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John Szczepaniak wrote:By far the coolest idea, which fundamentally alters how you approach the game, is the realistic reloading and bullet management. Weapons equipped prior to a level come with a preset amount of ammo and spare magazines, which can never be replenished; there are no ammo pickups ever. If you fire 10 bullets from a magazine containing 50, and then reload from a pool of three magazines, the remaining 40 bullets inside the gun are discarded and you're left with only two spare magazines. Apart from blowing the idiotic "magic gun feeder" principle used in every other FPS right out the water, this fosters an intensely strategic logic in reloading. Wasting five bullets from a magazine that holds ten times as much isn't a problem - but if a sniper rifle can only hold five bullets at a time, each is precious. The only way to get more ammunition is to discard your held weapon for one dropped by the enemy. But here's the ingenious thing: every bullet fired by an enemy prior to dropping their weapon is remembered and reflected when you pick it up. Take them by surprised and it'll have a full compliment of bullets and magazines; trade potshots for a while and there might not be much to work with. How many times have you played a game where you engage an enemy who fires dozens of shots, afterwards retrieving the gun from their corpse only to discover it has a full compliment of ammo? This is not only unrealistic, it is utterly ridiculous and a sign of lazy design and/or sloppy programming. SAC is the complete opposite of this, with a cohesive and realistic set of logic rules within each level. It cannot be overemphasised how magnificent this set-up is - or how exciting it can make some levels, as you're running through a trench clutching what precious bullets you have left. Given how few other FPS have realistic reloading, this feature alone makes SAC on the PSP extremely noteworthy.
He doesn't seem to know the difference between complement and compliment, but the rest sounds awesome. I just checked a couple of HG101 articles recently, after years of not visiting the site, and the quality of the editorial seems to me considerably improved. I'll check more later.
Edit: Oh okay. It's Szczepaniak, that's why. Kulata and the other weeaboos probably remain just as retarded.
