Right now, our reload is cyclic.

We begin to reload but then do something like throw a grenade, sprint, or jump, and we have to restart the whole thing again.

Progressive reload is based on the progress made during reload. This would allow us to complete certain phases of reload without resetting. So we could take out the mag, sprint, load the new mag, jump, and set the hammer. It seems unreasonable that when I sprint after loading a new mag, I take that magazine out. It's perfectly fine yo! Don't take it out you just put it in!

The sprinting reload is a good idea...

Progressive reload thou, its kinda far from what we do in the battlefield. I mean, we are using magazines. If we were reloading bullet per bullet like a shotgun, we would have progressive reload, btw, shotguns have that feature because you are reloading it bullet per bullet.

Llan Heindell.

Not bullet by bullet, but phase by phase. If you load a magazine in a gun, the stop to run, you don't have to take that magazine out, all you have to do is prime the chamber.

As a said, we should be able to keep reloading if we start sprinting in the middle of a reload, but we are talking about animation lock here.

Llan Heindell.

Oh no! Not animation lock. I'm saying that if you take out the mag, you can return your gun to normal animation at that point. You still have to complete the phases otherwise the phases will reset. So instead of the reload being one long cycle, you can have it broken up into smaller quicker cycles.

So you can take the mag out, then return the gun to normal animation, but you can't take the magazine halfway out, stop it, then continue the reload from there.

So you have to complete a reasonable phase so you're not just having a weird glitched reload.

The reload skills would allow you to complete phases faster, thus reload so it works out.

Do I have to resort to talking to myself?

At least the existing animation would need to be broken into two sequences and possibly three depending on weapon type and reload sequence. That is not a huge problem until the number of weapons is used to multiply the workload to solve the problem. Additionally every sequence needs to be passed to QA and verified, then on to the Beta testers then hopefully no more tweaks will be needed.

Still a supremely awesome idea

Hmmm would be nice, but there are also times where I like being able to cancel the reload so I can use whatever was left in the magazine to defend myself against an unexpected attack. I have mixed feelings about this.

I would rather it be segmented progressive, you reload your gun by releasing and removing the Mag, then you insert another, then your lock it in(this could differ between guns) as you pass each check mark while reload if you interrupt it you will go back to the last checkmark you past. so if you interrupt your self while you insert another mag when you restart you wont have to remove the old one but you will have to put the new one in again since you didn't get that far last time.

Alright, but wouldn't they just need to create a sort of binary system that just operates the reload?

Finish Phase 1? -> Yes -> Finish Phase 2? -> No ->:// Continue: Phase 2

You know something like that? Where it registers only the checkpoints of the phases and using spliced animation allows the program to continue you the reload at any point, it would just neglect the phases not needed (I'm being redundant but trying to put it in terms of operation).

CCP is already going to have to make a ton of reload animations for the new weapons, so along with the building of those reloads, they could just throw a few splices and add some more variables to the already binary system of reloading and bam, progressive reload.

And that is what I described. It is still expensive in time, resources for animation, coding and the ever lovely QA.

That is not mentioning that this type of solution will require some additional resources. We are still on the PS3 with only 512MB of combined System/Video memory. This should be a solvable problem but is it worth doing in the current time frame with the current resource limitations? Don't know. I don't have that information available.

Is this still Kagehoshi approved? Let's find out....

The reload is a mechanic designed to punish players that spray a lot xD.

If you have to reload in the middle of a fight, you should die. If you are reloading in a bad position, you should die. Running is in my opinion okay to reset the reload because it means once you have someone reloading, they can't just run and turn and shoot within seconds, because the reload is meant to be an opportunity for you to deal free damage.
That said, it wouldn't bother me too much (especially as a HMG player) if they allowed this. But this is being said from my point of view where reloading seems to be one of my only weaknesses.