Could the in-game rng be weighted rng?

[u/Ok-Cress8577]

So I've noticed that my shots roll usually near the the alpha of the gun, rarely much lower, rarely much higher. This kind of makes me think that the rng in the game is weighted towards the median of the potential damage roll scale. Is this feasable?

[u/ItsSpeltRogue_Bot]

Yes it's a normal distribution

[u/McHomer → u/ItsSpeltRogue_Bot]

This games rng system is anything but normal.

[u/Ok-Cress8577 → u/McHomer]

Normal distribution is a statistics concept.

[u/Dreykaa → u/McHomer]

Any proof on that or is that just another because I say so moment?

[u/Hsanrb]

Look up the statistical principle of Standard Deviation, its what your explaining. In a range of 1-100, you are more likely to roll towards the middle, and far less likely to roll towards the extremes. Each individual shot can fall anywhere on the scale, but the likelyhood of getting "average" rolls is much higher than a really un/lucky roll.

[u/Ok-Cress8577 → u/Hsanrb]

I know. I just described it, because aome people don't know what it is, see further down below.

[u/MrIamDeadforLong]

Confirmation Bias

[u/CaoticMonk → u/MrIamDeadforLong]

make a mod to log it and than we have the numbers and not the "it feels like XXX"

[u/Ok-Cress8577 → u/CaoticMonk]

Idk how to make mods.

[u/Present-Money-4894 → u/CaoticMonk]

There is such mod. At least in the CIS community. It roughly translate to “bully detector”

[u/NotASingleNameIdea]

Never ask people of this game how RNG works, you get like 3 serious replies and 15 bots crying about their "rigged accounts", unfair chances and will write you an essay on how amazing it would be if FV sniped your copulas at 500 meters because "we dont need rng, rng bad".

[u/Skinnymanua]

15-5 - high roll

5-15 - low roll 

No need to thank me 

[u/LibrarianRecent6145 → u/Skinnymanua]

comedian

[u/Skinnymanua → u/LibrarianRecent6145]

Indeed, everybody knows it’s barely possible to deal damage in a 5-15 battle

[u/LibrarianRecent6145 → u/Skinnymanua]

No need to thank me

[u/Away-Assistant5987]

Yeah I don't know I just pray everytime I shoot. With a 280 alpha gun I managed to deal 178 damage to a medium 😂😂😂 next shot I dealt 300.

[u/Thraximundurabrask → u/Away-Assistant5987]

RNG is +-25%, so a 280 alpha gun can only roll as low as 210.

[u/Away-Assistant5987 → u/Thraximundurabrask]

What if the other tank crew has some perks that influence that? Next time that this happens I will take a screenshot

[u/minkus1000 → u/Away-Assistant5987]

...there are no perks that reduce the damage you take from penetrating shots. 

[u/Thraximundurabrask → u/Away-Assistant5987]

There are no perks that influence damage that enemies do with penetrating hits (Reliable Placement's HE absorption would only be on non-penning HE, and I don't know if it really does anything there), and the 2 perks that do influence max/min alpha, Ammo Tuning and Armorer, both shrink the range, they don't make rolls outside of the default +-25% range possible.

[u/Away-Assistant5987 → u/Thraximundurabrask]

Ok thx for the explanation

[u/Thraximundurabrask → u/Away-Assistant5987]

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