Stupidest Quick Slot on Earth!

[Kai Shan]

This game has the stupidest quickslot assignment I have ever come across.

Not only is it not intuitive, there is no guidance in the game as to how to do it.
Searching gets tons of threads, but most overflowing with fanboys in denial.

Once you start the game and find out that it has auto-assigned things (and so every time you try to use the axe you get drunk), but when you try to reassign them it is impossible to work out.
After searching for an answer (something a game should not be forcing us to do for such a basic action) you find that none of it works - removing items from the quick keys just doesn't work properly.

Who ever designed this should burn in whatever demon-infested afterlife their religion pretends exists.

[RequiemsRose]

I cant deny it's certainly not the best system, and there is basically no in game instruction, but i may at least be able to help a tiny bit with the frustration of it. You can't really remove things from the quickslots, but you can replace them. Unfortunately it also doesn't like you combining an item that is already on your quickslots, so sometimes you can end up doing this weird inventory sequence puzzle of juggling slots (which indeed is pretty dumb). You can use temporary items (like an upgraded stick) to clear the slots of what you actually want hotkeyed, so you can reassign them in the order you actually want as well.

I dont really mod myself, and i know the mod list for this game isnt expansive, but if all else fails it may be worth at least checking out whats available. its not like this is an unknown issue. Its possible a modder somewhere got sick of it to and made something to improve it.

[Kai Shan]

Found some that add more quick slots, but none to change the assignment process.
But thanks for the suggestion.

[JustAGamerPerson]

I love this game, and I do agree that quickslot assignment is quite unintuitive. However, I'd also ask: what's a better way to do it?
Probably a few answers there, but I'd argue that there's not many other intiuitive ways to assign quickslotting in The Forest.

[Kai Shan]

Originally posted by JustAGamerPerson:

what's a better way to do it?

1. open inventory
2. hover over, or click item
3. select quick slot (e.g. press '1')

[Evolvei]

Problem is some developer gets adamant about their idea without being aware that being adamant about a bad idea does not make the idea good.

What is wrong with the standard 9 or 10 quickslots with simple highlight and choose a number or drag item into slot?

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡Atlas]

Originally posted by Kai Shan:

This game has the stupidest quickslot assignment I have ever come across.

Not only is it not intuitive, there is no guidance in the game as to how to do it.
Searching gets tons of threads, but most overflowing with fanboys in denial.

Once you start the game and find out that it has auto-assigned things (and so every time you try to use the axe you get drunk), but when you try to reassign them it is impossible to work out.
After searching for an answer (something a game should not be forcing us to do for such a basic action) you find that none of it works - removing items from the quick keys just doesn't work properly.

Who ever designed this should burn in whatever demon-infested afterlife their religion pretends exists.

this is confirmed. wow...

[Hellsmoke]

I actually like how it's done, I just wish we had more than 4. A better description to tell you how to do it probably wouldn't hurt either. I played this game for quite a while and didn't even know it was a thing. But again, I like the overall idea, it's something new and not just more of the same played out features every game has these days.

[w-I-z-DO-m]

yeah and this isnt a problem once you get out the plane grab few sticks rocks, make a spear assign spear asign rock assign stick, then once you have a cloth as well assign upgraded stick and there you go, it takes literally 20 sec

[grinsekeatzchen]

I feel this, hadn't i watched LP's about the game before i started playing i would be so dumbfounded about this. And i always have to explain it to friends who are new to the game.
I don't have anything against not explaining stuff, but the craft backback togehter with the weapon or stuff you want at a quickslot is just so strange to me. Also the fact that the quickslots at the beginning are already asigned and you don't even know because it shows nowwhere. Have a friend who is very, how can you say it, clickity? She often presses wrong buttons when in panik and this way she used a lot of stuff whitout needing it.
Hope this will be better in the new game. But from the trailer and from Farkets videos it rather looks that they make it more complicated than it has to be xx.

[Heiinz]

Before i get bashed, I know it is not a good way to do this.

But it was added sometime during early access because people "demanded" it, so my guess is the devs just smashed it into the crafting system and moved on.
I'm sure if we have quick slots on SOTF they will have found a better solution. (If not they just went with legacy for the sake of legacy)

Edit: On the other if the one detail that stuff automatically gets added wasn't there, it would be a great system.
As in: "Find out how it works or you can't use it."

[w-I-z-DO-m]

strange because like hellsmoke mentioned, they simply went a diff way with a immersive system thats always been logical to me, you start with booze,soda,plane axe and meds, the only 4 item you can find right in the plane, they assign them depending if you grab axe first or other items first. Its not like its a game changer if you accidentally use a few booze or meds or that you can't reassign items before you even got out of the plane and even after that, unless you only play 30min at time and never truly learn or progress with an inventory, Id say theres alot more to worry than your hotkeys at start if this really bothers you. and once you have a few more items in inventory like sticks and rocks and realise you simply have to assign one new item to remove the one you want to reassign properly, it makes sens to me.