Is the accuracy in this game suspicious to anyone else?

Tolerance: If you really have been here since Aug 2005, you should have seen a few "OMG Acc Nerfed" threads by now.

Accuracy and defense in this game are bunk.

Granted it's been a long time since I did any computer programming, so what I'm about to say may be a little dated, but I think this is probably the issue at work:

It's just a symptom of how computer random number generators work. After all, the numbers aren't truly random, but influenced by a random number "seed". As a result of how these algorithms work, computers can and often do get "stuck" in a range of numbers from time to time. This is why we have the streak breaker code. It's an attempt to limit how often and how hard this impacts the player.

So there's no intent by the Devs to cause the annoying streaks of missing we get on sometimes. It's just a limitation of computer technology they try to work around.

Mmm...

I have noted this in forums in the past, but I do not believe accuracy has been tempered with, but actually I suggest you actually have your chat screen display your combat rolls. I have noticed from time to time, my "random" number generator tends to get stuck in a relative range; I especially hate it when it seems to get stuck exclusively rolling between 90 and 100. And to add insult over injury the attacking mobs are also stuck rolling between 1 and 25...

While this aberrations do happen, its not frequent and are quite rare. When I see the so called random number generator mis-behave; I simply log out of the game and call it a night. By next day, it will be better...

Stormy

Ps: Of course the aberration has work for me as well, and I must confess to milking it.

I downloaded Herostats and used it for the first time last night on my level 12 defender.

I had a very pleasent evening getting her up to 14 and I seemed to be hitting all the time... Bill is right! It is a plot! But I'm on to them now, if I run the herostats they'll have to let me hit now or I'll have proof!!

Silliness aside, all of my powers hit an average of 91-98% of the time which is cool since I have enough accuracy DO's in them to have a "last to-hit" of 95% on all the blue-con minions I was fighting last night (diff -1, I have enough stress this week thank you).

This morning they were back to normal, all in the low 80's. But it WAS only 2 missions. I'll see how it plays out over time.

[Edit] LOVE the poster Arcana LOL

I'm still trying to figure out how my stalker's 4ft sword can miss from 3 feet away when she takes the time to aim (Assassin's Blade).

Or the psionic lance.. all your toon has to do is look at the enemy.. how does one -miss-?

Played my firey aura scrapper tonight. I was pleased all around during play although I've always felt the blazing aura wasn't worth the endurance drain.

When I got finished I reviewed the Herostats...
Player To-Hit Chance: Average for Blazing Aura = 83.55
Hits by Blazing Aura: 8
Misses by Blazing Aura: 142
Accuracy % for Blazing Aura: 5.33%

Heh... now that's pathetic. At least all the other powers look fine between 89 and 100%. Guess I better look at my slotting on the aura but the diff between 83 and 5 is... wow.

Speaking of Blazing Aura... anyone else notice that the aura is looking pretty anemic lately? It used to be a definite pulsing ring but now I just get one or two little pulsing jets.

Player To-Hit Chance: Average for Blazing Aura = 79.25
Hits by Blazing Aura: 4
Misses by Blazing Aura: 84
Accuracy % for Blazing Aura: 4.55%

Combined Accuracy for both days after 230 rolls... 5.22%

Perception.

Sometimes it's laughable how predictable it is.
Last night I was rolling along on my level 22 Brute, showing my friend the awesome Protean arc. He'd never seen COH before and I was showing him various things. After the arc I took a radio and let him sit at the controls for a mission or two. Doing my best to get him hooked.

So there he is rolling along without trouble, asking questions here and there. Then he saw that the inspiration tab was red. I explained that it was full and he opened it up and asked what various ones did.
He popped a few reds and enjoyed the bit of extra damage (one of them was tier2)
Then he asked what the yellow one did.

I laughed and told him "It makes you miss on your next attack"
He laughed and said "Why?"
I said, well actually it increases your accuracy for a short time...
but the 1st attack is gonna miss I promise.

Sure enough he popped the yellow and Whiff! Next attack hits, then Whiff.

"Well that one's useless." He laughed.

Perception. It's a killer.

Depending on the number of enemies you where facing, BA was probably eating up your misses. What was your overall/ laverage to hit and hit rate was.

Although if you haven't throwing in an Acc SO or IO in there would help your overall to-hit as it would increase your streakbreaker hits, most likely.

I published the numbers from Herostats. Average between the two sessions was around 81% chance to hit, actual accuracy was 5.22%. Granted that's only a couple of hundred tries but still. Seems strange when everything else's to-hit was hovering within a percent or two of the actual accuracy.

I was meaning your to-hit and actual accuracy for your charactr as a whole, not just blazing aura.

Ah, well other powers have to-hit in the 89-95% range and actual accuracy was the same. Blazing Aura is the lowest at around 81 because it has only 1 level 30 accuracy IO in it.

3rd session, other powers still spot on but Blazing Aura still unusually low:
Player To-Hit Chance: Average for Blazing Aura = 81.65
Hits by Blazing Aura: 9
Misses by Blazing Aura: 134
Accuracy % for Blazing Aura: 6.29%

And I know 4 of those hits were from a batch of level 5 Hellions in AP near a mission entrance. So after 364 attacks Blazing Aura's average accuracy to actually hit is 5.77%.

There's gotta be something wrong with that... right?