Camera issues on large bosses

So how are we supposed to fight bosses who are off the stage like the new Yorha boss? I can either see my character or I can move the camera so I can see the boss, but not both at the same time. The camera just does not zoom out far enough. I've never understood this but I just lived with not knowing. The balance mechanic in Sophia I've never gotten either. I've avoided shinryu because I think it has the same kind of off screen things to keep track of. And now this giant robot thing I cannot figure out at all. Is there some setup that makes camera zoom out far enough to actually see everything? I'm on PS4 if that matters. For most things I have the camera centered on my character and I can zoom in and out for most things but these super large bosses I need to see them and even if I tilt camera so I can see them I can no longer see myself and I splat to AOE or just run off the stage....

Need to learn to pan your camera around.

For this boss I literally had to have my camera facing upward like I am looking into my bootyhole and even then i could not see everything unless I made sure to stay on the outside of their hitbox

I found hades ex pretty annoying myself, either his wings were covering stuff, or he was too tall, the falling aoes are large and awkward, I feel like we need to be able to zoom out just a little more, for things to be a bit easier to see.

What helped me is to increase the camera movement speed to the max, so I can look around faster.

But it really is a back and forth between the character, the boss and the focus target. Most of the time I don't need to look at my character, I know where I am staying. And as a Lalafell I would not see me anyway >.> I call it "playing by instruments".

I just need a bigger monitor.. the dev team must make their content on theater screens or something.

Honestly the only thing that helps me is by either panning my camera around a ton or memorizing the tells by the boss' lower half, AKA if you see flame of death and the boss looks like he's about to clap a mosquito it's hitting front, and if you can't see for shiznit he's hitting back.

But I do agree, I really don't like having to manipulate my camera constantly to see things, it's one thing to have things below the ground to give you tells for what's about to happen, but it's an entirely different thing when you have to constantly look up and calculate how far above the ground the object is and where it's going to fall relative to the platform, especially when you're trying to minmax a rotation.

This has been an issue of mine since Heavensward. There's a lot of bosses and trash mobs that are simply too big for the narrow field of view we're stuck with.

They should give us the option to adjust the field of view angle like in gpose. It would greatly help with the camera issues.

What helps is keeping an eye on the bosses cast bar. This will give you a heads up on what's coming so you know how to react. With the camera zoomed out to the max this should make it doable if you keep the camara facing forwards. For marx smash if he's punching with his right go left, punching with left go right. If he holds both arms straight up stand in the middle of the front section. If he holds them both spread out stand at the sides of the back section. The only time you need to watch the sides is for Marx Activation. Hope that helps.

Oh and for energy barrage get out of the middle and prepare to get to the circles when he stops firing.

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Originally Posted by AmalahRose

What helps is keeping an eye on the bosses cast bar. This will give you a heads up on what's coming so you know how to react. With the camera zoomed out to the max this should make it doable if you keep the camara facing forwards. For marx smash if he's punching with his right go left, punching with left go right. If he holds both arms straight up stand in the middle of the front section. If he holds them both spread out stand at the sides of the back section. The only time you need to watch the sides is for Marx Activation. Hope that helps.

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I already focus target out of habit after so many years of healing. That doesn't address camera issues throughout the game.

The camera is also a mechanic

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Originally Posted by rachcouture

I already focus target out of habit after so many years of healing. That doesn't address camera issues throughout the game.

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There are definately some bad camera situations. This just doesn't seem to be one of them to me. With the camara zoomed out I can see absolutely everything in front. Only having to turn it for Marx Activation.

A lot of the raid bosses and a couple of dungeons make me pull my camera all the way back to a point my character is tiny. It feels more like a Diablo-like game that way than an MMO. I don't think you can have an array of mechanics any other way though.

I usually just stare at the enemy list instead of the boss now. I still pan out to see mechanics.

the only thing you need to do is move the camera when you see the boss move to get confirmation which aoe it will be using.

Ye we need fov adjustment or wide-screen feature, since long time..
There are widescreen mods already, official version would be better though

let me tell you, it's a lot of fun on a laptop lol
But yeah, not fond of large bosses either. By the time I zoom out and look all over, rotate and make sure whatever bit I'm trying to spot didn't clip out of existance cause I can't see it, and death mechanic is happening. I take it's part of the challange so I don't complain much but I'm definitely not fond of larger bosses for this exact reason.

I have noticed a couple of times during Hades Ex in P4 when hugging the side of the area for Dark Current, I could not see anything. I think because of the wings and me being a lala.
I do like variety in boss size though. Hopefully they can fix the camera a bit to fit larger scale fights.

I'll have to agree, there are too many bosses bigger than camera view, even pulled out completely. It might be a PS4+controller thing, but that also makes them untargetable. Widen the view or shrink the monsters.

I use a laptop so screen size is not great, I don't play most fpov games because I get motion sick with them. Having some kind of cue in the ui that does not require constant spinning/rotating would really help. For example showing small side/back indicators on tiny map? Don't want to lose the process difficulty, just want to be able to see it without nausia.

Helluuuuuuuuu

It's one of my biggest issues with this game. In WoW I could pretty much see the entire platform.

I found it most annoying on Hades EX when I was learning that, his hands or wings or whatever would constantly block my view, I even had to like zoom is really close so I could see the stuff before his wings and then zoom out to see the stuff after etc.
It's no longer that much of an issue since I know where everything will be and I don't really need to watch the platform as closely anymore but it's still mighty annoying.

Is this a PS4 thing, because I have no issues with this aside from a single exception: seeing the eyes of the last boss of Amaurot.

Edit: on further thought... This might be a melee thing. The main reason I have trouble seeing the entire boss and the platform in that fight is because of the forced range of the fight. As someone who only really plays casters and healers, I sometimes forget that melee classes are more restricted in their PoV.

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Is this a PS4 thing, because I have no issues with this aside from a single exception: seeing the eyes of the last boss of Amaurot.

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No, the max camera distance is the same on both platforms.

It's simply not far enough and on fights like Hades EX you constantly have to zoom in and out and spin your camera around like a mad man (even more so when you're melee).