Stone vigil hard

I am having issues with using the cannons in stone vigil hard. I am on PS3 and and I hook up with a cannon on the second boss and the menu pops up with the regular attack and the stun attack. I hold down R2 and punch the button and zip, nothing happens. What the hall is going on? I just got booted because I can't fire the damn cannon!:mad:

After you select your attack. You'll need to move your right joystick to paint a aoe marker on the ground. This has the same mechanics as the msgitechs in the story mode. So, r2+ x or o, right joy sick to mark aoe zone, X to fire

I see! Why is this mechanic made so poorly for PlayStation? It seems so cut and dry for PC but not PS3/4. There is no info for this so thanks.

It's just poor implementation for using AOE attack with a controller, regardless whether you are on console or pc. Still can't understand why we need to press two different button to use an AOE attack, it should just be press the attack once to mark and press it again to confirm placement.

Have had no problems with using Magiteck armour or cannon aoe attacks on PS3 and PS4. Just calm down and stop pressing buttons in panic.

The only difficulty I've ever had with it was when I was first learning it because there isn't really any good instruction in-game for it. On PC it's pretty quick to figure out because of the use of your mouse, but the mechanics of it on PS3/4 are slightly obtuse.

Once you get used to "I need to move my camera to aim it" it's hella easy but

So, last night I was having the exact same problem on PS4 with the cannons, and -- I swear on my Holy attack -- that I was doing exactly what Repoe described above. Stand up to cannon and hit X to bring up pet hotbar (like magitek -- which has always worked fine for me). Hold R2 + hit Circle, move ground targeting ring until it's red & on some mobs, hit X to launch attack (also like magitek). And then....nothing. It seemed like I could use the stun attack ok (when it wasn't on cooldown, obviously), but the Circle attack just was.not.firing. So unbelievably frustrating.

Am I missing something that's different about this attack vs. the magitek and other ground targeting rings, like shadowflare or BLM LB (which I use without issue)? Is it working, but is there just no discernible animation? I tried slowing down my spamming speed to make sure I wasn't trying to do it to quickly...and then tried to speed it up to see if that would help instead, and I still couldn't get it to work.

Is there a chance it's a bug? Or am I just being dense as a Giruveganaus?

Another player in my group was having the exact same problem, and even with our teammates checking to make sure we were doing it right, it still wasn't firing for either of us throughout 2 wipes. I felt so bad for my poor group!!

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Originally Posted by TheFluffyCat

So, last night I was having the exact same problem on PS4 with the cannons, and -- I swear on my Holy attack -- that I was doing exactly what Repoe described above. Stand up to cannon and hit X to bring up pet hotbar (like magitek -- which has always worked fine for me). Hold R2 + hit Circle, move ground targeting ring until it's red & on some mobs, hit X to launch attack (also like magitek). And then....nothing. It seemed like I could use the stun attack ok (when it wasn't on cooldown, obviously), but the Circle attack just was.not.firing. So unbelievably frustrating.

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As far as I can tell it doesn't have a very clear animation.
I know that I have the effects for everyone besides me turned to minimal, maybe it has something to do with that, I don't know.