LurkBait Twitch Fishing

incredible little minigame that keeps chat engaged and excited. super minimal on the pc, haven't ever had performance issues and really easy to set up with OBS! strongly rec for any streamers looking for an extra level of stream engagement

My chat doesn't even care what I am doing on screen anymore, they are just trying to beat each other on the leaderboard now. Highly recommend

Nice utility for streaming.

Personally I use it for "gambling" with channel points, using custom "fish" and having the rare catches give prizes to the winners.

There is something that I think this could definitely do better though, (and it's not customization, although yes, that would also be nice). There desperately needs to be some sort of documentation about how the weight/value/rarity affects the odds of the fish being caught. As mentioned above I use this utility for prizes, and as such REALLY would like to have fair odds. At the time of writing the only way to do this is to just cast hundreds of times, take statistics of the casts, then pray that you had "average" luck while testing.

If you want to know what my testing says:
-It appears that the "game" first determines the rarity of the fish, with common being the most common and legendary being the least.
-After the game has determined the rarity of the fish it will now calculate which fish to give of that rarity based on the gold/weight value of the fish (I think this is the case at least, but with no dev confirmation and a sample size of only a couple hundred I can't be 100% certain)
-Common/Uncommon/Rare all seem to be of approximately the same rarity in terms of how often it will be caught. Epic catches seem to have a catch rate of approximately 10%. Legendaries have a rate of about 3%
-"Heavier" fish (higher weight value) seem to be more rare than lighter fish, although it seems that under a certain weight threshold the lighter fish are less likely to be caught, meaning that there's a "sweetspot" for "average" catches based on rarity. I'm not confident enough in my knowledge of how this system works to openly give advice about this though, sorry.

I hope this review can be helpful to someone, thanks for reading.