Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Suggestions and Feedback Please improve hotbar UI

Hi, just giving my feedback. Currently the hotbar UI is a bit clunky and also works somewhat inconsistently. The behaviour changes depending on whether you drag from the left side of the skills window, or the right side, whether you have memory slots free or not, etc. Also it's quite cumbersome to set a bunch of skills on gamepad too.


I'd love to see the following changes to make the hotbar easier to use and more logical.

** Add a button to the skills window to auto-populate hotbars in sorted order. **

When pressed, this button will start at the currently selected hotbar (eg. Hotbar #3) and then fill it and subsequent hotbars (ie. 3,4,5) with all of your currently memorized skills and item skills.

The skills should be in a fixed, logical order: Aero, Geo, Hydro, Pyro, Necro, Poly, Summon, Hunt, Scoun, War, Source, Special.
Within each school, the skills should be sorted by required skill level, AP cost, and then alphabetical order.


** The game should never automatically make changes to a locked hotbar. Change hotbar locking to be per-hotbar. **

If I drag a bunch of skills to a hotbar and lock the hotbar, the game should never, ever change it automatically. If I am no longer able to use the skill, then grey it out. (This functionality already exists, but works inconsistently.)

I should be able to drag a bunch of skills to a hotbar, lock it, and then be confident that it will never change, regardless of un-memorising skills, unequipping items, or if a polymorph form expires.


** Allow casting directly from the skills window. **

If I decide not to bother dragging a skill to the hotbar (eg. it's a rarely used skill or a once-off), there should still be a way to cast the skill directly from the skills window.

With mouse, it could be right clicking on a memorised skill.

With gamepad, you could move "toggle memory list" to R3, and then use the Square button to cast. (using Playstation notation.)


** Improve setting hotbar via gamepad. **

Currently, to set a bunch of skills or items to the hotbar on gamepad, you need to press Triangle, scroll to the hotbar slot, press Square, choose the menu item, find the thing you want to set, press X. Then repeat the entire process for the next skill, etc.

Please improve the UI flow for this process, something like this: While the skills window (or item window, etc) is visible, the hotbar should also remain visible.

The right stick controls the currently selected hotbar (up/down) and slot (left/right), whilst the left stick / dpad controls the skills window.

The window does not close until you press Circle, you can use X to set as many slots as you desire.


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I hope Larian will consider implementing these improvements into the game. It would greatly improve the comfort of playing imho.