Wallach said:
I have to say out of all the various bugs in this game, I think the one that annoys me the most (or at least the most regularly) is the fucking reloading bug where you can't do jack shit for a couple seconds after reloading a lot of the weapons that you have to hand feed ammo. The only workaround for this I've found is to interrupt reloading before it finishes feeding to the clip max, but I really hope this is fixed in the next patch.
Yeah, this bug has started really pissing me off, especially noticable when using my trusty cowboy repeater with long barrel and maple stock. Always at the most inopportune moments as well, like earlier today when 3 Legion assassins ran upto me and informed me that I've been "marked for death" by their leader, then opened up on me. I really don't like my gun misbehaving when stuff like that is kicking off.
I had a weird bug today, which also uncovered the answer to a week old mystery. Last week sometime, I bought a couple of cowboy repeaters from the guy in Novac to use as spares for mine. However, when I checked my inventory, they weren't there. I'd just done a load of trading with the guy, and couldn't be bothered to reload my last save and do it all again, so I thought "fuck it" and carried on with the quest I was on.
Fast forward to this afternoon, and on top of the reloading bug I get another one. When I switch from the cowboy repeater to another weapon, then switch back again, the cowboy repeater is empty. So I reload it, switch to another weapon then back again, and sure enough it's empty again. I don't want to dump it for another because it's modded, so I pop back to my house with the idea of moving it into a container and back to my inventory to see if it fixes the problem. When I do this, this is what I see:
I've been carrying the 2 cowboy repeaters I bought last week, but the inventory wasn't displaying them, just my modded one! I put the modded one back in my inventory and sure enough the other 2 disappear again. So, the "inventory that hides stuff" bug is another one to watch for.
After I post this, I'm going to empty everything I'm carrying to find out if there's any other shit I don't know about that I've been lugging about the wasteland for fuck knows how long.
Just incase anyone else gets the weapon not loaded after switching bug. Moving it to a container and back again fixes it.