Area looting confirmed

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/576122829113970689

 

Josh Sawyer‏@jesawyer

area looting should be in the backer beta update btw ~* #pillarsofeternity

 

 

Was that ever mentioned as a feature?

I'm not in the backer beta, but, sweeeeeeeeet.

Useful.  

 

Patch notes/changelog would also be useful

I don't think the area loot got into the Backer Beta build on time. But it will make it for release. The new BB is a few days old at this point (and not today's build), thus the confusion. 

Can it be made optional? Because I really don't like it.

Seconded, really degenerate feature that I dislike intensely.

I think I speak for a fair majority of the RPGCodex on this topic as well, too.

Edited March 12, 2015 by Sensuki

Could you convene a meeting of RPGCodex and collectively explain what looting individual corpses adds to game play?

Could you convene a meeting of RPGCodex and collectively explain what looting individual corpses adds to game play?

 

lol grognards

Edited March 12, 2015 by Infinitron

I think area looting is good, at least as an option. I'd use it.

The only thing I don't like about loot in PoE are the strong visuals, i.e. the "loot glow."

 

I'm not particularly fond of people trying to speak on the behalf of an entire community, especially on a topic not gauged.

^EDIT: I find loot glow annoying too.

 

Can it be made optional? Because I really don't like it.

I don't understand, how does this detract from the game? Can't you loot one enemy at a time anyway if you want to?

Edited March 12, 2015 by Marky

I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude.

I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory

 

I don't quite understand how you can't do that with area looting ?

I mean we're not talking about auto-looting here, are we ?

Edited March 12, 2015 by CaptainMace

I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude.

 

Obviously we all want and need to manage inventory and assign gear to party members. Looting is not inventory management.

 

One click to stash, then distribute gear from the stash. Clicking on individual corpses adds nothing to immersion for me but, hey. YMMV.

I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude.

 

How does area looting prevent any of that?  

 

 

Edit: I had the tread open for some time before posting. 

Edited March 12, 2015 by Lychnidos

I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude.

Yeah, uh... are you mixing up area loot with auto loot?

You can distribute from the stash? I thought that was only available at campsites and the stronghold or somesuch.

- Anything that draws PoE further away from BG2 is bad, cause less of an "IE Spiritual Successor". Different feels from the game = not ie successor.
- Whenever I killed a tough party in BG2, I'd always rush to loot the dead leader, to study his loot. Then go study the mage's loot. Etc.... The whole concept is now gone, as I'll be looking at loot from lots of bodies at the same time not even knowing which body dropped what.
- The area looting is slightly immersion breaking, due to it stinking of modern video games mechanisms and simply being irritating on its own.
- It takes away choice, however small it may be. I don't want to deal with the loot of everyone I killed, I'm only interested in that goblin shaman's loot, for instance.

If it works like Wasteland 2 where you just loot the immediate surroundings and each inventory is kept separate, then I don't mind it.

 

If you can press a button to loot everything on the battlefield at once, ehhhhh....

We don't have any current plans to make this optional.

Can we get confirmation that this is basically just ranged/group looting, and not insta/auto-looting? Methinks Tamerlane has the right of it, and most people seem to be protesting awfully hard against auto looting. Area looting sounds like what was in Wasteland 2. You still have to manually take what you want and leave what you don't, from each corpse, but you can loot them all within a certain radius at the same time, without having to jog to-and-fro to each corpse.

 

The only problem with that I can fathom is if you somehow murder something across an unpassable chasm, and the loot area still lets you loot it from a distance.

Are the inventories still separated in anyway, or do they just get pooled together?

Josh Sawyer ‏@jesawyer  51m51 minutes ago

@dragon_83_ when you click on a corpse, it groups that corpse with all others within 3m. that's the only way corpse looting works now.

 

Seems pretty clear to me.

Edited March 12, 2015 by Infinitron

So don't keep me in suspense Infinitron.