r/DestinyTheGame • u/Soft_Light • Oct 24 '24

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. Media

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?

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u/EpicAura99 Oct 24 '24

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.

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u/OO7Cabbage Oct 24 '24

ok, have to point out one thing here, they could weight perks if they wanted to, it's just probably not done.

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u/EpicAura99 Oct 24 '24

The engine isn’t set up to do it, it wouldn’t a trivial change.

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u/OO7Cabbage Oct 24 '24

no, I mean if they wanted to, they could set it up, nothing to do with how easy or hard it might be, but they could do it.

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u/EpicAura99 Oct 24 '24

I mean sure there’s a lot of stuff you can do in software lol

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u/saibayadon Oct 24 '24

"Nothing is impossible, it just takes time"

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u/EpicAura99 Oct 24 '24

And moolah 💰

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u/Legitimate-Space4812 Oct 24 '24

And dev sanity

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u/EpicAura99 Oct 24 '24

That’s a lot cheaper though! 🙃

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u/OO7Cabbage Oct 24 '24

yeah, my point was more pedantic than actually trying to say anything.