Proposal: Safety switch on rifles.

[surreal crypt]

I'd like to have safety switch on the rifles. As a ps5 player I sometimes put aside my controller to grab cup of coffee or something. Sometimes I hit the R2-Button accidentally and fire the rifle.

Like irl i'd like to have a safety switch on my rifles to set them in to a shot ready mode and have them locked otherwise. This could be switched by holding down e.g. square or something, with a little UI indicator and a click sound.

This feature could be optional by enabling it in the settings.
Also: pulling out a rifle (switching from binoculars to a rifle) should default to the locked state making it an intentional action to unlock the trigger and getting ready to shoot.

This could really increase the immersion and make taking a shot a more intensive moment.

[gray meadow]

isnt there pretty much already an option for that

manual bullet cycling

[surreal crypt]

Nope, manual bullet cycling affects only bolt actions and only works upon not completely filled up mags. If you have a filled up mag, you always have a round in the chamber without any safety option.

And yes, i have manual bullet cycling turned on for immersion reasons

[tender heath]

Yes, agreed. Done this too many times. 😂

[foggy lynx]

Only if they make the many many many break actions stay open as the safety feature.

Although I think console is kinda running out of button space

[jade meteor]

This is a good feature where realism meets practicality in the game

[surreal crypt]

I think, (if the proposed safety option is enabled in the settings) i would like to always have the rifle locked when i choose it from the weapon wheel, so that i have to intentionally need to unlock the safety. Safety is priority. Pulling out a rifle in the unlocked state per default would make the feature useless.
People who don't like it could disable the feature using the settings (so you have the well know current behavior)

I wouldn't mind if the safety turn on/off sound would be the same on all rifles or would be a reuse of the grelck drilling shot/bullet switch sound.
As indicator of locked or unlocked state the zero distance numbers could be displayed red if locked and green if unlocked - with the locked state as default after pulling out the rifle.

[unborn dove]

It was a thing on Classic, why not CotW. Hopefully we get it

[surreal crypt]

Bringing it to EW's attention here might increase the probability of us getting this feature. In fact it is a small QOL feature, that should be really easy to code.

[surreal crypt]

Bump

[gray meadow]

if we took the mechanic from classic ou wouldnt be able to hipfire anymore

[surreal crypt]

Haven't played classic. How does it work there?

In my mind if you pull out a gun and unlock it using the unlock button, there would be no reason to not being able to hipfire. Just unlock the rifle like you would habe to in real life.

[gray meadow]

in classic you cant fire until you aim, and during the aiming animation your character flicks/releases the safety

[surreal crypt]

I would prefer a user intaction for locking/unlocking. That way you could also use your scope for spotting your animals without triggering a shot by accident, if you just want to take a look. Maybe you want to leave your binoculars at home if you are really filled up with equip

[unborn dove]

Not sure if you know the game Ready or Not, it's far from hunting but all the guns in the game has a user interaction for safteys, so you could ADS without firing and flip the switch off at any time

[surreal crypt]

Bump

[surreal crypt]

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