Reloading weapons mid-flight?
- Thread starter Shaamaan
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i'd love this feature too, so used to clicking reload in every other game to make sure i have a fresh clip in
rootsrat
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Yeah, that would be nice. Although the current functionality also adds kind of tactical depth to the combat, as you need to judge when to shoot and watch the ammo. But the manual reload button would be better I think.
You'd have to eject the clip with the remaining ammo IMHO so that you'd loose whatever's left in your guns before loading a new clip.
That's one of the things that always annoyed me in shooters - when you reload, you just top up the existing ammo clip, which isn't very realistic. You should remove the old clip, ergo throwing away the ammo that's left in it and put a new one in.
You'd have to eject the clip with the remaining ammo IMHO so that you'd loose whatever's left in your guns before loading a new clip.
That's one of the things that always annoyed me in shooters - when you reload, you just top up the existing ammo clip, which isn't very realistic. You should remove the old clip, ergo throwing away the ammo that's left in it and put a new one in.
well after i have finished a fight, if i only have a few rounds left in the clips i just fire them off into space to reload for the next encounter.. bullets are cheap 
well after i have finished a fight, if i only have a few rounds left in the clips i just fire them off into space to reload for the next encounter.. bullets are cheap
Yes of course, but it would be nice to make sure im able to time my line ups with cannons fully loaded!
Signed. Me too.
What I don't get though is these are probably bay fed weapons, there shoudn't be any reloading at all. You won't see an A10 reloading their minigun mid combat!
While I don't understand why we can't reload, THIS is most certainly a balancing issue.
Been asked a while back, but didn't happen. I would like a manual reload even at the expense of eject any ammo still loaded.
Why do we need to even reload at all?
These are ship mounted weapons. Ships that are in many cases into the hundreds of tonnes in mass. Is it a gamey mechanic or a poorly thought out one?
You don't get naval ships of an equivalent size today having to faff about with "clips" for their main guns. I thought weapons technology would of improved by the 3300's
These are ship mounted weapons. Ships that are in many cases into the hundreds of tonnes in mass. Is it a gamey mechanic or a poorly thought out one?
You don't get naval ships of an equivalent size today having to faff about with "clips" for their main guns. I thought weapons technology would of improved by the 3300's
Why do we need to even reload at all?
These are ship mounted weapons. Ships that are in many cases into the hundreds of tonnes in mass. Is it a gamey mechanic or a poorly thought out one?
You don't get naval ships of an equivalent size today having to faff about with "clips" for their main guns. I thought weapons technology would of improved by the 3300's
Indeed.
Machine guns on fighter jets don't need to reload mid-shoot - they just chain and spam till the end instead.
If they want to add a mechanic where you need to stop firing once in a while it should be heat.
I agree. They could just have individual weapon heat (not shared like lasers). Once at maximum heat you can't fire, the time to cool off is the time it takes to reload.
There's two ways you could do it, a constant cool off, (i.e. you could continue to fire intermittently at maximum heat) or a instant cool off, where the weapon doesn't cool gradually but instantly cools if you don't shoot it for X seconds. Or maybe a mixture of the two.
Either way it would work like reloading with the annoyance of half full ammo. Manual reloading would require another button and there are probably plenty already.
I just unload the rest of the clip and let it load a new one, then stow it. It's called clearing your barrels.
