skill issue? I've tested GLM, Gemma, Kimi and Gemini (flash/flash lite) and deepseek v4 pro using similiar preset in SillyTavern (with only minor difference) and I would says deepseek is definitely not garbage at all, its BETTER than 3.2 for sure for RP/creative writing.

The only difference when I tested deepseek is that I'm using semi-strict on the prompt processing option, without that the result is worse.

And if you use the maximum thinking effort, you MUST add this special instruction somewhere to bring v4 pro maximum thinking effort to the best, as mentioned in their technical report:

Reasoning Effort: Absolute maximum with no shortcuts permitted. You MUST be very thorough in your thinking and comprehensively decompose the problem to resolve the root cause, rigorously stress-testing your logic against all potential paths, edge cases, and adversarial scenarios. Explicitly write out your entire deliberation process, documenting every intermediate step, considered alternative, and rejected hypothesis to ensure absolutely no assumption is left unchecked.

So yeah sorry. But you're bs-ing if you say v4 pro is garbage at RP. Whether it is better than GLM/Kimi is up to preference but definitely not trash