Pressing "R" when wielding Drills?

[Zugs]

When using the power drills and pressing the reload button (r), I have noticed an animation plays where the Driller puts the drills together with sparks flying etc. Does this actually regenerate fuel or is it just a cool an animation?

[King Fossil]

Nearly every weapon has an animation if you press reload while at full ammo. It doesn't do anything.

[tsarac]

Why would rubbing your drills together materialize fuel out of nowhere? It only makes sense if it consumed fuel.

[Vault Traveler]

Originally posted by Thot Patrol:

Why would rubbing your drills together materialize fuel out of nowhere? It only makes sense if it consumed fuel.

In all honesty I thought its for speeding up the start up... I did this the first dozen hours with the gunners leadstorm aswell.

[R.-]

You do that to, erm, look busy during cooldown while the whole team is waiting for you to drill all the way back to the drop pod.

[Scuzz MB]

The driller reload animation needs to go or at least be turned down or shortened it's annoying and pointless when playing the class. And being one of those "reload constantly" players in all other classes and with all other weapons, every time I hit R with the drills I just shake my head and say "WHY?"

[Cactus-Cat]

Originally posted by Scuzz:

The driller reload animation needs to go or at least be turned down or shortened it's annoying and pointless when playing the class. And being one of those "reload constantly" players in all other classes and with all other weapons, every time I hit R with the drills I just shake my head and say "WHY?"

Have you ever played with the ice spear or snowball OC for the cryo cannon? Those replace the reload animation with an expensive special attack. I often wasted a good amount of ammo when I used them for the first time.

[Professor Hugedix]

Originally posted by Scuzz:

The driller reload animation needs to go or at least be turned down or shortened it's annoying and pointless when playing the class. And being one of those "reload constantly" players in all other classes and with all other weapons, every time I hit R with the drills I just shake my head and say "WHY?"

I use it when I'm behind a non-driller when they're trying to dig out a dirt patch with their tiny pickaxe, just as a polite cough to let them know there's a high powered specialized tool waiting to be used

[Scuzz MB]

Originally posted by Professor Hugedix:

Originally posted by Scuzz:

The driller reload animation needs to go or at least be turned down or shortened it's annoying and pointless when playing the class. And being one of those "reload constantly" players in all other classes and with all other weapons, every time I hit R with the drills I just shake my head and say "WHY?"

I use it when I'm behind a non-driller when they're trying to dig out a dirt patch with their tiny pickaxe, just as a polite cough to let them know there's a high powered specialized tool waiting to be used

I'm going to give you that one. I used to do it, but the reload annoys me personally so much I just give a couple quick standard revs now and that does the trick. If it cost me a tiny amount of fuel it's worth it not to have my eyes and ears assaulted for 5 seconds.

[Ragnarr Loðbrók]

Originally posted by King Fossil:

Nearly every weapon has an animation if you press reload while at full ammo. It doesn't do anything.

not sure about that in specific about gunner i think pressing R and letting you barrel roll lets you "spin faster" up your gun and with it shooting

[Steelfist]

Originally posted by Ragnarr Loðbrók:

Originally posted by King Fossil:

Nearly every weapon has an animation if you press reload while at full ammo. It doesn't do anything.

not sure about that in specific about gunner i think pressing R and letting you barrel roll lets you "spin faster" up your gun and with it shooting

Nope, purely cosmetic! In fact this used to be the only gun that had a flourish for a long time.

Originally posted by Scuzz:

Originally posted by Professor Hugedix:

I use it when I'm behind a non-driller when they're trying to dig out a dirt patch with their tiny pickaxe, just as a polite cough to let them know there's a high powered specialized tool waiting to be used

I'm going to give you that one. I used to do it, but the reload annoys me personally so much I just give a couple quick standard revs now and that does the trick. If it cost me a tiny amount of fuel it's worth it not to have my eyes and ears assaulted for 5 seconds.

You can switch off of drills and the sound will end; the animation will continue, but at least you won't have to hear the drills grind against one another.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Scuzz:

The driller reload animation needs to go or at least be turned down or shortened it's annoying and pointless when playing the class. And being one of those "reload constantly" players in all other classes and with all other weapons, every time I hit R with the drills I just shake my head and say "WHY?"

Just learn to not press R, or swap to another weapon then back to the drills to animation-cancel. What a silly complaint, lol.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Ragnarr Loðbrók:

Originally posted by King Fossil:

Nearly every weapon has an animation if you press reload while at full ammo. It doesn't do anything.

not sure about that in specific about gunner i think pressing R and letting you barrel roll lets you "spin faster" up your gun and with it shooting

It doesn't. Believe me, I was hoping it would when I first tested it too, but it takes the same amount of wind-up to start firing. You just don't see the wind-up because it's already spinning, but it still takes about a second to start firing.

[Vash(88)]

I like to use it right after busting through a wall or dirt. It just looks cool

[Scuzz MB]

Originally posted by A Cardboard Box:

Originally posted by Scuzz:

The driller reload animation needs to go or at least be turned down or shortened it's annoying and pointless when playing the class. And being one of those "reload constantly" players in all other classes and with all other weapons, every time I hit R with the drills I just shake my head and say "WHY?"

Just learn to not press R, or swap to another weapon then back to the drills to animation-cancel. What a silly complaint, lol.

So if the game made a loud ear piercing screech every time you pressed F to throw a flare but were out, you would just "learn not to press F" What a silly suggestion. Learn not make reloading your weapons second nature.

[Davrick]

Originally posted by Scuzz:

What a silly suggestion. Learn not make reloading your weapons second nature.

Actually, yeah. Compulsive reloading shouldn't be second nature.

Come to think of it, I would love to see a game where you carry extra ammo in a realistic manner. By which I mean, you don't have a drum with 250 9mm rounds for your pistol from which magazines magically get filled and into which bullets magically get deposited every time you remove a half-full mag from the gun.

*bang*bang* /reload
"Dude, you just threw away a magazine with 13 rounds still in it."
"Well, yeah, I'd fired twice."
"..."