Dual Crystals are becoming a JOKE!
DuffMcGruff
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I have opened roughly 25-30 of these cosmic/tech dual crystals looking for Cap Marvel or Surfer for prestige (or even venom).
I have pulled the below champ to take him from sig 0 to sig 120... Yes i understand RNG, but this is getting a bit RIDICULOUS! It's ruining the game for me. But yet i keep getting another crystal because next time will be different... But it never is...
These crystals were supposed to be the next big thing!! But I'm tired of them already...
Sincerely,
Frustrated
I have pulled the below champ to take him from sig 0 to sig 120... Yes i understand RNG, but this is getting a bit RIDICULOUS! It's ruining the game for me. But yet i keep getting another crystal because next time will be different... But it never is...
These crystals were supposed to be the next big thing!! But I'm tired of them already...
Sincerely,
Frustrated
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Or any champ I'd use.
They bring me sadness.
Sorry bout the Goblin. Maybe he'll be buffed.
Across 25 dual class crystals, if you wanted just one of the champs, you’d have about a 40% chance of pulling him or her once over 25 crystals. If it was either of a pair of champs, your odds of pulling him or her once over 25 crystals improves to around 64%.
The calculation for pulling the same champ 6X over 25 dual crystal pulls is more complex, but it is fair to say that has a very, very low probability (I assume you mean 6X when you say your Goblin is now L120).
Repeated similar outcomes aren't impossible under pRNG systems. In fact, they may occur more so than we might think of as “normally random.”
While I do not doubt that some form of valid pRNG engine underpins the game, OP makes a point that is often made here: namely, that it “feels” like there are a lot of very rare results on the disadvantageous
side that pop up in game.
Observation bias? Something else? At some point, it is fruitless to speculate because we will never see the code.
But I will say that I empathize with OP, as does anyone else who has played this game for a period of time, because it does quite often seem like the odds aren’t in our favor—even when they should be.
Dr. Zola
All moot. Whatever pRNG the game uses works this way and it is futile to hope otherwise.
Dr. Zola
Likely just the tendency to broadcast bad results over good ones. Plus, it is reasonable to assume the forums sample population isn’t representative of the overall player base.
Still be nice to check the code, though.
Dr. Zola
You want 3/51. So 0.0588 chance.
At 30 attempts, you have an 83.76% to get at least one of those 3. Or a 16.23% chance at getting none.
To put that in perspective, it is more rare (12.5%) to flip a coin and get the same side 3 times in a row. We’ve all probably seen such an event happen.
That said, dual crystals are psychologically worse because you are targeting a specific champ or set of champs and even though the odds are better, the outcome you seek is still rare. It sort of amplifies the disappointment while also diminishing the perception of luck when you do get a great pull.
I, too, have been opening Tech/Cosmics. I got: Iron Patriot, Groot, Howard the Duck, Green Goblin. Then opened a basic from completing a variant and got Doom. The crystal I expected least from was the home run; go figure.
The odds of this thing happening basically round to zero. Like, a 0.00000049473% is theoretically possible, but I can understand OP's frustration when it happens.