Vintage Heat Sink

This is excellent.

I never liked the idea of going from overheating guns with infinite ammo to guns that required ammo. Seemed like such a downgrade.

Hopefully we'll be able to access this early on so that I can go the majority of the game with the overheating version rather than ammo clips.

So, let's say that I craft a Mattock with some "full auto" mod and said vintage heat-sink, and basically get an infinite ammo Harrier?

Oh God, this cheese is sooooooooo delicious!

I'll probably swim against the crowd... I like the tactical challenges running low on ammo can provide... so I may never use it. I'll just wait patiently to see what you've done with it; but it looks like you've made some brownie points amongst the "troops" with this one. ... (and it certainly wasn't what I expected to see when I opened up this thread).

I prefer the thermal clips to heat sinks actually but I do appreciate the tactical advantages of having that one 'just in case' weapon, or maybe even your favorite primary weapon, that will never run out of ammo.  

This will also really help out the 'casters' who don't want to use weapons as much so they don't have to pack a lot of heat into battle and instead can just go in firing powers off left and right. I mean hell can you imagine the advantages for a Vanguard of having just one shot gun that does not bare the need to 'reload'. 

That's great to hear! Now a bit of logic nitpicking- wouldn't it make sense for the Vintage Heat system to be the default since we're going to a new galaxy where we don't have the industry of old to keep manufacturing thermal clips? Or are you going to touch on that, story-wise?

From a gameplay perspective this is pretty sweet though. I just hope it's truly vintage and starts cooling on its own and isn't interrupted by running/crouching or the like. The ME3 version was too limiting.

Anyway, thank you for sharing! Now I wonder what a heatsinked Widow/BW would be like...

Well it's just that they made a point of it with Javik and the PPR. The Protheans in the bunker knew they needed a gun that could be fired without consuming additional resources. Thus a gun with regenerating ammo. We're not hiding from Reapers (or are we?!) but the principle's the same.

Hey folks,

There's a little tidbit of info I wanted to share that twitter didn't seem like the right medium for, so I thought I'd give it to y'all here.

By default, most guns in the game (the Milky Way ones, at least) work via disposable thermal clips, like in ME2 and 3. This is the "default user experience" for most guns in MEA.

However! Since we know some of you prefer the old-school approach, we have something called the Vintage Heat Sink. This is a piece of ME1-era tech that you can use when crafting a weapon to make it work more like the guns in ME1 did, with endless ammo but an overheat mechanic, rather than using disposable thermal clips as "ammo." So if you want your Avenger or Carnifex (or whatever) to behave ME1-style, that's entirely possible.

Anyway, I thought some of you might appreciate that.

 *smokebomb*