#62

The bug is unfortunate and highly inconvenient, but I understand that bugs occur. The frightening part to me is that anybody playing can catch this bug within 10 mins, forcing me to wonder if anybody at Gearbox is testing gameplay before rolling out a large patch to the entire PS4 community. Troubling to me…

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#63

Having same problem here but I do seem to be able to change it when I am at vending machine.

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#64

That is literally their only suggested workaround. It’s been posted here before, though here’s an exact quote from their CSR, directly from the ticket I submitted:

"After looking into this a bit, it appears there’s not much I can do about this issue. However, the developers are aware of this and are currently working on a fix for an upcoming patch. For now, try to equip the items to mark them, or place them in your bank and mark them there . I hope this helps.

Unfortunately, we don’t have visibility on their progress here in customer support, so we don’t have a timeline for the fix to be implemented. Please follow us on Twitter (@2K, @2KSupport, and @Borderlands), as this is where latest info, as well as, upcoming updates and fixes, will be announced."

That is, per Gearbox and 2K’s official word, the ONLY viable in-game workaround: return to Sanctuary to your bank, or do it in-store. Dynamic comparisons aren’t possible at either, so…enjoy your sorting :wink:

As this is a bug which happened immediately after the Bloody Harvest update, is a known issue, and (unlike other, even worse show-stopper bugs – vide other forum topics, you’ll find plenty), considering there are less than a thousand posts/views on this thread about the issue, I would surmise this is VERY low on their priority list, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for an update/patch for it.

Understandably so, as having BL3 crash your console entirely or wipe out all your saves/characters/inventory are all definitely far worse issues.

As for me…having played the game a little before the Inventory Tagging Bug (made it to Sanctuary3), and then playing it after the update, things went a bit like this:

  1. First 10-15 minutes: “OK, this is a hassle, but I can deal with it.”
  2. First mission (which entailed repeated returns to various places to ditch loot, each time taking longer & longer due to the sorting bug (also documented) and the newer Tag bug): “OK, this is starting to suck…”
  3. After second mission & finding inventory issues were slugging gameplay and making things take at least 2-3X as long: “This is no longer enjoyable, as I’m spending 40-60% of my time manually comparing and sorting trash before embarking on further missions.”

It was at that point I started hitting the official forums up, and submitted official tickets (see any of my other posts here about it).

While I’m keenly aware of the vagaries and setbacks that come with SW & Game development, I’d agree this could have been EASILY spotted by even a few minutes of QA time. As in, any.

Having paid about a hundred bucks early for the SDE, I do feel rather burned…which is a shame, as I really do love GB & 2K’s stuff, and have been a fan going back many years, and I didn’t just buy their PS3 games: I also repurchased many (BL/BL2/BL:TPS, etc) along with the PS4 offerings like BL3 SDE.

So…if you’re feeling burned…join the club. Your choices are to do the above, or play a different game.

HTH,

~J

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#65

When I play the game, I sort the items by type, choose the junk and sell it. When I bought the game, I noticed that sorting by type doesn’t work in the vending machines. So I used backpack as workaround, tagged the junk there and then sold it at the vending machine. Now the tagging is broken in backpack and when I go to the vending machine as workaround, I still can’t sort by type. It is so awkward that I will stop playing the game and wait for a fix. Hopefully it won’t take more than month as with the sorting bug.

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#66

Ditto here. I’ve been spending more time doing inventory management this past week than actually playing the game. As a result I’ve been playing THS again and watching movies because the work-arounds are a complete hassle, especially If you’re trying to level characters and also picking up over-leveled gear. Plus all the ■■■■■■■ ghosts everywhere. Jeez.

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#67

Some official word would be really nice gearbox… Yall are paying attention to these? Aren’t you? Isn’t that kinda the purpose? Could we get an idea on a timeline for the fix?

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#68

They promised to implement fix for tagging in the next patch that should be released in November.

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#69

Today’s hotfix notes mentioned that the fix is coming in a patch soon. Then tonight a small patch dropped on XB1 (since MS seems to like to roll them out early). I don’t know if the PS4 version - which should drop Friday - is the one with the tagging fix or not since the update notes aren’t up yet.

tl;dr - keep an eye on the support pages or the BL3 news section tomorrow.

#70

I really hope that they do. I’ve developed my own method of managing my constantly evolving inventory around this bug, and will sigh in relief when it is fixed.
Here is to hoping they test the PS4 version of the game, before releasing a large update, next time!

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#71

Friday the 13th: Part 3 it is then. :wink:

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#72

Current hot fixes still haven’t solved this issue. Maybe GB could start regression testing their
updates before sending them out.

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#73

A hotfix wouldn’t be able to resolve the tagging issue - it needs a patch. There may be a small patch on PS4 today as one rolled out on XB1 last night and MS seems to push these early. For comparison my game is now version 1.0.0.7.

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#74

The 1.05 patch should have been properly regression tested so that this problem didn’t happen to begin with. This is a matter of basic unit testing.

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#75

Definitely beyond annoying and tedious at this point. Even though I love the whole series, this just makes it no fun to play… at least for me. Comparing weapons has become a job. I think I’ve got my 99 bucks worth out of this game already. Seems pretty obvious that testing prior to release of updates/hotfixes is lacking. My best friend is a software engineer for Intel, so I understand how difficult testing can be. But damn, it’s just made the game unplayable for me. Gonna move on.

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#76

The best workaround I’ve found is, if u want to keep something, equip it and star it, then once you’ve stared all ur good stuff, go to a vending machine and mark everything not stared as junk and then sell all the junk. It’s definitely a lot more tedious than it was before the bug, but not the game breaking glitch some people are making it out to be. I find the floaty ass jumping (and the slippery ass landing) to be far more frustrating by several orders of magnitude.

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#77

It’s been 2 weeks and they didn’t fix it. This may seems small problem for some people but for me it is start stacking up and become really annoying.

I just stash some items in my bank for my other charactes because their bank space is to small so I switched to my other character to get it. The items mark is reset after you put it in the bank so after you pick it again you have to mark it again one by one and then it happened. I sold some stuff that I need it and just realized it the day after.

I think if this happen to PC platform they will have it fix in a day.

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#78

I’m guessing they would have caught the bug and made adjustments, before rolling the large update out to the masses, if had been on the pc.
I have to assume they are testing on one of the platforms, and it does not appear to be PS4.

#79

I started The Outer World’s when my junk tagging stopped and my health bar locked at 1. I like it. Good stories if you take the time to explore. Very interesting graphic look. Gameplay can be easy if you build your abilities right. Then just move up to Hard if you want more challenge. I know there are a lot of opinions on the game but it’s been a nice relief from the constant over-the-topness af BL3.

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#80

While I had no intention of returning to this forum once I saw a patch wasn’t going to be forthcoming anytime soon, after receiving another email from tech support about my ticket acting as if it were satisfactorily resolved, here was my final response (edited for brevity). I assume the ticket is now officially closed.

"Much as I’m a fan of the Borderlands games, I already stopped playing, as no patches to fix any of the bugs have been forthcoming.

“I’ll be sure and leave VERY honest reviews on Amazon, your forums, and everywhere else (loads of people online have griped about this…to no avail)…so I guess, in the interest of helping others not get ripped off, it’s the least I can do to warn others not to buy this game new, and to wait until it’s patched and/or to buy a used copy. No need for others to get ripped off like I have been.”

That said, I did find a solution to the problem: I started playing The Outer Worlds, which is amazingly bug-free, and eminently playable, so I’ve been doing that now.

Thanks for your time, if nothing else.

Very Sincerely (etc)"

Hope others see this before they plunk down their money for this lemon.

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#81

I absolutely agree with your frustration regarding the issue, but I don’t know the difficulty of the issue.
I WANT a fix for this, Today. No. Yesterday.
But I don’t know all of the factors, so I don’t know how this BECAME an issue, suddenly, after the 1.05 update, nor why it isnt an issue for other platforms, nor why the latest hot fixes haven’t remedied it.
Is it something that is so defiantly wired into the the ps4’s core that defies gearboxes’ coding intentions, or, as I suspect, something simple that gearbox did NOT TEST FOR on the PS4, and hasn’t deigned important enough to slip into a recent hotfix?
I think that Gearbox should explain the situation.
Even if I discovered that they completely effed the entire thing up, themselves, which I don’t believe for a second, truth be told, it would be better to know, than complete silence, which I think is damning.
If they said; “we effed up, because we thought…”, I would say; “ok. I can understand that. Great game, anyways…”
What do we have, instead? Crickets. Nothing.
Anyways. LOVE the game, and franchise, nonetheless.

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