Why did you put the bolt on the left side?

Every bolt action rifle for all of history has had the bolt on the right side. You know, because a vast majority of the population is right handed...

http://i.imgur.com/SkzDTWZ.jpg

The above image is from the trailer released in June, so its not a leak or a spoiler or anything like that...

Just curious if anyone can think of the reasoning behind that

It's a video game thing. It's so the "pretty" side of the gun is visible. I think Counter-Strike started that trend.

Its been brought up and explained several times

Many games put the bolts on the left side so you can visibly see yourself reloading as a visual cue that you have actually reloaded.

Working the bolt of a gun is sixy didnt you know that?

They have to get that [censored] on screen

Hehe haha.

Stalker had this problems due the game engine if I remember the Dev said it.

It take's extra animation to due it the other way and as we know,unfortunately Bethy svcks on animation.

Who knows how old the animation engine is,if you look at Morrowind.

Sigh.

Once again they make a gun wrong just to make it look cool or whatever. Glad I′m not getting the game anyway or I′d be looking for a mod that makes it right again in no time

You just don′t wanna reload a bolt action rifle with the hand you support its weight with and I for one cannot stand it in a game.

I think it would be sixier to roll the gun to the left and open the bolt with your right hand in an animation than to do it with your weak, inferior, lesser quality, downtrodden, flimsy, pansy, left hand.

Easy he accidentally bought a left handed rifle. That he still shoots right handed.

http://m.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?pdesc=CZ-USA-CZ-550-American-Safari-Magnum-LH-Centerfire-Rifle&i=721108

They do exist.

I'm left-handed, so I don't care.

The rule of cool overrules all rules...because cool.

Many games have the ejection port on the wrong side because it's cool to see the spent casings flying all over the place, but I've never seen a rifle with the bolt on the left side, not in any game I have ever played. Not even FO3 did that.

Burn the witch!!!

(My wife and mom and father in-law are lefties so I speak from experience)

But then you wouldn′t fire it from your right side

yes....God forbid

I'm Omni dexterous so it doesnt matter to me.......ok well no but it still doesnt matter to me.

I know. (I actually hold a rifle the same way everyone else does, it's how I was taught.)

Still doesn't bother me, to be honest. I'm not playing ARMA or something, I just want the game to look cool. It's Fallout - it's already a "style over substance/ soft science fiction" setting to begin with. It's a purposeful design choice, other games have been doing this for years and we know the reason why.

I can't write a paragraph without smudging what I'm writing. All those damn righties with their sparkling clean pieces of paper...

One this play through the SS is going to say ouch cause of a casing hit his eye.

It′s not that there aren′t rifles that has it on the left side now, and I guess if you as a right-handed person find such a weapon you′d still fire it from your right side so there is something to go on here. But still...

The first time I fired a left handed bolt-action rifle, I held it to my right shoulder and worked the bolt with my right hand.

It was a little awkward...after the first magazine I switched to my left shoulder and lo and behold it was much smoother!

Exactly. Left handed weapons are fired from the left shoulder and vice versa for righties. A left hand weapon fired from the right shoulder is ludicrous. There is a statistically insignificant number of shooters who are jacked up and break that rule...but the rule is still the rule, and weapon manufacturers abide by it, making only a very small percentage of weapons in a left hand chambering.

Some may wonder why its a big deal?...primarily because the chambers are on the outside so as to not send recently ejected, flaming hot casings flying right back into your face, or worse right down your shirt!

It's a ludicrous mechanic and animation....one they avoided in previous entries, but obviously felt some overwhelming need to implement and take a step backwards on in the most recent.

EDIT: And yes, for the military types like me, we all know that Colt had to build in a deflector on the M16A2 and later models (all chambered for righties), for left handed shooters. Don't see any of that in game btw.

There is no such thing as an "animation engine." Animations are created in modeling programs such as 3DSMax or Blender as a built-in part of the mesh (.nif) or as separate files that are used by the mesh (.kf). The engine merely plays the animation when it is told to play the animation.

But controllers aren't "handed", so right or left, it's my button doing the reload.

So what's your reason for not getting the game? Please tell me it's not the graphics...

That was my first thought. But then...

I mean there are procedural animation engines that games make use of.