Should bullets be added?

• You can use any weapon you find but can only manufacture ammo for a researched weapon – “that lets us place things at key locations for missions and set pieces”

 

Orginally I was disappointed that the whole ammo system was scrapped for a rechargable energy mechanic, but after using a few guns (at least ones that were actually good) it got me thinkijng that its an even balance, and doesn't make melee weapons completley obsolete. Otherwise, we'd be able to just stock up on ammo like crazy and shoot endlessly. Plus, the energy useage is another stat to play with for the random generatoin. Though I wouldn't mind a seperate line of armor sets that focused on gunplay, mainly, high-recharge rates at a cost of lower defense. (While melee armor is high health increase but low energy recharge.)

 

How about something like ME2; where you use energy (although in the ME universe it was just that the weapon was overheating), but can use something to refill your suits energy.

 

Ammo? No. Who would want that?

Custom bullets are an interesting idea, though... considering they would need to add an ammo slot, why wouldn't they just add a cartridge slot for guns that you can put a module in to change the properties of the bullets? They could do the same for melee weapons as well, so you could give them elemental effects or something.

 

No, not a big fan of inventory clutter

 

Micromanaging my ammo, and all my different types of ammo for all my different types of guns has never been a fun thought to me personally.

 

Why were they not funding this?
Adds more depth

 

Having to keep ammo stocked can turn fights from 'can I win this' into 'did I bring enough ammo to win this'. It isn't an interesting mechanic.

 

don't know about ammo, but the current energy mechanic really isn't fun. At least from my experience it means the only effective guns are ones that rely on lowish DPS but strong knockback; i.e. ones that are used in exactly the same fashion as melee weapons.

as it stands the knockback on melee weapons and the speed and mobility of some late tier enemies would probably leave melee weapons on par with any ranged weapon that didn't have knockback even if spam firing was possible.

 

Stockingpiling bullets is closer to unlimited ammo than energy-based ammo will ever be. and in that sense, I agree - unlimited ammo isn't fun.

 

I'm personally all for ammo. I like the different ideas floating around in here though. If I'm not the first to do it, there'll definitely be mods for changing up gun mechanics, be it crafted ammo, ammo tech, or a total gun rehaul. Modders know what they want.
Even before reading this, I was thinking about ammunition manufacturing devices run by pixels/minerals. Minerals would be the better option IMO, as it would let you diversify the ammunition coming out based on the mineral(s) provided.
I think if ammo were limited in supply, then guns could use a boost in various areas to be more deadly, in order to balance it out.

 

I'm fine with some special-use "bullets" kinda like L4D2's incendiary bullets that you're just able to come across. Other than that, I'm not for the bullets idea.

 

Like Jbeetle said, special ammo would be a nice craftable item assuming it's extremely rare. Thus, it would give a slight advantage but not be necessary to use guns (which would otherwise run off of energy) and the high rarity would result in being unable to hoard ammo unless you really worked at it for a long time.

The problem with having regular ammunition be craftable is that it makes guns far less appealing early and mid-game (when you're getting your resources set up and still trying to craft armor) but it makes melee weapons all but obsolete late-game (when you can hoard gun ammo and just store all your melee weapons at home whilst you go adventuring).

The current energy system means guns have a decent early to mid-game (you don't need to find ammo to use your weapons), but they also don't necessarily displace melee weapons late-game (since energy has a cap and isn't prone to hoarding like ammunition is).

 

I voted no.

While Ranged combat still needs work I think that adding in ammo requirements would drag the mechanics down. It would clutter inventories for anyone that carries multiple weapons. I personally like how the usage of using guns is limited by the energy meter. If ammo were to ever be added so much more would have to be added to compensate. Guns are limited by magazine capacity and recoil in real life. In Starbound none of that applies. I would like to see other ways of customizing guns in the game than ammo.

 

I hate to once again draw the comparison but... Terraria! Melee, ranged, and magic styles were fairly well balanced so why not here? You could have the melee guy, the ranged guy, and the tech specialist with armor sets to match.

 

We already explained ourselves, yet you draw conclusions differently. I don't understand that.

 

Much as the idea of weapons with different ammunitions...

... hollowpoint, APDS, flechette, railgun slugs, grenades, heat-seeking missiles with miniature antimatter warheads...

appeals to me thematically, I'm not sure how much fun it'd actually be to manage.