Picking up dropped weapons

Desther

To pick up someone's dropped weapon you have to look at it and press G which is also the default "drop weapon and go unarmed". If you mis-target a grab then you'll end up with your weapon and the target weapon on the ground next to each other and have to work even harder to pick up the correct one (it takes a second to settle and you have a pickup delay), all the while taking damage from whatever killed the first guy.

Can weapon-switch be assigned to a different key than weapon drop? Or have auto-pickup like ns1.

Ghosthree3

One thing that really ######s me is when I'm running to my shotgun after dieing, just about to be attacked, I press my drop/pickup key, RIGHT AS THE SHOTGUN DISAPPEARS. So I lose my weapon, and don't get the shotgun, then I'm under attack, cool.

Gliss

+1, having the same hotkey for these functions is not working out

I don't see anything wrong with auto pickup and a drop key, honestly

maybe a countdown timer for dropped weapons would be nice too

Agiel

I would very much like to see a button for drop only, combined with (optional) auto-pickup. Aim at gun and press the use key to swap (and to pick up if you have auto-pickup disabled). We've had this discussion in the past but I don't remember what came out of it.

Wake

Auto pickup con : Did you never run on an empty shotgun in melee ? :(

Lambo

Support this idea.

I also hate dying with 30 shots in a shotgun maybe, going back to pick it up and it's empty, got me killed quite often.

Ghosthree3

Huge auto pickup con, enjoy picking up a shotgun amongst those 30 lmgs on the armory.

Agiel

Which is why I'd like it to be optional. In any case you could aim directly at the gun you want and press the use key.

Xao

Drop weapon G pick up weapon E, no more throwing your weapon away and watching the one of the floor disappear before your very eyes, as that is too immersiongly immersiful for me sometimes.

meatmachine

To me, the issue here seems to be the 'disappearing gun' that has certainly got me killed a few times.

Why not just make it so if the marine that bought the gun steps within, say, a meter of the gun, it's life is extended by half a second or something? Just so we dont go running around throwing our weapons uselessly at fades :(

xen32

Press and hold R or E would make much more sense.

NikolaiLev

Ideally I'd like to see an auto-pickup function that only picks up special weapons.

I'd also like to see auto-switching turned off for this functionality, so you don't switch to that empty shotgun when trying to pistol whip an enemy.

Finally, allow people to pick up weapons manually by looking at it and pressing the use key. This will drop your current primary and take the selected one.

These three features ought to polish up the scavenging system to perfection; you're not constantly picking up LMGs when you want that shotgun, and you can pick and choose in case a squad dropped a bunch of special weapons.

Sammey

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Drop weapon G pick up weapon E, no more throwing your weapon away and watching the one of the floor disappear before your very eyes, as that is too immersiongly immersiful for me sometimes.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I think Xao is spot on with this one!
E already has a the 'use' function so why not use it to use(pickup) weapons! :)

DC_Darkling

use key please.
first time I was happily hitting the use key, wondering why my weapon wasn't switched before opening my eyes, noticing it used the drop menu.

Right now I still drop my weapon instead of picking up sometimes

Not Sure

You know those aliens are delaying you guys on purpose, right? I have a feeling if it were not for them camping your dropped weapons, everything would seem fine.

NeoRussia

The best solution would be that you can hold the button down and it automatically swaps weapons when you run over one, only dropping the weapon in your hand if the button is released. That way you can keep it to a one button bind.

IeptBarakat

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We need this.

proteinstain

seriously needs to be changed g for drop and e for pickup makes much more sense.