| “ | Ammo, lots of ammo!
— Evangelo |
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Ammo (formally ammunition) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon in Back 4 Blood. Ammo piles can be found scattered throughout the levels. Also ammo can be purchased from vendor for 50 coppers.
Ammunition can be broken up into four categories called "pistol/SMG", "rifle", "sniper", and "shotgun".
Ammo Types[]
| Name | Starting Ammo
& Max. Capacity |
Pickups | Caches | Weapons |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pistol/SMG Ammo | 400 (640 in Recruit) |
75 | 160×2 | Submachine guns Most pistols |
| Rifle Ammo | 275 (440 in Recruit) |
50 | 100×2 | Assault rifles Light machine guns 357 Magnum |
| Sniper Ammo | 100 (160 in Recruit) |
20 | 48×2 | Sniper rifles Desert Eagle |
| Shotgun Ammo | 100 (160 in Recruit) |
20/25 | 25×2 | Shotguns The Belgian |
Sources[]
- At the beginning of a run Cleaners start with full ammo. Veteran, Nightmare & No Hope have equal ammo and max. limit, while the Recruit difficulty has 60% more.
- Ammo spawns randomly throughout the level both on the ground and ammo caches.
- Ridden have a small chance of dropping ammo when killed while using certain cards.
- Hoffman has a chance to find ammo when killing Ridden.
- Ammo can be bought at the vendor for 50 copper to refill 25% of your max ammo.
- Ammo Pouch grants 25%/50%/75%/100% of your max ammo for all ammo types when used.
- The Saferoom Recovery card restores 10% ammo at the start of each level.
- Players can drop ammo from their inventory in order to help teammates who are running out. Bots will drop ammo to human players below 60% of their currently used weapons with a short cooldown.