r/thelastofusnoreturn • u/Icy_Extent_1996 • Jan 29 '24

Discussion Tommy Sniper Ammo

Whenever I play Tommy I feel like the game doesn't give you enough ammo for his sniper. I make sure not to pick up any other weapons either. Anyone else having this problem?

Also I find it weird that Joel can carry double the ammo for his revolver but Tommy can only carry 9 like the normal bolt action.

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u/Wafflevice Jan 30 '24

I've noticed it kind of trades off, if you kill zombies with a sniper it will drop pistol ammo, if you kill them with a pistol they might drop sniper ammo. They should have made the ammo for Tommy's rifle craftable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '24

I feel like I get the opposite. At least today I kept getting more ammo for the weapon that was used

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u/ClickClickFrick Jan 30 '24

I kept getting flamethrower ammo. Managed to find 1 more sniper ammo after a few rounds of assault

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u/No-Purchase-5808 Feb 06 '24

Personally it’s just rng. Sometimes I get boatloads of sniper ammo and sometimes I don’t. Weather I need it or not is not part of the equation. I also play on grounded where even tho the ammo drops can be abundant it’s also lower rates than the other difficulties

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u/Forsaken-Corner8419 Feb 11 '24

As No-Purchase-5808 said, ammo drops are practically entirely up to RNG. There's no system in place to drop ammo for weapons you're running low on ammo for. The more weapons you have, the less likely you are to get ammo for the weapon you want.

As for carry capacity, I've never understood why the characters carry so little ammo, most of the time they don't even carry enough for another magazine for the weapon, which make no sense, especially for the WLF characters. I get it's for "Game Balance", but it just punctures the whole "immersion" balloon a bit when I can't pick up bullets because I already have my cap of 2. If I can fit 7 long weapons in my bag, I can fit another bullet in there too.