Closed Merchants selling weapons different than the one shown.

Alright. So, here's what happens:

Found a mushroom biome on a desert planet. I then see a shop in the wall and I go to buy weapons or what have you. Pretty standard fare; nothin' new for a seasoned Starbounder. But then I actually select a gun. The gun listed is not what pops up in the item description. The gun that pops up has a different name, aesthetic, stats, etc. I think to myself, "How odd." I select a different weapon, a sword, and the same thing happens. Random description of random sword. "What...?" I go back to the pistol and buy said gun and receive a completely different gun from the one in the description and the one in the original list with different stats, aesthetics, etc. Still a pistol, mind you, just a completely different randomly generated pistol. Stats are roughly on par with the listing, just randomized.

Seems to be that way with all the weapons for sale. Hammers, swords, 2-handed guns... Not sure if anyone else gets this problem, but it's happened 100% of the time I go to shops anywhere, except for item and clothes shops. Seems to only be that way for weapons. It's not like game-breaking or anything. In fact, it's almost like a roulette wheel. You never really know what you're going to buy! It's fun in a gambl-ey way, but I'm almost positive it's not the original intent of the devs.

TL;DR--

Weaponshop sells completely randomized weapons from advertised list. Not game-breaking, but worth noting for fixes.

Also, I can totes upload pics if necessary. I'd just need to log back on and take some.

 

known. I guess they haven't figured out what is causing this or haven't got around to it due to many of the crashes of late...

Seen this with only the weapon stores oddly so at least they know where to look.

The initial weapon you see when selecting is the one that would be bought no matter which one that slot changes into. At least that is how that bug goes.

totes? Don't know what that is...

 

Word. I can understand seeing as how only the weapons are procedurally generated and not really any other kind of item is, so I assume there are specific algorithms for that and that's probably a task in itself to attempt to fix.
At least it's good for a gamble for the time being. [DOUBLEPOST=1423263688][/DOUBLEPOST]

Awesome. Sorry, I really didn't know where to look for bug reports and I couldn't find a sticky'd thread to assist me on my journey so I put it in what seemed to be the most logical place at the time. My apologies if it's already been reported. I just wanted to try to help the devs.

 

technically it is not a gamble; that is if the bug remained the same as I last saw in the prior unstable before stable.

Like I was saying the first time you click on a slot, that is the actual weapon that will be bought. The rest is more or less a jumble between the different randomness the algorithm will do; but only visually, not what you would get; which is the first one you will see when buying....

Still though yeah probably is its' own separate bug/glitch that would need a fix due to the algorithm showing in visually the possible things that can be bought from those types of shops. we will see.

 

I've caught this error myself. I've used both the regular version and the x64 experimental version. It was apparent on both.

There's actually two issues regarding this glitch. The guns seems to be changing constantly.

First off....

If you click a weapon, it'll never match to the one in the list.






Second, if you purchase a weapon. It won't even MATCH to the one that was shown. However it'll stick with the TYPE of weapon which I'm assuming is locked to the slot.



Bought that. This is what I got... not that I'm unhappy with what I randomly got. I figure... I can just save up like 100k pixels and just keep buying the same category of weapon til I get an uberweapon.

 

I also just noticed, someone above wrote it wasn't a gamble. and I just want to simplify it a bit for anyone else reading.

I can buy multiple 1-handed pistols after just clicking on the 1-handed pistol selection and without clicking anything but the buy button... I'll buy a different pistol every time.

 

Like I said that was how it worked in the prior unstable before stable release. It was not a gamble then. Of course never did what you mentioned. I actually selected weapon and the first one to show was what I got. So looks like it somewhat evolved in a sense from what it was before. Unless of course was like that before when you just push buy without selecting something.

That is what I meant when I mentioned that... Whether this one is the same as the old one or not is yet to be known. If not, at least they are similar...

 

I have this issue too.

 

same here, http://community.playstarbound.com/...of-epic-random-randomness.93681/#post-2504298 (its now closed but just to show.)