My Controller Died

easily the most common excuse for when someone fails in a duty. like i'm supposed to believe they're really a good player, except their controller died. a really good player who can't keep their controller charged

I lost count the amount of times my controller died while in frontline.

I can't count the times I accidentally pulled my keyboard cord out of my computer while in a dungeon and had to do the rest of it with only my mouse.

It happen on PS4

Well, I mean, it does happen though. Can't play with a controller and not do your level best to ignore the blinking empty battery symbol on the screen lol. #PS4Lifefacts ;D

Sometimes it's not even the controller dying, but something causing the controller to "pause" for a moment (PC problem). The fix for that is to disable the Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator.

If I had 500 gil for every battle wiped, and the person who started the wipe types "lol controller died"...

I play with a wired Xbox One controller on my PC. It really does sometimes decide "I need a break" and does that Windows "Device unplugged" sound effect followed a few seconds by the "Device plugged in!" one. My brother has a similar problem with a PS4 one.

It can be used as an excuse, but it happens.

Like my father always said: Shit happens, son.

I'm on ps4, using one controller while I keep the other plugged in and charging. Can't even count how many times it ran out of battery and gave out on me while playing. Just usually you wouldn't notice this happening, cause I've gotten very fast in jumping to my ps4 and grabbing the charged one xD

Well..prepare the funeral.

Did happen all the time with my friend.

I mean, it's not an uncommon issue. I think it's best to just give people the benefit of the doubt - these things happen.

It's happened to me too. Listen, if your group member has been performing decently or even kicking ass and then all of a sudden their performance plummets, something is usually up. Give players the benefit of the doubt until shown otherwise.

when I play wireless cause it's a third party, it connect, disconnect connect and goes on and on.
(so I'm always wired now)

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Originally Posted by cheolsu

easily the most common excuse for when someone fails in a duty. like i'm supposed to believe they're really a good player, except their controller died. a really good player who can't keep their controller charged

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its not an excuse :3 how would you feel it if it happens to you and someone told you ur a liar ? XD dosnt feel that good right? ^^

Has happened to me at least 5 times so meh.

the problem on PS4 is that the energy of the controller doesn't last that long and there is no indicator anywhere on the controller for low energy. you get a message one time from the PS4 when the enrgy is low, but you can easily miss it because it only shows up a few seconds.

Well at least it's an better excuse then people still saying they lagged or froze during titan HM not extreme mind you. Or people that go afk right at the start of an dungeon, saying it was an emergency, that apparently happens every time they enter a dungeon.

I use a xbox one controller on a pc and it doesn't have any way to tell me if the battery is running low. That said I do always plug it in before doing any high end content.

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Originally Posted by Lelila38

I'm on ps4, using one controller while I keep the other plugged in and charging. Can't even count how many times it ran out of battery and gave out on me while playing. Just usually you wouldn't notice this happening, cause I've gotten very fast in jumping to my ps4 and grabbing the charged one xD

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This is what I do too! I ran a USB cable next to my chair and have one pad constantly charging so I can just throw the spent one down and swap within a second or two. I usually check the battery before content but when we've been failing for a while and I've missed the warning it can suddenly drop out. Only had one actual accident from it ever though, and it was in a FC group so no big deal (solo healing Titan EX, of course...)

Everyone just laughed at me :/

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Originally Posted by cheolsu

easily the most common excuse for when someone fails in a duty. like i'm supposed to believe they're really a good player, except their controller died. a really good player who can't keep their controller charged

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to be honest it's believable because:-

1: the battery life on the ps4 controller is utterly horrendous.

it's the sole reason I bought a 20ft usb lead so its never unplugged.. be lucky if a full charge on the ps4 lasts a few hours.. totally unlike the ps3 where you could charge it once a week and be fine..

2: pc gamepads are fairly notoriously buggy in this game where they drop and freeze for a few seconds or trigger random buttons something to do with a root enumerator, can be incredibly problematic. times where ive auto run off the island in Bismarck less than 5 seconds into the fight. or into a wall of instant death despite knowing for a fact I didn't press auto run. it just froze for a sec when I happened to press a direction and thus I kept running in that direction too my demise...

it's a fairly well known issue if you searched the forums pretty sure you'd find more than a few threads about it.. the problem is the solution ofdisabling the enumerators and stuff isn't terribly easy to find. SE could at least have it on there support pages or something as its seems to work for most people

As a PS4 controller user, sometimes it'll warn me the battery is low during a fight, and I forget to change it. Then, it dies during another. It's not an excuse, though it's funny when it happens during savage runs. I usually bolt up and grab the charging one though.

Honestly, since I keep my PS4 controller plugged up most of the time normally, (usb wall plug, since the cable is way too short to connect to my PS4 itself), the few times I don't have it plugged in, it has a pretty high chance of dying on me when I forget to charge it when it gets low. The battery life on a PS4 controller is far from spectacular, and the notification that your battery is low is quite easy to miss/forget about because you're doing something, like you know, playing the game itself, or glancing away while waiting on a DF que. Obviously that doesn't mean that every player who claims their controller died is telling the truth, but I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of them are. Besides, if that's their excuse then they can only use it once per run, and one mistake in an entire run, no matter how bad of a screw up, isn't anything to be upset about.....

Sometimes my controller freezes and it locks my character running forward, love it when it does that.

My favorites are "my fish is drowning" "my gpu literally exploded" "my bathroom is on fire " and "I have no excuse you just amplify my disgust in humanity"

I got hit by a landslide in Titan EX once because I sneezed... I felt like that must have sounded like a really, really stupid excuse, but it was in the middle of hayfever-season and I was sniffeling the whole week already. And then that massive 3minute sneezing started just when Titan was doing his landslides...

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Originally Posted by Dzian

2: pc gamepads are fairly notoriously buggy in this game where they drop and freeze for a few seconds or trigger random buttons something to do with a root enumerator, can be incredibly problematic. times where ive auto run off the island in Bismarck less than 5 seconds into the fight. or into a wall of instant death despite knowing for a fact I didn't press auto run. it just froze for a sec when I happened to press a direction and thus I kept running in that direction too my demise...

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Basically this. I have this issue frequently with my PS4 controller I use on my PC. My character tends to just start auto-running balls-deep into mobs while my PC tries to remember that the controller is, in fact, plugged in. But by then, it's too late, I've pulled stuff, and I'm genuinely not trying to be a jerk. I apologize, and rarely does anyone ever give me flack over it because they know that it's a thing that happens. Same with controllers dying. I had that issue a lot when I played on PS4 because those controllers have the worst battery life for something I pay $59.99 for. :/

"Your controller's battery is getting low"

Okay, i can totally finish th--

"Your controller has disconnected"
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I haven't had this problem ever since i left the PS4 version, because i have to connect it via usb to my computer. It can't die if it's always plugged in. Though for a while, the gamepad setup on my PC had its own special set of problems that caused my own death and others, like:

-Let go of thumbstick abruptly and start casting -> The reverse momentum of the thumbstick caused it to move me slightly backwards, interrupting my cast.

-It couldn't register diagonals properly sometimes, and it would rapidly switch between going forward/backward and either left or right depending on what direction i was trying to go.

-It would randomly forget that i was running and randomly switch to a walk cycle for a split second periodically.

All but the first one has stopped, but i've adapted to that one so i no longer have that problem.

It is not a excuse, it happen a lot of times. I play on PC with PS3 controller. There are not official drivers or apps for this. The only way to know the battery life is look the led and see if it flash quick. Otherwise, it will run out of battery and you won't notice till stops work. There is not a screen message or any sound to alert you. Also because this drivers are not official, they can stop work because yes or whatever.

It is not as simple as "it is a excuse".

My mouse fell off the desk onto the floor while I was tanking the final phase of T9. To this day, my raid leader will not let me forget it.

It isn't almost like op people's controller died and when your in the zone you don't notice a small short message saying it's low

The amount of times my PS4 controller disconnected is insane

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Originally Posted by cheolsu

easily the most common excuse for when someone fails in a duty. like i'm supposed to believe they're really a good player, except their controller died. a really good player who can't keep their controller charged

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No, the number 1 excuse is "lag XD"

At next duty fail I'll say that my wireless keybo...bzzzt.....

Playing with a half dead controller is the only way I can add a sense of danger to healing.

#me tho. ._.

There actually is a problem with the PC interface with the controller where the client can occasional lose the controller, and yes it has killed me in Titan before (and several other instances). It took me weeks to track down the problem and even now sometimes when something updates-or fails to update I have to open device manager and spend an afternoon tracking down what is causing the device manager to blink this time. I wish SE would do something about this as FFXIV is the only game I've ever had this problem with.

When my controller dies, I give it a proper Viking funeral and go buy another one. I keep a USB cable close for a reason, if not use a kb/m entirely. I thought about using a PS4 controller in the past but all I have seen from my buddies is issues using a PS4 controller for FXIV on PC.

[i seem to have misplaced my keyboard]

I use a PS4 controller connected through USB (not playing wireless). My controller gets disconnected from my PC a lot because the wire moves a bit inside the connector... Actually it died on me yesterday while I was standing around and I had to find a new wire to connect it to my PC, and this is a fairly new PS4 controller also, just got it 6 months ago. Unfortunately it happens.