So now that I’m getting back to my playthrough, I finally have a working solution–equipping those armbands seems to provide some kind of can’t-use-certain-equipment effect, and it just so happens that none of my experiments detected that the armbands were responsible. So this all makes a reasonable amount of sense as long as you know what the item does, which you won’t, and the inventory provides clear feedback, which it doesn’t. Never mind. Just glad to have that mystery taken care of.<\/p>\n
Just to confirm it’s the armbands, I take them off and equip my sword successfully. Then I take off my boots and put them back on, and, uh.<\/p>\n
Nope. Didn’t work. They won’t go back on. Same goes for my cuirass. And my pauldrons. And…okay, let’s walk this back for a second. Is the sword magical too?<\/p>\n
It is. The item’s called the Sword of the Traveler, which, according to the wiki…<\/p>\n
Casts the spell of Teleport when used, 10 Uses, Lvl 2 (Unknown)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
…has nothing to do with items, okay. So…<\/p>\n
What the fuck?<\/strong><\/p>\n
So let’s positively march <\/em>this back. I can equip anything but my sword with the armbands on. Take the armbands off and I can now equip my sword–and just like that half of the rest of my inventory becomes unequippable. Nothing’s REMOVED–they just can’t be equipped anymore. And this happens because…<\/p>\n
It wasn’t easy, but after reviewing my inventory and running a few more experiments I figure out what’s going wrong. The problem seems to be that Battlespire<\/em> really goddamn sucks. A fractal disaster. When the tow truck hauls the burning wreckage out of a ditch, they’ll find one wheel was stolen from a lawnmower, one wheel was experimentally triangular, and two were omitted for budgetary reasons. And that’s when they’ll discover the fender damage where it crashed into absolutely nothing<\/em>.<\/p>\n
So who won my guess-the-malady contest? Geez, I don’t know. I thought I knew what was going on, but I was clearly–frankly, I was rashly <\/em>mistaken. All I can confirm after thorough experimentation is that nearly every suggestion you all offered is definitely incorrect. It’s nothing to do with weights, it’s nothing to do with durability, and most of the problematic equipment isn’t magical so it’s probably nothing to do with enchantment conflicts. Containers have had no apparent effect on item equipping, and equippability is not impacted by presence within or without a nested bag pit. I’m also dead certain it’s not a UI issue–I’ve grasped the basic principles of putting on equipment at this point and am not just suddenly and inexplicably failing at it. There’s no material commonalities except that the unequippable stuff is usually metal. But not all <\/em>metal, I guess?<\/p>\n
I guess Ramsus <\/strong>got the closest by stating that my problem was “You were playing Battlespire<\/em>.”<\/p>\n
So I’m just going to give all of you the prize. It’s an invitation. To what, you might ask? Let me put it this way. Here I am, having exhausted all of the possibilities of this level, ready to move on–and I can’t equip my sword. Or at least, I’d rather leave it unequipped because I’m not sure on what level it’s breaking the game.<\/p>\n
I’ll have to press forward to level 3 if I want a new weapon, and I’m sure that if I press forward far enough I’ll run into one in a box or bag or something. However, I’m equally certain I’ll run into an entire dungeon worth of pain first. This introduces a logistical consideration re: my continued survival. I’m not too worried about getting brought down by ranged attacks, since every ranged attack I’ve run into so far has been non-physical and has therefore been deflected by my immunities, but the physical attacks in this game can be brutal gamestoppers if you’re unable to fight back.<\/p>\n
So what am I to do? How am I going to incapacitate an entire dungeon environment worth of monsters without a weapon?<\/p>\n
Let me put it this way: the same people who programmed this game’s inventory programmed its pathfinding.<\/p>\n
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