Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Looting Suggestion - Quality of life

Better suggestion.
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How about making ALL loot once you enter an area to auto transfer to your inventory.
We should also just get auto event waypoints everywhere. So no more moving around busy work.
Same for battles. Auto AI and time skipping so no more busy work pressing buttons.
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Point being BUSY WORK IS what defines RPG and immersion. In my book, the more the better.

I LOVE busy work. I really wish Larian could add a bazilion more containers everywhere. But you get clues on what to open/check out through dialogue or LORE/history. Hey, RPG immersion! This ain't Diablo.

That isn't so far from Pathfinder games, where you can transfer all the loot you didn't pick in a zone before leaving.

I quite disagree. Roleplaying defines an RPG, and consistent, believable rules lead to immersion. Trying to streamline a game, can lead to a gamification of systems and therefore lesser immersion, but one can have quality of life features, while have the game remain systematically believable, consistent and immersive.

Baldur’s Gate3, impressively, fails on both fronts. It’s systems often don’t make any logical sense, and they can be tedious. In inventory alone, we have:
1) infinite stash - to which we can send anything at any time, and which we can access anything at any time.
2) magic pockets and an ability to send anything to anyone at any point

So about as immersive as Pillars of Eternity’s magic unlimited stash, just more tedious.

There was an interview with the maker of Weird West (ex-arcane Dev), where he said that he likes making systematically consistent games, as from small stuff like inventory, containers, physical items eventually gameplay comes out. What BG3 lacks is…. gameplay.

Yes, BG3 has inventory, containers to search with no gameplay or expression to it. It is JUST a busy work. It is possible that if another studio took Larian engine and systems, they would find a role for box searching. Maybe Larian will get there before 1.0. As it is now, it is just a bit tedious, though I would blame it primary on inefficient UI, rather than the amount of boxes.

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. The real problem is that no aspect of BG3s inventory is fun or even interesting to interact with. It's only a chore. Choosing not to interact with chests and stuff isn't an interesting decision. The decision is "do I feel like checking these boxes to see if there's anything interesting?" The only thing really in question is how in the mood you are to deal with looking. The way loot works in the game, it's rare that you're in a position where the loot you find in the wild will be all that useful in the event you're in dire straits. You might have to dig through chests and stuff if you're really broke, but odds are you're not going to find much that's really worth anything. You'll just find little one or two gold items that you'll eventually sell in bulk. And since the contents are randomized, it's not even like they're typically all that flavorful in their contents either.

From what I played of BG1, I would say that actually handled items a little bit better. You were very limited in what items you could carry, moreso than in BG3. So you actually had to make interesting choices about what you would or wouldn't keep in your inventory. Those choices aren't present in BG3. You end up just accumulating stuff that you'll either forget about, keep so you can use later by navigating the tedious inventory menus, or sell via a tedious merchant system. To Turnipsome, the reaon busywork in RPGs is immersive and entertaining is because it actually serves a higher purpose. It's not the busywork itself, it's the fact that you're in a position to have to do it. It's interesting because you need ingredients to craft with, new gear to equip. Ultimately the busywork enables you to interact with another interesting system. What's the interesting system that searching crates and boxes in BG3 leads you to interact with? Instead it leads you to interact with an inventory system that's at best passable and at worst frustating and dull.

Yes, BG1&2 small inventory space made it more deliberate, but more importantly BG3 is very selective with lootable objects, so there is limited amount of things to click, and in general things are worth clicking - comes with BG1&2 bing 2d games with barrels and crates being part of the background, rather than spawned in objects. Still, for all my dislike of Enhanced Editions, I do appreciate the "loot area" feature - I am fine with saying to the DM "now I loot the bodies", rather than having to click one by one on each.

And for the record, I don't think boxes are a big issue in BG3, though understably it is annoying to some. Back in D:OS2 I wished for highlight button showcasing important objects only, so I am perfectly satisfied with BG3 filtering important stuff for me.

I don’t want to start a new thread to ask this, so will ask here. Did the inventory screen get smaller with recent patches? Just fired up game after many months and I feel like the inventory is much smaller now making loot harder to see.


Or I could just be crazy…

i dont think larian should give you an easy life if you want to loot every box in the game. The indication for loot is a lock icon