I often see ammo crates or health packs being put on the ground immediately or at not so tactical/critical moments. Players who do this, why ? Is it because you don’t want to wait for another player ? Is it for trolling/fun ? Is it to be sure to use it ? Another reason ? I’m not angry, just baffled. Genuinely curious here.

On a related topic, I’d like for people to kindly understand how the ammo boxes work (unless I myself am wrong), because there has been way too many times when an ammo box goes down during a holdout moment, and I don’t even get to use it, because someone noms two charges or maybe even more. Afaik these things refill 100% of your ammo and we get 4 charges per drop. So, dear players, for the love of everything, shoot yourself out dry FIRST, and only then pick up ONE charge, instead of refilling every few mags ffs! /rant

I gets it can be slow to throw down but i dont understand missing them completely, The boxes are useful.

Ahaha, this exactly. I just finished a game where a player put his ammo box in a sas with all players in white. I thought: weird, would have prefered to keep it for the event, but ok. I unload my weapon mag on what comes after the sas, look down at my feet: ammo box gone. Just… How ?

Exactly this! This happened to me today as well. Guy put it down with us all white ammo, so I thought “huh, weird, I would’ve saved it”. So I unloaded all of my flamer ammo on a horde, without sparing anything, turned around and it was gone. Two of the players were psykers which means that one player used all four pickups after only firing a couple shots with his lasgun!

I usually won’t throw down an ammo crate unless someone is totally out or the whole team is yellow/orange, which really doesn’t happen all that often. Meds are only situationally useful anyway, since medicae heals are just everywhere and corruption damage is common.

People do it for penance hunting an they feel its “wasted” if they dont drop it instead of swap it. Also, players are selfish and do not care. I also posted about it being an adverse effect to medicades. (The value of the medkit isnt appreciated by players.) @Fulnec If you want to see more insight to this trend [image] Too much healing? (Medkits vs Medicade discussion) General Discussion Are there too many Medicade stations? Has this Devalued the medkit? TLDR : The value of the Medkit is surprisingly low. We have all been in a game where one or two players have an open spot for a medkit but runs ahead seemingly uninterested. Most of the time chatting to ask them to pick it up works, but sometimes they don’t care. This has turned into a trend where players have start dumping the medkit on the ground (I do it too) for the book instead of taking the time to give it to the player…

Thanks for the link, I’ll take a look. Btw, putting it down when everyone has something in his/her utility slot doesn’t bother me at all… It would indeed be a waste to leave it. But how hard can it be to put an “eye” marker when half the team has an empty bag ?

yup, when there is a voice line/tag and even typing chat to an extent, a player who is offering this as a good teammate shouldn’t wait for the person. [image] Tzcheese: I usually won’t throw down an ammo crate unless someone is totally out or the whole team is yellow/orange, which really doesn’t happen all that often. How so? I run shotgun vet/ripper ogryn/bolter preacher and it’s a huge help when someone offers the ammo crate, 90% of the time I have to ask for ammo and feel like an ass. Sure you may never get that perfect 4/4 refills but if your wondering when a good moment to drop it is, do it when someone asks for ammo. You may not like it but they will appreciate it and it may encourage them to higlight ammo for you, or work better as a team. I would say that the amount of ammo packs/bags is more than enough for most missions (on any difficulty). the ammo crate is a luxury and if someone asks for ammo (good timing or not) being a good teammate and dropping it is what I would recommend. Too many times people hold the ammo crate until their empty or when they think the whole team needs it. this leads into a situation where they either never use it, or the team wipes/players die.

You’re assuming here that I’m a bad teammate and I won’t help people who ask for it. Let me tell you, I’m a [redacted] god-tier teammate. I am constantly watching the HUD to see what my teammates need. If you need ammo, you don’t need to ask for it. You’re just going to be going about your thing and hear me ping the crate that I just dropped at your feet, and if you don’t respond I’ll tell you about it in chat. This is after I’ve been pinging every ammo box I see all game and using the voicelines to decide whether I take it or leave it for someone who needs it more. It is exceptionally rare that anyone on my team runs out of ammo. When they do, I’ll drop the crate. But not before then.

[image] Valkyrie7: Afaik these things refill 100% of your ammo and we get 4 charges per drop. So, dear players, for the love of everything, shoot yourself out dry FIRST, and only then pick up ONE charge, instead of refilling every few mags ffs! Absolutely, but this is incredibly badly designed. The intuitive way to think about this is that you have a box of ammo with a certain amount of ammo in it. I would not blame a single player who does not know that this is not the mechanic. The way it should work is that it has a certain number of percentage points that you could take from it so that it would work regardless of what ammo capacity you have for your weapon. This is a problem in runs. People not understanding the mechanic is not the problem, the design of the ammo boxes is. As for why we drop boxes at bad times, it’s for the penance myself, and only when I don’t think this endangers the run (we’re playing on malice where boxes are not needed or when everyone else is already carrying something or too far away).

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People do it for penance hunting an they feel its “wasted” if they dont drop it instead of swap it.
Also, players are selfish and do not care. I also posted about it being an adverse effect to medicades. (The value of the medkit isnt appreciated by players.)

@Fulnec If you want to see more insight to this trend

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