Cannot equip items for no reason

[HUSTL0R]

I've tried to post this in a similar discussion but it did not show up. The problems are the following:

-I cannot equip some items, right now it's ancient bow, falcata sword, stone skinning knife, stone hatchet
-Behavior seems to be entirely arbitrary in terms of occurrence and items affected
-I've tried various solutions, such as changing keys, respawn etc.
-It's also not possible to put the affected items into a box

Anyone familiar with this?

[Mesuah]

yes, different items but same problem

[Estevan Valladares]

The first thing you gotta preface is if you are playing without mods, or if you tried making a back up of your DB and started a new game without mods to test if the same thing happen.

If not using mods, try to see if you can equip by another method, like if you tried dragging, try double clicking, etc.

If nothing works, try to equip it on a thrall. That info will tell what the problem is.

[thurgond]

Try setting your inventory and the inventory of the container to "no sort." Apparently that was the only mode tested. Double clicking for equipping to an empty slot also helps.

[HUSTL0R]

It seems like the "no sort" setting did actually help. Thank you very much!

[Macdallan]

Good old Funcom messing something else up completely. When are we getting the roll back? It's needed, this update was a disaster.

[Exsanguinator]

This seems to be back after the last "Age of Heroes" Patch. Living settlements i think. Or was it ever gone?
Either way: I consider it game-breaking when you can not equip a skinning knife.

I tried dropping the item in question, but when i pick it up again its another item, that i still can not equip. The server i played on at the time has no mods active. The item affected by this seems to be random, but once one item is affected crafting another of the same type does not help.

I do not want to imagine the kind of environment required to get this past QA unfixed or unnoticed.

[Neithan]

Originally posted by Exsanguinator:

This seems to be back after the last "Age of Heroes" Patch. Living settlements i think. Or was it ever gone?
Either way: I consider it game-breaking when you can not equip a skinning knife.

I tried dropping the item in question, but when i pick it up again its another item, that i still can not equip. The server i played on at the time has no mods active. The item affected by this seems to be random, but once one item is affected crafting another of the same type does not help.

I do not want to imagine the kind of environment required to get this past QA unfixed or unnoticed.

How about you read the thread actually? Yes there is a problem, and it is related to an update of the inventory sort mechanic. If you use any sorting in your inventory, it will screw up and produce the problem you are experiencing. Just setting the inventory to "no sort" gets rid of the problem.

It's surely not optimal, but the workaround is known and easy to apply.

[Exsanguinator]

Seems i overlooked the "no sort" post. Given this workaround it is no longer game breaking. But one would assume that this kind of bug is patched out by now,
given the original post is older than half a year(16.04.2024) and there have been some patches in that time, have there not been?
So my post still server the purpose of getting this thread some attention ,since the issue was either forgotten or the bug was reintroduced(regression). Or maybe it was always low priority.