for two days, when i used a heavy ammo synth, it would not do anything. It would remove it from my inventory, and have a cool down, but it would not give me any ammo. I tried switching to a different heavy weapon, going to orbit, crossing load point, etc. nothing worked. Special and Primary ammo synth worked just fine.

Then i had a friend yesterday in the raid who came down with the same problem.

Finally, last night, i put a bunch of ammo synth in my vault. I had 30+ synth. You can only hold 20 in a single inventory slot, so if you have more than that, it takes up extra slots. After dropping what i carried down to 20, it started to work again.

for two days, when i used a heavy ammo synth, it would not do anything. It would remove it from my inventory, and have a cool down, but it would not give me any ammo. I tried switching to a different heavy weapon, going to orbit, crossing load point, etc. nothing worked. Special and Primary ammo synth worked just fine.

Then i had a friend yesterday in the raid who came down with the same problem.

Finally, last night, i put a bunch of ammo synth in my vault. I had 30+ synth. You can only hold 20 in a single inventory slot, so if you have more than that, it takes up extra slots. After dropping what i carried down to 20, it started to work again.

Were you dead when you used it? I know for a fact they don't work correctly if you are dead.

I have not experienced this, but I have read that you need to do just as you did, put some in the vault. Seems like a very funny bug to me.

Were you dead when you used it? I know for a fact they don't work correctly if you are dead.

I tried to pop one while still in the loading screen for a strike and it didn't take.

-- Steve had another one fail to register when he was killed while loading it, and one other for reasons he hasn't puzzled out.

no, i was hiding behind cover every time.

I tried to use a Heavy while in the initial cutscene for Venus (I think it was for a Daily? or maybe I was just on a new character) and the game gladly ate my synth without giving me the goods, plus started the cooldown.

I wonder if everyone at Bungie playtested the game without cutscenes up until the public Alpha/etc? Surely someone thought "well this not being able to skip cutscenes is all sorts of annoying", especially when they internally had to keep creating new Guardians for new stages of development.

Hopefully it's obvious I'm not talking about the in-orbit scenes (where NPC X sometimes gives a mission brief if you're playing non-Patrol), which are more of a loading screen than a cutscene.

If there's some sort of technical reason for it, it'd be nice to know why. However, I do believe the old Halo games allowed the party leader to initiate cutscene skips for the team, so I'd like to think any reason would not be related to who has the authority to skip or whatnot.

I've had this problem before. The solution that has worked every time is to make sure that your inventory is not full.

Every single time that it has not worked has been when all my inventory slots have something in them. Clear one out, then ammo synth works fine.

http://www.bungie.net/en/Help/Article/12282

If you have a full consumable inventory, ammo synths can have problems.

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