[Feature Request]: Hand-loading magazines

[Alpha-72]

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Core Category

💣Warfare

Feature Category

🔑Utility

Description

In reality, it is possible (and common) for people to load magazines by hand. However, in Immersive Intelligence, the only way to load magazines is with the packer. Please can you make it possible to load magazines by hand?

Here are two possible approaches:

Approach 1 - crafting table. Add a shapeless crafting recipe involving a stack of bullets and the magazine that returns the magazine with the bullets inside. The advantage of this approach is convenience for the player, as rounds are loaded instantly. The disadvantage of this approach is that it removes one of the primary reasons for using the packer.

Approach 2 - reload. By pressing 'reload' while holding a magazine in the player's main hand and bullets in the player's off-hand, the player will load bullets into the magazine one at a time. The advantage of this approach is that it preserves the utility of the packer as a means for quickly loading large numbers of magazines. The disadvantage of this approach is that it is less convenient for the player. Credit to Max for this approach.

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[fastdelaspeed]

Adding some thoughts to this. I think that magazines should be put in the off hand for loading mode. Few reasons: magazines can't be stacked, and this will allow for slightly faster multi-ammo loading. The player could place several ammo types in their hotbar and scroll between them to load into the magazine held in the offhand. It is more ergonomic than placing ammo in the off hand to load the magazine.