Eureka, a slight oversight.

For awhile the issue of players phasing out during large world events like Hunts has made healing and helping your party members extremely hard. Unable to target them even via the party menu makes it impossible to interact with a player in anyway. Yet as we go on this expedition into Eureka this problem has true consequences. The sheer volume of players causing you to be unable to target players in your party is causing problems and it's not as if there is a sense of priority to the people it hides in your party. When a healer and tank can't interact pulling above your level has a even greater risk and likely to wipe your whole party. With no way to prioritize party members over other players or decide importance based on class it feels as if it picks at random who to remove and who to keep. If this limitation was known I feel it should have been designed around when working on Eureka. It makes the experience dreadful and even more time consuming than it already is. I hope they find this issue and have some intent to fix it.

I find this problem may only occur when fighting a NM. On trash mob grinds the crowds usually aren't a problem, especially if you find a specific spot to grind in and no one tries to "share it" with you.

I can't say I've ever encountered anything like this, unless you're talking about people running out of range while fighting a NM?

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Originally Posted by Lukha

I can't say I've ever encountered anything like this, unless you're talking about people running out of range while fighting a NM?

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The game can only load so many players. If too big a crowd is in an area you enter it'll load the nearest ones, and no one else. I think the limit depends on your specs, but even PS4 has limits. Move away from those loaded, and it'll update who is loaded in, removing those you move away from. This means if anyone loaded in moves too far away they may load out as well. I can completely understand how difficult this makes it to heal the group's tank(s) and melee DPS, as well as RDM going in for melee combo.

This was godawful. I was right on top of my fallen party members as an RDM, ready to raise them, but I could still barely target them. They really should prioritize your party members.

I have a decent PC (not top of the line but good enough to run the game on max settings with good fps), and even I have noticed this...mostly around NMs. Even had the boss vanishing on me a few times during one of the last ones I did. This isn't anything new though. The game can only load so many characters. Eventually it prioritizes them.

In some MMO’s, you can target party members directly, by pressing a F# key - usually F1 through F4, F5, or F6 depending upon the party size. I would imagine there’s something similar to that here.

If using a controller, can target party members by pressing Up and Down on the D-Pad, to scroll through the entire party.

Point being, you should not be point-click targeting party members. People outside your party, sure, but not people within it.

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

If using a controller, can target party members by pressing Up and Down on the D-Pad, to scroll through the entire party.

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OP said she wasn't able to target them via the party menu, but I never had this issue with a controller even when party chracters were not displayed, so I'm not sure...

Yeah, I had this issue on a NM. I was the healer in the party but I couldn't even reach the tank to heal them in time. I tried to get close enough to res them, died to something in the process. It felt like Ixion fates all over again. The exp was great tho.

I had this as SCH last night. The characters are "classed" as being non-existent, not just out of range. You have to stand in melee range to heal a tank or even see the NM. It's **worse** than I experienced with the DX9 client when Hunts were first introduced. There appears to be no priority coding that forces your team mates plus the targeted mobs to always appear. Definitely an oversight.

This happens all the time on NMs. I will try to rez someone only to find that I'm unable to rez because they are "phased out" for me. I can't even target them in the party list. I noticed this happening with mobs too, they'd be unseeable until the area cleared out after the NM was dead.

I had a rez problem that persisted even after the screen had cleared. Three people, two in my team, just could not raise despite several people spending several minutes trying. They got, & accepted, the raise dialogue but eventually just had to use Return.

I've had this happen to me at Ixions (and some S rank spawns as well). It's not because you can't 'point-click' it's because you can be standing on top of a party member and not be able to target them because there are so many people. I'm not even sure if AOE heals/shields work for them, because they count as 'out of range'. I saw it at the NM last night and it's even more terrifying there because I need my teammates to not die and if they do die I need to be able to get them up ASAP.