Magazine Alterations

[Deuce6]

Sometimes I went through whole mags, sometimes I shot off a few rounds. When the fight subsided, I always replaced with a fresh mag. It just depends on the situation and how extreme the fight was.

[Malik]

I don't know about real military, but in BF2 and PR specifically we're faced with the problem of only having a couple magazines for most classes and reloading that regularly can be sparse. I like to reload after every firefight and in vBF2 I tended to do it after I used half a mag, normally that'd be the most I'd ever need to kill somebody. Now I don't know where I stand so I find myself reloading too often or too late and I run out of ammo easily. Most maps have no commnders so there are no supply drops to help out. I suppose it's just a clever method of getting us to rely on the support class more for our ammo, but as a sniper it's not always practical to have a big support guy run to your position and throw down some bags. Saving magazines would be a nice feature and I don't really see it killing gameplay. When you get resupplied by a support troop it'd merely replace all your semi full mags with full mags at the usual rate, from lightest to heaviest. It makes sense.

[Major Ursa Norte]

Originally Posted by Malik

I don't know about real military, but in BF2 and PR specifically we're faced with the problem of only having a couple magazines for most classes and reloading that regularly can be sparse. I like to reload after every firefight and in vBF2 I tended to do it after I used half a mag, normally that'd be the most I'd ever need to kill somebody. Now I don't know where I stand so I find myself reloading too often or too late and I run out of ammo easily. Most maps have no commnders so there are no supply drops to help out. I suppose it's just a clever method of getting us to rely on the support class more for our ammo, but as a sniper it's not always practical to have a big support guy run to your position and throw down some bags. Saving magazines would be a nice feature and I don't really see it killing gameplay. When you get resupplied by a support troop it'd merely replace all your semi full mags with full mags at the usual rate, from lightest to heaviest. It makes sense.

If a big support guy running to your position is not good, how can a supply crate be any better. The best way is to communicat with you support guy and have him dead drop an ammo pouch away from your position and then you snake to it. You can alway use a bogus "enemy troops spotted" to mark the location for the dead drop on the mini map. Just communicate with the support guy in your squad and if he is any good, he will get you your dead drop and you can maintain stealth.

[the.ultimate.maverick]

Originally Posted by Deuce6

in real life, ttp's tell you to replace your mag after a fight. Let's say you assault through a position and your still alive. You form up a line of advance, replace your magazine, even if only you fired one shot, and prepare for an ambush. That way you always know you have a fresh mag ready

Just reload once you come through a firefight.

I was initially taught the same.

But since joining my new unit (specilist) we have been taught to count rounds as if you reload after every firefight you may soon run out of fresh mags and then be in a situation where you cannot get any more magazines and nor do you know which of you mags are good to use. Also, depending on your operational area you do not know how many firefights you will have until being in a safe zone again.

Plus if you are firing with a double tap system and are not just sprayin and prayin then counting is very easy/useful