Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced plans to temporarily disable players from using crafted weapons in a bid to get on top of an in-game glitch.
After acknowledging that players could give Legendary guns Exotic traits – essentially circumventing the game's usual balance systems and allowing players to equip what is, in essence, three exotic weapons at once – Bungie confirmed over the weekend that it's «working on two fixes» that it hopes will address the issue.
The first is a server-side update that will disable all crafted weapons from being equipped, after which the team will address «illegal» weapons by resetting them «to a default state».
The team also confirmed that it was not going to disable Trials of Osiris because of this issue, and there were «no plans for a rollback», either.
UPDATE: We're working on two fixes for this issue. There are no plans for a rollback.For the first fix, deploying within the next 24 hours, we’re building a server-side update that will disable all crafted weapons from being equipped. Players will still be able to craft weapons… https://t.co/cFxZaCQ5j4September 16, 2023
«We're aware of an issue that allows specific weapon perks to be crafted 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 posted to social media.
The team confirmed that the sever-side update is expected to deploy in the next 24-hours or so, and although players will still be able to craft during this time, they won't be able to equip any of these newly crafted weapons in-game (sorry, Guardian).
There's no specific deadline for when crafted weapons will be re-enabled, either, but Bungie says it hopes to do this step
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