okay BDR no its not timed, the radiation is powerful but dissipates vry quickly, but flesh absobs it, so its like poision. the damage works like bleed damage, but longer lasting, and doesnt heal itself. when it winds down to 1 damage, the next turn it will dissapear. its called a radioactive "half-life". its not timed, it is just so highly radioactive (the bullet, i mean) that it irradiates anything it passes close to! acid is acid, not toxic waste, its not radioactive. nothings immune to this damage, or even resistant. (can u imagine fighting something immune to the nuke!!!?????) also, the ammo limits it to mostly AoMr, and it ignores armor, since it is hurting the creature from inside. scarcity, nah, they r common enough on later levels, but they are not found very early on, either.
ok Kornel, i forgot to mention that the way the reloader works is this: whatever ammo is in it already (or was in it if its empty), if u have any more of it, it will reload that, if not, it will reload types starting with normal, then AP, HE, AB, and Concussion, if applicable. Power Cells are reloaded last, if they can be loaded. reload command will first ask if u want to change ammo type, then bring up ammo type window to choose from, if there is no room in inv for ammo coming out of gun, it is dropped.