Bartering and Opening Backpacks?

[ChrisPharmD]

Can you open the backpacks during bartering?

[TigerBhaiAffy]

I tried it and I am not able too I stored over 30items in my backpack think I will just open it when I am about to sell it during bartering but it didn't open suffice to say I was angry and I had to place them back in to my character one by one😡

[TowerWizard]

What is the point of the backpacks if you can´t use them during bartering???

[rn_archl0rd]

Backpacks are used by many to organize items. For example: place all food items in one backpack and all craft items in another thus reducing inventory clutter.

[TowerWizard]

Yeah, I guess you could use them to put all the items you want to sell... oh wait

[Morgan Bernhardt]

Yeah, put all your crafting items in it and pull them all out again when you get ready to craft. Would be nice if you could hold cntl and select multiple items at once to pull out or put in...backpacks pretty useless imo. Keys are a pain too.

[FrauBlake]

You don't actually have to pull items out for crafting because ...
- crafting from the Recipes page automatically searches the complete inventory including backpacks for ingredients
- backpacks can be opened with a double-click in the Experiment page and closed via the Close button at the top (this way, you could even search multiple backpacks for ingredients)

[Raze_Larian]

You can pick up baskets, etc, to put things in you want to sell, and then sell the entire basket.

[TheBloke]

I'm loving D:OS EE but I will say one of the weaker aspects of the game is inventory management. I really hope this is improved in DOS 2.

In particular, the game desperately needs a shared inventory - at least, for all party within 15 metres or similar distance.

When I open bartering, I want to be able to sell all the items for all my party in a single trade, using one guy; when I open crafting, I want one crafter to be able to access all of the supplies that anyone in my party is holding.

Because usually one party member is best for bartering, another is best for crafting, etc, and right now there is so much moving items back and forth before and after barter/craft in order to get best prices/most efficient crafting. It would be so much nicer if these activities could operate on the entire party's inventory at all times to avoid all that tedious moving items back and forth.

The game already mentions "magic pockets" for things like keys, so I really hope that DOS 2 extends this to bartering, craft and other such activities.

[ChrisPharmD]

Guys.... I created this thread almost 2 years ago...

[Daddy Shark]

Originally posted by ChrisPharmD:

Guys.... I created this thread almost 2 years ago...

. . . well did you find the answer? Can you open the backpacks during bartering?

[ChrisPharmD]

Originally posted by Star Trucker:

Originally posted by ChrisPharmD:

Guys.... I created this thread almost 2 years ago...

. . . well did you find the answer? Can you open the backpacks during bartering?

I don't know. I haven't played the game in that long.

[Daddy Shark]

Originally posted by ChrisPharmD:

Originally posted by Star Trucker:

. . . well did you find the answer? Can you open the backpacks during bartering?

I don't know. I haven't played the game in that long.

I think you're honor-bound to find us an answer at this point. Better get to downloadin.

[TheBloke]

You can't open a basket or backpack in the bartering interface - you can only put the entire container into the trade to sell its contents.

Unfortunately you also can't switch to another character while the barter interface is open. You *can* switch when just the talk window is open, so as a very-partial workaround you can close barter, switch to another character, open their inventory, change to the inventory that has the backpack, and check its contents. Then switch back to the character who's talking to the NPC, and click on the Barter icon again.

Of course because this requires closing bartering first, you'll lose any in-progress trade, and that was probably the key point of the question. So it's really not much of a workaround at all. But at least it means you don't have to quit out of the NPC chat as well, so at least you save hearing two voice clips ;)