discussion Backpack Variety.

[Laptrico]

I really wish the game had other backpack types. Like you could have a medium one that's the one you start with, they could also add a small one for people like me who have a hoarding issue and always end up carrying over 30kg and the small one could only carry 20kg so you'd never get over weight and you'd be faster and a large backpack that has maybe 50kg before you start getting really tired fast/other negative effects but you're extremely slow.

 

Imaging starting every morning and deciding which pack you were gonna wear depending on that day's activity.

 

Oh you're moving to a new base? Large backpack so you can transfer large amounts of supplies from one base to another.

 

General exploration? Definitely medium so you can have a good balance of carry weight and agility.

 

Hunting? Then the small backpack so you can be quick and avoid danger and carry your spoils.

 

Just something I think would be extremely useful and would help lots of players avoid hoarding and having to do multiple trips between places because of carry weight.

[ManicManiac]

41 minutes ago, Laptrico said:

Oh you're moving to a new base? Large backpack so you can transfer large amounts of supplies from one base to another.

But the weight you can carry seems to have more to do with what you have the ability to effectively lug around and how well you move around under that weight.  In it's current form it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the "size" of the bag.  Since it's a wiegh limit... not an inventory space limit.

The likely counter-point here would be the satchel... to that I would just posit that the satchel and well fed buff are just ways the game allows you effectively haul more weight (but you'll notice that there isn't an inventory space limit - it's a weight limit).  That said, larger "backpacks" wouldn't matter since you could still only carry so much in Kg/lbs...

Edited October 6, 2019 by ManicManiac

[Laptrico]

6 hours ago, ManicManiac said:

But the weight you can carry seems to have more to do with what you have the ability to effectively lug around and how well you move around under that weight.  In it's current form it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the "size" of the bag.  Since it's a wiegh limit... not an inventory space limit.

The likely counter-point here would be the satchel... to that I would just posit that the satchel and well fed buff are just ways the game allows you effectively haul more weight (but you'll notice that there isn't an inventory space limit - it's a weight limit).  That said, larger "backpacks" wouldn't matter since you could still only carry so much in Kg/lbs...

Yeah I was thinking about this when I was writing. Obviously it's waaaay too late in game to change how the carry system works but I still feel like if they just made it so the larger backpack made you even slower or made it maybe even impossible to do certain actions due to how immobile you are it'd still work. 

I think it'd be a nice detail to have different set ups in different packs and even store other backpacks in your other bases, also, the small green backpacks you find all across the map can be the model for the small one.