Reloading Weapon in Modern Shooters

The War Z works just like that. You lose a magazine with leftovers if you reload your weapon. The only exception is when you use a different type of magazine in a weapon already with one, in that case the former magazine drops and you can pick it up.

Damn agree with this..

Brothers in Arms, ArmA, i think Hidden&Dangerous 2 had the same system, too bad those games were discontinued.

Well, Ballistic Weapons mod for UT 2004, Infiltration mod for UT 99, Insurgency, Firearms: Source for Hl2, Firearms for HL1 are some of what come into my mind when I think about realistic realoading. Nothing more for now, have fun ^^.

Already forgot, how is reloading in STALKER games?
i remember ballistics are purely awesome (bullets fall, take time to travel, and can "bounce" from surfaces if fired in an sharp angle, hitting targets after bouncing too... :)

The funny thing is that in most modern shooters you don't really need to save ammo. You can find an ammo crate every 10 meters.

Neotokyo has that.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92931910

SWAT 3-4. Old, but hours on hours of LAN fun. Really have to conserve ammo, but you can also switch back to your previous clip that still had bullets left.

Battlefield bad company 2.

I was wondering... Can you "reuse" a half empty clip in real life? In that case, the modern approach wouldn't be unrealistic.

Yeah I think the same way too. I remeber playing I think it was soccom and commando for PS2 and there if you reload it would happen you lose all the leftovers

war rock does it also

I that true? Well I prefer the new system then.

I think Rainbow Six games have that feature.

You are wrong. Or your math is. If you have 27 rounds in clip and 90 in backpack or whatever after reloading in "real life" you will end with 31 rounds in your gun and 86 rounds in backpack. Why? Because you really shouldn't throw away nearly full clip. It would be missing 4 bullets, but still you will have it. So you would end with 4 clips: one with gun + one bullet already ready to fire + 3 in backpack: 2x30 + 26 one which you can still load to your gun. That is realistic, not your crappy theory.

Not a modern shooter at all (older turn-based strat), but that's one of the details I really liked about Jagged Alliance 2.
Usually I'm glad of the game-style system, but it's still fun to have the realistic alternative too.

(Also, I've definitely loaded single-shot paintball pistol rounds in the middle of a game, so I don't put it past people doing it in a real battlefield at all. As long as you're in reliable cover, taking that extra time could save your life -- good deal.)

Yeah, only a few modern games have that system now.

Games nowadays don't go for much realism, most people wouldn't want to play them. I mean, you get shot and you just hide for a minute and you are good to go. There's also other things like ballistics (which Battlefield 3 actually did) as well.

Red Orchestra 1 + 2 ?

EYE: Divine Cybermancy has realistic magazine reloads

Being a firearm owner myself, it always bothers me when a shooter screws up the reloading. It breaks the immersion, being such a blatant error, just sticks out like a sore thumb.

I rather the guns never reload.

Like DMC or Unreal.

I know I am in the minority though probably.

i played a bunch of the darkness the other day and Im pretty sure if you reload with rounds left in the clip, they go away.
dont know for sure but I kept wondering where the hell all my ammo went. ill check it out in a bit and post here if i was wrong

Keep in mind that if games were 100% realistic battlefield they would be lame. Maybe a game that features the reloading type you want isnt realistic because soldiers dont actually cary thousands of bullets with them. Also, if ammo conservation applies in your game your character should be able to collect leftover bullets after an encounter.

Not sure if someone already said this but, in Red Orchestra 2, when you reload with a magazine thats not emty you keep the mag with the same mount of bullets when you reloaded. So if you reload with 10/30 (for one mag) and go to 30/30 eventually you will go back and reload to 10/30.