My guess on why it is hard to fix (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, December 18, 2014, 10:05 (3658 days ago) @ Schedonnardus
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, December 18, 2014, 10:09

My guess as to why this is hard to fix would be how Bungie actually handles ammo count. Because you can switch out weapons in the slot with varying degrees of ammo capacity, you can;t just have the ammo count as an integer. You can also tell this because you get more ammo on pickup when you have the heavy ammo perks.

It seems to me that it is stored as a percentage of maximum or something like that. That way when you switch weapons in the primary slot, it can keep the same amount of ammo in relation to the max. When you respawn, it recalculates the percentage and gets confused when the armor perks are applied.

I'm still not sure though why dying would have an effect. The only time things would need to be recalculated is when you fire a weapon, switch out weapons, ammo regen on icebreaker or invective takes effect, pick up ammo (or use a synth), or take off armor which gives you bonuses.

I'm not mad, just genuinely curious as to why calculations are done at other times and after death.