Drop Weapon Distance

[Arcane]

On many occasions I have tried dropping a weapon in order to lose carry weight and pick up another that is on the ground, but a drop is literally a drop.

Take for example in Counter-Strike. In CS, when you "drop" a weapon, you actually throw it about 5ft in front of you rather than dropping it exactly where you stand.

In Killing Floor, you do just that. I normally have to jump and release the weapon in the air in order to successfully drop it. When there are umpteen mutated chasing you down in a tight corridor, it's hard to do this effectively when you keep picking up the same weapon you dropped.

I suggest making the "drop" distance around the same as dropping Money, and so therefore you cannot possibly pick up the same weapon again, at least not by mistake.

I really hope I'm not the only person who has this problem, as I really have trouble in doing this when I've become so used to the way to drop it in Counter-Strike.

 

[Raj]

Dropping weapon was allright in mod.

I guess that's another downgrade...

 

[Philosoraptor]

No, I have this same piss all problem too.

I suggest making it so you have to press USE in order to pick a weapon up, because I constantly end up picking dead weight or a weapon I didn't want and auto-switching to it.

 

[Darkcoder]

I agree with both points, this is another thing that can be really annoying.

 

[LemoN]

the weapon DOES get thrown away around 5 feet, problem is that if you drop it whilst running foward you immediatley pick it up in midair again
just drop it whilst standing still or going back a tiny bit

 

[Oi!Oi!Oi!]

I died a few times trying to drop my empty weapon to pick up another one. I wasn't running or moving forward at all. The dropped weapon just get s automaticlaly picked up again and again.

 

[Nanostrike]

Such a simple fix, too! Just make the 'drop weapon' range the same as the 'Drop Money' range. Please, devs? And while you're at it, when I accidentally pick up a second handcannon and toss it aside, please make it not make me toss almost all of my handcannon ammo aside too?

 

[Renagade Raven]

I agree too, and what about not having to click on a weapon to switch to it in the menu? that would be nice.

 

[Kernel]

Such a simple fix, too! Just make the 'drop weapon' range the same as the 'Drop Money' range. Please, devs? And while you're at it, when I accidentally pick up a second handcannon and toss it aside, please make it not make me toss almost all of my handcannon ammo aside too?

A marriage simulator? In my game?
I was actually about to make a topic on your second point, but meh. This really needs to be fixed, as I recently got lvl 5 sharpshooter, and I don't always want the duals, or maybe I just want to share with a friend.

Pretty please TWI???

 

[Jaek]

On many occasions I have tried dropping a weapon in order to lose carry weight and pick up another that is on the ground, but a drop is literally a drop.

I miss the days when I could hurl my law unrealistically far.

I'd like an improved throw distance for the pickup-throw-and-repeat method to carry weapons over to a mate.

 

[{FUX}busterhyman]

On many occasions I have tried dropping a weapon in order to lose carry weight and pick up another that is on the ground, but a drop is literally a drop.

Take for example in Counter-Strike. In CS, when you "drop" a weapon, you actually throw it about 5ft in front of you rather than dropping it exactly where you stand.

In Killing Floor, you do just that. I normally have to jump and release the weapon in the air in order to successfully drop it. When there are umpteen mutated chasing you down in a tight corridor, it's hard to do this effectively when you keep picking up the same weapon you dropped.

I suggest making the "drop" distance around the same as dropping Money, and so therefore you cannot possibly pick up the same weapon again, at least not by mistake.

I really hope I'm not the only person who has this problem, as I really have trouble in doing this when I've become so used to the way to drop it in Counter-Strike.

I agree with you...but then again don't get me started on weapon drop...

 

[Murphy]

Yes. You can always throw your own weapon away, either by walking backwards or throwing it out to the side, but for passing weapons along it's much more convenient if they can be thrown a little farther. CS has a good distance, as had the mod.

 

[F6Knight]

Such a simple fix, too! Just make the 'drop weapon' range the same as the 'Drop Money' range. Please, devs? And while you're at it, when I accidentally pick up a second handcannon and toss it aside, please make it not make me toss almost all of my handcannon ammo aside too?

Another request on top of this one.
Whenever I throw my second 9mm or Handcannon, I always autoswitch to the knife. This should not happen either tbh.

 

[Arcane]

Yup it really is a simple fix, hope this gets sorted, makes switching weapons a no-no for me now, which is a shame as it's so important if you're still half-way through a round after going eco with your money at the Trader's and need to pick some stuff up.