One important thing is to match your weapons with the weapons that the hosts has. Doing this will prevent a lot of ammo drop issues. Dont ask me why/how, but it works.
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Host and I started playing our current game (2nd run though) about a week ago and had identical loadouts - AG4, Moller PP, .270 rifle, and pump shotgun. It made no perceivable difference for me as a guest as to what ammo I was seeing in drops. I was still only seeing the same birdshot / .32 ACP on the starter islands that I had in our previous playthrough, with most loot containers being bugged and empty.
2 days ago, we killed some big guys and got gold weapon drops. Now we rock totally different loadouts. He’s got pump shotgun, Klauke, AG4 and rockets, I have PP, AG5, AI76 and rockets. I’m seeing a fairly generous drop in 5.56 FMJ. We both have the .50. He sees adequate quantities of that ammo when we kill tanks and the FNIX hunters with the machine guns. I typically find those to be empty or drop 2-8 rounds for me at most.
So all that to say that I haven’t seen the correlation between running the same loadout as the host. Loot drops were just as badly bugged.
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wanted to add something to the point being made too here, what is in your inventory also affects your loot. with that said i have noticed i will get more ammo for a weapon if i have that weapon in my inventory.
proof ? , drop your binoculars and you will find that 80% of all loot chests will now have binoculars .
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Have you tried all normal steps first, brothers/sisters?
-Restart game
-Restart PC
-New Save File (back old one up)
-Reinstall game
If not, please try these steps, and let us know the result.
Thank you
I have tried exiting and rejoining, using different characters, I have deleted characters and uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Nothing. I’m now finding more ammo in multiplayer like some people said how when you get further you find more, but still not the levels I should be finding. Also having more connectivity issues now. Can’t loot (opens menu to loot and immediately closes) and randomly dropping from games. I believe the loot issue is a glitch with multiple wrecks nearby (happens more frequently with multiple dead tanks/harvesters) but the dropping from games is entirely random. Maybe in hourly or half hourly intervals almost, but not clockwork.
@Omega97
Thank you.
Did you begin a new save, and if that not works, a new installation of the game?
I can tell you that myself and my friends have all verified and reinstalled since launch to try to see if this fixed this particular problem. We’ve also since played through the game once, deleted our saves and started fresh. The problem still persists.
Maybe this issue is something to bring up at the upcoming Q&A stream?
There are quite a few mentions/topics/posts of this bug/problem but so far no response from the dev team about it.
I can’t join the stream but I think it’s the best way to give the issue some attention. It results in our team not being able to play co-op anymore. One of the most important things in this game imho.
Agreed. I haven’t seen dev acknowledgement in any of the threads concerning this so far. If someone could bring it up during the live stream, that would be awesome. I’d do it myself, but it happens during the middle of my work day, so I can’t actually watch it live.
I’ve already attempted these and I’m not doing it again, I’ve gotten so far with my characters, story and weapons. The game is virtually unplayable for multiplayer now, too. Within 20 minutes of joining a friends game, I am unable to loot, get booted out in the middle of combat and lose any XP, have to run all the way back to a location. I want to love this game, but it’s just horrible at this point. My buddy and I have been playing for hours each night and it’s just become worse and worse. We just can’t play.
Me and my friends are putting the game on paus until this is fixed. As Client it is Increadibly annoying to open box after box and finding nothing. Boxes with mines and grenades are ok. But ordinary ammo for us is empty 80% of times. And when there is ammo just a handfull of rounds. For me this is the most important bug that needs to be fixed after game slowing down/lag.
PS4
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I have the exact same issue when I join a friends session and my friend has the same issue if he joins my session. We have different hardware compared to eachother and to you so its unlikely to be hardware issues.
The most annoying thing is that I cant use AG5 unless I stack up in solo since most of the 5.56 drops from boxes and bodies.
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It’s annoying to have to go solo for a scavenging hunt before playing multiplayer.
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We have the same issue so me and the wife have this on pause until fixed. (thank good for Gloomhaven so we have something to do 
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We have tried all the things suggested but nothing works.
Has this been acknowledged by the developers, can’t remember if I have seen that flag on any if the reports of this issue.
//Samael
I have noticed this ammo scavenging problem in multiplayer game. Joined friends game, i keep finding ample amount of ammo (no scavenge skill taken).
My friend has this skill in 100% and he has problems to keep up with ammo on his primary and secondary weapon. Or finds lots of wrong ammo type.
So far mostly this seems to affect loot containers, not so much robot loot.
Example i have Klauke 17 as side arm, i keep finding excessive amount of 9mm FMI ammo on loot boxes when playing with friend. Its always 30-40 bullets per loot box. My friend seems to get normal loot amount, when he should be getting more than me with the scavenge skills at 100%.
Anyone tried different ways, like none of they players have scavenge skill.
Host has, client no
Client has, host no.
Does this affect the loot find?
Edit:
Joined my other character to friends game what has 100% scavenge skill. First it didnt seem to do anything. Changed back to my other character which dont have it. And 10-20min after that friends loot skill started to work again.
Example:
I find 10-20 7.52 ammo from robots, and he get double or triple amounts.
Conclusion:
This skill with and/or multiplayer has very incoherent function.
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Is this issue fixed on all platforms now?
Haven’t played since july but we are planning to delete our saves and start over. But not if this is still an issue.
I’m on PS4.
Cant say for anything console platforms, only experience from PC.
But this problem seems to go away if both of you keep the same ammo scavenge skill. 50% and then 100%.
Other solution is just to collate ammo in co-op, use different weapons.
Should be easy enough to stay ample amounts of ammo.
We didn’t run out of ammo. So that’s not the problem. But it’s not so fun when you open empty box after empty box. It’s after all a lot game. All The empty boxes made it less fun for the clients so thats the biggest Reason we put the game on paus.
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Boxes have all kinds of ammo inside in coop (client side), but at the moment best way of bullet farming is simple - kill tanks 
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