So why do you hate weapon reloading in your shooters?
So why do you hate weapon reloading in your shooters?
John Morales
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Cameron Hill
i dont
Andrew Rodriguez
>So why do you hate weapon reloading in your shooters?
what?
Asher Martinez
It's another form of resource management, so I don't hate it.
Grayson Gutierrez
OP just wanted to post that gjf
Landon Brown
They're obnoxious and ruin the pace of the game. Stopping to reload your gun every couple of seconds is boring.
William Ross
While this is true, I think it's a solid way to have a distinction between different weapon types, therefore adding more variety. Let's take a standard machinegun as an example. Besides changing the rate of fire and damage per bullet, if there was no weapon reload system, there would be nothing else to help differentiate one automatic hitscan weapon from another. Weapon reload adds another layer of depth to a player's arsenal. Without it, you'd end up with more straight upgrades which is a bad design choice.
Robert Anderson
Most games half-ass it with the sole aim of preventing spam. If they actually commit to it then it can be an interesting mechanic
>counting shots and learning the clip size of each weapon
>deciding whether you want to reload now and lose the remaining bullets, or go into the next engagement fully loaded
Gavin Stewart
I'm fully in support of this. One of the few times where realism would be a benefit in a shooter.
Parker Young
I liked how Insurgency did it where you can either do a slower reload so you keep your magazine or you can do a slightly faster reload where you ditch it to quickly load a new magazine.
Xavier Ramirez
This, Red Orchestra / Rising Storm did it really well
Eli Jenkins
A good reload animation and sound design can really make reloading almost fun, also if you ever learn enough about guns you can play older games and watch the animations and try and see if they made the reload animation inaccurate like they did a lot in far cry 2
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Adam Campbell
Why didn't he then?
William Peterson
Sandstorm or OG?
David Wilson
not him but probably all of them, including day of infamy
William Reed
I was thinking of Sandstorm, I don't remember if the original had that reload system. I think it did but it's been a long time since I played it.
Matthew Wood
he did
Robert Diaz
Reloads suck in a fast-paced shooter where you carry a lot of weapons because every gun you decide to use is one that you'll have to reload sooner or later and that's just tedious. It's perfectly fine in a slower paced one where you fight less enemies at once and carry maybe 3 weapons at most.
John Long
imfdb.org
Probably the most hilarious article on the site.
Benjamin Morales
You can reload the guns between fights. See Half Life, for instance.
Grayson Lee
CS having a lot of custom models and animations was great. More games should do that.
One the few articles that avoided the purge I guess.
Jace Ward
Half-Life isn't really that fast paced nor do you need to spend that much ammo per encounter.
Ryan White
casual westerner
Christian Clark
the only thing that pisses me off is that some games don’t have different animations between tactical and dry reloads. i know that they’re not trying to be realistic by not having 1 in the chamber like Siege does and are trying to have consistent reload times, but couldn’t they just make the reload times the same?
Jack Brooks
Which purge? Almost all articles I remember reading there still seem to be around. Some aren't even that well made.
Levi Morales
It's awesome in VR shooters.
Jeremiah Cruz
The article may be there but they've decided to be an informative source and to remove humor as much as possible. Which is fucking retarded.
Zachary Torres
thanks for posting the link, i always forget the name of that site
Oliver Williams
Ouch. That sucks. Really badly. I really liked IMFDB as a source of information, but if anything, the humour is the reason I kept coming back to read articles I had already read before.
Feels like a completely tone deaf measure to take. Not like the humour was getting in the way of the facts.
Nicholas Ward
>he can't reload guns with his fucking mind
lmaoing @ ur life
Owen Taylor
This, because reloading in of itself is a skill to learn in VR. Outside of VR though it's just an unwelcome lull in gameplay.
Anthony Sanchez