this is intentional - a while back we had custom holders for each gun buddy and it made things slightly problematic - mostly with regard to skins. if we had a skin of a certain thematic, say Reaver as an example, it would be weird to have that Phoenix holder. What we're moving to now is a system where you gun determines the holder, but you can have any buddy hanging from it. we're working on a lot of really cool and fun ideas for these so hopefully when we get to show them to you it feels a lot better :)

JebediahMilkshake

Will this fix the minor cosmetic bug that occurs on larger guns with the buddy clipping into the body? like these guns hold the buddy further away from the body? (i.e my buddies clip into the bodies of the op and phantom etc)

yea we've actually moved the position of the buddies on the op, phantom, stinger, almost all of them have taken a pass. we cant 100% prevent clipping from a tech standpoint but we're putting rules in place to make sure buddies stick within a specific boundary and making sure to place them in spots on weapons that allow them to have a decent amount of visibility and not clip through the gun or hands. i think this week alone the team addressed like 2 dozen bugs related to buddies so rest assured we're committed to making sure they're great :)