r/TopCharacterTropes • u/No-Car-1999 • 8h ago

Characters Unique Reloads

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Just characters with unique reloads. That's it.

Equilibrium: Clerics wrist mags

Various games - Iraqi Reload: A few games have this reload, including Call of Duty and The Finals. I would've put The Finals version here but I couldn't find a gif of it.

Battlefield Hardline - Various reloads: Various guns have a chance for a unique reload, these are two of my favorites.

Battlefield 1 - Double Barrel: The sawed off has a chance to mimic the reload from the Classic Doom double barel reload

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 8h ago

Borderlands, where you just throw the empty gun and it explodes

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u/Jaxonhunter227 7h ago

Sometimes throwing them doesn't make them explode but they grow legs and run around as a little turret

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u/dagon_xdd 6h ago

that wasn't a thing until the third game and it was such a great addition

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u/The_salty_swab 6h ago

Third game got shit on a lot but it had some good additions to the gameplay

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u/No-Car-1999 6h ago

The story and villains were so fucking dumb, but the gunplay is the tightest it's ever been. Borderlands 2 was fun, but the weapons just didn't feel... punchy

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u/bgg-uglywalrus 2h ago

It's because the weapons are guns and they needed to feel shooty, not boxing gloves, those would be more punchy.

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u/Victarion-twogods 6h ago

BL3 is the best in the franchise in everything except story. BL4 was cool too, and had some nice additions, but I didn't really care for the open world and the new gun manufacturers were awful so less usable guns IMO.

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u/The_salty_swab 5h ago

I somehow did not know 4 existed until months after it came out

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u/Jaxonhunter227 6h ago

The gameplay itself is incredible, it's just the story that's bad lol.

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u/Quaiker 5h ago

Third one's gameplay was damn good, it just made me want to turn audio and subtitles off.

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u/Mysterious-Plum-6217 3h ago

Bl3 is wonderful for gameplay and animation and art but goddamn did the writing suck, and that's why people are mad.

Bl1 and 2 had just the right balance of good but campy writing, with actual depth to the characters and story. 3 tried too hard at the camp but didn't write any actual character depth. They turned cult classic to garbage you get high and watch in the dorms to make fun of

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u/Jaxonhunter227 6h ago

I exclusively use jakobs weapons, but if I come across a gun with legs I'll add it to my kit anyway lol. It's the one exception

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u/mightylordredbeard 7h ago

I like the ones that explode and then spawn 3 other guns that also explode and then those exploding guns also spawn other exploding guns.

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u/dandoch 7h ago

The one you're thinking of is Swordsplosion from the Tiny Tina DLC. Also, THAT SENTENCE HAD TOO MANY SYLLABLES! APOLOGIZE!

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u/CDR57 6h ago

The swordsplosion. Noted for what the OP said but instead of reloading and spawning, it SHOOTS SWORDS THAT EXPLODES INTO MORE EXPLODING SWORDS YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAH (sick guitar riff)

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u/moploplus 7h ago

Maliwan reloads are fun too

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u/Jesterpest 6h ago

Especially the maliwan SMG's! There's something satisfying about how the characters just pull off the spinny disc-shaped magazine, slap another one on there, place a thumb on the convenient divot, give the disc a turn or two to prime it.

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u/moploplus 4h ago

Im partial to the snipers.

Crack em open, pull out stick, put stick in, pull em shut

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u/Jesterpest 4h ago

Though, despite the stigma about the pistols, the casual flipping the entier revolver cylinder out and slapping a new one in is still a nice visual.

Then there's the rocket launcher, where you pull out an entire rotary mechanism out and replace it too.

Digistruct tech in BL2 is awesome

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u/GigsGilgamesh 7h ago

I like the CoV’s squirt gun cool down quite a bit, even if I never vibed with a lot of CoV guns

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u/Lucarceus 6h ago

The best part is it’s the intentional design of the Tediore manufacturer. Every single one of their guns, pistols to rocket launchers, has some variation of it.

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u/SGexpat 6h ago

EXPLOSIONS!

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u/Its_Hoggish_Greedly 7h ago

The Kiki's Delivery Service gun where it would fly and chase enemies before exploding was cool.

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u/bigloser42 7h ago

bigger boom with more round left in the mag. I had a gun that had all kinds of bonuses to the explosion, and I had all kinds of bonuses to explosions, so the highest DPS I could manage was to fire a single round, then throw the gun at the enemy. rinse and repeat until I ran out of SMG rounds.

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u/Jimnumber 5h ago

IIRC they do more damage the fuller the magazine

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u/Ill_Cut1048 7h ago

Also the legendary i forget the name of, has 3 magazines and a long reload animation in exchange for a high capacity.

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u/ExpertTap6952 7h ago

If I'm not mistaken, you're thinking of The Magnificent, a Vladof pistol.

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u/Ill_Cut1048 7h ago

We are correct

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u/Adabiviak 2h ago

Borderlands is full of reload shenanigans beyond the entire Tediore line... the Dead Chamber from BL3, the Plasma Coil from BL5, all the Maliwan spinny disk reloads, for example.