I too created this account solely because I had to voice my discontent over the change that was made regarding multiselect on PS5.
Holding R2 was a quick, easy and intuitive way of selecting multiple items. Holding the square button then pressing or holding X to select items just feels clunky, extremely time-consuming and unintuitive (another comment I read perfectly put it like it feels like you're holding one hand behind your back). It's hideously slow if you just want to quickly move around two or three items at a time.
Like others pointed out there's also the issue of not being able to bulk transfer selected items into a container nor can you multiselect books, because X is already in use when multiselecting so you have to do it one by one (this can't be right, can it?).

While using R2 to manage my inventory it never crossed my mind that I would want to open the radial menu at the same time that's also assigned to R2 (where you can find tabs like Character Sheet, Spellbook, Alchemy etc.) in case that was one of the reasons why it was changed. In my mind those two functions were clearly separated and never did I mix them up.

I feel stupid for complaining about such a seemingly miniscule thing, but inventory management is a huge part of the game so I use multiselect all the time. I never would've imagined that a button change could affect the overall fun of the game so much for me that for the first time in 400+ hrs (pls don't judge me) of absolutely adoring the game since release I need to put it down until this gets fixed.
In general I'd highly appreciate it if button changes would not be forced upon us without the option of us choosing which button we want to have assigned (like it was done with the 'Hold To End Turn' option you can now switch on/off in the settings).
I'm desperately begging them to change it back or to give us a choice at least.

You're doing exceptional work, Larian! Thank you for this extraordinary experience that is BG3! Keep it up <3

Last edited by Barracuda1902; 05/11/23 09:33 AM. Reason: Typo