Recouping Unused Ammo

[Team Triss]

So I'm on my second deployment right now; I finished about 10/14 objectives on the first map/mission what-have-you on my first deployment before I withdrew for the day. One of my marines suffered a concussion so I carried her back to the ARC and found the last survivor before extracting.

I holed up in the Armory for a rest with the three of them and then grabbed most of the ammo in it; I was out of spare mags and middling on the ammo in each mag, so I grabbed just enough so everyone had a spare. There's still 1-2 in there.

After reloading from that point several times and finding the last survivor, I ended up leaving without using any of those spare mags, then I realized the problem.

I left with 3 magazines. These magazines are now missing from the map and unavailable to me. That's great, the persistence is actually a really neat idea. However, I don't gain any benefit from coming back with that ammo; I start the next deployment full up automatically. It's as if the ammo on the map just vanished in thin air. The only solution I can think of currently to feel like I don't waste the ammo is walk around without picking up spare mags and pray I don't need to reload.

Does anyone else feel a little cheated by this? I'm definitely not running around picking up everything I find because I know I'll have to make due with what's left on the map, and I choose how much I bring with me for tools, meds, and sentries, but since ammo magically refills to full, any you bring back with you is completely wasted.

It'd be nice if you could stockpile ammo on the Otago like you do Meds, Tools, and Sentries, and maybe bring some back with the ARC so you can refill from there before tapping the map, or something along those lines.

[Cartoonhead]

Originally posted by LoR Team Triss:

Originally posted by Csabz:

So the ammo i pick up on the map (Day-1, Dead Hills currently) doesn't make it back to the base for reuse after i extract with the squad, i just loose all my ammo, and leaves me stranded later because i cannot pick up any more ammo from that area which i already looted, and then have to spend resources again to assign ammo to my team at deployment due to this? Basically i waste resources if i pick up too much ammo on the map to try to buffer my ammo for emergency use, but then its totally wasted if i dont use it?:D

Your Marines start each mission with as much ammo as they can carry; a full load in the gun and one spare magazine to start, so you'll at least start a mission with that much.

Otherwise yes, if you take ammo from the map and extract with it you're functionally wasting it.

That does suck a bit, an ammo inventory in the store back at base that your Marines can can stock up with the excess after extraction would be nice. Maybe the more excess ammo you bring/carry, the slower your team moves? Idk.

Happy with ammo being limited, but it disappearing forever if you picked it up and didn't use it is a tad rubbish.

[Uzrael]

Agreed. I get the idea that there's limited ammo on the Otago, so it makes sense that marines are only deploying with limited mags.

IMHO the fair way to do it would be that ammo is preserved between deployments - it's being stored in the APC or dropship, with minimum ammo always available from the Otago.

[Sifer2]

Yeah the ammo system could possibly lose a bit of iteration in patches. The mission is effectively over if you run out of ammo you will need to extract. Sometimes there is plenty of ammo crates around. Sometimes not. Any ammo carried is lost upon extraction.

Personally I like the idea of being able to store extra ammo in the APC.

[DarkPoolz]

Storing stuff at the APC sounds pretty good. You have the option to trek all the way back to the APC if you are missing something. You get the tactical option extract or continue on limited supplies. Maybe you can also revive characters in a coma inside a safe room or APC too with penalties. More options is good.