Not quite the subject of reloading, but similar… Am I the only person who gets annoyed by heat bars that fill up in seconds(and cool off in seconds as well)? BF2 had machine guns, with several hundred rounds of ammo on a belt. You could, however, only shoot for maybe 10 seconds max before your gun would ‘overheat’ and you would be forced to stop firing for another 10 seconds or so.
Annoying! You can fire those for several minutes before heat buildup becomes a serious issue.
BF2, however, had ‘realistic’ clips. You didn’t save empties, however, which I found very annoying. Half a clip was dangerous, but reloading tossed half your ammo away. I would have like a mechanic to salvage ammo in some way, but I can see that being not really worth the bother. The magic clip works fine for me generally… Its at least preferable to throwing ammo away.
Sometimes games just have silly rules, I suppose. In crysis, you could carry 300 rounds of ak74 rounds. No more. Oh, unless you found incendiary rounds too, in which case you then got to carry 300 rounds of that as well, for a total of 600.
I miss Planetsides inventory system. 