Face plate implant stops me using optical camo?

[Neo]

Is it just for the mission or do i need to assign a new key for optical camo now?

[Boothy]

It replaces your grenade.

Go into Inventory, select the grenade, and optical camo should be an option, assuming you've had the chrome fitted at a ripper doc of course.

As far as I know, you can either have grenades, or optical camo, not both!

[Neo]

That's not what I'm talking about. There is part of the PL story where you get a new implant. That implant uses the same hotkey as optical camo.

[shoopy]

You switch it out for the optical camo after you're done with the mission via the grenade slot like the poster above said.

[Neo]

Originally posted by shoopy:

You switch it out for the optical camo after you're done with the mission via the grenade slot like the poster above said.

Well the poster above me was talking about grenades and ignored my actual question about the face plant implant. The face plate implant is currently installed at the same time as my optical camo implant. But the face plate implant quick key overides the use of the optical camo. I already knew that optical camo replaces grenades and that was not my question.

The confusion at my end was the fact that both implants are installed at the same time but one overides the other. But I'm glad I can deselect it when I'm done with the mission, so thanks for answering my question.

[funkynutz]

Yeah, it's annoying... Any implant or equipment that uses that key, stops it from working. You can be stealthy, or heavily (sharply? explosively?) armed, but not both.

Readying your Armblades/Launchers could have easily been assigned to hold the melee button or something else instead of the general equipment button that's used for everything else. Why not have "throw grenade" on it's own independent key?

[Boothy]

You (OP) also referred to 'optical camo', so I stated where that was controlled from, so you'd know where to look, to see if that was also the same place for the face plate implant.

[$CRWD]

Having one hotkey for optical camo, grenades, and disguise tech isn't at all necessary mechanically. CDPR really tried their best not to take pointers from games like Deus Ex that already solved these problems. Don't know why they did this. Hopefully a modder allows these items to be bound separately.