Axes and guns?

[Rhime 0]

First off let me say I'm getting better at the game after my first log in yesterday and muddling through the controls, key commands and general survival techniques.

One thing I noticed today was that after picking up a hatchet and learning to use it effectively against zed's, I came across an automatic weapon(rifle-no ammo), but after picking it up, I couldn't equip my hatchet when I needed to without dropping the rifle.

Am I missing something about the gear bags as I haven't figured out what slots are for what gear etc?

Surely I don't have to drop my close encounter weapon to pick up, use and keep a ranged weapon?

So far the mod rocks-keep up the good work devs..:)

[ninami 37]

You must put the axe in your toolbelt. You can just right-click on the axe and choose "Put on toolbelt". This removes your axe as a melee weapon and moves it to the toolbelt (can still use it to chop wood), now you can pick up the weapon on the ground.

[Yiddus 0]

Right click the axe and put it into the toolbelt, if you need it as a weapon again then you will need to drop the gun and equip the axe once more!

[Rhime 0]

I edited my thread as I realized that I actually could pick up the rifle, but then I couldn't equip my hatchet as it said there was not room to use it...

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Really? I have to lose the rifle?

[ninami 37]

Pick up the axe, put it in the toolbelt, then pick up the weapon. Now you have both, but you can't use the axe as a melee weapon if you have another primary weapon.

[guidez 180]

There is a switching hatchet and primary weapon video on the GuideZ channel.

[haseo461x 0]

What I don't understand is that i cannot have the hatchet/axe as a secondary weapon. What i am running into when I'm first starting off after death is that once i get a gun, i try and keep it for as long as possible but if it low on ammo, i cant just simply quick switch to the hatchet.

I hope they have some changes in the works for this because even keeping the "hyper realism" game play true, I'm sure i can drop a gun and switch to an axe on my belt to hit a zombie in real life.

[Slitter 11]

I would suggest that people should be able to use the hatchet the same way than flares from the inventory but from the toolbelt.