Please fix this SE

[Dale]

I've spoken about this before, but I think it needs to be mentioned again, as it's a real problem I think Square Enix needs to fix, and the sooner the better.

Equipment Swapping during battle

This has become a very big part of Final Fantasy's gameplay, and I think it needs to be improved.

1. They need to fix the annoying "blink" effect that occurs when changing equipment that has a visual impact on the character. This cancels your current target and is very annoying, especially if you are trying to heal the person. Either make the player unable to change gear during battle or stop this annoying side-effect from happening.

2. Add an option to the configuration menu that allows players to filter out the equipment change note in your battle log. It drives me nuts how changing gear often to improve my performance floods by battle log with this useless message, causing me to miss important changes in the battle.

[Vinc]

It would be a very bad thing to remove blinking completely. The option to turn it off would be preferable.

[Xeth]

The option to do this; I would welcome it, if it's possible.

[ffxkenshin]

Agree with #2 there, but #1 can be avoided w/ <stpt> and <stal> ( i think it's stal)

[Dazusu]

1. They need to fix the annoying "blink" effect that occurs when changing equipment

PS2 Limitations. It doesn't have the memory to load the armor models into memory in real time and switch them. It needs to remove your existing one first, then load the new one.

[Catsby]

Supporting this.

Also, it would be awesome to have a function to keep a certain set of gear worn regardless of what you have equipped. Some strong pieces of gear look terrible while weak pieces look awesome.

[Coldbrand]

Please help SE I keep breathing fire and ruining everyone I love. They are all melt now.

[RAIST]

This can only be fixed on the PC version I think (3rd party tools)--possibly the XBox if they changed the code, but it is currently a restriction of the game engine/ps2 limitations.

[Ilax]

menu -> disable graphic gear swap -> On/Off

even possible to add this to PS2 =/

[Emitremmus]

I'm behind this. Although I know a lot of mage characters will use the blinking to their advantage, especially scholars with the use of so many JA. Some blinking technique to prevent spell-lock or something like that...I forget.