[Bug] Leaving a bow "aimed" prevents you from using firearms

4 votes

If you have a bow, bolt action rifle and shotgun on your quick bar.
Select bow. Aim bow. Don't fire the arrow.
Change to something else like a knife or axe or other tool or whatever (because your buddy killed the animal you were going to shoot). Move on with life.

See new animal... select the hotbar key for your rifle. Rifle comes up and immediate goes away.Try shotgun... same thing... can't access rifle or shot gun.

Select Bow. Click alt fire again to un aim the bow.

Click rifle.. works fine. Click shotgun works fine.

Under consideration Weapons Suggested by: Shockwave (31 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Jan • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

04 Sep, '22
Rat152
Done that to maybe related to lag or connection as well, thanks for posting
26 Aug, '23
Zinlu
Eminently repeatable in solo play. This bug has been in the game a long time. Could we please get this looked at?

Sure, you can hit R to cancel your bow shot, then hit the key for your knife to bring it up to stab the creature that is bearing down on you, and not have the bug. Or you can just hit the hotkey for your knife instinctually to defend yourself, and experience the bug when you are ready to shoot something, hopefully having time to switch to bow, go to aim mode and release, then switch back to rifle/shotgun to defend yourself.
Quite annoying.