The Perk-Distribution Bug has existed since at least Final Shape, 4 months ago. It just didn't happen on any popular perk combinations, so it flew under everyone's radar.

[u/Soft_Light]

https://x.com/mossy_max/status/1849246476041605224

"There's no reason that Moving Target + Threat Detector should be 17x more likely than MT + Repulsor Brace."

Truthteller was reissued when Final Shape came out. Notoriously, it was panned as a pretty shitty reissue, with no good rolls, no clearly defined god roll, and overall just everyone moved on and ignored it.

However, even on Truthteller, the perk distribution is night and day. This is the exact same bug that's on Chill Inhibitor.

It's just that nobody was crying they couldn't get "Harmony + Grave Robber" on the GL. Out of tens of thousands of drops, only 161 people got Danger Zone + Elemental Capacitor.

That is fractions of a percent.

This bug has existed for a while. It's only just now, just this season, just recently, that it's finally happened to a meta defining god roll trait combination.

How long as this been in the system?

[u/MagusUnion]

Honest Question: From a programming perspective, when do the guns get the perks on them?

Because it doesn't seem like it's at the same time as when the activity is actually completed.

[u/Soft_Light → u/MagusUnion]

Based on how people have been able to store pre-determined engrams (such as exotics back when lost sectors dropped specific slotted armor), I think it's at the moment the engram is decrypted.

[u/MagusUnion → u/Soft_Light]

Ah, yeah, I think you are right. I used to do that myself once upon a time. So there is some proof that choices have been silo'd in the past.

So now the question is how far into the RNG chain are the choices being silo'd? Because if the loot reward system is rolling against every possible weapon combination, then roll variance should be higher than it is now.