Similar Weapons Share Common Ammo Reserve

[Mikeloeven]

I only just found this out and i was horrified. if you have two weapons you should have enough ammo for both but this game stupidly shares reserve ammo between two weapons of the same type completely unacceptable for gameplay and this should be fixed immediately to give each weapon slot it's own ammo reserve

and i am saying immediately who thought this was a good idea should be terminated and i don't mean fired

[ncanning]

Makes sense too me, and no one else has complained....

[Iceberg]

Makes sense too me, and no one else has complained....

I complained about it, who in their right mind would think a SMG (normally uses 9mm ammo) should be also using up AR ammo???

[ncanning]

I can understand requesting smgs have different ammo then assault rifles. But thats not what he says, he says if he equips 2 of something he should get double ammo... read the post spazz master

[Tally]

I don't mind. I find it a little silly sure, but don't mind. Just means I won't be running an assault rifle / smg or lmg build ever lol.

[Anderson]

Isn't this the same way almost every shooter ever has dealt with ammo?

[Iceberg]

I can under requesting smgs have different ammo then assault rifles. But thats not what he says, he says if he equips 2 of something he should get double ammo... read the post spazz master

OMG spazzing? I am not spazzing! Why would you say that, now I have to go and post about this!!!

Seriously though, Ya reading comprehension goes out the window early in the morning. My apologies.

[ncanning]

Isn't this the same way almost every shooter ever has dealt with ammo?

Yes, it is

[AngryAardvark]

Yes, it is

Like... ? Never ever played a shooter where I run out of SMG and AR ammo at the same time. Never. Ever.

[Mikeloeven]

ok think about it this way.

if your carrying a pistol and a machine gun you will carry ammo for the pistol and machine gun
if your carrying two machine guns you will not have a pistol and the character would take the space reserved for the pistol ammo and carry additional machine gun ammo because there would be no need to carry ammo that your not using,

it makes more sense for each individual weapon the player carries to have it's own reserve ammunition

@ anderson

Yes this is how alot of shooters deal with ammunition but these shooters have more common ammunition and if a shooter does share ammo between weapons it generally has a much greater reserve and some times the ammo is not even capped. so is this normal for shooters ... yes is it balanced in this case .... no simply because the game fails to provide a sufficient quantity of ammo to support the varying play styles and rate of fire to damage ratio of the weapons.

your taking a generalization about shooters and making a declarative statement. game design is a insanely complicated procedure and you need to take into account all the factors and it is clear that weapons in defiance do not have a sufficient reserve ammo capacity or that ammo dumps are too few and far between