It's a part of pretty much all shooters where sprinting cancels a reload.
It's there to compensate for when it LOOKS like the animation is over but it isn't, so you just went through a full reload and you try to sprint, but your clip is back to zero and you have to reload again.

Actually it's perfectly valid.
So many things affect it, from lag to human error.

A bit of headroom is needed.

REload canceling is fine

Why not? Its in every other FPS for the most part

So your glitching in the game. Cool Cool. I never done it until now. Thanks for the heads up on this.

Even if they fix it you can still cancel the reload by switching weapons.

Are you suggesting there be no way to cancel a reload, whether or not it completes or fails? If so I'm against this very much. You are withered rewarded or punished for trying to interrupt a reload. It's not a glitch.

It's a normal mainstay. There's just some things you don't argue about. RCing is one of em. This isn't the first game to have it.

You must be new here.

Back when I was a closed beta newberry, we didn't have sprint cancels or "glitches" like that. We had to wait for our HMG to reload. All. 30. Seconds. Of. It.

But then we got together and petitioned and talked to the devs about it and got it changed.

Remember, it's not a glitch, it's a feature.

Without it we'd run into the glitch that reverted reloads, trust me, this is better, that was the more annoying glitches in DUST.

So if I sprint I can reload my PLC faster? I always wind up reload cancelling etc...

Man, your thread is close minded. Just how is the cancel and skip really affecting you? How is it affecting gameplay to where it's unplayable?

Don't call my comment close minded when you are essentially creating witch hunts to argue about something that EVERYBODY can use to their advantage and it does not hurt the overall game.

Thread is stupid. How can one complain about something such as minor as this?

If its such a problem, then why are you trying to teach someone how to do it? Should you not being exposing such a "game breaking exploit" as such?

It's really not a problem though...

It's common sense that once you put a clip into the weapon, the weapon should be finished reloading. Any extra animation is just for realism.

I think that the change needs to be that the reload bar should finish right at the same time that the clip is inserted. You should also be able to aim/fire as soon as that happens to cancel the rest of the animation.

This would show the player that the reload is finished, even if the animation doesn't say so.

I love how all of these scrubs think this is a glitch. It's not a glitch, it's a gameplay mechanic. If you are good at timing it right you can cut down on your reload speed before you sprint off to the next firefight. Also:

That's a ridiculous overstatement. It cut's off around the last 10-20% of the reload animation (depending on the animation), allowing you to get moving or get back into the fight faster. One more thing:

It's not just the animation. It's a bonus for players who stay aware. Your animation includes all kinds of things, but back before the reload-skip was implemented you had to wait until your weapon was fully reloaded and in it's natural position again before sprinting or preforming a melee. Meaning that even though you had already replaced the clip, had done whatever fancy clip pat or what have you, and your weapon was on it's way back to it's normal hipfire position but you happened to start sprinting a nanosecond before it was there, your gun reset back to it's clip capacity before you reloaded. The reload skip basically allows you to skip the aesthetic portion of the reload animation there only for show and not important to weapon functionality. This allows them to avoid the aforementioned issues as well as give people who can time it properly a cut to their reload time.

Lastly, the reload speed skill is important regardless of the reload-skip animation. Anything that get's you shooting again faster is worth the points, especially on weapons with longer reload animations.

If it's a feature, it's certainly not an advertised mechanic. I never knew about it, nor have I ever heard anyone mention you could. If you can direct me to the thread where the devs list useful glitches for players to use assuming they visit the forums to see it, that'd be great.

Ok, fine. Show me where the players got the devs to add it and they approve of it then. Or, show me where the feature is documented so that new players know you can cancel an animation.

Because I'm sure you wouldn't expect them to try it just because other games have that feature. That's like assuming playing 'X' game is a prerequisite for Dust.

Is there a tutorial on this in-game somewhere? I've never seen it in pop-ups or anything like that.

Reload cancelling is in a lot of games. Personally, I think it's kinda cool because little things like this separates the good players from the great players. In a world where a person can be skillful at video games, things like reload cancelling and afterlife remote detonations make player that much better although they might not be intended by devs. The devs already fixed other things like the walls that had no collision so you could walk right through them or the sprint cancel on scanners.

- Kubo

I can't believe people are making a big deal outta this. It probably is a glitch however it is not game breaking and anyone can do it.

This is NOT a gltich, its in so many different shooters
BF4 even expanded on it by letting you cancel in the middle of a reload and finishing after you stop sprinting
Ex. Put mag in, sprint, stop sprinting, bull bolt on gun or whatever to finish reload.

Do you noobs really have to get all butthurt about not us not consistently updating every new player who plays Dust about the basic functions in the majority of FPS games? Guess what, you can throw grenades too! And if you press the "x" button on the DS3, YOU CAN JUMP!

Just because you weren't here when all of the forum conversation happened doesn't make you entitled to call everything you didn't see put into the game personally or everything not announced directly by a Dev a glitch. I suppose that makes inertial dampners glitches too since they never announced it as a feature in the forums, right? And I guess it's a glitch that they took the installations menu off of the marketplace menu since the Dev's never announced it? And when they never announced missiles becoming totally OP in Codex? And I guess every nina nerf/buff throughout the history of Dust is a glitch as well I suppose too?

Learn to play on your own, it's not the community's job to do it for you. Just because you are uninformed doesn't mean everything you don't know about or haven't seen announced is a glitch.

Get good
Just becuase you dont understand basic FPS mechanics dosent mean it should be removed
Did you know grenades can be cooked?! But not everyone might know this so we should remove it

Get good
Just becuase you dont understand basic FPS mechanics dosent mean it should be removed
Did you know grenades can be cooked?! But not everyone might know this so we should remove it

The grenade makes a noise letting you know it can be cooked
Magazine goes in the gun letting you know you dont have to wait for the rest of the animation.

Once the bullets are loaded, I'm done. Why wait full, agonizing seconds to position the gun again? I do it instinctively in all shooters. For realism the animation needs to continue but in reality once the bullets are loaded, you could start shooting if a target came around a corner. Wouldn't feel right to me without being able to cancel.


If you do it too early, yes, you have to reload again. If you time it right you cut off the extraneous bits of the animation (ie. lowering the gun into position) and can fire immediately. The reload is finished before the animation is, which makes some logical sense. If they made it so you do a little dance after ever reload, you'd be pissed if you died during the dance animation. That's how I feel like when I die because I didn't reload cancel.

It feels more realistic to me. When the mag is in you shouldnt have to put another in just because you sprint.

I did, and then i repllied

Sometimes i feel like i am the only person in a shooter who doesnt run FOTM's and doesnt use Glitches to get ahead of the competition...while everyone else gltches their n*ts off and uses every cheap way to get their kills...

Agreed. Just saying I wouldn't like it to be removed. I'd prefer if all actions, including shooting, did this. Considering nothing is explained, I'm not sure where they'd explain it other than a random snippet on the loading screen which no one will read, though.