Exotic Catalysts and the Orb-or-Power problem But it seems that trace rifles - and even potentially lever-action scout rifles like Dead Man’s Tale - might get Legendary versions sooner rather than later. Truman expanded on this idea: “The question we ask ourselves a lot is, like, ‘Do we want this to be this really unique, personalized experience? Or do we want this to be a space that we can play in?’ So if we were to expand one of those we wouldn’t release one Legendary, we’d be like ‘Oh, this is an awesome space for us to release a whole slew.’ But I think some of them, that’s definitely like, no, it’s really cool to have this one, interesting exception to the rule.”įor Bungie, it seems to be a question of “What makes this weapon Exotic?” If it’s the slot or special archetype itself, maybe that type will always be limited to Exotics. These are all stuff that we look at in the future and say, yeah, we’re as excited as the community is about a bunch of that.” “Dead Man’s Tale is pretty cool, right,” said Blackburn. But not every “unique” Exotic falls into that category. Being in the Heavy slot makes those weapons Exotic. The Legend of Acrius and Tractor Cannon shotguns, which sit alongside one another as the only shotguns that use Heavy ammo, are unique. “And you can say things like ‘Hey, I remember when swords were just Exotic,’ right? ‘Hey, I remember when there was only one sidearm in the game.’ This is something that as we explore, we’re really excited about pushing some of those.”īlackburn went on to mention that some Exotic-only weapons need to stay Exotic to stay unique. “You can look back at our track record here,” said Blackburn.

Despite having six weapons that all work similarly, there are no Legendary trace rifles in Destiny 2.

Players started out with Coldheart at Destiny 2’s launch and have since picked up Prometheus Lens, Wavesplitter, Divinity, Ruinous Effigy, and soon, Ager’s Scepter. Trace rifles are like auto rifles, but fire in a single, continuous beam and use the rarer Special ammo. But several of those fall into the same unique weapon type: trace rifles. The Ager’s Scepter ornament is visible in-game already Image: Bungie via Polygonĭestiny 2 has gotten a variety of unique Exotics over the past four years.

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