Okay guys. I saw this mentioned in several threads over at the Dead Island Forums (it's actually called that, if you type it into google). Basically, someone looked at the Game Files on PC, and seemed to determine that the game randomly "spawns into existence" one Orange//Gold-quality Weapon (Exceptional) every 5-6 hours of actual "game play time".
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