Destiny 2 players will soon no longer be allowed to equip handcrafted weapons
Lot 2 Developer Bungie has announced plans to temporarily disable players from using crafted weapons in an attempt to fix an in-game glitch.
After acknowledging that players can give legendary weapons exotic properties – bypassing the game’s usual balancing systems and allowing players to essentially equip three exotic weapons at once – Bungie confirmed this weekend that it is “working on two fixes ” that it The hope will solve the problem.
The first is a server-side update that will make all crafted weapons unequippable, after which the team will tackle “illegal” weapons by resetting them “to a default state.”
The team also confirmed that it would not be disabling Trials of Osiris due to this issue, and that there were also “no plans for a rollback.”
UPDATE: We are working on two fixes for this issue. There are no plans for a rollback. For the first fix, which will be deployed within the next 24 hours, we are building a server-side update that will make all crafted weapons unequippable. Players can still craft weapons… https://t.co/cFxZaCQ5j4September 16, 2023
“We are aware of an issue allowing specific weapon perks to be incorporated into other Legendary weapons and are investigating a fix, which will result in these weapons being reset in the future,” the studio explained via a statement on social media.
The team confirmed that the server update is expected to roll out in the next 24 hours, and while players will still be able to craft during this time, they won’t be able to equip any of these newly crafted weapons in the next 24 hours.
game (sorry, Guardian).
There’s also no specific deadline for when crafted weapons will be re-enabled, but Bungie says it hopes to implement this step of the process “soon after the first.
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Bungie also took the opportunity to remind players that anyone who “discovers an exploit in the game” will not be banned or subject to in-game restrictions, but that the “use of third-party scripting and network manipulation tools will still be prohibited.” violations and are subject to security review”.
If it’s been a while since you last jumped into Bungie’s massive (and hugely complex) sci-fi shooter, Lot 2s game director Joe Blackburn recently promised a free PvP map next year following the negative response to a recent State of the Game post in which Bungie stated that the studio did not have the resources to release more than one PvP map per calendar year.
As you might expect, the post didn’t go down too well with the community: Bungie is owned by megacorp Sonyafter all – and Blackburn apologized for that Lot 2 players.
Even the most dedicated Destiny 2 player should check out our guide to the best Destiny 2 PvE weapons.