I guess i'm just not sure what you gain from this. Ammo is already so plentiful between supply depots, hives every 30 feet, and most weapons having massive base supplies that I doubt this would really put a dent into that supply. If you are looking to make peoples ammo supplies more limited i would start with depots and hives, then go from there.

Hey CCP will be adding ammunition to turrets soon so who knows what they'll do for handheld weapons.

No. Games like "Battlefield" and "Call of Duty" are not similar to Dust 514. Don't just take a mechanic from one of those games and paste it into Dust 514 without legitimate reason. That's just silly.

Making ammo more important? Come on, man. That's ridiculous. It's already important enough.

I've never had problems with reloading in EVE. I could fire my turrets a good few minutes before having to reload, and reloading never really hurt my DPS much. That being said, reloading in EVE didn't waste ammo.

Yeah sure... i don't see shotgun getting affected.

I do hate those kiddy features... To this day, I still can't take the "+50 Kill" messages that pop up on the screen when I shoot my enemy in the face. The only useful thing about them is that they inform me of a successful kill in case I can't see them fall to the ground. Precision strikes in public battles are the worst. It's just a killstreak by another name. Oh, you're doing well in this match? Here, have this free precision strike so you can do even better!

Guh...

But that doesn't change the fact that wasting ammunition is pointless.

The point is, there's no reason for the mechanic. Congratulations, you've successfully punished people for reloading in between combat.

Why do they have reloads at all? I mean it's the future where nanites create our ammo from thin air but they cannot do this inside the weapon? Why are some weapons single fire and others progressive reloads while some weapons have unlimited ammo?

*If you don't understand the ArmA mechanic, than consider a weapon with 2 mags of ammo, each holding 10 rounds. You fire and expend 6 rounds from the first mag, reload, and then later on expend 4 rounds from the second. When you reload again, you will have 6 rounds, and not 10; upon depleting/reloading the 1st mag again, you will have 4 rounds. This is actually realistic.

DO YOU NOT GET IT?! THERE'S NO NEED FOR REALISM! GAMEPLAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT! HAVING A SENSE OF REALISM MEANS NOTHING! CAPS LOCK MEANS EVERYTHING! I'M NOT ACTUALLY YELLING, BY THE WAY.

I like it, it adds a sense of realism.

But at the same time, I dont like it, because I'm a reloadaholic, even if I shoot one bullet, I have to reload.

I like it, it'll hurt me since im so use to reloading after every shot but hey "Its New Eden out there".

I disagree I think a system like this would be better, you have a total of 300 bullets with 60 in a magazine, so you have 5 total magazines. You fire off 40 rounds and reload you now have 260 bullets but when you cycle back to this magazine it only has 20 bullets.
This implies your putting your magazines back in your "belt" not just throwing them away also when resupplying if you have 260 bullets from the scenario above you will not get any magazines if you have 200 bullets from the scenario above accept you ate through a magazine from before hand you will only get 60 bullets or one magazine.

Yes Emp rounds sound attractive they'll do more shield less to armor and "piercing" rounds will do the opposite.

A Commander role has been something floated as a potential/likely feature. Matchmaking is halfway broken, but mostly because of the low player counts DUST is currently trudging through.

When it comes down to it, this is the kind of mechanic that would have had to be tested/put forward WAY back in the closed beta at the latest, if not something that would have been considered in the alpha build. DUST has been running for too long in open beta/'release' for something so basic to be so radically changed.

The other issue is that changing this mechanic would require significant man-hours sunk into coding it. I'll be somewhat conservative and say that only the coders who work on the core engine functionality would be pulled for this, but that's still manhours sunk into what would be a mostly unnoticed mechanic, instead of being put into engine improvements, bugfixes, netcode improvements, and adjusting the engine to accommodate new features.

Evidently you don't understand the arguments, because otherwise you would not degrade those who disagree with you by saying that they are "whining", and not presenting an actual argument.

realistic re-loading would add depth to the game, but possibly make the game less friendly for casual gamers.

I do think that the current mechanic we have is more suited to the target audience that CCP wants to tap into- players of games like Battlefield and Halo (and maybe, to a lesser degree, the fans of that fishy-sounding game).

dust right now is more "fun" than those boring generic shooters anyways.

I'm honestly afraid of how much it will change the game...I'd say we focus on other stuff beforehand.

I could, for example, suggest that we do away with reloading entirely and just have a Quake/UT style mechanic being able to find dedicated ammo pickups on a map, as well as being able to deploy generalist ammo supplies that don't give as much ammo as a dedicated pickup.

Please don't

Look, I'm going to say it short and simple

I jut thought this whole time they had a slot in their backpack that springloads the ammo into the clip, that way you stick with maybe 3 clips the whole game.

I like this idea, it expands on EvE mentality. You only have as much ammo as fits in your ship, it's a tangible, physical thing. I think this would push us into more tactical situations, and make the ammo skill more important. Couple more rounds in your rifle suddenly makes a whole lot more sense if you're not reloading every two seconds.

No. Just, no. You want to make ammunition more tactically important? Have less ammunition.

Doesn't make sense as to why you would lose the ammo for doing a tactical reload. When I did serve and had to reload I am pretty sure I didn't lose my rounds from it lol unless you drop the mag and run off. Normally when someone does a tactical reload they place their semi used mag in another reachable slot so they don't confuse it will the full mags, they still have the same amount of rounds as before. You should still have those remaining rounds available. I get that you are trying to add another mechanic to the game but that is just penalizing people for making sure they have a full mag before the next encounter.