Limited number of magazines + takes time to load magazine/top off

[JimmyS1985]

I'm somewhat of a gun enthusiast and so I got ideas for games with guns that rarely gets implemented. I feel my idea would add both realism and immersion to gun fights.

 

In a real gun fight I would think you would be rarely if ever drop a magazine and leave it on the ground just to reload a new one. You would not fire off 5 rounds and automatically reload with a fresh magazine when you still got 25 or say 45 rounds left in the magazine.

 

To actually load a magazine with bullets it takes time. If you shoot all the bullets in all of your magazines, it's going to take some time to reload them back to full again before that gun is locked and loaded again. Reload times should be slower, most people are not gifted like in video games at rapid reloading of magazines.

 

When you craft a magazine it should be just one magazine, not an infinite number and always having one that is topped off ready to get into the fight.

 

Again I think if we focused on these aspects of actual reload times, loading bullets into a magazine, and limiting how many magazines so that we can not always load up an infinite supply of topped off magazines this has potential to make the game more realistic and immersive in gun fights.

 

One last thing, get rid of the oddball magazine capacities. I can't list any immediately but the pipe rifle with a drum magazine holds 48 rounds, drum magazines usually hold 50 rounds not a weird number like 48.

 

Future mods? Gun maintenance (like in new Vegas) and gun cleaning. Make the guns act like their real life counterparts.

[Crosstieger]

I think that's a bit overkill for a videogame. Maybe just implement a magazine based reload system, where you reload whole magazines instead of individual bullets. At a workbench you could merge half emptied magazines together, so you have full magazines and one with all the leftover bullets.

[Jeffman12]

I like each part of this request to varying degrees, but overall I think I agree. Fighting in fallout 4 would be far more immersive if there was a potential for your favorite weapon to essentially become dead weight until the magazines are refilled.

 

In preparation for survival, I think this is, overall, probably my favorite request to date.

My only nitpick is that the reload time shouldn't be too slow to begin with, remember the PC has either had undisclosed direct or indirect military experience, and has probably been to the range a few times. Of course, improving reload speed with relevant perks seems like a no-brainer.