Expanding ammunition blocked

[Erminiodonte]

Can anyone explain to me why with guns like the conversion I can no longer use the expanding ammunition that does bleeding damage? I thought they were blocked because the development team was working on it but then I happened to collect them and use them on the map so now I don't understand the motivation, I have a rank 100 with all weapons and ammo unlocked in theory.thx

[Holy Dogwater]

You can longer longer buy it for specific weapons IE conversion pistols and few others. You can still find the ammo in match randomly....

[Erminiodonte]

ok, thanks but is that the reason? will it always be like this?

[Holy Dogwater]

its perm as of now, unless the Dev's change it back....

[uboras]

Quoting the corresponding section from the patch notes of Update 2.2:

"Custom Ammo Scarcity

Introduced Custom Ammo scarcity—a new status for Custom Ammo that is similar to Scarce Traits. An ammo type can be marked as Scarce and is consequently no longer available for purchase. It can still be found in-Mission, and players’ existing inventory of the marked Custom Ammo type can still be used.

For Update 2.2, the following Custom Ammo types have been marked as Scarce:

Dolch 96 FMJ & Dumdum
Centennial Dumdum
Scottfield Dumdum
Officer Dumdum
Conversion Dumdum

We plan on reviewing and further adjusting the list of Scarce Custom Ammo in future updates."

[Peter Panzy]

Reason is, Fail-Tek gave every weapon the 'I win' bleed rounds.... dumbing the game down to just landing a shot, any shot and push. Taking out really any real skill the game had left to cater towards campers/run-n-gun-try-hards. This is a great change and I really hope they evolve it... but this is fail-tek, so i'm not goin to hold my breath :(

[Erminiodonte]

what terrible news, thank you all for the replies, I'll have to change my favorite weapon I'm afraid

[RandyBobandy]

What is weird they left Pax with it and ordinary Nagant revolver too but conversion revolver and Schotfield have it blocked... It really seems they don't have idea how to balance this game...

[Der Guteste TTV]

Originally posted by Erminiodonte:

ok, thanks but is that the reason? will it always be like this?

Because many low elo player simply can't handle bleed at all. Even after months they weren't able to correctly counterplay and it was causing balance issues at low elo - so crytek basically removed it.

[Erminiodonte]

Originally posted by RandyBobandy:

What is weird they left Pax with it and ordinary Nagant revolver too but conversion revolver and Schotfield have it blocked... It really seems they don't have idea how to balance this game...

yes, choices that seem to make little sense and are very random, perhaps made while they were drunk?