Reduced Reliance on RNG (from the perspective of a game maker)

dont know if i have commented on this yet but yes, please god yes. full support. I understand rng is needed but a level 16 LEAD should NOT get trounced by 1 lv 5 (insert enemy here). the rng reliance in combat is kinda of ridiculous. It would be one thing if it was maybe more obvious on how stats effect combat (though still entirely off kilter) since we can at least kind of alter how we gain stats, but beyond that stats dont seem to have a lot of an effect, and rng often seems tilted in the corner of opponents.

not to mention in regards to items recipes that require trophies for crafting. not only do you have to fight the combat rng, you also have to pray the aftermath rng decides your worthy of said item drop. not saying you have to get a good drop every fight, but it would be nice to not have to spend eons grinding for items (yes i know i can go the breeding route for a t3 or i can also buy the materials but the cost of those items is way too out of my range, so im opting for the hunting route)

all im saying is i would love for the rng reliance to either be lessened or at least balanced more.

Hmm, maybe its smarts? My lead is at 180 smarts and her second highest is wisdom, I dunno if that has anything to do with my success with latching tho 

You're just unnaturally lucky. It happens.

Sitting on the fence for now as wd has had shit for battling teased

Ide like to see what wolvden decides to do before making an opinion

(however im leaning to the “support” side of this post)

I agree that the expected battle updates will likely fix a lot of this, but their choice to move forward with events before fixing it means it's worth talking about. All we know is the battle update is supposed to happen "in 2021" but that could be nearly nine months from now.

Not really seeing a huge difference in battling. Low level enemies are still doing 7 damage hits w/ bleed. Higher levels feel like they got tougher, which may just be some more RNG nonsense.

Looking forward to this week being another massive slog.

Seriously, pushing these events before the system was ready and player tested was not a good idea. And if 'it's based on stats' without factoring in that some players (myself included) dont want to cough up GC to retire their starter lead, then that gets to feeling pretty shady. I'd imagine the reliance on RNG may have been in part because of the varying stats on leads, so it's a balancing act, but at the moment, what remains of rng+whatever fixes were done = combat is still an unfun grind.

No one said figuring out the fine tuning in this would be easy, but the event should never have had a combat focus. Especially after basically everyone has said that combat is the worst part of the game.

Edit: lvl 10 bear got my lvl 20 wolf in a clinch until I was down to 7hp and had done no damage. So basically the same nonsense but with new ways to be obnoxious.

So, enemies now can make you bleed at the very first turn, nice :)))))

The Lunar Vulture nose-dives from above! It hits you hard with its beak for 3 damage. You are wounded.

The Lunar Vulture anticipated your attack and outsmarted you. They have the initiative.

This update didn't help me with battling at all, maybe I don't have stats for the system for now but I feel like enemies can use their new abilities all they want and I can't even release myself from being grappled (because I'm getting grappled again at the very next turn).

The rewards for battling still aren’t worth battling in the first place so I haven’t battled much.  I think some battles have been easier/less likely to have me win unfairly. However, a group of low level coyotes kept doing the grappling thing so I couldn’t do much for the whole fight. It’s happened a couple times with low levels and they nearly beat me each time. 

I've gotten the 'bleed DoT on first turn' thing, too. And yeah grappling seems to be real broken.

lucky feet don't help that much when fighting anymore. i already feel like the event requires too much involvement from me to get even a few items, and now i will get even less LT because i can hardly win a battle. 

bleeding on the first turn is so annoying. and resting doesnt seem to stop the bleeding any more than it did before the update........... baby deer are stomping the shit out of my lead wolf, im wasting lunar essence that i hardly have enough time to get anyways, i know my post sounds whiny but i am whining. i want to enjoy the game & the event but things like this make it near impossible :///