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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I've missed a 95% hit probability from four squares away
whilst behind hard cover only to get sniped from across the map by a Thin Man the next turn.

It's got some form of pseudo-random number generator on it. Those percentages are not accurate.
(, Wed 31 Oct 2012, 11:11, 1 reply, 13 years ago)
How many times out of 100 did that happen though
Are you perhaps guilty of confirmation bias?
(, Wed 31 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)
Rather more than 5% of the time, for definite.
Though I will admit to not being scientific about it.
(, Wed 31 Oct 2012, 11:20, Reply)
This is how seriously some geeks took it.
forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?167396-Demystifying-the-XCOM-Enemy-Unknown-Psuedorandom-Number-Generator
the RNG is "ok"
(, Wed 31 Oct 2012, 11:21, Reply)

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