Reloading weapon bug : no one talks about this ?

[Mad]

Hey there.

I'm quite surprised very few players experienced that issue.
Been looking around on Steam forums & Internet : barely anyone talks about that [very] annoying bug that prevents your weapon from reloading properly IF you use any sort of healing DURING the reload animation.

Another weird way the bug manifests : sometimes, it does reload the magazine but not entirely.

Has anyone encoutered that bug found a solution ? Mine was swapping between 2 weapons.

Thank you :)

[whatdoesthisbuttondo?]

Haven't had that issue, and I'm reloading quite a bit while popping medpacks.

Both tactical and emergency reloads, and a wild mix of medpack and then reload while healing is active, reload and medpack while reload is still going, etc.

[NegativeZero]

I've never not been able to reload a gun.

[Tiasmoon]

Reloading is canceled by a lot of animations.

[Mad]

I'll be uploading a video in a few mins to provide some footage about the said bug

[AoD_lexandro]

Not a bug. Its called action cancelling and been in Bethesda games and shooters for years. Until you animate the entire action, it can be cancelled with another action over-lapping it.

[Toblm]

Not something I've noticed.
On the other hand, interrupting an action A with action B causing action A to be interrupted makes perfect sense.

[NegativeZero]

If you're talking about reloading being interrupted when you try to do something else that's not a bug... Lots of things interrupt reloading like sprinting, meleeing, and getting meleed.

[oak]

Reload being cancelled by an action and only partially completing (if it's passed a certain point) is considered a feature. The alternatives are reload is fully cancelled by any action, or reload is completed regardless of what action interrupts it. The compromise we see in Starfield is just that, somewhere in the middle.

[Mad]

https://youtu.be/mXoz0fYJgPk?si=6afiEkR_-sjJFS8n

There you go

[Mad]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Not a bug. Its called action cancelling and been in Bethesda games and shooters for years. Until you animate the entire action, it can be cancelled with another action over-lapping it.

Sad thing is that I was able in the first ~10 hours of my playthrough to reload while healing ; Idk what changed from there

[Toblm]

Originally posted by Mad:

https://youtu.be/mXoz0fYJgPk?si=6afiEkR_-sjJFS8n

There you go

That just looks like you interrupted your own reload.

[Mad]

Originally posted by Toblm:

Originally posted by Mad:

https://youtu.be/mXoz0fYJgPk?si=6afiEkR_-sjJFS8n

There you go

That just looks like you interrupted your own reload.

Wouldn't the animation be interrupted aswell, in that case ?

Next thing I could look into :

Shoot gun n°1 > Heal > Swap to gun n°2 > Swap back to n°1 > Reload
(pretty sure it will work, as changing weapons do seem to fix the thing)

[Mad]

Something I haven't specified aswell : I do have mods enabled in the concerned playthrough

[Toblm]

Originally posted by Mad:

Something I haven't specified aswell : I do have mods enabled in the concerned playthrough

That would be the first thing to test. Drop the mods, verify files and reproduce in vanilla.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Mad:

Hey there.

I'm quite surprised very few players experienced that issue.
Been looking around on Steam forums & Internet : barely anyone talks about that [very] annoying bug that prevents your weapon from reloading properly IF you use any sort of healing DURING the reload animation.

Another weird way the bug manifests : sometimes, it does reload the magazine but not entirely.

Has anyone encoutered that bug found a solution ? Mine was swapping between 2 weapons.

Thank you :)

It isn't a bug, you can interrupt your reload to do something else. It can be annoying when you go to shoot again, but it is meant to be the way it is. Hence why you don't see people bringing it up.

Originally posted by Mad:

https://youtu.be/mXoz0fYJgPk?si=6afiEkR_-sjJFS8n

There you go

Maybe healing is suppose to have an animation but it is currently bugged.