Ability to Combine Partial Magazines

[Mr Lawley 6]

With the new bugfixes to ammo being rolled out in the next patch I've realized that it seems likely that someone such as myself who continually reloads after firing a few shots to get a full magazine would quickly end up with a large quantity of partially used magazines. As a result it seems sensible in the future to include a feature to combine partially expended magazines into full magazines and one partial magazine in order to allow players to conserve inventory space and ensure that players aren't going into battle with partial magazines. You could also make it take a minute or more to complete the process and introduce a new available tool which would speed the process for those who find it, the Loading/Unloading Accessory such as this http://upload.wikime.../LULA_M16_M.jpg

For instance if I had 5 AK-74 magazines with:

23 Rounds

25 Rounds

13 Rounds

18 Rounds

9 Rounds

they would combine to 3 magazines with:

30 Rounds

30 Rounds

28 Rounds

Obviously this is a back burner type of thing but it would add quite a bit of utility to players trying to conserve inventory space. Thanks to Rocket and the devteam for making and updating this great game.

[Addsome 14]

^This, I reload a lot too :(

[Moe King 13]

Would also be nice to put craparov mags into Bizon mags. Or fn fal/100rd 240 to dmr/m24. And vice versa as well. But oh well.

[Graz (DayZ) 146]

+1 sir

Reloading is habitual to anyone that plays any shooter and it sucks to not be rewarded.

I'm ok with some restrictions (toolbox or w/e) so long as we get to do it!!

[Moe King 13]

You dont need a tollbox to reload magazines IRL.

Would be better if we kept the empty mags after using them and then found ammo boxes to reload them if the rounds apporpriate.

[Bribase 251]

I made a thread about reducing ammo that wasn't too well received (as the poll shows).

http://dayzmod.com/f...2148-ammo-poll/

One great thing that came out of it was Kayakinack coming up with the idea of limiting the available ammo, not by the amount of ammo that you find but the number of magazines that you have to load up with bullets.

Imagine that when you recover a rifle it has a single full magazine. Then, as you progress through your story you find more ammo in the form of small quantities of bullets that you have to manually load into the magazine that you originally found. You could have a pack which is filled with bullets but the means to fire them all at once is limited. Reloading could take upwards of ten seconds, not an option in a protracted firefight. Finding a second magazine could mean needing to find another weapon of the same kind or a loot spot that drops them. One man armies are not guys with great guns and lots of ammo but guys with great guns and spare, fully loaded magazines. The ability to simply slap in another full magazine becoming a luxury that many don't have.

Edited August 1, 2012 by Bribase

[WavezZ 6]

+1

[Yatagan 62]

It would also make it less likely for people to abuse the current recombine/infinite ammo glitches.

I agree 100% that this should be added eventually. I'd say it's medium priority.

[ivan keska 39]

You dont need a tollbox to reload magazines IRL.

Would be better if we kept the empty mags after using them and then found ammo boxes to reload them if the rounds apporpriate.

Ya I think finding empty mags and thus having to refill them would be a good idea, since right now you magically spawn in new mags when you convert ammo and they have full ammo to even when you converted over one bullet.

[Mr Lawley 6]

Would also be nice to put craparov mags into Bizon mags. Or fn fal/100rd 240 to dmr/m24. And vice versa as well. But oh well.

It's a good point too, transfer of similar caliber ammunition into different size magazines should be a future ability. I would also like it if a new item model type was made such as 10 RD 12GA Buckshot shells or 20 RD 9 x 18mm ammo carton or 100 RD 5.56 x 45mm ammo pack. These items could then be used to refill old magazines or partial mags.

[Moe King 13]

I would also like it if a new item model type was made such as 10 RD 12GA Buckshot shells or 20 RD 9 x 18mm ammo carton or 100 RD 5.56 x 45mm ammo pack. These items could then be used to refill old magazines or partial mags.

That's essentially how my pint about having the empty mags to refill at ammo boxes/crates would work. I'd go into a military building, or a pub and find a box of .45 ACP ammo or a steel ammo crate of 5.56 or 7.62 with mby like a few hundred rounds of each caliber. Then you'd just reload/cap off your mags and move on.

[Golgo82 28]

There was a great suggestion made some time ago about separating magazines from ammunition, making it possible to load up weapon-specific magazines with appropriate calibre ammunition and limiting combat ready ammo to the number of mags/clips/speedloaders you have to fill.

I'd really like that.