Some nice combat footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjGAbAUYBY
* Geralt parries a bear!
* He gets his guard broken, something that had happened with a drowner in a previous video. I don't know what it's about. Is it a heavy attack? I wonder, because the drowner in the other video seemed to brake the guard with a fast attack, something I think I saw Geralt parrying normally before, in the same video. I don't think it's a lack of Vigor - Geralt had plenty in this current video. It might be a probabilistic thing, which I'm hoping it won't. And it might be some kind of poor timing. This stuff is a big deal, because it çdoesn't only stagger Geralt... it damages him.
* There are two or 3 more situations where Geralt uses a finisher mid-battle and becomes invulnerable to enemy attacks. It doesn't look good. I wonder if it has to do with that one-hit-kill percentage ability. I don't think these fancy moves are necessary. You could cause dismemberment in OHK and it would be clear enough, without the awkwardness of misterious invicibility.
And Finally I see a (second) guy who uses heavy attacks after Axii. I was freaking out seeing people using fast attacks in these situations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjGAbAUYBY
* Geralt parries a bear!
* He gets his guard broken, something that had happened with a drowner in a previous video. I don't know what it's about. Is it a heavy attack? I wonder, because the drowner in the other video seemed to brake the guard with a fast attack, something I think I saw Geralt parrying normally before, in the same video. I don't think it's a lack of Vigor - Geralt had plenty in this current video. It might be a probabilistic thing, which I'm hoping it won't. And it might be some kind of poor timing. This stuff is a big deal, because it çdoesn't only stagger Geralt... it damages him.
* There are two or 3 more situations where Geralt uses a finisher mid-battle and becomes invulnerable to enemy attacks. It doesn't look good. I wonder if it has to do with that one-hit-kill percentage ability. I don't think these fancy moves are necessary. You could cause dismemberment in OHK and it would be clear enough, without the awkwardness of misterious invicibility.
And Finally I see a (second) guy who uses heavy attacks after Axii. I was freaking out seeing people using fast attacks in these situations.
I was thinking of this, but...
https://twitter.com/Marcin360/status/596209979230654465
...rereading that, I'm not sure where I got that you need to unlock it. He doesn't say that.
Not convinced.. @Marcin Momot I think he means the half turn..there's so many gameplay videos, I haven't seen single pirouette-doge, only piroutte-strikes. And there is no skills for that, I really doubt Geralt will unlock new combat animations just by leveling up.
Parry or counter attack, not to be confused with block; it was named riposte in TW2.
Hmm.. a lot of the reviewers comment on the combat animations. Geralt gets hit when he clearly shouldn't and some of his hits don't land a blow when they clearly should. Sounds like fine tuning to me. Hope these get fixed sooner than later. Maybe even on the day one patch.
From Gamespot review by Kevin VanOrd:
"The game is also noticeably easier than its predecessor "
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"The game is also noticeably easier than its predecessor "
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Someone else who reviewed the game said it was really hard so I think it depends on the person. I did see people recommending going a difficulty higher than what you would normally do though.
I wonder if the guy who said that was simply used to i frames. :hmm:
Dunno anything about iframe but same reviewers gave the game 10:s and 9:s so I don't even care anymore
Death March I believe it's called.
EDIT: hm I looked it up and I may be wrong, many sources say Dark though I've heard "Death March" somewhere before. :/
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If it's still too hard, go for weaker weapons and armour... no one says you *have* to use the uber-quality loot. You can also start "playing" with your character build, looking for new fun combinations, and avoiding those already made OP by your levelling choices & combinations.