For both guns (only hard light for me cuz Xbox), the following forces an element swap:
-reviving
-scanning
-starting patrol/ep/adventure
-and certainly more
Furthermore, death or starting any new activity defaults the element back to void.
It gets increasingly annoying to have to deal with this. Especially if you most frequently use arc like me. If this could be fixed and an option to set a default element was added alongside the swap mechanic (like hard light used to have), that would be excellent.
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When in crucible and your sword or rocket ammo becomes available is a total pain with HardLight as it changes every time you collect the ammo. This is doubly a pain when your playing a fast paced game and trying to complete challenges. Please put Hard Light change ammo type back to the way it was, there was no risk of Accidentally changing it.