Initiating Battle Regimen with a Gamepad

Hi Everyone,

I've been having issues with BRs on a gamepad and think I may be doing something wrong, but the Lodestone guide is no help.

1) I can start stacking a new Battle Regimen by hitting the emote/BR command on my gamepad while the skill I want to stack is selected

2) If someone else starts stacking a new Battle Regimen then I can add to it by hitting the emote/BR command on my gamepad while the skill I want to stack is selected

But once we have all stacked, how do I initiate the BR from a gamepad? Shouldn't hitting the BR button again do this? Right now, it seems to do nothing. The Lodestone guide just says "click the BR icon", which does not help me as I'm not using a mouse. How do I get this working with a gamepad?

You will have to create a macro for that. Just type "/br" and u will initiate it. (sup? lol)

Hit the button that opens your menu on your gamepad to launch the BR

Hi Freia! Thanks for that, I'll definitely go the macro route if I have no choice. But I'm excited about what Alexia said. Why is this stuff not documented. How does hitting menu make any sense? But as long as it works!

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Hi Freia! Thanks for that, I'll definitely go the macro route if I have no choice. But I'm excited about what Alexia said. Why is this stuff not documented. How does hitting menu make any sense? But as long as it works!

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Did it work for you?

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

Did it work for you?

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That's the only way I know of to do it on the gamepad without a MACRO so I'm sure it worked for him

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

Did it work for you?

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Thanks Alexia, I did not know you could simply press that button!

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Originally Posted by DeadRiser

Thanks Alexia, I did not know you could simply press that button!

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No prob anytime ^^

Yes, it worked great! I just have no clue why they would use 'Open Menu' instead of just having you hit 'Battle Regimen' again.

This has been driving me nuts for a while now. Thank you^^

Thanks as a whole to this thread, I was completely unsure as to how you actually started, and then fired off, a Battle Regimen until then. I'd been doing the horrible work around of mashing the keyboard buttons for it mid battle, though I haven't done one for a while. Thanks to all involved.

If you have BR set to a button like "Square" you can just press this button over the ability that you want to use in your BR. It'll do the stacking animation and then queue up that particular action/spell.

System itself is still cumbersome as hell.

I remember you used to be able to find this information on keybindings in the beta forums, but since launch a lot of that information seems to be lost.

this info is on the lodestone and has been forever, so its not lost, i guess just not easy to find.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e/basis01.html

stack battle command on the emote button. execute battle regimen on menu button.

Thank you so much. I too was driven nuts by it. It didn't make any sense to me and the current documentation didn't give controller players the appropriate direction.

Again thank you. I'll start spreading the word.

The hell? Why didn't they just make it the same button that initiates it?

because you should close BR when you want close it, not because you have pressed the button twice.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Gyactus

because you should close BR when you want close it, not because you have pressed the button twice.

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I disagree. It's counterintuitive to put it on a different button. You can't stack more than 1 command per character at a time anyways. If you could I could understand that point.

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

this info is on the lodestone and has been forever, so its not lost, i guess just not easy to find.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e/basis01.html

stack battle command on the emote button. execute battle regimen on menu button.

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While I don't think it's been on there forever as Battle Regimens used to work differently, I'll be the first to admit that I never checked the controller layout since they implemented the new system for controllers.

You used to have to select the battle regimen button as it used to be selectable on the action bar. Then, when you were in BR mode, you'd select the skill you wanted to stack by highlighting the command and pressing the [X] button. When you wanted to execute the battle regimen, you would then select the Battle Regimen button again.

It is much better now as there are considerably less motions involved to select and execute commands.

I'd still prefer if they would put it on the same button, but now that I know what button you need to press I can easily teach myself otherwise and free up a Macro Slot.

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Originally Posted by Rhomagus

I disagree. It's counterintuitive to put it on a different button. You can't stack more than 1 command per character at a time anyways. If you could I could understand that point.

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it's not for your skill, it's because you could launch the BR before others had stacked.
Sometime I click 2-3 times the br's button because I'm not sure if the server has taken my input.

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Originally Posted by Rhomagus

While I don't think it's been on there forever as Battle Regimens used to work differently, I'll be the first to admit that I never checked the controller layout since they implemented the new system for controllers.

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well when i say forever i meant every time the controls changed that page changed.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Gyactus

it's not for your skill, it's because you could launch the BR before others had stacked.
Sometime I click 2-3 times the br's button because I'm not sure if the server has taken my input.

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You should always fix the core problem, rather then develop workarounds that don't make sense. If input lag is an issue on initiating a BR, then they should fix the input lag - not make up unnecessary control schemes to avoid it.

I don't really think you can fix latency for now, because this is not a FF14 issue, it's an internet problem.
Maybe, when we'll use a neural interface, the problem will be solved.
For now, we can only use tricks to hide this limit. A global cooldown with a queue was better?
I don't see the actual system so troublesome. We need 5-6 seconds for a full BR, thus we are full of time to click triangle or circle or whatsoever is "menu".

It's not latency...I can have 20-30ms S and R, which is a round trip of 1/20th of a second and it can still take a couple seconds to respond to it even when I have nothing else going on. Just like the interfaces for selling items and such, this is another thing that needs to be looked at when they optimize the ui/engine/server performance/whatever....