Gearheads of War

The game has gone Gold, the wedding rings have been exchanged, the bride kissed, and with the money down on our pre-orders, the marriage has been all but consummated, so to speak. However, in a recent interview with Cliff, it was explicitly stated that randomness will continue to live in the new code.

   It's pretty simple, two guys engage in a duel after both of them enabling their chainsaws and whoever presses the B button the fastest in the 2 second time frame has the highest chance of winning.  There's still a little bit of randomness in there which is okay to have, when you look at poker or blackjack there's the random shuffling of the deck.

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I provided the above quote in a thread in a different diary and got no response, none at all, and that baffles me.  Every single night we play, I hear complaints about this didn't register, or that should have happened.  Furthermore, on several occasions, I have asked people to submit questions that would probe into this "X-Factor" that Cliff mentioned a long time ago.  Nobody asks those questions, and even people who aren't in the position to ask, tell me, it is fixed, and that my question is irrelevant: that Gears 1 was just broke and that all has been fixed for Gears 2.  

Yet, when I read that skirmishes are going to be determined a little like the "shuffling" of a deck of cards, I assume that that means there will be a line of randomizing code in there.  From there, I draw the conclusion, that the player with the most skills or the fastest button mashing abilities isn't always going to win for Gears 2, the same as it is in Gears 1.  That, indeed, shenanigans are going to continue to exist.  

Isn't that what the above quote means?  Am I reading too much into what is said there?  I mean, "shuffling of the deck"?  That sounds pretty frickin' random to me.  I am reminded of the Coin that Zoso mentioned we should have been given with Gears 1.  On one side Locusts, on the other, COG.  At the beginning of every match, we should just toss the coin to see who wins.  I thought it was an absolutely HILARIOUS idea and that maybe Epic should come out with a Commemorative Coin on the second year anniversary of Gears 1.

Hey, from the beginning, being decidedly not a AAA player, I have always been on the side benefiting from that line of code, so you won't hear BOO from me, but it doesn't bother any of you?  Because it sure seems like it does when we play!  There are very few Gearheads that don't whine and moan almost the whole evening about how THEY should have gotten the kill.  Why is it then, that this statement by Cliff, doesn't seem to bother any of you?