Dear SE, please address the exploitation of "face target" command in PVP

[Dante_V]

You can walk backwards faster by changing your control setup between legacy and camera based if I remember correctly. You won't be limited to the lock on speed of running backwards.

Honestly I've seen people do what you are saying but it hasn't stopped me one bit from getting ninja TA or dragoon positionals off at all.

[Vandril]

Honestly I've seen people do what you are saying but it hasn't stopped me one bit from getting ninja TA or dragoon positionals off at all.

Then the people you've run into are very specifically not doing what the OP is describing.

The OP describes a situation where some players are using software to rapidly press a keybind that has a macro that forces them to face their target. We're not talking about pressing the button a few times a second by mashing it, with melee able to get off their positionals if they time it right. No, we're talking an automated program that rapidly presses the key every handful of milliseconds. There is no getting off your positionals on such people when they're targeting you. It's literally impossible to do unless they have a severe lag spike (which stops them from turning for the duration) or they're CCed and unable to turn.