MG 34 Reloading Animation

[choolio]

probably you guys already noticed this issue back in RO 1 days ...

if you had emptied your barrel and wanted to reload afterwards ... you still got rounds in your empty barrel during the exchange.

Still in RO2 ?

 

[Maizel]

What do you mean? Before being fired a round isn't in the barrel, is it?

 

[Hesgad]

What do you mean? Before being fired a round isn't in the barrel, is it?

No guess he means your weapon and Mag is empty so he reloads but graphicly youre still seing bullets in there

 

[choolio]

No guess he means your weapon and Mag is empty so he reloads but graphicly youre still seing bullets in there

that

 

[hanky]

Not sure how mg34 works but if its anything like the m249, assuming it open bolt...which I believe it is. there is not a round chambered. So removing the barrel doesn't effect the feed trey on top.

 

[F3-St4rt3r]

The MG-34 fires like the MG-42 at closed bolt.

 

[F3-St4rt3r]

I think he means that round.

 

[Viersbovsky]

The MG-34 fires like the MG-42 at closed bolt.

Open... It is open bolt.

We will see. When you check your remaining ammo, you open the feed-cover. At least it looked like that in the videos. It would thus be strange if the remaining number of bullets would not be properly modelled.

 

[mick86w]

Not sure how mg34 works but if its anything like the m249, assuming it open bolt...which I believe it is. there is not a round chambered. So removing the barrel doesn't effect the feed trey on top.

Correct, using a closed bolt firing assembly in a machine gun (especially a very high rate of fire one) would undoubtedly have serious safety issues with cook-offs (The cartridge ignites from the ambient heat of the chamber/bolt assembly)

 

[F3-St4rt3r]

Open... It is open bolt.

We will see. When you check your remaining ammo, you open the feed-cover. At least it looked like that in the videos. It would thus be strange if the remaining number of bullets would not be properly modelled.

Its a closed bolt...or in german "aufschiessender Verschlu

 

[Das Bose]

All I can find is saying it is recoil operated and fires from an open bolt.

 

[Viersbovsky]

Its a closed bolt...or in german "aufschiessender Verschlu

 

[Das Bose]

the Thompson, Greasegun, MP40, BAR, FG-42, MG-34, MG-42, M1917 and M1919 ALL fire from an open bolt. The reason being that the metallurgy of the 1930s and 1940s was such that if an automatic weapon was fired to excess the chamber would retain enough heat to "cook off" a round if it was left in the chamber like closed bolt weapons do. I cannot think of a single automatic weapon used in WW2 that fired from a closed bolt.

As the guy says, it was extremely dangerous to have a high rate of fire with a closed bolt system in those days because of limitations in materials and processes.

 

[F3-St4rt3r]

I thought for years now that the MG42 shoots from with a open bolt...D'oh.

I disbelieved that a weapon could reach such a high rate of fire with a open bolt.

 

[Cpt-Praxius]

What the heck are you guys going on about? Talk about a hi-jack.

He was talking about the in-game model of the MG34 being completely out of ammo but still showing a full round in the belt.... what does any of that have to do with open or closed bolts, or am I simply missing something hidden between all yer techno-babble

 

[Viersbovsky]

I disbelieved that a weapon could reach such a high rate of fire with a open bolt.

What would be the difference? In both cycles the bolt must travel back and forth the full lenght. In full auto, there is no difference. In single shot the bolt won

 

[choolio]

What the heck are you guys going on about? Talk about a hi-jack.

He was talking about the in-game model of the MG34 being completely out of ammo but still showing a full round in the belt.... what does any of that have to do with open or closed bolts, or am I simply missing something hidden between all yer techno-babble

I was thinking the same thing while reading through the lot ...
but, i have to admit that i accidentially picked the wrong vocabulary in order to point out my desire ... sry

so i ment the drum-mag of course ... just to set this aright

but i can