This change to multiselect is horrible! It's so sluggish and infuriating to use after getting so used to the simple and quick R2 based system after hundreds of hours of playtime. And the inability to put multiple things into containers at once is nearly deal breaking by itself. That all, combined with the blatant miss for the readable items not working because it uses 'x' for two functions at once seems to me that they really didn't think this one through at all.
I tried to play the game with it but as something you have to interact with every minute it makes the game unplayable for me and for the first time in a while I actually played something else despite really enjoying the game otherwise and wanting to finish the story. It's so sad to me that they made all these other awesome changes but completely ruined the entire game for me with such a stupid and minor but crazy impactful change. Not even dating Karlach is worth this! I Even spent a while trying to find a way to downgrade the game on PS5 but that looks to be infeasible so now instead of actually playing the game I'm suck here angrily complaining about it haha...
But it appears there are lots of people who dislike this change, I collected all of the reddit threads I've seen on this and listed them below just in case there's any doubt how widespread it is. In all of the hundreds of comments on the posts below virtually every single player agrees this is a huge downgrade.
Patch 4 multi select on PS5 controllerPatch 4 broke multiselect on pouches when on aPatch 4 PS5 multiselect in inventoryNew multiselect is worseMultiselecting change after update 40Multiselect change in controllerI absolutely hate the new multiselectSelecting multiple items PS5The multi select item change has to be the worstPatch 4 bugs on PS5Postlaunch feedbackPS5 post patch interface changes are straight QOLPatch 4 lands with over 1000 fixes/updatesAnybody else tired of patchesI hate the new PS5 inventory systemPatch 4 v4113882084Please bring back the R2 system as quickly as possible so we can keep playing! Even with the occasional buggy items that had to be picked up twice it was still infinitely better.
