Holy Crap What Did You do to Targeting SE?

Targeting has been off since a couple of updates ago, but it was tollerable. I used to be able to target things and people very accurately but first targetgn myself and then with the correct angle, I would be able to aquire my target through crounds. I was fine with a little extra tabbing. Also odd things like targeting doors int he middle of no where when standing above the auction house in port jeuno.
But this now. This is EXTREMELY inconvenient. For over 10 years now I've been able to able to leave my mog house with ease. I'd simple have to target my moogle or myself and press tab to target the door.(Previous to stated above, I could target myself and press tab, since then when I do, it targets the moogle instead of the door. Requiring and extra press of tab. That was minor.) Now you have to swing the canera ALL THE WAY around to target the door. ow when you exit, you're cameris is facing into the mog house instead of away from it. Now you have to swing the canera ALL THE WAY back around again. This is rediculous. This is uunnecessary. What this intentional? Was this a glitch? Either way, allowing it to continue is unacceptable.

I noticed that too when I couldn't even target the knotted root in colonization rieves.

I probably tabbed through the crowd 3 times before running up in front successfully targeting the root.

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Originally Posted by Daemon

I noticed that too when I couldn't even target the knotted root in colonization rieves.

I probably tabbed through the crowd 3 times before running up in front successfully targeting the root.

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Yeah, I've noticed that I have to be almost right on top of the root to target it. Even if no one is attacking it. I usually have to target a mob and then tab from there to the root because it won't let me target it straight off.

They probably tried to fix the age-old issue where you can target stuff that should have been culled from your vision, such as mobs a floor above you in Delkfutt, or airship doors in Port Jeuno while you're up near the AH area.

I just spot someone who looks like they're probably hitting it and do a quick /assist <t>.

Similar problem with mog house exit, though I used a different method. Hitting down arrow so that my character was facing the camera (and thus the door), I could just hit Enter and the default target would be the door, allowing me to exit. Now I have to swing the camera all the way around to get target.

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Originally Posted by Motenten

Similar problem with mog house exit, though I used a different method. Hitting down arrow so that my character was facing the camera (and thus the door), I could just hit Enter and the default target would be the door, allowing me to exit. Now I have to swing the camera all the way around to get target.

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Ewwwwwwwww...

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Originally Posted by Kaisha

Thor airship doors in Port Jeuno while you're up near the AH area.

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I could not before, now I can do just that. They went backward.

Also, if they alter something that creates such drastic changes, they need to inform us of what they are changing before hand.

I'm dealing with it by pressing down (keypad 2) and first-person-perspective (keypad 5) twice; makes the camera focus on the door faster than spinning the camera.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

I could not before, now I can do just that. They went backward.

Also, if they alter something that creates such drastic changes, they need to inform us of what they are changing before hand.

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Sure, this doesn't exactly say that, but it's probably enough in their mind:

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Originally Posted by NOC_EU

Resolved Issues

• The issue wherein it was possible to target a door that existed outside one's field of vision from a certain position in Lower Jeuno and Port Jeuno.

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And yes, it does affect my targeting in negative ways as well. It's surprisingly annoying.

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Originally Posted by Motenten

Similar problem with mog house exit, though I used a different method. Hitting down arrow so that my character was facing the camera (and thus the door), I could just hit Enter and the default target would be the door, allowing me to exit. Now I have to swing the camera all the way around to get target.

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Me too, and I can imagine finding even more cases where I actually targeted 'behind me' once (or if) I start playing more actively again...


So yeah. Not happy about this change: bad form!

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Originally Posted by Motenten

Similar problem with mog house exit, though I used a different method. Hitting down arrow so that my character was facing the camera (and thus the door), I could just hit Enter and the default target would be the door, allowing me to exit. Now I have to swing the camera all the way around to get target.

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My time in game over the last few days has been sporadic, but today I noticed that my old method of selecting the door works again, so I figure they must have fixed it in Monday's patch.

Just want to say, "Thank you."

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Originally Posted by Motenten

Similar problem with mog house exit, though I used a different method. Hitting down arrow so that my character was facing the camera (and thus the door), I could just hit Enter and the default target would be the door, allowing me to exit. Now I have to swing the camera all the way around to get target.

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Facing something with your character while having the camera looking in a different direction gets the "target is out of range message" or "cannot see target" but if you swing the camera around without moving your character you can now suddenly see it, never used to be this way.

Back in the day you could target things and take action on them (like doors etc) no matter which way you were facing, as long as you were at the appropriate range.