Guild Wars 2

I strongly agree. Until I saw the reddit page, I didn’t even know that right click could target (because that’s really unintuitive… left click and tab work fine for targeting, and if you’re rotating the camera -shame if you’re using A and D- then it’s pretty unlikely that you can see what you want to attack. Hence turning the camera). But NOW I know that right click targeting has been the source of all my dropped targets.

Seriously in almost every fight I would just lose my target sometimes, and be completely confused. I thought it was a bug until now. Anet, please add this feature.

edit: my 2 cents, making right click target on release would be awful, since you can’t see the cursor >.>

The problem with GW2’s targetting is that it fires onMouseDown, not onClick.

Targetting should be activated onClick, for left clicks only.

onMouseDown should do nothing, in of itself. You should always wait to see what the player’s going to do with the mouse next, whether he’s going to drag and hold (obviously, he wants to turn, not select), or if he’s going to click, (probably wants to select).

Tie targetting to onClick, not onMouseDown or onMouseUp.

this would be a welcomed change. swiveling the camera and accidentally targeting something i had no business to, then slapping em silly is such a pain. so instead of dealing with 2 or 3 aggro’d jotun, i now have a moa and a snow leopard chasing me; because my rifle pierced an accidental target.

Please give us an option to disable right-click targeting. It is incredibly irritating thing losing your target because you want to look/move around !

Should be default behaviour to have the selection be on the up-state of the mouseclick, not the down-state.

Yup. Don’t see why it would be so difficult to fix this bug.

Way ahead of you:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Option-to-disable-activation-with-right-mouse-button/first#post84676

As an engineer, I keep taking my turrets away when I just want to move the camera.

I keep talking to NPCs or reviving things mid-battle too.

I also keep losing my targets.

I just want a checkbox, like the “double click to activate” one, to disable right click activation.

I want to use the right click to move the camera ONLY.

Please do something about this. Makes me want to put my fist through my monitor when i try to turn the camera and i just see the mouse whiz across the screen.

I will chime in as well. I would really like an option to turn off ‘right click to attack’

I really really hope that right click targeting is changed in a first place! Or make it optional!

Great Game would be much more enjoying without it.

Sry my bad English.

Please, please, please fix this and remove right-click targeting (or at least make it a toggle option). It is a major issue and incredibly frustrating. I’m fed up of shooting things I didn’t want to when I’m running along panning the camera around and even worse losing my target during combat and targeting something else.

I move with double mouse button pressure and pan with my right button, which means any time I get mobile in combat my target untargets.

I fully support toggling to left-click selection only.

Last update we did not get this. Hoping that in next update this will be there!

Great game would be even more great with this update!

Just finished COF dungeon, and i say that targeting is pretty bad with right mouse click targeting. Target changes all time. I dont want to learn keep my cursor away from middle of the screen, i see no point to really do so. I use fast ground targeting and autotarget is off, so i always pick target myself with tab or C, which is Nearest Target. I never use autotargeting in games, i want to control things.

Game would be so enjoyable with Stable target. Then you can concentrate a lot better with using skills, and perhaps you can change target back and forth, and you dont have to worry that you lose target.

I play as a warrior, and many times i have wasted my skills with wrong target, or even teammate. Worst things are, for example, when using Greatsword and using Rush, and you have wrong target, for example Teammate, you just run pointless because of right click targeting. This have happened a lot.

Please, really, make right click targetin optional at least.

I have say this many times before. This really effects a gameplay a lot. Game would be much more better.

Many players dont even know that right click changes target, they are just wondering that why target has changed, but dont know how. But everyone i know, that they know about right click targeting, they dont like it at all.

Sry my bad English.

Ty for the Great Game anyway.

This issue has been brought up multiple times.

I was really surprised when I found out that the right mouse button activates stuff, and really annoyed when I saw how I kept activating stuff all the time all around me whenever I just wanted to quickly make a turn with the camera.

I never, ever use right mouse for activating or selecting stuff, and so it’s only annoying.

Right-click activation should be a toggle.

yes please, this is quite annoying. Always attacking stuff i don’t want to attack.

Yes, please. this is bad.

Oh yes please fix.

Get this changed asap, we don’t need 50 buttons to do the same thing.
Left click already selects and does actions, I don’t understand why right clicking ( which is to move the camera ) also has this same function.
It’s like having W also associated with performing actions and targeting.

This is a much needed fix for PvP/PvE/Anything.

hmm this has been posted almost a month ago, I hope they have plans to address this.

This I can support whole heartedly! The ammount of times I’ve dragged other mobs into battle unwanted just because I wanted a better camera angle on my ranged ranger I have lost count of. Worst one was a champion troll in Bloodtide coast (think that was the map name) had him and his 3 cronies suddenly run at me.

YES please!! This is so frikkin annoying, so please make a fix ASAP!

Really hoping that in next Update, this fix will be there. Next Big Update.

I think this is most important thing to be fixed.

jef.4319:

this would be a welcomed change. swiveling the camera and accidentally targeting something i had no business to, then slapping em silly is such a pain. so instead of dealing with 2 or 3 aggro’d jotun, i now have a moa and a snow leopard chasing me; because my rifle pierced an accidental target.

Oh my word! I laughed so hard when I read this because of the visual it brought to mind. But, he has a point. I have inadvertently targeted bunny rabbits and squirrels as well as bushes and npcs just minding their own business because of this problem.

Thanks Jef for this humor. Priceless explanation that really grabs you. hehehehe but is a serious problem.

Still no sign of a fix

I’m developing a reputation as a wanton murderer in the critter world due to this feature, and as stated above, running at the head of a pursuing menagerie is becoming old very fast.

I also would love this if it was implemented into the game. constantly selecting players or pets while rotating the camera.

I agree that this would be a huge improvement for me. It seems like such a small thing, but it’s so pervasive. I finally learned how to work around it on my mesmer and now reading MithranArkanere’s comment, I realize it’s the reason my engineer’s turrets keep randomly disappearing.

yes please. kind of annoying to see i randomly targeted a friendly.

I started gathering herbs in the middle of a fight because of this issue. It needs fixing because it’a fundamental issue with controlling your character AND it really should not be a difficult fix.

I’ll keep bumping until hopefully someone takes notice!

had no idea this was happening.. hopefully it gets added as an option to disable, right click is for camera rotation only (well.. for me)

I’ve been looking like crazy for a feature like this. Please add this arenanet! It’s so frustrating being in mid combat and ALWAYS losing my target, because I’m always changing the camera view with the right mouse button. Totally hinders the gameplay.

Add my vote for this, as well. I dislike having my target change due my shifting of the camera angle in combat.

I also want to give support to the mention of not having target changes activate merely on mouse down but instead go with click.

I use very tiny moves when rotating camera with right mouse button. This makes targeting very unstable, because target changes with those moves. You can see it in video.

Targeting system with right click targeting is very unstable. Many miss clicks there. Now you have to concentrate on controls, not the game. It should be like that, that you consentrate on the game, not controls. Controls should feel natural, not like now when you have to make special attention with controls and gameplay. Please fix this, make it optional.

I agree this is a major pain. I am getting tired of targeting when I do not specifically select with my left mouse button. It appears that even as I am running down the road (both right & left buttons depressed) that I will find I’ve targeted the npc standing nearby or the rabbit on the side of the road, or the spider just dropping from a roadside tree.

This is the most annoying aspect of the right mouse button issue.

huh. I thought I had ghosts in the machine till I found this thread.
This is a seriously messed up “feature” to have.

Agree this is the #1 bug preventing me from having fun in game atm especially in pvp.

I just looked this thread up again to, once again, express how very annoying right-click select is. I am sick to death of randomly attacking stuff when I am just trying to move my camera.

Same here. This is worse in WvW where you need to move the camera around fast and a lot, and when playing as an engineer with turrets.

A checkbox to disable right-lick targeting and activation should be added ASAP to the options panel.

Can we get a Developer response on this issue pretty please? ^____^

+1 …I think that is constructive enough in itself,
that is if you even bothered to read this thread.

+1

This has been screwing me up since day one, doubly so because I play a ranger and end up selecting my pet.

agreed. turning it off should have been an option since day one.

Really hoping that we get this in next The Lost Shores event and update.

To be honest. I am waiting this right mouse button targeting option more than any, Any Event or any update. I dont care about the rest for now. Because this affects straight to the gameplay.

This is most important add to the game. Last night i was in WvW, and many miss targeting there because of RCT. Even that im learning larger “drawings” with my right mouse button. Its sad, that because of laggy controls, you have to learn extra moves which are useless skills for no really good reason, pointles controlling.

So disappointed if fix not be soon

Sry my bad English.

By the way, this has been around since a month ago:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Option-to-disable-activation-with-right-mouse-button/first#post84676

But no one noticed it. Maybe the title was too long and people do not like that?

MithranArkanere.8957:

But no one noticed it.

I notice it every time I run past some mob and inadvertently shoot it because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

I notice it every time when I stop to gather some herbs or mine some ore when I’m in the middle of a fight and start to get owned because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

I notice it every time when I suddenly find myself shooting at a neutral moa when a millisecond previous I was unloading on a Jotun because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

I notice it every time when I lose my target completely and see myself unloading 5 initiative into the air for giggles because I just happened to be panning the camera with right mouse button down.

Yes, I wholeheartedly have been wanting this since I started playing in the beta weekend events.

It still aggravates me that my targeting, etc. is screwed up very easily by me using right-click to move the camera … it’s how I turn, etc.

In video you can see. Every first target change is unwanted. Targeting system is very very unstable and gameplay is not good at all. You have to trust controls, now you just cant trust em. Many missclicks

RoShamBo.2618:

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I meant my thread. I believe I was the first one in these forums who made a thread to complain about right click targeting and activation.

Hm… I tried to make a post to fix this thread looking empty, but it didn’t work.

The link in the list of threads shows 2 pages, but there’s only 1, so people will see it empty unless they edit the path to repalce the /page/2 with /page/1.

Annoying…