Switching Party Members

[Bambi]

This REALLY fucks me off. All I wanna do is switch out basch for Balthier because he is ranged and Im fighting fucking Big Bird or some shit. BUT IT WON'T LET ME. I HATE how you can't just switch someone out straight away, I think it's because he may be on the recieving end of some action, which is bollocks, because one bird has already been taken out AND STILL, IT KEEPS MAKING THAT ''Pfffft'' noise when I try to sod him off

JUST LET ME CHANGE HIM, HE IS USELESS IN THIS FIGHT!

This happens to me quite alot in case you hadn't noticed and it's REALLY beginning to test my patience

It's expecially annoying if Im trying to switch someone out who is about to conk out BUT THEY DIE BEFORE IT LETS ME. I wanted to change them so that wouldn't HAPPEN

GRRRR

 

[littleslyferret]

Yeah, if they're being targetted you can't switch them out. I find it kind of logical, I mean if you were to scurry away as a fiend was about to pounce, it'd probably chase you down; it has annoyed me though. There's a way to trick it, I think, but I can't remember. I just have someone quickly toss a potion or something, or get someone with the pheasant netsuke to revive them.

What're you fighting?

 

[DLFlux]

If you need to change desperately, have someone else use Decoy, and just make sure they one you want to change isn't targetted by one of your own characters (cura for example)

 

[Bambi]

It'l ne damn Cura, I can guarantee it >_>

It drives me insane, I find myself bashing the buttons in frustration calling whoever won't switch at the time an effing wanker <_<

 

[DLFlux]

lol, if it's your own gambits, just press R2 so the fleeing thing comes up, then the spell will be cancelled. Then providing the guy you want to switch isn't targetted by the enemy, you can switch.

 

[Marshy]

Oh ya i had this happen to me also. At some points it got so bad the only way i could change my guy out was when he died -.- They should have had it so you could change your characters at any point and then the character thats switched in could get attacked.

 

[Busta]

If your character is in the middle of performing an action, then you cannot take him/her out. That pissed me off too, especially in battles against Omega Mark XII and later bosses in the game.

I mean I loved the Gambit system in this game where your characters automatically reacted how you set it up, but it made for less battle control for you as they just acted like robots, so it was hard to get them to stop following commands so you can take one out to replace them.

 

[littleslyferret]

How was it hard? You just had to manually give them a different command if you wanted them to do something else. You could also re-equip them mid-battle to rest their charge time.