What is (or was) reload cancel?

[Robin (Don Quijote)]

Seriously

[Andbrew]

You could bash mid-reload and shoot instant later. Now you can't shoot when you bash, you need to complete the entire animation.

[Robin (Don Quijote)]

Originally posted by A. Max.:

You could bash mid-reload and shoot instant later. Now you can't shoot when you bash, you need to complete the entire animation.

Ok. I get it. So it was cheating

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by Robin (Ixca Cienfuegos):

Originally posted by A. Max.:

You could bash mid-reload and shoot instant later. Now you can't shoot when you bash, you need to complete the entire animation.

Ok. I get it. So it was cheating

wasn't really cheating, at all. from what Max described, it was more of an exploit (since it was part of the game's mechanics)

[Andbrew]

Originally posted by Robin (Ixca Cienfuegos):

Originally posted by A. Max.:

You could bash mid-reload and shoot instant later. Now you can't shoot when you bash, you need to complete the entire animation.

Ok. I get it. So it was cheating

It was a bug, which everyone exploited. Now it was somewhat fixed.

[jscjml]

You can still reload cancel by holding LMB while doing reload, then melee bash once your ammo counter goes back to full.

[Robin (Don Quijote)]

Originally posted by Mister Torgue Flexington:

Originally posted by Robin (Ixca Cienfuegos):

Ok. I get it. So it was cheating

wasn't really cheating, at all. from what Max described, it was more of an exploit (since it was part of the game's mechanics)

What comes to my mind when hearing about this is the gunslinger. When using akimbo pistols, you used to bash when you only had 1 pistol loaded to shoot and you get full ammo as you had already fully reloaded both pistols? That is not how it works in real life. You acttually have to reload both guns to get magazines in both guns, if you were using 2 guns at the same time. Plus, you called it an "exploit".

[Andbrew]

Originally posted by aspiring super mario 64 speedrun:

You can still reload cancel by holding LMB while doing reload, then melee bash once your ammo counter goes back to full.

It's still the same for some weapons thought, like the Gunslinger and Commando ones.

[jscjml]

Originally posted by A. Max.:

Originally posted by aspiring super mario 64 speedrun:

You can still reload cancel by holding LMB while doing reload, then melee bash once your ammo counter goes back to full.

It's still the same for some weapons thought, like the Gunslinger and Commando ones.

Good to know. I only tried the medic pistol, 9mm and gunslinger tier1 duals.

[Phantom Stranger]

It was something that you could legitimately do in the game until they took if out..... mewstly

[HiTmAn]

they just makeing game little less arcade witch is fantastic thing....

[Robin (Don Quijote)]

I´m sorry but this sounds OP. Never heard of it before. Is it possible to do in any other FPS?

[ZioMcCall]

Originally posted by Robin (Ixca Cienfuegos):

I´m sorry but this sounds OP. Never heard of it before. Is it possible to do in any other FPS?

old cods like Black ops had reload cancel.I remember to use this exploit a lot in Kino der Toten.

[Olivinism]

Originally posted by Robin (Ixca Cienfuegos):

I´m sorry but this sounds OP. Never heard of it before. Is it possible to do in any other FPS?

In quite a few games you can skip the last part of a reload and save maybe .1 of a second. It's quite a common trick in most FPS games such as Counterstrike, where your gun is reloaded before the animation ends, so you switch to a different gun and switch back because the draw animation is usually faster than finishing the reload.