Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Patch6, recuding hotbar real-estate

I was pretty sure you could have additional "rows" like in D:OS. It's been a while since I played DA:O so I must have been confused (won't be reinstalling the game to check it out, but it doesn't seem to be the case). Eitherway - game had limited enough repertoire that one hotbar was enough.



And? I do remember chain system already being a minor issue in that instance (companions triggering traps the rogue was told to disarm). BG3, beind designed around 4 coop players you will have to switch constantly between characters, set them up move them around, engage in conversation with the right character (or more importantly not engage in conversation with a wrong character), loot things with a right character (that one mostly has to do with garbage hotbar, and need to constantly manage it manually), and many others. Since I was introduced to strangely hidded "group/ungroup all" shortcut it became much better, but still behind competition even using the same system (see Wasteland3, which proper selection and grouping). General unresponsiveness of controlls and lack of action cueing still remains an issue though.



And once again:

See Pillars of Eternity1&2 - as far as I know an unlimited amount of shortcuts for any unassigned keyboard keys. There I always assign QWERTY to skills and spells I would use most in encouters (and they are nicely visually listed if I want to use a mouse - and near portratis too for quick character/skill selection!). Well designed and functional UI on top of that giving all information you need (for that given game - obviosly due to the differences in the system stealing design wouldn't result in perfect UI for BG3)



All you do here is argue why the currect design sucks, not why it is better. Yes, you want to know what resource the spell will be using - that is kind of organization I want Larian to make. Yes I want spells to be organised in a helpful way, not just thrown into a box at random (like hotbar). And no, I don't argue for removal of hotbar entirely - it is a helpful feature for hotskills (like eldrich blast, like mage armor, or false life if those are spell you expect to use often). Personally, hotbar doesn't even work as a shortcut to me. It would be nice to have a shortcut for eldrichlife and false life and hex for Wyll in my current playthrough - but as I am organising skills by type (per short rest, per long rest, cantrips, level1 spells etc) skills that I want to use often don't line up with shortcuts. Even if I went to the effort of replicating a janky version of a system I would like to see (create "organised" list, AND an actual hotbar with the most commonly used stuff on different hotbars) it will still not work, with skills like Hex which spawn new skills which you will have to find somewhere on your hotbar.