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/EpicAura99]

This it about what I expected, both sides are telling the truth. There’s no way to weight perks, and the distribution is off. It’s like how the Skyrim devs debunked the popular myth that following foxes led you to new locations, except since fleeing creatures pick a random nearby nav point to flee to, and there are more nav points at locations, it did unintentionally work out that way.

[u/McCaffeteria → u/EpicAura99]

both sides are telling the truth.

The difference is that one side knows what the fuck they are talking about, has a universe worth of experience over the other, and has the data to back it up, and the other side are ignorant devs who confidently assert that it’s impossible and think that players don’t know anything.

I have been saying it for days and I will keep saying it: players are more knowledgeable about games than the devs who make them. When players say something you shut the fuck up and listen, because you will never have as much hands on experience as the hive mind can accumulate over the span of a single day.

[u/Rider-VPG → u/McCaffeteria]

If anyone is going to have more data, it's the devs.

[u/McCaffeteria → u/Rider-VPG]

The only way you can say that with a straight face is if you are being willfully ignorant of the situation unfolding before your very eyes.

[u/Rider-VPG → u/McCaffeteria]

The developers who have access to every bit of data related to the game

Vs

Players who have to crowdsource data.

Tell me again who has more data?

[u/ImReverse_Giraffe → u/McCaffeteria]

Dunning Krueger talking right here.