Universal automatic loader

Universal automatic loader is the counterpart to the artillery version, and its description is a study in compromise: “more versatile automatic loaders. They are also more compact, but less efficient.” Confirmed by the game files, build 23882143. ⛔ The module records an attack-speed modifier and a maximum-hit-point penalty; the description does not provide their application formula. It is the only module described as being worse at its job in exchange for fitting better.

Space is a real currency in this module system, and three separate descriptions mention it — this one, the artillery loader that “requires more space”, and the panoramic sight that “requires armor space to place it”. Confirmed by the game files, build 23882143. Together they describe a vehicle as a fixed volume where every addition displaces something else, which is the design idea behind the whole list.

Compare the recorded attack-speed and durability modifiers with the artillery loader. Its description calls it more compact, but the recorded slot requirement is the same; compactness does not establish that more modules fit. ⭐ And the figures exist: this one carries an attack-speed modifier of 0.2 and takes 150 maximum hit points, build 23882143. ⚠️ This section said until 4 September 2026 that the files did not say how much less efficient it is. They record its own two numbers; what those fields alone do not establish is the final firing cycle on a given weapon, which is a narrower gap than the one we claimed. It is the compact half of a pair, and the pair is one of three such pairs in the list — two loaders, two range modules, two anti-vehicle loads.

The recorded maximum-hit-point penalty reduces one part of the vehicle’s protection. The description alone does not establish its final firing cycle or overall combat efficiency. Compare the weapon and remaining protection rather than assuming that a more compact loader is free of drawbacks. Our reading, from the description and recorded modifiers. Its recorded slot requirement also does not establish extra capacity for other modules.