So I was playing anniversary on breakneck.I pick up the Plasma launcher as I am running back to my spawn I die.I go to pick it up since I spawned right next to it, as soon as I get there it despawned.The power weapon respawn/despawn thread was a huge thing on bungie before the transfer to 343 happened.So I’m just wondering why it was never addressed or picked up on when 343 was testing these remakes?
> So I was playing anniversary on breakneck.I pick up the Plasma launcher as I am running back to my spawn I die.I go to pick it up since I spawned right next to it, as soon as I get there it despawned.The power weapon respawn/despawn thread was a huge thing on bungie before the transfer to 343 happened.So I’m just wondering why it was never addressed or picked up on when 343 was testing these remakes?
It’s also been pointed out that one of the Plasma Rifle spawns in Breakneck, the one in “Construction 1st Floor” (it’s by the window with the crates, right up the ramp from the Shotgun), is broke as well. About half the time it can’t be picked up, even though it’s plainly visible. At other times it can be accessed as normal. There doesn’t seem to be any pattern as to when it’s able to be picked up, and its status can even change during the same game, after it respawns. The Plasma Rifle does not appear in the built-in version of Breakneck, so it was added later. If you save a copy of Breakneck after playing a game on it, then you go into Forge and enter edit mode, you can’t examine the Plasma Rifle’s properties. When placed over the Plasma Rifle, the “cursor” remains blue instead of switching to green.
And there’s also a Plasma Pistol in Uplink that doesn’t spawn at all, except in Custom Games and Forge. It’s on the landing at the bottom of the gold staircase in the room with the hologram (in “Communications”).
These need to be fixed in the next update, but I wouldn’t count on it. I’ve been complaining about the Plasma Pistol for several months, starting back when Bungie was still in charge.
I’ve also tried getting both Bungie and 343i to fix the Health Stations on Spire (none of them respawn), as well as the two DMRs on Boneyard that don’t respawn (one on the outdoor platform in “Refinery” that’s next to Bay 21, and one in “Under the Bulkheads” that’s behind the concrete ridge with the Mounted Machinegun on its top), but to no avail.
Edit: I edited the first paragraph to add some further clarifications and to change the word “stairs” to “ramp.”
> It’s also been pointed out that one of the Plasma Rifle spawns in Breakneck, the one in “Construction 1st Floor” (it’s by the window with the crates, right up the stairs from the Shotgun), is broke as well. About half the time it can’t be picked up, even though it’s plainly visible. At other times it can be accessed as normal. There doesn’t seem to be any pattern as to when it’s able to be picked up, and its status can even change during the same game, after it respawns. When you go into Forge and enter edit mode, you can’t examine its properties. When placed over the Plasma Rifle, the “cursor” remains blue instead of switching to green.
I found that you can get it to “pop into” the level by shooting it first.
Still, seems like a really sloppy detail for 343 to not notice.