It's a really interesting point regarding loot. I'm totally in two minds on it.

On one side I see your point regarding convenience and picking up manually or even walking over loot is a little frustrating, invonenient and time consuming, although perhaps I think it's because i've grown lazy.

But..... I've also come to think Martyr suffers from a SEVERE lack of "oh something shiny" moments within gameplay and missions. To me it's one of the current dangers of the game, there's not enough excitement and palyer reward during missions or even afterward. The end mission screen isn't really comparable to the Vermintide 1 screen for etc when you watch closely and pray to the RNG gods. I didnt really like that system eitehr but at least I paid attention.

So... I think I like the new one more but it'll take a while for me to grow to like it. We shall see. But i've started taking a little pelasure out of picking up purples, and I saw my firest relic drop on teh floor - it "felt" cool to pick it up... Wonder what others think

I agree with pretty much everything in this post, this part strikes me the stongest:

"But..... I've also come to think Martyr suffers from a SEVERE lack of "oh something shiny" moments within gameplay and missions. To me it's one of the current dangers of the game, there's not enough excitement and palyer reward during missions or even afterward. The end mission screen isn't really comparable to the Vermintide 1 screen for etc when you watch closely and pray to the RNG gods. I didnt really like that system eitehr but at least I paid attention.

So... I think I like the new one more but it'll take a while for me to grow to like it. We shall see. But i've started taking a little pelasure out of picking up purples, and I saw my firest relic drop on teh floor - it "felt" cool to pick it up... Wonder what others think"

Totally loving the combat speed increase... don't go any faster however as it will become comical!

Lastly, for me anyways, while the run and static animations of toons are fine.. can you slow down the avatar models on the character select screens. I think they too were sped up and it just looks  silly. I feel like im getting hyper just looking at them lol

Martyr is some kind of a Hub focused game sadly. Bridge-loading into system-loading into planet-loading into mission- do the mission. After the second loading I'm already brainafk and don't give anything to drops or whatever. Now i have to manage my loot and run over it or pick it up manualy.... I had no "Oh yes shiney!" moment because loot is useless untill you are back on the bridge.

It won't change Martyrs playstyle 1 inch if there was no loot to pick up at all. I don't like but sadly I realy don't care at all, Multiplayer will suffer the most. Normaly you played MP to get things done faster, now you need to walk as a group to get all the loot from a map? Why should I play MP again? Social reasons I think ^^. I'm not very happy :).

I much prefered the old loot system where I just get it automatically. Having to walk over it just feels clunky. I would like to be able to open the inventory and check out/equip new stuff I find, but I don't feel this new system adds a "oh something shiney" moment at all. When I read the patch notes I thought they meant we would have a choice between how it was and having to pick stuff up. Now it's a choice between having to click it or walk over it. Please give us the option to have it the old way. 

At the very least it needs to auto pick up stuff the drops too far away after a certain time, like if the party splits up to get it done faster. Also I feel the biggest lack of oh shiney stuff was that after a certain amount of stuff was picked up you wouldn't see it in the rewards screen. Loot boxes like item collections are now a real pain to open too. please go back to old way for those.

I would be the devil's advocate and say that I prefer new loot system greatly. 

NOT the split loot, if one player picks up something, other should get it automatically OR not at all (because it wasn't his monster). Chests are exception.

Current system actually gives the REASON to explore most of the map, and kill mobs - previous one which was forcing player to do it, blackmailing him with reduced reward seemed like ENFORCING.

Number of artificer items is, indeed, ridiculous - but I've found surprisingly little upgrades....

Loot system is OK, just a pity that we do not have access to the inventory during the mission.

Something that may help for both inoculator/supplies and loot would be removing chest to recharge them.

Instead, simply automatically reload charges over time. This would prevent backtracking just to recharge your inoculator. And you wouldn't have to rely on a teammate to pick up charges either.

Another thing that could help would be to display artificier and higher drops on the map (or depending on a filter?). So a player can decide to backtrack or not to pick it up.

But "gold" drops should be common: anyone in the team can pick it up by walking near it and eveveryone get the same amount out of it.