I guess I never noticed cause I only take the Prime variant and can chew anything up at range before they notice I'm there to return fire. Such a great design and the ammo issues are great balance, cant just indiscriminately unload on anything and you have to go back to base rather quick if there are lots of assaults around. For this reason though I might hesitate on it in capture mode if there are not MFB's in the game by then... oh and... Beatstick in capture mode... LoL!