Talk:Metal

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Weaponsd dropped from dead characters are not uniformly 100 points of metal. I can think of many times I've picked up a weapon and only got a few points from it. I suspect it may be players drop the weapon they were using at the time of death, e.g. sometimes they drop the secondary weapon - and it may be the secondary has less metal, or perhaps that the amount of ammo remaining in the clip at the time of death is used as part of the metal value. Wildfire 02:48, 9 January 2008 (CST)

I'm pretty sure all primary weapons that are dropped give 100 metal to the engineer. Examples: Rocket Launcher, Minigun, etc. Nanosheep 10:45, 10 January 2008 (GMT)

They aren't, just done a bit of testing and they are different values. Most seem to be 100 (Sniper Rifle, Flame thrower, Spy revolver) but when it comes to Engi's this doesn't seem to apply. I emptied a full shotgun and got 200 metal, same with 5 bullets left in the revolver. I didn't however get less than 100 in limited testing. I think this will need testing with all the classes and guns to be sure but I didn't have much time to do all that. --Aurora 20:19, 17 January 2008 (CST)