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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    121·
    5 months ago

    I wish they didn’t go with simplified ammo. I know it’s a small thing but I loved having to weigh the pros and cons of weapons based on the ammo they use, and I’ll die a little inside every time I unload my M16 and shove those rounds into the AK-47 I just picked up. And seeing generic “pistol ammo” and “assault rifle ammo” is so immersion breaking - and this is a series that lives and dies off immersion.

    But who knows. I might be dead wrong here and the slight dumbening down might help them attract a wider audience, in which case I’m happy for them. No matter what in the end I just wish them huge success after all they’ve gone through.

    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Ah disappointing, building up a stash completely filled with all different types of ammo would have brought some nostalgia. The different and more realistic ammo types was a great detail to the game and a big differentiator between all of the various guns. I’d often be choosing my load-out not based on my favorite or most powerful gun but whichever gun used the ammo that I could easily scavenge along the way. That small detail definitely gave the games a more zone-survival-feel

      Hopefully there will be mods to bring more realism and detail back into the game

    • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      If ammo got simplified then I’m sure weapon condition / repairs got the axe too. Wish is fine I suppose. But hopefully attachments like scopes and suppressors and grenade launchers are still included, those were great.

      On ammo I’d be okay with simplifying NATO vs Warsaw Pact rounds because that’s a bit hard to track for anyone unfamiliar, but as you say I liked the overall immersion of matching bullets to the gun.

      I’m hoping the PC modding scene takes off because that will let us customize all kinds of things.