If its empty, you have an empty magazine sitting in inventory. If you reload before your magazine is empty, you have a partially full magazine sitting in inventory. So, reloading would take a magazine from inventory for that round type, and you fire the weapon, which removes rounds from the magazine. 308 magazines would be interchangeable between the few sniper rifles that use those rounds. So, 5.56mm magazines would be interchangeable between varmint rifle, service rifle, etc. Where do these magazines come from and where do they go? Why are they always full?Ī more realistic approach would be to have interchangeable magazines based on ammo type and potentially some other factors about the weapon.
And yet, the animation used is you taking a magazine out of a magazine well, and putting a new magazine in. Your bullet pile decreases in size accordingly. To explain, the current setup is that you have a pile of rounds in inventory, and when you reload, you take some from your pile, and shove them in your gun. This will probably need NVSE, but I think it would be really cool if weapon reloading was magazine based rather than ammunition unit-based.
