For anyone who hasn’t yet checked out the Nexus since the game’s release, an inventory UI replacement mod has already been out for some days. It gives you a way more compact and useful inventory interface with clickable columns that you can sort by, and most importantly the value per mass column. The most important item stat in Bethesda games.

Another thing you can do is add temporary columns of many different stats to compare your items. It also shows that quantity of an item you already have while shoping. And probably other things.

  • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    4510 months ago

    Pretty sad that they worked on this game for years, and a core part of the game was fixed in days.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      3710 months ago

      First time?

      Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallouts… all of them had extremely basic UI inventories that were fixed by modders.

      I’m starting to think they do it on purpose because they work close with modders already.

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        1110 months ago

        I was going to say, has Bethesda ever made a good inventory management interface? It feels like they produce a minimally viable product because they know they can crowdsource a variety of options from modders.

      • @Aganim@lemmy.world
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        510 months ago

        Don’t forget Morrowind. Being able to resize the UI to suit your needs was pretty handy, but in the end inventory management also was very basic. You could filter items on Weapons, Apparel, Magic and Misc, but that was it. Good luck finding that specific potion in your endless ocean of flasks and bottles after a good Alchemy session. 😁

      • @BloodSlut@lemmy.world
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        410 months ago

        Oblivion actually had a functioning UI, at least in relation to the others, it just had the UI elements at a size that you could see them from a mile away.

    • @originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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      3010 months ago

      Standard Bethesda

      Design the whole game so that it’s equally bad on all platforms then rely on modders to make it functional on PC

      • Silverseren
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        And by standard, you mean bad outright. Bethesda doesn’t get away with QOL improvements that every other major game company figured out years ago.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        010 months ago

        I really wish this was Howards swan song instead of Elder Scrolls 6. Bethsoft is in dire need of new leadership.

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          110 months ago

          lol seriously? they had 6 million people play starfield literally days after release and it was the highest selling game on steam before early access even started. theres no way they are in “dire need of new leadership” 😂😂

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            I’m sure the shareholders don’t think so, and a lot of the fans are fine. Starfield is the RPG equivalent of Madden 2024 and some folks were expecting Football Manager. Doesn’t mean anyone has to like it who loved old Bethesda games.

            I’m pretty sure OP means that THEY want Bethesda to have new leadership and, me too

            • @jackoneill@lemmy.world
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              Among my top ten favorite games: Morrowind Oblivion Skyrim Fallout 3 Fallout new vegas Fallout 4

              Starfield is definitely fallout/elder scrolls in space. Morrowind and fallout new vegas, despite being very dated, I think are better than what I’ve seen so far in Starfield

              I’m still enjoying the game and think your comparison is overtly insulting to the game. We aren’t going to get that old magic back. Every game franchise gets watered down as the years go by in an attempt to maximize market share, it’s just a fact of life, and part of the ecosystem that gives us games in the first place.

              Give it a few months and grab some mods and it’ll be just like to good old days

              I get that we shouldn’t have to do that, but actually we kinda do. Better than not having a game at all.

              • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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                True.
                Starfield is set in the future.

                Bethesda did start out by making the first Madden game though.

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                Both are mass market theme park games. Madden has a different pricing model but make no mistake the type of gamer (not genre) target audience is largely overlapping. These are games for casual players first

              • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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                I mean sure. If you enjoy bare bones winning no matter what and consider that a quality game, then yeah it’s a game with that quality.

                If you seriously believe sales equals quality, you’re going to be in for a shock after highschool.

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      1010 months ago

      The mod came out on the 5th, I wasn’t expecting anyone to make a similar mod THIS fast.
      I went on to the Nexus to try to find a mod that wouldn’t at least improve the inventory UI a bit, specifically one that adds value per mass stat. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw someone had made SkyUI/FallUI type of mod already. The mod author is fucking insane for being able to make the mod that fast.

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          I would say it’s because it’s basically the same game as fallout 4. It feels dated and like it’s just a skin/mod of FO4. The 2 hours I have played are good but still doesn’t feel revolutionary.

    • Neato
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      I don’t remember how long it took but I had SkyUI on my first playthrough at launch of Skyrim.

    • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      410 months ago

      There’s a reason why people said things like “are you ready for the new modding platform from Bethesda!?”.

      It’s actually very similar to Reddit and their mods, well former mods anyway. Profiting off of free labor.