TOO MANY containers to loot.

[Ol' Crispy]

In before the screeching ree-kids say "THEN JUST DON'T"

I LOVE this game but man I am getting sick of feeling like I need to loot 4012939182454 crates everywhere I go. This seriously breaks up the flow of the game and causes massive levels of inventory tedium. Inventory tedium in a game with a sub-par inventory system/UI. I think this is a very poor game design decision.

It's VERY HARD not to want to check every container because often you can find stuff in a random bookshelf/crate that is better than most of the "hidden" chests you can dig up around the game world. Seriously in one exhumed chest my friend and I got like 12g and a jade or something. In a random bookshelf I found 2 blue scrolls and a green, easily worth hundreds of G...

Not to mention you need a good stockpile of camp supplies (it costs 80 supplies to rest on my tactician game) and that next crate might just give you more....

SO lets be constructive here, how can we fix this?

Let's just say you enter an area, almost any area really. Instead of literally every crate and jar being lootable, make them unlootable props. So you can't even click on them and open a loot screen, and they dont pop up on the controller's area loot screen.

So instead of the tedium of checking every. single. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. jar. crate. chest. skeleton. ribcage. etc. ONLY make the ones with actual loot, lootable.

If you're part of the "Just don't loot everything bro" camp, you're wrong. If players can get an edge by looting/checking everything, they will feel compelled to do so, and not doing so leads to negative mental state and a sort of "itch" that wants scratched. So it's the onus of the designers and developers of the game to keep that from being a part of their game. I've spent more time looting random ♥♥♥♥ in this game than combat... please fix.

Wait nevermind, I've had a change of heart, I cannot wait to open another chest with nothing in it, or one with a bottle and rope!! man I need more bottles and more rope in my life, yeh.... drown my sorrows in the bottle and finish the job with the rope after looting 2030120391028541072038 containers in bg3.

[guard65]

Auto loot is always a good thing as long as you can choose not to loot everything. Being a mule is not favored ether.

[Richard]

If you don't mind mods. This is called Customizable Auto Loot Aura - Item Pickup AoE for Obsessive Hoarders I use it myself.

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2342

[kbiz]

Don't be greedy. Or naive. No need to loot the twenty vases around the opulent chest.

Hold the Alt key. Loot those things.

[Boss]

I loot absolutely everything I can. You quickly pick up on which containers could contain which loot. I can't remember a time that a random vase or a crate in a pile having something really significant. Only in rooms that are obviously stockpiles is when crates have mundane loot or food or something

I laugh at "need a good stockpile of camp supplies" tho. You get enough to long rest twice after every fight and still have enough left over to feed all of Baldur's Gate.

[dot]

Usually seems the ones that hold the bigger loot are the containers that are also marked with the alt, when I`m feeling bored or lazy that`s all I loot, when I feel very loot hobo I dive through every rotting basket collecting every rotting veggie xD It`s just that for me, depending on the moment or how I feel I loot whatever, It`s part of the roleplay also, If you wanna play full min maxing then... just like to the people that wanted perfect leveling in Oblivion, suffer or wait for mods that change it xD. That`s all constructive one can be unless you count the possibility of making the mod yourself.

[SoundsOfNight]

Then don't? Are you really going to find Flaming Sword +2 in a bread basket?

[LordOfTheBread]

Oh No! I have to click on stuff in my gfame!

ReallY???

[Nico]

My only complaint about this is that empty containers will still have the yellow cursor, not making them any different from the ones actually containing an item. That's why we keep clicking on everything like crazy. I think that's stupid. The mouse cursor should be gray for empty crates.

[Ol' Crispy]

https://old.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/lz6mo4/anyone_else_feel_like_they_spend_more_time/

Damn this has been mentioned since at least 2 years ago. Doesn't seem like it will change. Any modders in the house? :|

[kbiz]

Originally posted by dot:

... when I feel very loot hobo I dive through every rotting basket collecting every rotting veggie xD

HAHA! I think we've all sold a rotting carrot at one time or another.

I'm a loot hobo early-game too.

[CrappyBark]

Originally posted by Jooksey:

In before the screeching ree-kids say "THEN JUST DON'T"

I LOVE this game but man I am getting sick of feeling like I need to loot 4012939182454 crates everywhere I go.....

....It's VERY HARD not to want to check every container ....

Then don't feel that way. The 1g rotten food isn't worth the effort of looting or even finding. Check food areas maybe, crates are faster to pick up the whole crate and use for stacking/loot checking/throwing later. There is so much money in this game just from looting the crap off of enemies and out of chests, no reason to worry about a container unless it's in a locked room

It's a you problem and not an issue with the game. You won't find a game changing item in that random sack by the side of the road. You don't need that 23rd salami. That ONE health potion you got from the stack of five crates wasn't worth it. Just stop, get help

[Ghart]

all i can say is you need to contain yourself /j

if you need camp supplies just create some druid hirelings with goodberry spell and spam them before resting, this method basically delete the needs for camp supplies both in low and high difficulty campaign

[id795078477]

Originally posted by kbiz:

Don't be greedy. Or naive. No need to loot the twenty vases around the opulent chest.

Hold the Alt key. Loot those things.

You're being naive if you only loot the alt-highlighted things. I've lost count how many times I open a "row of books" (not highlighted and actually hard to click on) to find 3-4 blue and purple scrolls there. Or places like Zhentarim hideout where almost every "mundane" crates (again, not highlighted) contain 10-30 camp supplies easily.

[kbiz]

Originally posted by id795078477:

Originally posted by kbiz:

Don't be greedy. Or naive. No need to loot the twenty vases around the opulent chest.

Hold the Alt key. Loot those things.

You're being naive if you only loot the alt-highlighted things. I've lost count how many times I open a "row of books" (not highlighted and actually hard to click on) to find 3-4 blue and purple scrolls there. Or places like Zhentarim hideout where almost every "mundane" crates (again, not highlighted) contain 10-30 camp supplies easily.

It's a cost-benefit analysis. You can usually tell what the devs are doing by spot-checking one or two containers in the area.

If you check 2 vases and they're empty, it's foolish to check the next 18 vases.

[seeker1]

Dunno, I find 9 times out of 10, if it's just a nondescript vase, box, crate, or other container, there's nothing in it. Maybe they are there to be thrown as improvised weapons, but they're empty.

Rule of thumb - if it has a more detailed description ("ornate chest," "ornate vase," etc., etc._) those tend to have loot in them. BTW, I have seen very nondescript crates and containers have loot in them too, so this is not a "hard and fast" rule. That said, I've never seen a nondescript container with what I'd call REALLY GOOD loot.