Now i kinda want a third person shooter (not sim) where you have to manually manage ammo in real time, in environments where you can be flanked.

I could see the following scenario playing out:

> you've got an AR of some kind, low on ammo, no backup gun, no backup mag

> in the middle of a firefight

> see an ammo crate

> waste your last few bullets blind firing while running to ammo

> pull out a box of bullets and sit down next to the crate

> bullets whizz past and you only manage to load one bullet into your mag before:

> "he's reloading!"

> one guy sprinting at you from around the corner

> double tap the reload button to feed a single bullet into the chamber, and cycle.

> tap cancel button to quit reloading and stand up

> tap cancel again to enter "oh shit oh fuckin sh-" mode

> character drops the mag, grabs a handful of bullets from the box and shoves them into their pocket

> fire > miss

> reload while running back to cover

> you trip on a rock

> you drop your gun and all the bullets spill out onto the floor

> the enemies surround you

> they start pointing at you and laughing

> "what a loser, get a load of this enemy combatant"

> they capture you

> you spend the next three days as a prisoner manually reloading the magazines which will be used to kill your comrades

> if you're too slow they'll slap you and call you mean names in a foreign language

Depends on the game. To name a game with a similar mechanic, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (back when R6 was still a tactical shooter franchise with a fair amount of realism) had you cycle through your magazines.

For example, let's say you have three magazines of ten rounds each. You fire three shots and reload. Now your magazines look as follows:

• 10 rd. (loaded)
• 10 rd.
• 7 rd.

Now you fire five shots and reload again. Now they look like this:

• 10 rd. (loaded)
• 7 rd.
• 5 rd.

That's plausible enough to count as realistic but not as punishing as throwing your mag away every time you reload. It also turns reloading into an interesting decision beyond making you unable to fire while the animation plays: If you reload frequently, you initially have a fresh magazine but you also put a half-empty mag into the queue where it might end up in your gun when you least expect it.

Note that RVS did not allow you to pick up guns or ammo, even if they're identical to what you're fielding. If you bring 30 rounds then that's how many chances you get to shoot someone during the mission, period.

The most popular Arma 3 mods do this.

Lol nope

Gray zone warfare does. Tarkov too but fuck that game.

The only game I've played that I specifically recall having that is BattleBit Remastered. I think DayZ (ARMA mod version) had it, but I haven't touched that in a decade and couldn't be sure.