Inventory management is the thing in tis game that needs the MOST love.
I actually think it’s pretty good except a few niggles like items not stacking! I can see how folk who like everything tidy and organised hate it, but for someone like me who is comfortable with mess and prefers not to faff about with containers, it works really well. Other than shuffling stuff to deal with encumbrance and a bit of potion distribution, I basically don’t bother. I can easily check available equipment just by clicking on the appropriate slot for one of my characters, and use the search/filter function for pretty much anything else.
I do wish that when using the functionality to view the party inventory the tooltip told me whose inventory something was in, and that when in camp we could access everyone’s inventories including companions not in the party, and that the contents of the traveller’s chest also showed up when searching the party inventory in camp. And that the long rest food selection dialog box also showed supplies in the traveller’s chest.
But for me, this is an area of the game that doesn’t need a huge amount of work.
Even something like non-stacking javelins feels a relatively minor niggle to me, albeit one I’d like fixed. Or at least it’ll be minor once the known issue of the “Throw” button filter for “Throwing weapons” is fixed to only show weapons with the “Thrown” property. And even now, it’s unlikely to be the case that a character is carrying so many weapons that it’s not quick and easy to spot the javelins amongst them. I can see it would be irritating if you’re opening the inventory and finding javelins to throw there, but I assume that’s not what anyone frequently using throwing weapons would do. (Okay, I can see it would be a bit of a pain if you’re regularly passing bunches of javelins between characters, but that’s not a scenario that I’ve yet encountered.)
EDIT: That all said, I wish something would be done to address the fact you end up with tons of keys without being sure whether you’ve found or opened the lock they’re for. But I know that’s been discussed before and is a bit off topic here.
