Lock-On Camera Request

Hey developers, I have a request regarding the lock-on camera. Can it be changed, or have an option, of NOT having the camera focus on whatever I lock-on to? I'll state my reason behind it. I play on PS4, using a controller. As you know, in order to maximize dps as a melee, I always have to face my target in order to not lose auto attacks. However, with Legacy controls (which I Iove), that is not possible. Why? I cannot strafe side to side. My character will hit my target yes, but face different directions, and also make positional attacks not fluid at all. So my only option is to lock-on to my target, and my character will be able to strafe while facing my target. However the lock on camera gives me motion sickness the way it is only fixated on one thing. In addition even if it did not, since it focuses on one thing it is nearly impossible to pay attention to your sorroundings and makes it very hard to see anything else, especially if my target is huge blocking everything around it.

My only solution? It is to switch to standard controls. Standard controls is actually really nice, as a melee I feel I have a lot more control of my character, however as a mage, I feel extremely restricted. Putting aside how I feel, there is also the issue of less situational awareness. With a mouse you can use standard, double click the screen and still rotate the camera. On a PS4 I have to softly double tap (hold) the touchpad, which is equivalent of "holding the screen", and then I am able to rotate my camera. However this is near impossible to do while moving. For example dodging Divebombs in T13. With standard I cannot look behind me while dodging without my fingers being placed awkward AND moving the inverse direction. I like legacy controls and I prefer not to be having to switch all the time. Sure I can force myself to play on standard, but I believe my request can be a nice quality of life change.

My request summary: Can there be an option to make lock-on camera stay the same while using legacy controls? In other words, can my CHARACTER lock on to my target without my camera doing the same? Thanks for reading!

Edit: And yes I have the option of just playing with mouse/keyboard on my PS4 but I prefer not too. I am mainly a console gamer with years using a controller. I don't want to relearn the game, never gamed using M/KB, in which my brain has already accustomed muscle memory, just for 3 classes. I prefer controller. I like controller. Thanks.

I second this, really. I would like to use lock-on for obvious reasons but the way it works now I lose all battlefield awareness which is more important to me than getting that little bit of extra damage.

Why not just play on the PS4 with a mouse and keyboard? I always thought that was an option...

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Originally Posted by kyuven

Why not just play on the PS4 with a mouse and keyboard? I always thought that was an option...

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Because I don't like using mouse/keyboard. I'm mainly a console gamer and used to years of using a controller.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

Why not just play on the PS4 with a mouse and keyboard? I always thought that was an option...

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I think it is, but a lot of players prefer using a controller (myself among them). I play on PC, but use an Xbox One controller by choice for several reasons.

3rd this.

I use Lock-on as well to not miss auto attacks and also it's easier to repostion myself around the boss (I tank alot) without ending up moving out of Melee range or something else.
But lock-on sadly sucks since the camera isn't following my character, but would rather keep a focus on my target <__>

So yes! Please make the camera follow the player and not the target.

Please fix the lock on camera. Makes it almost unbearable to play a melee with the horrid camera angles that occur fighting certain bosses due to the varied sizes of bosses in the game.

Also would like to know why camera movement is restricted with target lock-on in the first place devs refuse to look into the issue.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

Why not just play on the PS4 with a mouse and keyboard? I always thought that was an option...

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I tried using a mouse to play ff on the ps4 once... It didn't last more than an hour, though because there's too much lag for me. Controller works best!

They should change it back how it was during 1.x

During 1.x the camere was always behind the character with lock-on. Camera, player and target in one line.
In ARR the camera don't follow the player instantly if the player start to circle the target, but wait until the player walked away from the screen center, and that confuse me because I have always to look if the character is really behind the target even if the target show his back to the screen.

If they do change this, I hope they make it an optional setting. I LIKE the camera to focus on what I'm locked onto.

In fact, my biggest complaint is that the camera WON'T focus on dead players that I lock onto. As a healer, when I attempt a cure and a player is out of range, I'll sometimes lock on so I can figure out where that player is, and run closer to them so that they are in range. With out-of-range dead players, though, for some reason the camera won't focus on them during lock-on, making it tougher to figure out what direction I need to move in order to cast Raise. It's kind of bizarre, and annoying, to have this exception to the rule...