's fine - but these aren't objectively bad games.
wrath is ok with the dice rolls, kingmaker is not. it is utterly obvious the AI constantly rolls very low for the player. i have seen the AI roll 3 ones in a row ( 1 , 1, 1 ) and at times it will roll 1 , 4, 5 , 1 , 2 , 6 , 3 which would never happen on table top. they must of fixed this in wrath. that being said, i do like the games over all. it just ticks me off that they did this when they did not need to do this crap. when i was fighting the willow wisp, i was actually thinking the game was not going to let me roll a natural 20 EVER because it took so long for the 1st one to finally show up. i did not mess with baldur's gate 3 settings , mine were all default and the dice seemed fine to me w that game. my issue is with kingmaker not the others, i should have made that more clear in the video i guess
I remember when wotr first came out. Blackwater's augmented demons electric immunity from being demon overwrote their electric weakness from being augmented, so the only thing that could even damage them was adamantine weapons. And there was no way to leave blackwater to get an adamantine weapon because of quest events in blackwater. Its like they didn't even playtest it.
@@leothecool5785 Yeah I heard about the buggy state both WotR and Kingmaker released in, never played them during release so I can't speak to it but Owlcat does have a track record for releasing their games in less than bug free states, can't argue with that. As for Blackwater, that area is really crippling if you're not prepared for it. I had to brute force through the DR with most characters, but a lot of the time I was targeting Touch AC due to their absurd AC. I only had one party member properly specced into Elemental damage given that demons by default just have so many resistances and immunities on top of most possessing some form of spell resistance.
@@leothecool5785 yep, from what i have read online, owl cat games produces unfinished games that seem to not have any QA checks done to them. my advice, never buy new from them, wait year or 2 afterwards then get it super cheap and hopefully they have done updates to fix their terrible trash game. i made the mistake and bought rouge trader new--never again
