Question for standalone discussion: Hand-loaded guns.

[Ozelot (DayZ) 394]

I read somewhere on the dev blog that ammo clips are now going to be used like attachments in stand alone. Which meant you had to load a clip and then load your gun with the clip to get it ready to shoot.

That's fine and great, but what about hand-loaded guns. Guns like revolvers, certain rifles, and most shotguns do not necessarily REQUIRE a clip to be loaded. You can use a thing called a speed-loader for most of these weapons to load the gun faster, but you CAN manually put in one bullet at a time. And besides these guns, it's in fact possible to put at least one bullet in the chamber of almost any firearm by pulling back the slide and inserting a single round into the priming chamber.

If there's going to be a lot of revolver types (and consequently a lot of possible caliber-revolver combinations) this would make revolvers very handy, because you wouldn't need any clip at all to load them.

Is this being taken into consideration at all?

[obi_james_kinobi 4]

Dean Hall WILL be adding this feature into the game, all mags will be treated as attachments to guns, bullets can be found seperatly, then later loaded into a mag/clip.

[knifely 34]

I think OP was more asking about the ability to load a single bullet at a time.

Which case i have no idea

[taco241 393]

Simple. remove mags for revolvers. You just hit "r" to reload it from your loose ammo pouch (or wherever you store your loose bullets).

For the average survivor, this would take longer than swapping pre-loaded clips into a semi-auto pistol.

That slower reload time is your drawback to using a clip-less gun.

Edited February 5, 2013 by taco241