Am I the only one experiencing serious targeting issues? When I try to target, the nearest one is not targeted or it will randomly switch off the aforementioned target, sometimes my attack will just go in a totally different direction. This has gotten me killed more times than anything else in the game and is incredibly frustrating in crucible. This is one my biggest issues aside from performance and inventory of course.
Itās the biggest issue in the game for me. That being said, I made a thread on it and a dev said theyāre working on it.
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Not a fix but a few tips in the meantime
The red dot will get larger/brighter when locked on but is soft locked/dim when there by default.
You can also use R stick (no idea on keyboard) to change targets or verify a lock on by pressing up and ālockingā it.
No dot? Try flicking up to get it to show up. If arching off screen fire a single arrow to verify before popping a rune shot. Melee range you should see the dot.
Melee is pretty straight forward and harder to miss but This was extremely helpful on my archer build and hopefully helps you.
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Its especially an issue for ranged combat with mouse and keyboard controls.
Firstly I think I have to click exactly on an enemy to be able to lock on, which is very hard when they are moving fastā¦
Secondly locking on does not work more than half of the time, so I am on average wasting 2 clicks just to lock on.
Thirdly the lock on seems to dissipate when an enemy leaves the screen (or i am trying to get out of range), so I have to manually lock on the same enemy sometimes 3/4 times in the same combatā¦
In this state I would prefer to be able to attack in the direction i am facing, but this is very wonky, because of all the verticality and weird hitboxes going onā¦
Sidenote - why the hell can enemies lock on me from 2 screens away, when i canāt even see them? Range for enemy lock on and range of all ranged attacks (friend or foe) should be reduced for this kind perspective imo
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It gets even worse if theyāre below the screen. Youāll take damage even though the model isnāt even loaded in. I noticed this a fair bit with the caged head big dudes in the crucible. Iād suddenly get two tapped and have no idea what happened, it was them below screen doing the double jab attack.
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Yes this encompasses the problem exactly! I am experiencing this the same. Did I have a fever dream or did the game start with an āauto lockā feature that was far superior?
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I have to add my 2 cents in here too, thanks for starting the thread.
Currently the automatic targeting feels bugged. A common issue I am encountering is that the auto targeting has me charging in wrong directions. For example I have an enemy that is on the same floor as me but the Auto target thinks the enemy above me is my target, hence it has me charging to the left/right instead of straight ahead where my intended target it.
The most annoying scene for this bug is on the Autumn Forest level of Crucible. Here you have a very precarious top section with a narrow bridge. I used my forward charge āWallbreakerā rune attack, lightning assault or other should work the same, except instead of the auto targeting charging my character up the platform to where the enemies were, it went and charged to the left and surprise surprise I fell of the bridge and died.
The auto targeting isnāt intuitive and cannot discern where the players intended target is, on most counts itās not even distance oriented. It might have you charging toward a far away enemy when there was a perfectly good target much closer. This totally needs to be fixed before 1.0
Thank you
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My gripe so far is locking on a target and watching my bow shoot into the air completely missing the enemy 3ft from my character.
Or fighting an enemy near a box or barrel or tree or stalagmite (Echo Knight) and it starts attacking these pointless objects instead of the enemy I just hit twice already.
Also, mouse wheel scrolls through enemy targets regardless if you are locked on or not. It acts like the keybind to lock on to a target which is an issue if you parry often with middle click or use MMB for eating and thus switch enemies on accident due to scrolling the mouse wheel on accident during these moments.
As Dakota stated I do believe they know about this and are working on it. Also my 2 cents 
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let me link a few other posts about this:
and losing the lock on (at least as far as i observed) does not entirely seem random. i tried with auto lock on and with manual targeting. in both cases the character seems to lose lock on when either the distance gets ātoo farā or the character is turned around to face another direction.
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Thank you so much for tagging those other posts!
Yes exact same thing continues to happen to me unfortunately. I sincerely hope this gets fixed in the next update as it is quite debilitating in the heat of battle.
Still unplayable because of above.
hey folks, thanks for the reports. Our design team is investigating the issues.
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I am a fairly new player I put 34.9 hours into the game according to Steam. So far made 3 different characters specāed for Melee atk, Ranged/Melee and Magic.
Iām playing on steam PC, and am using a PS4 controller. I didnāt seen any post yet regarding using a PS4 controller with the targeting . So here is my experience.
The auto-targeting with the Right toggle often just removes on itās own, and I have to fight with the controller to get it back to the energy I was fighting, I tend to take a lot of damage because of it or outright get killed.
The Auto-targeting in combat is poor at best. Even if I havenāt attacked an enemy and the target is highlighted and in range, it will still miss consecutive strikes. This also include Focus skills which doesnāt even make sense. When attacking an enemy after a dodge and advancing into combat facing the enemy it still misses.
Because you can only seem to do a backstab with auto-target on, sometime the skull never shows up and Iāve walked up right behind the enemy, moved around to try and find the skull only to lose the opportunity.
Facing the enemy, is the only way to get it to auto-target is a problem. Often times if for example Iām walking say in the Shallows, I could be walking in the direction of the enemy facing them and canāt see them on screen, but I canāt auto target them until they are right in-front of my face in attack range, maybe this is more of a camera issue because you can only auto-target them facing them when they are attacking, if you dodge the auto-target may break.
There has been many times when dodge has broken auto-target and I have to fight the controller to get it again. The orange light is small, and not complete then goes away.
Those are the instances I can remember I hope this helps you improve the targeting for a player it can be super frustrating to be standing literally in front or behind an enemy have the advantage and canāt hit them with your skills or weapon or magic.