Hello,

When I examine objects in my vicinity that can contain other items--such as backpacks, shirts, pants or armor--the inventory slots of some objects will be randomly minimized. This also happens on placeable objects (barrels, tents, etc) and other players (tied up, dead bodies, etc). It happens with freshly spawned loot and items dropped by players. If I walk out of the vicinity for a second after expanding the item, it will be re-minimized when I come back.

This leads to:

Missing important items while looting bodies in dangerous, time-sensitive situations because some random part of their inventory wasn't visible in the menu and the only indicator was an arrow on the inventory screen pointing in the wrong direction

Overlooking loot on tied up hostages, even after carefully expanding their collapsed inventory items‐‐because they walked slightly out of vicinity and some of their clothing automatically minimized itself again when they walked back.

Forgetting you already have an important but rarely used item when the time finally comes to use it, or assuming you accidentally dropped it, because it got placed inside an item you picked up with a randomly minimized inventory.

I understand the reason for minimizing parts of the inventory--making better use of limited screen real estate--but the inconsistency in the implementation of this quality of life feature makes a core part of the game frustrating for no good reason. Fighting the inventory display settings all day can't be an intended gameplay mechanic.

I'm sure there are complicated reasons the inventory of objects and players is minimized at random, and changing it could be large time investment or introduce new bugs.

However, I always want to scroll up and down to check the area; I have never intentionally minimized anything in my entire time playing DayZ.

It seems like a relatively simple fix would be adding an option in the game settings to never minimize (or "always expand") the inventory of items. Over the years I have heard many players in-game wish for this exact feature. I am positive many people would make use of this setting and it would be a big improvement to the constantly-required experience of interacting with item inventories in DayZ.