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Starting this thread to to make a place we can all share our brutal, dishearteningly inexplicable losses in The Gauntlet (screen shots preferred). It is my hope that sharing these crushing losses publicly will be theraputic on some level, because right now I just want to do bad things to RNGesus. I will get things started...
...this just happened to me a few minutes ago, and ended a 16 match win streak in the process.
...this just happened to me a few minutes ago, and ended a 16 match win streak in the process.
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Losing a glorified coin flip is NOT a bad beat.
In my gauntlet round collection, I have observed two 99% losses. The first one happened to me, the second happened to someone who submits rounds for me (hence the different skill points for Locutus).
5% Locutus vs 5% Kahless, DIP/SEC
Rolls:
600
444
698
376
459
400
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2977
vs
189
632 (Crit)
270
436
567
892 (Crit)
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2986
The OTHER one was
25% Locutus vs 5% Enterprise-E Picard SEC/DIP
(Note, iampicard rates this at a 99% chance of victory)
Rolls:
419
230
287
391
363
456
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2146
vs
139
374 (Crit)
360 (Crit)
468
427
410
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2178
I did not get a shot of the pre-fight stats, but I was heavily favored. It took 6 for 6 crits for my opponent to barely win.
I'm curious what you mean by heavily favored, since they are the same character. Was the opponent an obviously incomplete Kirk or did you have slightly higher numbers due to collections/fleet bonuses?
However, without knowing what the roll ranges were going into the round, it's impossible to know how extraordinary of an upset this was.
That IS very odd. That’s a new one on me. But yeah, something is definitely off there.
Mine is immortalized. At the "select opponent" step the other Kirk's stats were much lower. I could only speculate on how advanced their version was, but I can tell you the numbers were good enough that I felt confident risking my win streak over it. Worth noting, since we had identical crew we both had a theoretical 45% crit chance. Was I 100% to win? No, but to lose in this ridiculous fashion was just brutal to take, that is kind of the point of this thread.
Like I stated in the first post, I intend this thread to be a place people can post Gauntlet rounds like this where players lose in spectacularly brutal ways, so we can see the results and commiserate. Like, I want this to almost want this to therapeutic, a way for people to express themselves to help people process these results to help them move passed it. I thank you for your interest in this thread
Hopefully there won't be many more submissions to this thread as that would mean people are not going through Gauntlet struggles, but somehow I find that unlikely! Please feel free to keep posting painful Gauntlet rounds
Sometimes things go your way.....
Wow, you won 16 hands in a row while player poker and you're complaining????
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No.
Look, like I've said numerous times now, that is not the point of what I WAS trying to do here. I read every thread on The Bridge and I've noticed a lot of people seem to experience situations in The Gauntlet where they suffer a crushing defeat against all odds, and it seemed to be a source of frustration. I was attempting to do a collective kindness by creating a thread for people to share their experiences in this area so people could help each other cope with that frustration. To get things going I shared one that had quite literally just happened to me a few minutes earlier in hopes that people would see it and feel comfortable sharing their own experiences.
But I can see now that I have misread this situation and that this is not something people actually want. I am letting this thread die.
Fatigued Apollo?
Check the screenshots again. It treated his Apollo as if he only had one of the skills instead of both. Even if he was fatigued, his rolls shouldn’t have looked like that. If he was completely fatigued both his skills would’ve returned rolls like that. Not just one.
Apollo's Medicine proficiency is higher than his Command proficiency so even if he had been fatigued the Medicine roll would have been higher. It was just a random bug.
I know right?? Yo, check it out — this actually just happened to me:
Can you believe it? I had a 48% chance to win — that's almost 50%!! I can't believe how rigged this is!! Worst. Gauntlet loss. Ever.
SO ANGRY!!!!!!1!!1!!!!
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
Been waiting to use this one, seemed appropriate with your post.
Heh. And for some reason that reminds me of the song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia". The Voyager version might go something like this:
The Caretaker went down to the Badlands,
He was looking for a ship to steal
He was in a bind, 'cause he was way behind,
He was willing to make a deal...
...and then at some point there's a showdown between Caretaker on banjo and Harry on clarinet.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
OMG now I'll never not see it
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I did not get a shot of the pre-fight stats, but I was heavily favored. It took 6 for 6 crits for my opponent to barely win.[/quote]
I respectfully disagree. I play poker all the time. And it feels the same with losses in The Gauntlet. If I am heavily favored (90% or more) to win and still lose it feels like a bad beat.
And in poker I fully accept I am gambling, for money, and that risk is part of the core part of the playing. My mind set if prepared for that.
I do not want risk of loss and/or frustration in an IOS game I play for fun and entertainment.