Playing solo on Heroic, I’m finding that the weapons do very little damage, and the ones that do more damage have very little ammo. I don’t like to have to sprint across the battlefield to grab a terrible alien weapon just so I can keep on fighting, but I haven’t found any other method to keeping my weapons stocked up.
Recently, I ran out of ammo after a checkpoint, and I ran back to the previous area to collect dropped enemy weapons, and visit a UNSC weapons cache. Much to my disappointment, I found all of the items had been swept from the map. Even the UNSC cash that had recently contained a bunch of ARs and Pistols was empty.
I’m enjoying the gameplay (despite the idiotic AI of the other Spartans) but the lack of capable weapons, or reliable ammo supplies for common weapons has become bothersome. Few things are more embarrassing than having to fight a level boss with a Grunt energy pistol, because it’s the only thing left with anything in the chamber.