
So always be aware of where are you going and don’t get yourself involved in a fight with a holstered weapon. Upon clicking the shoot button the character will pull out the gun, cock it, and only then is ready to fire. When the weapon is holstered it takes longer to ready up for a fight. Quite the opposite, there is a downside to using that feature.

But even that doesn’t add any value to weapon holstering in Fallout 4. Thus letting you sprint for a bit longer than you could. The only thing that may be affected is the AP usage when moving.

Walking and running speed remained the same. But as far as my testing goes it’s not true. There is speculation that moving with a holstered weapon is faster than not holstered. And there is nothing really else you could use this feature for. The NPC’s don’t care if you point the gun at them or not as long as you don’t hurt them. But unfortunately in Fallout 4, there is no practical usage for this feature. You may ask why does this feature exists? It feels as it can have really cool mechanics implemented with it like interacting with NPC’s that may become aggressive if your weapon is out. Reload keybind settings in Fallout 4 Does it Affect Anything?

If you do want to change the keybind you can do so in the settings shown on the image below. So in order to change the holstering keybind, you need to change the reload one. The keybind is always the “hold” version of the reload one.
