Running out of ammo on bosses

[nadoP]

How? What weapons are yall choosing that this happens on? I'm assuming that you're just ignoring the limits of your FCS and also ignoring/didn't know about the ricochet mechanic.

If you just slap the trigger without a good position and without allowing your FCS to generate a complete firing solution, you're going to miss. If you just crank off shots outside of your weapon's effective range, you're going to deal extremely minimal damage--this is probably also where the complaint of "insanely large boss HP pools" comes from.

The bosses in this game are squishy. If you paid attention in class and used a) your weapon's ideal range, and b) the stagger system, most bosses don't survive more than 6-8 staggers (if even 4-5).

[Clockmed The Teenage Terror]

Is this even still a relevant issue? anyone running out of ammo still is just awful

[nadoP]

Originally posted by Clockmed The Teenage Terror:

Is this even still a relevant issue? anyone running out of ammo still is just awful

I still see it in some of the boss threads floating around here, but I've been meaning to ask this question for weeks LOL

[Tustle]

The Harris Rifles and VPM plasma missiles but I didn't actually; just ran the bins to very low while fighting Chatty and Carla after beating the tar out of a certain posh Britishman-sounding jerkass apparently fond of the French cuisine given his callsign.

This was also where I discovered that it is, in fact, possible to run into a deficit and lose money on a sortie.

[Sabaithal]

Generally not many people use rifles against bosses because they're not effective in most instances.

Missiles you can run out of ammo, but only if you're not using competent arm weaponry. For bosses generally go either explosives or energy weapons, depending on the boss in question. Kinetics are only really good with shotguns.

[adobo]

The only time I've run out of ammo is pre-patch when doing drone hacker mission where Iguazu shows up and a bunch of stealth bots showed up. Using 4 machineguns, I ran out of ammo and punched Iguazu as well as the last stealth sniper. No checkpoints run.

[Clockmed The Teenage Terror]

Originally posted by majikero:

The only time I've run out of ammo is pre-patch when doing drone hacker mission where Iguazu shows up and a bunch of stealth bots showed up. Using 4 machineguns, I ran out of ammo and punched Iguazu as well as the last stealth sniper. No checkpoints run.

Yeah, i ran out of ammo in a gun like once or twice but it was never like game breakingly bad. It was one fight specifically that didnt let me re-arm before hand and there was just so much in the level i had used my gatlings on. That was pre patch though. I have never however, run out of ammo on a boss, thats just insane.

[bigbenisdaman]

Duel plasma rifle works great, cheap ammo too. So does Zimmerman's and Chainguns. What are youusing to run out of ammo so much???? There's resupply points before all bosses.

[Clockmed The Teenage Terror]

Originally posted by bigbenisdaman:

Duel plasma rifle works great, cheap ammo too. So does Zimmerman's and Chainguns. What are youusing to run out of ammo so much???? There's resupply points before all bosses.

if you read, the OP is asking why people are running out still

[Wutever]

Only time I ran out of ammo was when I did a gotta go fast wheelchair 2xSampu build vs. Balteus.

[bigbenisdaman]

Originally posted by Clockmed The Teenage Terror:

Originally posted by bigbenisdaman:

Duel plasma rifle works great, cheap ammo too. So does Zimmerman's and Chainguns. What are youusing to run out of ammo so much???? There's resupply points before all bosses.

if you read, the OP is asking why people are running out still

Ohh totally just picked up a complaining user about running out of ammo when skimming thorugh. wonder who they're saying is running out too, don't see many threads after like the first week.