Where is your reticle? Depending on if you in first person, or depending on how close your camera is while in third person... your reticle is actually to the right of your character, the reticle needs to be on the mob.. not your character.

Yes, it's weird.

If that's not your issues, hmm, then I'm not sure.

If the mob is literally right on top of me so that our hit boxes overlap (I still don't understand why mobs are able to do this - I thought collision was supposed to keep it from happening) I have the same issue, as I can't get the targeting reticle to get the mob without moving away.

Targeting is all but FUBAR in this game. Just today I submitted a bug report because when a lootable corpse is on the ground, the targeting system selects it instead of a live mob even though the reticle is not pointing at the corpse. You will also hit a snake, frog, spider or mouse 100% of the time if it happens to come anywhere near an enemy. Among other issues...

DenMoria wrote: »

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I was talking about more of a 1 on 1 session with an enemy. If there's more than one, you at least target somebody in the group, which is fine.

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Or you end up hitting a stupid critter you didn't see that walked somewhere on you screen that you wasted your ultimate on.

DenMoria wrote: »

I keep seeing the word "mob" and I am not sure what everyone means.

A mob is a non-boss NPC enemy. I really don't know why a single one is called a mob... Confused the heck out of me when I started playing.

DenMoria wrote: »

I keep seeing the word "mob" and I am not sure what everyone means.

I was talking about more of a 1 on 1 session with an enemy. If there's more than one, you at least target somebody in the group, which is fine.

I am more used to games where you can target your enemy but TESO doesn't seem to have anything like that.

MOB in MMO stands for "Monster, Man or Beast" basically any NPC. It's one of those odd MMO terms that is kind of counterintuitive, as the term stands for a group in normal English, but can apply to an individual in the MMO/RPG world.

traigusb14_ESO2 wrote: »

jkemmery wrote: »

DenMoria wrote: »

I keep seeing the word "mob" and I am not sure what everyone means.

I was talking about more of a 1 on 1 session with an enemy. If there's more than one, you at least target somebody in the group, which is fine.

I am more used to games where you can target your enemy but TESO doesn't seem to have anything like that.

MOB in MMO stands for "Monster, Man or Beast" basically any NPC. It's one of those odd MMO terms that is kind of counterintuitive, as the term stands for a group in normal English, but can apply to an individual in the MMO/RPG world.

I'm pretty sure it is short for mobile asset.

Edit. been a long time so I looked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_(video_gaming)

"The term is properly an abbreviation rather than an acronym,[4][2] but backronyms for "MOB" such as "monster or beast," "mere ordinary beast" and "mean old ***" have also been coined."

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

daemonios wrote: »

Targeting is all but FUBAR in this game. Just today I submitted a bug report because when a lootable corpse is on the ground, the targeting system selects it instead of a live mob even though the reticle is not pointing at the corpse. You will also hit a snake, frog, spider or mouse 100% of the time if it happens to come anywhere near an enemy. Among other issues...

The amount of rodents I've hit with a meteor. May they rest in peace.

daemonios wrote: »

Targeting is all but FUBAR in this game. Just today I submitted a bug report because when a lootable corpse is on the ground, the targeting system selects it instead of a live mob even though the reticle is not pointing at the corpse. You will also hit a snake, frog, spider or mouse 100% of the time if it happens to come anywhere near an enemy. Among other issues...

Yeah, and it seems the larger the creature, the smaller the hitbox, for some reason.

Quite irritating when you can't seem to hit the spider the size of a minivan or the 20 ft tall armored troll in front of you, yet your projectile will happily exit sideways instead of at the enemy right in front of you.

jkemmery wrote: »

MOB in MMO stands for "Monster, Man or Beast" basically any NPC. It's one of those odd MMO terms that is kind of counterintuitive, as the term stands for a group in normal English, but can apply to an individual in the MMO/RPG world.

I'll be darned. I did not know that. (And I've been gamin a long time.) Just always assumed it referred to the fact that enemies usually came in groups or Mobs, and a single, by default got referred to as a mob.

MissBizz wrote: »

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Like MissBizz says, go into settings, camera, and adjust your reticle (Horitonal/Vertical offsets) until the game's hitzone matches up with your hit zone. (Where you feel like your hits should be connecting.)

Beyond that, distance approximation is odd, to say the least.

Melee distance reach is much closer than it appears. You'll find this out the first time a bear bites you from what seems like 10 feet away.

if YOU

If I what? ( @Missbizz , are you swearing at me nicely?)

EDIT: Oh... Now I feel bad for getting hopes up. No idea why they don't have this in the settings console side. It really does make a big improvement in the feel of combat.

MissBizz wrote: »

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

daemonios wrote: »

Targeting is all but FUBAR in this game. Just today I submitted a bug report because when a lootable corpse is on the ground, the targeting system selects it instead of a live mob even though the reticle is not pointing at the corpse. You will also hit a snake, frog, spider or mouse 100% of the time if it happens to come anywhere near an enemy. Among other issues...

Yeah, and it seems the larger the creature, the smaller the hitbox, for some reason.

Quite irritating when you can't seem to hit the spider the size of a minivan or the 20 ft tall armored troll in front of you, yet your projectile will happily exit sideways instead of at the enemy right in front of you.

jkemmery wrote: »

MOB in MMO stands for "Monster, Man or Beast" basically any NPC. It's one of those odd MMO terms that is kind of counterintuitive, as the term stands for a group in normal English, but can apply to an individual in the MMO/RPG world.

I'll be darned. I did not know that. (And I've been gamin a long time.) Just always assumed it referred to the fact that enemies usually came in groups or Mobs, and a single, by default got referred to as a mob.

MissBizz wrote: »

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Like MissBizz says, go into settings, camera, and adjust your reticle (Horitonal/Vertical offsets) until the game's hitzone matches up with your hit zone. (Where you feel like your hits should be connecting.)

Beyond that, distance approximation is odd, to say the least.

Melee distance reach is much closer than it appears. You'll find this out the first time a bear bites you from what seems like 10 feet away.

if YOU

If I what? ( @Missbizz , are you swearing at me nicely?)

EDIT: Oh... Now I feel bad for getting hopes up. No idea why they don't have this in the settings console side. It really does make a big improvement in the feel of combat.

I think I started a sentence.. Then quoted again.. Lmao. Not even sure why that is there..

@MissBizz , you figured maybe you were politely telling me to "If off..."