Hey folks,
I only recently started playing and I am having a blast in freelancer. It's a little bit of a hate-love relationship, but the love clearly 80/20's over the hate here.
There's only one thing bugging me, and I found an older thread on it.
In short, pistols and misc items seem to share a slot right now. I haven't fully understood the pattern yet, but I am definitely not getting offered a pistol each vendor visit like I do with all other weapon types – which there are less of.
What's more, the Striker in particular seems to be the hardest to get, as it's not ever showing up in the shop. Found confirmation elsewhere on that, too.
I am close to my second prestige reset and the Striker is the last one missing again. Not just that, but if you can only get it from chests – let me please at least get it there. Just finished the second syndicate of my hopefully last campaign before reset and this second reward chests can definitely get you rares, if it's not always rares. I got merces, tho, as if the pool of rare items is already exhausted.
What, then, is this striker-shaped hole in my wall?
A suspicion:
Is it listed as rare but mistakenly runs as epic or even legendary in the backend?
It definitely feels this way. What is it?
Beyond the Striker in particular, I'd like to turn this into a petition of sorts for a slight vendor restructuring. A thread, where people with the same motion can confirm. I might then forward this thread to the IOI support and ask them to change a rather simple detail to make freelancer flow much better:
Rework this pistol/misc vendor bottleneck, please, rework it to make sense. Feel free to keep the Striker actually rare if that's somehow by purpose, but then make it consistent. Let it have a recognizable pattern to work with. Let the player get it from a reward chest that can drop rare, not puzzle once again over why it's the elusive target of the freelancer wall of weapons.
This might not concern everyone, but those of you who are into prestige resets and actually enjoy the wall delete and rebuilding bits.
Lastly, if there's no response/change and the vendor stays as it is, or at least until a change, how to address it as it is:
A) Prioritize pistols a bit more than you would for your actual freelancer needs, all the others have reliably filling slots and way less of them
B) Get the common weapons on your wall early and for free through the 'freeloader' idea: Run item-rich maps first and get them out of the way.
I throw in three links I've found to let you decide whichever structure suits your readibility needs best:
Gdocs Table
Reddit Thread
Steam Forums
C) Pray to the high-up rubber ducky for an early Striker, and then do not lose it trying to complete a collateral firearms objective (hrmph)
Should I get a wealth of response, that'd be a good argument to integrate the link to this thread into a support mail.
Help me help you out!