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Edited by Griever: 1/22/2026 2:57:56 AM
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Kind of a bad time for Tex Mechanica overcharge.

Off the top of my head, the last weapon and the only up to date one we got was Yeartide Apex like halfway through the first half of EOF. The last one before that was from ROTN, not that most of the Tex Mechanica weapons were all that good to begin with either due to their frames or trash perk combinations. Almost no one uses 120 scouts and probably most that do are using Dead Man's Tale trying to main it as a hip fire weapon which is pretty hard to do when you still need to be basically pin point accurate while working with LESS AA/ bullet magnetism and flinch resistance on top of that. And there's only 3 legendary 120s in the game: The Prophet from Trials, Last Rites ritual pursuit weapon, and the Long Arm from SOTW one. Technically 4 if you count the ROTN version of Long Arm separately. Boondoggle I personally wasn't impressed with stat or perk wise, and it having I think the lowest AA of all 720s didn't help it, the frame with generally the lowest stability on top of that, during a season where a really good precision SMG and arguably the best 720 (Mirror Imago and Barrow Dyad respectively, the latter of which has double the AA of almost all 720s) were introduced. The double fire grenade launchers aren't exactly favorable both due to the limited range that comes with them firing in 2 random directions and their damage being split. Even if they're the most powerful special frame, that doesn't mean much if we have to be within fusion rifle distance or closer to hit both shots. Why would I use that over a wave frame or even another old GL like Salvagers Salvo? Hell, I'd get better results with Fighting Lion or Alethonym, and who the hell uses those except as joke weapons or in low level content where they can actually function as weapons? The ROTN weapons all had great perk combinations, the sidearm from SOTW if you've got the right roll is basically just a stasis version of pre-nerf Forgiveness. I think the only 2 disadvantages it had compared to Forgiveness were -2 AA and no Precision Instrument, but it's basically the stasis equivalent. But that event didn't even last the equivalent of 1 regular season (1 season was 90 days give or take, the event was 10 weeks/ 70 days total, dungeons only playable one at a time for the first 3 weeks) before all those weapons were basically made obsolete due to the tier system and the artifact buffing our damage for using higher tiered gear. So those weapons each were only "good" for 2 months. I know the artifact now only gives 5% more damage so the damage bonus of using updated gear is negligible at worst, but still. When this foundry is already VERY limited in it's options that I can remember, 3 which are exotics all in the same slot (Last Word, DMT, Huckleberry), and the rest are either unobtainable/ on rotation or you have to settle with the "discounted" versions because you missed ROTN, this foundry boost really should've waited until later when there was more to work with. And who the hell is doing SOTW at this point unless it's specifically for Hierarchy of Needs which I'm pretty sure was nerfed for individual usage last season along with the buffs it got. So at least to me, the only ones that make sense to use are DMT and Last Word since I don't think it's worth the exotic slot in high tier PvE to use Huckleberry over Peculiar Charm even without the artifact mod spawning ammo bricks, Immortal, or Fast Talker. Last Word still shreds in pvp and still has that insane bugged damage bonus you let it keep in PvE allowing it to out-damage Ace with MM active and probably Graviton Spike too. And DMT is one of the highest per shot scouts with escalating damage, faster ROF while hip firing, and insane escalating reload speed to the point you can reload 7 shots at once with higher stacks of Cranial Spike. Even then, most people using TLW are probably running Radiant Dance Machines with that or "accessibility devices" likely being the only reason it's still within the top 30 (26 specifically), and none of the 3 exotics are in the top 100 in PvE unless they're for some reason one of the several "classified" items on destiny tracker. The only Tex Mechanica weapon in the top 100 in PvE or pvp is Yeartide Apex which is currently unavailable and even occupying 2 spots because the Holofoil is apparently a different weapon. If you're going to do more overcharges based on weapon foundries, you really need to make sure we actually have some up to date weapons to choose from because the only thing that would've made this buff anything of value would be if you released a catalyst for TLW finally when we're already like 8 catalysts behind what we're supposed to have by now for pre-existing weapons. A miss due to the limited arsenal of which most are unobtainable/ old gear, and a miss for no catalyst that's been like 25 seasons overdue, technically more if we count delays that lasted roughly the length of an entire season (which was almost every one), extended seasons like 30th anniversary and Into The Light that lasted almost a full season or longer, and episodes being 1-2 months longer than seasons. Edit: one of the comments posting a link to Reddit saying the buff isn't even working anyway. So a triple miss. Almost no obtainable/ up to date foundry weapons, no catalyst for TLW despite it being just shy of thematically perfect this season and well overdue, and the buff for the 12(?) total weapons of which only ONE is up to date isn't even working. Can you just stick to buffing either entire weapon types or entire slots instead? Whether they work or not, at least EVERYONE has that. Buff heavy again, buff hand cannons, buff shotguns, just don't do it based on foundries unless they have at least 3 up to date weapons in each slot, not including exotics.
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  • You forgot Prospector. 🤣. Bungie couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. The very fact that Tex Mechanica has such few good weapons, coupled with the fact that they don’t know this and they couldn’t have just added another foundry’s weapons in addition to TM’s this week, is just typical of this company and it’s neglect towards this game and the community that has financially supported them for over a decade. There is little passion left in Bungie for D2 it seems.

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  • reports from players that Tex Mechanica overcharge isn't working anyway... https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/1qi93zs/tex_mechanica_overcharge_not_working

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    • Like we got a exotic strand machine gun in a arc/void artifact, the season after a strand artifact There is no plan

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      • Every time they do this I google what’s available from the foundry . Then I whittle it down to the hets current . The answer is very little even with the more common foundry’s like suros even . It’s a very odd choice . If they are going to keep going with this either make more foundry weapons or just blanket it as pulse rifle/ grenade launcher or whatever.

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      • Last word catalyst when?

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        • Considering how bad Tex Mechanica weapons are, they should lean more as a swag weapon where they trade performance for fashion points. Give it actual wild west style. Double barrel shotgun, lever action rifle and shotgun, old style revolvers such as Colt Python and Peacemaker and many more

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        • Chaperone is a tex mechanica weapon. Also infinite ammo with kinetic synthesis. And has one of the highest dps's in the game when road born procs.

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        • Edited by viiTactiiCZz: 1/21/2026 5:26:26 PM
          IIRC when they did the Suros Sponsorship week back in early Edge of Fate - the only new Suros weapon hadn't been released yet and new gear factoring into your score (pre 9.1.0.1) meant that the only Suros weapons that you were running were actively hurting your Portal scores - so it was pointless running them if you were grinding Portal for power at the time. Sponsorship weeks, although good on paper, are overall a waste of time. Rather they just throw in more Accelerator-type modifier weeks but for abilities.

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        • Only get the buff in Potty activities.. Swing & a miss 😏

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          👎👍🙏⚔️😴 - old

          Being a weapons guy I just appreciated the complete analysis of Tex weapons... 👍 ...lets see what becomes of this buff as I haven't stepped into crucible to see if its active there

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          • Edited by Eva UNIT 03 S2: 1/21/2026 3:09:58 PM
            Don’t forget Timeworn Wayfarer! Edit: it’s a 120, but not Tex. Whoops!

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