An idea to save mags.

[oshnatour1 14]

so now that our mags don't restart at 30 or whatever they happen to hold when you spawn in i came up with an idea that probably wont even be implemented but i thought id share it anyways. so say you have an m16 and about 3 mags. you're stuck in a building trapped by about 10 or so zombies, you use 15 shots and run out of the house and are now safe. then you decide you want to go to Stary or NW to try and find some nice stuff. you make sure you reload your gun to make sure you can deal with anyone that you would see knowing you're going into a high traffic are. so you loot successfully and run off to another town. and now you need to kill say 3 or 4 zombies. now to my idea what if you could choose to reload that mag that had 15 shots in it rather then shooting off the magazine that had 30 shots in it to conserve those for defending yourself against bigger threats then zombies. well yea that's my idea it would be cool if you could just scroll wheel and reload 15 round mag similar to reloading SD mags or something like that.

lets see this happen

[DarkwaveDomina 1099]

I could be wrong, but couldn't you just put the full mag in your backpack and then reload, then take the full mag back out of your backpack? I definitely agree it would be simpler just to have a "switch to x rnd. magazine" option though.

[FrostDMG 398]

Why not just let you combine mags? Let's say you have 15 rnd in one and 12 rnd in another STANAG mag. Combine both, and you will have 27 rnd in one mag. Easy peasy

[oshnatour1 14]

the thing is i have more mags on me then i have room in my backpack. i gusse you could drop in but it wouldn't be helpful in a zombie situation

[oshnatour1 14]

Why not just let you combine mags? Let's say you have 15 rnd in one and 12 rnd in another STANAG mag. Combine both, and you will have 27 rnd in one mag. Easy peasy

I originally thought of that as a thing that i wanted in the game but then i realized that it would creat more of an ammo pool situation like cod or bf rather then having x armout of mags you would have a non streamlined system that make mags kinda un realistic

[lol4ever.sw@web.de 10]

I originally thought of that as a thing that i wanted in the game but then i realized that it would creat more of an ammo pool situation like cod or bf rather then having x armout of mags you would have a non streamlined system that make mags kinda un realistic

I also thought about this multiple times, and I don't really see the unrealism. If you had a 27 round and a 24 round mag, and then decided you'd be more happy with a 30 round and a 21 round mag, you just had to click that in inventory. But it would need a kinda long action animation based on the amount of Bullets you want to transfer, maybe 1-2 sec per bullet. So if you are chased by zombies and have your makarov with 2 full mags, and shoot 5 bullets into the zombies, then decide to reload, then shoot another 3 bullets, you still wouldn't have 8 rounds in your mag after reloading, but if then all zombies are dead, you could spend some seconds and combine the mags.

[oshnatour1 14]

I also thought about this multiple times, and I don't really see the unrealism. If you had a 27 round and a 24 round mag, and then decided you'd be more happy with a 30 round and a 21 round mag, you just had to click that in inventory. But it would need a kinda long action animation based on the amount of Bullets you want to transfer, maybe 1-2 sec per bullet. So if you are chased by zombies and have your makarov with 2 full mags, and shoot 5 bullets into the zombies, then decide to reload, then shoot another 3 bullets, you still wouldn't have 8 rounds in your mag after reloading, but if then all zombies are dead, you could spend some seconds and combine the mags.

read my mind i was also thinking that only way to make that combining for full mags work is if i took time to move individually the rounds from one magazine to another. like something you could do when you are stoping to cook your meat in the woods or something

[Hoskins123 24]

The best solution is to always carry an extra set of clothing in your bag. RIGHT NOW if you put on clothing, all the clips in your inventory seem to go back to 30. I don't know if it effects the backpack because I always empty my backpack before attempting to put on clothes due to the glitch of downgrades.

[Hawk24 94]

I could be wrong, but couldn't you just put the full mag in your backpack and then reload, then take the full mag back out of your backpack? I definitely agree it would be simpler just to have a "switch to x rnd. magazine" option though.

A full combat loadout doesn't leave you enough room to transfer all the full magazines into your backpack

[DarkwaveDomina 1099]

A full combat loadout doesn't leave you enough room to transfer all the full magazines into your backpack

I suppose you could put them all on a zombie corpse or the floor, but I definitely agree it'd be a big arsehole of an effort that could be solved by a "load full mag" menu option. The scrollwheel menu could be utilised a fair bit more for a number of things, really.