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Currently, if you wish to loot armor or weapons, you essentially need to drop what you already have equipped, walk to your ship, strip, and walk back naked to loot more or get your old gear. Will there be tweaks made to fit armor and weaponry into backpacks?

TL;DRInventory is meant to be believable by volume, so for now you can drag or tractor-beam bodies back to your ship to loot, with other options like a hover trolley wanted later.

Richard TyrerSquadron 42 FPS Game Director

So the goal of the inventory right now is to make sure that it's a believable system in terms of the actual volume and items that you can fit within that space. So for example, if you've got a 120 litre backpack, the description I always give, and I think I've said this on one of our shows before, is I can't fit the snooker cue in there because it's so long, but if I put it through a wood chipper, I would be able to fit the volume in there. So we take into account the item dimensions and the volume. The intention right now is that you can either body drag those enemies back to your ship, or you can tractor beam. I'm not sure many people have been using the tractor beam, but you can actually tractor beam dead bodies. You can tractor beam a dead body back to your ship and then loot it that way. We do want to offer other abilities down the line, other features that are around that, whether that's a hover trolley or whatever that you can take out and then load up and then take in. It's the old Ultima Online pack horse. But yeah, that's the further iteration onto the iteration we have now.

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Published on this date.22 Oct 2021