Bungie patched Destiny 2's weapon crafting glitch after a weekend of game-breaking chaos, but players have already found new "funny guns"
The weekend of September 15, 2023 may well go down as the most game-breaking period in Destiny 2's long and storied history of truly MMO-grade cheese.
A newly discovered weapon crafting glitch gave players the power to apply Exotic perks and entire weapon archetypes to any craftable weapon, turning even a simple Legendary auto rifle into a shotgun-style laser that can delete bosses with ease. Embracing the chaos, Bungie recognized that it couldn't get a fix out immediately and encouraged players to have fun with the community-dubbed "funny guns" while they could – including obliterating each other in Trials of Osiris, as the weekend PvP event wasn't canceled either.
"Please refrain from asking your local Destiny 2 triage developers how their weekend was," said no-doubt weary game director Joe Blackburn.
Like parents understandably taking fireworks away from out-of-control children, Bungie has since patched crafting to shut down the party. But in classic Destiny fashion, players have already found new, post-patch ways to ensure that the guns stay funny.
Beloved exploit scholar Cheese Forever has highlighted several funny guns that survived the latest patch, from bows with the fusion rifle perk Reservoir Burst to double Vorpal Weapon rocket launchers. These are considerably less powerful than the 'everything is a shotgun' creations that put the fear of god into Destiny 2's enemies over the weekend, but they're still well above the game's intended power curve.
The latest updates from the Bungie Help Twitter (X) account indicate that the crafting fixes are still ongoing, with a second fix coming to replace all the illegal perk combos. There's no doubt that the few still-burning funny guns will be stamped out before long,
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