Make Belt Holsters Great Again

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Make Belt Holsters Great Again

Post by DatBerry » 20 Jun 2017, 14:18

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Simply put, there is no difference in the speed of pulling a pistol out of your belt holster than pulling it out of your bag, it also only holds ammo for your sidearm, not your main arm.

What I'm suggesting here is that you can use the holster command to instantly pull out whatever gun you have in your holster, similar to the shoulder holster already in game.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): This may not make sidearms any more useful, but you would at least reach to it to fire one or two rounds before dying, it will give more variety as currently there's no real reason to pick the holster rig over the ammo one.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): (isn't this the first two parts in one place?) anyway, I think this can only return positively, another issue with holsters I see is the shotgun one, you see. the issue is. You can't put the shotgun on your back, if you want to do so, you'll need the scabbard, which is useless to say the least unless you want to carry two shotguns for whatever reason. because you could put the shotgun in your armor slot and the rifle on your back, you think it's pretty much useless, right? but wait, there's more! you actually need to have the scabard contents open to grab them, instead of instantly grabbing it if it was on armor.

with this new feature, the scabbard will work as a fast access point to your shotgun instead of an extra unneeded hurdle.

and one last point, one may thing "but no! this will make the shoulder holster we already have useless!!" i refute this point by the simple fact that the holster does not take up any weapon slot, and it can fit any sidearm anyway.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): I don't know how hard it is to code this, but since holsters can only fit one gun in them, i don't think it'll be too hard. Belts would react to the Holster command already ingame and search the holster you have for any gun if your hand is empty, otherwise stuff the gun in your hand into the holster if it has space left. maybe add an option to set holster priority, as on other servers, if you have two holsters you will get a pop up window to choose which to activate, which defeats the purpose of speedy unholstering.

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Re: Make Belt Holsters Great Again

Post by Edgelord » 20 Jun 2017, 14:45

All single-slot holsters are quick draw now. Do yer research mate.
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Re: Make Belt Holsters Great Again

Post by DatBerry » 20 Jun 2017, 15:19

will shit, even the shotgun one?

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Re: Make Belt Holsters Great Again

Post by DatBerry » 20 Jun 2017, 15:28

Edgelord wrote:All single-slot holsters are quick draw now. Do yer research mate.
just checked, they do unholster clicking, but they don't react to the holster command, which is what this suggestion wants, holsters are fast access and currently there isn't much difference between pulling your pistol out of a holster or out of your bag.

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