Gameplay: Ammunition - Page 2

CutterJohn · 2012-01-20, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by Erendil

I'm a little apprehensive about using a double tap as a separate command since there's the issue of timing - i.e. whether or not the game recognized your key presses as a double-tap or two separate single taps.

Would be better to have the ammo save as the default. If you mess up, you can just double tap again and bypass the long reload and use the short one. If long reload was a double tap, and short one was a single keypress, you'd lose ammo messing up.

Plus, given that I've been using a single key press to reload my weapons in FPSes for about... oh, 17 years or so now I think I'd rather keep the "swap out for a full mag" command (the closest thing to the ammo-pool-style reload I'm used to) as a single key press since it'd be hard to unlearn that muscle memory. And I wouldn't want to throw away any of my bullets thankyouverymuch!

Would be pretty trivial to make it a toggleable.

Hold key would work as well. This could also be a toggle.

Tbh, they should just make double tap and hold a bindable option for keys. Theres things it would be pretty good for. Press G to throw grenade. Double tap/hold G to switch to grenade, for instance. Be able to compress 2 weapons/actions into a bind so you don't have to reach across for the 6-0 keys, etc.

TheBladeRoden · 2012-01-20, 05:47 AM

naw, they're making this into BattlefieldSide, not Red OrchestraSide

Knocky · 2012-01-20, 05:52 AM

No thank you....ammo boxes are fine just the way they are.

Sirisian · 2012-01-20, 07:59 PM

Each weapon on your loadout will have its own self-contained ammo pool.

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SKYeXile · 2012-01-20, 08:29 PM

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@planetside2 Can any of the classes drop an ammo dispensing box like the support in BF3 or the engineer in TF2?

Margaret Krohn
@PurrfectStorm Margaret Krohn
@SKYeXile_FC @planetside2 Yes. =P

T MAN · 2012-01-20, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

SKYeXile_FC SKYeXile
@planetside2 Can any of the classes drop an ammo dispensing box like the support in BF3 or the engineer in TF2?

Margaret Krohn
@PurrfectStorm Margaret Krohn
@SKYeXile_FC @planetside2 Yes. =P

I don't like this, imagine the spam with grenades and gen holds....

SKYeXile · 2012-01-20, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by T MAN

I don't like this, imagine the spam with grenades and gen holds....

yup, its gonna be great to grenade spam them out of there with vamp grenades

thats what you meant right? :P

Zulthus · 2012-01-21, 12:51 AM

I don't exactly like how far they're taking this game into BF3 territory...

SKYeXile · 2012-01-21, 02:16 AM

Originally Posted by Zulthus

I don't exactly like how far they're taking this game into BF3 territory...

Having to runback to a terminal is an uneeded chore, lets just hope whoever is in control of dropping the ammo in this game isn't retarded like every support in BF3.

Sirisian · 2012-01-21, 04:03 AM

Personally I like having that level of logistics in the game. You're acting like you'll be running out after firing a few bullets. Like I said in the other thread I'd prefer stuff like 5 magazines. That's enough to try to kill 5 people and then switch to a side-arm with enough ammo to kill another 5 probably. Having to then re-supply isn't asking much especially if you're around other players. If the game has support experience it will be huge incentive also to help others when they v-n-ammo.

Then again if you're a sniper on the top of a hill by yourself or an infiltrator I could see the problem.

Trolltaxi · 2012-01-21, 08:30 AM

Maybe beancounting is too "hardcore", but I'd welcome the option to have tactical reload and speed reload.

With tactical reload, you conserve the ammo left in your magazine. (normal/slow animation) With speed reload you decide to waste the half-empty clip and insert the full mag faster.

When you shoot your weapon dry, your animation is always the fast reload.

Maybe some skills would be implemented to speed up tactical reload too. Or make speed reload even faster.