BF1 is one of those weird cases of a AAA game that feels like a genuine passion project that used its huge budget to create something different and beautiful, rather than a cynical product that just wants your money.

The jump in quality as far as reloads go from Black Ops 4 to MW 2019 is genuinely hilarious. Not quite as funny as the nose dive from MW to Cold War though

The case of the Nagant Revolver sticks out to create a gas seal, meaning it is the only revolver that can be effectively suppressed (the ammunitions is also unique)

Don't forget Mosins and Carcano also has unique K-bullet loading, reload and unloading animation. Mosin has 7 unique animations in total. Carcano being the only rifle in BF 1 that has a unique last round reload animation.

Battlefield 1 is the reason why I'm now a history major starting college right now. It started with seeing weapons like the perino that not only look unique, but also have a unique system to how they work that got me to look into the codex entries in game, then looking up more about them, and snowballing to now

In Russian and Soviet armies reloading whole cylinder in Nagant revolver was claimed irrational and extremely unreliable and time-consuming, yet the way they made it look in bf1 was super-cool and when I saw it for the first time I was like "you did WHAT" Sadly in game Nagant was always an underdog revolver but I still preferred it to others due to coolest animations besides the peacekeeper

I especially enjoyed the m1912 pistol reload. Where you can watch it eject however many unfired rounds are left.

BF1 was, and is, a masterpiece

Shout-out to Red Orchestra 2 for having quite possibly the most authentic reload animations of its time. The player-character would reload G43s and SVT-40s - detachable box-mag-fed rifles - with stripper-clips and loose rounds unless the mag was empty.

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I'll mention, there's one game that did this prior to BF1. Red Orchestra 2 / Rising Storm 1. These games are more combat focused than things like ARMA or SQUAD and don't emphasize team tactics, but built with a HEAVY emphasis on combat realism. Any weapon that uses rifle caliber rounds will one-shot someone if you hit them center of mass, weapons that use smaller rounds usually only take a couple rounds or so to kill as well, and every weapon is a guaranteed kill with a single bullet on a headshot. Weapon hip fire and aiming are both done semi-independent of the player camera. The whole body has a damage model that shows what trauma you've received. Etc. But for the rifles in particular, you also have this "3 reload" system. If you popped off a couple rounds, you'll single load, if you did all 5 you'll use a clip, and if you did all but one, you'll eject the unspent round and use a clip. But unlike BF1, you have an option to manually cycle the bolt after each shot by left clicking each time you fire on bolt actions like the Mosin, K98, 1903, or Arisaka. If you cycle a new round before doing a partial reload, that unspent cartridge will be discarded. Semi-auto rifles have their own unique quirks. the G41 has a fixed magazine and reloads solely through clips and single rounds. If you have shot 3 or less rounds, you'll eject one unspent and load up to 4 new ones. If you've shot 4 to 8 rounds, you'll open the action and eject one round before loading a single 5 round clip and closing it again, meaning you'll have to do a second reload if you want to fully top up. If you've shot 9 or 10 rounds, you'll either refill using two clips or eject the last round and use two clips to refill. The SVT-40/AVT-40 uses clips or removable mags. If you shot less than 4, you'll swap mags and place the partially emptied one into your reserve. If you shot more than that before but not running dry, you'll open the action and eject one round before loading a 5 round clip taken from one of your spare mags before shutting it. If you fire all your rounds, you'll mag swap, discard the empty mag and rack the action. The M1 Garand is the simplest, where if you're empty you reload a clip, or if you're not you'll discard all your unused ammo and load a fresh clip. All of this in 2011, which was WAY ahead of its time.

me being able to tell the difference between the HK and the M4 made me happy.

I love when weapons have multiple weapon animations for reloading or inspects, for example the weapons in Cyberpunk 2077 have many variants of empty and partial reloading. It also conveys character a good example is the malorian arms 3516 the realod animations just screams badass

Battlefield 1 & Battlefield V were my gateway drug to becoming a gun nerd myself. All the cool weapons and unique quirks they all had were so fascinating to me that I ended up doing a ton of research into the real guns that the games were representing. Eventually led to me becoming an amateur firearms collector myself. And gun ownership has made me appreciate accurate weapon designs and animations in games even more.

I really appreciate how bf1 forces you to know your guns with some reloads being counterintuitively faster than others. It makes me think between gunfights, like -- ok I could reload slow now or try to get this next guy with 3 shots so I get the faster empty reload. its really cool mechanically

Red Orchestra had dynamic reloading (and firing) animations in 2006, and there's probably other games that came before it. It's cool to see this in a AAA, but praising BF1 seems a little tone deaf, although that detail on the colt single action is very cool - even hunt:showdown doesn't do that, and that one is super detailed in most aspects.

One thing that Battlefield has lost is one-in-the-chamber for tube magazines. It started with the shotguns in BF1, where you could only load a certain number of cartridges no matter if there was one in the chamber or not.

The reloads in BF1 were really fucking well done because even to this day I still notice the reload animations because of how good they are.

If you like the idea of dynamic and interesting reloading, Hunt Showdown has some really interesting showcases of that. The only exception is dual wieded reloads for the most part, dropping them below the camera to reload. Only exception is an empty reload of the Dual Dolch, which has a fascinatingly hilarious reload. But check it out, there's some cool stuff there.

Fun fact, Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm did this before BF1.

much love for subtly dropping American Venom during the peacekeeper segment.

Wow, what a wonderful look at some of BF's best reload animations! I actually worked with a couple of the DICE LA guys (an animator and a weapon designer) back during, and before, the Community Test Environment days in BF4, through BF1 and into BFV (both moved on to other studios later in V's life cycle). I basically did volunteer QA work on exactly the sort of technical details you're looking at in this video, though that said I very much share your comments on certain things being extreme nitpicks (sometimes simply due to technical/engine limitations) and that it's important to keep the big picture in mind when looking at oversights or goofs (like the end of the video). I want to emphasize that I was helping out people who themselves were extremely passionate and knowledgeable about this stuff, which is why they were happy to have an extra set of hands/eyes in the first place. For example, in BF1 the weapon designer literally did the math on how much higher the Maxim action's rate of fire would become when scaled down to become the 9mm "SMG 08/18", which is why it has the particular rate of fire that it has. In BF4 there was already a solid base to work with, as Battlefield had moved to "proper" realism for reloads and weapon details with BF3, but there was certainly more to fix than in BF1, due to this combination of the passion the devs had for getting things right, and because of that the improvement of the engine/etc to actually allow these sorts of dynamic and diverse reload animations. I helped with correcting magazine capacities, open/closed bolt, cartridge (very important as BF3/4/1/V use cartridge-based damage models), staged reload save points (another wonderful animation addition), broken/incorrect animation details, and even names in a couple cases which is hard as Legal has to approve ("RPK-47M" to RPK, "L96A1" to L115, both along with cartridge and capacity fixes), and this sort of thing. For example, in BF4 it was a technical limitation that if a gun was set to be open bolt (and thus not get a +1 to its ammo count) it could only have one reload animation. This is because nearly all modern open bolt guns are belt-fed MGs, so this was setup specifically with the idea that you would pull the charging handle during the reload whether it was empty or not. However, the mag-fed Ultimax 100 is also open bolt, and we decided that it incorrectly having a +1 in its ammo count (but not pulling the charging handle on partial reloads) was the lesser evil than pulling the charging handle after every single reload (but with a correct always-30 capacity), though the animation design does at least suggest open bolt (a hard and "loud" pull rearward, but a gentle and "quiet" push forward). Upgrading the game engine to allow for proper open bolt reloads was one of the most important things done for BF1, given the drastically higher number of them in that era (especially SMGs). By pure bizarre coincidence, I was also the first person to find/record the Unica 6's easter egg reload animation in BF4... made by one of the guys I was already working with at the time, which he found hilarious. Outside of technical stuff, I also got them to pester the art/model people into allowing removal of those hideous flat colour default camos that most of the "variant/family" weapons had in BF4.

Battlefield 1 till this day is a Masterpiece

Another neat detail I only noticed watching this video in regards to the SAA: While indexing the cylinder, the shooter half cocks the hammer during the process of indexing. There might be other revolvers in BF1 that also half cocks, but the way it was done on the peacekeeper shows the animators were very attentive to detail (unlike sledgehammer).

Aww man, I found and followed you for your weapon guides/reviews/off-meta playstyle for BFV, but I'm so ecstatic you decided to cover the reload animations of both games too! As an amateur view model animator myself with a bias more towards the weird and wonderful weaponry that the earlier 20th century produced, back when you'd have a dozen different experimental attempts and silhouettes at making virtually the same weapon concept, BF1, V and even Hardline to some extent have been extremely influential to me for more than just their gameplay. They've really taught me to look at and appreciate the oddballs in firearms history; see how they're made and how they parade, further helped by your commentary. From greater appreciation of the more famous weapons by learning about things like Garand Thumb, or watching the wonderfully animated transition of the M1903 Springfield from its standard bolt action configuration to the Pederson device, and same again for the M28 Con Tromboncino's grenade launcher. Again, little things like how the General Liu needs to have its gas system adjusted between semi-automatic and bolt action fire, to the Ag M/42 engaging the safety to avoid it's own Garand thumb, to the lengthy and very drawn-out animation of the Liberator (which fun fact, actually makes less rattling noises the less bullets (

Black Ops: I remember playing the Python with the scope, running empty and only having time to load one round before the next enemy pushes around the corner 5 times in a row. Hunt Showdown: You lose a round when reloading (most) bolt action as long as you dosen't have the perk "Bulletgrubber" (yes, you catch it in mid-air). Holding "fire" to reload before ejecting an empty case is possible. Gate loading revolvers load identical, but the cylinder gets spun on partial reloads before and after (if not full or empty) to mask the position of the cylinder. Swing out cylinders and top breakrevolvers will only eject when empty and cases need to be removed manually after opening them carefully (unless you play the speed loader versions which loses up to 5 round when reloading). Removing an unfired cartridge from a single shot rifle/shotgun or the 3 round clip from the Berthier to change the ammunition typ is also a thing. Weapons are being charged after being dry fired, but single shot weapons will not be after normal firing (either an overside or just something you might do on a dud...)

Really nice video. Would really like to see the weapons of bf1 ranked like bf5. I really like the 1911 in bf1, it feels really crisp to use and reload.

I remember when i first played bf1 and being blown away to have stripper clip fed guns actually count out the rounds fired so far and only add the amount needed

One of my favorite BF1 clips involved me hitting a snipe from an entirely separate island on Gallipolli. The cool thing is that first I used a K bullet to tag a passing boat. My player character inserted another K bullet, then, when I swapped back to regular ammo, all that was needed was for the player character to pull the bolt back, ejecting the K bullet in favor of the normal round. And I was left with 4 bullets in the gun! Incredible attention to detail

"But I can only give Battlefield 2042 so much credit before something inside me starts to slowly die" - This is the point at which I subscribed

These are the types of videos I ADORE. Math, programming, and reloads. Thank you so much for making such a great analysis on viewmodel animations as of late, a lot of work is put into them and the coverage is great! Keep up the great work!

So one note about the Gewehr 95 in BF1. When the game came out, that gun erroneously had a partial reload, where the character loaded single rounds. People pointed out how that just flat out wouldn't work (you can check C&Rsenal's short clip about it), and in resposne Dice jury rigged the current reload. And then never got around to fixing it, by say replacing it with other similar reloads.

“Unnecessary showmanship” spins and tricks are required

Don't forget Red Orchestra really pioneered the clip/individual rounds back in 2011 or so, and tracked rounds ejected at the start of the reload.

Wow. I never gave that much attention to the feed strip reloads. That hopper fed MG is pretty wacky. It's amazing the lengths they went to get around the limitations of their time. Great video as always, keep up the good work! Also I saw a hunt showdown vid mentioned below... Maybe that should go higher up the list :P

Fun thing you could do in bf1, if you were recon and had the k bullets gadget in it would allow you to pop the top round out and put a k bullet in the chamber. The cool part is if you had a gun you wanted to clip feed and only fired 4/5 you could use k bullets then cancel the animation before he loads it in thus allowing you to clip reload now. It could be used as a manual eject. Love that game.

When your first FPS was CoD2, realistic animations aren’t an expectation, but when it’s done right it truly stands out

Thank you for hilighting this, im sure a lot of time and effort went into making those reloads look good, and it's good to seem them getting the attention they deserve

Recently passed 11000 kills on the peacekeeper, its nice to finally see someone do a real technical breakdown after so long

A very very different game and setting, but one of the revolvers in Darktide has 5 different reload startups as the player character will block the unfired rounds with their thumb. While very much the odd one out (every other gun only has one reload animation and we had to beg Fatshark to make the Bolter unhostler animation not be a bolt cycle) it is a subtle touch in a game that's about as subtle as a brick to the face.

11:42 I love hearing the old Red Dead Redemption soundtrack, I still play it to this day but hearing that soundtrack brings back memories.

I randomly got this in my recommendations (literally never touched the battlefield series in my life) and I just wanted to commend you for the sheer attention to detail present here. The use of H3VR's lovingly implemented gunplay goes really far to demonstrate simulation done right, and all the tiny, easily overlooked facets you pore over really highlight your dedication. Amazing video.

Still remember using the double barrel in W@W for the first time & getting hyped over the single shot reload lol. How far we've come.

This is a fantastic video! One thing that I hope you cover in the future is how games have largely endorsed animating weapons more correctly when dealing with empty or non empty chambers, but almost always ignore actually counting the round in the chamber in the gameplay! Best display of these failings are felt in any weapon with a small magazine like 5 round magazine bolt fed sniper rifles. You should have 1 round in the chamber plus 5 in the magazine, and the animation reflects that, but the ammo count in gameplay just ignores it.

Great video. I remember the first time i noticed different realoads was in Crysis; all guns have a standard set of animations for reloading, an aggressive set for when the suit is in Armoured Mode, and a more delicate set for when in Stealth mode.

Glad to find someone who loves these reloads as much as I do

BF1 is the greatest FPS shooter of all time. The sound design, environment, and overall atmosphere is god tier

The he 1908 is my favorite machine souly because of its reload. It almost feels like it’s a machine gun with the soul of a shotgun where at any point you can just top of it with another strip and never really have to truly “reload”

CP2077 has like 3 variations for reloading each weapon. It's something that makes weapons feel more immerskve IMO, since it just isnt repeating every time ypu reloading.

Excellent video, your signature attention to detail really shines. I was a tiny bit sad that, regarding the lMG 08/18 Suppressive, you didn't mention the Easter egg reload you get with 13 rounds left. The devs obviously entertained themselves by putting inconsequential details into the game along with the extremely relevant-to-combat ones. BF1 is the GOAT.

I really enjoyed that video, it was so interesting to watch, as I stopped playing after BF4, I never knew DIVCE was giving so much effort still. While staying on the topic of reloads, you could also take a look at Crysis 2 and Crysis 3, as there are dynamic reloads as well. The player will change its animation depending on what suitmode it is on, meaning depending if the player is in normal mode, Stealth and Amour, it will change the animation of the gun.

Okay this was cool. I've not played any of these games, but I do love the idea that some games are paying this much attention to little details

Amazing video, truly explained why i felt like my operator in BF1 felt like he had more masterful skill over the guns he was operating.

One game that did this before battlefield 1 was planetside 2, basically all the "revolvers" in it have some type of dynamic reload, along with a few other guns, although being sci-fi designs many of the reloads aren't really conventional at all, and many are downright dumb anyways, they still feature it

Check out Hunt Showdown. The reloads are not only dynamic and quite well done, but they also have consequences to gameplay. You can reload a gun prematurely at the cost of ejecting a precious live round and not having an empty enough magazine to use a stripper clip. Or you can reload only when empty for a faster stripper clip reload but never be topped off. This mechanic extends to many of the bolt actions, crane revolvers, break action revolvers, and top loading lever actions.

Another to mention in unique relaods is COD Ghosts' FP6 shotgun. 7 total animations. All with one of the best loading sound designs ever.

Also i want to give a fun shout out to the reload animations in Cyberpunk 2077. despite every weapon being a fictional sci-fi gun, each one has *_SIX_* reload animations (with a handful of exceptions), three reloads for empty, and three reloads for partial. It'll randomly pick a animation when you reload.

I always try to play BF1 with the Nagant revolver* because it adds flavor to fights, not just with reloads, as it also creates risk/reward situations where you have to evaluate when to reload and how many rounds you've fired.

Fun fact, battlefield 4 already had what i call "step reloading" (i don't what is normally called) but as an example, if you start reloading a rifle, and cancel the reloadimg animation after your character changed mag, but before he pulled the bolt, when you start reloading again, just the bolt will be pulled, something cod only implemented in mw2 2022

It seems like it's not completely limited to first person shooters at the moment, Helldivers 2 has a couple of pump action shotguns that feature two loading tubes that the gun is loaded from. There's holes in the side of the gun that let you see the tubes and how full or empty they are, and when reloading, the character will accurately fill up one tube before going to the next one to top that one off. It even is accounted for in first person, and they even included a little switch on top to show which tube the shotgun is being loaded from. This also goes for the Senator revolver too, to a point anyway. You'll eject any empty casings and reload them one by one, but if you interrupt the reload and fire again, you won't magically produce more casings than what you spent. (Sadly though, the spent casings are easy to eject since they shake the revolver to get them out). I do love these small details!

I just want to say that was a fantastic video. Absolutely gave me a greater appreciation for detail and quality in battlefild.

Thanks for covering this- I felt that these details really helped make BF so immersive. Would get such an amazing feeling when playing

Darktide has the most satisfying revolver reload animation I’ve seen in a game to date.

10:07 ive actually kind of noticed this after spending a lot of time with the peacekeeper. im pretty sure i noticed how having certain amounts of rounds left was faster to reload than others, but i dont quite remember anymore

This is exactly the reason I like using weapons of the nation you’re playing as, it makes you use these guns and experience all these details

bf1 will always be legendary to me, was the only reason i upgraded my xbox 360, it was bold and took risks that no other franchise had and it paid off due to the effort, love and passion, whenever i played this game i was happy, if any dev that worked on this game sees this, thank you♥

from grounded BF anims to sick inducing camera shaking COD 2019 anims... great

There's actually another thing you missed regarding BF1 and BFV reloads. When reloading some snipers, the scope blocks the bolt, preventing the use of stripper clips. In those cases, the player will reload bullets individually. When you remove the scope, the rifle loads with the stripper clips instead. It's been a while since I played BFV and longer since I played BF1, but in BFV I believe it was the case with the recon versions of the Kar98k, No.4 and Springfield rifles at least.

Fantastically well done video!

I think it should be pointed out, that Killing Floor 2 did the "double barrel, but pumps only on the second shot" thing a couple years before even BF V.

BF1 was the peak. I get that it’s not for everybody, but there has never been an FPS game, where the passion and hard work of the developers is more apparent. It looks better than any FPS game I’ve ever played, the atmosphere is better, the sound design is better, lines are better, I could go on and on. No game will ever be as good as that game was.

Another great video! Keep up this excellent content

randomly found this through the algorithm. very precise, very satisfying. nice video

Such a great video, and battlefield 1 is my favorite fps still, so glad to see it talked about :)

The runtime is even 19:18, what a lad

Wonderful video, thank you for making it ❤

There is antoher game called Hunt Showdown wich i think is very underrated in dynamic reloads, especially with the "bulletgrabber" and "ambidextrous" talent

one of the bests vids ive seen in quite while!

Love the videos man! You got me back to battlefield V :)

Completely unrelated to the topic of the video but I really appreciate your thematic use of music. Like when talking about revolvers and playing the rdr soundtrack in the background

I think what they lacked in quantity of guns, they made up for with the quality of the weapon. I absolutely loved playing as support and seeing all the different reloads and even overheat animations!

Loved the Red DEad Redemption music at 8:35 , that is pretty much it, you just get a like for references, because you're EPIC.

not a lot of people are mentioning this but amazing video brother. I can rarely sit through longer versions of videos like these and i thought i'd get bored midway, but once i checked how long i'd watched it for it was almost over. Really piqued my interest. the effort you put into editing, talking and research really shines throughout the whole video (good going with being extra careful crediting people, thats definitely a good look). Definitely can say you earned my sub.

While PUBG's not the most realistic reloading game, I always loved the difference in reloads for the Kar98k in that game. Empty = new clip. Not empty= one bullet at a time.

What a good video,I'm looking forward to your future content!

Thank you for showing love to my favorite game.

Ayyyy another video blew up! Live your stuff!

This is why I love the Model shotgun in the finals, every shell has a unique animation. Shows it was this team that worked on the Finals

This was an extremely well made video

Very interesting, I never thought about or watched closely the reloads. This video points out all missed and included little details

This is why I enjoy more playing Battlefield 1 than other FPS games. Literally masterpiece.

what an amazingly done video

Ya this is good shit. Keep it up man love this type of content

this all was already a commonly established things in the PC only community in various games with the biggest example just being the Red Orchestra series lol

RO2/RS2 also did this, and I presume Verdun as well.

Dont forget the revolver reload in Darktide. it has a unique reload for every bullet amount remain, from 1 to 6, its honestly great.

Knowing that a lot of the team that worked on BF1 left after its conclusion, and even more after BFV, just shows how much the passionate few can really affect a game

earned a new subscriber great video, done extremely well and great topic to talk about you deserve more recognition

Playing Half-Life music ever so faintly in the background, nice.

Still one of my favorite guns in a Battlefield gane and one that I spent almost 2 full days straight getting, is the Colt SAA Revolver. I LOVE that gun, it's such a mark of status and I am so thankful the Battlefield Easter Egg community helped me get it. I did this when BF1 had the apocalypse DLC. This and the Annihilator SMG was my go to combo.