Random Weapons Spawning and Equipping

[solenoid]

The game keeps unequipping my weapon and equipping a random broken gun.

I think it's just when you fight zombies but it makes fights borderline unplayable.
When you're expecting full auto fire and you get a broken shotgun which you have to unjam completely breaks your pace, not to mention getting overloaded from all the garbage guns stacking up in your inventory.

I haven't noticed this being mentioned for the upcoming patch. Are there any plans for a hotfix or any mods to fix it?

[AllanWake™]

It is the zombies yes, noticed that as well.

[Vengorin]

got the same even had it throw down my current equipped weapon ... lucky i found it again.

[[82AD] ♤Stonewall♤]

I have gotten gear spawn in my inventory way before i've met the zombies for the first time.

[[82AD] ♤Stonewall♤]

Originally posted by Vengorin:

got the same even had it throw down my current equipped weapon ... lucky i found it again.

Controllers make you drop your weapon. This is a monster design.

[Baron01]

This is happening because game tries to spawn enemies or allies but for some reason failed to do so and main weapons of those NPCs end up in your inventory. Funny bug. It happened to me several times, even with high-end weapons. It also happens to be equipped to your 2nd primary slot for some reason.

[deathelm]

Had this happen to me so many times. The primary areas were the red forest and pripyat area for me. Nothing is more annoying than having a snork tea bag you, and you pull out your shotguuu.... what the heck is this broken sniper that I have no ammo for doing in its spot! Run away!

[solenoid]

Originally posted by Baron01:

This is happening because game tries to spawn enemies or allies but for some reason failed to do so and main weapons of those NPCs end up in your inventory. Funny bug. It happened to me several times, even with high-end weapons. It also happens to be equipped to your 2nd primary slot for some reason.

Yeah it was really annoying doing pripyat with my M14 being unequipped every minute.

[Chungo Beepis]

Burers make you drop your guns, but also guns just equip sometimes. I've gotten a few new weapons that way, i think you walk over or loot a new weapon and it loots it but realises its new so the game just equips it. I'd be shootin off my gun and wondering why something wasn't dying, oh new weird submachine gun, lol well that's inconvenient. lol.

[pRaX]

Happens here aswell once in a while. The funniest one was the Zone handing me a Groza in the middle of nowhere in Zaton with nothing around me, just an huge wide open field.
Whatever the cause, I just chalked it down to the Zone blessing me with gifts.

[Enrico Pallazzo]

Do you mean random guns just appearing in your inventory? A VSS just appeared in my secondary slot and I never picked one up. Thought I just got super lucky. Then in the middle of a bloodsucker fight, my secondary changed into an M14 EBR. So no one has found a fix?

[JackieTheDemon]

Originally posted by 82AD ♤Stonewall♤:

Originally posted by Vengorin:

got the same even had it throw down my current equipped weapon ... lucky i found it again.

Controllers make you drop your weapon. This is a monster design.

Controllers don't make you drop your weapon, that's a Burer.

[Arnold]

I suspect the zombies as well because again while I was getting closer to a manufacturing plant (or whatever group of structures), my saiga (which I had in my hands) just randomly changed into a broken bryson. I walked a lil more forward and there was a group of zombies.

[Gerarderloper]

Is there a fix? I'm now getting hit HARD with this bug!

[Baron01]

This can happen anywhere on map, it happened to me in Zaton before SIRCAA events. However, it is happening very frequently in Red Forest where zombies spawn regularly. It seems like zombie spawn has some trigger that fails at times and that results in you getting weapon that the zombie that never spawned would get.
I killed me once when I needed to run and the weapons spawned in my inventory actually over-encumbered me to a point I could not move (I was already pretty full with loot and the two SVDs just stopped me dead in the tracks).

[Citizen Tim]

Originally posted by 82AD ♤Stonewall♤:

Originally posted by Vengorin:

got the same even had it throw down my current equipped weapon ... lucky i found it again.

Controllers make you drop your weapon. This is a monster design.

Yes they do but this is a bug, I'm walking along and all of a sudden a random weapon from my inventory (one I picked up ) just equips itself. Very bizarre.