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.

my teammates seem to never call them in, so I'll just call them in in random places when I know they'll be running past it to the next objective. this way we have max resupplies on the ground

of course every now and then this fucks them over when they need it and they ain't got none where they are. it's not often, though

BF as well.

it’s because they’re communists.

For the voice chat?

Fuck that. Reload in the middle of the arena. Assert dominance.

..... Takes cover and starts reloading, only to have a medic jumping like a bunny appear from the smoke and headshot you 3 times from the hip.

They are also totally not using cheats as they go 95:8 in the round.

I played last month and there were quite a few full servers

IDK for certain but probably. I've not played in a while but it was always one of the longer surviving entries.

It's very old and probably has no players by now. It was essentially a counterstrike clone with rounds and buying, but with a few extra mechanics like ADS and leaning

ARMA can be quick. I have a mission up on the workshop that makes it basically Battlefield CP style gameplay with tickets and what-not, but you get to use the gnarly weapon physics and such of the milsim. King of the Hill is basically that, but much more thought out than what I made and people actually play it online.

ARMA is first and foremost a sandbox toolset. It can be whatever you want it to be, if you mess with the editor.

But also: The TTK in ARMA has a really wide range depending on weapon, distance, where you hit, and the fact that the game is jank as fuck so you can literally survive a tank shell sometimes.

I prefer more realistic was games. In my last round I was moving boxes for ten hours and got shot in the head, very exciting!