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  1. #1

    Signature Ammo Scarcity

    This recent patch seemed to have screwed with the ammo drop rate for signature weapons. Even the drop rates with the signature weapon perk seems to be broken as each drop is only giving one round when it should be 2. I almost never have a single round for my 40mm or .50 cal when i need it most in firefights. I can probably assume this is for balancing purposes in pvp, however this neuters the decision we make when choosing which specialization we would like to play as.

    The signature weapons should be just as much of a reason to pick a class as the perks that come along with it. They are half the fun that comes with choosing our specialization. Signature weapons were a selling point for the game to replace the 'get out of jail free' S-links from D1 and do take a bit of skill to master, so why limit our use for them even more? Ammo drops should be more profound to encourage players to utilize their signature weapons more so. This would especially be essential for PvE activities when we are communicating with our squadmates (and would most likely be detrimental when the raid comes out a few weeks from now).

    if anything, if these drops are going to be this scarce, then could we at least have a hidden ammo box that tops off our signature weapons? at least this way we would have greater reward for exploring the dark corners of each level.
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    it's a bug, like everything else. this patch has been 100% **** on every level.
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    No, you are not alone. Seems to come in spurts. When you need it you don't get it, and when you don' need it you get a ton of it. My theory is that there is not much in this game that is completely RNG, and there is probably logic that feeds into the RNG to increase or decrease the weight of items based on what you seem to need, e.g. make it more likely that you get special ammo when you are out.

    If they did not do this, then therein lies the problem, because making it completely RNG could lead to spans of not getting anything you need. So I think they do have logic to steer RNG better, and that is probably flat out wrong in the case of special ammo.
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    Applying rng to ammo is flat out ridiculous, cannot believe this is the case. It has to be a bug.
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  5. #5
    If you watched the stream it's a bug working on being fixed
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  6. #6
    The lack of ammo drops is bad enough but what really faffs me off is filling the spec ammo up then the minute you matchmake into a group its all gone.................
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    Do people that make these posts not even read anything? I think someone has complained about special ammo every 10min since the patch. Read the other threads people good lord are you blind?
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  8. #8
    Special Ammo, Exotics, and Exotic components are all very scarce in the current patch. I haven't seen one Orange drop since last week.
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  9. #9
    Originally Posted by Tylorsmith1883 Go to original post
    If you watched the stream it's a bug working on being fixed
    If you watched close enough, he almost said it was intended and then slowly warped that sentence into a bug.
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