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 just lately introduced a NERF model of the gun with an orange and black theme that will probably be matched by an in-game decoration for the gun coming subsequent month. The one downside is that the design appears to be primarily based on a virtually decade-old fan print.
“Rejoice 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 reproduction can even get an unique decoration for Ace of Spades known 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 regarded acquainted’ second after I noticed it.”
Tofu had made a stylized print of Ace of Spades again in 2015 for a buddy when it was first added to the sport as an obtainable unique weapon in The Taken King growth. “The engravings, the painted stripes, are all particulars that don’t seem within the recreation so I obtained suspicious immediately,” she stated. “After I then checked my authentic information that I nonetheless have in my archive I seen that no, it was actually 1:1, you may 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 aimed toward getting Bungie’s consideration. “Whereas I’m clearly disenchanted I don’t blame Bungie for this, I do know they outsource this sort of work and that is clearly a case of a contractor chopping corners,” Tofu stated. “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 wanting into the problem. “We’re at present investigating internally and with our companion,” the studio wrote. “We’re involved with the artist and can share extra on what subsequent steps we’re taking as soon as we’ve got gathered extra info.”