Weapon Rarity Color Question [Solved]

[Jurassic Fart 1]

I have two Golden American pistols, one purple and one blue. The stats and values are identical. Why are they of differing colors? Should there not be some difference commensurate with rarity?

[Efelli'M]

It might have something to do with when did you find them. I mean for example, you are lv 20 and found a pistol that has good stats so it shows as purple orange etc; but this time you are lv 24 plus you are levelling your legend skills but you found that weapon again but this time it will be weaker for your level so it seems as blue because you can find better than that at that level. I hope you get what I mean. Long story short it depends when you looted them at what level

[Jurassic Fart 1]

Ah; I see: There ISN'T any functional difference. Basically, then, color is utterly meaningless. This actually makes inventory management more of a pain in the gluteus maximus; instead of actually being able to use color in deciding what to keep, sell, drop, or dismantle, one must read each and every specification detail (before undertaking any irrevocable actions).

In comparing and contrasting what I'm unhappy about, allow me to refer to two other popular and [technically] similar franchises, Borderlands and Dead Island, which have an item and weapon attribute not seen in this game (or, at least not visible to me): level requirement, e.g., a level thirty player picks up a level seventy-two sniper rifle. Does he keep it, or does he sell it?

So, it makes absolutelu no difference which American pistol I sell, then. Thanks!

[Blade Master]

Postat inițial de IDGAF:

I have two Golden American pistols, one purple and one blue. The stats and values are identical. Why are they of differing colors? Should there not be some difference commensurate with rarity?

The rarity on firearms doesn't matter, they can only affect skins but not the stats of actual weapon. If you have two identical shotguns, same stats and damage, but one blue and another orange, you might wanna drop or sell blue one and keep orange just for better look in inventory, simple.

Postat inițial de IDGAF:

Ah; I see: There ISN'T any functional difference. Basically, then, color is utterly meaningless. This actually makes inventory management more of a pain in the gluteus maximus; instead of actually being able to use color in deciding what to keep, sell, drop, or dismantle, one must read each and every specification detail (before undertaking any irrevocable actions).

In comparing and contrasting what I'm unhappy about, allow me to refer to two other popular and [technically] similar franchises, Borderlands and Dead Island, which have an item and weapon attribute not seen in this game (or, at least not visible to me): level requirement, e.g., a level thirty player picks up a level seventy-two sniper rifle. Does he keep it, or does he sell it?

So, it makes absolutelu no difference which American pistol I sell, then. Thanks!

It's not entirely meaningless but stats wise, it is. Well, it has nothing to do with inventory management, usually a person would keep only one with the color he likes, it actually makes it easier to decide which one to keep.

[josh]

I remember back in Dead Island, orange colored guns actually had hidden stats (like bonus damage and such). Even if you had two different colored guns with the same stats, the damage would be different (at least on orange rarity). Maybe it's still like that? I've noticed a lot of left over and renamed files from Dead Island, in Dying Light. Though, it would be a bit harder to test since you can see damage numbers like you could in Dead Island.

[Jurassic Fart 1]

@ BladeMaster : I see. You're quite right. I was being somewhat imprecise; I did not mean to say that aesthetics were not of value—I can appreciate a pretty-looking inventory sheet as well as the next Type A fellow. I should have opined that there was little practical difference.


@ Josh: A reasonable hypothesis, seeing as how both franchises were coded by the same developer, and both games are quite similar.