I will concede, I can't tell you what you think is in your face or not and trying to do so has detracted from my original point. I have played a lot of games involving dice and when I read "95%" i literally think 2d10, because that's what it is. As for showing you the roll, XCOM has a problem with people yelling bullshit when they miss a 95% chance shot. Behavioural studies indicate that showing people the number they actually rolled will usually make them shut up and not be little shits about it. In this case, XCOM fails badly on this metric, with a whole cottage industry of people theorizing that the XCOM RNG is stacked either for or against them when they do well or poorly in a game, when the banal reality is, they're all random independent rolls.
edit: I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong for your beliefs, I'm trying to communicate why it seems like a bunch of other people are fine with it
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Lots of people do.
I will concede, I can't tell you what you think is in your face or not and trying to do so has detracted from my original point. I have played a lot of games involving dice and when I read "95%" i literally think 2d10, because that's what it is. As for showing you the roll, XCOM has a problem with people yelling bullshit when they miss a 95% chance shot. Behavioural studies indicate that showing people the number they actually rolled will usually make them shut up and not be little shits about it. In this case, XCOM fails badly on this metric, with a whole cottage industry of people theorizing that the XCOM RNG is stacked either for or against them when they do well or poorly in a game, when the banal reality is, they're all random independent rolls.
edit: I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong for your beliefs, I'm trying to communicate why it seems like a bunch of other people are fine with it