It's so stupid that when your weapon gets shot out of your ammo flies out of your pockets, but equally stupid is when im looking at a grenade, and have none, that's on the ground right in front of me and I have to spend a minute manuevering around until I can pick it up if I even can.
Fix the pick up part of this game
- Thread starter LambChowder
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It's an engine limitation. It was like this back in the days of the MOD too. When you lose your weapon, you have to lose your ammo too, thers no other way to do it. If ammo stayed on ragdolls, it wouldn't work either, so don't suggest that. The ragdolls are done clientside so a body would show up differently on everyone's computer, and thus getting ammo from it won't work.
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Zell said:
I dont think its an engine limitation. America's Army is based on the Unreal engine, and the guns dont dump ammo all over the ground when they are dropped.
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^^ and he doesn't even ask to change that, he wants to make it easier to pick up anything and I agree with him.
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It's worse when you're trying to rummage through a fallen soldier's loot just trying to filter out a panzerfaust. The biggest thing in the pile and I can't even get it.
PS, if they can't code the shooting the weapon out of your hand thing to not dump your ammo, they need to cut it.
PS, if they can't code the shooting the weapon out of your hand thing to not dump your ammo, they need to cut it.
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I would like the pickup of weapons tweaked. Sometimes I find myself crawling on the ground moving up to the weapon ,moving back ,moving sideways so the icon can appear . Sometimes I am spending so much time crawling on the ground trying to retrieve or obtain a gun , it either ends in tragedy or cursing at the monitor " pick it up dammit ,the enemy is too close to be doing this " 
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It is not an engine limitation, however it is a gameplay limitation. Search up on it and you will see lots of opinions.
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It would be VERY nice if the pickup system could be improoved, all too often it takes a long time to just pick up a gun.
Just yesterday i lost my Kar, i tried to pick it up right away, and didn't stop trying untill it vanished.. i never did get my gun back, and had to run off with just one grenade as my only means of defense.
I think what happened was some of the ammo had fallen where the rifle was, and since you can't pick up ammo for a weapon you dont have, and i coulden't get the gun because it was trying to pick up the ammo instead, i was effectively locked out.
Just yesterday i lost my Kar, i tried to pick it up right away, and didn't stop trying untill it vanished.. i never did get my gun back, and had to run off with just one grenade as my only means of defense.
I think what happened was some of the ammo had fallen where the rifle was, and since you can't pick up ammo for a weapon you dont have, and i coulden't get the gun because it was trying to pick up the ammo instead, i was effectively locked out.
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Needs to go back to the mod's way. All you had to do its slap that USE key as you ran over the stuff and you picked it up. It may not be as "realistic", but it didnt make the game less enjoyable to play like the new system does.
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It is definately too much of a struggle to pick things up.
Sometimes you just plain can't, even if the thing is highlighted.
I've often had no luck at all in picking up satchels (when I have none already), or grenades.
Sometimes it just seems unrealistically impossible to pick things up.
Sometimes you just plain can't, even if the thing is highlighted.
I've often had no luck at all in picking up satchels (when I have none already), or grenades.
Sometimes it just seems unrealistically impossible to pick things up.
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Lonyo said:
Sorry just wanted to add a me too. It is really frustrating to have the item highligthed and the text says pick up "X" and I'm smashing the damn key to pick the item up and it doesn't. Yet other times I can madly pick up a ATRD and everydamn round in no time flat???
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I agree. This is a serious problem imo. I never try to change my weapon in game - it is too hard. What makes it even harder that the game only shows the highlighted item as text, which is slow to read if you're in combat. If you could even have some box or other graphical effect around the item that is highligted it would help.
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Always been a ***** of a problem, I'd prefer body searching to get grenades and ammo and when your victim dies whatever they had in their hands should drop to the ground (and be easy to pickup).
There doesen't have to be ultra fancy 1st person effects, just have to crouch, hold the use key and the longer you hold the more you get.
There doesen't have to be ultra fancy 1st person effects, just have to crouch, hold the use key and the longer you hold the more you get.
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I agree with the body searching bit...some CoD/MoH?(can't remember which) multiplayer servers utilyze that method of obtaining supplies. And why can't we pick up just any weapon on the battlefield? Friend or foe shouldn't matter either, as long as it's not broken a weapon should be utilyzed. One of the great aspects of CoD there...picking up any weapon.
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Uhh... you can already pick up any weapon, friend or foe, you just have to drop the one that you have first, which is the awkward part.=OF=odinfish said:And why can't we pick up just any weapon on the battlefield? Friend or foe shouldn't matter either, as long as it's not broken a weapon should be utilyzed. One of the great aspects of CoD there...picking up any weapon.
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Then how do you drop it besides getting it shot out of your hands? And I've never been able to pick up any enemy weapons. I'm not saying that I don't believe you, I just have not been able to do so yet.
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We need a swap weapon feature like DoD. It just switches out your weapon for thier weapon, no dropping your gun then scrambling for the ammo.
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Zell said:
Hey, now thats a pretty good idea there. As long as its a different key than the use key, so i dont swap my gun when i want to pick up a nade.
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