Poll: Reloading OCD, is it a hazard?
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It depends on the game. If the ammo count goes by the number of bullets you have, I'll reload any time I can. If it's an ammo system based around the number of magazines you have (Battlefield for example) I try to use all my ammo before reloading, if there's less than 10 rounds in the magazine, and I'm, say, going into a hostile town. Then I'll probably reload. Reloading OCD cost me my life in Operation Battlefield 2: Dragon Rising (I refuse to call it Operation Flashpoint 2 because IT'S NOT AN OPERATION FLASHPOINT GAME) because I ran out of ammunition >-<
Happens to everyone. First you get owned for going click when you expected a bang, then you develop the reload reflex, and then you get owned for being too hasty with the reload. Then you learn to bide your time with the reload and balance it.
It's my experience that you never die to "click" again after initially getting the reload reflex down. But you can't ever completely get rid of being killed while reloading. The opponent can hear the reload and storm you, or just get lucky and storm you - any number of things.
While reloading = winner.
It's my experience that you never die to "click" again after initially getting the reload reflex down. But you can't ever completely get rid of being killed while reloading. The opponent can hear the reload and storm you, or just get lucky and storm you - any number of things.
While reloading = winner.
I do it like crazy in COD, sometimes do it in Rainbow Six Vegas and very rarely do it in Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Usually when I do it is when I'm walking to an objective and reload even though I only used 2 bullets. On the loading screen tips it even says to always try and have a full clip.
OCD reloading is def a hazard, on Counter-Strike I remapped +reload to my mouse so I would stop hitting it so often - I finally figured out why for years I was getting smoked after making my first kill in a round.
It definitely made me die very very often in Counterstrike, and I still do it in most other FPSes, I just can't stand rushing into battle with a mag that's not full.
It's not like us snipers care about your ammo supply, I'll shoot you either way. Although scouts are much more fun to kill, you're too easy.Sion_Barzahd said:
It kinda depends on the game, but I'm usually shot when I run out of ammo more often than during a reload. I'm not exactly an OCD reloader, but I try to have a full clip as often as I can. Bad things happen to me when I don't.....
I am OCD about reloading, but I've got it down to a manageable level. I don't reload mid-firefight unless I know I've only got a few rounds left, because usually that means other people are about to reload, and I get in first, and if I survive I win me a few kills.
On a side note, I can't stand watching any of my friends play FPS games, because they never reload, usually walking into firefights with only a few rounds left in a clip. It makes me want to scream "RELOAD DOCTOR FREEMAN!"
On a side note, I can't stand watching any of my friends play FPS games, because they never reload, usually walking into firefights with only a few rounds left in a clip. It makes me want to scream "RELOAD DOCTOR FREEMAN!"
I laughed at that, cause i actually do yell it at them...Wyes said:
Mostly at my brother as his character tries to reload before getting tons of bullets in his dead carcass..
OT- I only reload after kills if i feel i don't have enough bullets to safely make it through the next firefight. If i am in a corridor before i rush a position, though, then i will reload.
