How to test XCOM “dice rolls” for fairness

Win-Vector Blog 2013-03-15

Summary:

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn based video game where the player choses among actions (for example shooting an alien) that are labeled with a declared probability of success. Image copyright Firaxis Games A lot of gamers, after missing a 80% chance of success shot, start asking if the game’s pseudo random number generator is [...]

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Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 20:11

Date published:

12/11/2012, 12:35