Summary
When using the twin mag SMG (including the exotic variant) and the twin mag AR, the weapon is intended to alternate between a fast and extended reload. As of very recently however, the weapon does not alternate normally. Instead, it keeps track of which magazine it’s on and switches to the corresponding reload animation only when the weapon is switched to. Therefore, if the weapon is swapped to after having been reloaded an odd number of times, it will use the extended reload animation until the weapon is stowed, and if it is equipped after having been reloaded an even number of times, it will use the quicker magazine swap animation until it is stowed.
At least, you’d think so, except for whatever reason, if you reload the weapon three times and equip it. (This can be observed by repeatedly firing, reloading, stowing, and equipping the weapon.) The aforementioned rule does seem to work if you consider 3 times reloaded as zero times reloaded.
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What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
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Steps to Reproduce
- Equip a new twin-mag SMG or assault rifle in game or in edit mode.
- Fire the weapon and reload it three times.
- Unequip and re-equip the weapon
- Repeat steps two and three
- Fire the weapon and reload it twice.
- Unequip and re-equip the weapon
- Fire the weapon and reload it once.
- Unequip and re-equip the weapon
- Fire the weapon and reload it any number of additional times.
Expected Result
the reload should alternate between the fast animation and the slow animation.
Observed Result
Steps two, four, and nine produce only fast magazine-swap animations, while steps 5 and 7 produce only slow reload animations.
Platform(s)
This likely manifests regardless of platform, as it is a creative weapon bug.
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Additional Notes
This bug seems to have emerged extremely recently, possibly in the last patch update. I recall these weapons working correctly at least as recently as the launch of Super.
There also may be other inconsistencies with which reload the weapon actually selects when it is equipped.