Mates, I know "Ackchyually "-ing each other and guestimating suppositions on what FS mean in their scarce communication is a favorite passtime around here, but at least “Ackchyually” properly and fully, for the sake of the argument.
That said, I see what you mean. Just because they said it, doesn’t mean it means what we think they think we thought it means…
See, I’d interpret “With the new system we want to remove a lot of the unpredictable grind that came from an RNG heavy system whilst giving players more agency and a steady manner to progress toward specific loadouts, blessings, and stats refinement.” as, well, less RNG and control over which blessings I can swap around. It’d also read “stats refinement” as the ability to increase certain STATS on my weapon. But my readings have been wrong before, as has been the entire community’s…
My money is on - Locks are staying. But I say this mostly to be wrong again and actually gain something out of it…