Depends on the game. To name a game with a similar mechanic, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (back when R6 was still a tactical shooter franchise with a fair amount of realism) had you cycle through your magazines.
For example, let’s say you have three magazines of ten rounds each. You fire three shots and reload. Now your magazines look as follows:
10 rd. (loaded)
10 rd.
7 rd.
Now you fire five shots and reload again. Now they look like this:
10 rd. (loaded)
7 rd.
5 rd.
That’s plausible enough to count as realistic but not as punishing as throwing your mag away every time you reload. It also turns reloading into an interesting decision beyond making you unable to fire while the animation plays: If you reload frequently, you initially have a fresh magazine but you also put a half-empty mag into the queue where it might end up in your gun when you least expect it.
Note that RVS did not allow you to pick up guns or ammo, even if they’re identical to what you’re fielding. If you bring 30 rounds then that’s how many chances you get to shoot someone during the mission, period.
That’s very similar to how it works in Insurgency Sandstorm, with the added bonus of being able to pick up extra mags off dead bodies. So if I only have a few 7.62 mags left, I can go and scavenge a magazine off an enemy (or friendly) weapon. Only their weapon though, there wasn’t any looting on their backpack or chest rig.
Ooh yes, Insurgency is one of my favorites. I love the ‘quick reload’ mechanic as well, choosing between saving your leftover bullets and actually reloading faster.
The only game I’ve played that I specifically recall having that is BattleBit Remastered. I think DayZ (ARMA mod version) had it, but I haven’t touched that in a decade and couldn’t be sure.
Until you get used to a game where discarding the mag actually discards the remaining rounds too
Do they let you pick up the discarded mag, pocket it, so you can add the left over rounds to another mag later? If not then it’s literally unplayable.
Gray zone warfare does. Tarkov too but fuck that game.
The most popular Arma 3 mods do this.
Depends on the game. To name a game with a similar mechanic, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (back when R6 was still a tactical shooter franchise with a fair amount of realism) had you cycle through your magazines.
For example, let’s say you have three magazines of ten rounds each. You fire three shots and reload. Now your magazines look as follows:
Now you fire five shots and reload again. Now they look like this:
That’s plausible enough to count as realistic but not as punishing as throwing your mag away every time you reload. It also turns reloading into an interesting decision beyond making you unable to fire while the animation plays: If you reload frequently, you initially have a fresh magazine but you also put a half-empty mag into the queue where it might end up in your gun when you least expect it.
Note that RVS did not allow you to pick up guns or ammo, even if they’re identical to what you’re fielding. If you bring 30 rounds then that’s how many chances you get to shoot someone during the mission, period.
That’s very similar to how it works in Insurgency Sandstorm, with the added bonus of being able to pick up extra mags off dead bodies. So if I only have a few 7.62 mags left, I can go and scavenge a magazine off an enemy (or friendly) weapon. Only their weapon though, there wasn’t any looting on their backpack or chest rig.
Ooh yes, Insurgency is one of my favorites. I love the ‘quick reload’ mechanic as well, choosing between saving your leftover bullets and actually reloading faster.
Lol nope
The only game I’ve played that I specifically recall having that is BattleBit Remastered. I think DayZ (ARMA mod version) had it, but I haven’t touched that in a decade and couldn’t be sure.