Paper dolls: ranged and melee weapons

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:52 pm

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it didn't appear to me as though I could give a party character both melee and ranged weapons to use as needed. They either have one ready, or the other, after I laboriously swap them out from the inventory screen. Am I wrong about this? If not, it certainly appears to be a step back from the intuitive old way of doing things in the Bioware 2D RPGs.

swcarter · Post by **swcarter** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:59 pm

I believe you can do the swapping via hotkeys, making it easier, but otherwise, yeah, you can't have both weapons equipped at the same time.

SWC

Scottg · Post by **Scottg** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:29 pm

fable wrote:Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it didn't appear to me as though I could give a party character both melee and ranged weapons to use as needed. They either have one ready, or the other, after I laboriously swap them out from the inventory screen. Am I wrong about this? If not, it certainly appears to be a step back from the intuitive old way of doing things in the Bioware 2D RPGs.

-that's a bit more realistic, no?

BTW, look in their character sheet behavior section - you can set it up so that they do this automatically through a combination of settings.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:37 pm

Scottg wrote:-that's a bit more realistic, no?

And I'm sure you know the riposte to that: if I'd wanted reality, I wouldn't be playing a game.

BTW, look in their character sheet behavior section - you can set it up so that they do this automatically through a combination of settings.

I'll check that out. Thanks.