# Anyone else noticing Devour doesn't work right in pet quest?
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PlayStation 4/Xbox One)
**Created:** [May 21, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848 "2018-05-21T04:54:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Changer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Changer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/41 "2018-05-30T22:08:00Z")
I’m saying that the feeling is accurate because there really is a tendency to experience 4-5 misses in a row between experiencing any hits. I’m not saying that it should be a smooth perfect distribution of hits to misses, but the tendency to clump is clearly far from what one should expect, and does have an impact on gameplay.
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### Author:  [@Amadan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Amadan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/42 "2018-05-30T22:16:59Z")
> [@Changer](#):
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> there really is a tendency to experience 4-5 misses in a row between experiencing any hits
No. No, there is not:
> [@Changer](#):
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> - Miss
> - Hit
> - Miss
> - Hit
> [@Changer](#):
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> - Miss
> - Hit
> - Miss
> - Hit
> - Miss
> - Hit
> [@Changer](#):
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> - Miss
> - Hit
> - Miss
> - Hit
> - Miss
It did happen a few times, yes. **That’s how randomness works. It was _not_ a “tendency”**. Seriously dude, your _very own data_ proves you’re wrong.
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### Author:  [@Changer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Changer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/43 "2018-05-30T22:32:30Z")
You are talking past me at an argument of your own creation. What I am saying is that it alternates between long streaks and alternations at too regular of intervals. Not only that, but the tendency is for a streak to occur ALMOST exclusively for misses, while hits are almost always broken up. If we say 3+ of the same result in a row is a streak, 7 negative streaks occurred, and only one positive streak occurred, which puts streaks far below the 40/60 balance at 12.5%.
While it does reach close to a 40/60 balance when added all up, the tendency to have such frequent streaks and to have streaks favor one outcome over the other almost exclusively demonstrates a problem with the RNG.
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### Author:  [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/44 "2018-05-30T22:41:00Z")
Lol seriously 3% just drop it
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### Author:  [@Changer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Changer)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/45 "2018-05-30T22:47:30Z")
It’s not about the 3% off from the overall percentages. It’s about the unusually regular long streaks. A good RNG should not do that. If you go on [random.org](http://random.org) and pull 60 numbers between 1-10, with 4 and less being hits and 5+ being misses, it won’t be nearly as regular and streaky as these result are. I know. I checked several pulls.
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### Author:  [@Stan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/46 "2018-05-30T23:04:35Z")
Please try to understand that you are looking at an extraordinarily small sample of results. Whatever you see in your sample does not define the behavior of the RNG. Run another 60, or 600, results and you will see lots of things in the data. There will be streaks, there will be alternations. There will be these things because nothing else is possible. If you run a large enough sample, you will eventually see 10 hits in a row, or 20 misses, but these things, as improbable as they are at any given time, are proof of nothing.
The only way there is a problem with the RNG is if, over a very large sample, it does not return an average rate of approximately 40% or if any given roll is not independent of other rolls.
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### Author:  [@Mithran](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mithran)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/47 "2018-05-30T23:12:19Z")
True randomness is inherently streaky.
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### Author:  [@Gouki](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Gouki)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/48 "2018-05-30T23:26:49Z")
And the streaks tending to be longer/more often for the result with the higher distribution (60% misses to 40% hits) is normal too.
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### Author:  [@TheDragonSeoul](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheDragonSeoul)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-else-noticing-devour-doesnt-work-right-in-pet-quest/39848/49 "2018-05-31T00:29:33Z")
> [@Changer](#):
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> **_I’m saying that the feeling is accurate._**
That stood out to me.
You’re not incorrect in your assessment, but it _is_ just a feeling after all…
Don’t fret, as the game will love you again. Such is the nature of this game’s RNG. 🙂
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