Talk to me about inventory management

[Thradar]

It's been a minute (ok, years) since I played a fantasy RPG. But BG3 looks interesting because I LOVE turn based combat games. One thing I detest is managing inventory/bags. It has no place in gaming IMO. If I have to spend more than 5 seconds managing it, or having to decide what I need to dump on the ground so I can pick up something else, I get mildly infuriated.

The System Shock remake was a recent example. I was always struggling with inventory, which weapons to keep, what to dump on the ground outside an elevator in case I needed to backtrack and get it. Even have to worry about the size of item (each took up different amount of inventory 'blocks') and even the orientation/rotation in the inventory. It was a constant irritation and chore.

So what the inventory situation in BG3?

[Burdy333]

Your backpacks will need backpacks....

[AlphaVictorKilo]

You aren't playing tetris. Each item, from the lowly apple, to a halbard will take up a 1x1 square, the difference being WEIGHT, but since you have companions, some of your companions can be inventory mules

[Thradar]

Originally posted by Burdy333:

Your backpacks will need backpacks....

So you have to manage nested backpacks/inventory? Oh god...

[Thradar]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

You aren't playing tetris. Each item, from the lowly apple, to a halbard will take up a 1x1 square, the difference being WEIGHT, but since you have companions, some of your companions can be inventory mules

I get it. But I don't want to play an encumbrance simulator game within the game.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Thradar:

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

You aren't playing tetris. Each item, from the lowly apple, to a halbard will take up a 1x1 square, the difference being WEIGHT, but since you have companions, some of your companions can be inventory mules

I get it. But I don't want to play an encumbrance simulator game within the game.

Then get a mod that increases the carry weight to the point where it's no longer a frequent issue...

[Coldhands]

You wont have to worry too much about running out of inventory space, but there is certainly a lot of management. Passing items between characters, passing gold between characters (because gold is treated as an inventory item for some inexplicable reason), sorting through the zillions of marginally useful items you pick up and don't use.
It's not great.
BG3 is a very clunky game, so if you can't stand a lot of inventory management, fiddly party movement, and a frustratingly restrictive camera, I can't recommend it.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Originally posted by Thradar:

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

You aren't playing tetris. Each item, from the lowly apple, to a halbard will take up a 1x1 square, the difference being WEIGHT, but since you have companions, some of your companions can be inventory mules

I get it. But I don't want to play an encumbrance simulator game within the game.

Your encumberance limits are actually pretty high honestly, you'd have to be packing for an entire army to start worrying about that (I think the first threshold is 200 weight units, and for example, you'd have to be carrying 20 heavy armors on one person and at that point, I think you'd have to worry about hoarding)

Also if you have insane amounts of gold, it will start slowing you down

Also you do have a good system of "send to camp" so you can just send everything you don't need immediately to camp without having to go to it, so that's a nice QOL feature

[Tim]

Originally posted by Burdy333:

Your backpacks will need backpacks....

Yo dawg, I heard you like backpacks...

[eram]

fill your bag with smaller bags for better management.

[Grimmsch]

The backpack system needs some love. Give me sorting for a start.

[BigDaddy]

Far upper left is a button where you can sort items by 4 different defaults. Not ideal, but at least it is a bit of organizing.

[Gigantoad]

Inventory management is always annoying. How much easier could they make it though, with so many items?

[Coldhands]

^There could have been a lot fewer items.