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/DrainLegacy Kamehameha Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24
I reckon the RNG system in this game had always been tied to a Time-based RNG
Ever since Forsaken, when I joined the game. Getting multiple drops at the same time would be EXTREMELY likely to be duped if the same item dropped. Be it raids like Leviathan (especially common in raids since 6 ppl would receive rewards at the same time) or double drop events like Double Loot Nightfall. If two engrams drop as the SAME time and they were the SAME weapon, the 3rd and 4th column would likely be EXACTLY the same (first row for guns with multiple rolls). The barrel and magazine perks would always be random AFAI remember.
I bet somewhere during TFS development, they switched their old Time-based RNG to a new Time-based one, and this new one is "skipping frames" in some sense, that's why we get this distinguishable diagonal pattern