Larian Studios Forums General Suggestions Depressing, After Six Months, Same Annoying Group Order Issue

I last played six months ago, I really disliked then, the clunky way the game groups and arranges party members. It's still a tedious and annoying chore to group, ungroup and arrange party members in the F1-F4 positions that I want them in.

For example, let's say I want to ungroup a couple members from the F2 and F3 slots, so they can stealth around to get in position for an ambush. I dread the end of the fight, because I know I'll have to fight the wonky interface just to group my team back into the order they were before. It gets even goofier if the game attaches an extra member like Sazza into the group. When I think they are in the right order and tap the key to group back up, too often one or more characters get bumped up or down and screw up the order. Then I have to ungroup and freaking try it again, and again...

Was there some new change that was made, to make it a simple matter to place group members in the F1 - F4 order I want? Or do I have to toggle group, move the portraits around in the order I want them in, and hope for the best when I toggle the group button again? Or, do they need to rework the interface to make it simple to group?

Wish I could just R-click a portrait, open a pulldown menu and select F1-F4 to plot them into the correct slot. Or maybe just CTRL+drag them into position, or something other than the way I'm doing it now.

I have not experienced it again since coming back, but do our party members still fall off buildings and either hurt themselves or die, when trying to follow us down ladders and such?

This was always a hassle, and it's one reason I used to be forced to group and ungroup my team, so they would not blindly follow the leader, and end up running off roof tops and plunging to their untimely deaths.

Groups also change their order after visiting a vendor.

I have been having another issue that happens a lot. I'll talk to the vendor, sell a few things, and the game will not let me hit the keybind for next character, so I can sell stuff from their inventory. When it bugs like this, it won't let me select another character using the F1-F4 keys either. It's really hit or miss whether I can sell stuff from more than one character, without having to break off from the vendor, and then click on them to start the entire trade dialogue all over again.