I'm kinda worried this game is going to sell itself on the amount of *bleep*ing weapons it has, with many people ignoring the fact it won't actually be that good (much like Fallout 3 and its supposed 100+ endings).

Just a thought. Could be coolest game in a decade.

Number of weapons = 3,166,880
Number of weapons that are significantly different from each other = Maybe, maybe a few hundred or a thousand at the very, very most.

I'm extremely skeptical of this game and it's arsenal of weapons. I'll believe it when I see it.

Number of weapons available: 3,166,880
Number of weapons that people are actually going to use: 10-20

Even if it is just going to be different weapon attachments that make it seem like they're different weapons, somebody's going to come up with a setup that's going to completely dominate and everybody's going to copy it. Nobody's going to try out every single weapon possible in this game.

I don't understand how this is possible. So what, we get weapons with different abilities and it just randomly combines those?

I usually don't like modifying weapons. It just feels like the creators are saying "We couldn't be bothered to create a few, well made and balanced weapons, so we're letting you figure it out yourself instead."

Honestly though, too much choice in a game is a bad thing in my opinion.

They have too many weapons. ;-;

Probably something gay like.

"Speed 1-10"
"Power 1-10" and so on. Even if you have the same gun and the only way it differs is it's power is 9 instead of 8 it's classed as a different gun...

I think this game is going to be pretty ace. I love the idea of weapon collecting, it's what made Phantasy Star Online fun, and part of what made Diablo II fun as well.

Still, it's clear that there isn't really going to be that many weapons, just different stat variations and add-ons.

Ok folks , here is what they mean by 3,166,880 waeapons. Take this from a long-time gamer, and big fan of this particular game.

It means there are 3,166,880 possible variations of the weapons. So it will break down to something like this:

Each weapon will have a base model, and will have a mod slot, and an ammo slot.

Base model could be something like: shotgun , assault rifle, pistol (there will be more, but for example.) Mod slot could be silencer, barellel extension, laser pointer (for example.) Ammo slot could be poison ammo, hollowpoint ammor, super hollowpoint ammo.

Just out of these parts, that equals 27 possible 'different' weapons (3x3x3=27). If there was another 2 kinds of ammo, say explosive ammo and shocking ammo, that would mean there is now 45 different weapons. (3x3x5=45)

What I'm trying to say is don't buy into the whole 3 million plus weapons thing. It is really cool, and there will be that many possible different varieties of weapons ,but they aren't all going to be vastly different.

If you take randomized stats into affect, you could say Diablo one had over a million weapons in it.

Long live randomization in games.

I'm waiting for my sniper missile launcher with a knife handle and can also double as a toaster.

Number of significantly different weapons (a pistol that's slightly more powerful than another pistol isn't a significantly different weapon) - 20
Number of add-ons/customizations - 3 or so, per weapon-type
Number of ammo-types - 3 or so, per weapon-type
Number of colours - 1,000,000

I hate this kind of bullshit advertising.