I’ve previously played through the dlc questline with a friend and also played with a few other people in multiplayer on the dlc map and never saw any MG drop from a machine, of course I’ve seen the ones placed for you do find, but none dropping from enemies.
Today I joined a team that was playing on the dlc map without the host actually having done the questline to get there (maybe he went to a radio becon from another host as a client before, Idk). All of a sudden within about an hour I not only had three MGs drop for myself (a 2 star 89 and a 3 and 4 star 59), I also know of at least one 4 star 89 drop from the other three people.
As someone who doesn’t like coincidences I find this extraordinary change of luck suspicious of course, so I wanted to ask whether there was a server patch recently that changed the drop rate and if not, is there any possibility that through a bug doing the questline somehow influences the droprate? I know it sounds odd, but maybe you were supposed to get a drop buff once you’ve done the questline and a typo led to the opposite effect.
Coincidence or not, I found more MG parts (gold ext. mag and compensator) near the end of the quest line than in the beginning of the DLC. I have also found a blue (?) KVM on a hunter once, later in the quest line. I never found a gold one.
It seemed to me that advancing in the quest line actually increased the chances. But this impression was based on very a small sample size.
I did find the parts before too. I acutally threw away the grey weapons you find during the questline, because I assumed I’ll soon find a better one anyway, leading to the odd situation of finding a golden magazine for the 89 long before ever finding even a green version of the weapon itself.
I found 4* KVM59 in APO hunter and 5* KVM89 box mag.And that’s all.I dunno why but for last few days 75% of my golden loot different scopes and Magnus revolver.Nothing else
Everyone’s ammo/drop algorithm is different - I find practically nothing anywhere, but when someone joined my game, I was suddenly falling over all the dropped weapons. Drives me crazy. It may also be that multi-player drops more…
I always find my favorite gun , Sjoqvist and usually earn the *5 version quickly (as long as I’m holding a lesser version). But after two replays of the game , have rarely seen exp weapons even with fully upgraded requirements to earn them. Would be great to earn a specific weapon via other means instead of grinding thru 3/4 of game to earn something that’s useless to me (ex.exp shotgun).