Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player’s favor: ‘anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed’

When Firaxis’s XCOM remake came out a constant complaint in the comments was that its random number generator was clearly cheating against players. Someone would miss a 95% chance, or God forbid a couple of them, and confidently declare that Jake Solomon was personally tweaking the probability to fuck with them.Of course, that wasn’t the…

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Pokémon streamer’s Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K

Pokémon are everywhere right now. Turn away from the marketing blitz for Pokopia for a second and you’ll see imitators like Pickmon, a knock-off so shameless it makes Palworld seem restrained, and Aniimo, which combines Pokémon-esque design and gacha mechanics like there was an explosion at the cynicism factory.Wonderful Neoran Valley does actually seem like…

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