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If equipment is limited in use, then it becomes more valuable as a result and when and how you decide to use it matters a lot more. In contrast, when you have a pistol you buy a cheap ammo for, it doesn't really matter to you how many bullets you will fire. That said, I wouldn't limit pistols to have just a bunch of bullets and then make you discard a weapon - just make ammo VERY expensive, so you have to invest heavily into it and make weapons into actually powerful substitute that doesn't require blood (which should be even more valuable). That would require thinking through blood/weapon/income economy very carefully, but I think the result could be more interesting than the usual fare.No matter how much you fear the unknown, this was and remains a good idea for the franchise.Combat in Bloodlines 2 is actually worse because there's no permanent inventory. All your weapons are use and discard.
How is that an improvement? Equipment selection is part of a character build.
The other way would be to make regular cheap ammo useless against other vampires, which is consistent with lore, and provide upgraded ammo through either the Tremere or Sabbat sources which is highly expensive and also dependent on faction alignment.