Ice cold R301 skin bugged out

We have a fix coming in the 23.1 release.

The back story on this bug is actually quite funny. I'm one of the primary engineers on weapon cosmetics. During some random testing that required like super slo-mo playback, I noticed that when you do a dry reload, there's still a cartridge in the magazine, which of course there shouldn't be. Turns out this was universally true. There was just one model for the mags, and they all had cartridges in them, so we could use the same mag model for the ejected mag as well as for the new one. But that's just ... wrong. So we started fixing this, so a dry reload has a fully empty mag and a wet reload will have a cartridge in the mag. We're still fixing all the guns and not sure of final ETA. So if you dry reload and still see a cartridge in the ejected mag, that's why. Might also be some animation work on some guns needed as well. But we're getting there. But it is something we're fixing. Anyway, in the process of fixing this and setting up the various legendary gun models with two magazine models, we corrupted the data on this one particular skin, so that it ended up pulling from the higher LOD models of another skin for some reason. We just needed to rebake the asset. Easy fix. But I thought the back story might be of interest.

Yes, I am aware there are other more critical bugs in the game. No, we did not fix this instead of fixing any of those. If you don't think this type of nuanced detail is important or matters, that is absolutely a valid POV. We care about the big stuff a lot. But we care about the small stuff too.

As a final PS, the OG hard surface art director (who oversees things like guns among other assets with ... hard surfaces) left Respawn about two years ago. But he is one of my closest friends, and when I discovered this, I mocked him endlessly since he is someone who takes technical accuracy of firearms very seriously...