Targeting options. Please add it!

[ChiefCurrahee]

Hey everyone!

While we will not be able to do much more for the target system in the current version, I would like to go over some improvements planned for 2.0.
(and bunch of other stuff that has nothing o do with the OP)

While mouse over targeting in ver 2.0 is great, you completely avoided the original post, Will we be able to have an option to have PRIORITY of our targets go from left<->right regardless of distance to something more practical like left<->right:closest to furthest

Right now in game, it's difficult to target something that is to the left of you and slightly ahead when there are targets more midline to your character but completely out of range. THose targets that are midline regardless of distance have priority over ones that happen to be closer but more lateral.

Can you comment on that? Hopefully it won't take seven months to get a reply that doesn't answer the question.

[Estellios]

When fighting multiple enemies, if you have ever found it difficult to target a monster you are not auto-attacking so you can execute an action on it; in version 2.0 we will be making it easier by allowing you to place the mouse over another target and execute actions on them. We will also add a similar system for gamepads and we are currently looking into the best way to implement this.

Yessss thank you. As a gamepad player it's really frustrating having to completely close out the action bar in order to do actions like WS's on alternate targets. It makes killing plumes in Garuda more difficult than it can already be.

[Bebekurenai]

While mouse over targeting in ver 2.0 is great, you completely avoided the original post, Will we be able to have an option to have PRIORITY of our targets go from left<->right regardless of distance to something more practical like left<->right:closest to furthest

Right now in game, it's difficult to target something that is to the left of you and slightly ahead when there are targets more midline to your character but completely out of range. THose targets that are midline regardless of distance have priority over ones that happen to be closer but more lateral.

Can you comment on that? Hopefully it won't take seven months to get a reply that doesn't answer the question.

Quoting for more power!!!

Yes, please answer what has been asked ^^/

[Vanfrano]

I always hear about mouse/keyboard & gamepad optimization. The thing is, I hate playing with the mouse and I'm used to play with the keyboard only. I did it on XI for 8 years, I did it on other games and I'm still doing it on XIV.

Please, don't force people to use BOTH mouse/keyboard if they want to play just with keyboard.

[Efrye]

I always hear about mouse/keyboard & gamepad optimization. The thing is, I hate playing with the mouse and I'm used to play with the keyboard only. I did it on XI for 8 years, I did it on other games and I'm still doing it on XIV.

Please, don't force people to use BOTH mouse/keyboard if they want to play just with keyboard.

I'm in the same boat. Keyboard-only controls are - for me - much faster, more precise and also more comfortable to use than a keyboard-mouse combination.

The only thing I sometimes want to use the mouse for is smoother camera movement.

[JGwinters]

Another keyboard-only player here. I just find using the mouse really cumbersome. Having to move my hands so great distances constantly to, for example, type something...I simply don't like it.
I know they've said before they wouldn't screw over us keyboard-only players, but that was way before, and since then I seem to recall Yoshi-P wondering in an interview when it was asked if people really use such an option, like it was somehow inferior and beneath notice. And as if he didn't know it's an FF staple for many of us. It makes me really, really worried, especially with all the mouse-centric control schemes I keep hearing about. :/

[PSxpert2011]

Hey everyone!

While we will not be able to do much more for the target system in the current version, I would like to go over some improvements planned for 2.0.

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As mentioned in previous interviews, we will be totally revamping the gamepad controls in version 2.0, as well as preparing optimized UI and control methods for both gamepads and mouse/keyboard.

The current focus right now is on tuning and optimizing the mouse and keyboard controls to make it feel like modern day MMOs. We will definitely be looking forward to the feedback we receive once everyone tries out the new control functions during the upcoming beta test!

Please let us know if we'll be able to toggle in and out between friendly, enemy and all targets. I for one would like to by-pass going into the menu which makes no difference at all.


So far it stays "all" no matter what. (and it's hovering over my name.

[Haibel]

I am yet another Keyboard only user. my wife is the same also. Please leave this option for the keyboard only players.
I have finally have my controls down to second nature. I can do all combat targeting and movement with my right hand
only. it's soooo quick

[ChiefCurrahee]

Hey reps, any chance you'll answer the OP instead of regurgitate a translation about SUB-TARGETING which has nothing to with primary target priorities?

This thread has been going for 7 months, and still doesn't have an answer or an acknowledgment. On the JP side the a person asked about sub-target and WS issues. Within a week they were given a definitive answer.

[Soukyuu]

Please let us know if we'll be able to toggle in and out between friendly, enemy and all targets. I for one would like to by-pass going into the menu which makes no difference at all.


So far it stays "all" no matter what. (and it's hovering over my name.

Uhm. Using type A targeting, hold the autorun button and press O,X,△ or □ to switch between filters.
Using type B, it's left/right to target, up/down to switch filter.

It's all on the lodestone, first chapter even: click

We will be making it so when you select an action to execute, irrelevant things are not targeted (ex: you will not target gathering points when selecting a magic spell) and it will be instantly executed for things that you do not need to press/confirm twice.

This is good to hear. I do hope the targeting priority will be fixed too though, since it's a bigger annoyance most of the time.