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5 years ago

Bangalore's heirloom

Why did Respawn change it from a tonfa? That was so cool. Wraith has a knife, a spinny tonfa thing would be so much cooler. I know I'm late to the question, but this is the one issue that I dislike t...

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hayhor

Hero

5 years ago

@Cracjaw450 The change happened around the time of all the outrage about police brutality. They never said they changed it due to that but it seemed like quite the coincidence.

Cracjaw450
5 years ago
@hayhor But Bangalore literally has a police officer skin!! And she's black! *chuckles* Argh!! Police aren't inherently racist, some of them are, but just because one guy is bad, it doesn't mean all the others are, come one Respawn, a Tonfa is awesome.
@DarthValtrex I can't wait for the Gibby heirloom, while I'm kinda sad it isn't a fish hook, the axe still looks kinda cool
- MandatoryIDtag
  5 years ago
  All racial tension reasons aside, I feel the change is actually pretty logical.
  Now I could be wrong here....but I'm fairly sure no military forces uses tonga as a standard issue piece of kit lol, knives however are widely used.
  A Bowie knife seems far more logical than a tonfa to me. O.o
  - Koochi-Q
    5 years ago
    @MandatoryIDtag I thought only special forces use David Bowies and normal soldiers just only have guns... (not much of a soldier-knowing person)