New targeting system causing issues

[Krisan]

And just because someone could clean your trash when you throw it out on the street doesn't mean everyone should do it.

Well that's kind of what moderators are for though.. As someone whose administrated various gaming websites myself in the past, including places like the official Eidos forums.. You're never going to stop people from posting in the wrong places, no matter how clearly you outline it or how much you ask them to do otherwise. It's less hassle overall to let the staff take care of it than to risk starting a war with other members that will insist you're a nazi. (Which will more than likely lead to the thread getting killed outright..)

[sandwich]

I strongly agree with the op. As a mage/support I find this very annoying and needs to be changed. Up and down on the D-pad should be for cycling up and down your party members list. The new targeting option should be set to a separate button.

Should be AUTORUN + UP/DOWN; makes enough sense, sounds easy enough to use, doesn't eliminate other functionalities, and we already have AUTORUN + CAMERA for zoom controls now, don't we?

[Rau]

That's why I'm agreeing with you, since I'm not the one that was "arguing" about it yet someone felt the need to say I'm worse than a troll for simply pointing it out.

And just because someone could clean your trash when you throw it out on the street doesn't mean everyone should do it.



How so? He's pointing out a problem he has with a technical aspect of the game. Anyways I don't want to derail the thread.

By pointing all these trivial things out, you're probably wasting more time than it actually takes to move a topic to another forum.

[Umisame]

I hate this new system too, i would like to press left and target left mobs/npcs/pcs, right and target right mobs/npcs/pcs, down target my self/party and up move on pt(like down). Select or other button should be used for change target system.

[Jovy]

i think to solve the problem a button should be held down then press up to switch between party<enemy etc. When the button is not held down, we can press up or down left or right to cycle through party members or enemies. In addtion to this when switching from party to enemy it should auto target enemy we are attacking and if there is a group pressing up can cycle through the group only and pressing left and right can target mobs outside group.

[Rau]

Was there a noticeable problem with the old system of targeting?

I was mostly healing with it, and it worked pretty well for me. Did DoW classes have trouble with it?

[Bane]

How so? He's pointing out a problem he has with a technical aspect of the game.

Er, actually no. Not at all. The tech area is for stuff like Installation or graphical problems... things involving the tech making the game work properly.

The targeting thing is a general game issue and isn't really that out of place here.

[Ozi]

Please, pleeeeeease place target mode switcher under the emote button (the most useless button ever) and everything should be ok.

[Crimzon]

I play using a gamepad.

This recent update adding the various targeting 'modes' is a step in the right direction. I can see where these modes could be useful in various situations.

HOWEVER, the issue is that they used the up/down on the d-pad in order to cycle through the modes. This essentially replaced the functionality of what the up/down did. Mages can no longer cycle through the party member list using up/down. They should have this option.

Also, it is now difficult to target yourself believe it or not, using a game pad. Before using either up or down, would target yourself first, but now it changes modes so if you use that to target yourself, you then have to manually change the mode back. Using the action button will still target yourself if nothing else is on the screen but if another NPC/PC is in your field of view, it will target them first.

The SOLUTION to BOTH of these issues is to do what they did when they added the camera controls to the gamepad. Revert the controls on d-pad up/down how they were before this patch, but change the way we switch target modes. Use the auto-run button + up/down to switch modes. That way we will still have the functionality of the full d-pad for targeting AND will be able to enjoy the option of swapping targeting modes as well.

[Runic]

Yes I agree this new targeting system is completely bunk, while it is better than it was it is still not good at all