Tab Targeting.

[Aussir]

Hmm, I often have to do camera gymnastics with my controller in order to target the mob trying to eat my face rather than the guy clear across the room. I seem to remember mention made of which direction you're facing affects what mobs the targeting 'sees'. So if the closest mob is north and I'm facing NNNE, I'm always gonna target the mob wayyy over there to the east. =_=

PC has an option to auto-face what you are attacking.

The problem arises when I try to target the mob right in front of me that is trying to eat me and the cursor ends up somewhere at the back of the map on some mob that I don't care about. Cue in a bunch of click-click-click either on the monster or on the focus list (if it doesn't decide to bug the crap out and not take any kind of mouse clicks) while my face gets eaten...

[Kiokin]

I don't have any issues with how it works. When it comes to the target right in front of me I just look at it and hit A (I use controller) and it targets it right away. Or I use trigger + LB or trigger + RB to cycle enemies. I've never had a problem with it and it always seems to target what I expect it to. Is this a keyboard problem?

When you don't have a target, it works just fine, it will always target the thing closest to you first. Trying to cycle through targets properly on a keyboard, though, requires 2 keybinds or camera gymnastics. For example, having Tab set as Nearest to Farthest means that if I have a target in front of me and I want to target the enemy to the left of it, I either have to click on it, or use a separate keybind for the Farthest to Nearest function.

It's annoying because 1.) It doesn't do what it says it's supposed to do and 2.) The thing it does instead is stupid, and an awful way to have targeting work.

[Souljacker]

It's worse on PC. You can be literally facing, right in front of, the monster you want to target and it will still target something random to your left, far in the back. I play a mix of controller and keyboard\mouse, depending what I am doing, and I really wish I could get the targeting predictability of the controller with the UI control of the keyboard\mouse. Perhaps the expectation wouldn't be there if there weren't targeting options in the menu - but there are and they just don't work.

PC has an option to auto-face what you are attacking.

And it's something that no one should get used to. If you want to do any sort of raiding, it's best to just leave this one ticked off. Even with very careful planning of abilities, that one unexpected twitch of a finger can have you running back into the fire.

[Bixby]

I seem to remember mention made of which direction you're facing affects what mobs the targeting 'sees'.

Yeah, the visibility rules are weird in either case. It's been a long time since I really tried to test & figure them out. I just know that generally, if both my camera and character are not facing what I want to target, I'm going to have a bad time.

It's also frustrating how objects & scenery can screw with it. In Garuda fights, when you hide behind the rocks, I can target Garuda when she reappears if I adjust my camera to the side first. If the rock is blocking too much of her hit box, I can't target her. There's a LNC job quest where you have to click on a shiny in a pile of bones, and it has a really small hit box, so it's the same thing; if you can't "click" the object text for some reason, you have to futz around with position & view to get past the bones and target the thing itself.

[Mardel]

I'm assuming many people are trying to target what is in front of them, but they can't because of the tab targeting system. I leave mine on cycle IIRC. HOWEVER, I hit the esc key then I hit the tab key. This forces me then to select the target closest to me without having to cycle through them all.

[MageBlack]

Works fine for me. I'm using a controller and it will target the enemy standing in front of which ever way my character is facing then cycle left or right across the screen depending on which way i press. I have no issues playing end game raids, PvP, or FATE's. Honestly, I don't think I could ever play another MMO that didn't have controller support like this one does. And I'm on a PC.

[Niqote]

So that's why the BRD kept shooting my petrified Renaults...

[Alipoprocks]

So that's why the BRD kept shooting my petrified Renaults...

Sadly, yes. The way I avoided accidentally targeting renauds when on brd was by turning my camera so that no renaud was in view at all.

[Kiokin]

Works fine for me. I'm using a controller and it will target the enemy standing in front of which ever way my character is facing then cycle left or right across the screen depending on which way i press. I have no issues playing end game raids, PvP, or FATE's. Honestly, I don't think I could ever play another MMO that didn't have controller support like this one does. And I'm on a PC.

You say "works fine for me" but you don't even use Tab or something similar to target because you're on a controller. Thanks for the excuse to bump, I guess.

[Toodles]

The option to change the method would be nice.