Ammunition Upgrades

Ammo Upgrades are specifically designed to enhance the effectiveness of your weapon's ammunition.

Below is a list of ammo upgrades available:

Anti-Organic Ammunition
Anti-Organic Ammunition provides a heavy damage bonus versus organic enemies with no downsides. While it isn't the most useful mod, it's not a bad choice early on, or paired with other upgrades in multi-slotted weapons.

Anti-Personnel Rounds
Designed to shred flesh and other organic matter, these rounds are particularly effective against living targets. They are likely similar in construction to hollow point rounds.

Shredder Rounds
Designed to shear apart on impact for maximum damage, these rounds are particularly effective against living targets.

Anti-Armor / Synthetic Ammunition
Anti-Armor rounds provides damage bonus against heavily-armored or synthetic enemies like geth. It is more useful when used on multi-slotted weapons, with other upgrades, as the maximum level of anti-armor rounds is not high.

Armor Piercing Rounds
Specifically designed to puncture metal, these rounds are particularly effective against synthetic targets.

Tungsten Rounds
Tungsten rounds are typically smaller projectiles fired at higher speeds to increase penetrating power.

Incendiary Rounds
Incendiary rounds consist of a thermite paste which clings to, and burns through, nearly any known substance.

Inferno Rounds
Inferno rounds are incredibly powerful rounds that can melt or burn through virtually all known substances. This damages enemies and weakens their accuracy.

Cryo Rounds
Cooling lasers collapse ammunition into small Bose-Einstein condensate - a mass of super-cooled subatomic particles - capable of snap-freezing impacted objects.

Snowblind Rounds
Snowblind Rounds inflict massive damage and destabilize enemies, reducing their accuracy. More advanced upgrades do more damage.

High Explosive Rounds
Designed to detonate on impact, high explosive rounds have one major drawback: a massive increase in weapon overheating.

Hammerhead Rounds
Hammerhead ammunition, also called squash projectiles, is designed to flatten on impact, increasing the amount of physical force transferred to the target.

Sledgehammer Rounds
Sledgehammer Rounds hit with incredible force, often knocking opponents completely off their feet. They are great for attacking a charging target, because the force of the rounds hitting the target can knock them to the ground. This makes them perfect for shotguns.

Sledgehammer Rounds are also coated with polonium to induce radiation sickness in targets, as well as preventing enemy regeneration. The tradeoff is they increase weapon overheating. On two or three slotted weapons, combine with a Heat Sink.

Phasic Rounds
Instead of projectiles, upgraded weapons release charge particle bolts that can bypass kinetic barrier shields. However, the actual damage done to the target is typically less than what's done by a standard round.

Proton Rounds
Instead of projectiles, upgraded weapons release energized protons capable of bypassing kinetic barrier shields. However, the actual damage inflicted on the target is typically less than that of a standard round.

Chemical Rounds
Popular with pirates, criminals and mercenaries, these rounds are coated with a highly toxic compound.

Polonium Rounds
This upgrade stamps a minuscule amount of radioactive polonium into every round fired, effectively poisoning enemy targets. It also prevents enemy regeneration.

Radioactive Rounds
These rounds are stamped with a minuscule amount of radioactive material, inducing low levels of radiation sickness in targets. This sickness makes it more difficult for biotic or tech abilities to be deployed.