Believe this is to do with the new easter egg they added.
For PC players I think this has also been fixed in the Community Patch.
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Letās hope IOI have a wide fix soon then as well 
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I can confirm that it has! Anthony fixed it at the same time as the broken guns :]
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I was about to point out the issue, but Iām glad Iām not the only one experiencing it. Hope they will fix it soon.
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Believe this is to do with the new easter egg they added.
It is, but they were not used in the easter-egg at all. It must have been prototyping. 
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Itās been the topic of conversation on the forum for the last week to be fair, so I decided to the pin this thread so it gets as much attention as possible.
Itās really frustrating but Iām hoping IOI have a fix out for it soon 
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Does this bug affect all other Ancestral items? Edit: The mod Iām using sneakily changes weapon/item names. ( ( ( 
) ) ) 
Because you can add the Krugermeier variant, so might as well check the others.
Editā¦
Ancestral Sniper is OKā¦
The Kruger is the ancestral pistol.
Afaik itās just that and the splitter smg. For whatever reason, These 2 files basically just got deleted.
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The bug only seems to be impacting the Ancestral Pistol, unless anyone else can tell be differently?
I am using a mod that changes the names of some of the items. For instance: āAncestral Pistolā is renamed to āKrugermeier 2-2 Ancestralā. 
I knew it changed the names of a number of things, I now realize this was one of them.
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Understandable. I use that mod too (or similar) and often forget what things are actually called 
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Thatās awesome, and as a console-only player I feel jealous.
Leave it to the unpaid fans and modders to fix such a huge gamebreaking issue before the multimillion company doesā¦
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There are pros and cons to PC and console - modding is one of PCās best pros, IMO :]
I hope IO gets a fix out to you all soon, too! And hopefully a bit sooner than the next regular patch, like they did with the Splitter bugs.
Right now, everyone who doesnāt or canāt use UCP effectively has an RNG-powered time bomb ticking in their Freelancer mode. Eventually, you will be rewarded one of these items (with double chances if you paid for a DLC!) and if I understand correctly, after that point your Freelancer will be basically unplayable until the weapons are fixedā¦ not the best, to say the least!
(and just in case youāre wondering - I think the consistency of consoles are their best pro - every copy of a console is the same, and if one can run it, all of them canā¦ unless something has gone very weird!)
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It feels really wrong to have to use a community patch for such a severe issue. Should have been hotfixed by IOI as soon as it was discovered.
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This + Race Marshallās bugged disguise should be fixed via hotfix ASAP. Itās not only annoying, but also kinda embarrassing to let these things through.
No head 47
byu/AlienEmployee inHiTMAN
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I helped with a bit of restructure of this thread, so I know what the title is (
), but I was just replying when someone asked if the bug was impacting other Ancestral weapons and to my knowledge it wasnāt (hence the thread title), so I was just asking people to clarify if other weapons were being impacted on different platforms that I wasnāt aware of
I know the Splitter SMG is bugged, but this was just around the Ancestral weapons
Iām really sorry for being not so kind. 
Hereās a small question - if you have these items in your Freelancer Safehouse inventory before this patch broke these weapons, what happens to your inventory? Do they just get wiped and the game acts as if you donāt have them? Or are they just invisible on the wall counted as collected?
If not, Iāll have to defer playing anymore Freelancer until this gets fixedā¦which should be a number 1 priority right now for IOI!
Thank you very much @Floople!
Iāve asked Samir about this and I am waiting for a response.
Iām really sorry everyone for the confusion.
https://x.com/Hitman/status/1909660284299456864
(sorry for the twitter link, there isnāt a bsky post yet)
Heads up, Agents!
This Thursday, April 10th, weāre rolling out a new PSVR2 patch.
Hereās a sneak peek at whatās coming:
-Fixed crashes related to save/load
-Improved audio and haptic feedback for holsters
-Minimize āFade to Blackā in certain situations
-Fixed issue where remote explosives didnāt work
-Tweaked aiming for firearms
-Fixed previous listed PS VR2 known issue
-Over +100 bug fixes and improvements
Full patch notes coming Thursday.
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