Looting Ammo From Dead Guy's Guns

[voidinit]

I'm having a weird issue here, and I'm not sure if it's a bug, or an intentional gameplay mechanic.

When I kill someone, and let's say they had a bastard gun, I go loot their corpse and get some ammo from them and whatever. Their gun is still sitting on the ground, and I can see that it has bullets in it. So when I highlight the gun on the ground, I get the 'E' in a circle. If I click it, it does nothing, but there are still bullets in the gun on the ground. So I check my ammo supply, (normal difficulty), and let's say I have 100 rounds of dirty ammo, plus 30 in the bastard I have. I swap my bastard for the one on the ground. Then swap back, and reload my bastard gun. Now I have 110 rounds in my inventory, and after reloading, 30 in the bastard.

Is the only way to pull unspent rounds of dead NPC's guns to pick them up and then drop them?

[voidinit]

I wonder if this strange mechanic of having to loot the ammo out of NPC dropped guns seperately is what is causing some people to have serious ammo issues in the Ranger modes. Maybe some haven't realized that you have to the body & the dropped gun, and possibly pick up and drop the gun in order to get the ammo out of it.

[Argon]

I don't think the bullets on the gun are "real," they're just there because the developpers didn't also make an empty gun model for when you loot it. Therefore, the gun's ammo, and all the ammo on the body, should be picked up when you press 'E'

[Grrkek]

I noticed this back when the game released. This has to be a bug and it's odd that it hasn't been fixed yet. It certainly feels like cheating.

[[cAmA]PhreXes Phowltear]

Argon, this is a real bug. I am experiencing this as well, in both Normal and Ranger modes. I don't know what is causing it, and I don't know why the bug disappeared during my first playthrough, but I definitely have to first loot the body (pressing E), then to take the enemy's gun by pressing E longer (thereby switching my gun with the enemy's, because just taking the ammo by pressing E shortly doesn't work) and switch it back again.

This is horribly annoying, so I hope the devs will patch this bug out.

[RJK JR]

I have had the same issues! I have found that depending on the difficulty level and weather I have maxed ammo collected for that type I can or cannot collect from the dead guys guns?? So I would vote that it's game mechanics...