The Idle Camera can show you some interesting things if you watch it long enough

I must say that I've greatly enjoyed the Idle Camera feature ever since they introduced it in 3.1 and added improvements in 3.2. It's nice having a vantage point of Eorzea outside of the perspective of your character. You get to watch NPCs as they come to terms with being trapped in a horrible and infinite limbo interact with their world. You can view your fellow Adventurers as they scurry about on their daily business, as they wait patiently to take on their next challenge, or just pal around in town with their friends. And if you watch long enough sometimes you witness some really interesting events:

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This scared the shit out of me when I first saw it. Having just gotten back from AFK all I saw was the blue of the sky, a few corners of wall, and a pile of fidgeting bodies. For a wild moment I thought something had gone horribly wrong with my GPU or the game until I realized the idle cam was pointed at an army of BLM and BRD standing inside of the walls of Ul'dah.

Someone had better call Raubahn because there's an infestation of rats in the walls of the Hall of Flames! I've seen some funny things through the Idle Camera, but this is the strangest and most unexpected thing that the camera has picked up by far.












Disclaimer: This is not an RMT thread. I've just never seen the Idle Camera pick up something like this before and I found it amusing. SE may have inadvertantly given us a way to detect Floor-and-Wall Bots!

Gah... What an eldritch abomination...

These are BOTs.

inb4 locked thread.

hooo boy.

My idle camera is a pervert, it just zooms in on chests and backsides.

What has science done..

Bots with scripts can instantly teleport anywhere, instantly finish dungeons by complex scripting macros since the game is so Instanced based it can be done quickly and efficiently with all DPS classes. Since they can stand in the air and shoot them.

This is why everything being in an instance can be a bad thing.

L-Lewd. Showing us the mating habits of bots in action. How filthy.

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Originally Posted by Selli

L-Lewd. Showing us the mating habits of bots in action. How filthy.

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Omg its Rat King! But bots! BOT KING!

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Originally Posted by Selli

L-Lewd. Showing us the mating habits of bots in action. How filthy.

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I can't unsee that now.

And that should have been the first thing that came to my mind too since I called them rats and those are known for getting into and breeding in your walls.

I don't even know how to use the idle camera. :/

Reminds me of cockroaches, you may see few in your home but that is only a fraction of how many are really hiding.

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

I don't even know how to use the idle camera. :/

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Click the gear in the lower right corner, Keybind,it's the first tab at the bottom, you have to set a keyboard key too it.

There's an option in your system settings to trigger it automatically when auto-AFK activates. You can also enable it manually with /icam or /idlingcamera. The default camera just cycles through different NPCs, players, and mobs within a certain range of you and looks at them from different distances and angles. When using the text command you can also make it focus on a specific target with <t> or you can make it focus on yourself with <me>. On PC you can also pause the camera from cycling by left-clicking and you can force a scene change with the arrow keys (on the NUM pad). No idea what the commands are to do that on PS3/4.

Kill it with Fire3!