![]() It's the reason that games like poker and Underlords are so much fun! You get the amazing highs of your 3* kunka and hitting your straight on the river but you're also going to get coolered sometimes. Whoever is able to do so consistently will be rewarded. I look it as rewarding whoever is able to adapt to the change faster and more competently. I love that the devs are willing to change things up and turn the game on its head. Getting 4th of 5th place in a game where you're getting coolered instead of 8th is the difference. I understand that some people might feel that success is now MORE reliant on rng after the recent patch but true skill and "rank" will never be reliant on rng. The true telling factor is how you respond and deal with the variance in each situation.Īll the top poker pros live in this high variance world and make lots of money by understanding this and always trying to make decisions with the highest expected value. In fact I'd say with 8 players you are likely to be more unlucky than at least one or two of them. ![]() Sometimes you're going to get coolered in games like autochess and underlords. It's called getting coolered and it's unavoidable. You're going to lose even though you're better at the game. Sometimes you'll get dealt pocket aces and there's nothing you can do against the fish who flopped bottom set. ![]() Poker, specifically no-limit hold 'em, has wildly higher variance and it never receives a patch or gets a gameplay update. To be a good player you have to manage the variance and push through it. Over time you will receive the same luck and unluckiness as anyone else. What it boils down to is that sometimes, if not often, randomness, not skill will determine who succeeds in individual instances. Last week it was "Whoever gets the legendaries first wins" and now it's "Whoever high rolls early wins". "I've been seeing a lot of complaints last week and immediately after this patch. A reddit user by the name of jakOfhartsNA made a very good post about this topic on reddit and I just wanted to share it here on the steam board:
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