Cannot see AoE while fighting big Mob

Hiya

Here is something annoying, I play on PC and when I fight tall and big monsters, the camera tends to go on the back of my caracter and look up to the face of the enemy. This way, I Cannot look on the ground the see the red attack AoE of the monster because the camera is looking into the sky. Even if I try to replace the camera down, because the monster is too big it always points up. I know you can guess with the monster animation but it is really annoying

Is there something to do about that???

Thx

Are you locking on? Either manually or through the auto-lock-on setting? If so, that's the problem. You can either stop locking on entirely and learn to live without it, or make sure you've got the lock on/off key bound to something convenient so you can turn it on and off as needed.

Yes indeed i'm always locked on. So the camera movement are also locked on. When fighting against mob like that, i'm gonna try "unlocking", Good idea thx

I believe there is an option in the character config that auto-locks. You might have that turned on and should probably disable it.

We're aware that some of the camera behavior when locking onto a large enemy can be less than optimal, and we plan to adjust this sometime after patch 2.2.

AFTER 2.2!?

Great, another 6-8 months of this. :(

The Question to me is...why does anybody ever lock-on to any mob in this game at any time anyway O.o
It limits your movement(can't walk into the mob), you can only strafe...the whole controls are just stupid while being locked-on the target. Not to mention there is literally zero reason to do it at any time...so yeah...they could just not fix it at all and I wouldn't care.

Now...the camera not going back to it's initial distance after it close up cause of the surroundings or anything...that shit is messed up and that's gonna be fixed in 2.1...so yeah...they prioritize the right things at least.

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Originally Posted by Odd

AFTER 2.2!?

Great, another 6-8 months of this. :(

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Too busy with housing or another useless Lightning event.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Hey, thanks for the suggestions! We'll be sure to deliver them to the development team for consideration.
As for being able to eat food at a table? You'll be happy to know that we're proactively looking to make this happen. :)

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

We're aware that some of the camera behavior when locking onto a large enemy can be less than optimal, and we plan to adjust this sometime after patch 2.2.

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With all the respect you deserve, I really think that considering a problem of this importance after something totaly insignificant such as "a hairdresser" is unacceptable.
The camera behavior is more then unconfortable, not only it zoom automaticaly in when you face a huge enemy or when you lock the said enemy, but it does also lock some players on auto-run when you try to fix the problem of the zooming in (target unlocked) I'm on of the concerned players.

I am sorry but with an answer like that we're perfectly entitled to belive that the DEV team doesn't care about a very important problem impacting directly on the game confort and player abilities. This problem should be fixed during a quick emergency maintenance at least.

Agreed that it's insanely annoying, but...

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Originally Posted by Gandora

With all the respect you deserve, I really think that considering a problem of this importance after something totaly insignificant such as "a hairdresser" is unacceptable.

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I am assuming that they have a fairly large code team that's fractured into separate areas of focus, so I would be willing to bet that the character model designers/coders who did the heavy lifting on the hairdresser would have to take the time to get up to speed on the battle systems code.

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Originally Posted by TirionCrey

The Question to me is...why does anybody ever lock-on to any mob in this game at any time anyway O.o

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If you are not lockon, the enemy can go behind you and you will be unable to attack, you are going to waste time to turn around, while lock-on you always face the target wherever it goes. Also, when lock-on, you are turning around the target when pressing the left or right direction. Very usefull not to go to far from the target, you are always at the same distance. This is the advantage I see

Uh, maybe it's on my client only but my charater will automatically turn to face a targeted enemy as soon as I perform an action on it.

Due to the camera positioning I never lock to enemies.

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Originally Posted by Shirai

Uh, maybe it's on my client only but my charater will automatically turn to face a targeted enemy as soon as I perform an action on it.

Due to the camera positioning I never lock to enemies.

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gonna try that!

Just switch to the Legacy camera mode and all your problems should disappear. Honestly, give that a try. I switched after playing for a few days and raging at the camera and haven't regretted it. Legacy will also let you run backwards instead of backing up at a slow pace.

Kind of a must to dodge AoEs.

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Originally Posted by ShadowDan

Just switch to the Legacy camera mode and all your problems should disappear. Honestly, give that a try. I switched after playing for a few days and raging at the camera and haven't regretted it. Legacy will also let you run backwards instead of backing up at a slow pace.

Kind of a must to dodge AoEs.

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Legacy mode has a problem with camera zooming in and never zooming back afterwards.
Remember Producer Yoshida laughing at people fighting Titan with their camera zoomed all in? That's what happens when you fight in a very confined space.

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Originally Posted by Zirael_Foxfire

Legacy mode has a problem with camera zooming in and never zooming back afterwards.
Remember Producer Yoshida laughing at people fighting Titan with their camera zoomed all in? That's what happens when you fight in a very confined space.

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Hum, Titan is anything but a tight space...

But yeah, it doesn't zoom itself back out right now so you have to do it manually, which isn't as bad as it sounds. And it'll get fixed up in 2.1 or 2.2, can't remember exactly when.

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Originally Posted by TirionCrey

The Question to me is...why does anybody ever lock-on to any mob in this game at any time anyway O.o.

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For melee jobs, it is an effective way to make sure you are always facing the target, and therefore your Auto Attack string never gets interrupted. DRG and MNK can often be required to move back and forth between the target's side and rear.

While a player using kb+mouse can accomplish this with proper strafing, it is almost required for a gamepad DRG or MNK to use lock-on to strafe between the two positions without the risk of sacrificing any auto attack hits.

This is kind of a tangential issue, but can something be done about tab targeting not working well on tall mobs unless you pan the camera up to "see" the target, like Titan's Heart?

PS3 has even worse camera view

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Originally Posted by Shirai

Uh, maybe it's on my client only but my charater will automatically turn to face a targeted enemy as soon as I perform an action on it.

Due to the camera positioning I never lock to enemies.

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Tried it and you are correct, your caracter faces the enemy BUT the camera won't, so it's a little weird and not usefull for me at least