FATE - Bosses Disappearing

Why is this not in the "currently reviewing" section? Bosses and even players are disappearing when there's heaps of people on the screen.

Players I can understand, text I can understand... spells I can also understand, but having bosses un-targetable during Fate events because they are aren't loading thanks to the priority system of your engine is a huge problem.

please fix. this is not on "our" end.

Same here... It's even just bosses. On PS3 where the game isn't running very well during FATEs, the waves of monsters sometime die off before I can even see them.

It's not only bosses, I had to do some quests in town and had the same issue where you first see players then see npcs.
Also it is pretty annoying if want to access the summoning bell at the market when it is really crowded, or is there a simple way to target that?

I've been having this issue as well. I honestly would rather see an NPC loaded before the vast amounts of players. This is an issue that needs to be addressed asap. When I can't see the bosses during FATEs I get slammed by the bosses AOE ability or conal cleave, etc., because there's nothing on the floor to show even if the boss is missing. I think the priority needs to be reversed and NPC's / Bosses need to be loading before players... this is terrible for those attempting to gain exp / complete the FATE. Ruins a lot of our capability and chances. I know that my PC / GFX card is slightly older, but this is terrible.

I've only experienced the problem with NPCs but I thought that was just on my end.

Can confirm it to be an issue on my end, too. PS3 version. Kinda irritating, especially when I'm trying to get things done, and it won't work. What's worse is that even if I can't see the enemy to attack them, I can still suffer damage from them.

keep this bumped, it should be a priority.

Impossible to score more than silver on Odin and Bahamut because of this. Fix it.

Same thing happens to me. Even died once from this and like others mentioned before its not just bosses its everything, bosses, other players, npcs and regular enemies. At least it is for me. Also playing on the ps3 and I had to stop for a while because it's no fun getting hit by something that you cant hit back. Very frustrating

I have the same problem. (PS3) i actually put a thread up a few minutes ago.

You can only do so much with 7 year old hardware (that was 2-3 years old when it launched).

I've got some Fraps videos of trying to do the Svara fate where she keeps disappearing. The problem with players disappearing is a little more dangerous for a healer, as often when I've targeted someone to heal them they've completely disappeared. Sometimes I can't even target party members by clicking their name in the list or pressing a function key. Definitely needs to be some more control over the display priorities.

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Originally Posted by necrosis

You can only do so much with 7 year old hardware (that was 2-3 years old when it launched).

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This happens on PC too. It's not so much an issue with the hardware, but the game engine can only do so much and heavily populated FATEs can easily go over the limit.

Coertha's is the worst for this. If your not in a party you may as well leave the zone all together. You run into buliding and nothings there not even walls its like having HD xray glasses on. Whole fate ends before you see a single monster. Only way to know if your even doing anything is to watch the icons on you hotbar as the GDC spins. With an excellent connection I wouldn't expect so much lag. this is like Lower jueno in the early days of FFXI and that was on 56k connection.

I agree this is an annoying issue that could be resolved by changing the priority of the objects loaded. Players should be towards the end, but obviously party members should have a high priority. Another thing is the priority of monsters should be higher than players, because most people care about monsters more than the random people running around it, including fates.

I also am having the same issue. The priorities really do need changing. I was in Odin and Behemoth FATE and only saw them for maybe 10 seconds each. I dont need to see all these random players as they have no importance not being in my party or being the objective. Please look into this as this is really making end game stuff difficult to play.