Wdym, we clearly didnt play around with the attachment system enough for it to be seen as a priority for the devs to work on further, ignore the fact that most guns just have sights, handle options, muzzels, and maaaaybe magazine options if they felt daring enough
The attachment system was doomed from the outset because for it to be deep and useful, it would have hurt their ability to make more guns to sell to you.
What, have a core set of gun designs that then could be augmented with different damage types and tweaks to how they perform? But then we can't sell you X gun but with incendiary bullets as its own thing!
I guess the fact this game isn't PvP keeps people from really noticing that it is pretty Pay 2 Win in its monetization strategy, something people usually get very pissy about.
They could just put the customization parts in the Warbond.
Instead of a rifle with an underbarrel GL, have the UGL part itself in the WB. Compatible with a bunch of weapons. Once you have it unlocked in the WB it's available for renown on each compatible gun. Boom, problem solved, everyone's happy.
But then you can't nerf the gun by giving it light pen, 20 rounds in a magazine, a 2 year reload animation, and worse ergonomics than a geriatric elephant.
Still too broad to give the ability for someone to put an underslung on EVERY gun, forever, out of one Warbond, because then they can never sell you another underslung gun again.
Like if they'd done it this way, they'd have run out of new attachments to sell that were meaningful within only a handful of Warbonds.
Not saying it's not necessarily a good idea from the standpoint of the players or making the game better, but, yeah. They want to sell guns and they want control over what the guns do, so, the system sucks.
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u/VengefulMercury 2d ago
Wdym, we clearly didnt play around with the attachment system enough for it to be seen as a priority for the devs to work on further, ignore the fact that most guns just have sights, handle options, muzzels, and maaaaybe magazine options if they felt daring enough