Buy with Strange coins for Xur. Shame he didn't have them this week, but that's really the way to go.

Ooh, lord no. I'm not gonna pass up on the slim chance of a Last Word or some other armor I could use for a box that'll go to waste in (again) 5 yanks.

I can boost Glimmer. I cannot boost Strange Coins. That's literally a paycheck-to-paycheck situation there.

My guess is that your character, along with their gear, stats, and ammo, is reloaded/rebuilt each time you respawn.

But why? I see no need. The data is already in memory. If you've changed nothing, why rebuild? I guess my point is that I want to know why those variables are touched in any other circumstances than the ones I listed.

Again, I know very little about programming, so this is simply a question by which to further educate myself. It's not an accusation.

Often it's simpler to run everything from the beginning again rather than making assumptions about state or setting flags and message-passing and all that sort of thing.

My guess is that your character, along with their gear, stats, and ammo, is reloaded/rebuilt each time you respawn.

But why? I see no need. The data is already in memory. If you've changed nothing, why rebuild? I guess my point is that I want to know why those variables are touched in any other circumstances than the ones I listed.

Again, I know very little about programming, so this is simply a question by which to further educate myself. It's not an accusation.

I wouldn't be surprised if that were the easiest way to respawn your character. Depending on the design, your character's physical model could be a part of the object and rebuilding it may just be the way they originally handled respawning you. It's impossible to know how they designed their system. That's the beauty/horror of code - it's all a construction of the programmer's mind so it's entirely dependent on how they think about things.

My guess is that your character, along with their gear, stats, and ammo, is reloaded/rebuilt each time you respawn.

But why? I see no need. The data is already in memory. If you've changed nothing, why rebuild? I guess my point is that I want to know why those variables are touched in any other circumstances than the ones I listed.

Again, I know very little about programming, so this is simply a question by which to further educate myself. It's not an accusation.

I'm still not sure though why dying would have an effect. The only time things would need to be recalculated is when you fire a weapon, switch out weapons, ammo regen on icebreaker or invective takes effect, pick up ammo (or use a synth), or take off armor which gives you bonuses.

My guess is that your character, along with their gear, stats, and ammo, is reloaded/rebuilt each time you respawn. It probably does something like this:

1. Load base stats

2. Load abilities/class perks

3. Load equipped weapons (ammo amount probably gets set at this stage, based on whatever percentage of max you had before dying)

4. Load equipped armor

Probably the ammo perk doesn't get loaded until stage 4, and your max does get increased, but it doesn't necessarily scale your CURRENT amount up to that max (because if it did, people would get free extra ammo whenever they put that armor on). Because the actual ammo amount was already set in stage 3 and is now LESS than this new max, you have effectively "lost" ammo.

Maybe the same process occurs during cutscenes.

Is your consumables inventory full? If you don't have an open slot there, the synths will not work.

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It's not, but that's bullcrap regardless. Not to mention, that stuff is SUPER expensive.

Buy with Strange coins for Xur. Shame he didn't have them this week, but that's really the way to go.

Is your consumables inventory full? If you don't have an open slot there, the synths will not work.

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It's not, but that's bullcrap regardless. Not to mention, that stuff is SUPER expensive.

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I still not entirely sure of what the problem is. Aren't we supposed to lose ammo when we die anyway?

No. You aren't at all. Plus, this bug causes you to lose ammo when you go to orbit and when a cutscene happens as well.

Well, one thing I thought that might be breaking it might be that the flag that tells the game you have the perk is conflicting with the flag that tells you do/don't have full capacity, so the calculator gets mixed signals and blunders.

It seems to me that it is stored as a percentage of maximum or something like that. That way when you switch weapons in the primary slot, it can keep the same amount of ammo in relation to the max. When you respawn, it recalculates the percentage and gets confused when the armor perks are applied.

I'm still not sure though why dying would have an effect. The only time things would need to be recalculated is when you fire a weapon, switch out weapons, ammo regen on icebreaker or invective takes effect, pick up ammo (or use a synth), or take off armor which gives you bonuses.

I'm not mad, just genuinely curious as to why calculations are done at other times and after death.

Buy heavy ammo synths? Something like that...:p

yeah, b/c the work around is to spend 950 glimmer on something that gets negated if you die, and forces you to wait 5 minutes before you can use it again.

Other Potential Solutions:
1. Don't die.
2. Invest a couple of weeks to buy equivalent armor that does not mess with your heavy ammo.
3. Delete your character and start a new one who never accepts a heavy weapon making heavy ammo moot.
4. Snap you Destiny disk in half. (This may be harder if you bought digital...)

More seriously, I'd like the bug to be fixed too now that I know about it. :)

All joking aside, it would be interesting if there WAS debuff armor, and wearing it granted significant XP boosts or something for your troubles.

Nightfall Armor?

In Warframe, there are four debuffs called "Dragon Keys", that you can equip to unlock vaults hidden somewhere during a number of missions. These vaults contain exclusive mods that you can sell for real fake money, so if you get good at playing a mission with only 25% health, you could potentially earn lots of Platinum (Premium currency) in a short time... or you could find and keep an ultra rare mod.

Maybe Destiny could use debuff-armor missions for great rewards... Crota's End does a great job of this with the Darkness Run, as your whole team is debuffed in numerous ways, and simply making it to point B from A yields rewards.

Buy heavy ammo synths? Something like that...:p

yeah, b/c the work around is to spend 950 glimmer on something that gets negated if you die, and forces you to wait 5 minutes before you can use it again.