u/Dinesh_Sairam

Like everyone else here, I learned from this reddit and YouTube shorts that the "Thumbs up and elbow down while serving" is a sign of cheating (I guess the game also kind of explains it during the Yann gambling mission).

But over multiple attempts of playing the card (stick?) games, I've figured out that there is a second way to identify cheating in the gambling mini games. Now, this may already be well known in the community. So be kind to me in the comments if that's the case.

The second method is to notice them when they're dropping their sticks on the table once the round is done.

• If they're dropping the sticks with one hand from an elevated position and with a tinge of attitude, they're not cheating
• If they're holding the sticks with both hands and carefully placing them on the table from a lower height, they're cheating
• EDIT: According to a few comments below, apparently dropping the sticks with the left hand is legit and dropping them with the right hand is cheating. I never noticed this specifically. But they always hold the sticks with both their hands and look suspiciously slow while dropping them.

I'm not sure if this is applicable to all the players at the table, but I usually just notice the person who just won the round (Turn to the person quickly after the scores show up, or you might miss the animation!)

The way I found this out is that every time a round was done, the "Accuse" option would show up for a couple of seconds. I started wondering if there's something happening with the players and eventually found this pattern.

This helps because you can accuse one of the players who didn't serve that round. So if the stars align, you can catch 2 cheaters within 5-10 minutes.

Have fun tripling / quadrupling your money even faster now!

I've been a vocal proponent of the fact that most weapons in this game are just skins and that a random bandit sword can be refined to be as strong as a sword made form the scales of the Serpent of Knowledge. But there's always been a majority on this subreddit who are of the opinion that that's somehow okay in an action adventure game.

In the recent patch, PA added Abyss Gear slots to a bunch of weapons such as the Kuku Spears and the Electro-Mecha Longsword. It's unsurprisingly become very fun to use these weapons now.

This proves the point that some of the special / legendary weapons should absolutely have some sort of mechanic, stat distribution or ability to make them more fun to use. For instance, I would love to see a Longsword that has a really high Attack stat (Say 53), but negative Attack Speed (Say -7). You get the idea.

Obviously not every weapon has to be unique. But it's funny that a weapon called the "Dekkar sword" is in the same power scaling range as a weapon called the "Righteous Verdict", which was guarded inside a secret vault by a powerful faction of enemies. It just does not make any sense.

EDIT:

So many comments about weapons only serving the purpose of 'drip' in this game. But even with that purpose alone in mind, I've seen people using a certain set of weapons far more than others (Ex: I'm confident users of Spears use The Vow of the Dead King far greater than they use the other spears/halbreds, because it looks so much cooler). All I'm asking for an additional lens of unique attributes and/or stats on top of that utility of drip. I don't hate the current system. I just think it can have a further level of depth to it. Why not have one or the other, when we can have the best of both worlds? (At least wish for it, anyway)