Safety Catch - Admit it, we all need it!

[xotodazo 9]

OK, so who hasn't accedently fired in dayz and caused chaos, it can give away your position and be a pain of loosing ammo to nothing...

Is it possible?

[Rage VG 4033]

Yes. Holster your gun.

[xotodazo 9]

It takes a while to unholster it... the idea of it is that its fast...

[Rage VG 4033]

I'd presume the time it took for you to press the buttons and raise your gun is more or less the same time it's going to take for you to press the buttons and flip a switch on your gun.

[dallas 5195]

I'd hate to have safety as an option in weapon modes. If you already got a select-fire rifle, different types of grenades, it takes forever to cycle through the weapon modes. Maybe you could assign a safety on/off key in controls.

Until then, you have a few options.

First of all I always rest my index finger on my mouse wheel to prevent ADs. You can also use the lower weapon action as a safety switch, especially when you're interacting with a teammate, accessing his backpack or giving him medical aid. Last option is drop all your magazines without dropping your weapon and then pick them up again. This will unchamber the round and you'd have to press reload to fire.

[xotodazo 9]

Actually, pressing the f key onto single, is faster I am sure!

[King Tubbs 224]

i have never accidentally fired in dayz so NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

unless you have to turn it on rather than it being on when you pull out you're weapon

Edited February 3, 2013 by King Tubbs

[Matteh 63]

Actually, pressing the f key onto single, is faster I am sure!

No, just seriously no.

[St. Jimmy 1631]

Yes safety button would be nice.

With Arma 2 system you just have to remember press esc before you alt+tab and use enter in the action menus.

[enforcer1975 1111]

I'd hate to have safety as an option in weapon modes. If you already got a select-fire rifle, different types of grenades, it takes forever to cycle through the weapon modes. Maybe you could assign a safety on/off key in controls.

Until then, you have a few options.

First of all I always rest my index finger on my mouse wheel to prevent ADs. You can also use the lower weapon action as a safety switch, especially when you're interacting with a teammate, accessing his backpack or giving him medical aid. Last option is drop all your magazines without dropping your weapon and then pick them up again. This will unchamber the round and you'd have to press reload to fire.

The finger of the "trigger" trick is quite ok but if you had a safety function you wouldn't have to worry about that, one click and you are in firing mode. Even gun trainers tell their trainees to always engage safety when they don't need to shoot.

You could also start by removing the lmb from the action menu, i wonder why they actually placed that on the trigger button in a mil sim game.

[Paddy0610 278]

i have never accidentally fired in dayz so NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

unless you have to turn it on rather than it being on when you pull out you're weapon

I didn´t hapend to me to , but i walked around with some stranger yesterday that had this Problem he fired a few Bullets arround by accident. this reapeated often. 1 Almost hit me ^^ so for some People it could be a game improvment for other not. Just a point of view

Edited February 3, 2013 by Paddy0610

[Clumzy (DayZ) 377]

i have never accidentally fired in dayz so NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

unless you have to turn it on rather than it being on when you pull out you're weapon

Well, I guess since it's never happened to you, then there's no need to put it in, right? I would say yes, because sometimes you just accidentally fire when using the action menu, and atl+tabbing may still cause that problem in the standalone.

However, if it's going to be used by cycling through fire modes, then I think the grenade, chemlight, and other such options should be assigned to different keys.

[OrLoK 16186]

This crops up every now and then.

I'd like a more "Reciever"-esque interaction with my weapon, but the inertaction system as it stands just isn't up to a useable safety atm IMHO.

I would like one though.

Rgds

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