Ashes Afterglow TC - closing the vault

[ZikShadow]

The Pump Shotgun has the Scav load one in the chamber before reloading further. That's why you can immediately fire while midreloading instead of waiting for the gun to be repumped like in other mods/games. If you want the Glock to do the same, that means extending the reload animation, which would be a bad idea in the middle of combat when fast reloads with light pistols are its biggest strengths and unlike shotguns don't have the advantage of reload canceling.

Both Scoria and Hermann are right, that's not a bug at all, that's how guns work in real life. Not a lot of mods do that kind of detail (the other I see being something along the lines of Hideous Destructor and maybe Cold as Hell if they didn't make open bolt guns also have +1 when doing tactical reloads), so I appreciate seeing one with that kind of setup.

[Vostyok]

What they said.

Also, it makes me scream internally when pistol slides lock back of their own accord and are always reloaded with a fresh mag with nothing in the chamber. So I'm not doing that one either.

Edit: I still need to add a bolt release to the m16, before anyone mentions it

[AmissaAnima]

Mates. the only thing i'm trying to point out is that involving the basic reload animation that involves the second R press. That one single bullet can stand between life and death and you die all because the magazine wasn't completely full. When i press the Reload button in a video game i expect my magazine to be filled up completely. Likewise if the magazine runs dry while firing the gun. While i can get the idea of Realism in videogames let me remind y'all that one of the major reasons some people play videogames in the first place is to escape from reality. Shoving every single bit of reality into videogames can take away some of that fun from players. But let me get back into topic here. 2 sec of increased reload time ain't a big deal. So i don't get why you're making such a big fuss about it Zikshadow. it's such a small little thing that i'm talking about changing and you're talking as that would break that game. That's just i dunno. Silly?

[ZikShadow]

I could spend time arguing with you, but I believe Vos' decision on tactical reloads on closed chamber firearms is final. We shouldn't be cluttering up the place with further arguments.
If you're not particularly happy about it, you're welcome to make an addon yourself that'll solve your problem.

Also, I used melee weapons in my run primarily. Can't relate with your "one round means life or death" situation.
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[Ihavequestions]

It could be made optional, so the reload function always does a 'full' reload, if that option is selected in the config menu. I'd love to have an automatic 'full' reload for the Tier-2 upgrade of the M16, so both the magazine and the grenade get reloaded.

[Big_Boss]

What they said.

Also, it makes me scream internally when pistol slides lock back of their own accord and are always reloaded with a fresh mag with nothing in the chamber. So I'm not doing that one either.

Edit: I still need to add a bolt release to the m16, before anyone mentions it

Is there a reason for glock to manually reload from 15 to 16 bullets? Same with submachine gun from 30 to 31?

[Vostyok]

Thats because your standard Glock mags have a capacity of 15 rounds. If you reload a mag wich isnt empty, you'll end up with 16 because you still have a bullet chambered in the pistol itself. Thats why mag fed guns (no open bolt guns such as the Mac-11) have a capacity of X+1 (X bullets in the mag + 1 in the chamber).
You're welcome

If you're not particularly happy about it, you're welcome to make an addon yourself that'll solve your problem.

Both of these sum up my feelings on the matter.

Edit: please note - there are still a few things I want to fix, add and/or polish for next update, so it may be a few more days. Will try to have standalone weapons pack finished for this weekend, but free time where I can work at my main machine is quite limited right now. Blame Christmas.

[AmissaAnima]

Moving onto another topic unrelated to the previous topic. But there's something i've been feeling when

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Going through the decrepit football arena. It's the music it's too damn stressful it just screams. ''Gotta get out of here fast no matter what'' and it just doesn't fit outside of the fight arena ring you get trapped in after you're captured. It honestly works perfectly fine in the ring. It's just outside of it that it feels out of place. I think that some other music should replace that fightning music when you exit the fightning ring. Something that fits the whole football arena aspect of the stage. It's honestly hard to get into but i hope that people will understand what i mean any way. I just don't want to feel the need to alt tab out of the game in order to mute the music and put something on just cause the ingame music is too stressful at that stage.

PS Zikshadow i'm the wrong kind of person to attempt to impress with game related challenges.

[hazzmati]

I honestly enjoy the more realistic weapon handling. It makes the game feel more enjoyable. Especially since the game seems to focus more on the realism side like Stalker for example.

[AmissaAnima]

I honestly enjoy the more realistic weapon handling. It makes the game feel more enjoyable. Especially since the game seems to focus more on the realism side like Stalker for example.

Stalker has realistic reload speed but in fact reloads the entire mag you don't have to hit the reload button more than once while using an assault weapon for example. Same goes for Pistols.

[ZikShadow]

Amissa, STALKER's weapons handling doesn't employ +1 tactical reloads at all. If we're talking about playing it vanilla without mods, anyways. If anything, with your funny logic, you should be getting on its case for not employing the same system as Ashes to have that extra round to kill mutants or bandits with. For example, with +1 tact loads, you'd have 9 rounds in the PMM instead of 8 like in the actual game, but it does not have that. It just loads 8. Same for the rest of the guns. 30 round for the AKs instead of 31, 10 rounds instead of 11 for the Vintorez, and so on.

If you're fine with STALKER's weapon handling, then there's literally nothing stopping you from just using the same techniques and resisting that urge to reload the gun to 16 again after you swap in the 15 round Glock mag.

Also, I wasn't trying to impress you, that'd be too petty of me. I was trying to subtly nudge the idea that maybe it's a good idea to swap to Ashes' surprisingly solid melee weapons when the magazine runs low instead of complaining about that +1 "deciding life and death".

[AmissaAnima]

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Apperently killing Porcelin with a Flamethrower and walking toward as she dies the conversation with her begins the conversation you usually have while encountering her. And continuing the conversation further will bring her back to life and make her invinsible and she will start shooting at you. Her ghost came from the grave oooooo https://i.imgur.com/NKpsCcB.png https://i.imgur.com/gqQsWEQ.png I'm sure other weapons works as well but i managed to get it easiest by using the Flamethrower. I had to use my screenshot thingy i have installed on my PC as it's impossible to take a GZdoom screenshot when you have that dialogue box up that's why the brightness is a bit iffy.

I won't directly reply to your comment Zikshadow as if i start talking about Stalker i won't shut my damn mouth about it. Seeing as i've spent at least 700+ hours in Call of pripyat.
I also refuse to bring up the other thing as that moment has already passed.

[ZikShadow]

Yes, I concur. Let us move on from this discussion civilly.

[himmelreich1]

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Here it is!

Perfect!

[Ihavequestions]

Guys, can you tell me where that fifth bomb came from I ended up with last time?

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Kyle was behind bars, so it couldn't have been his bomb, right?

On my third playthrough of the Badlands part, I now have a fifth bomb again, but this time, it is definitely Kyle's because I sold him the two spores, and picked up the bomb from him, and didn't tell on him at the Sheriff's. (Next time, I will sell him one spore and one to Garavito. Curious for the outcome of that.)

Could it be that, the time before (on my second playthrough), I got the bomb from Garavito in order to carry out some attack on the Baron?

Seriously, this stuff gets more confusing the more often I play it.