I admit, a Shotgun/Fusion Rifle loadout is a little strange--I think I had some bounties that required kills with those weapons, or something I no longer remember. But regardless of what playstyle I do or don't use, it doesn't matter if I've equipped two sticks and a damn rock--If I'm getting almost the top number of kills, I SHOULD BE GETTING AMMO FROM SOMEWHERE. I literally have the 2nd highest amount of kills in that game on my team.

You basically got extremely unlucky, and/or missed a brick somewhere. As Malagate mentioned, it's very important in this meta to have the ammo perks on to get energy and heavy ammo.

What happened to the vacuum effect they so gloriously lorded over in one of their updates? Where if a player was low or completely out of ammo, in 15 seconds it would fill a substantial amount of ammunition for all three weapon slots?

That is for PvE only I believe.

What happened to spawning with fucking ammo?

If you die and respawn you get primary ammo. When you spawn at the start of the round you get kinetic and energy.

I had to run to bottom center because other than getting thrown around everywhere by the boss, recovering from point blank sniper shots and reviving my teammates who somehow die even though THEY have guns, I thought maybe I was missing a brick SOMEWHERE in that murky Taken shit.

Yeah, the updated boss slam is total bull shit. I really think they need to tone that down a little.

I think you might have missed the part earlier about me not getting ammo at all. As in Two. Separate. Rounds. And. "Three. Whole. Minor. Enemies." Being. The. Last. Of. Forty. Two. Kills. Total. And. I. Did. Not. Get. One. Single. Bullet. For. ANY. Gun. Throughout. The. ENTIRE. Game. From. Start. To. Finish.

That's odd. According to your game history, you had 33 Special weapon kills that match. Considering that you spawn with one round apiece, that's an average of 8.25 kills with Special weapons per death, meaning that (without Scavenger perks) you averaged about 4 Special ammo bricks per death.

Honesty is the best policy, friend!

What happened to spawning with fucking ammo?

If you use two specials, your ammo is divided between the two on spawn, so you will spawn with one round apiece. It's been that way since the first day they let you equip two specials.

Two secondaries isn't going to work out unless all of your armor pieces have secondary ammo finder (or similar) perks. Personally I try to use a primary weapon, a secondary weapon (used sparingly for Majors mostly), and then run a bunch of Heavy Ammo finder perks so I almost always have heavies available when someone invades and/or for the Primeval. Bungie has tuned the ammo economy to ensure that you almost have to play with these perks because otherwise people who played with them would have too much heavy/secondary ammo.

I get that having two specials will clash, but they're still there for a reason--to serve as a choice or an option. How unfair would it be when if a player selected a certain game mode, a bunch of their weapons and armor suddenly greyed out and were not allowed in their activity just because?

I run with Jotunn most of the time, these days. I have at least 2 Fusion Rifle Scavengers and one FR Reserve perk, and (usually) one Special Ammo Finder perk to help with this. (I almost never run out of ammo. In fact, when people who play with me hear "I'm REALLY low on special ammo right now", it usually means I have less than 5 shots.)

Your armor in that game had exactly one FR Scavenger perk, no Special Ammo Finders, and no Shotgun Scavenger perks. I'm not surprised at all that you were tight on ammo. (I will echo Korny, though, in saying that if you're not exaggerating, getting 33 kills with those two weapons with NO spawned ammo at all is pretty frickin' impressive. Nearly unbelievable, even.)

You've got a couple of choices, as I see it: you can play the (sort of odd) loadout you've chosen to play, if you're willing to put the time in to find armor that will make it feasible... or you can swap out one of your overpowered guns for a primary of SOME flavor, so that you have more ammo for it without having to customize your armor. What you can't really do is complain that Bungie doesn't allow you to run with two specials without any limits.

I’d have trouble believing it was ever a bug to begin with if no one else had talked about it. I have never, ever had any real ammo problems as long as I’ve been running the correct Finder perk. My experience has just never matched up with those complaints.

or if it simply stacks a bonus ammo drop chance on an enemy (since they can drop two stacks at times).

Pretty sure it's this one. When I was playing D2 I saw primary and special drop from the same enemy pretty frequently, so I don't think it's only one or the other.

IIRC I think Morpheus only jumped on D2 pretty recently (correct me if I'm wrong on that), so it's possible he may not have been aware of the inherent juggler behavior. It was talked about a lot when D2 first came out, but it doesn't get brought up much now. So for someone who started playing recently, it's plausible they may not have heard about it.