Did they do something with the AI? In auto duels it seems to do even more stupid things than before, like using Mirror Wall instead of Windstorm when MW didn't drop the ATK of the attacking monster low enough to survive, while WoE wold have let me at least have another turn.
They made our AI dumber.....and made the opponent AI ridiculously strong with fixed perfect hand. And even if we don't pick auto-duel and do it manually, we'd often brick/has dead hand like the event is intentionally heavily rigged in favor of the opposing AI.
If we're getting a survey for this event I'm so going to put a ton of complaints.
It's not nonsense at all, the opponent AI in my game is not the same AI in your game.
All we do in this event is uploading our deck for the opposing AI in my game to use. You don't upload the AI as well alongside your deck, the game already has an AI to use.
All Konami has to do, is program the AI in our game to always has perfect hand when using other people's deck, and acting dumb when using our own deck.
I know this is possible, I learned about game making in college.
"AI in my game and AI in your game". Your complaint sounds like only you that being treated unfairly. Opponent AI is other PLAYER AI yo do get that right?
Auto-duel is rigged. It has to be. If it isn't, you just get the same results in half the time.
So Konami fudges the RNG a little bit. They make cards work inconsistently enough that you think "maybe it's just faulty AI - an AI system for auto-duel has got to be hard to develop, after all".
Then boom. Your cards only work half or one third the time, if the game wants them to.
To clarify, if you get bad results from your dueling, it artificially increases the time you spend playing the game, and draws out the time you need to reach your goals. Then you may even fork over money for duel orbs, which is just profit for Konami. It's either that or increased time spent with Konami's app.
Either way, Konami wins. It's like a casino, or the ring toss.