Interesting D2 Weapon Hints - Intriguing. (Destiny)

by Blackt1g3r , Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Monday, June 26, 2017, 15:40 (2796 days ago) @ dogcow

I front paged it just now, but I wanted to highlight a point of interest from the interview:

"[T]he tuning path is pretty different this time. The weapons are all hand built in a way where, before, they had random talents– We can look at an entire archetype like hand cannons. And then we can look at data on usage rates for hand cannons, and sort usage rates, and then within usage rates, check [kill death ratios] per hand cannon and find out what is actually effective and what’s not.
And then, because the weapons are all hand built, we can take a given hand cannon and say “let’s change this one hand cannon” rather than “let’s pave this entire archetype.” So we have opportunities in front of us that we haven’t had before because of the way we’ve built the weapons and hopefully we’ll seize those opportunities."

Seems to imply the weapons won't have random perks doesn't it? Pretty interesting either way.

I have always disliked how random the guns were. I hope this means weapon names will have greater meaning. As in, "Oh, sweet! I got a ABCXYZ! That's a great gun." Instead of "Oh, I got a BBQPDQ, I hope it's a good roll!" (double rng = :( and it's only good with certain perks = loss of meaning).

I think you are reading too much into what he is saying here. (See my other post)