This is so annoying, it’s really screwing up all my battles. I should never have upgraded weapon slots, now I constantly find myself attacking with nothing/fist, and you have to cycle through 2 empty slots before coming back to your weapon.
Why is this even in the game? Why not ignore empty slots while cycle through weapons? If someone would want to fight without a weapon, they would not equip a weapon.
Please at least make an option to ignore empty slots while cycle through weapons
Yeah this is still not fixed in Refined.
Can you please address this? I had to create a new character and make sure I don’t upgrade weapon slots, to make the game playable again.
Some people actually want to select the blank slot, it is the way you select your bare fist. I’ve seen some people do play throughs using just their fist to punch.
This is also handy for getting your character in the empty-hand state, for things like screenshots etc.
There are also times when you want to remove the bonuses or stats from a certain slot. Or play with only your offhand, or only your 1H weapon. If you could not select the blank slot, this would not be possible.
The problem you have of being able to select the blank slot, is a minor one compared to NOT being able to select the blank slot for many use-case scenarios.
Having to cycle through 2 empty slots is a lot worse, then going to inventory and remove your equipped weapon for your screenshot. But let’s not compare who is the bigger victim. What about having an option to disable empty weapon slots, so we don’t have to cycle through them unless we want to?
Sometimes you play frost + physical to shatter, it’s annoying having the 3rd empty slot to cycle through each time you want to shatter an enemy, far more often than you take a screenshot.
Cold Weapon in Slot 1, Physical Weapon in slot 2. I mean, is that really complicated? And you’ll know whenever you’re using your Physical weapon it’s two-taps to get to your Cold weapon.
It’s not complicated so why don’t you understand?
Slot 1 = Frost
Slot 2 = Shatter (physical)
Slot 3 = Empty
Now you have to tap twice each and every time to want to switch back to physical. Great annoyance.
Lets say
Slot 1 = Weapon
Slot 2 = Empty
Slot 3 = Empty
You accidentally switch weapon and want to go back, and you have to cycle through and additional empty slot. Double up on annoyance.
So why not add a feature that can “lock” a slot, whether it’s equipped with a weapon or not, so you don’t cycle through it? That way we both get what we want
i personally do not think this is a bug. we currently have no other means of unequipping our weapon. we can’t sheathe it, and switching to bare hands needs menuing.
i just do not unlock slots i do not need with my character, so i never have this issue. and 1 or two additional button presses to switch weapon slots in my opinion are not even mildly inconvenient. if you have only one weapon equipped you would never touch that button anyways, and when switching between two weapons tapping it once more is like 5 ms. going into menu, navigating to the slot and unequipping is much more of an hassle.
in any case, i will ask if this is intended or a bug.
It’s slower and annoying, annoying enough to make a new character XD
You can take off the weapon to take a picture you are not in the middle of the action, if you really insist that pulling out basic punches is an important thing they could also make a simple setting “skip empty slots”.
It’s not something particularly difficult to implement, it doesn’t take a lot of time, nor complicated code, pressing the button takes time, just enough time to change the outcome of a fight, for example I had to switch between the bow and the shield to make a perry, if I had to click twice I’m sure I would lose the timing and not be able to do it as well anymore
Not to mention all those people who have a shitty D-pad (almost all controllers under €25)
Different people have different sensitivities, for example I have a friend who finds it annoying when a game sometimes goes below 120-60 fps (depending on the game), annoying enough to not play it, and so when it happens he decides to wait to do an upgrade.
You say: “we currently have no other means of unequipping our weapon”, but we don’t have that anyway if you don’t have at least 1 extra weapon slot unlocked.
When we start out with only 1 weapon slot, we have no means of unequipping. So we never had. Unless we do it through the menu.
And you write:
“and 1 or two additional button presses to switch weapon slots in my opinion are not even mildly inconvenient.”
I guess you have not played with a controller?
And just because you deem it “not even mildly inconvenient” doesn’t make it so for other players. I find this the most inconvenient annoyance in the game, next to falling of the ledge in Crucible.
Did you not read what was said? If you play frost + shatter build, you literally have to change weapon all the time, then 1 additional button press is a huge deal. But okay.
You write:
“if you have only one weapon equipped you would never touch that button anyways”
Maybe you didn’t read what I wrote, but heal is D-pad Up, switching weapons is D-Pad Right. Those two buttons are just next to each other. In the heat of battle, you are max stressed out, you accidentally hit “d-pad right” instead of “d-pad up” and now you wonder why you didn’t heal and where your weapon went, maybe even lose the battle. But okay.
Yes that’s true that usually happens if you use a controller because of the Dpad settings in steam controller settings being put on 8-way instead of 4-way.
If you are using a controller?
If you’re not using a controller then I don’t know..
It should switch to a free spot because if you want to fight bare handed you should be able to without it switching to another weapon.
What would solve this is if we could freely lock equipment slots and it would also be nice to be able to lock gear in your inventory so that we aren’t selling stuff by mistake?
