Patch 5 also improves inventory access, letting players manage the inventory of all companions from one single UI, regardless of whether or not they’re currently in your party.

YES. I was just looking for a mod to do this but it's so much better when the devs build out a highly-requested feature like this.

[–] Frogster8@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While at camp, you can now access and manage the inventories of companions who aren't in your active party.

Sounds like it's not possible everywhere just at camp, also, the main thing I want is official autosorting containers, I use the mod but it can be janky at times, inventory management has put me off playing and I really want to I just got sick of organising loot and marking as items to sell and splitting stacks etc etc

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You know I was trying to figure out why I lost interest in Chapter 3 and started playing Total War, and I think this is it (also a dialogue bug that made companions start spoiling the plot...)

I've never been a huge fan of inventory management and after a while it gets very tedious in BG3.

Jokes on me though, I'm playing Thorek in Warhammer 2 rn and he's a crafting lord so I turned a semi-RTS into an inventory management game anyways.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congratulations you played yourself.

[–] Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And Total War

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Just in case you’re not aware, you can hop into camp at literally any time, you only consume supplies when taking a rest.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That’s the thing I’m most excited for, honestly.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The inventory management in the game is shockingly bad.

"Oh, I got a new companion. I wonder what I can equip them with."

Good luck, because the gear is scattered among your inactive companions, or the chests that might be locked to you in co-op.

"I need to take a potion mid combat"

It's somewhere in those 20 inventory wheels!

The whole inventory weight is kind of pointless as well, since you can send to camp at any point, and there's very few places where you can't just go back and get something. It's just inconvenience kept for the sake of following some arbitrary rules.

Gear especially should just be kept in a separate place from consumables and quest items, with maybe some quick swap wardrobe feature for e.g. switching to a bludgeoning weapon for smashing walls.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good luck, because the gear is scattered among your inactive companions, or the chests that might be locked to you in co-op.

This has explicitly been changed this patch.

It’s just inconvenience kept for the sake of following some arbitrary rules.

It's on one hand a BG throwback and more.importantly a minor impediment to the time-tested tactic in Larian games of "barrelmancy." Look up some Telekinesis runs on Divinity:Original Sin to see why.