Original Warzone 2100 Weapon Reload Rate

[MightyMatt]

Hi all,

I first bought Warzone 2100 for the playstation years and years ago and loved it.

Bought a PC magazine last month which happened to feature 2100 resurrection on the CD!... much to my delight.

Going through the game and loving every nostalgic moment i seem to remember something a little bit different from the original ps1 verson. This being the weapon reloading rate.

I have just reached the second Zone battling against the Collective.

I seem to be favouring a mix of Lancer Cobra Tracks with the occasional heavy cannon (and bombard or two for those long range Lancer towers)

The enemy now seem to be building a lot of Lancer Armed vehicles like me, but their rate of fire seems to be almost double that of mine!?

So in a 1 on 1 fight they win every time due to their superior rate of fire.

I seem to remember in the ps1 version that the white reload bar that indicates the armament reloading, seemed to fire at the half reload point (if the vehicle sustained no damage - then as the vehicle took more damage the weapon took longer to fire... thus the white bar had to fill that little bit further)


But it has been years since i played the ps1 version and i dont have it with me now.

Can someone confirm this for me or am i remembering the game incorrectly. It just seems odd to me that the enemy vehicles seem to fire twice when I can only fire once.

Any feedback is much appreciated

Thanks all...

[Buginator]

Which version of the game are you playing? I would get the latest version (2.2 beta 2 or 3) with the FMVs, if you are going to play the SP game.

As for firing rate, AFAIK, nothing in the SP game has been changed.

[3drts]

actually, the lancer/TK damage upgrades work now, and the Lancer/TK/Scourge ROF upgrades also work now, they didn't before - the collective probably had ROF upgrades that you didn't have, so now they fire faster.

As to firing when the reload bar is halfway- the lancer/TK/Scourge fire salvo's of 2 rockets.
If it looses its target (ie its target blows up) in the short time between when the first and second rockets fire... it may still have "one rocket in the tube" ready to fire- even as the reload bar progresses.