First of all, we just wanted to say thank you so much to all of you for your feedback and excitement around the big update and upcoming PTR! We can’t wait to test it all with you, and we’ll be announcing details on how to join the PTR next week.
As thanks for participating in The Great Gun Buyback, everyone who has at least one basic colored gun in their inventory when the script begins running tomorrow will be rewarded with the Hellfire SMG and Frozen AK. You’ll receive the guns when the full update arrives at the end of October, and you’ll also be able to preview them on the PTR.
If you missed the developer blog last week about all of the major changes coming to the game you can read the full post here, but I’ll also quickly recap the details about the Great Gun Buyback here so everyone has it in one place for reference!
The Great Gun Buyback
Thanks to your feedback in August, we’ve decided to go ahead with moving 91 colored gun skins from random drops to milestones! We felt that the gun skin colors representing mastery with each weapon would be more fun than just just having them as random drops, and more than 80% of you agreed, so this weekend we’re implementing it.
Here’s what you can expect to see in-game:
- We’ll be starting to run a script tomorrow night pacific time (Friday PDT) to convert everyone’s basic colored gun skins into alternative random items of the same rarity tier. For example, if you have 4 rare colored gun skins, those will be removed and replaced with 4 rare random cosmetic items.
- You’ll know that the script completed running on your account when you boot up the game and see all your new replacement items pop up!
- Basic colored gun skins will also stop dropping randomly, and will no longer be able to be traded up.
- There will be a brief period of time in October where basic colored gun skins won’t be available in the live version of the game, since the new milestones are arriving in our Major Update at the end of October. However, you’ll be able to get started on earning those milestones in the PTR, and that progress will transfer to the live game when the update arrives.
- None of your special gun skins are affected by the buyback (for example, the Lucky Hunting Rifle that you might have earned during the St. Pawtricks event). The buyback only includes the basic color gun skins.
- The script has a lot of user accounts to go through, so we estimate 24-48hrs for it to complete. You should see it take effect sometime over the weekend!
When the update arrives at the end of October you’ll also see new white tier gun skins for all guns as the highest tier milestone, as well as new gun color skins for the Hunting Rifle, Bow & Sparrow and Sparrow Launcher (all with associated milestones of their own). In total, there will be 128 milestones associated with weapon mastery in the new update!
We hope you like the skins and enjoy the new system when you get a chance to try it out in the PTR or in the full update! Just let us know if you have any questions here in the Steam Discussion or in our Discord.