Dead Guys Lost Items Bug checked:
When exactly do the items disappear? Right after battle the item pack is nowhere to be found?
It doesn't matter that much anymore, but I remember the details pretty clearly - It was in the Goblin Cave. I remember seeing the dead guy's stuff - trying to pick them up, but then the dude trying to pick it up was overburdened and I pressed tried giving it to another character, and from there it disappeared.
Open this save:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/z16xr9f0gxzctrc/Helherron_DeadGuysItemsLostBugCheck.zip
1. The party is in the Goblin Cave.
2. There is a fresh dead guy, named "8", in the party
3. Three items lie on the ground: "8's items", Crossbow and Rags
4. Party member number "7", a Halfling Bard, is already overburdened. He can pick up only 1 item, then no more.
5. No matter how you swap items or party members, placing the dead guy in any position, playing basketball with "8's items" giving it to anybody, dropping it on the ground repeatedly, picking it up, trying to pick it up with a 100% overburdened "7" then picking it up with an other member from "7's item pick up-menu", it doesn't get lost.
6. However:
Usually a new party at the beginning of the game has a lot of cheap, repetitive stuff and you wanted to pick up the dead guy's items with a party member, who already has ~13 items in his inventory and the dead guy's stuff consists of like 5 cheap items of similar name, its EASY to perceive that you have "lost" the dead guy's items if you either OPEN the CONTAINER named "Dead Guy's Name' Items" and mix up those cheap items (very similar to the other's members' stuff) in short term memory, because as soon as you open a container it DISAPPEARS, but the dead guy's items are transferred to the place where ever the container was opened. If you open the container in somebody's inventory then the items appear there and the container item named "Dead Guys Name"'s Items is lost forever.. but it was only a name, the real items are there, - on the ground or in the inventory, where ever you opened the container.
If you opened the container, where was more than 12 items already, its easy to perceive the Dead Guy's Items as LOST, because the container named "Dead Guy's Name' Items" disappears and your mind automatically assumes :
- "Aha! Now my dead guys' stuff is no longer there, ha!"
When the exact opposite is true: the items from the opened container are poured out and simply mixed with the similarly named other stuff in the inventory. Must be lots of cheap stuff "at the Goblin's Cave stage of the game" and it really appears as if you have lost the dead guys items, but in reality they are just mixed with whatever is on the ground or in the inventory, when you pressed "E", opening the container, dumping its contents into the same place. The game then correctly sees no longer any use for the container "Dead Guy's Name' Items" and destroys it, giving you the exact items it contained, so no items get lost, just a logical container - the "disposable wraps or bag" the dead guy's items were enveloped in - is thrown away by the game.