Controller malfunction

This is the first mmorpg I've ever played with a controller. Never would have even imagined it would ever work. But it does, and when I get in the rhythm, it's pretty great....

But those times when you get distracted for a second, or click the wrong hotbar tab....man. Or when you click the l3 and focus on a single target while you frantically trying to dodge something....catastrophe. Anyone with me?

Sort of. I can't play with a keyboard/mouse to save my life, so I'll gladly give a few derpy button presses for basic function, haha.

Yeah I know right the cross-bar they created for playing on console blew me away when I got into Beta, thought it was pretty genius way of mapping so many commands. Once you get used to the layout its very easy to use a contoller :)
I cant play with mouse/keyboard even on PC so I still use a pad on there too lol

You ever get the map open, or some menu that you just can't get shut....and the more buttons you click the worse it gets?

Also, I guess I have to factor in cocktails. Cocktails can make me forget left from right.

Just press Square til the map menu is highlighted again and then circle to close it or do what I did: change the map transparicy setting so you can use it while running round the zones - makes life easier :)
Theres some gudies online for configuring the Cross-Bar/Pad settings I'd have a look and set it to how you like it :)

Oh Circle always backs out of menues and start brings up the main menu tab again/closes it.

The hilarious part is I started this game on PS3 back in the first few months following launch. Before long I got the entire system down to second nature. Around November-ish I got a new computer with a Naga Razer mouse, so I switched to PC. It was an awkward transition, but the mouse made it significantly easier (though there were a few things I was too nervous to do on PC for a while, I still had to switch back to PS3 to tank anything comfortably). It's been almost a year and a half since then, and now I can't play -anything- with a controller anymore to save my life.

Haha! been there. As tank I have charged in and somehow managed to swap actions around, an edit menu comes up, I find my way out of it, only to get stuck on lock on target and get slammed by an aoe with mobs belting into the healer. Always a poor start to a dungeon <Im sorry><please forgive me>. Doesn't happen often, but terrible when it does!

I noticed sometimes (Very rarely) when you put the charge wire in the back of the PS4 controller about 5 minutes later it just dies and doesn't turn back on until you reset the console. wierd.

You can go system config > Controller > Button Config > Change L3 to whatever else you want.

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Originally Posted by HReincarnate

You can go system config > Controller > Button Config > Change L3 to whatever else you want.

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Yeah I was going to recommend that as well, what L3 defaults to 'Lock On' is awful. I changed L3 to Assist Target since that makes it super fast to target the same target as another player... just hit arrow up or down to select the party member, hit L3, and its done.

Back on the PS3 version before we could remap L3, this was a huge pain in T1 trying to get to whatever platform started glowing which was usually my job, it was frustrating as hell trying to get there fast as possible and L3 did a Lock On which simply kept me from being able to take a single step forwards or backwards in relation to my target. By the time I'd unlocked on it was too late.

Ya I use L3 just for sheathe (which also acts as dismount from your mount) and R3 for sprint. I hated accidentally going to first person mode with the default R3 setting.

But then again, I play as WHM. Damage dealers should keep l3 as lock on because they need it for some fights or they lose dps from auto attacks.

Yeah... I once locked on to either Bahabutt or the MT while trying to dodge divebombs in T13. It... didn't go too well. It's what pushed me to unbind lock on from the sticks.

The extended Hold functions for the cross bar are life savers to me. Gives you just that many more slots for abilities that you need. It's an amazing feature that I wish other games would take advantage of.

That's not a controller malfunction. That's user error. Also, you can unbind focus target from the click.