Future 2 developer now “investigating an mission” with RNG weapon perks, days after telling players there was once no mission in any admire

Future 2 developer Bungie has acknowledged it’s “investigating a possible concern inside [its] code for the way RNG perks are generated” regardless of beforehand assuring players there was once “no perk weighting lively for any legendary weapon perks in Future 2”.

For the closing week or so, Future 2 followers had been debating if the “god roll” for its latest grenade launcher, VS Loosen up Inhibitor – “Envious Arsenal” and “Bait and Swap” – was once being throttled. Regardless of each perks falling on different weapons with relative frequency, the prospect of getting VS Loosen up Inhibitor with each perks was once vanishingly slim, making some decide Bungie was once intentionally tipping the RNG scale to make sure this roll dropped very, very usually.

Cue “Weightgate”.

Initially, Bungie used to make sure: “Hey all, we had a dialog with our Sandbox of us this morning about this. There isn’t a perk weighting lively for any legendary weapon perks in Future 2,” the Future toughen workforce insisted on X/Twitter.

“We’ve got added perk attunement for Unique Class Gadgets in a latest replace, however that is a distinct system.”

The mission, nonetheless, turns into very now not liable to push aside within the event you study on the stats on websites delight in gentle.gg, a database that scrapes weapon perks from participant inventories (cheers, PC Gamer).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of days later Bungie posted to X/Twitter “relating to additional studies of perk weighting”, asserting that on the similar time as a result of it has “confirmed that there is no such thing as a intentional perk weighting on weapons inside our content material setup”, it acknowledged that one factor was once up, and was once “now investigating a possible concern inside our code for the way RNG perks are generated”.

“Many due to all gamers who’ve been contributing to information assortment throughout the neighborhood. This information has been monumentally useful with our investigation, and we’re presently engaged on inside simulations to substantiate your findings,” the workforce acknowledged.