User blog comment:Sperez2012/What is YOUR favorite Mass Effect?/@comment-5337704-20120811084709/@comment-5337704-20120814062233

I just finished ME1 on hardcore, playing infiltrator the first time. Level 54 with two extant rails and an explosive ammo in my sniper, one shot overheated it. But it cooled off right away. Could pretty much one shot anything using assasin skill. Pistol had the same but a different type of explosive ammo. Using marksman, it fired like an SMG. I was chasing sarens Reapers around with it, since he moved to quick for the sniper. Spamming immunity, it took awhile but he finally fell. Just started me2. And already out of thermal clips for he sniper rifle. You only get one or lucky two shots per clip, if the enemy drops them. It is a major setback. Since without ammo, the weapon is now useless. 3 fixed it overall. You can carry more if you forget to reload. Heat of combat, I switch weapons without reloading and grab thermal clips. ME2 it is wasted did your full and forget to reload (ammo disappears) if it reloaded another weapon.

Only time I had to wait a long time for overheating is when the ennui used sabotage against me. But all you had to do was switch weapons.