XCom 2 does cheat the rolls, after a few bad ones, in any difficulty other than Legendary (always in the player's favor). Firaxis calls it "Aim Assist".

In the previous game, it was possible to miss what was listed as 100% chance. It was actually a 99.5% chance, roundied to 100% in the display and then rolled against the true 99.5% (which misses about 1 in 200 tries). That gave them a bad reputation regarding percentages. XCom 2 uses the rounded number in its rolls, so a 100% is truly 100% now.

BG3: Let's give them an optional game mode where we artificially reduce the number of disastrous rolls in a row, just so they don't get frustrated at a string of bad luck that ends the game.
XCOM2: Let's just mess with them so that everyone playing the game gets suspicious of percentage chances. We did just buy stock in reddit after all.

Thank you that helped alot

Excellent explanation by EvilBob22, nothing to add.

Say you have a 40% chance of success to hack something. The game rolls a number from 1 - 100, and it has to be 40 or less for you to succeed. If you roll a 30, it shows the little animation ending at the 30 position on screen and yay, you did it. But, if you instead roll an 80, it secretly rolls again for a number between 41 and 100; let's say it got 45 this time. The animation shows the closer of the two rolls, ending at 45 on screen, so it almost gets to the cutoff line at 40. The idea is you get more moments of, "aww, that was so close!" even when the roll that counted wasn't that close.

This mod removes that extra roll when the roll fails. So, the animation always shows the initial roll that really counted (the 80).

Then, for fun, the author added in an option to do the opposite and add MORE rolls instead, so it's even more likely to get close to the line on screen. (And added a similar extra roll option for successes to do the same.)

Im sorry I'm stupid, can someone please explain to me what this mod does?, more detail the better.

Finally, the time has come

I love fudge, thanks for this mod.

Fudge Rolls you not the dm in this game

If you want the success to go exactly to the threshold you might as well have the failures do it too. Instead of returning the min/max of x number of rolls, return the target number +/- 1.

Or I guess you could just mod it further so a success will move the progress bar exactly up to the threshold, and no further, no need to roll to get that result.

Very nice mod, thanks!

@MrMister I would have also liked an unpredictable progress bar. However, it looks like it isn't defined in the .uc, but rather in a base game .upk, so it's that much harder to mod that.

And yes, config the fudge roll counts to high (say, 50), and they'll land closer to the boundary between failure and success. In fact, that's how I'll be playing at least for a while! It's not so much about how close you were, but that you can't be sure until the bar stops.

So if you set it to a high number of success fudges, does that mean you'll always feel like you're winning by the skin of your teeth?

Hah, I remember spewing this non-stop after I learnt about it too.


The real challange would be to make the progress bar able to bounce back from the end and back into failure.

Well, now what am I suppose to complain about!?

if one trolls, then one must troll to one heart's content.
Anyway, fantastic mod :)

@lordabizi not with this mod. It can be done (and I accidentally did while testing), but I don't know why you'd want that.

Can one fudge the rolls to show incorrect hacking results...