Has anyone else noticed that the weapons disappear too quickly after being dropped on the ground? Here is a scenario of what I have noticed:
-Ragnorock, pick up sniper rifle from base.
-gets killed about 20 seconds later.
-respawns and sprints back to dead corpse within 10-20 seconds to pick up sniper rifle again.
-sees that both corpse and sniper rifle have both already vanished.
Seriously, this has happened many times and with pretty much any weapon. It’s really frustrating when I get a good weapon from an ordinance and have it vanish almost immediately after I die. In Reach a dropped weapon would stay on the ground for almost a full minute, giving players plenty of time to go back and retrieve it.
Anyone else notice this or have similar experiences?
Yes it is incredibly frustrating how quickly weapons despawn. Not only is it frustrating losing ordnance, but I can’t even replenish ammo for my BR or DMR half the time because there are no weapons on the map, and the game so aggressively despawns weapons.
Yup by far one of the most frustrating parts of the game. Combine this with no weapons on the map and it’s just terrible design. By no weapons on the map I mean basic weapons not power weapons/ordnance. Where are the BR’s, pistols, storm rifles, anything really? Good example is CTF Ragnarok where I will sit back on D with the sniper/DMR covering my team. When I run out of ammo what am I supposed to do? Run in and die? I can’t kill their sniper and take his ammo it disappears immediately.
I haven’t noticed it being that bad in MP (perhaps because I tend to die, frequently), but I have been annoyed in Spartan Ops by all the power weapons the enemies drop despawning when I go back for them.
While I understand that they need to keep the system clean and efficient, making it so we essentially have one life to use our power weapons is a little ridiculous.
I completely agree with the OP, this is one thing that I noticed from game one of multiplayer. I’ve been in similar situations to the Ragnarok one described above as well.
> Yup by far one of the most frustrating parts of the game. Combine this with no weapons on the map and it’s just terrible design. By no weapons on the map I mean basic weapons not power weapons/ordnance. Where are the BR’s, pistols, storm rifles, anything really? Good example is CTF Ragnarok where I will sit back on D with the sniper/DMR covering my team. When I run out of ammo what am I supposed to do? Run in and die? I can’t kill their sniper and take his ammo it disappears immediately.
Yea I’m constantly running out of primary weapon ammo. It gets so frustrating. Just putting a few weapon spawns on the map would easily solve this problem.
This happenned to me today, I got a sniper from ordinance (for once!), got a kill, died, respawned, and I was lucky(?) enough to only be a 3 second sprint from where I died. My body was there but no sniper, and it can’t have been stolen because there were no other weapons laying around either
Kinda ruined the game for me
My TINY solution to this has been to add the armor ability where your primary weapons come with more ammo but then it comes down to I have to get myself killed to get more ammo.
Happens in Spartan Ops and in Campaign on a regular basis. A few minutes ago on Sniper alley doing the Pelican down mission I dropped my DMR to grab up a fuel rod gun that had 3 shells in it. By the time I fired those 3 rounds as rapidly as I could and looked down my DMR was gone… but there were still a few dinky little plasma pistols laying… If they want to swept styuff from the map to keep things running smooth their are other things they can pull like wreckage, body parts, blood spatters, and leave the guns along for 60 seconds or so because, even though it may come as a suprise to some of their developers, it turns out that ammunition and weapons are sort of important to a successful shooter game.
So many times have occurred when I spend an extra minute to clear out immediate enemies before scooping up a beam rifle or fuel rod cannon and it simply vanished =/
I noticed this too. At first I thought it was a glitch, but then it kept happening. It’s nice if you don’t want other players to steal your power weapons, but if you get betrayed or get picked off by snipers it’s really annoying.
Dude every time I play I think this. destroyed vehicles disappear too fast too. Once a banshee disappeared before the pieces even hit the ground. Taking cover behind a wrecked warthog is really nice, but not when it disappears after 15 seconds.
