Talk:Flux Rifle/@comment-139.193.159.175-20130813101943/@comment-13117751-20130813202712

You can use it without too many problems still.

When you level it up, you'll obviously be chewing through more ammo since you won't be doing as much damage as when fully modded, so I'd definitely carry some ammo boxes during this point.

Once it's fully modded, for most missions that you don't expect to be too long you shouldn't really need reserve ammo (rifle ammo drops are pretty common, and if you do manage to burn yourself ou tof ammo simply switching to your secondary for about a minute or two should easily net you enough ammo to switch back for a relatively long period of time).

The only place you're really gonna get bitten is high-wave defence, if you intend to do that. Usually my Flux ammo starts to steadily become "unrefillable" from ammo drops around wave 15 or so. Alternating rounds in which you use the Flux rifle in one round and your secondary for another, repeating this pattern can maintain your ammunition without ammo boxes for quite some time though.

All in all, unless you don't like to stop to take a few steps to the side now and then to grab a rifle ammo pickup, the ammo mutation mod is far from necessary to operate this weapon.