cant remove Under Barrel attachments

[Stealth-unit]

any 1 having issues removing Under Barrel attachments? like a Forgrip? how to remove it X-D???

[badgerish]

take another mod of the same type and 'knock' it off. Which of course would not work IRL but this is not the most realistic of games.

[hunterjagter]

A lot of those mechanics were introduced to lower the probability of accidentally ripping off your scope when doing a frantic reload under fire

[Thalyn]

It's a side-effect of changing an inconsistency without appreciating why it was made in the first place. Prior to the Grand Update you used the Trigger to interact with attachments and Grip to hold the weapon - nice and clean, since there was no second-guessing possible.

Since the Grand Update all interaction is done using the Grip, with an option to have the Trigger to perform the same function (in some cases). As a result there's no reliable way to distinguish between whether you want to grab the pointer or the fore-grip/-guard, nor is there any reliable way to distinguish between whether you want to grab the fore-grip to remove it or to use it. Without those distinctions the only assumption is that you want to grab - and use - the grip, so a work-around is required to do otherwise.

[rogermorse]

ok fine but then how do you carry a laser over a new weapon...

[badgerish]

Originally posted by rogermorse:

ok fine but then how do you carry a laser over a new weapon...

find another under-barrel item and knock the laser off, then pick it up and stick it to the new weapon.
It is not an ideal system. But after you have levelled up a bit and got some weapons that you like, not much of a reason to pick up items in the field.

[rogermorse]

Originally posted by badgerish:

It is not an ideal system. But after you have levelled up a bit and got some weapons that you like, not much of a reason to pick up items in the field.

It is not ideal at all and frankly I don't consider it tied to leveling up, but just for the pure fun of switching things around. I mean also the actual underbarrel laser is very prices but it will not collimate with the optics. So if you want to use the optics for a proper shot, you have to see the laser for a precise shot and not your own optics (which somehow are not collimating on the right distance, let's say 50-100m and you can't adjust that). And since apparently you can't switch off the laser (I hear a click if i pull the left trigger but it stays on), it becomes very annoying on long or short distances while using the optics...to the point it would be just more ideal in that particular situation to just get the annoying laser away from the barrel...and you can't do that without another underbarrel attachment. It's all like a chain reaction of things leading to general annoyment lol.

[phobos2077]

Yeah, very annoying behavior not being able to remove laser pointer to another weapon. Not game breaking but unfortunate. Hope they will add it back.