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    A"good" thing,but how in the heck did UBI do it?

    I'm playing my game last night for a few hours - watching my RP points exploring new areas - had an interesting night, for at one point I'm in the middle of a rather big truck spawn, which began with me taking out 2 guys in an M60 truck. I took over the M60 and immediately came under attack by an airplane, which I downed, naturally it landed right atop of the truck I was in. I managed to exit the truck before it blew up and the spawning of trucks continued un-abated. 15 minutes later I have more than a dozen trucks which had 2 guys each burning and smoldering around me and I actually climbed atop the airplane in order to take out another truck which had driven upon this 20 yard + pile of truck carnage.

    I ended up in their M60 truck and found myself laughing my a$$ off at the civilians and resistance folks trying to navigate the cluster F of a traffic nightmare and while I'm doing in yet another 2-person armour'd pick-up "one" of the resistance fighters hops in the truck I'm shooting from and begins bashing her way outta of the mass of burning carnage around us - it was funny as hell right up to the moment the crazy B^%$& drove us right off a cliff while I was still firing on yet another cultist car that had arrived on scene. It took me less that 3 minutes, after managing to un-a$$ the turret before the truck exploded from the impact, (I dang near died from the fall myself, saved by a ledge) to get back up to that spot on the roadway only to find EVERY STINKING THING, INCLUDING THE PLANE was gone, the roadway was clear and it was like nothing had ever happened there........., just another typical evening playing in the wacky mad-house looney-toon'd world of FC5.

    On to my point - at the end of the night I'm at the store re-ammoing up and low and behold, what appears in my weapons section was the Vector 45 acp Classic - the very same gun I used in my first play-through of the game, which I bought and equipped immediately.

    My question is "HOW" - since they took the weapon with their first 1.02 patch I have kept my PS4 console "OFFLINE" so how in the heck did the game give me my favorite SMG back with my console off-line?????


    ps - oops - (I forgot - old person brain-fart, I guess) - I did let my console download the 1.04 patch thinking it might give me back my Vector - so my PS4 is up to that modification by UBI - but not online since it came.
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    Very odd. I've never even seen this legendary Vector (in fact I had to look up to find out what the damn thing even was) but as I understand it, it was the 1.4 patch that removed it.
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    It was in FC3 and FC4 and nope the first patch, 1.02 removed the Vector 45 acp weapon - I was already playing with it in FC5 (my first time through the game) - the 1.04 patch came out April 9th, whereas the 1.02 patch was back in March sometime shortly after the 27th (when I received my copy of FC5 from Amazon)

    ps - I'm not a programmer or really coherent in writing gaming code, I just wondered how without having my console online to "receive" any kind of additional update - the weapon just magically appears back as a weapon option??
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    Originally Posted by mr_wilson1954 Go to original post
    [...] and nope the first patch, 1.02 removed the Vector 45 acp weapon [...]
    Okay, but I definitely saw an influx of threads along the lines of "Vector disappeared after last update!", and these were immediately following the 1.4 update.
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    They handed the Vector, how? I do not know. Yet there was no new patch, i'm still with version 1.02 on PC.
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    The vectors been available in my game from start, brought it for 7k
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    Originally Posted by leroy198532 Go to original post
    The vectors been available in my game from start, brought it for 7k
    It was available in my PS4 Deluxe FC5 game also, pre-ordered and delivered on 3/27/18, (IIRC $7200 - same as I just paid again last night). The problem was they patched the game w/ 1.02, back shortly after the game's release, in March, as I was making my first play-through and when I started a New Game, to play again a second time, before 1.04 came out - the Vector was gone from my game (not there at any price).

    So they took it away - it appears w/ 1.02 in March - I downloaded patch 1.04 on April 9th hoping for it's return. but found they were holding it back for that Arcade events things I do not participate in (I have read here that it was never "supposed" to be an option in the Deluxe Game version, but don't know whether to believe that or not - but I was bummed not having it here in my second go-round).

    I'm happy and overjoyed it's back as a weapon option just somewhat confused over HOW? - as my PS4 console shows no updates after 1.04,.........

    Call me puzzled, but I worked with computers and my computer is only allowed to update things WHEN I approve the update - my PS4 however, I ain't so sure about and have been trying to figure out if it's a dated "code" thing or just exactly how my console made up it's mind that I could use the Vector again, now - last night.
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    Easy:
    First vector was not intended to be released, but was already in the code, accessable for certain players. Patch removed that. I guess there was a date lock added to the item with patch 1.02.

    In the weekly challenge players had the chance to obtain the unique arcade vector, after this event was over the "default" vector was released for everyone else to buy. (Ubisoft even said in interviews, that players will still be able to buy the weapons after the events)
    If you did not take part in the event the normal vector is still available for you to buy, just not the unique arcade weapon skin. Same was the case with the flamethrower event 2 weeks ago by the way: People who took part in the event were awarded the "flamebearer" flamethrower, after the event a slightly different looking flamethrower "cleansing fire" was released for everyone to buy.
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