Not gonna lie this has gotten me killed a few times and given me a few free punch outs. Its strange that its the only ground gun I can think of that doesnt have ammo upon picking it up. Love to see them give it 30 in clip upon picking it up this season.
The LSTAR doesn't have a magazine, the ammo available to it is the energy ammo you have in your inventory. Because of this, there isn't really a great solution here I don't think. If we gave you 30 free energy ammo when you picked it up, people would just pick it up and drop it repeatedly for free ammo. If you could only get the ammo once, people would just pick up lstars and then drop them, and you'd magically have some lstars that gave ammo and some that didnt. And what about the case where your inventory is full, or can only fit 10 more energy rounds? There's lots of really weird hard to communicate edge cases that would be confusing for most players.
What about stuff like a Eva that has 8 bullets already how does that work?
It has a magazine that you reload, so it comes with a full magazine on the ground by default. You can have ammo in the magazine of most guns without having any ammo in inventory, you just use the inventory ammo to put ammo into the magazine when you reload, if that makes sense. The LSTAR is the only weapon without magazines (currently), so the ammo in the gun is always only what you have in your inventory.
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