1% drop rates... a thought expriment.

[Welsper59]

UAT is better because you can upgrade it to i110. You could hand out tidal wave weapons for zoning into the Levi X fight and that wouldn't change it.

Acquiring gear is a strong part of the game. When you start to tell too many people that they can't have gear "just because" (RNG), they're going to get tired of it eventually. That's not good for the game, and it's really lazy design.

The weathered weapon is intended to be used though... it's not a side upgrade or anything. It changes it A LOT because it no longer becomes worth acquiring besides something to use up an inventory space until you upgrade it. They might as well just get rid of the Weathered weapon entirely and only have the upgraded i110 weapon for the t8/9 reward. Why bother with the Weathered coil weapons, which have a lockout to it, when you can just spam the hell out of Levi Ex... This would make the Tidal weapons essentially mandatory to acquire for most endgame FC. How is that not changing anything?

RNG is an RPGs bread and butter when it comes to system. If you don't like the system, or find it detrimental enough to hate the game (especially when it's not even very prevalent in this one), you're not exactly a valid source of criticism when a game dev decides to put it in. You may not like it, but that kinda points out that you're not an intended audience/target for the game (in the long term). Using comments like "lazy design" only points out that you just don't know much about what to expect from the genre. From tradition, it's like going into an FPS game and complaining that you die too quickly to headshots. It's an element that the genre tends to follow. Not understanding design choice also reduces the validity of negative comments. You're more than welcome to share them, but unless you understand things well, you're more than likely in-the-wrong to think the way you do. Of course, you could still be right about things, but unless you provide a solid argument for it, no one has a reason to truly believe it.