Any plans or updates to the ballistic ammunition capacity changes? People are running out of bullets.
TL;DRLimited ballistic ammo was intended and may change, but no guarantees; slower combat speeds should improve accuracy, and restocking is wanted, though players shouldn't expect huge default ammo counts.
Yeah, so we're always evaluating the balance in terms of ballistics. We do recognize this was a massive change to the game, having limited ammo, but it was always the intention. Again, it's that in-development cycle. It was always the intention to have limited ammo, because that's the trade-off with the ballistics. It's super powerful, but there's a limited amount, but then you've got your energy weapons, which last forever, but they're not as strong. So we're always evaluating it. We were doing playtests this week where we were changing the ammo of some weapons just to try it out. So yeah, it's always subject to change, but I can't give any guarantees on what will change, because we've got a big step to move towards with the lower combat speeds. Once we get to those lower combat speeds, the bullets will be more accurate, because you're at lower speed, so more of those bullets are going to hit, so they're going to be more effective. And we just need to figure out where that balance lies. And also it's the lack of ability right now to restock, because you've got to go so far away to restock your ballistics and stuff like that. So there are other choices we have.
We definitely want to have that ability to restock ammo, even if it's something as crude as, hey, I loaded 10,000 rounds of ammo in the back of my Cutlass. I'm going to go in the back, pick up a box and EVA out to my ship and whack it on the Gatlings. That would make a huge difference to it. And yeah, like Rich says, ballistics are always going to be limited. That's a core design decision. How limited will change as we go, but definitely don't expect hundreds of thousands of rounds by default.