Does weapon used affect loot

[Wolfclan]

As an example of what im asking if I use A-3 Justifier Mk.I will I have a better chance of getting better loots than if I used a Sollomate Opalo. The main reason im asking is that since the VU 8.6 update I have not been getting any higher ped drops in loots. Before the VU update I would get some drops around the 10 to 30 ped mark but since the VU I have never had a drop above 7 ped using the opalo I hunt everyday and use at least 30k ammo so I would have expected at least a couple of higher drops during this time. To test this out I have tried a couple of hunts with the A-3 Mk.I and using this I have had a number of higher ped drops on both hunts with this weapon. Im just wondering if others have noticed anything like this.

[Cindywood]

No one, except MA, knows for sure.
Personally id say it definately doesnt.

[Legion]

This one is only speculation, but to me it seemed to be like this that blp weapons seems to give you more items in the loot than using a laser. this is just speculation though and it mainly taken from examening hof pics on ep and comparing if they used lwt or blp.

[dakini]

Originally Posted by Legion

This one is only speculation, but to me it seemed to be like this that blp weapons seems to give you more items in the loot than using a laser. this is just speculation though and it mainly taken from examening hof pics on ep and comparing if they used lwt or blp.

well dont blp weapons have lower ammo burn and higher decay
(even though the effcienecy may be the same as laser)

so then based on this assumption, we can say that decay paid to the repair terminal gives good loot

on a side note...i would be intrested to know if the super-uber who hunt very effcient
(ie...naked and a unamped Imk2 or MM- therefore very little to repair)

notice that they do not get as many large loots

(perhaps they still profit day in and out due to their effciency, but not the big bannanna)
leading to an understanding of the avatars relationship with the repair terminal

[Witte]

I would say no. Reason one: Why would MA implement such a complex system? Reason 2: Best item loots I had was with TT gun

(ps, decay gives better items is totaly bullox imo)

[Wormie]

A long long long time ago, before Amethera existed, Marco said that more decay
gives more loot. Or if u use more decaying wpns u have more chances to get
more loot...

But when hunting drone1-3 with Opalo+a204 versus imk3+a204, i get more 5+ ped
loots with imk than with opalo. Does it depend on gun or killing efficiency, only
MA knows but they won't tell us

And all of my best loots are from kills with non-TT weapon (imk3)

[sirre]

I don’t believe that the gun you use have any impact on the loot. Of course the more mobs you lay at you’re feet in less time you increase the chance of hitting a hof/global.
It’s like a lottery and if you get a whole bunch of them you’re chance of getting lucky are better.
What about skills then? Well the only thing I can say here is, more skills better chance to break even…

One thing I have learned the hard way is that there is no ROI in this game, its dynamic as MA calls it.

plz don’t flame me for any of the above if you think different.
It’s just my 2 and it would probably be smarter to say only MA knows and not post at all. But am a bit bored sitting next to the river in Singapore at Brewerkz. Really fine lager and free wifi

/sirre

[nhdongphuong]

Well to my case things just happen the same. Before last VU I usally get about 7-11 PED from small mobs like exa and combibos. Now I am looting with just about 1-2PED and not as regular!
It maybe not the gun. Just the VU! Hope it's just theory, I am going bankcrupt with this VU!

[Lilu]

I hunt with 3 types of weapon - Opalo, Axe 2.0 and determination. I have noticed a significant difference with the loots depending on what weapon I use - Opalo - poor, Axe - average, determination none or good.

I thought at first this was due to low level mobs being taken with the opalo, harder with the axe and the biggest I can handle with the determination, so tried hunting daikiba and exos with the detrmination to find a significantly increased amount of loot to a same headcount hunt with opalo.

From my limited testing I suppose you could deduce that greater wear increases loot, which would make sense as MA claim that the game should cost $1.50 an hour, so there must be a fairly fixed wear to loot ratio - it would potentially appear in the above posts that ammo doesnt necessarily figure fully in this ratio.

One thing I have noticed as well is that maturity types doesnt have a very great effect on loot either - ie a 200PEDs worth of wear generates the same amount of loot if you hunt all argo young or all argo hunters.

[SODERD]

checked the last 30 global pics posted here and laser won with 24 agains blp 6, there where also some blade globals witch i didnt count.
i think it dependes of weapon not because using that weapon but if u got a big u can kill bigger mobs witch seems to loot more....