Talk:Speed Holster/@comment-75.162.83.127-20160309141244

I really hate that DE added this mod as a band-aid fix to cover for how painfully slow weapon switching is and then never touched that area again. Honestly, running this aura would be soooo nice just for making the game feel better, but there's basically no circumstance where it's worth the opportunity cost. Weapon switching is so awkward and godawfully slow that trying to actually switch weapons to quickly adapt/react to a situation just... doesn't work well.

And they clearly WANT you to ~synergize~ your weapon usage, with things like the addition of the blocking feature, but it takes so long to get your melee out that blocking is functionally useless unless you're playing melee-primary. It takes too long to switch to be able to block reactively when you see an ancient lunging at you, or an arson eximus fire blasting, or when a bunch of gunfire is coming your way, so it makes much more sense to just run away or get behind cover if you don't already have your melee out.

If it were up to me, I'd remove this mod completely and just significantly increase the base weapon swap speed, but given this mod was added over 2 years ago, I'm not exactly holding my breath for that.