Raze - thank you, sir!

Originally Posted by Hassat Hunter
9) Why not both at once? And from what I hear, the newest version (which I haven't booted yet, shame on me I know) barter no longer shows, so that probably needs fixing.


Agree on both points.

Originally Posted by Hassat Hunter
12/13) Still don't disagree with this. If everything gets auto-identified, might as well get rid of identifications as a whole. Might as well unlock all doors if sufficient lockpick or remove durability with repair/blacksmithing 1.


Everything wouldn't get auto-identified; only those items for which the player currently has "sufficient Loremaster ability".

As to the whole idea that this and the similar requested change to the repair mechanic would somehow "dumb down" the game, the exact opposite would in fact be the case - it would remove some of the dumbest aspects of the game, and allow the player to spend more time doing things that are actually fun/challenging (combat, questing, etc.). What I mean is that there's absolutely no challenge or risk whatsoever to the current mind-numbing process of right-clicking on an identifying glass/repair hammer and left-clicking on (over the course of the game) thousands of individual pieces of equipment, just to do something that your ability calculations should enable organically. As long as you have a working mouse and a movable finger, you and I will get the exact same results, every single time - in contrast to the variables of combat, for example, where you need to consider where to move players, which weapons/skills to use and when, which enemies to attack first, etc. So, why not bypass the unnecessary identify/repair clickfest, while still keeping the underlying ability level requirements intact, and allow the player to move on to things that actually require brain cells? wink

Originally Posted by Hassat Hunter
general 1) Soap is good for something? That's news to me. But yeah, those should be highligted, but not all. No need to see each plate if their only use is... well, decoration.


Yeah, it looks like Larian is intending the nine (and possibly more after Cyseal) listed "junk" items not to be highlighted to avoid too much screen clutter, which I can understand. I'd just like to make sure that - if they're going to continue to highlight very important things like keys, which I very much appreciate - they also consistently highlight everything else that has a use. The real problem is that the new "line of sight" calculations for this purpose are often incorrect, as I noted above, but hopefully they can fix that.

Originally Posted by Hassat Hunter
general 2) Still not sure what you're asking with this. There are only 2 colors; white (not owned) and orange (owned). Currently most outside of the city are incorrectly marked as owned (and properly updated to unowned if interacted with), but that's not a different color to see if you looted it yet or not, it's the same color as owned. It's... as we say, a bug.


There are actually three colors (which, as a colorblind player, I had to have someone explain to me): white for all "non-owned" containers that have already been opened by the player, as well as for all "non-owned" doors and items; yellow only for "non-owned" containers that haven't yet been opened by the player; and orange for all "owned" containers, doors, and items. So the change I'm suggesting above would actually make the color-coding consistent across containers, doors, and items (everything would either be white if "non-owned", or orange if "owned"), and would also eliminate the current unnecessary confusion between yellow and orange containers. I understand most people would think this is nitpicking, but for me, it's actually a big deal - pity the colorblind!