Faster Reload

[pig20123]

Idea:

Quick Reload (Gun)
Tier 2
Increase Reload Speed by 30%
Increase Damage by 10%

Speed Reload (Gun)
Tier 4
Increase Reload Speed by 50%
Increase Damage by 20%
Increase Ammo Capacity 15%

 

[Tavish]

These items are noob bait. We already have Active Reload and Melee Charge one of which instantly reloads your weapon. Many of the game's weapons already reload pretty quickly, so I unfortunately don't see the point in adding quicker reload. Are there any heroes you think would benefit greatly from your ideas?

 

[pig20123]

I don’t think every item needs to be an S tier pick. I think Active reload needs a rework cause the window is too small and shouldnt have a cooldown in my opinion, and melee charge is melee oriented. I think every single hero would benefit from a faster reload.

 

[Talconic]

I think anything that would offer an even quicker reload than Quicksilver would have to come with a downside, like Glass Cannon's cleaving away your max health.
I think the singular small boost you can outright buy is balanced out by the fact it's not too crazy and it takes a single slot. Perhaps they could balance it out a little more by adding a slight but noticable nerf to other stats.

But I disagree with increasing ammo or damage. Game already has enough items for doing that whether it be the types of bullets or the Magazines.

 

[anglerge]

I think that something like this (a flat increase to reload speed) would probably be paired with a reduction in magazine size. I'm guessing that the devs haven't added anything like this because they want to keep a decent amount of downtime in which a player will be unable to shoot stuff - and a faster reload actively reduces this downtime. However, if this faster reload was paired with a reduction in magazine size - sure, there would still be less downtime, but the downtime would (presumably) be more frequent.

However, this would still fly in the face of the (presumed) design intent of the (mostly-)unmitigatable reload times being an active part of the character balancing and such.

 

[Talconic]

A hypothetical Speed Magazine would be interesting, but I agree about it messing with the game design.

 

[KvaKva]

Devs should be very selective about sources of reload. It's important to keep ammo management in the game.
At best, it should have some kind of skill check and/or conditional activation.