Give us good loot and remove those 6 Gazillion rotten tomatoes FFS!

[Narcoticano]

While in DOS 2 a lot of the items you found could be combined to create makeshift weapons or the same, in BG 3 you just clogg up your inventory with this stuff.

And while we can find 576 laddles and another 2345 ropes and tongs with ZERO application value, we are still waiting on decent loot and extraordinary items.
There are far to few of them in the game.

[pascal.difolco]

Yeah rotten tomatoes suck
But there's already a Montyhaulesque amount of magical items trinkets potions and scrolls

[LannStarr]

this a dnd simulation or are you not understanding that's how it works

[Moffin Bovin]

the game has way too many containers to search. 95% of them are empty or contain junk. Sure, you can just not search them, but every now and then they contain a scroll or a bottle of water.

This game would have been a lot better if most containers that are just used as set dressing were flagged as uninteractable.

[Thrandarian]

I agree with this post. Spent way too much time looting bs containers for crap loot. Not too mention the amount of worthless books and paper. Vendor's tend to have the best magic loot, and that's just sad.

[Hexoplex]

If i didn't occasionally find a scroll or a useful potion in the junk containers, I'd ignore them. But I do, so I can't :D

[CorwynCorey]

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

the game has way too many containers to search. 95% of them are empty or contain junk. Sure, you can just not search them, but every now and then they contain a scroll or a bottle of water.

This game would have been a lot better if most containers that are just used as set dressing were flagged as uninteractable.

And if that were the case people would complain in the opposite direction.
This is a 5e D&D emulator, in essence. If you want to be thorough, it takes time (hence why Investigation is a different skill than Perception... and takes a different amount of time).

You can be assured the best stuff will not ever be in anything labelled "rotting basket" or "Wooden Barrel". That is a guarantee.

A few ok things are on "Skeleton"... but thats rare.

The best stuff is in obviously good chests, and very recent named corpses. If you want to stop looking in generic boxes for generic things... you can. You won't miss much.

[Precache]

Yeah, I wish that did more automatic loot sorting. Stuff all the book entries into a journal, make gold weigh 0, and automatically send the camp supplies to camp.

I don't know what the point to garbage loot is, though, I suppose we should be grateful they didn't make us sort through a bajillion pairs of goblin underwear.

[Moffin Bovin]

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

This is a 5e D&D emulator, in essence. If you want to be thorough, it takes time (hence why Investigation is a different skill than Perception... and takes a different amount of time).

In real dnd you search and the DM tells you theres nothing of value and it takes 5 seconds.

its like how in real dnd you say "lets go to X place" and you instantly go there. You don't need to sit and watch 4 character models slowly walk the way there.

A lot of things from table top don't translate 1:1 into a crpg.

This game is full of a a lot of unnecessary tedium. Sometimes its better to trim the fat. ie. less is more.

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

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And if that were the case people would complain in the opposite direction.

i have never seen any criticism of an rpg that said "not enough empty containers to search".

[Sister of Silence]

Originally posted by Precache:

Yeah, I wish that did more automatic loot sorting. Stuff all the book entries into a journal, make gold weigh 0, and automatically send the camp supplies to camp.

I don't know what the point to garbage loot is, though, I suppose we should be grateful they didn't make us sort through a bajillion pairs of goblin underwear.

Do goblins wear underwear? And own more than one pair each? hmm interesting, must investigate.

[CorwynCorey]

It literally takes moments to search even the busiest rooms. "point click click click move click" ...Seriously how much hand holding do you need? lol

[Friends with Benedicts]

I second that. Game shouldn't even have common items to begin with. And if I'm being honest not even uncommon drop. It should be blue onwards.

BALANCE YOUR GAME TOWARDS LESS LOOT

I swear to God every big RPG release is followed by this sea of loot and I'm tired of it

[Moffin Bovin]

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

It literally takes moments to search even the busiest rooms. "point click click click move click" ...Seriously how much hand holding do you need? lol

But its all pointless click click clicking. Its not meaningful gameplay and each of those moments adds up since you do it hundreds of times.

Each time is just a minor inconvenience, but a thousand minor inconveniences add up to an actual problem. It a death of a thousand cuts.

[Moffin Bovin]

Why tf are vendors even buying bits of trash off of you?

there should be zero reason to picking that crap up at all, and if there's zero reason to pick it up then there's zero reason to put it in the game.

[Hawke]

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

the game has way too many containers to search. 95% of them are empty or contain junk. Sure, you can just not search them, but every now and then they contain a scroll or a bottle of water.

This game would have been a lot better if most containers that are just used as set dressing were flagged as uninteractable.

And if that were the case people would complain in the opposite direction.
This is a 5e D&D emulator, in essence. If you want to be thorough, it takes time (hence why Investigation is a different skill than Perception... and takes a different amount of time).

You can be assured the best stuff will not ever be in anything labelled "rotting basket" or "Wooden Barrel". That is a guarantee.

A few ok things are on "Skeleton"... but thats rare.

The best stuff is in obviously good chests, and very recent named corpses. If you want to stop looking in generic boxes for generic things... you can. You won't miss much.

In D&D you can have 1 loot table for a whole room, though.

I'd prefer the obviously useless containers to be unlootable (and to have less random small pieces of junk in general).

[CorwynCorey]

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

It literally takes moments to search even the busiest rooms. "point click click click move click" ...Seriously how much hand holding do you need? lol

But its all pointless click click clicking. Its not meaningful gameplay and each of those moments adds up since you do it hundreds of times.

Each time is just a minor inconvenience, but a thousand minor inconveniences add up to an actual problem. It a death of a thousand cuts.

But that is exactly what I am saying... you KNOW you will NEVER get good loot out of boxes or barrels. NEVER.

Best items are from vendors, corpses you killed and obviously high end stuff.

The rest is basically trash. healing potions? Bull. Trash as much as rotting fruit.
Scrolls? Of course you check book areas. No trash in there... just books and good things.. doesnt even fall into the topic at hand.

You CAN skip ALL the low end stuff. You will NEVER find anything great in them. Or even decent,
You know this.
Have a little self control lol.

No one is forcing you to search every barrel in the game. It isnt even suggested.