{Backsteps} {No Thanks}

[Rau]

youll have to learn to use the flip camera button

[Coyohma]

youll have to learn to use the flip camera button

So pressing more things is better than pressing less? To perform the same action? Let's even go beyond this simple fact.

You'll have to "flip" the camera before you begin running. That's lost time. Not to mention that flipping the camera won't necessarily put your field of view at the exact angle that you'd want it. Those are two negatives.

What about using the mouse, as most players may do? Then it would look like this, if you're running away from say, Ifrit's eruptions:

(using some amazing MS paint skills, light blue is your field of vision)


Here's how it was in 1.0:


Which has greater functionality? I would say the one that allows you to travel in a straight line. You know, the shortest distance between two points. The one that allows you to continue to view your target and your party members. Certainly the one that requires you to take one action, rather than multiple.

Yet amazingly, hoards of people are in favor of backpedaling being the default. If you backpedaled more than you ran backwards in 1.0, you were doing it wrong. And if you have evidence that backpedaling will for some reason dominate running backwards in ARR rather than the other way around (forgive the pun), I'd like to see it.

[Nakiamiie]

youll have to learn to use the flip camera button

I like being able to backpedal/run backwards and would love having a flip camera button more than the removal of backward movement without targeting.