Talk:Castanas/@comment-88.150.25.185-20150120032335

The ammo synergy with launcher-type primaries is super handy. It's worth noting that Trick Mag on your Castanas can further increase the ammo pool on your primary, from 30 to 57. Not only do you get a better base ammo count, but you're also able to use this as some kind of ninth mod slot.

Something interesting about how ammo mods interact: Ammo Drum gives 30% ammo maximum, Trick Mag 90%. If you use both, you will get a pool of 66. This shows that the mods are added up before calculating the new maximum:

30 * (1.0 + 0.3 + 0.9) => 66

While your primary benefits from the interaction more significantly, you could use this in reverse and put Ammo Drum on your primary if you only wish to use the Castanas. The pool goes up to 39 without wasting a slot on your secondary.

I like the idea of sacrificing one weapon slot to boost the ammo count on a different one. It would only make sense that you can carry around more ammo of one type if you wish to use but one weapon. Let's hope this stays in the game.