Cool concept, makes sense
In reality tho it is impractical.
Wildcard for example or big gunfights, you'd usually be recouping that ammo as you fight, but with energy ammo it depletes and you're stuck.
Has kind of rendered energy weapons redundant.
Especially that poor old RE45
- requires charge up
- burst fire
- ammo can run out and need to recharge
Worst weapon in the game along with the charge rifle.
And one more quick thought:
It isn't just the change to the energy weapon ammo. It combines very harshly with the reduced number of weapon arsenals and with the fact that arsenals now "enhance" to level one attachments at the first go around, not to level two as they did before. So now in order to get to a viable extended mag that means three visits to arsenals, not just two. And if you carry two energy weapons, as I do, then it's SIX visits. Which, obviously, is not really possible. Unless you're Valk, can find lots of ultimate accelerants AND mobile jump towers, and have no intention of sticking with your squad.
Poorly thought-out, Respawn. Poorly thought-out.
I'm having a hard time using volt/tripletake in BOTS. I can't begin to imagine trying in trios or ranked. In Wildcard I have to guess it's a death sentence.
I'm not going to say it was a bad idea, but the devil is in the details. If I had an aimbot then I'm sure I could get my downs without constantly emptying and having to hide behind a rock for sixty seconds waiting for a recharge. But I don't have an aimbot. Normal players who can't or won't pace their engagements, or let their squadmates do the heavy lifting, are at a huge disadvantage. Which is kind of destroying the entire reason for bot royale, imo.
Possibility One: They'll realize they've tuned the recharge for master/predator level play and tone it down a bit. I have to guess that would make energy weapons too over-powered in high-tier game play. Though, to be honest, I want the weapons tuned for my benefit. Screw the preds.
Possibility Two: The intention was to make this entire class of weapons less viable because... they collectively have stats that show they're over-used, or over-powered?
Respawn, please re-tune or revert. Either one, don't care which.
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