Controller & Hotbar possible? Cross-Hotbar, No Thanks. :(

[Mandy]

GIVE US HOTBAR FOR PS3

[Dreaming]

Other than that, I just thought it was a bit harsh of Dreaming to dismiss moriandrio's comment as silly when they were making a general statement and not targeting anyone in particular.

tl;dr I support the addition of this control scheme but I feel the XBar is more efficient in terms of button presses.

The reason I called it silly was the fact that they said it was slower to use the controller compared to the keyboard. It sounds like someone who hasn't had the experience of playing with a controller from 1.0 to know what it's like. It was very responsive and smart. This new way of doing things is slow and cumbersome for the average player who enjoyed 1.0 on a controller.

[Bedford]

GIVE US HOTBAR FOR PS3

This.
I don't even mind if they don't change the appearance of the xhotbar. I just want the ability to keybind it well.

[Zeikial]

To those who don't know, you don't have to constantly tap r1 on the ps3 controller to access a hotbar. You simply hold r1 and select the preset hotbar of your choice, example r1, triangle, circle square, up, down left, right, you get the idea. Preset each hotbar and cycle back and fourth fast.

[fallacies]

To those who don't know, you don't have to constantly tap r1 on the ps3 controller to access a hotbar. You simply hold r1 and select the preset hotbar of your choice, example r1, triangle, circle square, up, down left, right, you get the idea. Preset each hotbar and cycle back and fourth fast.

The point is mostly that cycling between crossbar sets is less efficient and more of a hassle than moving a cursor across a matrix of commands with a direction pad keypress like in 1.0: You simply pressed up or down.
1.0 cycling was, in short, about as difficult as navigation within a single crossbar set is as of the current version of the game.

[Makenshi82]

I agree, I would love the reg hotbar. Not being able to arrange the the bar as a whole kinda get under my skin , at lease let us take the bar apart and move each square or some of the sort.

[Ricepot]

To be honest with the cool down on every skill cross button for controller is not really that fast. I really don't understand why can't they have to option to use the hotbar as in 1.0.

[TopKatt]

was it on purpose or did they just mess up?

[fallacies]

It's on purpose, and "working as intended."
The devs apparently spent a lot of time building the crossbar, and during beta, their response to the complaints were somewhere along the lines of dismay.
At the last I recall, the feedback page for UI said, "currently being discussed."

[Pikupstyks]

I'm hoping at least to get the keyboard for ps3 to work with this. Currently the number bar has no input on action skills, despite what the manual says. And as mentioned earlier in post, the keybinds to controller just don't work correctly. Right now this is stopping me from even considering to tank/heal.

This right here. In phase 3 beta it worked perfectly I could press any thing on the number bar and it would do my action skill but now it does not. What happened ?