Over all… I love it.
But it absolutely does need at least one mod. That inventory mod linked a few days ago, for example. That mod is a godsend.
I’d also like to see some sort of automated bulk-selling for outposts… or at least, bulk vendors and the ability to link to landing platforms/warehousing in cities (or some cities.)
And one that lets you create presets for ship power settings.
I wish for a mod that makes it easy to find stuff in space - like do you think i can remember the planet where I have ytterbium marked when I need it? Or even find a named planet without clicking and zooming on every star. Kind of ridiculous it’s not there really.
I’m thinking… a sortable database, after you’ve scanned it, the data gets added to it. You can then filter by material (or… combinations of materials.) and sort by distance. Also. A planetary coordinate system, that I can then place coordinates to directly land at rather than clicking around.
I am 30 hours in and can’t begin to imagine what I would ever want an outpost for. It isn’t like resources are expensive.
I’ve been searching for a nice planet with titanium deposits and adhesive dropping plants to farm - by the time I find it I probably won’t need it, and I definitely could’ve grinded out the mats waiting for merchants to restock. I do have two outposts that are just resource mines (I think its tantulum for one and titanium or something for the other). The idea is very intriguing as it seems like I could make an actual factory - but then there’s really no point other than to do it just because.
I would suggest building an outpost just to have a ship builder with all the merchants (it doesn’t have the special upgrades, though.)
Hopefully it doesn’t seem like I’m saying the mods aren’t a good thing or that the game is perfectly fine without them, I just believe it creates this strange mindset for players.
I even do this, as I play Bethesda games I make these little mental notes of small mechanics and things as I play and then go look for mods to change them, sometimes even saving and stopping right then to go look, whereas in normal games I’d probably just be like “huh, that’s just okay” or “I don’t care for that much”, but just move on.
Kinda depends on the mods.
Inventory fixes shouldn’t be coming out that quickly. A lot of the mods are fixes for things that really should have been looked into
Edit to clarify- I think over all it’s a fun game. But I also feel like with ten years of development…. It should be far more polished than it is.
I’ve actually not felt the need to mess with the inventory, but I’m sure I will eventually because it could certainly be better, but I find it just fine, the fact that people are releasing mods for that can say just as much about their preferences as it might about any inherent design failing. A lot of mods come out quickly moreso because they’re staple changes that some part of the audience always would like to have upon release, not specifically because it’s so god awful people just had to do it or they couldn’t enjoy it.
I haven’t noticed anything UI wise as egregious as being unable to sort your inventory by sell value in Borderlands 3.
