Picking up items when you need them is a HUGE PAIN in fortnite. Everything gets put in a pile and you can not choose which item you get.
Just played a match where I needed the scanning item, tried to pick it up maybe 10 times and still did not get it. Another player heard me and could just walk up.
This is just one of the many issues with items tho.
If you’re full on gold and an item is “below” gold lying on the ground… good luck.
If you’re trying to ping something for your team mates… forget it.
If you pick something up and have preferred item slots, but no preferred slot available - hello ruined inventory.
You (the devs) need to work on this because it is really bad.
What you want is generally 1 of 2 things in my experience.
1: A descending range pattern - Sniper - AR - SMG - Shotgun - Melee. Be it left to right or right to left.
2: Flexibility to switch from you “main” gun to a specific item. Ie. from AR to melee, AR to grenades, AR to shotgun etc.
On top of this it is likely you want healing/shield items or utility.
To fix the preferred item slots issue let us select MULTIPLE scripts for the slots.
Slot 1: Melee, Shotgun, SMG
Slot 2: Shotgun, SMG, AR
Slot 3: AR, Sniper, Utility
Slot 4: Sniper, Special weapon, Utility, Healing item.
Slot 5: Healing item, Utility.
If you pick something up, it goes into the slot with the highest value assigned to that type.
If you really want to be fancy you could spoil us with having slots that you could LOCK. So if I manually sort my gear I can also choose to lock the place of a specific item. Ie. AR in slot 2 because I am carrying a Shotgun/SMG hybrid in slot 1 and a ton of healing or something.
I’d also go for multipe slot scripts like 1,2,3 descending RtoL pattern + 4 utility + 5 healing as main, and then 1,2,3,4 descending RtoL pattern + 5 healing.
You get the point.
Another Idea would be to have specific grenade or utility slots.