Any plans to make the hands system less infuriating?

[Polk]

I've seen a lot of gameplay of this game and what keeps me from buying it is the hand switching system. I've played space station 13 for nearly 8 years and it is by far the least player-friendly feature of the game

Would the devs consider making it less of a nightmare in the future? I'm thinking having tools assigned to certain hotkeys or the ability to switch quickly what is in your hand with the toolbelt or stuff like that. I like this sort of game but if it doesn't feel really smooth to build things I don't think I would enjoy it

[Orici Vintarion]

no... its in the game from the start and it will be there until the end,..... thats not the first discussion someone started about that very same topic...

on the bright side if you play the game for a while you will adapt very quickly...

[Polk]

I'm not asking for it to be removed, I'm asking if there will be more quality of life things to make it more intuitive

[Nedrith]

Using alt to move items around makes it pretty easy. In some sense it's a pretty nice system. You don't have to open a inventory UI that blocks you from doing anything while it's opened. It's also not a game that's going to hold your hand. First thing people ask for a quick button to switch between tools next they ask for the handheld tablet to automatically be turned off when you aren't holding it.

It makes you think a bit more about your inventory as well. I find myself once in a while stuffing my wrench into my backpack rather than my toolbelt. Or misplacing a tool into my mining belt by accident.

Overall building things is pretty fast, smooth and easy. I would put building in this game way ahead of say building in Space Engineers.

[Lionard]

After an hour or two, when you are a bit more familiar with the keybinds and a few bugs (you can place a jetpack inside a jetpack inside a jetpack... = Infinet storage) it becomes a lot more smooth.

[Delle(DK)]

if you build something you can also just drag and drop your tools into a box and then just look at the item in the box and click left mouse button to change tools.. Then its super easy to change tools for anyone who are not a big fan of switching hands ect.
But all in all after a few houres you get used to switching items and playing.
And now a days you can even hold in ALT key and drag and drop items in your inventory and from inventory into a battery charger without having to have the item in your hand.

And space station 13 is a nice game but stationeers will never be like that these two games cant really be copared against each other they are very differernt.
Example its simply to easy to sabotage something and kill people by removing a window or many other things all you need is a tool, you can also easy sabotage the electrical network just by installing a few power lines and make the system melt the cables so someone have to deconstruct walls and stuff to fix it again and again.. it simply wont be fun. for anyone.
Stationeers will have its own gameplay and be unique in its own way.
But ofcourse other games can always be used as inspiration.

[Norseman]

I have gotten used to it, and with the Alt key to use mouse to move items around you are pretty agile in the inventory.

One thing I would like to see is a dedicated key to auto place tools in their dedicated slots, that way you save some time and keystrokes and get more effective. Or maybe not even a dedicated key, maybe just hover tools over the open tool belt and let go of mouse and it will automatically go to it dedicated slot. (Everybody knows we drop tools on the floor when we work fast in this game right?)

I think that could be a handy feature as we cant use the tool slots for anything else anyway ;)

[Nedrith]

If you use alt to drag a tool into the tool belt, or any item into a compatible inventory, it will go into any compatible empty slot. Note however dragging half a stack of pipes into the backpack that already has half a stack of pipes will create two half stacks of pipes instead of combining them.

[Balumba]

do not fix things that are working ok

[Adam De Beers]

As it is right now, it is perfectly fine. I am still fan of old way how the inventory was working. I use alt drag and drop maybe once a week.

[Chrisbitz]

I just rest my left thumb on the alt button, and do everything with alt and mouse drag, and it works quite normally for me now I'm used to it.
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[ZeroTheHero]

I think the hands/handling is for when you panic and have a suit puncture. Then it really focuses your mind. A simple inventory slot wouldn't give rise to the same panic!

[rbrucemtl]

I actually really like this game but have to agree about the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ inventory management. Never in real life do I have such an issue grabbing my tool. I grab my tool with precision and incredible speed to get the job done, and I take care of my issue with great efficacy and repetition.. wait that's not exactly what it sounds like... I just think that having a tool belt full of tools in real life is far more efficient then what this game is offering. After 40h of play and I'm still not used to it and find it frustrating. I can program complex systems to automate just about anything in the game but I still hate the inventory management. It sucks.

[Whaleberg]

This game sounds neat, but the fact that the inventory system is deliberately designed to be frustrating makes me not want to try it.

[Tasolth]

"Deliberately frustrating", no not really. It is un-intuitive vs most other games out there, but it is hardly broken. It has also improved greatly from when it was first implemented. Once you play with it for a little bit it makes a surprising amount of sense for what you are trying to do. Try to keep an open mind about it and you will see.

[Mr. Galaxywide]

It will never be as simple as in other games due to sheer number of possibilities avaible to player.
But to be honest keyboard shortcuts to manage inventory are really good and simple to remember. In recent update they even added small indicators to remind of what to press for desired action. All of shortcuts are straightforward one button presses.

It took me half a hour to start using them without thinking. Mouse inventory management is good only if you want 100% precsion in putting battery to some machinery and other actions like that.