Ammo not dropping?

[arrhyka]

Was using a plasma gun for the longest time and switched to gauss rifle, problem is now the only way i can get ammo is by crafting it, have not seen a single enemy drop it after a day of usage and only found 3 rounds from a box. Bug or working as intended?

[m142]

special opsssssssss......
doooo ittt.....
as for serius answer , drop rate wary from amo type , for example 308 is suited for sniper rifle and don't drop much , same case might be with 2mm or what ever gauss use.
good alternative for crafting are expeditions and special operatons , droping tons of amunition in grups.

[BizarreMan]

2mm EC for your Gauss rifle should be dropping everywhere.

[arrhyka]

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

2mm EC for your Gauss rifle should be dropping everywhere.

it's not tho... tried relogging, switching to a plasma gun will make plasma cartridges drop, but i have not seen a single round of EC drop from anything i've killed with the gauss rifle.

[Brynan]

any fix mines ddoing the same thing

[Klomuha]

I think different enemies have different ammo drop rates. Insects, mirelurks and ghouls drop less ammo than humans, mutants, scorched.

[Xander Tyrann]

Do we know if this is a bug or a feature?
It even affects ammo containers. where usually it would give you a small amount of the ammo for whatever gun you have, 2mm EC in this case, with a Gauss Rifle equipped it gives random ammo for different weapons. (like 5 different types in the same container)

[virpyre]

A Colossal Problem
Daily Ops
Expeditions
Ammo boxes and duffle bags
Night of the Moth

Contextual Ammo from containers and enemies (excluding those in Daily Ops and A Colossal Problem) have a greater chance to award ammo required by the equipped ranged weapon at lower levels. Super Mutants, Humans, Scorched and Robots are your best bet.

Some weapons won't grant contextual ammo such as ProSnap Deluxe camera, Syringer and Flare Gun, and will instead spawn an assortment of random, cheap ammunition.

Weapons that use more expensive ammunition such as Fusion Core or Plasma Core will be rare and will fail to spawn anything, even while using Scrounger.

[Xander Tyrann]

Originally posted by virpyre:

A Colossal Problem
Daily Ops
Expeditions
Ammo boxes and duffle bags
Night of the Moth

Contextual Ammo from containers and enemies (excluding those in Daily Ops and A Colossal Problem) have a greater chance to award ammo required by the equipped ranged weapon at lower levels. Super Mutants, Humans, Scorched and Robots are your best bet.

Some weapons won't grant contextual ammo such as ProSnap Deluxe camera, Syringer and Flare Gun, and will instead spawn an assortment of random, cheap ammunition.

Weapons that use more expensive ammunition such as Fusion Core or Plasma Core will be rare and will fail to spawn anything, even while using Scrounger.

"Some weapons won't grant contextual ammo such as ProSnap Deluxe camera, Syringer and Flare Gun, and will instead spawn an assortment of random, cheap ammunition."

That sounds like what is happening here. is that normal for the Gauss Rifle?

[virpyre]

2mm EC rounds may be difficult to find in containers at lower levels.

Gauss Rifle or Shotgun in Daily Ops is all you need to farm ammo. Doing just one DO run and collecting all the ammo will net you at a minimum 500 rounds.

Also, 2mm EC is one of the easier ammo types to craft. Pick up all the cans you see lying around. That's all the lead you need. Go to top of the world and grab all the can traps there, then go to every Blood Eagle camp, tons of cans.

Use Super Duper and Ammo Factory. You will be swimming in 2mm EC in no time.

[Chronocide]

Originally posted by arrhyka:

Was using a plasma gun for the longest time and switched to gauss rifle, problem is now the only way i can get ammo is by crafting it, have not seen a single enemy drop it after a day of usage and only found 3 rounds from a box. Bug or working as intended?

unless something changed recently...yeah, not had the issue you speak of. I have found that plasma ammo is less common than, say, shotgun ammo.

Anyway, if you see my vendor/camp online, I should have your ammo for 1 cap each, or similar low price (I think I have those plasma cores at 25 each since they seem to be uncommon, but that plasma gun ammo is pretty common enough where 1 cap seems fine). Missiles are 2 caps each. If I'm not using power armor, fusion cores are 5 + 5 per every 25 stored energy (so 100 charge is 25 caps and 25 charge is 10 caps). They all seem to sell okay, though I really wish some of the more common ammo could be sold in bulk or at decimal costs.

You'll know it's me because I got like 10000 ammo in the inventory of the shop...It's mainly all I sell. That and plans. I also have extremely overpriced bobble heads, but that's more because I want to stockpile them and that's the price I'd be willing to part with them at.

As for finding ammo, I've found the main ammo type you find is whatever your equipped main weapon is.

Increasing your luck also helps. I don't presently have the ammo finding perk, since I kinda have it in excess as is.

Wish there was a way to sell ammo to npc vendors, as that's normally how I'd profit in a fallout game (I'm mainly unarmed/melee in most fallout games, so I view ammo as currency).

[Chicken]

No there is a legitimate glitch, I’ve encountered it as well, two exact same gauss guns on my account, one drops ammo, one doesn’t and no clue why

[arrhyka]

After some testing, apparently it only applies to the "Long Gauss Rifle" purchased from the MODUS terminal at the armory. Random drops and crafted versions seem to work fine. Would appreciate if anyone can confirm this. At this point my character is so bugged out even some quests aren't appearing...

[Pakratjr]

It does seem a little odd. Been using gauss exclusively for quite a while and using three different variations right now, and don't usually have any issues with ammo.

That being said tho, even though I still have it drop, I have been noticing what seems to be smaller amounts being dropped on each one recently.

I used to see a good amount of double digit drops from things, 12, 15, 16 or more per thing, but I've been getting a lot more single digit drops lately. 2 or 3, 5, 6 etc.

I had a pretty decent stock of it for a while but I have had to start dipping into that a bit more than usual lately.

[KitKat]

Tbh tho, 2mm electromagnetic ammo is literally the easiest one to make. It's just Lead + Steel, which are easy to farm. No need for any other resources. I actually craft that stuff in bulk to drop into the ammo converter in large quantities to get Fuel for my Cremators.

And yes, I know Railway Spikes is literall JUST steel only, no lead, but... Let's just say - the less time I spend in the converter UI - the better. 1500 2mm = 7000 points right away. Yet biggest conversion for Spikes is 300 ammo for 1000 points, ugh. I'd rather spend time farming Lead (by actually playing the game), than clicking through the converter UI.

But as epople reviously said... Some weapons - or rather, AMMO TYPES - drop way less through the whole Contextual ammo system. 2mm AND Fuel are two of them, hence why I convert the easiest-to-craft 2mm into Fuel through the converter. While other ammo types drop in stupid amounts(5mm as an example).

If you need tips on how to farm a ton of 2mm ammo - I cen tell you. If you want, that is.