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9/18/2018 4:10:54 AM
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Y1 Gear Is (Once Again) Obsolete
Remember when The Taken King made all gear from D1, Dark Below and House of Wolves useless because they didn't gain infusion? It seemed like with Age of Triumph that Bungie realized that leaving gear and content behind is a mistake, when they brought y1 raids up to 390 and reprinted y1 loot with infusion.
It's obvious now that they didn't learn, and have done it again. Y1 armor can accept new mods, but doesn't have any armor perks, so there's no point in spending the arm-and-leg to infuse them up to y2 levels. And y1 weapons have the opposite problem: not having random rolls is ok because the static rolls on a lot of y1 weapons are actually pretty good even by y2 standards, but they can't accept the new mods.
I'm sure rewriting y1 armor to create random roll sets is harder than it sounds, I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Bungie since I don't know how to code. But we already had modding abilities on weapons during y1, if y1 armor can have old mods replaced with new mods, why can't weapons?
RIP Hollow Earth, I'm gunna miss you buddy.
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it is worse than that. Working in a games company, i realize that theres a lot of overhead when you need to introduce additional assets (and they would have to be considered new assets, in order to separate them from people who dont have forsaken expansion. Unless they would have an intelligent system in place to allow for one set of rolls for a non-Forsaken person, and a different set for the other.). BUT the biggest issue i see, is that they once again, rendered all that work that artists and engineers and cloth-sim guys did on the Y1 items, useless. instead of being smart, keeping the variety, and enabling us to use more than a few new sets of armor. Y1 armor is essentially equal to blues now. Again - a) some of the blues looks way better than the purples in Forsaken especially (obviously, subjective opinion, but seriously, what is the deal with Bungie thinking, that we want to wear the armor of our enemies, or cosplay them? I *just* killed them. doesnt that say i dont really fancy them that much? ^^), and b) the variety right now is really low. But I guess this goes along with how they won't introduce transmog, albeit being the clear logical choice. Partnering up with Blizzard, I would assume they would learn something from them, but that is not the case, painfully obvious now :/
