When Are Energy Weapons Getting An Ammunition Rework?

[Vaskadar]

As the title says.

 

It was mentioned, but not really expanded upon, as far as ammunition goes for energy weapons, to have a regenerating pool (of variable rates and sizes) for their ammunition. Weapons like the Supra, Dera, Tetra, Opticor, Spectra, Flux Rifle, and onwards all use batteries of some sort. So, is this going to happen, or are we going to have to wait a full year before it's even mentioned again?

[gnat6]

As the title says.

 

It was mentioned, but not really expanded upon, as far as ammunition goes for energy weapons, to have a regenerating pool (of variable rates and sizes) for their ammunition. Weapons like the Supra, Dera, Tetra, Opticor, Spectra, Flux Rifle, and onwards all use batteries of some sort. So, is this going to happen, or are we going to have to wait a full year before it's even mentioned again?

It will probably never happen most of the ideas DE talks about on devstreams are either dropped completely or significantly altered before they actually get added.

[Vaskadar]

It will probably never happen most of the ideas DE talks about on devstreams are either dropped completely or significantly altered before they actually get added.

Which is a damn shame :(

[ndantony]

It sounds cool. But some how I'm not too excited about making them into energy ammo. In fact, I even have a bad feeling about this.

[Orbister]

We need this, +1

[Kruglov]

Only if some of the energy weapons get a balance pass.

 

Flux Rifle, Ignis, Dera, Spectra, and Embolist all need SOME sort of buff cause they are kinda eecccchhhhhh at the moment.

[Epicagemo]

It's funny that archwing got regenerating ammo pools before the actual game did.

[Thundervision]

Yeah, i was talking about it since Flux, Dera and Supra release. It needs Overheating mechanic or ammo regeneration instead of ammo consumption.

 

Also, was talking about ammo picking rework, i.e. each pick up restores certain percentage of total ammo, not those constant 20 rounds for Rifles per pick up...

[Archistopheles]

Archwing gun mechanics are proving fun and effective. It makes sense that some guns should act similarly.

[hellx11]

well the thing is we use guns not regenerating guns so DE might just stuff the idea into the attic and forget about 

 

also in the corpus tileset if they add it they might remove all the loot containers becuz you wont need ammo and we wont be able to get that additional resources (if you happen to be there farming)

[Deviantis]

Haha, thought everyone forgot about that...

I would love to see that happen but I think an overall ammo system overhaul is needed first.

Edited April 5, 2015 by Deviantis

[Sea_Wall]

The same day shotguns get buffed. 

[Mesyra]

all beam weapons should have the ammo made to work like the archwing weapons.

[Sputter]

Honestly the entire ammo drop mechanic needs rework along with a complete re balance of most the weapons. No reason for having ammo inefficient weapons are a balancing mechanic.

[(PSN)shadowraith_666]

its an interesting idea, as mentioned Archwing has regenerating ammo as does some other games like Fallout New vegas, Unreal and half-life, it fits in with the corpus weapon theme very well, only munition based weapons should need ammo.

[DoomFruit]

I would love it if all the various batteries which I have charged themselves automatically instead of me having to break out the charger every time my bike lights run dry. Pity that doesn't actually happen and what you're looking at is instead a micro-reactor for each weapon. Conceptually, batteries work just fine as consumable ammo.

Edited June 18, 2015 by DoomFruit