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T3nn0s's avatar
8 months ago

Option to disable auto-switching to secondary when depleting ammo on primary

Would it be possible to add an option in the menus that will disable automatically switching to your secondary when your ammo runs dry on your primary(or vice-versa)?

We have a bunch of different ammo types for each weapon, so sometimes I would rather NOT switch to my pistol in the middle of a 400m firefight, and would much rather just quickly switch ammo types on my long-gun. In my head I feel like this wouldn't be a super hard option to implement for players to enable/disable auto-switching weapons, but i'm also no coder. It would just be a nice little QOL fix for people like me.

Also I have plenty of times where i'd rather quickly use my underbarrel GL, before switching to a sidearm, but instead it's "click" and I end up with a Deagle in my hand(which admittedly would work just fine for me at 400m but that's not the point).

I often have moments where I run out of ammo, and would have enough time to switch to another ammo type and simply reload, but instead the whole double animation of switching to sidearm, then back, THEN selecting new ammo and finally reloading just takes faaaaaar too long in a fight. Like yeah I get it, I'm a good player and thus I should know when I'm running low on ammo, so I should just switch ammo types BEFORE I'm fully depleted, but some times I NEED that full mag's worth of ammo before switching, and besides I am more than fast enough to just switch to my sidearm by myself if I need to do so. I'm a big boy, I can handle it. And given the lobbies of every fps game ever - everyone else is also more than fast enough to switch to their sidearms instead of reloading, especially since it's a general trope in games that switching is faster than just reloading, and so it's muscle-memory for like everyone at this point.

But yeah I just had a lot of situations recently where I got killed because of this, which sent me into the menus where I was shocked to find that there was no ability to change this behaviour. I SWEAR I remember it being a thing in other BF titles, and who knows maybe it actually IS in 2042 but just has to be done through the config or something, or I'm blind, but nothing I googled led me to any solution. IN FACT I couldn't find a single suggestion on HERE about it, so unless I'm just really wording my queries poorly, or maybe I am just a minority and it'll never happen, but I gotta shoot my shot anyways(or not because I'm too busy switching to my pistol....)


Although if it DOES become an option; Just make sure it's disabled by default so most of the people who are used to being auto-switched when their ammo is depleted aren't suddenly raging about getting killed because it didn't auto-switch to their secondary.


*all jokes are in jest.
I'm not actually THAT upset about it.
It would just be a REALLY nice QOL thing that in my head seems pretty easy to implement into the current game.

2 Replies

  • @T3nn0s

    I wouldn't be opposed to some kind of switch; this doesn't really affect me but still a switch would be good.
  • b0gart-555's avatar
    b0gart-555
    New Ace
    8 months ago

       I didn't know about the 'auto switching' !! :: I've never seen it in action (I'm on PC) :: Gonna look in settings and see if I can switch it on.....

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