I’m surprised I’m not hearing more people upset about this. People have been complaining about the time-gated shop since day 1. This confirms that that’s our main method of weapon acquisition since according to the dev blog, we can’t craft weapons from scratch - only upgrade.
Also according to the dev blog (unless I’m reading wrong), in order to apply a trait/perk to a weapon, we need to deconstruct a weapon that has them first. So that means in order to break down weapons for the traits that we want to give to others, that we have to buy them from the shop. Which is again, time-gated, so if we want a specific trait of a weapon, we have to wait until one becomes available.
As opposed to VT2, where we could make whatever weapon when we wanted, and we could apply any traits/perks we wanted.
This is forcing such an unnecessary time sink it’s insane. You’re taking choice away from players and replacing it with both RNG and waiting. I don’t like this at all