The Neverending Quest for Ammo

[Mr. Hanky]

I'm getting a little frustrated. This game keeps on handing me more guns, but almost no ammo for them. I search and scavenge everything, it gives me plenty of parts for modifications, however, since I don't get hardly any ammo, what's the point? Sure I now have the ability to load 6 shots into my shotgun at once. I've never had more than 3 shotgun ammo since that point, either. It keeps on throwing these huge encounters at me, and less ammo than I need to consume to get through the fight, too. I don't feel like I'm wasting these shots, I do plenty of melee to make up for the no freaking ammo...
I just picked up a flamethrower, too. I should be happy, but all I could think was yet another gun I won't have ammo for after the next fight.

[Frag Maniac]

I kind of like that it's a bit survival horror that way. Have you used the bow any? Also, any weapons you can one shot with tend to save ammo of course, like the scoped pistol. I also find besides using melee, it helps to let your allies get in some shots while you move forward, advancing from cover to cover. The game is also a bit more realistic that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnfioHgGoQo

[sinephase]

they made it so you get more ammo when you get kills, otherwise you need to try to run past them if all else fails. I agree it's annoying but it also forces you to use everything you find.

[Rexali_]

I'm playing the 4th playthrough in a row.

This time, I'm playing on the New Game Plus Classic Grounded Difficulty, without the use of any guns and ammo. Just killing enemies and zombies with stealth or melee attacks, mostly using bricks and bottles only. I have learned that I can kill clickers using brick attacks or kill them stealthily with arrows. No need for shivs at all.

Also, you can skip all of the bloaters except the first one, which is in school, though you can kill him with a Molotov and hand grenade.

But you can skip the other ones. The bloater inside the generator area can be skipped using the keycard to the door. The third one in university can be skipped by stealthily killing clickers around him using arrows and passing him quietly. The final ones near the hospital can be skipped with sneaking behind them.

Also, when playing as Ellie, since she has an unbreakable knife, firstly, you can stun enemies and clickers with a brick or bottle and then kill them with a knife attack.

[DexterMullen]

This is not a third person shooter, this is stealth/survivor game.
Go for stealth kills or ignore combat compleatly when possible.

Use brick and bottles to throw, stun, 1 shot kill with any melee weapon,
or
throw bottle , grab, instant kill or stealth kill
or
use brick with triple attack to instantly kill any enemy