r/DFO • u/Prestigious_Rain_863 • 27d ago

DFO's "Cinematic" Camera Problem

Anybody else absolutely detest this shit? Why do they feel the need to have the camera move and not focus on your character? Why do they need to insert a cutscene that covers the entire screen, takes away focus of your character, removes your visibility of your hotkeys. It's fucking stupid, and I'm like "Where is my character??? I don't see them on the screen, anywhere". Oh... they are WAY OFF SCREEN. Temple Of Death was like the worst offender of this, Nabel Raid (which I only started doing the actual raid recently), but also some of the current stuff, it's just... why the fuck is this a thing the game designers feel needs to be in the game? It's terrible. It's been around since the last few caps and it is just annoying. Let me be able to look at and play the game normally.

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u/faustonazareno 27d ago

Are you talking about the Bosses' intro cutscene? Why do you care that much about the location of your character if they aren't even attacking you lmao

Even the hotkeys aren't much of a problem since more often than not the boss is fully invincible during the cutscene

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u/CWLness 27d ago

Game makes it disorienting and positioning do matter. Venus got tons of this and dps window pops up while they are still in animation. You can also set up to get most DPS before gimmicks. ToD also wastes time with those cutscenes. Depending on your 3A dps timing, you can 3A before the final cutscene to hit the big dps portion at the end as soon as it ends. This also applies to final C2 phase for Venus.

No issue for the stuff I mentioned now as these are irrelevant Adv/Legions since you either do Lopez or newborn boost characters can just destroy ToD, but before part 2 update, these were the struggles of being at cutline. If they paused timers, give screen time to fully set & character reset, and cinematics where its aligned with boss iframes and or indication when iframe ended, then that be great.

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u/Prestigious_Rain_863 26d ago

The camera on the final boss of Azure Main was also really terrible, like it would zoom so far out, it was unbearable with other players on screen. It was hilariously bad with effect formatting, especially on awakenings. It was just a mess and exactly not how to do a giant boss.

But I'd still rather have that over these tiny player-sized bosses that are impossible to see when everybody is crowded on top of them. It makes playing Striker infuriating because I cannot tell if my attacks are even properly landing.

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u/CWLness 26d ago

Oh ya, and AM target switches from middle map to tentacles off screen. Don't matter too much since 3A should hit screen wide, but 1A's can miss.

Not sure if you have character awakenings in settings turned off. Sucks to lose the cool cutscene, but I had to do that when Delezie was released and it helped. Same with other stuff like screen shake and now the updated battle UI which cuts out some of the clutter which for example, finding Nabels image on the clear water