issues with custom firearms

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about 2 days ago i was using my infiltrator character (he's my second of 3 characters, but i stopped playing him for a while), and i decided to make that scott a custom blackwidow II with a vintage thermal clip, it went from having a 3 shot clip to a 2 shot one, the cost of using a heatsink over thermal clips. i had been using that weapon for 2 days... just now, i found it has been reduced to one shot per clip. was there a ninja update nerfing my blackwidow, or increasing the shot reducing effect of heatsinks on sniper rifles or just the widow/blackwidow? or is this a nasty little bug? as i had similar issues with heatsinks before, and figured it was either in my head or the result of a balancing patch... though i know of no new patch as of today.&nbsp;

arsenic_touch · Answer

I don't know where you were getting two shots from. The heatsink always lowered the magazine count to 1.&nbsp;
Though I suppose with heavy lifting from combat fitness and &nbsp;and clip size from sniper rifles skill lines might be able to increase it, I haven't checked if the 20% and 25% is enough to increase the shot size with a heatsink equipped.&nbsp;

I never take them because I prefer a full loadout no matter what class I'm playing and I never use the higher magazine sniper rifles to benefit from the higher clip size, so reload usually ends up being more useful.&nbsp;

vladvoncastein · Answer

The default clip size of blackwidow is 3 shots. &nbsp;With enhancements etc, it can be increased to 4. &nbsp;Never used vintage heat sinks so no comments on that. &nbsp;Am currently using Isharay with a bio-converter(minus health for unlimited firing without reloads), works pretty well if you can regen health fast enough.

kondaru · Answer

Have You possibly been using an armor or profile or skills related to clip size? Perhaps You switched to some different armor / profile / skills recently?

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@Kondaru wrote:
Have You possibly been using an armor or profile or skills related to clip size? Perhaps You switched to some different armor / profile / skills recently?

same profile, armor, skills. i've made no changes to my character or his loadout.

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