This is one of the biggest bugs in Destiny history.

Destiny 2 has one of the worst — and most hilarious — bugs in its history right now, allowing players to create guns with perks that are game-breaking in activities or PvP. Players can put shotgun frames on auto rifles, resulting in a weapon that obliterates someone in PvP in milliseconds due to the hugely reduced time to kill. Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2, says it’s working on a fix.

Lean into it Bungie…let that shit run wild for a few weeks.

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    ¯\(ツ)/¯

    I’m not sure what their long term plans are going to be, to be honest. Like you mentioned, they can reset the weapons, but they still need to figure out what to do regarding the result of those weapons. From a technical standpoint, they do track what weapons are used in activities - but I don’t know if they track the specific version of the weapon you’re using in the API, there is a weapon’s ID and then there’s an instance ID which is your specific copy of that weapon, which ties it to all the specific perks, applied shader, kill tracker, etc. If they track the instance IDs they might have a way to work through all of that data and find a way to reverse it (which like you also mentioned, will cause a lot of salt when the game is already in a… rough… state PR wise) but who knows.

    • ellotheth@artemis.camp
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      1 year ago

      They can absolutely track weapon instances through activities, so the question is more Is it worth it to individually reset affected activities and handle the side effects (e.g. you do a clan raid with a sparkle-pony weapon but your clanmate has all normal weapons, what happens to her triumph when you lose yours, etc.) or should we just blanket rollback and call it a day. Maybe they’ve already got processes in place to make the first thing easy, maybe they think it’s worth it to do the first thing regardless, maybe they’re happy to let everything stand as-is, I don’t know, but I’m probably not gonna play much this weekend heh.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        but I’m probably not gonna play much this weekend heh.

        Same here, I’ve had a few friends ask me if I have any plans to give it a go, and honestly I don’t think so. I’ve had fun with a lot of the broken things in the past, like “laser tag” weekend, 12-man raids, etc but this one doesn’t seem like one that I have much interest in stepping into lol