[PS3] Autorun & Camera Zoom

[Whizawk]

There's currently an issue I'm experiencing on the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

Pretty much anywhere in the game the controls lock to 'autorun' when you're actively adjusting the camera and the character randomly runs in different directions, negating all controller input and having no responsiveness what so ever for a brief period of time... Typically complete disobedience with regards to controller input.

I have experienced this problem before in Titan & Garuda HM trials, but it was never as frequent nor' severe enough to be worth making a report.

Now though the frequency of the issue has drastically increased, so it happens everytime you adjust the camera after the implementation of patch 2.1.

It toggles on everytime you want to adjust the zoom, which is really annoying in instances since I don't want to autorun into every single AOE the game throws at me or wipe the party of all their hard work and effort just because I use a joypad and wanted to adjust the viewing.

It appears that the frequented lag on the servers causes the likelyhood of the autorun activating to increase.

A surefire way to experience this problem is just to move and adjust the camera zoom at the same time, effectively having both functions on a single button can cause the autorun and the camera zoom function to activate at the same time, when you only just want to execute one of the options.

Possible solutions are:
- Remove the autorun function completely from the joypad.
- Allow us to assign the autorun to a different button (that is seperate from the camera zoom adjust).
- Completely disable the autorun functionality when the camera zoom is adjusted.
- Change the autorun function to a hold rarther than a toggle (though this kind of eliminates the point).
- Disable the use of autorun either in instances or when engaged in battle.

Preferably, change the response timing on the button press so that the time needed to hold the button is longer to activate the autorun (5-10sec hold). This is appropriate as most camera zoom adjusting is very quick and snappy (much like bursts) and a longer press to adjust it is not needed.

...or just change it to how it was before patch 2.1.

I hope that SE can be brought to light on this issue as it is quite discouraging to participate in instances and movement intensive gameplay with an input problem such as this.

Thanks for reading.

--------------------------------------------------------UPDATE-------------------------------------------------------------------

Greetings,

This is definitely a bug, and we will be fixing this! Apologies for the inconvenience.

(Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...75#post1699275)

[Whizawk]

Time: Since the implementation of patch 2.1

Frequency: All the time

World name: Ragnarok

Character name: Troy Rumfitt

NPC name: -

Monster name: -

Class/Level: -

Party or solo: -

In-game time: -

Area and coordinates: Everywhere

Steps:

1. Adjust the Camera Zoom whilst moving to experience the lock.

Connection Specs
- Type of internet connection/provider: Home broadband - Virgin Media UK

- Modem maker/model number: Netgear - 272-11154-01/CG3101D

Model Number of the PlayStation 3 You Are Using
- Model Number: CECH-2003A

[supermegazeke]

I, among others, are having the same problems. It's going to be almost unplayable if you're planning on doing anything that is very move intensive.

Here is the thread I started, even though yours is probably in a better place.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...to-run-feature.

I would ask that you like and maybe comment to further awareness of the issue we are having. I will ask the same of the people who have posted on my thread.

[Whizawk]

Thanks for the heads up and I hope that this problem is brought to light.

[supermegazeke]

As do I.

[Hanzzo_Kai]

I have been running into similar issues using gamepad on PC. Prior to 2.1, I hadn't seen any issues regarding this, but today I realized that randomly while changing target set (LB+a/b/x/y), adjusting camera zoom, or anything that uses LB, autorun had been oddly triggered. It was so unexpected that it actually caused me to autorun off the edge of the Titan battlefield in one instance...

[Jubez187]

Please. This makes it unplayable for me as a Tank. I need to be able to zoom out in case I lose aggro

[ShadowVulcan]

I really hope the devs see this. It makes everything unnecessarily harder.

[Moonsilver]

same here.
the game is pretty much unplayable that way.
pre 2.1 patch the auto run feature only needed a long press of L1 while holding L1 we could adjust the camera zoom.Post 2.1 patch whenever we press or hold L1 and we're on the move it goes off to autorun too.Camera zoom adjustment on the move is essential and auto run breaks it completely
This must be fixed

[Michelasso]

It happened to me too, but not that often. Still a bit more frequently than previously.