Discarding Grimoires by accident should not be possible

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Gameplay Feedback
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This was already a problem in Vermintide, and yes, it only happens to each person once, but that’s still a lot of players and frustration.
When carrying a grim, if you equip it and left click, it immediately vaporizes.
No warning, no hint, just gone.
You should have to hold the button down for a couple seconds with a loading bar that says “discarding grimoire” or something so it can’t happen either unknowingly or by accidentally hitting the mouse button at the wrong time, and I really don’t know why this wasn’t already solved in the last game.

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Mhmmm afaik you have to hold the button rather long to discard a grim. Is this a bug of some sort?

In the past I died before BECAUSE it takes so long to discard. I assumed I successfully discarded it due to the animation, which prevented me from picking up a medkit to save myself.

I spent excessive amount of time going around with a grim out and shortly pressing the discard button before as this makes your character make a cry of pain. I never lost the grim because of that.

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Then maybe it was a bug, a friend of mine accidentally destroyed it during a game because he hit the mouse button reaching for his drink while the grim was equipped and it just suddenly disappeared :sweat_smile:

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+1

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Or maybe this is what he wanted you to believe, as he wanted the grimoire only for himself?

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Or worse, he trolled you :face_in_clouds:

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Back in VT2 we had mod for it: New Sticky Grim
Only throw the grim if you’re holding block

Sad truth is … dev’s are lazy. Can’t blame much, but… wait i can blame them, 'cos steam mod was posted: 24 Mar, 2020 @ 7:45am

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I’ve definitely felt like I hit 1 or 2 (melee or ranged) in both V2 and DT and had it switch to grim/tome while expecting to heavy attack or shoot ranged. On tome, it’s meaningless, but on grim I’ve accidentally destroyed them like that before.

Also accidentally deployed medkits/ammo like that.

Never had this weapon switching issue on any other game, so pretty convinced it’s mostly just bad weapon-switch code. (The most common bug being that sometimes you still “switch to the same weapon you’re currently using” which still plagues the game.)