EDIT: I HAVE LITERALLY NEVER BEEN MORE RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

I did a quick search and couldn't find a thread of this anywhere but its been mentioned before as a bit of a pipe dream but I really think it might be happening.

A few weeks ago the TWAB mentioned a change with Drop Mag which is curious because its the only mag perk that makes you actively lose ammo on reload.

WE ALSO HAVE A FEW CHANGES TO PERKS...

Drop Mag

• Can no longer roll on new drops of weapons, will have functionality changed later.
• There's a change coming next Season that requires adjusting this, and some perks with similar functionality - more on that later...

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Then today Bungie announced a change to Inertia Override.

MIDDLE-TREE STRIKER

This change will be balanced out by something we haven’t mentioned yet. We’ll say more about this in a future TWAB.

Inertia Override

• Increased duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.

• Sliding over an ammo brick now grants 20% melee energy.

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Inertia Override of course giving you a bonus when you slide over ammo of any kind, including primary ammo.

Why would Bungie be giving such a large buff to Inertia Override? Personally I think that its a compensation buff due to fewer ammo reloads over primary ammo. Since a large portion of available ammo to slide over will be eliminated this means fewer and more impactful slide reloads hence the buff.

Drop Mag being changed and no longer appearing in the game makes sense if you're going to make ammo infinite and render the tradeoff irrelevant.

Not to mention the earlier change to Subsistence that removed the ammo reserves negative.

This change probably has other benefits for Bungie and the player. This means no more primary ammo perks in the game and will all be removed for a cleaner mod experience. This probably also frees up some level of load by not having to track as many ammo entities or something but I'm completely speculating on that.

TL;DR The fact that Bungie directly called attention to a secret upcoming change regarding primary ammo twice now makes me think its the same change and that change is that primary ammo will be made infinite next season.

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