Separate keybind for "pick up weapon"

MrFangs

For some reason, there is only a single keybind for dropping your current weapon, and picking up a weapon below you. When a teammate decides to pick up the same weapon at the same time, or the weapon expires, the outcome is unpredictable, and you might end up with no primary weapon at all. This makes grabbing a dropped weapon in the heat of battle an extremely risky action because of the interface alone.

Please fix this by adding a keybind for "pick up weapon" that *only* drops your current weapon if you successfully grab a new new one. As most people will probably prefer this keybind (as it has no downside to the current one), it could even become the standard action for the "g" key.

Nordic

Or use last stand weapon pick up system

Frozen

Just make it so that you automatically pick up weapons if you don't have one. Welders dropping on shotguns is silly and I shouldn't have to stop for 1-2 seconds to make sure I'm getting a shotgun first because it means I'm already dead. That time needs to be spent readying the shotgun animation.

This would also solve your issue I believe.

I'd also like to mention in any post like this that's it's also garbage that marines don't drop their LMG ammo.

Calego

E to pick up, G to drop. Like last stand. Fewest problems and simplest solution.

MrFangs

Calego wrote: »

E to pick up, G to drop. Like last stand. Fewest problems and simplest solution.

Yeah, that was actually one alternative I've been thinking about. Only played Last Stand for a few rounds, so I didn't remember it was the same there.