@ Wumpbugler
I disagree with everything you said, first off this is a Tide (not an aarpg this is unique even is big broo L4D is really different of the baby of FS) game so when the game went out everyone was expecting about something similar or better than VT2.
VT2 isn’t perfect by any mean but they have the best loot box system existing i have ever seen so far. So to get weapon this is quite easy, just smash rat finish mission get your loot box.
The loot box gave 3 random items depending of the quality of the chest.
that you could be improve with dice that was drop by monster and boss, book like grimoire and scripture, there is the quickplay bonus and a random bonus that we call ranald luck (could be call Cegorach luck in darktide).
In the chest you can get different type of rarity item including cosmetics btw
In darktide we get 1 random item depending on the difficulties and that it … the item is bad because of the rating system you are really unlikely to get a good weapon well roll. So that mean we don t speak about 3% of power but like a good 20% or more depending on the luck.
So already the way to get weapon by mission is bad the only use for those weapons is to strip out those blessing and at 90% of time you can’t even because you already have it … you are stuck with bad weapon that you don t even want to sell because of really bad payback you will get from those.
Then you have cratfing, in darktide we miss the salvage option of the weapon to get or component back … In VT2 you could salvage to get your upgrade dust back … in darktide you can only sell your weapon for nothing compare how much you invest in them …
In VT2 you could CRAFT a weapon from scratch in darktide you can t … you need to go to brunt and buy an ridiculous amount of the same weapon until you get the weapon rating you want and well allocate.
In VT2 we have blessing (only one per weapon and we call them trait) this isn’t new !!! and there no damn lock you can replace whenever you want the blessing of your choice
same for the perks XD
So to conclude my point it isn’t the fact i don t have 3% of power creap that make a difference because there is already so much brocken stuff in the game (ogryn bleed ^^, assail, unlimited cleave shotgun, rending etc …) it is the fact i expect to Fatshark to make a game that will be better that what they done before with VT2 and they fail so far even the melle combat of VT2 is better you can’t argue about this btw.
and btw for certain meme build those 3% make the diff you are the kind of poeple using OP stuff and tell other to don t experiment because your stuff exist. I don t like this mentality i think it s a very boring thought. i like compose and made interresting meme build that WORK and compete with META .
there is no mod that change the power of your weapon what are you talking about … you clearly are a newcomer in this game type you don t know how mod work and how server work so please inform yourself.
If needed i can bring more screenshot from darktide to make my point