Buttons not reacting in PvP and ranking up

Hi everyone.
I am a new player that started in the end of 2025 december.
I have a question for you, today a new season started and I played PvP.
I noticed that my buttons are not reacting, when I press a button I need to press it multiple times until it works.
My internet is fine, so it should not be this problem.
Another issue I had was the ranking up system, I made it from Bronze to Gold with no issues, then I took a break and came back again and lost all my stars from Gold as different people were in queue at night. I was told I should try it next day, because EU PvP has not much players, and some teams constellations are not that good.
Do you have an idea, how I can fix the problem with the buttons not reacting? Sometimes I even press them multiple times and still does not react, only after some time it does.
I would appreciate your help. If the buttons would react after one click it would be much more enjoyable to play PvP and I would make less mistakes (e.g. healing too slowly)
In PvE, for some reason, I do not have this problem, it only occurs in PvP.
I am playing the game on the Steam Deck, but I do not think that it is the issue, because PvE works fine for me.

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That's certainly odd. Everything has stupid animation delays that can make everything feel like it plays underwater but what you describe sounds more dire.
Do they only do that when you're in the middle of successive/intensive skill use (where every action has baked in animation delays between each input), or even when you're literally doing nothing, you just press a button and the issue still happens regardless?

It happens sometimes, when the match begins, I want to dash to an opponent, but nothing happens and I have to press the button twice. Its very annoying as I can never be sure, if my character will attack or not. I do not know if the issue is only on the Steam Deck, as I cannot test it on a PC (Only have a Laptop and its too weak for the game) If I am in a middle of a fight, it happens more often

Which job and action did you use when dashing? Some actions allow you to move forward regardless of the opponent's position, while others require the opponent to be within range.

Regarding the rank up issue, could this be related to the 7.5 update?
Patch 7.5 Notes

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Players will begin Season Twenty five risers lower than the rank at which they finished Season Nineteen. Rising Stars will be reset to one.

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Originally Posted by Mikoko_Miko

Which job and action did you use when dashing? Some actions allow you to move forward regardless of the opponent's position, while others require the opponent to be within range.

Regarding the rank up issue, could this be related to the 7.5 update?
Patch 7.5 Notes

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If I play GNB for example and want to dash to the opponent, it does not happen, instead I have it click it again to make it work, but there is no error message. Same happens sometimes when I want to use my AOE. What I meant that the game lose or win ratio can be completly random, when I first started I made it from Bronze to Gold and then I took a break, wanted to make Platinum and lost all my stars from Gold. Today the same happened, I had a big loss streak, then waited a bit, played again and made it to Platinum. This seems like it depends on the team constellations or how lucky you get as its a 5v5 with completly random people. Also the same happens if I want to heal myself with the potions or use purify, I have to click it more than once midfight even when I am not stunned, to make it work. Could you probably test it and see if the same happens for you? Does the server make a difference? Because I am playing on EU server. I have 30 fps.

I feel you. It happens to me so often that it genuinely impacts my matches.
I play with a PS4 controller. The issue has occured both on PS4 itself as well as on PC (via bluetooth/DS4Windows and via usb cable/steam controller overlay). My ping is around 17-20ms. I've updated my drivers.

It explicitly happens even when I'm not stunned, silenced or otherwise CCed and when I'm not animation-locked. Often times I'm quite literally just running or standing (without a status affliction/CC) while mashing a button but nothing happens. Oddly enough I DO see the button input (that visual ingame cue on your hotbar when a button is pressed) in those instances. It just doesn't translate into an effect.

It can affect every skill but I notice it particularly often with my

• LB --> Often I have to press 4-5 times before my LB activates (again, even when not stunned/CCed etc.). This is particularly frustrating when you want to time your LB but then you just stand there next to your opponent very un-menacingly for 5 seconds.
• Sprint --> It will sometimes straight-up not activate for the first few presses even when the only thing I do is running.
• Recuperate, guard and purify --> I feel like those often don't go through in particular when I'm under fire so I wonder if the game can't compute/process/[insert correct IT term here] so many actions coming from different players at once.
  It is super frustrating when it happens with purify. Frequently when I'm CCed purify will just not react (and then I die because I couldn't break the CC in time).
• Palette swap (on pct)

Those are the most egregious ones for me. I guess I notice it with those skills the most because it hurts the most when they fail. But it has happened to me across all jobs and all actions.
Valence pointed out it might be when there's a lot going on and I do feel as if those circumstances exacerbate the issue a lot. In very busy moments where lots of players use lots of actions in one spot the reactivity of my buttons gets noticeably worse. But it also happens in "calm" situations in a match (I'm just running without being attacked). It rarely, if ever, happens outside a match on a training dummy though.

I'm begging you SE, please fix this.* This problem has been the number one issue of my frustration with CC. T__T
It's really not fun to lose encounters or even matches because you pressed those buttons, you did the things you were supposed to do (for once), and the game just nopes out repeatedly.

*(Or if anybody has an idea what I'm doing wrong please let me know. :') )

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Originally Posted by Loggos

I feel you. It happens to me so often that it genuinely impacts my matches.
I play with a PS4 controller. The issue has occured both on PS4 itself as well as on PC (via bluetooth/DS4Windows and via usb cable/steam controller overlay). My ping is around 17-20ms. I've updated my drivers.

It explicitly happens even when I'm not stunned, silenced or otherwise CCed and when I'm not animation-locked. Often times I'm quite literally just running or standing (without a status affliction/CC) while mashing a button but nothing happens. Oddly enough I DO see the button input (that visual ingame cue on your hotbar when a button is pressed) in those instances. It just doesn't translate into an effect.

It can affect every skill but I notice it particularly often with my

• LB --> Often I have to press 4-5 times before my LB activates (again, even when not stunned/CCed etc.). This is particularly frustrating when you want to time your LB but then you just stand there next to your opponent very un-menacingly for 5 seconds.
• Sprint --> It will sometimes straight-up not activate for the first few presses even when the only thing I do is running.
• Recuperate, guard and purify --> I feel like those often don't go through in particular when I'm under fire so I wonder if the game can't compute/process/[insert correct IT term here] so many actions coming from different players at once.
  It is super frustrating when it happens with purify. Frequently when I'm CCed purify will just not react (and then I die because I couldn't break the CC in time).
• Palette swap (on pct)

Those are the most egregious ones for me. I guess I notice it with those skills the most because it hurts the most when they fail. But it has happened to me across all jobs and all actions.
Valence pointed out it might be when there's a lot going on and I do feel as if those circumstances exacerbate the issue a lot. In very busy moments where lots of players use lots of actions in one spot the reactivity of my buttons gets noticeably worse. But it also happens in "calm" situations in a match (I'm just running without being attacked). It rarely, if ever, happens outside a match on a training dummy though.

I'm begging you SE, please fix this.* This problem has been the number one issue of my frustration with CC. T__T
It's really not fun to lose encounters or even matches because you pressed those buttons, you did the things you were supposed to do (for once), and the game just nopes out repeatedly.

*(Or if anybody has an idea what I'm doing wrong please let me know. :') )

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Yes, it happened for me too especially with the sprinting. I think you should normally have sprint all the time without pressing it, would make it so much easier. Sometimes I died, because after pressing a potion or purify, nothing happend and that can mean if you die in a specific moment, the whole match can be over.

Thank you for the information. After the update, I played some Frontline matches as a Sage and used Icarus many times on both allies and enemies to dash to a target. I play on PC via Steam and recorded my matches using the recording feature. Upon reviewing my recordings, whenever Icarus was not working without an error message and I was not affected by a status effect, the target was out of range. I use the JP datacenter, and my ping is usually around 20ms, but it can occasionally be slow. I often felt that actions were not working, but the cases I can think of mostly occur when the network is lagging. There was an exception, but it does not seem to be related to your case. I once experienced an issue where I could not attack an enemy within range and in line of sight, but it turned out that the auto-facetarget option had been disabled unintentionally.

While team matchmaking in Crystalline Conflict is indeed random, I think the mechanic where duplicate jobs are not allowed within the same team could be a contributing factor. For example, if an experienced player keeps playing the same job as me, they will always be placed on the opposing team and never on mine. As a result, I ended up on a losing streak.

Thanks for trying, could you possible try with a class like Viper or Gnb where you have to use your buttons quickly? It will happen a lot, atleast thats what happened to me. On war for example, where I do not have to use a lot buttons, it happened less. For example if you are attacking someone, then you need to switch target and dash (sometimes dash did not work for me, unless I press it multiple times) best if you try it on unranked CC for a few times with these classes, or classes that have to press a lot of buttons. Atleast for me, even when I was not in an animation it often did not work for some reason.

yup i know exactly what you mean and its not new with any patch. You first need to learn the game servers have big gaps of time between updating info, they do it for security reasons so nobody can give or take info to the server and cheat. What that means for us players is we sit around waiting for the ancient librarian to give the nod for every action we take. Think how many times you can click a button per second, and realize humans reaction time is around 130ms. When the server updates around 2-3 times a second before you even add the there and back again latency for your data to reach the great librarian, get queued, unscrambled, verified, sent back home, and updated on your screen... Some times you can mash a button 5 times before the old bones down at FF14 give the thumbs up. Its also why a lot of other nonsense happens in pvp like elixir cast bar canceling it self 10% into the channel thinking you were still moving etc.

In order to remain in FF14 knowing how flawed the gameplay will be i had to take a whole lot of cope and focus on the MSQ knowing i cant take anything else seriously until they make their game run closer to real time reactions rather than filling in the gaps with predictions of what probably happened, and still punishing us if we didnt. That AOE you stopped an inch away from? Server predicted you kept running forward so you dead now.

I know most of my issues are down to my older PC-induced bad framerate. You can get some really funky things happening like 2y rpr teleports because the game decided to hard stutter in that moment. No explanation as to why its behaves like that, but it do.

It's best not to mash every skill button too much as you may further contribute to weave-cucking yourself with the amount of inputs. Gaps between actions in PvP are just a bit slightly less than what you'd see in PvE, so I'm guessing there's more opportunity for the system to get confused over what you want to do with its action queuing systems.

Personally, outside of the FPS stutter-related problems I have, I don't really notice outright getting stuck much, for any other reason. Maybe it's just something you pick up a feeling for to get around.

I also use a lot of macros, it might be something worth considering to smooth some things out.

I've not logged in since the latest patch, is there something different about it? Oh and I wouldn't necessarily call the animation delays "stupid", that was one of the better changes they made, where it makes sense. You can actually feasibly "parry" things a lot more now, rather than just guess.

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Originally Posted by ThreeBeastSmile

I know most of my issues are down to my older PC-induced bad framerate. You can get some really funky things happening like 2y rpr teleports because the game decided to hard stutter in that moment. No explanation as to why its behaves like that, but it do.

It's best not to mash every skill button too much as you may further contribute to weave-cucking yourself with the amount of inputs. Gaps between actions in PvP are just a bit slightly less than what you'd see in PvE, so I'm guessing there's more opportunity for the system to get confused over what you want to do with its action queuing systems.

Personally, outside of the FPS stutter-related problems I have, I don't really notice outright getting stuck much, for any other reason. Maybe it's just something you pick up a feeling for to get around.

I also use a lot of macros, it might be something worth considering to smooth some things out.

I've not logged in since the latest patch, is there something different about it? Oh and I wouldn't necessarily call the animation delays "stupid", that was one of the better changes they made, where it makes sense. You can actually feasibly "parry" things a lot more now, rather than just guess.

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What macros do you use and how do they help? I never used macros before
I have noticed in some matches its better than in other matches, sometimes I can click more than twice on a button, nothing will happen unless I click on it until the skill starts
Do you think its an issue that I am playing with 30fps? I will set it to 60 fps and will check if it makes a difference

frames per second would only matter if the server was working properly. You are pressing skills that are not being registered by the game yet. A faster screen would only compound the issue because now you would react to the thing faster, and see more frames of your character not responding. Imagine playing elden ring and you want to parry an enemy but all you see is them lift their arm, hold it, then instantly hit you. Jeez, parrying must be luck right? Wrong. People with more expensive systems can see the whole fluid motion of the arm move up and then towards you. A video is a combination of photos, a video game shows you X amount of photos per second, more per second means a fluid lifelike video, less frames or pics per second looks like southpark or choppy stop motion animation. None of that matters in FF14 because you are not trying to shoot a strafing target or land a parry with a 10 frames window. In fact FF14 servers are so bad if someone strafe peeks out from a wall to do 1 instant cast poke, you can barrage them because the server will assume they kept running out from that wall out into the open, until half a sec later when it applies all the damage etc it will be like oh they are actually behind the wall and still moving further down the wall, meanwhile you stopped at the edge to pop your elixir which just cancelled it self, yay!

I just played like 10 gunbreaker games in frontlines, every oCD and GCD has to be fully registered and completed before you can queue up your LB spin2win or your weighed debuff AOE chain, which can leave a second or 2 of absolutely nothing happening on your end but taking damage or dying. Add in your eurolag and yes just like me in NA i have to click a button 5 times waiting for the server to agree im not doing anything currently, then to start, then i gotta mash the stun button until server checks that next time too. Thats why anyone who has played competitive games laughs at ff14 pvp and considers it a daily reward for glams. And its been a known thing for a decade that square does not care period about fixing it because the targeted audience isnt MLG tourny players. How can they even balance it with playstation 4 and nintendo switch users vs $5000 PC with third party apps, an mmo mouse full of macros, and actual voice chat lol

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What macros do you use and how do they help? I never used macros before
I have noticed in some matches its better than in other matches, sometimes I can click more than twice on a button, nothing will happen unless I click on it until the skill starts
Do you think its an issue that I am playing with 30fps? I will set it to 60 fps and will check if it makes a difference

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It might be? I couldn't tell you exactly since the worst of my problems occur when there's too much variance.

As for macros. Basic things like <mo> dashes.** With several instances of the skill to create a safer spamming prompt. I find you can tap those without much hiccup.

Some others I use to pair certain skills with LB, like Raiju into LB to make sure I don't go accidentally too quickly into the LB as Raiju has a small delay when it lands the hit to actually drop the opponent's health (if mashing fully manually that's a common error). Waiting too long though and the opponent may get a heal in from an ally. The macro at least helps me keep it consistent even when my framerate falters a bit.

They're not without issues themselves, you don't go bashing macros either because then you'll proper not be doing anything lol. Just a quick tap or two and hold back to see. To use the above macro as an example, if I mash, LB can go off before the Raiju does and that's the whole motion ruined.

I also have macros specific for when I'm on different DCs (I know... I'm excessive). For instance I have separate US and EU "vpr jumping scales trick" macros, with a different amount of spammed prompts to create the correct delay that it'll go off and work properly.

And what I mean there is, I have varying amounts of /wait 0 or /pvpac "Slither" <t> [or <mo>] after /pvpac "Snake Scales" to accomplish that. The /wait 0 is like purposefully creating an error that makes a microstutter for the purpose of smoothness. I know that sounds counter-intuitive as fuck but that microstutter is to make sure the action queue doesn't just ignore your input. Hopefully. And it happens to be better than just pressing the buttons outright. For me anyway.

Unfortunately this game doesn't allow for decimals in /wait commands unless using the forbidden magic we can't talk about (about time it did, though).

All in all the game definitely is a bit quirky. It's not unplayable and they've done some nice things (imo) like making animations actually suggest the timing of when damage arrives, unlike before, but like with a lot of things the dev do here they've not been... tested... very well.

**e.g. of a spammy macro

/merror
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>

or, you could even

/merror
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <mo>
/ta <mo>
/ta <mo>
/ta <mo>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <t>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <t>
/pvpac "Rough Divide" <t>

And what that is doing is at first selecting to use Rough Divide on your mouseover target, then it select that target as a hard target, and then for whatever reason if the mouseover didn't register, you have your intended target selected and it'll go off the direct target prompt instead. (Or you could just remove the skill <mo> and just keep /ta <mo>)

Hope that helps.

Sry if some of it is a bit whoosh I'm very tired and I'm not sure if what I'm typing even makes sense to myself rn lol

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Originally Posted by ThreeBeastSmile

It might be? I couldn't tell you exactly since the worst of my problems occur when there's too much variance.

As for macros. Basic things like <mo> dashes.** With several instances of the skill to create a safer spamming prompt. I find you can tap those without much hiccup.

Some others I use to pair certain skills with LB, like Raiju into LB to make sure I don't go accidentally too quickly into the LB as Raiju has a small delay when it lands the hit to actually drop the opponent's health (if mashing fully manually that's a common error). Waiting too long though and the opponent may get a heal in from an ally. The macro at least helps me keep it consistent even when my framerate falters a bit.

They're not without issues themselves, you don't go bashing macros either because then you'll proper not be doing anything lol. Just a quick tap or two and hold back to see. To use the above macro as an example, if I mash, LB can go off before the Raiju does and that's the whole motion ruined.

I also have macros specific for when I'm on different DCs (I know... I'm excessive). For instance I have separate US and EU "vpr jumping scales trick" macros, with a different amount of spammed prompts to create the correct delay that it'll go off and work properly.

And what I mean there is, I have varying amounts of /wait 0 or /pvpac "Slither" <t> [or <mo>] after /pvpac "Snake Scales" to accomplish that. The /wait 0 is like purposefully creating an error that makes a microstutter for the purpose of smoothness. I know that sounds counter-intuitive as fuck but that microstutter is to make sure the action queue doesn't just ignore your input. Hopefully. And it happens to be better than just pressing the buttons outright. For me anyway.

Unfortunately this game doesn't allow for decimals in /wait commands unless using the forbidden magic we can't talk about (about time it did, though).

All in all the game definitely is a bit quirky. It's not unplayable and they've done some nice things (imo) like making animations actually suggest the timing of when damage arrives, unlike before, but like with a lot of things the dev do here they've not been... tested... very well.

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Thanks I will look into it, as I have no clue about macros for now
I also tested it with more fps now, the game feels much more smooth and better, but still having this issue

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Originally Posted by Loggos

I feel you.

*(Or if anybody has an idea what I'm doing wrong please let me know. :') )

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Unfortunately this is a common issue and many players mitigate this easily on PC via a very well known tools which makes pvp even more unfair. This may cause enemy to constantly grab potion from you despite you being in place of a potion for 2 extra seconds, damage popping way later, recuperate needs 2 seconds to pop off and so on. What is also frustrating is when you play as Ninja and you throw Hyosho at someone. The damage may come up 1.5 up to 3 seconds later which is insane and this screws every combo you want to do. This also affects Ninja lb because you may see them tick -HP later when in reality it happened way faster.

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Originally Posted by Mikoko_Miko

While team matchmaking in Crystalline Conflict is indeed random, I think the mechanic where duplicate jobs are not allowed within the same team could be a contributing factor. For example, if an experienced player keeps playing the same job as me, they will always be placed on the opposing team and never on mine. As a result, I ended up on a losing streak.

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The only fix you can do is play another job so they end up in your team as a possible chance but knowing how matchmaking is, it can be very hardheaded and put you purposely against them every single time. In that case, just stop playing and queue later. It isn't worth to lose tons of points / games for no reason whatsoever. Best and fastest climb is to always play 1,2 games and maintain that winning streak. then come tomorrow and do the same. Otherwise you will needlessly play hundreds of games without any meaningful impact or climb.

Not enough players means harder climbing and more premades knowing each other. But that is SE to blame for not making this mode good.

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Unfortunately this is a common issue and many players mitigate this easily on PC via a very well known tools which makes pvp even more unfair. This may cause enemy to constantly grab potion from you despite you being in place of a potion for 2 extra seconds, damage popping way later, recuperate needs 2 seconds to pop off and so on. What is also frustrating is when you play as Ninja and you throw Hyosho at someone. The damage may come up 1.5 up to 3 seconds later which is insane and this screws every combo you want to do. This also affects Ninja lb because you may see them tick -HP later when in reality it happened way faster.

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I did not know that some players are using tools but isnt it against the rules if they do that, because they have an advantage from it?
I have done some matches and Plat - Dia at a time where everyone should be home in EU is very empty. I have seen maybe around 15~20 players that are in queue? Not much.
Another problem is, that in Bronze - Gold are some players that do not belong there, especially bronze but they are stuck, for maybe hours or days? If a really new bronze player starts a game there and gets an insta lose without being able to do anything, I think that can discourage them. There is sadly no tutorial for new beginners, that explains them everything and their class in PvP.
The PvP can be fun, but the lack of players and unbalance gives it a bittersweet taste.

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Best and fastest climb is to always play 1,2 games and maintain that winning streak. then come tomorrow and do the same. Otherwise you will needlessly play hundreds of games without any meaningful impact or climb.

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Unfortunately this is very accurate info and you can find it in a lot of major game studios patents like EA or even marvel rivals. Overwatch put it in their own patchnotes they use bots disguised as human players in PvP only queues now for humans to face off against unknowingly, the term "Engagement Based Match Making" is considered a cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrY and people are paid wages to attack and discredit anyone who brings it up or provides evidence.

Simply explained, games are ran by greedy corporations now who designed algorithms most online games have adopted over the years. The earliest occurence i found evidence for was EA games making patents in their game "Anthem" about 10 years ago where the longer you stayed online playing content the worse your loot became. If you took long breaks, days between missions, you would get better luck encouraging you to come back and grind. The more money you spent in the shops also increased your rewards tier. A F2P heavy grinder would get no loot vs someone playing once a week and bought every skin.

Competitive PvP games adopted their own version and people abuse it to earn ranks they dont deserve. The game wants you to play more, so you spend more. If you are marked as a spender you get teammates that hard carry you and enemies that play your main who stink at it so you buy more stuff to show off. The algorithm determines you logging off after a loss means you need easy wins next time you play or you wont come back and spend money. According to marvel rivals the way they handle this, outside of obvious bot lobbies disguised as humans (bot teammates get 30+ kills too, they can use bots to force wins or loses and draw out OT etc its all an act to manipulate you) they also manipulate team comp and maps based on your strengths and weaknesses. The way players manipulate this to their advantage is by buying skins and gamepasses, going on purposeful losing streaks in quickplay, then doing a ranked winstreak until they lose, then they dont play a couple days. This sends the algorithm into a panic and force feeds you wins and groups you with hardcarrys against goobers when you return. I wish i was making this up, but the competitive gaming is essentially dead. It gets worse when you look into aim resist, hit detection, and other shenanigans like OT ending with entire teams on the obj. The blizzard devs admitted they wont take action against people using cheats for months at a time because they will just refund purchases, so they let the person aimbot and wallhack months at a time to keep all the money. Famous Youtubers have entire series of "spot the bot" and the same botter with full ragehax in ranked will make multiple episodes and never get banned.

at the end of the day its up to you how much you trust a game company and if you really think they are honest or good.

For example, the starting gear for animal people is thong bikinis, they allow people to buy dozens of mansions on multiple accounts and turn them into erotic clubs and casinos because if they skip a single monthly sub its all gone. They also allow house owners to avoid millions in market transaction taxes and break the trade limit with mannequins. People with dozens of market alts blatantly using third party programs to undercut you by a single gil the second you post an item, with a dozen different accounts. For years the gold selling bots standing under the map 24 hours a day with the exact same website spammed, in every main city on every server of every data center, same with the underground bots farming level 10 materials in every starting zone. If it brings in more money through subs they aint quick to stop it. Lets not forget the forums for FF14 where you can seek an in-game marriage partner where lots of the users are just seeking kink stuff. By my standards theres a lot of corruption, so when i watch 50 people use forbidden third party tools for yojimbo event, bean race, pvp, or even reducing server input delay, its not surprising they turn a blind eye there too. Just go look at the win trading forums.

I wish they would revisit improved hit detection. It really ruined the gameplay feel for a lot of classes and I think it's made everything feel like it has huge input delay and a feeling of unresponsiveness (this is after a year plus of getting used to it)

If they do, I hope it's not in the form of totally walking it back. I'd really like to keep being able to reactively parry skills vs. pure guesswork. It also works the other way around, with being able to preload fresh out of guard bombardment. For the jobs right now that concern me, I'm not having too many hiccups.

It just has trouble working out like it could since skill animations are built around spectacle and definitely not with this change they implemented much later, as evidenced by further damage-timing tweaks that followed. Once you learn those timings it's fine regardless though, it's sort of like picking up an alpha test stage fighting game, or rather looking at the frame data. :)

They just need to make sure that stuff like MCH LB displays with "Some" graphics setting on now.~ (<sigh>)

I play on PS5 and this also happens with me. I have to mash that guard button like it owes me money and then of course it pops on a second too late. Same with purify. No no, we have to wait until bard does his little song and dance animation (sigh)

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Originally Posted by Hazelx3

Thanks for trying, could you possible try with a class like Viper or Gnb where you have to use your buttons quickly?

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I've played these jobs and occasionally felt as though my inputs weren't registering even after pressing a button. However, after reviewing my recordings, I found no cases clearly attributable to a system-side issue. The cause was most often the target's position. The remaining cases were due to animation lock duration and the fact that Limit Break cannot be queued. There were also cases where I was KO'd after pressing a button before the action went off, but I believe this was due to animation lock rather than missed input. As noted in the thread below, animation lock is ping-dependent. This behaviour has not been changed and appears to be intended, so it is unlikely to be addressed in the future.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...onse-is-ignore

I normally use macros for attacking actions and Recuperate, and since macros cannot be queued, I tend to mash the button. But on these jobs I used macros only for targeting and XHB switching, leaving PvP actions as non-macros. One interesting thing I noticed is that I had occasionally been cancelling one macro by triggering another immediately afterwards unintentionally. For example, if I took damage immediately after pressing an attack button and then mashed Recuperate, the attack would still execute when using the non-macro action. With the macro version, however, the attack would fail and Recuperate would activate instead. I'm aware that macros have the disadvantage of requiring repeated presses, but if non-macro actions also require button mashing, that disadvantage is effectively diminished.