Please press F12

[Daniolaut]

Hello fellow FFXIV players.

I am trying to offer advice to help players have an enjoyable experience.

The original post seemed to not be so helpful as it initially did not include gamepad users.

Keyboard Users:



Playstation (Trademark) Users:
(with nothing selected/no current target)



XboX/Microsoft (trademark) Users:
(with nothing selected/no current target)



To target Aetherytes, NPC's, summoning bells you name it, you can use these buttons.

This completely ignores all player characters and lets you target such targets easily and instantly.



I would like to offer up many players help/advice in regards to targeting.

I have seen not only in the new "prohibited behavior policy" that it states:

"overlapping an important NPC deliberately for a long time."

Or players asking that NPC be placed "on a pedestal" or being unable to click on summoning bells.

I hope many many players read this thread to know, often times when there is similar issues in gameplay, that the FFXIV development already has something in place to help completely dissolve such issues.

From the HUD customization, to the Gamepad-hotbar and regular hotbar customization, duty finder settings, party finder settings, the list goes on.

Instead of reporting a player who is standing on top of a summoning bell, or quest NPC please just press F12.

It is also helpful, and might be imperative moving forward as a forum community to help avoid needless bans, that we ask questions of fellow players for gameplay or settings advice that already exist which can help us avoid requesting things from the development team.



Thank you and happy gaming!

[Vanitas]

It's a sad day when most of the playerbase is too aftaid to play for fear of being banned.

[Kurando]

it's good you post this, but F12 isn't exactly useful for console players that don't use a keyboard. Though let's say they have a keyboard, it may not be something always in range, personally I just use it for typing any other time it's placed away from me so I'm not going to pick it up just to press F12 you know. Not that I couldn't but practicality, it shouldn't be necessary.

[ElazulHP]

It's a sad day when most of the playerbase is too aftaid to play for fear of being banned.

The solution for this is pretty simple though. Just don't be a jerk. Problem solved.

[Shougun]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

To be honest even when it has been really crazy I've been able to just click them, I feel like the audience really getting hit are consoles lol.

Thanks for the tip though, with the whale mounts and FFXV car upcoming it might become extra fun and maybe I'll use this XD.

[Rosentretter]

in the case of NPCs being hidden by all players standing right on them, it would be nice, probably, if they add a short invisible wall around them so you have a good distance to see them and interact with them. I dunno, the idea of a pedestal sounds weird lol

[Shougun]

in the case of NPCs being hidden by all players standing right on them, it would be nice, probably, if they add a short invisible wall around them so you have a good distance to see them and interact with them. I dunno, the idea of a pedestal sounds weird lol

To be honest I'd really like to see collision used more in this game/better. There are objects that have flat tops but you can't land on because.. because, meanwhile there are a number of objects you can just walk through (including NPCs).

would be neat to see people have collision (at least the NPCs, maybe not the people). Although you might be able to have a very very soft variant of what housing objects use for people. In housing you run into the object for a bit then phase through; however, here with people to people maybe you sort of hit a soft speed bump but keep moving (no pause). Would increase the "immersion" by a few points if people were trained to walk around each other with a soft system like that (not needed though, and it has to be soft otherwise people will block each other so hard lol).

[Nedkel]

I have no idea what this thread is about and what people rant about, i never personally had any problems aiming the bell or the npc. hmmmm

[wereotter]

X does not work this way. I can hit X and still select players.

Also tangentially related, this is especially frustrating in the Ghimit Dark where all the NPC support you get following you through the dungeon is, for some reason, still targetable by pressing X even if you have your settings done in such a way as to only allow you to select enemies when you press X with your weapon drawn. Also, this game doesn't exist in XBox, so the A button point isn't needed.

[Rosentretter]

X does not work this way. I can hit X and still select players.

Also tangentially related, this is especially frustrating in the Ghimit Dark where all the NPC support you get following you through the dungeon is, for some reason, still targetable by pressing X even if you have your settings done in such a way as to only allow you to select enemies when you press X with your weapon drawn. Also, this game doesn't exist in XBox, so the A button point isn't needed.

This is so true it hurts. I hate that in that dungeon, specially as melee.