PS3 Controller Hotbar problems

[ZeroEx]

Yeah, seriously.
Tanks and Healers especially get screwed when they can't switch to other hotbars fast enough to access time critical skills.

Game is broken now for gamepad players.

[Nazzo]

Good. Glad they're on top of it already. Was a bit of a problem for me while healing coil, but nothing too major.

However, when I switched to DRG it was extremely noticeable and crippling. Needs to be fixed ASAP.

[Krashport]

[GoodApolloIV]

I'm having the same issue as well, on a skill where there is a longer animation my hotbars wont switch and i personally switch my hotbars quite a bit. Please fix this asap SE

[Helliax]

I logged in tried to run a primal and logged back out... This is game breaking for end game content. Please fix soon

[Marxam]

It only affects people who fly between crossbars like myself. I'm a warrior tank and I've basically maximized my set up (3 crossbars, one for items/signs/pulls, one for tank/defensive cd and one for dps/offensive cd) allowing me to reach any skill regardless of where its placed in under 2 sec.

Normally, I'd use a skill or action then quickly swap to my next action in a separate crossbar and I would be waiting 1.5 - 2 seconds at the next skill or action but since the patch I've had to wait and sometimes not even make it all to my next said action on a separate crossbar. Very problematic but luckily it is a bug and will be fixed, hopefully before PS4 beta goes live on Feb 22.

[Histoire]

Very game breaking for a SCH that flies between bars for DoTs and healing.

I couldn't even play WHM, which I was forced to try because I couldn't SCH properly lol. The party list scrolling function seems to be a little sticky and unresponsive as well. Trying to remove my target on people simply wasn't working during some points.

Gonna have to wait for that fix, sad to say.. Crafting time or something that doesn't involve precision play.

[thelastwarden]

I only see this hurting smns and maybe schs though I haven't experienced this bug myself(or I haven't noticed it). for every other job you should only need 2 crossbars in which case using the option to hold both triggers to access a different set is all you need. if you really want to switch sets you can tap r1 at 3 o-clock in terms of the GCD timer. don't use pet hot bars btw just put pet commands along with your spells on the same crossbar. be sure to enable auto hotbar switching when drawing/sheathing weapons and to check the boxes accordingly. I may have missed something but be sure to exhaust all options before you deem the game unplayable. I also recommend looking up a youtuber named "epic reset gaming" he has crossbar guides that are slightly outdated but extremely helpful.

I play mnk,drg,pld, and war without trouble (and no macros!) with 2 sets and I've never had to actually switch sets since R2+L2/ L2+R2 was added to the game. all of my main attacks are on set 1 (along with anything I tend to forget about like awareness heh) and buffs, jumps, markers, anything defiance related on set 2 which are all easily accessible when holding both triggers.

[myahele]

I wonder if they'll do maintenance later today or will they push kt till next week.

[TheHomieData]

i'm not sure if anyone else is encountering this problem, but my ps3 problem goes much broader than this.

since the implementation of patch 2.16 i am quite literally unable to even intentionally buffer my commands. this goes beyond simply switching hotbars.

if i use the R/L2+R/L1 cycling method, so long as the next button i press [we'll call this button "Q" which may represent any of the potential cross hotbar buttons] is imput within (what appears to be) a window of about 5-7 frames of when i released the last button, the game defaults to one of 3 options:

1) simply does not recognize the imput of Q at all
- this occurrence becomes far more prevalent if the most recently released button was L1/2 and i then attempt to use a skill on the cross hotbar related to R2

2) will recognize Q as the intended imput, but will function independently of any sort of on-screen indicator (i.e. i may hold R1 in an attempt to bring up my cross-hotbar "catalogue" and pressing the intended button may even bring me to that customized hotbar, however, there will be no indicating sound, and no change in any on-screen graphics to confirm that the game has received my imput)

3) interprets Q as the simultaneous imput of Q+the most recently released R/L button.
^this.one.is.crippling.


the end result of all this: as of this patch, i am consistently dropping my GL3 stacks in t5 as a MNK and it will happen before we even begin DPSing Twintania


>>>>> unrelated to the blatantly obvious problem we have with hotbar "cooperation,"
~ repairing equipment now necessitates having to wait for everything to load correctly within your on-screen field of vision. this is extremely problematic for me as a ps3 user of this game. as, despite having exited the mender/merchant's window, i will be struck and frozen in place until everything on screen loads.
~ dismounting certain mounts will leave you frozen, in air, until the loading process of processing everything on screen is done, similar to the repairing-freeze.

please, please do something about this.