I would assume this is a bug as it’s not included in the patch notes, and really doesn’t seem like a “change for the better”… because it’s making things more difficult, and is rather counterintuitive.
The problem:
Swapping out an old piece of gear for a new piece of gear no longer removes/un-saves that old item from the preset you’re actively using… while also no longer saving the newly equipped item to that preset.
In order to get an old item to ‘un-save’ from a preset, while getting the new item to save to that preset, you have to either, A) Change to another preset, or B) Click on the “Rename Preset” button and then click “Ok”.
This is not how it was prior to this morning’s update.
The problem with (A), changing to another preset, is that all the gear you have equipped is removed (if different from the preset you’re changing to), which typically causes things like… your health to drop significantly, or you end up getting caught with your pants down…
The problem with (B) is that, well… it’s a nuisance, both A and B are a nuisance! Players have to go out of their way in order to save an item to a preset. Now, I admit that this wouldn’t be as much of an irritation to players with multiple presets, because I know that when I’m swapping out a specific piece of gear… I’m often swapping it in all or most of my presets, which requires me to have to change presets & re-equip the item anyways.
However, for newer players or those players that don’t find a need for multiple presets, swapping out a piece of gear in just one preset now requires just as many steps as if they were swapping it out in multiple presets… and that’s annoying!
*If this is an intended change… I honestly don’t feel that it was a good change. If it is intended, it wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes, and you should have—at the very least— created a “save preset” button, at least then it’d be intuitive.
**Before I made this post, I searched to see if anyone else had mentioned it… I found some older posts dated around March 25, in which the players mentioned similar issues. So I don’t know if this is an “ongoing” issue that only appears for some players and not others… or if it’s the same-or-similar issue that had once been fixed, and is merely resurfacing once again.
If anything I’ve stated isn’t clear, (because I confused even myself a little just typing this out), or if I’m missing something… please let me know! I would appreciate it! All I do know for certain is… it wasn’t like this for me last night, nor at any point in the past.
Thank you.
