1.2.9
Clearly some sort of scripting error has taken place. The OOB screen is skipped every time the player is a third party, including field battles
Happened to me as well, here's some screenshots and additional info:
It's somewhat fixed. Higher tier parts are less likely to be repeated, Tier 1 parts, especially for those weapon categories where it's hard to unlock parts (2 handed axes are particularly terrible on that front) do that quite often.
Thought it was a conscious choice, were you guys working on visible damage on shields during combat?
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD
I'd say the gauntlets need to be shinier, maybe the striped gauntlets instead?