Is it crossbow magazine or crossbow clip?

[Apex]

Since the crossbows essentially work like rifles, and the ejecting shells machine gun stuff going on, i think the tool tip should say magazine instead of clip. Also, when you reload, a magazine jumps out of the gun, not a clip. A clip is a strip, a magazine is a box. It's looking like we reload with boxes.
This has ruined my immersion, please change the tool tip to read crossbow magazine instead of crossbow clip.

[EvilHare]

I like the Armor piercing clip. With a certain X-bow you make them a 24+ round SMG.

To be honest I think they use both terms.

[Bonersaurus]

Since the real thing doesn't exist, it could be either a magazine or a clip. M1's use Stripper clips for example so it could be this.

Or it could just be the fact that NZ is an anti-gun country so the developers have no concept of the differences between either.

[Apex]

Originally posted by Bonersaurus:

Since the real thing doesn't exist, it could be either a magazine or a clip. M1's use Stripper clips for example so it could be this.

Or it could just be the fact that NZ is an anti-gun country so the developers have no concept of the differences between either.

im thinking its something like this, i was zooming in on my reloads and they do be looking like magazines, but the level of detail on something as innocuous as this, it is hard to tell.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Apex:

Originally posted by Bonersaurus:

Since the real thing doesn't exist, it could be either a magazine or a clip. M1's use Stripper clips for example so it could be this.

Or it could just be the fact that NZ is an anti-gun country so the developers have no concept of the differences between either.

im thinking its something like this, i was zooming in on my reloads and they do be looking like magazines, but the level of detail on something as innocuous as this, it is hard to tell.

When repeating crossbows were created, the widely used term was cartridge. YOu fed the cartridge at the top of the x-bow to keep it going. But POE2's X-bow were created with bottom feed systems.

I guess cartridge can still be used.

[Matty101]

Same thing, evolution of language makes them interchangable.
Everyone knows what you mean if you mix them, up only gun fanatics will get up in arms over it while still proving they knew what you meant by making a point over its use in the 1st place.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Apex:

Since the crossbows essentially work like rifles, and the ejecting shells machine gun stuff going on, i think the tool tip should say magazine instead of clip. Also, when you reload, a magazine jumps out of the gun, not a clip. A clip is a strip, a magazine is a box. It's looking like we reload with boxes.
This has ruined my immersion, please change the tool tip to read crossbow magazine instead of crossbow clip.

"A "clip" is a device used to hold multiple rounds of ammunition together, allowing them to be quickly loaded into a magazine, while a "magazine" is a spring-loaded chamber within a firearm that holds and feeds ammunition directly into the chamber when the gun is fired; essentially, a clip is used to load a magazine, not directly feed the gun itself."


With this deffinition, think of how a crossbow functions. There is a tension device that loads and then fires the round. The Crossbow itself IS the magazine. You are loading clips INTO the magazine.

Is this definition a bit pedantic.. maybe. But it's the closest rational I can find with my google foo.

[Apex]

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

Originally posted by Apex:

"A "clip" is a device used to hold multiple rounds of ammunition together, allowing them to be quickly loaded into a magazine

well, guns like the M1 or the Kar98 take clips direct into the gun. stripper clips of 5.56 come in 10 round denoms, but do not really feed directly into the magizine- In my experience in the Marine Corps, they'd come from the ammunition factory in boxes of 10rd stripper clips, but you'd hand load each bullet individually into the magazine (unless theres a stripper clip technique i'm unaware of or you could use something called a magazine loader)
regardless, with the animations and textures how they are currently, i think they resemble magazines more so than clips.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Apex:

well, guns like the M1 or the Kar98 take clips direct into the gun. stripper clips of 5.56 come in 10 round denoms, but do not really feed directly into the magizine- In my experience in the Marine Corps, they'd come from the ammunition factory in boxes of 10rd stripper clips, but you'd hand load each bullet individually into the magazine (unless theres a stripper clip technique i'm unaware of or you could use something called a magazine loader)
regardless, with the animations and textures how they are currently, i think they resemble magazines more so than clips.

It was a direct quoting of what I found from google. I know about the M1 and Kar98, I was just posting a reference for others.

This is why I feel the crossbow uses clips, not magazines.

[DoctorDarling]

gun bros are so pedantic about this--it ruined your immersion? You can suspend your disbelief on magic, monsters, giants, demons, etc. but not use of a different word that may be vaguely semantically incorrect? brother, go outside

[DarkFenix]

Logically speaking it'd be a clip. Think of the size of a crossbow bolt, it's long, it would be highly impractical to make a disposable magazine fully housing X number of bolts. Ergo, the crossbow probably has an internal magazine, fed by a disposable clip of bolts.

This makes me want a Garand ping mod.

[Bonersaurus]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Logically speaking it'd be a clip. Think of the size of a crossbow bolt, it's long, it would be highly impractical to make a disposable magazine fully housing X number of bolts. Ergo, the crossbow probably has an internal magazine, fed by a disposable clip of bolts.

This makes me want a Garand ping mod.

They're not that long at all and much shorter than arrows. As for fitting in a magazine, ever seen a .50 BMG? They're slightly smaller (but wider) than an average crossbow bolt.

[Apex]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Logically speaking it'd be a clip. Think of the size of a crossbow bolt, it's long, it would be highly impractical to make a disposable magazine fully housing X number of bolts. Ergo, the crossbow probably has an internal magazine, fed by a disposable clip of bolts.

This makes me want a Garand ping mod.

logically speaking, our crossbows are litcherally ejecting shells!

[donut32]

depends what it looks like and how it functions. in short who cares

[EmperorVolo]

Originally posted by Apex:

Since the crossbows essentially work like rifles, and the ejecting shells machine gun stuff going on, i think the tool tip should say magazine instead of clip. Also, when you reload, a magazine jumps out of the gun, not a clip. A clip is a strip, a magazine is a box. It's looking like we reload with boxes.
This has ruined my immersion, please change the tool tip to read crossbow magazine instead of crossbow clip.

Well you don't understand how they work it would be a clip since a crossbow would have an INTERNAL magazine like an M1 Grand.

If it has an internal magazine it's called a clip and crossbows traditionally and still do have what would be called an internal magazine like on a gun that has one. Now do modern crossbows have magazines? Yes, but I don't think any historical setting (fantasy) would have it could be wrong.

Some of the first were just top loading and you'd drop a bunch of bolts inside from the top and they'd just fall into the crossbow using gravity.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Apex:

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Logically speaking it'd be a clip. Think of the size of a crossbow bolt, it's long, it would be highly impractical to make a disposable magazine fully housing X number of bolts. Ergo, the crossbow probably has an internal magazine, fed by a disposable clip of bolts.

This makes me want a Garand ping mod.

logically speaking, our crossbows are litcherally ejecting shells!

I hear it when I shoot 24 rounds of AP arrows in less than 3 seconds. Now if I can have 1 handed X-bows for that "gangster" look

Make a song about my fully auto AP X-bows