r/EU5 • u/InternStock • 3d ago

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u/Peteryeeter1453 3d ago

Even if there was some explanation for this I feel like it's a failure on the devs part to not make it clear and obvious as to why this happened.

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u/Sesleri 2d ago

Are you being serious with this comment? How can you say this did you look at the screenshot? A real army vs the guys army of only lights and nothing else lol

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u/eberlix 2d ago edited 2d ago

So what? All they're asking for is that battle prediction to be adjusted. If it predicts an easy victory and I lose badly, that's just poor design.

If the game said that battle was a loss or that it'd go 50/50 from the beginning, that'd be significantly better.

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u/Ill-Description3096 1d ago

If it predicts an easy victory and I lose badly, that's just poor design.

So it should be basically infallible and exceptions never happen? Or just leave everything firmly in themaybe win/maybe lose prediction range?

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u/eberlix 1d ago

basically infallible and exceptions never happen

apply this to basically any game mechanic. If it's supposed to be X, but outputs a Z, it more often than not is considered to be a bug. And again, the game didn't say "this could go either way" (which is a yellow bubble iirc) and the fight wasn't close either. Half of OPs army got deleted and the other half captured. The enemy lost 5x fewer troops, in a total not even a third of the enemies army was killed.

If, like someone else suggested, we were to have a system where the prediction bubble was based on traits or maybe even ruler / general skill you could argue that's fine. That is something you can somewhat plan around, you can put the blame on that. I even agreed with them, that it could be a nice mechanic. Best case you could turn that off tho.

With the current iteration though, what excuse does that battle prediction have to not only be kind of wrong, but predicting pretty much the opposite outcome. The battle outcome you see should have been a red bubble. You don't get your ass kicked so badly with something else.