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Regarding the rearming mechanic, does this mean you have to buy all kinds of different ammunition types, or is there some kind of generic ammo or 3D printing filament that you use in the rearming process?

TL;DRBallistic weapons currently use bespoke ammo so a small pool must be bought; 3D-printed ammo hasn't been discussed, though preset smart ammo could be a future possibility.

John CreweDesigner

So at the moment, the ballistic weapons use bespoke ammo. There's nothing stopping multiple weapons currently using the same ammo type. I think there are a few that do it already. But the ammo boxes on those weapons are very, very small and there's not actually a huge amount of variation in the ammo there at the moment. So currently, yeah, you probably would need to buy a small pool of it. It's not something we've really talked about, 3D printing ammo. Certainly not on site, but it's something that could happen in the future. Specifically, I think we've talked about in the past smart ammo for weapons. So for ballistic weapons, the ammunition is smart. By default, it's dumb. It's not programmed to do anything, but the weapons themselves can preset their behavior to perhaps make it more incendiary, make it more armor piercing. So you might be able to in the future preload that. So rather than the weapon doing that itself, it can be the Vulcan comes along with, I've got 20,000 rounds worth of armor piercing ammo, or do you want 20,000 rounds of incendiary? I can do it.

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Published on this date.23 Feb 2018