Allow Magazine Checks to Transition into Reloads
Under considerationby Dennis · 31 Aug
Allow Magazine Checks to Transition into Reloads
While performing a magazine check, pressing the reload key again should immediately transition the animation into a reload.
Currently, players must wait for the magazine-check animation to finish and for the magazine to be reinserted before they can reload. Allowing the player to replace the inspected magazine directly would make the interaction faster and more fluid.
Kitsuneternal06 Sept
Agreed, currently magazine checks feel mostly for flavour - if you could chuck the mag you're checking, this would give the action some tactical relevance. You either put it back in which is faster than reloading, or you reload and have saved some time already.
InfinitY_00107 Sept
Lol was just about to make a suggestion for this, would make it much more practical during combat.
kRUTCH08 Sept
Agreed.
Reloading a mag with 2 bullets left is basically suicide in a heated exchange.
In the meantime you can switch to pistol and back to your rifle and execute a reload faster still then letting the animation play out.
blargslap11 Sept
This would be fanatstic!
Juni windflower12 Sept
If you check your magazine and find there's 5 rounds in it left, what now? Your first instinct is of course to reload, not insert it back into the gun! Horribly unimmersive, we should be given the option to interrupt the magazine check animations when we want by pressing "R" again to directly load a new magazine into the gun instead of waiting for our operator to put the magazine with 1 round of 5.56 left in it back into the gun and then reload it.
Same goes for when the gun is empty. If we find its empty, we press R again to reload it. We don't want to (in the middle of a firefight) do the stupid bolt back and fourth animation over and over again to see "yup its probably empty in there". It's a super cool extension to the animation that we don't need in active combat, therefore there should be the option to interrupt the animation and directly start a reload.
Bomb0Man13 Sept
Pretty self explanatory : When you check your mag's ammos, you should be able to press your reload key to instantly reload the weapon and to not have to go through the whole animation of the ammo check.
Thank you, keep up the good work.
Thibault Catimel22 Sept
"Add the ability to reload when you check your magazine" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
Thibault Catimel22 Sept
"Instant reload after checking ammos." (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
broski27 Sept
Agreed currently mag check is just for sexiness its too slow to have any functional purpose, its quicker to just reload. The only scenario where a mag check could useful is if it is quicker to perform than a reload. As long as reloading remains quicker, a mag check is purely for aesthetics. But i like your solution of being able to reload from a mag check, might be a happy middle ground, still think mag checks should be WAY quicker than reloading though otherwise they have no purpose.