Can we all agree that Dice Poker is broken?

[username_3235997]

They should fix it so the dice never fall off the board.

 

[227]

They should fix it so the dice never fall off the board.

I actually really enjoyed that part of it. The first time it happened was frustrating, but later on one of the AIs actually managed to throw some of the dice off the board. Easy win. It really adds to the realism, and it's not too difficult to keep the dice on the board so long as you avoid quick mouse movement.

It still seems rigged, though. On vanilla 1.0, I played through every dice poker sidequest and didn't lose a single game until chapter 3. After 1.3, I'm losing to people in the prologue. Was that really just luck? Should have bought some powerball tickets or something.

 

[yuikami]

They should fix it so the dice never fall off the board.

I don't think they should 'cause every time I play, I keep hoping for the AI to throw them off the board. LOL

/high5 227

 

[Aaden]

But it's NOT a card poker, it's a dice poker. It's different...5,5,1,1,1 vs 3,3,2,2,2. First one wins,because the sum of dices is higher.

As plausible as this sounded at first, it is not true. I just lost with 66622(=22) against 33366(=21).

 

[GuyNwah]

As plausible as this sounded at first, it is not true. I just lost with 66622(=22) against 33366(=21).

I got similar results. It's evaluating "full house" rolls without considering the triplet vs. the pair. Thus you lost sixes over deuces to sixes over treys.

Is it my imagination, or has anyone else noted from 1.3 on, that if the AI throws the dice off the board, they get picked up and counted anyway, but if you throw them off the board, they're out of play?

 

[passionata]

I don't gamble. I prefer to kill things and sell their parts for money.

Hehe you the only one in here correctly RPing a TRU witcher?
Ohh wait make that two I never let "my" witcher gamble (if a quest does not force my Geralt into it).
Witcher's are monsterhunters not gamble addicts I so wish that my Geralt could threaten to kill folks who want to pay him in coin instead of some hard to come by crafting materials,diagrams or weapons/armor something to eat a roof over his head etc. etc. ...

 

[reaper004]

I mean mathematically broken. Three times now I've "lost" when two full houses land and mine is the better. CDP, just so you guys all know, the hierarchy in 5 card poker hands is thus: two players have a full house? Winner is decided by which player's 3 of a kind is higher, NOT which player rolls the full house first. I know, to most it's a minor quibble, but I really like playing poker and even though you make peanuts playing it in Tw2 (a squandered opportunity from a design perspective, imo. most people don't ever even bother to play once the quests are completed because you can't bet properly) I still play for RP purposes.

The economy as a whole needs a lot of work, but fixing the broken poker algorithm is easy stuff. Even if you don't care about the rules of the game, it's just a polish issue (that's polish as in Lemon Pledge, not as in Tomasz Gop), so why not?

Agreed for a different reason... I'm tired of rolling three of a kind just to lose cuz they get Yahtzee in one roll... Happens 50% of the time... lol