Angle to pick up items

[Daisuke Hanata]

Anyone else notice this weird "Bug" where you have to be at a certain angle to either pick up items or open drawers? either i am right up in front of it and it wont let me interact and i have to walk back a bit and a bit to the left or right side so i can? or am I going... Otherworldly crazy. Sorry bad joke but all seriousness, anyone noticed that?

[⛧DarkWraith⛧]

Yea I get it all the time. Annoying as hell, more so when I'm trying to run past everything and do quick pick-ups en route.

[McFish]

Yeah, had it a few times in the game, especially during the final boss, when I was trying to quickly pick up items.

[Zebedee]

For sure. I do need to try something other than the default settings for highlighting interactables though so I don't know if it is improved by changing them. It's definitely a thing though at default and James can end up doing a little dance around an apartment's kitchen trying to get into cupboards and drawers.

[radiobob]

Changing the item pickup icon prompt helped me a bit with this. Finding the right angle is still pain, but at least the icon changes to E when I find it.

[Daisuke Hanata]

Glad to hear I am not the only one... Hope it can be a fix in a future patch.

[Vinnolo]

game really wants you to be a certain distance and be directly looking at an item or you wont be able to pick it up

[Powellinho.72]

i noticed this enough now where its not just a 1 time thing, its all the time, sometimes im next to an item and its not letting me pick the bloody thing up.

also another thing is i just killed something thats very close to an item in a glass cabinet, i try to break the glass to get the health item inside and it keeps auto attacking the dead body instead.

very annoying.

[Starwight/ttv]

I don't think it's a bug so much as the game is incredibly picky about the angle you have to be looking at something to pick it up. I think the game is fantastic btw, but that is a valid criticism. It is a bit annoying at times to interact with things.

[Settings]

Had this happen once in an apartment where I couldn't open or interact with anything. It seemed to solve itself after I left, whacked a Lying Figure with the board, and returned. I have no idea what the issue actually was.

[halfmonkey]

If you turn on the option to always have an onscreen dot (I think it's under Accessibility options,) you can see that this point (the center of James' vision?) is what needs to be aligned with the interaction points.

It's like a cursor, but in a 3D field...meaning if you are too close to objects (especially desk drawers) the "cursor" moves beyond or travels above the point.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Daisuke Hanata:

Anyone else notice this weird "Bug" where you have to be at a certain angle to either pick up items or open drawers? either i am right up in front of it and it wont let me interact and i have to walk back a bit and a bit to the left or right side so i can? or am I going... Otherworldly crazy. Sorry bad joke but all seriousness, anyone noticed that?

Haha, finally a complaint about this game on these forums that is reasonable and not something silly (not saying all the other complaints aren't valid, but a good many are).

As others have said, and I picked up right away what was going on, it's not quite a bug so much the game wanting you in what it considers valid distances/angles. Being too close doesn't qualify apparently (the immediately above post explains what I felt was happening, it's like being too close doesn't allow you to look up or down enough to target it), even though it seems a bit counterintuitive.

This is one of the few things dampening my experience too, but it's definitely been a minor thing for me.

[Roshgarr]

This is the worst trying to beat boss on hard and losing because I'm staring at an ammo box smashing the hell out of E

[Powellinho.72]

anybody ever feel stuck sometimes too? like sometimes im trying to move and my character isnt moving, i gotta mash other buttons then it starts working again.

[Ricback2]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

I don't think it's a bug so much as the game is incredibly picky about the angle you have to be looking at something to pick it up. I think the game is fantastic btw, but that is a valid criticism. It is a bit annoying at times to interact with things.

Yeah, the item must be on the center of the screen, once I've released that, I don't suffer from it anymore.

Use the middle of the flashlight as reference.

[Terry86]

you probably notice this but i think it's the designed that carried from the original but it need more fine tune.


It's james, yes i'm not kidding. you have to wait till james is fixed on it. like his head bolb towards it.