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's Prometheus Lens, a trace rifle weapon added in the newly released Curse of Osiris expansion, is broken. Not broken in the way that fans sometimes refer to a weapon in a game that they feel is overpowered;
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, and
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. A fix won't arrive until next week, and players speculated that its power could cause the cancellation of this weekend's Trials of the Nine event, similar to
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. Instead, Trials is going ahead, and Bungie is leaning into the entire situation.The mysterious merchant who shows up weekly to sell a random assortment of Exotic items,
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. What's he selling? Why, Prometheus Lens, of course. Whether this is happenstance or a deliberate decision by Bungie (hoping to at least level the playing field by ensuring everyone can use the gun), the studio acknowledged this week's Xur inventory on Twitter."Did you make a bet that we wouldn't let Xur sell Prometheus Lens?" it wrote in a
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immediately after Xur's arrival. "It's available in the EDZ. Your move." The item sells for 29 Legendary Shards, the same as a typical Exotic weapon sold by Xur. As a Curse of Osiris weapon, only DLC owners will be able to purchase it, which is troubling given that
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, and now face an uphill battle in Crucible until patch 1.1.1's release on Tuesday.This instance of Trials will be a weird one, as it's a highly competitive event where the stakes are higher than in a standard PvP match. Players compete to rack up seven wins before suffering three losses (and, ideally, with no losses at all). As you can see in the video above, Prometheus Lens annihilates enemies and can swing a match just by one player using it. A four-on-four showdown between eight players with it equipped will be especially bizarre, and will perhaps be akin to the old one-shot-kill Instagib matches I remember so fondly from the
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days.Xur's showing should make the next few days in Crucible either terrible or really fun. It'll certainly be memorable.
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