Couldn't pick up shorty

[abhinandhan22]

So I am doing my grounded playthrough and for some reason when I reached the last section of the area where u are stuck in a room with henry while waiting for the kids to open the door, I picked up the shorty but it did not register as I restarted checkpoint after taking a hit and the shorty did not respawn. Does this mean I can't get the shorty anymore in this playthrough forcing me to do a third playthrough just to upgrade that stupid weapon. I love the last of us but man this is one the reasons I didn't go for the plat all those years back on the ps3 since I knew some shit would make me get annoyed at the game. 

Edited May 9, 2020 by abhinandhan22

[HusKy]

AFAIK, it *should* appear elsewhere along the route. It's normal that sometimes you miss a weapon at some spot but they do spawn again in later levels.

[abhinandhan22]

4 hours ago, HusKy said:

AFAIK, it *should* appear elsewhere along the route. It's normal that sometimes you miss a weapon at some spot but they do spawn again in later levels.

Thankfully one of the enemies dropped it during Tommy's Dam. Shouldn't have worried so much when the Last of Us Wikia made it sound like that's the last level u could get the weapon in.