I think I like Project Reality just a bit more because not only does it depict the reload procedures correctly, they also have a little style to them. SQUAD is very “by the manual” reload animations, which aren’t bad by any means.
For it's time PR is the winner. Sure Squad looks a little better, but still behind modern standards. It would be epic if Squad gets an animation overhaul with a new emergency reload system! Oh and new reload sounds, they're quite terrible tbh.
6:13 In Squad, there is a difference in the reloading speed of machine guns. If you hold it in your hands, then reloading is slow, if you put a machine gun on the bipod, then reloading will be faster
PR reloads are amazing for its dated engine but Squad's are simply better in every metric. However PR cheats with camera shake to make reloads seem more visceral than they really are. I personally hate camera shake in my reloads when playing but they're great for RU-vid reels.
@@Xenoscoutknight Animations exist without nauseating amounts of shake. When shadow knives were added in Counter Strike they had camera shake for a few years until they were removed. Large amounts of camera shake ends up being annoying in gameplay. It's similar to head bobbing in the late 2000s, or chromatic aberration in the 2010s. Cool novelty at first but gets annoying quickly. I hope modern games move past this trend in a year or two.
To me PR has that jerkiness but more weight at the same time. Squad is more smooth, realistic (as in being held by a bipedal being and not a floating pair of arms) but it feels like the character is handling an airsoft weapon.
I prefer Project Reality's reloads because they simply feel better. Has a bit more weight. Squad's reloads, while good, lack weight, and sometimes feel cartoonish in a bad way. The mag just appearing, standing still, and then going in the gun, feels cartoonish in Squad, a bit like how reloads were sometimes cartoonish in Battlefield 3 and 4. Project Reality does this sometimes also but not as much as Squad. More realistic motions there when it does happen sometimes.
