Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Auto-Search Button

THANK YOU to the person who told me about holding down the Alt Key. I can't find your comment to thank you properly, but hopefully you read this post.

Also, this post is for all who don't know about holding down the Alt Key to do a quicker search of the immediate area around your character. Alt highlights objects you can see and labels them. It isn't perfect, but I found it is very helpful. It lets you know, too, when a body is empty as well as if a container you have searched already is empty. It doesn't highlight mundane items or food. Just things like books, weapons, etc.

I've had multiple posts where I brought up an Auto-Search function of some kind, and only 1 person has told me about the Alt key.

So my suggestion is, Larian, please include Alt Key functionality in the Tutorial and maybe loading screen tips. This functionality is a HUGE change in gameplay for me. I no longer feel like I'm playing a Hidden Objects game.

I've been playing this game for 300+ hours and never knew it existed. Didn't find it anywhere in the Options Keybind section either, so I had no idea it existed. I've never played DOS 1 or 2, so I don't have that experience either, which is why the person who mentioned the Alt key said what he/she did. Because they'd played DOS, they knew the Alt key was a thing.

You welcome. :P

Uh, really? Didnt realize this was an obscure element. Holding a key (alt , tab...) auto showing containers has been a stable of nearly all cRPGs for the last 30 years...and of course Its the same for Baldurs gate 1 and 2.

Ok. That was kinda rude. Yes. I know its an RPG staple. With all the people complaining about searching empty containers, etc., and the fact that there is no mention of what key to press to activate this, including no keybind or keyboard map, I thought Larian hadn't put it in the game and that was the whole point of me suggesting what I did.

They told me about how to highlight characters, just not items.

It's listed under keybind options as "show world tooltips" and can be remapped. Edit: I've just checked, one of the tutotial tooltips tells you about left alt.

Show world tooltips? I did not take that to mean the same thing.

Hmm. I'll have to remember that for the future.

I don't remember the Left Alt tutorial either.

Well. Is my face red. Lol