Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 both weigh the player down with encumbrance. Love it or hate it, it seems like it's here to stay.

Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 both weigh the player down with encumbrance. Love it or hate it, it seems like it’s here to stay.

  • iZomEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I’m a hoarder in these games. If I can store all my stuff back at my base like in Fallout 4 and Skyrim then I’m happy. As long as they don’t pull the Fallout 76 stunt where you need to pay monthly for extra storage.

    • wolfshadowheart
      2•1 year ago

      I’ve just found out you don’t even need to build an outpost. Buy a home and you can decorate it with hundreds of storage crates (150 mass/crate)

      • @Laila
        1•1 year ago

        The downside to that is that when you store crafting components in crates, they’re not accessible at crafting stations.

        • wolfshadowheart
          2•1 year ago

          That doesn’t really matter honestly, you can build all of the stations you need and then pick up your resources. Also I believe there’s some shenanigans to be done with outpost links, haven’t tried to figure that out yet.

          That said, you don’t even need to build an outpost or buy a home to do this, the game gives you the best option right away. When you’re shown to your room on the 2nd floor in Constellation there is a safe with unlimited inventory space. Run upstairs, grab 2k resources, run downstairs, craft your stuff, drop it off upstairs before you go. If crafting is a major part of your gameplay then this is really the best option I’ve found. And well, crafting doesn’t need to be a large part of gameplay at all if you don’t want it to be.

          The game has done a decent job at having your prioritize certain things. If you want to have 1k+ cargo, you can but you’ll give up some amenities - a ship I found has great storage space but has no shielding or weapons (and I think, not even a capability for it? TBD still), so even though it can carry everything I want it is more dangerous.

          It seems like the idea is that I can put my storage into a home base (be it Lodge, Outpost, or home), show up, craft whatever, drop off whatever else, and then continue on my way. The home in Akila city is cool but far, so def not ideal for quickly transferring and collecting resources to craft, but outposts and The Lodge are pretty reasonable.