The First Descendant purple ammo shortage

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Weapons such as shotguns, grenade launchers and snipers that use purple ammunition have no way to reload since there is almost no ammunition drop and they are useless in combat.

[Overeagerdragon]

That's by design....

they deal a F-ton of damage if you mod them right hence why you only get rounds VERY rarely for them. Use an ammo converter in your build if you reliably want to use them or just face the music they do a BIG POW !!! but only once per mission

[ThorF]

you can drop a module that transform orange ammo into purple one.
lvl it up so it take less "space" in your weapon module tab

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ok thanks I will look for the ammunition module

[Maya-Neko]

You're supposed to use them for burst damage, not for continuous attack. 2 Weapons are way more than enough to sustain constant attack, so the 3rd one can easily be such a low ammo weapon which you only take out, if you can hit a boss right into the face.

Obviously feel free to take a 3rd non-purple weapon, but then at least use that 3rd weapon and don't just let it collecting dust in your pocket

[Cold_Blade]

Originally posted by Overeagerdragon:

That's by design....

they deal a F-ton of damage if you mod them right hence why you only get rounds VERY rarely for them. Use an ammo converter in your build if you reliably want to use them or just face the music they do a BIG POW !!! but only once per mission

sadly nothing really outshines using general round weapons.. snipers maybe with a huge crit damage build, but machine guns and submachine guns just do to much damage in a short time. For example, my lvl 100 tamer does 50-88k crit damage build with normal shots usually 22k. Honestly everything in general seems worse to use than general weapons.. my skill damage doesn't come close.. only useful for mob clearing aoes lol (lepic with skill damage/tech damage/skill crit/defense build)

[RiseM]

Originally posted by ThorF:

you can drop a module that transform orange ammo into purple one.
lvl it up so it take less "space" in your weapon module tab

Actually any ammo, green orange or white, a mod for each type. I find that using for the most common is the most effective, so the white ammo, but the drop mechanic is still not very clear to me. Sometimes you get purple drop by just running with full reserve of chosen ammo exchange, sometimes you need to actually pick up them. Mod description is also vague.

But it really helps getting purple ammo.

[KAIIRU]

NO FUN ALLOWED KID

[NotxEevee]

Originally posted by Overeagerdragon:

That's by design....

they deal a F-ton of damage if you mod them right hence why you only get rounds VERY rarely for them. Use an ammo converter in your build if you reliably want to use them or just face the music they do a BIG POW !!! but only once per mission

If they're so powerful why do the purple ammo weapons deal less damage in one shot than every other gun type in the same span of time it takes to fire said shot?
Pointless. Another game where shotguns are a waste of time.

[RiseM]

Originally posted by NotxEevee:

Originally posted by Overeagerdragon:

That's by design....

they deal a F-ton of damage if you mod them right hence why you only get rounds VERY rarely for them. Use an ammo converter in your build if you reliably want to use them or just face the music they do a BIG POW !!! but only once per mission

If they're so powerful why do the purple ammo weapons deal less damage in one shot than every other gun type in the same span of time it takes to fire said shot?
Pointless. Another game where shotguns are a waste of time.

Shotguns are really fun. Rocket launchers too. Sniper rifles I guess for some bosses.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by NotxEevee:

If they're so powerful why do the purple ammo weapons deal less damage in one shot than every other gun type in the same span of time it takes to fire said shot?
Pointless. Another game where shotguns are a waste of time.

Usually happens, because people use standard ammo-weapons most of the time and therefore upgrade their mods first and then they compare this fully upgraded weapon to a weak version of a purple gun, just to be surprised, that it can't compete properly.