Vintage Heat Sink

I tried the Lancer on my Adept after hearing about it on this thread and it was brilliant. Not too heavy, really stable and really effective. You can avoid the overheat as long as you don't hold the trigger too long and you never need to worry about running out of ammo. I loved it!

I must admit I haven't tended to experiment with weapons much. Most of my runs I just compared the stats in the graphics and since the N7 ones all showed better stats they were pretty much the only ones I ever used!

My play style doesn't suit for an overheat system, I'm all about pressing the advantage and attack. If I have to wait to let my gun cool no matter if it's completely overheated or just too hot then my momentum is loss and I begin fall behind. It's why I prefer thermal clips as I can just quickly cool my gun and keep attacking.

I dont want to use it because I use single shot weapons like the N7 Crusader or the sabre.....

I've tried the indra but I always return to the Valiant for sniping. Sniping is definitely my favourite style, though.  I have to force myself to use other weapons just for the variety

If I could I would gladly give you mine lol.

Look above at my previous posts, short story the overheat system of the Lancer isn't my style.

I simply can not fathom why they don't combine the system.

You can carry (par example) 5 heat sinks. The heat sink in your gun builds up heat as you fire. Some weapons build up heat faster than others (a black widow sniper rifle instantly fills it, whereas a shotgun fills it in 5 or 6 shots, and an assault rifle can fire a good while before filling). WHile running around or in battle, all your heat sinks on your back, as well as in your gun cool down gradually. If you overheat, you can reload, meaning you take the coldest heat sink from your back and switch it with the hot heat sink of your gun.

This way, you can still neatly nbalance all guns and even give some class bonuses, like an engineer having faster cooldowns, or a soldier being able to carry more heat sinks.


I was sad that they still use the ammo system. Also, it's a lot more realistic that a soldier keeps his/her own ammo cartridges instead of throwing them everywhere and picking up a dead guy's ammo. And it also neatly solves the lore of not using bullets anymore and having near unlimited ammo.

That's my idea as well. When you are in a regular fight you can fire and let guns cool down naturally like in ME1, But sometimes situation gets so heated that you have to fire so fast that gun inevitably overheats. Then instead of waiting you use the new technology of heat sinks, replacing the overheated one with a brand new one reseting the overheat meter to 0. Though I wouldn't make it an instant overheat with Sniper rifles. Two or 3 shots seem more reasonable, and I'd make heat sinks irreplaceable, so you have to think hard on how and when to use them, they only get replenished post-mission

Pre-order confirmed.

Not. Even. Kidding. I was waffling about buying Andromeda for a whole host of reasons, which I won't go into here because they just became irrelevant. So much of what I loved about the original ME -- still my favorite game in the trilogy, and one of my favorite games ever -- is returning, but there were enough things coming in or back that I'm not enthusiastic about that I wasn't sure.

This, though? Going old-school on (probably) every weapon in the game? Sold. Literally. I cannot accurately describe my loathing for the thermal clip or the tedious hunt for same after every frelling firefight. Vintage Heat Sinks have me back in the game. Also literally. I created an account on BSN just to thank you for this. I'll probably stick around, mind you, but I didn't feel the need to bother until now.

I'm even okay with a wide variety of balancing factors. Takes up a mod slot? Sure. Extra weight? That'll sting (I almost always play a biotic, and I never play pure Soldier), but if that's the case, I'll deal. Cooldown times notably longer than clip loading? Kind of a must, really. Less accurate without buying a weapon skill? That's also how it worked in ME 1, so yeah, that's okay too. I hope we're not looking at all of that at once, or anything significantly more onerous than any of those, but I've had enough faith restored in Bioware after ME: Citadel and DA:I that I was willing to place that pre-order. (Deluxe Edition. I own every ME soundtrack, and I don't want to break my streak.) Thanks for remembering us grognards.

Dear admins could you please pin this thread? It's pretty important.

Personally I liked the thermal clip system a lot better (to be fair I also just liked the guns in ME2 and on a lot better than in ME1) so I'm not really planning on using vintage heat sink.

That being said, I intend on using pretty much only Milky Way weapons, so if running out of ammo becomes a problem (I assume Andromedan enemies won't be dropping thermal clips everywhere like you saw with ME3 enemies) I might use them for sake of convenience