My initial thought was it’s something GW related. Especially FS not explaining that change, and they can’t openly say “blame GW”.
However i don’t think there are specific MK’s in the lore, atleast i can’t google any of those marks leading to some armory books.
Tho i think FS is too lazy for doing such changes, probably stupid idea from GW indeed without any reason, it’s their style
I don’t like the new staff names at all.
I hope for a mod that restores the old names.
It’s DARKtide. Not Sunshine&rainbowstide. Stoopid.
It didn’t required name change at all.
While I’m not a big fan of the new mission, think I should have had more weapons fully mastered, and think the name changes are stupid, I’ve been really loving the update and those 3 things have hardly affected me in the slightest (New mission because in 4 or 3 man groups i can just que us up into a different mission with MMT). I’m probably a bit biased because of my love and time spent in the game, but playing the Ironhelm again, and running Heavy Sword on Vet with a Bolt Pistol that is smooth as butter has been super awesome and made me very happy with the update.
i like new map and i like the new names tbh
Nah, whoever thought marksman autoguns needed to be called “Vigilant” did a bad job.
Totally agree
Restore them.
imagine how many hours and meetings wasted by multiple people to get these name changes implemented xD
It’s partially a coding thing:
But when it changes things that have been set for 2 years it’s pretty jarring. They might as well ignore flavour and just use generic “heavy”, " light/fast" or “balanced” names for the weapons if the lore names get arbitrarily changed like that.
Totally wasted.
Changing names after close to 2 years the release is really a bad idea. I would understand it if it was really needed… but actually, I don’t even see why this change was implemented.
I feel these changes very confusing and give me the feeling I was really a beta tester and that the true game will release soon… with the PS5 port.
This name switcheroo also invalidates quite a lot of past guides. Imagine being new player, and loosing your sanity by searching Trauma staff, that guide said it was the best.
Now, I just wish someone will create a simple mod to restore the names that I used for 2 years…
Seriously Fatshark… This does not make sense at all this change. I cannot see any reason to do that. And it is more confusing that not changing them… in fact, I don’t see why you had to change them
I wonder why the dev team never want to listen… they removed vanguard to replace it by something totally useless, and now this…
I really begin to think that this company always pick the wrong choices… and that’s something strange for me that they are still alive with so many bad decisions.
It’s not like the names really seem to signify anything more meaningful. At least that I can work out.
And changing the make of (for example) the old Mark V Columnus to “Vraks” while simultaneously retaining the name Columnus to represent the old Graia… well, wow. That’s 1984 level of doublespeak.
Theres only 4 staves to choose from though, and they all look different. Jus saying weird example.
I don’t know anything about coding, but I don’t understand how coding the itemization would force you to turn the mk 2 eviscerator into a mk 3 eviscerator.
+1. This is really annoying. I keep getting confused about which is which.
I would also like to suggest that OP add a poll to the top of people who want this to click.
Until then drop OP a like and a reply, it will show this has support.
-1
Please do not restore old weapon names. I hated it, it made no sense to me at all. Just made it harder to explain a build to new people. I really dig the new thing, now it’s just clear to me what is what. Or maybe I just needed 1400 hours of gameplay to finaly get it. 
The changes in names made so little sense and for some reason the forge world names of some guns just changed for the lulz?
Did the update that brought back some players really need to make all old videos of “this is the Graia, it does this” irrelevant because now they might or might not be the vraks depending on which weapon family you look at?
The changes only added confusion and made old, not updated, community ressources and notes way less user friendly for newer players. And I still do not see the positive for switching all the names when even the filter option needed a hotfix to even account for it.
I wonder, how does recent change helps with arbitrary names of weapons?