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Valve say Counter-Strike 2's reloading needed "higher stakes", so you now dump all the ammo left in a clip when you reload early (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

Games like Counter Strike are timed and high pressure. The round has a 2 minute timer, and if you were to take the time to combine your mags, you would most assuredly be killed before you were done.

The question here is whether to risk running out of ammo in your mag before you've won the next encounter, or if you should instead dump the mag with any ammo left over and possibly run out of total ammo before the end of the round.

If you were in the same scenario in real life, you would have to consider the same thing. You don't have time to combine mags, so do you dump it for short-term safety, or do you count your bullets and hope you don't run out mid-firefight?