Sidearms are going to only spawn with one magazine? That's cool however that isn't going to fix the Crucible.
What's going to happen is that people will still use sidearms or just carry on using Ice Breaker. No Land Beyond will definitely become less common but that's only because Bungie said No Land Beyond and "fix" in the same sentence. Just look at the highest RoF pulse rifles, they practically have the same time to kill (holy shit, not one more frame between bursts!) but you very rarely see them now.
Just let us retain special ammo on death. Just change some of the ammo economies so that people don't horde ammo in PvP. Reduce the damage of sidearms slightly so that they are used to finish off primed targets rather than them being used like a primary. Reduce non-precision damage by sniper rifles by at least 50% to make a precision hit more critical. Reduce ammo pickup for all special weapons so you only pick up 3 sniper bullets/shotgun rounds, 4 fusion rifle shots (including Queenbreaker's Bow... it gets 16 shots per special ammo crate and 64 carrying capacity!) and sidearms only pick up one magazine.
If someone is able to horde special ammo in game then isn't kind of the other team's fault for not holding down special ammo spawns more? Why penalise a team for playing smart?
Also why stop the casual PvP player from using their favourite special weapon? Maybe only introduce the special ammo loss for Trials and Iron Banner? That would give incentive for people to play standard Crucible again.
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