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All the examples of mag repooling shown in ISC were ballistic ammo. Does it work on laser weapons?

TL;DRYes, repooling currently works the same for laser and ballistic mags, with the exception of tools; longer-term they hope to differentiate energy weapons with ammo regeneration, but that's for the future.

Atil KoçkarGameplay Programmer, reload improvements

Yes. It's actually going to work the same way. In the current iteration, all mags are subject to repooling, except for tools, so not the dedicated salvage tool at this point in time. All are the same. We have the mid-term, long-term idea which revolves around differentiating energy weapons from ballistic weapons by giving energy weapons some automatic ammo regeneration. But that's for the future. So for the time being, they will repool all the same.

Nick PeersSystems Designer III, Core Gameplay

So basically, for right now for 3.23, it's much easier for balancing and stuff to make sure that both ammo types will repool. But as Atil mentioned, we are talking about, when armor suits get the resource network, potentially looking into the idea of the ammo being able to trickle charge, because at the end of the day, the energy weapons are using batteries, right? So they don't have a physical capacity. And so the idea is that they might be able to slowly charge up. So there's obviously pros and cons to both, and that's how we are going to eventually differentiate them from ballistic. Ballistic may do more damage, heavy-hitting, but obviously it's limited by its capacity, right? And you need to reload and run out of bullets and repool, whereas laser, for example, doesn't have a drop-off, so it can travel much further. But then obviously we've got to think about overheating, and if it does overheat, it can also just recharge. You don't need to worry about running out of ammo per se. So currently right now it's the same, but eventually we are looking at ways we can differentiate the two different ammo types.

Star Citizen Live›Q&A: FPS in Alpha 3.23·
Published on this date.15 Mar 2024
EpisodeFPS weapons & gear