So, as many people seem to be aware, potion and food hotbars are not as intuitive as they could be.
Having to sometimes feel like you need three hands to open the food menu, use a second hand to cycle thru said food items and the third to activate.
The big brains of discord put together the following solution in discord for the current clunk of a system that it is now., without having to remap a bunch of other buttons.
Food items should be merely cycled via a short press of the d-pad up button. Once you cycle to the correct item you wish to use, a long press and hold on the d-pad up item should then activate selected item.
Potions would work no different, in that instead you utilize the same functions with the d-pad down button.
This still allows use of left and right d-pad for weapon swaps, along with both triggers for parry and emotes.
Make things easy. Utilize short press up and down of the buttons to cycle between consumables, utilize the long press and hold to activate consumables.
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Yes, please! Anything that is better than current system.
This would be a great qol improvement. Can also add, it would work well with a pocket/hotbar system where you can assign a limited number of consumables that you can cycle through. This way you wouldn’t need to cycle through all of your items if you accidentally clicked past the one you wanted.
but with hold to use, u cant heal in a bind quick enuf…
what hard about holding D-up with left hand, scrolling R-analog and pressing A to execute with ur right hand… after that, ur desired heal is set and its just a D-up to use.
its clearnly BotW inspired, maybe take the mechanic straight out of BotW and use whatever is selected when u let go of the D-up instead of needing the A
On keyboard and mouse, holding Q for the consumables, and using the mouse, it’s overly sensitive and it’s scroll speed is fast, sometimes in a firefight it’s impossible to switch items quickly as it scrolls right past it and then you counter and move mouse back and it scrolls past the other way…
And it’s not like you have the time mid fight to slow down to select it as the bar is VERY sensitive to mouse movement when hovering over them…
And I want to use my mouse to select them.