dropping guns....

[SouthWestPayDay]

I was under the impression that when you drop a gun for somebody that you get it back when you switch to a new session. I dropped one of the uzi looking guns and a SMG, when I switched sessions, I was not only missing my Uzi, my SMG, but I was missing all 3 different SMGs I had as well as all the ammo I had. I had to buy it all again at Ammunition. Is this how it always is? You drop you lose, forever?

[tenpennyisplainevil]

Yes, I'm happy this feature exists because otherwise I'd still own the automatic shotgun. The second I got to try it out I knew it was overpowered and I didn't even want to have it. It is weird that you lost all of your SMGs though.

[SaturdayNight]

As far as I know from experience you only lose what you drop and do not buy back before going to a new session.. I dropped a weapon and picked it back up but it was still missing when I joined a new room. You have to buy it back when dropped no matter what. This prevents people from restocking expensive ammo like the minigun or sniper from Survivals. (Example: I used my minigun throughout a survival and was able to restock my ammo and keep my gun by dropping it picking up the weapon on the map and repicking up my gun) But this has been patched.

[Zwenkwiel]

ofcourse you lose it

that's pretty much the definition of dropping something

you no longer have it with you XD

 

what you can do is drop your weapons/ammo and than dashboard out of the game before it saves

some1 can pick up your stuff and when you log back in you still have it.

you could repeat this to get unlimited free weapons/ammo since you double whatever you have every time.

 

edit: does the trick I describe still work?, never realized it could be impacted by the survival ammo patch as well

Edited February 26, 2014 by Zwenkwiel

[SouthWestPayDay]

Yes, I'm happy this feature exists because otherwise I'd still own the automatic shotgun. The second I got to try it out I knew it was overpowered and I didn't even want to have it. It is weird that you lost all of your SMGs though.

Yeah...I didn't care about the Uzi...but I only dropped one SMG, and all 3 were gone...sucks

[Snake Without a Tongue]

Accidentally dropping a weapon sucks because even if you pick it up you have to rebuy it.

[Jyra]

Accidentally dropping a weapon sucks because even if you pick it up you have to rebuy it.

So I'm talking out my ass I suppose since I haven't played in a good while... but I'm 99.99% sure that the months I was playing heavy.. this wasn't the case.

 

I think a lot of my early guns I didn't even buy, after leveling up I'd go to a DM to pick them up then purchase a mod for them and it's mine forever.

[PancakePoon]

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

[Biggie Kaniff]

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

 

That gun can't be dropped. It will come back and yes that sucks.

[oo00oo00oo]

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

some weapons like the shotgun, u can't help but constantly pick up. there are certain guns i don't want to keep cycling through, yet i'm forced to keep them because i always pick them up.

 

examples: weak sniper rifle i always pick up in an annihilator helicopter. shotgun i always pick up from dead cops. pistol i always pick up from dead cops and so on...

Edited February 26, 2014 by oo00oo00oo

[PancakePoon]

 

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

 

That gun can't be dropped. It will come back and yes that sucks.

 

 

 

 

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

some weapons like the shotgun, u can't help but constantly pick up. there are certain guns i don't want to keep cycling through, yet i'm forced to keep them because i always pick them up.

 

examples: weak sniper rifle i always pick up in an annihilator helicopter. shotgun i always pick up from dead cops. pistol i always pick up from dead cops and so on...

 

Hahah sh*tty. Thanks for the answers

[SaturdayNight]

 

Accidentally dropping a weapon sucks because even if you pick it up you have to rebuy it.

So I'm talking out my ass I suppose since I haven't played in a good while... but I'm 99.99% sure that the months I was playing heavy.. this wasn't the case.

 

I think a lot of my early guns I didn't even buy, after leveling up I'd go to a DM to pick them up then purchase a mod for them and it's mine forever.

 

 

That is the case. If you drop a weapon at all you have to rebuy it.

[Shadow_Titan17]

Now if only the .50 could be dropped.

[Jyra]

 

 

Accidentally dropping a weapon sucks because even if you pick it up you have to rebuy it.

So I'm talking out my ass I suppose since I haven't played in a good while... but I'm 99.99% sure that the months I was playing heavy.. this wasn't the case.

 

I think a lot of my early guns I didn't even buy, after leveling up I'd go to a DM to pick them up then purchase a mod for them and it's mine forever.

 

 

That is the case. If you drop a weapon at all you have to rebuy it.

 

Even after you pick it back up?

 

Was this an update? Wouldn't surprise me.

 

I'm 100% sure that back in Oct/Nov/Dec... I would drop guns on purpose to not cycle through them and as soon as I entered a mission or something where I picked it up... mine forever again. I'm sure I only purchased a handful of guns because mostly as soon as I unlocked it I'd go pick one up and mod it.

[Biggie Kaniff]

 

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

some weapons like the shotgun, u can't help but constantly pick up. there are certain guns i don't want to keep cycling through, yet i'm forced to keep them because i always pick them up.

 

examples: weak sniper rifle i always pick up in an annihilator helicopter. shotgun i always pick up from dead cops. pistol i always pick up from dead cops and so on...

 

 

Could add to this that if you pick up the police shotgun you will lose it when you chance sessions. Same with the sniper rifle. The starting pistol is different, that one will come with you to the new session.

[Crimie]

Im pretty sure if you pick up the weapon in a survival or deathmatch it returns with all attachments? As far as I can remember thats how it worked for me so i just gave up dropping ones I didnt want since id pick them up again anyway. I glitched (?) my minigun for free in a survival, i just ranked up to 120 during the survival and picked up a minigun, had it ever since!

[Choppers]

Accidentally dropped the Heavy Sniper when getting rid of the other. I even picked it back up.

 

37k to rebuy it, and it would have been 70k to buy all the ammo I somehow had, but I only bought like 1,000 bullets.

 

So from the looks of it, if you drop it you have to rebuy it.

[NorthwindJME]

 

Accidentally dropped the Heavy Sniper when getting rid of the other. I even picked it back up.

 

37k to rebuy it, and it would have been 70k to buy all the ammo I somehow had, but I only bought like 1,000 bullets.

 

So from the looks of it, if you drop it you have to rebuy it.

Play a survival game and pick one up it won't cost anything. That is what I have done with many of the more expensive weapons. You will still need to buy ammo because in survival you can only pick up so much, its capped.

[Choppers]

 

 

Accidentally dropped the Heavy Sniper when getting rid of the other. I even picked it back up.

 

37k to rebuy it, and it would have been 70k to buy all the ammo I somehow had, but I only bought like 1,000 bullets.

 

So from the looks of it, if you drop it you have to rebuy it.

Play a survival game and pick one up it won't cost anything. That is what I have done with many of the more expensive weapons. You will still need to buy ammo because in survival you can only pick up so much, its capped.

 

And you get to keep it if you are the right level? Not just lose it when you leave the session?

 

If that's the case, that's badass.

[SaturdayNight]

 

 

Accidentally dropped the Heavy Sniper when getting rid of the other. I even picked it back up.

 

37k to rebuy it, and it would have been 70k to buy all the ammo I somehow had, but I only bought like 1,000 bullets.

 

So from the looks of it, if you drop it you have to rebuy it.

Play a survival game and pick one up it won't cost anything. That is what I have done with many of the more expensive weapons. You will still need to buy ammo because in survival you can only pick up so much, its capped.

 

 

This was patched on 1.09 or 1.10 I had to rebuy weapons even after picking it up from the survival.

 

However, I have not tried buying attachments for guns that I repick up. Will have to confirm this.

[Jolly Swagman]

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

 

You probably have to keep it for the kill yourself option. How else are you gonna blow your brains out?

[NorthwindJME]

Oh great , sorry about that I have been over 120 for a while and at least it was possible to do that.

 

EDIT:

 

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

 

You probably have to keep it for the kill yourself option. How else are you gonna blow your brains out?

 

What if you are out of ammo? It is a common gun, most NPC that carry guns likely have it. All you have to do is walk over it and you pick it up. It would be nice if it were press button to pick up. I don't like the smg and I have to keep dropping it.

Edited February 26, 2014 by NorthwindJME

[Jolly Swagman]

^^^^ if you are out of ammo you end up eating a cyanide pill instead.

 

Ive dropped all my shot guns except for the auto and san off a while ago and don't seem to have picked them back up. Ive also got rid of my SMGs and basic machine gun without them appearing back. I gave a sniper rifle to a low level friend and had to repurchase this.

[SuperJude™]

Beware changing weapons as you enter your car, lost some guns that way.

 

VERY happy we can drop them though, I honestly don't need to carry around 3 assault rifles, don't need 2 snipers and I will also drop the Pistol (which does in fact respawn)

[Biohazard Abyss]

Are you meant to always have the first pistol? Every game I join I drop it and when I quit I check to see if I have to drop it again. But when I play another day, there it is waiting for me to drop it again.

 

Appreciate Lamar's gift, "nigga."

[Ezza.]

You spelled soap wrong OP

Edited February 27, 2014 by EZza2647

[retronig]

Yes I am rather pissed because somehow I dropped that gutenburg sweeper (tommy gun wannabe). I went to ammunition and saw that it is no longer available. I know that the valentines day update is gone now but I had the gun after the update expired. I think its stupid that you lose weapons so easily. I have accidently lost weapons about 5 times. Rockstar needs to fix and ask us if we are sure that we want to drop that certain weapon. Now I will no longer have that gun. I liked to use it because it was just like the tommy gun.

[Jolly Swagman]

Yes I am rather pissed because somehow I dropped that gutenburg sweeper (tommy gun wannabe). I went to ammunition and saw that it is no longer available. I know that the valentines day update is gone now but I had the gun after the update expired. I think its stupid that you lose weapons so easily. I have accidently lost weapons about 5 times. Rockstar needs to fix and ask us if we are sure that we want to drop that certain weapon. Now I will no longer have that gun. I liked to use it because it was just like the tommy gun.

You didn't drop it. The gun has disappeared for everyone. Apparently they are working on a fix

[madmanaz]

Gusenberg is gone (for now?) But dropping guns is the best feature I can think of. I only want to carry certain guns so I don't have to sift and sort. One or two in each category is enough.

[Sushi__Wolf]

 

 

 

Accidentally dropped the Heavy Sniper when getting rid of the other. I even picked it back up.

 

37k to rebuy it, and it would have been 70k to buy all the ammo I somehow had, but I only bought like 1,000 bullets.

 

So from the looks of it, if you drop it you have to rebuy it.

Play a survival game and pick one up it won't cost anything. That is what I have done with many of the more expensive weapons. You will still need to buy ammo because in survival you can only pick up so much, its capped. so this lets you return a gun you've dropped back into your inventory free, it doesn't disappear once you've changed sessions? I'm sure if so you would still be required to buy the accessories.