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I spend more time fighting the targeting UI than I do fighting opponents

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GreymaneAlpha
02.21.2012 , 04:35 PM | #101
Quote: Originally Posted by Alacard View Post
I have leveled two healers in game, a trooper and a consular. I have had no issues ''targeting'' players who need healing, or their companions.

It's rather simple really. You click on the face of the target you want in the group window, player or companion. Could it be improved? Yes, it would be nice to be able to click anywhere on the frame, not just on the face. Need to heal a player? Click his/her face or raid frame. Need to heal a companion, click his/her face or raid frame.

I don't see the issue here. You can't get much easier than that. If your trying to click on them in the play window, then your just wrong to begin with. Your making it 10x harder than it is.

Healing is SWTOR is about as easy as it gets... Even if you had a ''healbot'' equivalent, you would still be doing the same thing for the most part.
No. It's not simple.

Play PvP. Try to figure out which person on your team has the huttball, when 8 people are running around each other in circles 30 yards away, three levels below you, and you can't actually read their names because they have their character's nameplate set as something like "Jedi Master Hugely'long Giganticness'name".

Are you telling me that in the entire time you leveled two characters you NEVER noticed how awful the targeting system was? That tab didn't give you the enemy you expected? That trying to click on enemy to Force Lift him was more difficult than it should be?!

Did you pay attention at all?!

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Oyusan
02.21.2012 , 04:44 PM | #102
Sign and agree.

It is difficult and sometimes nearly impossible to target especially in a big fight on a Warzone or Ilum.


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Also, I hate all that garbage (warzone map/status) from the screen from the Warzones too. It covers up the top of my right quickslot bar. I wish all that unnecessary crap could be turned off... and I can't seem to find any settings that would do so.

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PeacefulViolence
02.21.2012 , 04:48 PM | #103
Quote: Originally Posted by GreymaneAlpha View Post
Especially as a healer, it is insanely difficult to target people that need heals. Since you can't click on nameplates (why?) and tab (or ctrl-tab for friendlies) is ridiculously unreliable and has the great habit of targeting people BEHIND YOU, it really seems like this game's PvP is as much about trying to target the right people as it is actually fighting.

And obviously, I would much prefer to actually play against opponents instead of fighting with the UI.

This game very, very badly needs an improved tab-target system (no, 'target nearest enemy' is not sufficient) and badly needs the ability to target people by health bars / nameplates.
Well the lead combat designer is gone, now who else do we need to get rid of to make this game better?

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GreymaneAlpha
02.21.2012 , 05:00 PM | #104
Quote: Originally Posted by Oyusan View Post
Sign and agree.

It is difficult and sometimes nearly impossible to target especially in a big fight on a Warzone or Ilum.


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Also, I hate all that garbage (warzone map/status) from the screen from the Warzones too. It covers up the top of my right quickslot bar. I wish all that unnecessary crap could be turned off... and I can't seem to find any settings that would do so.
I often forget about the silliness of that map covering up your right ability bar. Of course, at least that should be fixed eventually we they deign to give us a "customizable" UI in 1.2.

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GreymaneAlpha
02.21.2012 , 05:01 PM | #105
Quote: Originally Posted by PeacefulViolence View Post
Well the lead combat designer is gone, now who else do we need to get rid of to make this game better?
Oh oh. I want to fire whoever decided that this game should have "cinematic combat", which leads to awesome things like "my instant cast force wave has a 2 second cast time and can be interrupted"!

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GreymaneAlpha
02.22.2012 , 01:24 PM | #106
Bump for my continual hatred of tab-target

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Concession
02.22.2012 , 01:36 PM | #107
Healers need love BW- lucky I've gotten used to the broken system.
Just healed in a WZ and in full champion gear got 430K heals
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Juanxlink
02.22.2012 , 01:42 PM | #108
But WZ heal aint that hard, main issue is when you are not grouped. As long as the raid frames are there click targetting works "most" the times.

FOR A BETTER TARGETTING SYSTEM, HEALING AND DAMAGING!!!!!!

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Nocturnalis
02.22.2012 , 01:43 PM | #109
Awesome thread OP. I can't tell you how frustrating it is in PvP to tab target. I have to go as far as pan the camera so that the only the person on screen is visible and that doesn't even work 100% of the time.

Now I just Esc key > target to get the nearest. but it SUCKs in it's current state.

BW fix this.

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Cratzky
02.22.2012 , 01:48 PM | #110
This game has so many issues its insane. Broken engine, targeting is broken as the major ones. The first one i mentioned is enough to kill the game.
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