Originally posted by bacon:

Originally posted by Ultraviolent Catastrophe:

Should it stay loaded? Imo, yes.
Why doesn't it stay loaded? Best guess is that the devs didn't want us walking around with a full hotbar of preloaded arbs waiting to promote some poor invading seeker from raider to missing person.

correct, its a balance issue. belt full of loaded arbalests would be stupid.

They could easily fix that by allowing only one Arbalest to stay loaded. I also think it should stay loaded if you put it away loaded, but certainly not a whole hotbar of them. lol