Holstering

[Greedy Pandah]

Anyone else having a hard time holstering weapons? It's so hard for me to holster majority of weapons and the battle axe seems nearly impossible to holster over my shoulder. I try holstering when my controller vibrates but it just falls to the ground. I know you can holster by holding the Menu button but that takes to much time sometimes.

[Drewskie]

I mainly have problems on the the sides of the body for pistols and the like. Especially the left side where I tend to accidentally grab an ammo mag instead. Hopefully this will get smoothed out.

[Greedy Pandah]

yeah, I feel like there should be a better haptic feed back and the magazines could be a little bit more lower. Been several times when I was climbing and I grabbed some ammo instead of the wall.

[I am the Night]

Wow I thought it was just me. I asked my girlfriend and she said she was just using the menu and didn't even bother with holstering. I dropped the axe three or four times. It seems really tricky to know for certain.

[Darqfalls]

I was having trouble grabbing sidearms instead of ammo till I tried just reaching as high as possible under my arms as I could. Ammo is more at your belt, your holsters are right under your armpits, so you should have a bit of leeway there. Try it out. As for back holsters, I found I had an easier time if I put my hand down past my shoulder before letting go, or putting my hand up past the middle of my back for the lower back holster. Seems to work pretty consistently.

That being said, if you aren't standing mostly upright then all of that goes out the window. I cannot for the life of me holster/unholster anything consistently when crouched. It's easier when actually physically crouching but still really finnicky.

[WhiskeyNinja]

Yes, I am 6'2" and I constantly feel like I am holstering sidearms inside of my armpits, I feel like the area for sidearms needs to be bigger, with more haptic feedback.

[kahunamoore]

Same here. Gave up, using the damn menu until this gets sorted. Makes it really hard to explore while being quick to defend. Even with that issue I'm still enjoying the game.

[AzeriBro]

Same here. I thought I would get used to it, but I always end up throwing the weapons away.

[Lavarious]

I'd say the back inventory slots have been the most consistent inventory slots out of any game for me. I've never had any issues rapidly throwing things back in and taking things out. But the armpit holsters are weird. I can't tell you how many times I've dropped my pistol trying to holster it.

[EuterNal, God's Silliest Soldier]

TL;DR: Try adjusting your height (Probably downwards) a couple centimeters, reading 4th paragraph down are the advice for holstering

I'm using a WMR, and I think there's something up with the world scale as I feel noticeably smaller/shorter, not as much when I tried an Index. So I had to calibrate and alter my height A LOT just to make it feel right.

I'm 1.78 myself, and my floor is adjusted to be really "on the edge", so I couldnt have any offset (which game detected to be a whole 7cm/~3 inches), and changing the height to the rediculous value of 1.65 made the body feel right, but the arm reach was too short.

While playing around whith the height, I've noticed that it is simpler to holster into the pistol holsters if your in-game height is a tad bit less than your actual height. I guess it's because with lower in-game height hitboxes for the holsters are located lower (duh) and it may be possible to grab/holser weapons without shoving the controllers up your armpits.


Shoulder holsters are wonky, but I think that to properly holster you have to reach out and actually touch back-top of your shoulder to properly holster. Also, you have to do it slowly, since the weapons have thy weight and they might lag behind.

So, to holster the weapons behind your back you have to
1) reach behind your back *slowly* until you've touched your shoulder
2) release at this exact moment

To take out your weapons:
1) Reach for the same location
2) (!!!) Use your trigger/index finder to take out the weapon, even on Valve Index controllers

The most painful is the waist/belt holster, that I don't think was in the game from the get-go. To holster there, you have to REACH BEHIND YOUR BACK on waist level and release. It's tricky, because if you're running sideways your in-game body rotates quite a bit and you can't holster there that well, although it's easy to take out your weapon by just reaching for your thigh on your right side

I really hope this longpost helps, because I'm enjoying the holstering mechanics in this game and the game overall

[MB Geek]

I came here wondering if it was just me LOL. I am probably over-simplifying the mechanics and the programming involved but it just seems to me if my hand goes behind my head and I drop an item, it should just holster ... period. It's VR which is all about hand tracking ...When in the hell would want to drop something behind me ? I would think this shouldn't be hard to implement

[RadioactiveRubberPants]

the holsters are "under arm" holsters, not hip holsters like a cowboy. Maybe that's why?

[MB Geek]

Origineel geplaatst door RadioactiveRubberPants:

the holsters are "under arm" holsters, not hip holsters like a cowboy. Maybe that's why?

Oddly I have no problem with those LOL For me it's the ones on your back (and other games seem to have similar issues) I have found that if I touch the controller to the top of my shoulder it seems to work OK, but at 52 years old, it's not exactly a pain free motion :P

[RadioactiveRubberPants]

Origineel geplaatst door MB Geek:

Origineel geplaatst door RadioactiveRubberPants:

the holsters are "under arm" holsters, not hip holsters like a cowboy. Maybe that's why?

Oddly I have no problem with those LOL For me it's the ones on your back (and other games seem to have similar issues) I have found that if I touch the controller to the top of my shoulder it seems to work OK, but at 52 years old, it's not exactly a pain free motion :P

I even reach across with my right hand to my left shoulder to get/put my axe away. You using lighthouses or something else? I have no issues with lighthouses. If you are using lighthouses, that's pretty odd. I'm 48 :)

[MB Geek]

Origineel geplaatst door RadioactiveRubberPants:

Origineel geplaatst door MB Geek:

Oddly I have no problem with those LOL For me it's the ones on your back (and other games seem to have similar issues) I have found that if I touch the controller to the top of my shoulder it seems to work OK, but at 52 years old, it's not exactly a pain free motion :P

I even reach across with my right hand to my left shoulder to get/put my axe away. You using lighthouses or something else? I have no issues with lighthouses. If you are using lighthouses, that's pretty odd. I'm 48 :)

Lighthouses and they are connected with a cable. I started trying the reach across method on my own last night and that works better but I'll still stick by my original comment, the holster "box" should be much more lenient as I don't see the reason for it not to be :D

[KevinCow]

I think a big part of the issue is that the holsters are tied to your character's model, not the headset. So depending on what you're doing, especially if you're crouching, your holsters can be in completely different place from where you expect.

But yeah, it needs to be way more forgiving, maybe even extra forgiving if it's the last item that was holstered in a particular slot. If it's anywhere in the general vicinity or the holster it was last in and not moving very fast when released, it gets pocketed.

Or maybe they could have a separate gesture for holstering items, similar to how telekinesis requires an extra trigger press. Like, let go with 3 fingers but keep your index finger touching (not pressing) the trigger, and this will holster if it's touching a holster but won't drop if it's not.