Sorry it took so long, but we never wavered from our promise to deliver it :)

Good luck!

Many mods malfunctioning may be tied to packet loss during multiplayer sessions. Today's update improves MP connectivity so I'll be keen to keep an eye on how many of these issues occur less frequently for the majority of players in the coming days.

Good spot, thanks!

PC already had most of these new additions. All platforms should now be aligned.

Thank you! Sorry to hear about your thumb :(

Adding mouse and keyboard controls for PS5 is not currently part of the work we're scoping for the time ahead unfortunately but I'll make a note of your request to ensure it can be taken in consideration if we have a chance to, as I know that a few other people have asked for the same.

I've passed on your excellent illustration to see if the team can replicate this.

We've implemented some relay avoidance which should help players who are geographically closer - could you let me know how the situation has changed for you and your friend following this patch?

It's something I've already chatted to the team about since Thursday's announce and we'll see what we're able to do in the time ahead.

Hey man just letting you know, the old items marked as new is still there, i've tried removing the marks and then quitting and getting back and they're new again

Other players indicate that the issue was fixed for them. Could you try again?

Also, i don't know if you did anything for those who got a double from the appreciation package, but i still have my time ripper which i already had

the new appreciation pack hasnt run yet. You won't lose your time ripper either when that happens.

I saw this come up a little in the past days, I'll check in with the team about it.

Yes. See the General Patch notes section.

The system works in the background. You won't get an option to reroll.

FOV sliders have been in the game for a while now...?

Edit: Apologies, got confused between PC and Console, sorry about that.

The Bounty Hunter will always provide Lego weapon on full completion.

The Monster Hunter will always provide Lego armor on full completion.

Librarian has a chance for both.

These quests should have access to the full loot pool.

In regards to this, can you confirm if there are any restrictions like certain legendary items that drop from specific expeditions?

There are no longer any restrictions on levels or areas for loot to drop.

I ask because to my knowledge, these level restricted legendary drops were never communicated to the player base previously. I think we need full transparency to if there are any restrictions surrounding any legendary drops.

This was why I was previously planning on being fully transparent and explaining the overall legendary drop system and those restrictions regarding the drop rates, also fully outlining what was able to drop where. I wanted to ensure that everyone was farming in the best possible places instead of trying to acquire an item in an game area/level where it couldn't drop. But my suggestion didn't exactly go down well if you recall...

Today's changes to the drop system should be much more straightforward to understand without needing to deepdive into it all.

I just approved your post manually - looks like the bot spam filter did indeed pick it up.

I chatted to another user about this - this appears to be a momentarily blip for them individually. You should be okay if you validate your install and restart the game.

We're looking into this.

Yes.

Welcome to the community!

I received on 2 different runs the Daimyo SMG. I have a level 50 in my stash. wasnt that nit supposed to happen after re roll.

The chance of dupes dropping is reduced but not completely eliminated. Fundamentally, the loot does still rely on RNG and that can in some cases lead to situations such as yours, where a Daimyo SMG drops a few times.

The likelihood of this happening is now lower than it was pre-patch, but it's not impossible.

This is how most looters work though. It's very rare for the devs to tell you where to go find the specific legendary you want, usually the community does all the testing for it and writes guides on where/how you should farm for certain things.

You're spot on.

Having watched the community evolve every single day since it's inception, my personal belief is that it would have been highly likely that the community would have created it's own farming guides that were community data-driven and through that would have seen the patterns in drop rates and come to an understanding of optimal vs limited or impossible farming opportunities.

Would that understanding have meant that drop rates didn't need to be improved? Not at all, but it would have made clearer to players where the best possible drop locations were, and that in turn would have allowed us to be more surgical in improvements to the rates. And all of that sooner as well.

That all would have been likely... if we hadn't run into bigger issues that consumed community and developer attention, stifling discussions around such info-gathering topics (which were attempted a handful of times, but never really stayed up for long).

With the above I mean of course that issues such as the inventory wipe, damage mitigation and sign in issues (to name a few) were not just bad because of the damage they did themselves, but also because of the damage they did in overshadowing and dismissing positive discussions that would have nurtured an understanding of systems such as drop rates or difficulty.

Similarly, those issues forced our teams to refocus their attentions, pulling them away from other things we would have liked to have done, addressed or implemented earlier.

Ideally, the community should have been happily discovering the game's systems together as a group rather than needing to focus on bonfire issues.

Unfortunately, however, the existence of these major issues led to the community prioritizing negative meme threads and similar, which in turn put overall discussions on a trajectory where the most popular thing someone can do is make sweeping statements about how bad the game is (and that's even accounting for reddit's general penchant for such content). It's far easier to say that the game is broken than to try to grapple and understand a system that is not overtly obvious.

Quick side example: Since I explained how the Death Prevention Mechanics work last week, I have seen many players start to see and understand why players posting videos were in fact not one-hit-killed, but that those particular players likely had put their death prevention mechanics on cooldown and that trying to face-tank with a glass cannon build actually isn't a good idea. Before players understood this system, the general assumption was that every one hit kill is damning evidence of a broken game.

Informative and supportive threads and community members do of course exist, but they struggle(d?) to stick around in the face of negatively inclined threads getting traction so much more easily, especially when you still have people hanging around shouting about what a dead game it is and how they're glad they abandoned it weeks ago.

Now before anyone gets their pitchfork out, I'm not blaming anyone for the way things turned out. I'm not saying it's the community's fault for not focusing on specific topics and ignoring others. It's just the way it turned out. It sucks for you and it sucks for us.

Bugs suck and "random" bugs even more so, but don't forget that we hated the inventory wipes and damage mitigation problems just as much as you did, if not more.

The above reasoning is also only a sliver of why things turned out the way they did. I could honestly write a book about the case study this community's development underwent, but for now the order of the day is to keep trucking on, resolving issues with each new patch and time will tell to what extent our efforts pay off.

Tagging /u/Chiesel and /u/RisingDeadMan0 and you both expressed an interest in the topic of data-gathering.

There were no area restrictions on it, but it did only start dropping from level 31+ enemies. As far as I've been informed, that was the only restriction for it dropping.