Click to pick up

[Wookie]

48% of the game you brake down ship, 48% of time you pick up parts and throw in truck, 4% do other things.
I truly can't understand how is it possible to release a game where half of the game is picking up items and then you force people to click hundreds and thousands of times on each individual item.
Give me a shovel, a tractor, a magnet, or at least have the ability to hold my mouse down for items to be picked up.
Please fix it

[Tony]

that's why you make a macro to hold down EEEEEEEEE

[Shawn]

Gotta agree with OP.
- You can upgrade gloves to pick up more items with a click
- You can upgrade the box to hold more items before you have to unload it

But there needs to be some sort of upgrade option to allow you to just hose up mass parts straight into the truck. Otherwise this is close to clickfest.

I've done all the base game ships. I've done an expansion giant ship and that is where it really gets ridiculous. Even with level 10 gloves/box I'm standing in one spot just picking up stuff and throwing the box for 3, 4 or 5 cycles.

It very badly needs a QOL update.

[Lowjohn]

There are a couple of QoL updates related to this coming. I can't share details yet, but the current devs agree with your take and have planned some improvements.

[Spoodie Bob]

why are you all clicking the button when you can just hold it down and pick everything up? That's what I do and it's a lot faster, but, I also was not aware of this until someone told me about it. All actions work like this as well. Correction, I thought it worked, but holding down the "use" button, only works when using tools, not picking things up.

[battlecruiser2004]

Originally posted by Shawn:

Gotta agree with OP.
- You can upgrade gloves to pick up more items with a click
- You can upgrade the box to hold more items before you have to unload it

But there needs to be some sort of upgrade option to allow you to just hose up mass parts straight into the truck. Otherwise this is close to clickfest.

I've done all the base game ships. I've done an expansion giant ship and that is where it really gets ridiculous. Even with level 10 gloves/box I'm standing in one spot just picking up stuff and throwing the box for 3, 4 or 5 cycles.

It very badly needs a QOL update.

If that kind of upgrade existed, it would effectively make the glove and mobile crane obsolete. Heck, it would make your own character obsolete, why do all this manual labor when you can sit in a control room and have machines cut the ship up for you. There is such a thing as too much hand holding, surely you don't want to buy a game that plays itself with minimal player interaction.

Still, something that can automate manual pickup process would be appreciated, pressing E a few thousand times throughout a session really wears out the keyboard and your finger.

[shreckie]

I would really like to have a little android like the one in Fallout 4 that levitates doing the pickup stuff that starts very slowly and to be able to leveling up.