Request for a feature to disable Soft Targetting

This may come across as trivial to some, especially mouse and keyboard players. I play the game on PC and use a controller. Often times when I'm on dps or tank my D pad finger get's a little ahead of my trigger finger. This causes me to target myself as hitting the D pad without a trigger causes target cycling through the party list. I generally don't notice immediately, and as a result end up standing in place doing nothing. Needless to say, rotations and openers end up being ruined, or in the case of PvP, I end up dead.

Is there a way that a setting can be implemented allowing us to toggle soft targeting like this? I can't speak for the entire player base, but I can say this would be a QoL improvement for many controller players.

This happens to me so many times. Especially in PvP, I end up foolishly targeting myself or the next person over as the Monk in front of me beats me to hell.

I looked for options to disable this, but I can't seem to find anything.

Happens to me all the time as Dragoon. Because of how I have my rotation set up (L2+up = chaos thrust, L2R2+up=power surge, R2+up=legsweep) I end up pressing up a lot and I have on multiple occasions targeted myself by mistake.

It was a NIN for me earlier today. I was 1v1 on PLD, a matchup I should have won handily. Instead, I was mashing buttons and doing nothing and by the time I realized what had happened I was too low on health to make a come back.

Disable tab targeting pets in PVP. I always seem to target turrets and summoners over and over

Happens to me all the time on ninja. Controller user on PC also.

I think it's worse when you accidentally press the chat log then you keep switching between General/Event/Combat and watch as the combat log goes crazy, all within a fight. And the darn log won't turn off. Haaaate that.

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Originally Posted by Arasiel

Disable tab targeting pets in PVP. I always seem to target turrets and summoners over and over

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YES PLEASE!

If there wasn't soft targeting, wouldn't it just be hard targeting instead?

Making no actual difference.

I do believe in the character settings there is a section where you can enable/disable targeting on any number of things including party/alliance members, pets, npc's and so on. I can't check as of the moment myself cause I'm at work lol

Happened to me even using a mouse...lol

While in the middle of the rotation combo, press right click and drag to rotate camera, but right click onto party member so it selected him instead, and I wonder why my rotation didn't continued.

I wish right click for mouse can be toggled off the selecting function..

Strange :eek: I've been a controller user since i started (playing on ps3 and then eventually ps4) and I've never had an issue with the soft targeting. It's honestly the best thing ever in terms of healing, for me at least. But then again I usually have a trigger held down constantly as soon as i enter combat, on all my jobs.

I don't honestly think there's a way to disable it.. I've dug through the options and can't find anything.. unless I overlooked it.. Odd though, as thorough as they are with giving options and customizable settings, they do miss a lot of little things, like this.

Can one not just delete or alter the associated keybind?

I am also looking for a solution to this.
In Mixed mode this is a big problem for me, when I come back from RT+LT extra bars I have no idea which bar (if any) I'll come back to, only to press d-pad up and target myself, or B and drop target.
The game actively prevents you from changing this. I apparently 'have to' have a drop target button.

Ahh this old issue. I've come across this many times. Lost Enochian or greased Lightning as a result. Sometimes is because I've targeted myself or another party member, others it's because I've grazed the touchpad and it's "left clicked" the sceen, cancelling my targeting completely.
One I found yesterday when doing Treasue Maps was I kept selecting the chest as the first target until I rotated my camera to remove the chest from the screen.
I'm sure there is a fix, as someone mentioned in the settings to cancel selecting chests but I don't really want to keep adjusting settings every time I want to select a chest to select them and readjust when I'm going to fight to ignore them.

Controller is strictly for movement for me. Can't be asked to use WASD. I use F keys and Filter targeting settings to get the best experience.

I use soft targeting on ps4, would not want to lose it.

Id imagine changing your methods of targeting, such as when ur weapon is out, u cant target yourself/allies, etc.
I know theres a way to change a preset of what u can or cant target as well, regardless if ur weapon is out or not, though i dont bother with that one.

What I want as a mixed mode user (due to RSI I have to use this mode for pain management):

1. Coming from from expanded LT+RT having a predictable result that doesn't require extremely precise timing. IE:
I'm on RT (mixed mode is a toggle mode), I use RT+LT or LT+RT to press a button on my expanded bars (expanded bar access is a trigger hold mode), when I release in either trigger order I want to go back to RT or into no trigger held at all, not have it random depending on what I released first in which milisecond.

2. A way to 'lock' my target, when I end up in no trigger held I will sometimes press up thinking I'm on either RT or LT, I am now the soft target and have to use a macro to clear it, terrible.
I pressed B, I now lost my target.
I pressed X, I now have my context menu open.
I pressed B, didn't notice and pressed X, my map is now open!

Let me lock my target or alternatively unbind deselect target and open context menu in battle, there is no way to do this! You must always have a cancel button regardless of what you do or how you bind your controller.
I would have to run extreme scripts that click on specific pixels on the screen to emulate this behavior!

Currently I use macros on R3 and L3 that will fix it and select the nearest target, why is this necessary?

Please invest even a few minutes to look at mixed mode, if you at least fix the expanded bar randomness that would go a long long way.

Thank you.