Content Suggestion Add an additional safety key toggle to all guns

[codynkn]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
This would add a key you could press to put your weapon on safety and prevent it from firing while the safety is on. Although a safety function already exists (E+R), this introduces a key toggle, rather than a single mouse press.

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Not that I could find. 'gun' was too common of a search.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
• Prevents the issue where tabbing back into the game sometimes causes your weapon to fire automatically until the player clicks again
• Realism, guns in real life have this.
• Gives players more control over their weapons, especially in non-combat situations.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
• People could forget to take their weapon off safety when a threat is near and result in them dying

Based on the Positives &Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
The benefits outweigh the negatives. It's pretty much just a safety feature and would be optional, so it isn't a forced limitation.

 

[Emilia Foddg]

Prevents the issue where tabbing back into the game sometimes causes your weapon to fire automatically until the player clicks again

I want to know more about this. I vaguely recall actually having had this happen to me once a couple years ago, but the details escape me.

 

[codynkn]

I want to know more about this. I vaguely recall actually having had this happen to me once a couple years ago, but the details escape me.

Basically,

Sometimes when you are focusing in another tab, then left-click or right-click to focus back into Gmod, the mouse-button you used gets "stuck" and is effectively held down indefinitely until you click the mouse button you used to focus back into the game again.

This only seems to happen when you aren't using chat when you focus back into Gmod.

 

[pinhead]

the strat is to press middle mouse or right click instead of left click when tabbing back in so the most that happens is aiming in or switching firing modes lol, it would be nice if it didnt unsafety unless you did e+r just to resolve that but I don't think an entire new key is necessary

 

[Emilia Foddg]

Yeah, I tab back in with middle click, too. Simple fix - But I could understand if you have a mouse that doesn't have one, I guess?

 

[Charles "Ze" Whitmee]

Rather then having a key for it, have it be a fire mode that you toggle with middle mouse click.
A mode that just doesn't fire at all.

So it'd be:

-Full auto
-Semi Auto
-Safety