Ammo powers and how to make them better.

They could fix it by adding an Ammunition passive skill tree in Combat.    Increasing duration and strength or increasing acquisition of them as you go through.  Then the branches could split between strength vs frequency.  

I like that and I don't. It would certainly improve what we have now, but they would still be consumables which is what is bad about it imo. 

I simply do not use them.  Their use in single player is far to limiting to bring anything to the combat.  That said, an additional combat skill line would be an excellent way to make them a useful addition to combat.

Glad I am not the only one who feels this way 🙂 Maybe things will change 

Yeah, it makes the more combo-reliant classes like the tech ones less fun and less powerful but I got used to it, I just used them in the more crowded fights.

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@GigaChadEnhanced wrote:

I like that and I don't. It would certainly improve what we have now, but they would still be consumables which is what is bad about it imo. 

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"increasing acquisition"

Meaning you could passively gain them on your own on top of normal methods of obtaining so you'd essentially have a "Free" usage or two per fight,  so you aren't losing anything.   Alternatively it might make it so 1=2 or 3,  ramping up how many you get in general.   But you'd still have the psychological impact of "Using up" limited resouces with that.   Vs say "Gain two temporary  incendiary ammo at the start of every fight".   Or perhaps "Start each fight with x ammo automatically".  

I understand, but that still just adds even more menu hopping that what is already acquired in this game. I just wanna use it once and forget. Hell I'd be fine if the consumables were permanent until you used another one (would vastly prefer just a skill but I could live with it). 

How about a Long-press Reload to 'load' the special ammo type?  You find the ammo type you're interested in, attach it to the appropriate UI slot where it remains dormant until you load it via the long-press.  If you have multiple of said ammo type, you continually use it until you long-press reload back to normal ammo.

Then they are still just unintuitive consumables with a lack of progression/customization. A single skill line wouldn't be able to make 6 ammo powers each feel unique, which is why I still think my original solution would fare better. Especially since I only really intent to play combat soldier and are starting to get a lot of points I don't need or won't use 

There are actually a couple ways to have disruptor/cyro/and incinerate effects on weapons.

1-some of the higher level skill branches have an ammo type for a skill.  I need to go back in game to check for sure, but I believe there is a skill for an ammo type in the Tech Branch.  I do know for a fact that one of Drak's skills is for the incinerate ammo for his weapons (the actual name may be different, but you know what I mean).

2-the best way is to add that affect to a weapon during weapon construction.  There are mods (they're not called mods, but my brain won't remember the correct term) that you can create and add to your weapon blueprint during creation so that the weapon will always have that ammo affect for either disruptor/cyro/or incinerate.  So you can have that ammo, but that weapon will always fire that ammo type, there is no switching.  It's not ideal if you want to switch ammo types on the same weapon like in ME1, but it's workable, especially if you can carry 3-4 weapons and have a different ammo type associated with each one.

I do agree that the consumable ammo types are pretty much useless, as they run out way too quickly.  I keep some around on the off chance that it may help me out of a tight spot, though I rarely actually use them.