Fix for weapon switch delay

[Deleted28731935User]

Hey everyone i know im not the only one whos experienced this before but there are numerous steam posts talking about this issue. the problem is switching weapons may or may not always work sometimes it can take up to 5-10 seconds to switch weapons and this is annoying during fire fights and when fighting the legendary bullet sponges i have yet to find a mod that fixes this and i was hoping to find some insight on this issues. thanks for reading.

[aminecj]

Yea i still experience this now it's so annoying & You can't play the game like that. There must be a mod or a script that solve this

[TKayFire]

Never seen this before.

[Zzyxzz]

Buy an SSD, it fixes everything.

[Ghozgul]

Buy an SSD, it fixes everything.

Not for me, still have the delay while switching weapons

[kevkiev]

Personally, I doubt this can be fixed by a mod. My own conclusion is that the delay is directly related to the way the game renders graphics.

 

In my first playthrough, soon after release, I ran all sorts of HD texture mods including weapons ones (my rigs not the best, but it is pretty good - specs on my profile page- and installing HD graphics is my typical first move with any beth game... until this one) and the constant, sometimes seemingly endless, hotkey/ weapon switch delay drove me absolutely batty. One of the reasons I quit playing, really. And I noticed that the delay was worse in graphics-intensive areas, like in the middle of a downtown firefight, as opposed to where there's not much going on graphically like when you're out in the wilds setting up a sniper position.

 

This time around, I've really toned down my HD graphics (with, alas, no weapons HD graphics) and the delay isn't even remotely close to being as bad. (Was it fixed in whole or in part by a Beth patch in the meantime? Impossible for me to say.) But, for sure, the delay is ALWAYS worse if I'm rocking some amazing HD-textured mod-introduced gun as opposed to a vanilla weapon. If I'm just switching between vanilla weapons (again, I'm using vanilla weapons textures), there's virtually no delay. For example, I ditched an amazing gauss rifle retexture (despite hating the look of the vanilla gauss) because it just delayed switching too much. And I gave up on the utterly amazing RU556 assault rifle mod because of the consistent extra couple seconds that it introduced to hot key switching. That said, I am using the SCAR-LK assault rifle mod (original version) as, compared to the various other gun mods I've tried, its delay isn't too bad and is worth the extra badassery the gun brings. The R91 assault rifle was pretty good too. (Note that I really haven't tried a ton of gun mods so can't really give a wide range of exprerience. Note also that I don't have an SSD, although I personally can't see the hard drive coming much into play on this issue.)

 

Again, just my personal opinion based on my own experience.