Fix and improvements on reloads

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In this post I will list a bunch of issues I have with the reloading of some weapons in the game going from the most important to the least. Note that I dont have every single weapons in the game so its probable I am missing some. Also my knowlegde on guns isn’t very extensive so if I make mistakes please notify me.

Bad reloads

The weapons concerned are the Sten MK3, the Winchester M1912 and the Browning Auto 5.

The Auto 5 and M1912 both have the same issue, they have respectively a capacity of 4+1 and 5+1 ( magazine + chamber). When empty reloading the auto 5 the soldier puts 5 shells in the mag before chambering despite having a 4 round magazine. Same goes for the M1912 where he adds 6 rounds in a mag of 5 before chambering. In my opinion the soldier should put a round, chamber it and top off the mag so that if there is an emerency during reload you are ready to fire.
And worst of all both shotguns will rechamber a shell after a tactical reload despite already having a round in chamber.

Browning Auto 5 empty reload + 2 tactical reloads

Winchester M1912 empty reload + 2 tactical reloads

In my opinion this is how they should look. I thing for both guns the first round can be loaded trough the breech. (sorry for the choppy cuts):

Browning Auto 5

Winchester M1912

For the Sten MK3 when doing a tactical reload the soldier rechamber a round despite already having a round inside.

Sten MK3

What’s weird is that the Sten MK2 doesn’t have this issue despite the guns being very similar.

StenMK2

Improve PTRD41 reload

The PTRD 41 has an automatic ejection system so that you don’t have to manually open the bolt to eject the casing this isn’t in the game:

This is how it sould look:

Visual bugs

This issue is not very important but it annoys me nonetheless and it affects the scoped snipers that you reload bullet per bullet. When reloading after emptying your mag you can see the bullets inside as if it was fully loaded. This issue concerns the Springfield M1912A1, Springfield M1912A4, sniper Kar98k, pre-war K98k, I dont know about the Gewher 98 with scope mount and it doesn’t affect the mosin M91/30 sniper despite fitting the description.

Here are some examples:

M1903A1

M1904A4

You can see it better on the k98

Small bug

That one isn’t very impactfull but it affects a lot of guns. When you fire the last round of some guns and keep pressing down the fire input the bolt can be in the wrong position until you release the key.
Here are some examples:

Armagera M39:


C96:

Sten MK2:

Type 14:
Type Hei Rifle:

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just use edit…

personally i dont mind cause it is minor issue and they could fix it if they have time. although i would like if they fixed some actual major bugs… like shooting bazooka through window/door/corners.

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Certainly the game needs a complete rework of all its animations, both in the movement of the characters and in the reloading of weapons, however at the moment it seems that the developers prefer to give more importance to other things, so we just have to wait.

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Thank you I didn’t see the button :wink:. Sure these issues are mostly minor but since I havent seen anyone talk about it I figured that I should post it. And for most of these I think they could be fixed easely and quickly but I cant be sure of that since I know next to nothing about game dev.

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well dont imagine anything about DF… i had one critical bug that actually affected game balance and if i had access to their MM queue i would probably fix it in 5-20 minutes. you know the time it took them to fix it after they learnt about it? 4-5 months.

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I was about to complain about all of this!
Especialy about the Auto 5 and the M1912, this should be a major issue on those two guns and not just a minor thing to patch some day when they got some spare time
(that’s also why I do some necroposting, so I don’t have to redo a post like yours ^^')

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I feel like this is the kind of fix they can easily address in a small update like: “fixed an issue when reloading auto 5 and winchester m1912” because the animations are already there, it’s just a matter of not playing the cocking part when I’m just topping off the magazine.

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I forgot the Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk1 (T) and the new shotguns Darkflow added also have the same issue (japanese Browning Auto-5 and Ithaca 37)