Extracting ammo from weapons

[KC]

I thought it would be a great idea if the game incorporated a feature where you can extract ammo from a weapon (since you cannot carry two types of the same weapon). So, if a survivor picks up a spare shotgun with a lot of ammo, he can press a button to take out the ammo, where it then turns into a dropable ammo item that can be picked up.

[Kraken]

For some reason I get the feeling you just posted this after watching a youtube video/playing a game of Contagion

[Kraken]

Most weapons dont let you just "Take the ammo". When you take the magazine from the weapon you also have to take out the bullets to actually use it in another gun. This can take 3 minutes.

[Slackerboy (Nate)]

Originally posted by Kraken5886:

Most weapons dont let you just "Take the ammo". When you take the magazine from the weapon you also have to take out the bullets to actually use it in another gun. This can take 3 minutes.

yea bullet extraciton is time consuming

[Grif]

its called unloading the weapon like in zombie panic source

[lPaladinl]

It'd be nice to at least be able to use magazines for guns you already have. Such as having a beretta and being able to keep extra berretta mags.

You also have to consider the fact that majority of the ammo you pick up is in ammo boxes, not preloaded in magazines, therefore we already skip the realism factor of taking the time to load your magazines with the bullets you find. If we can skip that amount of realism and "time consuming activity" then I don't see why we can't magically extract the ammo from half empty magazines as well.

Even when you find ammo in magazines, like for the .556 and I believe the 7.62, you "magically" fuse all of the ammo into one magazine when picking multiple up. You don't have 3 half empty magazines of .556 ammo on you after picking up 3 mags.

[MasterSJT]

i agree i'd like the idea of just taking the mag even if that means it's not compatible with other modals and waieghs more

[General Plastro]

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

It'd be nice to at least be able to use magazines for guns you already have. Such as having a beretta and being able to keep extra berretta mags.

You also have to consider the fact that majority of the ammo you pick up is in ammo boxes, not preloaded in magazines, therefore we already skip the realism factor of taking the time to load your magazines with the bullets you find. If we can skip that amount of realism and "time consuming activity" then I don't see why we can't magically extract the ammo from half empty magazines as well.

Even when you find ammo in magazines, like for the .556 and I believe the 7.62, you "magically" fuse all of the ammo into one magazine when picking multiple up. You don't have 3 half empty magazines of .556 ammo on you after picking up 3 mags.

100% agree, there should be a unload button, i actually prefer a magazine system like Red Orchestra, but things are fine as it is.

[#GetRektasaurus]

Originally posted by viewsource:

I thought it would be a great idea if the game incorporated a feature where you can extract ammo from a weapon (since you cannot carry two types of the same weapon). So, if a survivor picks up a spare shotgun with a lot of ammo, he can press a button to take out the ammo, where it then turns into a dropable ammo item that can be picked up.

Devs have already said they are working on unloading weapons, it is mentioned in a "pinned" discussion.

[lPaladinl]

Oh yeah, and don't forget, when you reload your guns with ammo still in the magazine, you don't lose or have to exchange the ammo in your now half full mags.

If the game was as "realistic" as some people want to stress, you'd be throwing away ammo everytime you reloaded while not fully empty. You'd be able to load an extra round in the chamber as well as have a full mag. You wouldn't ever have a full reload when using the .556 and 7.62 weapons, and you'd have to spend all day shoving the 40 or so rounds of 9mm and .45 ammo you find into magazines that you'd still have to find as a seperate item.

Right now we pull magazines out of our ass and refill them with magic.

[Kai]

Umm, most automatics load 1 ammo into it's chamber so I don't see how you'd say it'd take 3 minutes. Unloading ammo from a magazine is near instant.
It's loading ammo into magazine that takes a minute.

If so, your reloads would take insanely long as you wouldn't be instantly reloading 9mm pistols with a full magazine.

Resident Evil Outbreak somehow magically have characters jamming multiple rounds into pistols manually.
Pistols takes rounds from a magazine, so you can't shove rounds into it from the top of the gun one by one and expect it to work right?

The rounds doesn't go through the gun into said magazine in that case.

[#GetRektasaurus]

Originally posted by Kai:

It's loading ammo into magazine that takes a minute.

That's what he meant.

[Flashfall]

Unloading a magazine fed weapon shouldn't take that long, just remove the magazine and take out the round in the chamber. Takes, what, a few seconds? You only need to put one bullet into the already loaded magazine. The shotguns in this game don't even use magazines, so they're irrelevant.

[xendrid]

It's a planned feature.