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Combat in the game - general discussion
Thankyou, Coelocanth. Yeah, you're right. Once an enemy is onto me, even running away as fast as I can counts as "in combat" :)I restarted on Medium. Love the game. For all its faults (and let's face it - what game doesn't have faults?) it's very enjoyable, and the plotline is complex and... -
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hammer + nailhead = BANG! 8)Yup, I tried again, on easy this time. It was OK until I faced an axe-dude. Then G would hit once, the cursor went purple, and he'd do nothing at all, no matter how long I waited. So I changed to X (strong) for fighting armoured enemies (ignoring the fact that these... -
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K, thanks, I'll give it a try, In the meantime perhaps it would help if someone could explain this - quoted verbatim from the manual - "group steel": The 1st attack consists of 2 blows - how does this relate to the "complete sequence" of 3 attacks? Is the First attack actually 3 x "First... -
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TVM for the quick replies, guys. cos as you can imagine I'm very keen to actually start this game.Playing on medium.Well that's what i figured - the first mouse click starts an attack on whichever NPC has the red circle around his feet, yeah?. But after that Geralt doesn't seem to do much - just... -
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OK, I'm at the very beginning - got to go and open a gate, and there's all the bandits to get through.This combat system is a showstopper. The gametip comes up "do not click until you see the flaming sword icon". So I wait, and wait and wait, while Geralt is slowly hacked to death. There is no...