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What’s better: random critical hits, or controlled crits?A question of chance
A question of chance
Last time, you decided thatlittle inconsequential choices are better than controlling a turret. I am pleased that quite a few people did actually pick turrets. But this week, in the name of experimentation, I’m trying an approach that seems frankly inefficient. What if we… picked between two similar things? While I can’t imagine many will think this good, let’s give it a go, for science. Tell me, what’s better: random critical hits, or controlled critical hits?
Random critical hits
Dare I even dream of this bigger number?
There you are, happily making numbers happen, when out of nowhere,AN EYECATCHING BIGGER NUMBERhappens. This number could be37, for example. Or perhaps37!so you know you’re meant to shout it aloud (and I trust you do, every time). It could even be37. Or god,37!But what if37? Or even37!? I need to sit down for a second, calm my heart, rest my throat from all this shouting. Wait, what if the game itself made a special noise to celebrate me and my eyecatching bigger number? Oh gosh.
At heart, video games are just tricks to make something fun out a computer doing sums, and what could be more elegant than a random number generator becoming a source of delight?
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Controlled crits
One model of human history is that when our ancestors flopped out of the primordial ooze, they unknowingly began a journey towards order. Across countless aeons and lifeforms, we modelled many facets of the world, began to recognise patterns, to bend patterns in our favour, to call our mastery of patterns ‘knowledge’, and to declare chaos passé. Surely the endpoint of this model of civilisation is wrestling critical hits from the clutches of randomness. If the miserable pile of tingly sand in your computer wants control of37!, it can perform its own damn abiogenesis like the rest of us.
But which is better?
As much as I adore the skill of controlling my own crits, I think FPS announcers shouting “Headshot!” is super embarrassing, and I curse other games copying it as well as the people who modded it into games which wisely chose not to. Random crits it is!
The little embedded voting doodad seemed to work well last time, so let’s continue with that.
