- This article is about the old version of the item from before the Warfare Updates.
5.56x45mm NATO magazine | |
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Category: | Consumables |
Status: | Unavailable |
Function: | |
Serves as ammunition for the Automatic Rifle and Interior Turrets. | |
Mass: | 0.45 kg |
Volume: | 0.20 L |
Data Controls: | [edit] [purge] (?) |
A 5.56x45mm NATO magazine is an ammunition item that can be used to load any type of rifle as well as Interior Turrets.
In Update 1.198 ("Warfare 1: Field Engineer"),[1] the ability to produce them in assemblers was removed due to an overhaul to handheld weaponry. Their purpose was superseded by the MR-20, MR-50A, MR-8P, and MR-30E magazines, however, 5.56x45mm NATO magazines still exist in the game.
5.56x45mm NATO magazines can still be found inside cargo containers and interior turrets of older grids, including some of the Cargo Ships and Random Encounters that can be enabled in the World Settings when creating or loading a saved game.
Strategy[]
Unlike the newer magazine types, 5.56x45mm NATO magazines can be loaded into every type of rifle in the game: the MR-20, MR-50A, MR-8P, and MR-30E rifles.
Rifles (as well as turrets) loaded with a 5.56x45mm NATO magazine will always load 30 bullets from it. All of the gun's other stats remains the same as it does with its normal type of ammunition, making the 5.56x45mm NATO magazines particularly useful for MR-8P Rifle (which would otherwise only get 8 bullets from its MR-8P Magazines).
Using 5.56x45mm NATO magazines to load Interior Turrets is not recommended, as they only contain 30 bullets as opposed to the MR-50A Magazine's 50.
Assembly[]
Since update 1.198, the 5.56x45mm NATO magazine can no longer be produced in any Assembler.
In previous versions of the game, it could be produced in an assembler using the same materials that are now used to produce MR-20 Magazines: 0.80 Iron Ingot, 0.20 Nickel Ingot, and 0.15 Magnesium Powder.