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I'm not sure what their long term plans are going to be, to be honest. Like you mentioned, they can reset the weapons, but they still need to figure out what to do regarding the result of those weapons. From a technical standpoint, they do track what weapons are used in activities - but I don't know if they track the specific version of the weapon you're using in the API, there is a weapon's ID and then there's an instance ID which is your specific copy of that weapon, which ties it to all the specific perks, applied shader, kill tracker, etc. If they track the instance IDs they might have a way to work through all of that data and find a way to reverse it (which like you also mentioned, will cause a lot of salt when the game is already in a... rough... state PR wise) but who knows.