how do you control the battle system in ff12?

Question

PLZ HELP ME I'M SOOOOOOOOOOOO LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

There is a battle tutorial in the beginning, when your character is Reks, but Basically:

When all three of your party are visible, you can enter Battle Phase at any time. When you are just walking along, your weapons are sheathed, that means there are no enemies around you.

Should you approach an enemy, your character will draw his/her weapon, at this time you HAVE to hit "X", or "Square". this opens the Battle Menu. you then choose your attack (to select an option push "X", square wont select anything) you now have five choices:

Attack: this merely attacks any enemy of your choosing with your equipped weapon

Magiks and Technicks: Here you can cast your choice of magiks (this is how they spell it):
White Magik: heal you and your party members and cancel harmful effects
Black Magik: cause elemental damage to foes in range (singular or grouped)
Time Magick: Haste, Slow, Stop... etc.
Green Magik: Status effecting magik, (how your character interacts with the environment.
Arcane Magik: Advanced magik both status and harmful
Technicks: Steal, Poach, Gil Toss... etc.

Mist: This option gives you two choices
Summon: you can summon a Monster (Espers, as they're called, are like GF's) they take the place of your comrades leaving only the Esper and the caster that called it.
Quickenning: This is basically your Limit Break, but instead of your HP being low to use it, your MP has to be full to use it.

Gambits: this is to whether you want your Gambits enabled or disabled. (you gain access to Gambits after you leave with Peneloe)

Items: just like every other FF, items can help your party or hurt your foes.

Once you've made your choice as to what attack to you want to perform, you must now Wait 'til the bar next to your character's name is full and the action your taking is pulsing above that bar. now in order for your character to follow through with that action your character must be within range to Attack, Cast, or Throw.

You'll notice those weird lines, both red and blue, that is a line letting you know that either you're being targeted (red) or you're targeting someone (blue) also, if your name is highlighted in red that means you're being targeted for an action, be it harmful or helpful, it does not specify.

Now remember that your character has to be in range to attack, SO DOES YOUR FOE. if you want to block a physical attack from your foe, position yourself behind something like a rock, with an object blocking their physical attacks you can cast magik safely. also, if you fight a fast attacker, run around, make him chase you, this allows your action bar to fill, and your MP a chance to refill.

if you dont want to fight or if you want to run away, hold R2 and start running, this will sheath your weapon and your character will do nothing to defend it self, but run. your foe will give chase, but only after so long,



If this doesn't help, you should start a brand new game and replay the tutorials when your character is Reks. you don't learn Gambits or Summoning till affter you're Vaan.

Answer 2

uh wow. they have a huge tutorial in-game on this. you hit X, it brings up a little menu in the bottom left. you can choose something called Attack i believe, and then select the target.

OR for the easy, fool-proof "i dont know what im doing yet insist on playing this game and am going to cry throughout all 100 hours of it" method. go into the menu (triangle) and set up something called Gambits. set your party leaders to "Foe:Lowest HP" yields "Attack". and then everyone elses to "FoeLParty Leaders Target" yields "Attack". youll catch on eventually.