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2/16/2017 6:22:19 PM
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Special Ammo Adjustments Yay or Nay?

Hooray for Sidearms!!! No more Shotties!

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Noooo!!! Killed, Spawn, Wait For Special, Repeat.

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Why not just reduce capacity or frequency?

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So I'm curious of the consensus on the special ammo nerf. Putting all of the other adjustments aside for a minute (**cough** fix health regen **cough**), how is everyone finding the new special ammo adjustments. I get that special weapons are intended to be a back-up for your primary in limited situations and not meant to account for the majority of your kills during a match. However, the complete removal of special upon death now means that back-up is gone on every respawn and significantly limits your options about what to do next. So instead of Death > Spawn > Advance, the routine now goes Death > Spawn > Seek Special > Advance. This change in pattern seems to have contributed to two things I've noticed so far. First, the complete lack in variety of special weapons which seems largely limited to weapons which bypass special ammo removal upon death, namely sidearms and icebreaker. Honestly I feel like there's less variety in special weapons now than when 40% of players were running around with shotguns. Second, the pace of matches seems to have slowed significantly for anyone not running icebreaker or sidearms since if you want to advance after respawn without being at a significant disadvantage, you need to pick up a couple rounds of special ammo before you do anything. I honestly like that I'm seeing much more primary use, but really wish they would have just reduced carried special ammo capacity in PvP and/or increased the time between special crate spawns. If you're caught without special ammo it should be because you didn't ration your back-up ammo appropriately, not just because you lost a gunfight.

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