How to use/sheath picked up weapons

[Strummer]

Enjoying the game but something of a novice. I'm in Havana and found a dropped musket that I'd like to be able to shoot but cannot figure out how either to shoot it or to shoulder it for future use. Advice appreciated.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Use them by attacking regularly. You can't sheath them, you can only drop them (the ones you pick up).

[Strummer]

Thanks!

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

No problem. I haven't picked up a musket in a while but I'm fairly certain you can aim with it the same way you do with pistols, as long as it's in your hand. You attack with it the same way you attack with any other weapon. Basically weapons you pick up replace your normal weapons until you drop it again.

But yeah you can't keep them. Muskets are some of the strongest weapons in the game, both melee and otherwise, so keeping them just by picking it up and sheathing it would be a bit overpowered I think.

[Strummer]

Yes, I need to get used to the contex-sensitive combat. I bought two swords; does this mean that if I pick up a musket and run across the map with it, I no longer have my swords? And I do not know how to aim the musket because I am right at the beginning of the game and have not handled a gun of any sort yet. It seems to me that you can only aim a weapon when the game identifies an enemy presence and you switch into "fight mode" but I'm not sure. I reallt appreciate your help in getting me up to speed.