Have you considered adding weapon customization? There’s a mod that allows it, and from what I understand, it’s in-game, but it’s disabled, or so I’ve been told. They’ll have to add it later.
(I just noticed there’s a feedback section for the game on the forums.)
Yeah it makes no sense that it is basically all ‘there’ but unused. Really makes Darktide feel like an early 2000s game. But I guess they really needed to sell the weapon cosmetics (this must be why they have like 1 in store per class at a time tops).
As others have noted, saleable cosmetics probably killed the concept. An e-sweatshop putting out digital Chinesium can manage with static models, but probably not with highly customizable weapons.
Which is doubly weird because the customisation mod shows that the paid cosmetic models are implemented with parts in the seperate categories, you can mix them with other parts. So even the paid stuff are still in the format of their original system to create weapons.