Dice app update

By bsmith23, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

Thoughts?

Are you updating something?

Seems they’re sped up the physics for one, which means faster gaming (I like that).

And I do like how they’ve separated the dice groupings by game. It was getting cumbersome scrolling through that long list of all those dice to get to the ones I wanted :)

I also like the radial menu options. I have an iPhone 6s Plus, so I appreciate not having to move my hand to reach the top of the larger screen.

But it looks like they got rid of the conventional numbered polyhedrals, and that is disappointing, because they didn’t really need to do that. It used to be my favorite dice rolling app cuz it was pretty. And now I can’t use it to play my D20 Star Wars games (or any other non-Star Wars game).

Edit: also, the iPhone app icon looks kinda hokey, but that’s just my aesthetic tastes.

Edited by awayputurwpn

They still have the percentiles as an option in the 3 dots to the side, and a six sider. But I would like the rest back, too.

People are reporting that blank boosts are showing a 3 or 4 from the six sider.

Just use skyjedi's and be done with it his d1 bot also tracks strain, wounds etc.

Edited by TheShard
3 hours ago, awayputurwpn said:

Seems they’re sped up the physics for one, which means faster gaming (I like that).

And I do like how they’ve separated the dice groupings by game. It was getting cumbersome scrolling through that long list of all those dice to get to the ones I wanted :)

I also like the radial menu options. I have an iPhone 6s Plus, so I appreciate not having to move my hand to reach the top of the larger screen.

But it looks like they got rid of the conventional numbered polyhedrals, and that is disappointing, because they didn’t really need to do that. It used to be my favorite dice rolling app cuz it was pretty. And now I can’t use it to play my D20 Star Wars games (or any other non-Star Wars game).

Edit: also, the iPhone app icon looks kinda hokey, but that’s just my aesthetic tastes.

It looks like you can still add them to your suite in the Active Dice section in the General section at the bottom

The sound packs are gone, too. I like the new backgrounds.

1 hour ago, Jedi Ronin said:

It looks like you can still add them to your suite in the Active Dice section in the General section at the bottom

The only conventional RPG dice left are the percentile dice and the 6 sider. The rest are gone sadly. Also, now the sounds are all or nothing with no way to pick which ones you want.

It seems Advantage is showing before Success.

Surely Successes should show first, then Advantage, then Triumph, then the negative dice in a similar order once cancelled out?

1 hour ago, Andreievitch said:

It seems Advantage is showing before Success.

Surely Successes should show first, then Advantage, then Triumph, then the negative dice in a similar order once cancelled out?

It appears it's listing results in alphabetical order. It's not a problem once you get used to it and set the app to calculate results.

Boost die fixed

And another update, adding back all number dice, and changing the order of results! Thanks for listening, FFG!

Something i noticed on my devices is if there are too many results, thay can sometimes not show up on the screen. I wonder if they can make the row of results swipeable like the available dice.

You're limited to 20 total dice. I know you can't get that many for one roll but I was curious to see how many dice you could use.

It was 20 on the old version, too.

They've added poly dice back in, but no d4? Too hard, or no love for the pointy die?

7 hours ago, Andreievitch said:

They've added poly dice back in, but no d4? Too hard, or no love for the pointy die?

Mine has one...

1 hour ago, bsmith23 said:

Mine has one...

In the "updated app" it's yellow and is actually just an 8 sided die numbered 1 thru 4 twice.

5 hours ago, warchild1x said:

In the "updated app" it's yellow and is actually just an 8 sided die numbered 1 thru 4 twice.

In a previous update they explained they had to switch to the double 4 D8s because there was some kind of physics issue with the traditional D4 model.

21 hours ago, bsmith23 said:

It was 20 on the old version, too.

So no change then. Good. I wasn't aware of the die limit in the previous version.

6 hours ago, Ghostofman said:

In a previous update they explained they had to switch to the double 4 D8s because there was some kind of physics issue with the traditional D4 model.

Ha! Got it...explains everything :)

It looks like they've added back standard dice to the app as options.

Still no way to change sounds/special effects.

But it's more usable (since the update).

I wish the dice app could handle the signature abilities that let you change dice results. You can change the result you got, but you can't limit it to the eligible faces of the dice, and if you're changing a boost or setback you can't even limit it yourself because you can't see the other faces.

Thats why you need @SkyJedi's dice roller it does all that and more.