Ammo

[fleshcutter]

this isnt a question about how much ammo each gun will take but do you have to buy ammo if it runs out or does it automaticly recharge your ammo?

[Grind]

The only time I've seen ammo mentioned in an interview was when they mentioned buying guns and ammo. I don't know if that means you have to buy ammo when you run out or if they were just talking about it in a general sense because I think they were talking about things you could do in the main cities.

They might give you a limited supply and force you to leave battle and buy more when you run out, but that seems pretty unlikely if the game play is going to resemble UT and Quake.

They might have different types of ammo for each gun, maybe certain types of ammo that are lighter or heavier or something, I don't know.

Or they might just make it so you have to buy the gun, and also the type of ammo for that gun, but once you buy the ammo once, you can replenish ammo anywhere they have ammo boxes (I think I saw something in a gameplay video of someone standing over a little thing and it recharged something lol I can't remember that well), and when you die.

Just a couple things they might do. I don't think they've really talked about how guns and ammo will work at all. That's pretty much how it is with the whole game lol. We know what will be in the game, but only in the most general sense.

[monverz]

I remember Reading somewhere that you are going to have unlimited ammo. You will probably have to reload every so often but the thing is you dont have to buy ammo...

And if you think about it if you had only so much ammo... it would suck if you ran out in the middle of a mission or a battlefield. I am sure they will have set amount of ammo for each gun so you can reload them and probably have abilities where it lowers load times... but you never run out of ammo...

[Grind]

I would be really suprised if they had no ammo limits at all.

I would think they would at least give you a limit and just put some kind of ammo boxes randomly around the levels.

As for not wanting to run out of ammo. I'm sure anyone who has played any FPS there have been many times when you have run out of ammo at the worst time possible. It's just part of the game. And for anyone who has played most other MMO's you always have to make sure you have enough ammo to make it through whatever quest or instance, again it's all part of the game.

Then again what do I know :D. I suppose I wouldn't mind having unlimited ammo. The only thing I would be worried about are people just spraying everywhere non-stop with no ammo limitation, even if they do have to stop every now and then to quickly reload. I don't think I would like some guy with a rocket launcher just non-stop firing down some area so nobody could ever get by. They might have something to prevent that though, so I don't know. lol all I can picture right now is 3 guys with rocket launchers timing their reloads right so there is always someone sending rockets flying down a hallway or something hahaha

[Sephina]

I'm actually hoping that they have it where you can buy ammo but you are not required to...

By that I mean you've got your basic ammo, which is either unlimited or found in boxes around the battlefield. and then you have your special ammo, such as maybe the following:

Armor piercing bullets
poison bullets
explosive bullets
static bullets
anti-cloak bullets (ever so nice against phantoms)

and for rocket launchers:

frost rocket (freezes or slows them)
acid rocket
warp rocket (hits them almost instantly by warping almost near target after leaving rocket launcher - removing most of the time it takes for the rocket to travel from your gun to the target)
heat seeking rocket (or homing rocket)
anti-vehicle rocket

granted that's probably not how thier going to do it - but would be rather interesting if a person could buy such special ammo for PvE missions... but I feel it's best that these be kept out of PVP, because then everyone would have to buy ammo to PVP worth a crap, so unless people will be able to make money from PVP I feel these shouldn't be usable in PVP.

just my 2 credit's worth (or whatever they use in huxley)

- Sephie

[Benny]

Having unlimited ammo would be retarded. If you run out of ammo for one weapon, you most likely have other guns and ammo for them as well.

[Berserker]

Originally Posted by Sephina

explosive bullets

How would that work? You can only pack so much explosive into a bullet, even a huge .50 cal type round...

[Grind]

Originally Posted by Berserker

How would that work? You can only pack so much explosive into a bullet, even a huge .50 cal type round...

Well this will be in the future. So there would obviously be some crazy future technology that allowed it :D


that would be really cool if they had the special types of ammo. But yeah it could really mess up PvP and make people complain if they didn't have the money to buy them all the time.

Maybe limit the amount of "special" ammo you can buy. Like you can only hold 1 clip of any special ammo for a machine gun, and only 1 or 2 special rockets for the rocket launcher. This way you could still have it in the game, but it wouldn't be too much of a problem and could be used in sticky situations where you need more of an edge against multiple enemies or something.

[fleshcutter]

hey grind he was talking about the higher explosive bullets he means you wouldnt really be able to make an explosion bigger or any explosion at all (depending on the gun) in one bullet.

[Metalhead]

i would agree with sephie, having different types of rounds for different jobs would be nice, and since this is the future, wouldnt a plasma state bullet be plausible? even in PvP it would be interesting, not force people to by the stuff, make the rounds do just as much dmg just with special effects, like the poison does DoT, plasma state would cause burning and effective armour piercing or AP, and a normal AP round would be more suited for vehicles, and going through that wall where the sniper is hiding. the explosive bullet would be more on the lines of anti-personal.

either way different types of rounds would be nice, either for just PvP, just PvE, or both

grind has an idea there too, give you unlimited normal rounds, then give you a limited supply of special rounds, that way itd be more balanced, but i still think unlimited ammo would be a little too...annoying you have to use less tactics that way

[InsaneRussian]

Haha unending supply of ammo in your pocket? or a rocker?
Dream on! Haha! :D

[Metalhead]

unlimited ammo is for when i have had a bad day at work, and want to blast things with unrelenting mercy...but since this is an MMO i will be able to take out frustrations in pvp lol limited ammo is what i am hoping for

[InsaneRussian]

Well having unending supply of ammo is so not realistic and simply not fun but less things to worry about. It's like not having the option to repair your armor cause armor is undestructable, thats a bit stupid i think. Plu swhen i play and run out of ammo... Knife is the answer ^^

[baddb0y93]

well knowing the fact that yull be able to bring 4 guns into the battle the ammo is probly cheap and could buy alot if u run out of ammo just swith to another weapon but i highly doubt thell have unlimited ammo
just my opinion

[InsaneRussian]

Well im guessing that you would be able to have huge supplies of ammo with you or there will be "Field Shop" where you can recharge your stuff and such. Plus i saw screens with ammo (from huxley game) just dont remember where..

[baddb0y93]

good idea with the field shop sound good in battle and u runn out of ammo! run the the field shop without dieing

[InsaneRussian]

By the field shop i didnt really meant that you set it up in the midle of battle but thats a nice idea.. FOR INSANE PERSON LIKE ME!!! >:D
What i meant was that there will be a minor camp at which they sell recharging stuff near spawnpoints which are protected so nobody will spawncamp.

[baddb0y93]

yea that would be cool buy a portable recharge station and u deploy it appears and u can recharge yur weapons

[InsaneRussian]

But setting up your own shops is also pretty good. Like for example in Lineage 2. Or maybe they will have auction house where you set up a price and such who knows.