Inventory is a disaster and crashes

[ArmyGuyMike]

So, I think a third of my play time is wasted on trying to organize and manage my inventory. Not just from equip and change an item from here or there, but trying to keep it organized between the character screen and radial dials. Every time I use a potion or scroll or gain new skills, feats, etc I have to go in and rearrange my radial dials back the way I want them set up. The dyes do not work well, you have no control on which portion of your gear is getting what color and sometimes the colors are nothing like the title of them. This is an area were Neverwinter on-line has down pat - gear should have three levels of coloring: 1 primary portion, 2 secondary portion and 3 trim or accents. If a dye is titles Black and Furnace Red then Black should the the primary color (largest portion) and Red would be the secondary color (second largest portion). I used this for my Adamantine Scale armor and got silver chain mail with gold/yellow sleeves?
I buy just about everything and have multiple chests in camp to keep everything sorted. It could be my inventory is too much for the game? It was crashing the game when I had everything in the main camp supply box so that's why I brought multiple boxes of different names and sorted everything out. Took forever. It helped a lot, but occasionally when I get to camp and sort in all my new items bought, found, "collected" and rearrange my radials, again, the game will crash while trying to sort (Type, Weight, Value, and Latest). This has been going on for the past three or four patches. And the games idea of "Type" is no where near my idea. I think have a drop-down list where we could select our priorities and have the items fall into those priorities when we pick up new items. Right now after an hour of playing I'll have to stop and re-sort because my inventory looks like it went through a blender.

And, then crashes, after an hour or so wiping away everything I did, bought, picked up, traded, dyed, etc.

[Kafik]

Wall of text crits for 20 damage.
Are you using any mods?

[ArmyGuyMike]

None.

[Cthulhu]

crashes? i suspect it is beacause all of that chests full of items out of the camp chest;
we can only hope they will improve tha inventory system at least a bit, better sorting, more autosucking pouches and similar things, there is not even a search textbox in the camp chest, why?

[Cthulhu]

omg whit radials should be even a worse nightmare

[Morg]

+1
Basic inventory QOL is absolutely lacking. It's not like it's a game where you can just ignore items.
Tedious weight management, tiny inventory grids, no auto stack when adding items to bags. Have to manually "sort" and then drag to stack. Shouldn't need a mod for basic stuff like this...

[Lani]

It definitely is the weakest area of Larian's overall design for sure.
I so want tabs at the top of the character's inventory screens filtering on things like weapons, armour, ammo, potions, scrolls. Oh and stacking of things like picked up weapons!

There are things that can make it more manageable like bags, chests holding shift to select multiple things (but I think you're on controller as you mentioned radial menu) but you still spend way more time getting it all organised than should be necessary. it's RSI inducing.

There's also some mods to aid with this, mostly providing named and recognizable bags for stuff and dropping the gem bag into someone's inventory automatically puts all their gems in there. That helps.

Base game inventory, I now recommend not bothering with organizing, just try to keep from overburdening people.

[pezenwever]

It must be horrible using a controller.
Clunky UI's and inventory is something I have been used to for a very long time. It's sad that they didn't make it better though. In this type of game it should have been a priority.
The inventory is a mess for sure. I don't like sorting bags myself. Inventory tabs and some sort of quartemaster npc in camp would be cool.

[Kafik]

Originally posted by ArmyGuyMike:

None.

Ouch yeah that sounds like a severe bug

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by ArmyGuyMike:

So, I think a third of my play time is wasted on trying to organize and manage my inventory.

This is absolutely true. Considering how much effort was put into this game, and how brilliant it is, it is beyond belief that Larian could have made inventory management such a disaster area. It is truly appalling.

In many cases it looks and feels like whoever wrote the code for inventory management deliberately went out of their way to make it as time consuming and annoying as possible by:

* deliberately maximising the number of clicks required to accomplish every single inventory task, sometimes in very creative ways.

* maximising the amount of time and trouble required to loot a battlefield after an encounter.

* ensuring everything moves about as much as possible so you lose track of it

* mixing things up so it's as hard as possible to use such mass transfer facilities have (I presume reluctantly) been put in

* making it so difficult to know what you have in your inventory, or find something you think you should have, that you end up not bothering to ever use half the the equipment, the potions, the elixirs, the scrolls etc because it's just too much of a PITA.

Which is really strange. I mean Pillars of Eternity has the gold standard cRPG inventory management system thus far. PF:WotR has some additional tweaks to it although it also failed to implement at least one crucial feature that made PoE's so good.

So given that, why in all that is holy did Larian not just copy it? Why subject us to this horror trip?

[hirn78]

I'm towards the end of the game and I have given up on tidying up my inventory. If I want to find an item I just picked up, I sort by recent. If I look for a specific item, I have to use the search bar.