If you're going to give me 3 weapon slots, let me double click the D-Pad to pull out the weapon that is 2 spaces away, instantly.

[Gan]

If I want to pull out my bow, which is 2 slots away, why the ♥♥♥♥ are you forcing my character to pull out the sword first? That wastes so much time and it makes no sense and worst of all it is completely unnecessary.

Just let me double click the D-pad, so he pulls out the weapon that is 2 spaces away instantly. With the need to press Y+RT in order to 2-hand weapons already making the game feel clunkier than other Souls games, why introduce this extra layer of clunk? This is by far the clunkiest feeling souls game since Dark Souls 1. And the only reason that feels clunky is because of the limitations of lock-on. So, amazingly, for all the ♥♥♥♥ DS2 gets, it is by far the smoothest feeling Souls game in terms of character control.

If you think I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ exaggerating, go play Dark souls 3, and then Dark Souls 2 and test it for yourself. They've intentionally made the weapon switching slower and clunkier, for literally no reason. It just makes the game feel objectively slower... Dark Souls 2 weapon switching was nearly instant. You could literally switch two weapon slots in that game faster than you can 1 weapon slot in this game. In Elden Ring the character is apparently autistic so you need to go through the entire slow as ♥♥♥♥ weapon switching animation 2 times in order to get your third weapon out. Making the third weapon slot less than useless. It is only a liability that detracts from my performance in both single player and multiplayer.

Did nobody test this? Or even think about it? It's really annoying, how unnecessary it is.

[Darth Invader]

Don't people hard-swap to get around this? I've never been to good at it, but I know it saves a lot of time if you get used to it. I'm pretty sure it eliminates the swap animation. And it saves weight.

https://youtu.be/h5c4dSQvX0E

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

It's very annoying. And I hate how attacks are buffered, but switching equipment doesn't get buffered lol. I didn't realize attacks were even buffered till I saw so many ppl complaining about it, because I've been frustrated with the switching the whole time.

[Solemen Wolf]

What you can do is have your main weapon on your second slot, bow on the first and whatever you want for the third. So you hold to go back to the first slot or tap to the third slot when using your main weapon on the second. Probably useless but hope it helps.