Can't throw stars or molotov cocktails

[Arizona Willie]

I keep running into a glitch that keeps me from throwing anything --- other than my weapon. I select Firecrackers using the 1 key and highlighting Firecrackers but then I can't throw them. I click the MMB and notthing happens. Sometimes if I hold the RMB and click the LMB it throws my weapon instead of the Firecracker or item I < want > to throw.

I have gone into the menu's and set everything to < default > and it STILL does not work.
I am completely unable, right now, to throw anything.

The MMB is supposed to throw things but it DOES NOTHING. My mouse batteries are good and it works fine everywhere else. Sometimes IT DOES WORK but then after awhile it quits working again.

Need lots of help fast on this. It makes the game unplayable. If this doesn't get fixed I might as well consider it $60 down the drain and delete the game.

[Hrum]

reasign the key. in key bindings menu

[Piotrek_Techland]

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[billw001]

I had the same issue and figured it out.
The display on the left side stopped showing and could not use any equipment with MMB.
Select the items you want to throw with your middle mouse button, (have them in the slots), THEN press the Number 1 on the left side of your keyboard for the throw items to display on the left side of the screen... Keep pressing the number 1 to cycle through firecrackers, drinks, Molotov coctails, etc....
You might have to be outside of a safe zone to see them on your HUD

[uhh slammed]

i tried to but it is being stupid so i clicked right click and it worked if is not working then click t and right click and it may work.

[Lenny Rat]

Have you considered that you MMB might be failing? How old is the mouse?

First step is to reassign the action to another key and try it.

[Kossilar]

The "grapple" button doesn't do anything. Use the "Use Equipment" button.

[DedZedNub]

Probably won't help, but I'll explain what I do and a caveat as well.

First, the caveat. There is an option in the game for Throwing Melee Weapons ... which is not your main question ... you can set it to set yourself up to throw with EITHER a single right mouse click or a double right mouse click, then you will hold the throwing stance, and hit left click to throw -- at least that's my memory of it.

Ok, now for the Throwing Weapons. I found that MMB was either not recognized well or was doing double duty, and since the situation that triggers each duty is contextual, meaning what is in the environment near you, I reassigned the MMB key to something else.

Ok, so I use the G key to throw a Throwing Weapon. Think of it as the Grenade key. It is near a powerful finger, your index finger steps once to the right, and it is a not infrequent choice in some FPS games with lots of different weapons.

Ok, so what do I make the MMB do. Well, I use it as the Interact with loot key, basically instead of what most games use E to do, or what perhaps Dying Light defaults to F to do.

Then I remap F to kick, since I often use that in a FPS Wargame as the rifle melee attack, etc. I almost never use E at all in this game. Some of all this was part of adjusting to the earlier Dead Island original game, which uses slightly different defaults than Dying Light.

This makes it easy for me to remember. It also means that if I have a game with leaning, I can still use Q and E for leaning around a wall and having partial cover, so no bad habits are created by Dying Light. MMB was often used by me instead of E anyway, for using or looting or activating an object in the environment. The reasoning is that the more often I can move to evade without having another finger on another key on the same hand, the easier it is to dodge or evade. So I try to avoid using E at the same time as the WASD keys, at least in action. So I can loot easily with MMB which is my mouse hand, while I evade. Kicking in most games is pretty easy to know when to do, and you can hit F or G as you other fingers handle WASD.

I've now used my Dying Light Setup for keybinds in most games of recent vintage, as I find that it allows me to think in what is mostly a learned very active and reflexive process. However, my lack of practice using the E key is now problematic and can hurt me with the Grab and Grab and Toss mechanic. Since another used of MMB in the game is to fight the grip of Volatiles, that works also okay, as I'm used to finding the MMB key.

Anyway, so maybe try making the Throw or Use Gear key as G. The only other place you may find it unintuitive, I think, is for using the UV Light or Grappling Hook. However, Grappling starts with G, and UV Light or Shield Blocking with G are not too bad. My biggest issue is if I use G too much, I tend with older fingers to forget to stay ready on my F key, but that's because I don't practice enough using Q (for Danger Sense or whatever) correctly as I used to.

[DedZedNub]

Another problem with MMB for activating Throwing Weapons is that you may accidentally use the scroll mouse function and then switch weapons or gear. That might even reset what mode you are in, so you switch out of throwing mode, dunno.

So if you have a stiffer MMB for scroll fuction or mouse wheel, like with ratcheting sound, then it might be okay. But otherwise, it might be too loose and cause issues.