The Ace of Spades is certainly one of Future 2‘s most iconic weapons, an unique hand cannon that belonged to Nathan Fillion’s Cayde-6. Bungie not too long ago introduced a NERF model of the gun with an orange and black theme that can be matched by an in-game decoration for the gun coming subsequent month. The one drawback is that the design appears to be based mostly on an almost decade-old fan print.
“Have fun 10 years of Future with the NERF LMTD Future 2 Ace of Spades Blaster, accessible for early entry pre-order from September 9 to September 24 to gamers who’ve earned the Legend Title in Future 2,” Bungie introduced earlier this week. Gamers who’ve the title unlocked, which requires finishing a bunch of tenth anniversary content material, and purchase the toy duplicate will even get an unique decoration for Ace of Spades referred to as “Pocket Ace” that appears identical to the NERF model and drops when Future’s Episode 2 Revenant replace arrives on October 8.
That’s how an artist who goes by Tofu found that what appeared like her work was getting used for the sport. “I achieved the in-game title of ‘Legend’ and the sport prompted me with an advert telling me I may purchase the nerf gun,” she advised Kotaku. “I clicked on it simply to test it out and had that ‘wait a second, this seemed acquainted’ second after I noticed it.”
Tofu had made a stylized print of Ace of Spades again in 2015 for a good friend when it was first added to the sport as an obtainable unique weapon in The Taken King enlargement. “The engravings, the painted stripes, are all particulars that don’t seem within the recreation so I obtained suspicious instantly,” she mentioned. “After I then checked my authentic recordsdata that I nonetheless have in my archive I observed that no, it was actually 1:1, you possibly can clearly see scratches and swirls within the engravings matching completely.”
She shared a comparability on-line together with breakouts of all of the components that appeared to match her design in a tweet geared toward getting Bungie’s consideration. “Whereas I’m clearly disenchanted I don’t blame Bungie for this, I do know they outsource this type of work and that is clearly a case of a contractor reducing corners,” Tofu mentioned. “And, when this has occurred up to now Bungie has apologized and been on high of it so, I’m remaining hopeful.”
Replace 9/12/2024 7:13 a.m. ET: Bungie responded to the claims final evening with a tweet from the official Future 2 account stating that it was trying into the problem. “We’re presently investigating internally and with our associate,” the studio wrote. “We’re in touch with the artist and can share extra on what subsequent steps we’re taking as soon as we have now gathered extra info.”
