Forced boxing - GET RID OF IT!

[foxyrick]

Forced boxing - GET RID OF IT!

I can't do the boxing with the key layout I use - Witcher 3 seems incompatible with my Mouse macros to do the dodging and doing it from the keyboard with the layout I use does not work for me. By the time I've tried to dodge, it's too late.

So, being forced into a deadly boxing match after the card game (high stakes quest I think it's called) is f'ing ridiculous! Since when would geralt allow someone to kill him without drawing a weapon?

I've just taken a break having spent nearly two full hours trying to beat that half elf. Still haven't done it. I get hit, spend several seconds reeling from the blow, while taking more, and by the time I can move again, I still can't dodge quickly enough and just get wiped out.

The control method of press a key, then press another key to dodge really sucks! Seriously CDPR - I've tried not to complain about the stupid controls in this game, not to mention random crashes, bugged quests, stupid inventory layout etc, because I love the game, but this has annoyed me so much now that if I said what I really want to, I'd be banned from the forum.

Right, now I've ranted, I'm going back to this seemingly almost impossible (for me) quest.

CDPR, seriously, if you are going to use such stupid things as key sequences for movements, then at least make the game work with macros and allow proper key and mouse rebinding without resorting to third-party software...

...and GET RID OF ENFORCED BOXING for a character who would just pull a sword and use it!

Arrgh!!!

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Not to mention losing view completely when knocked into a corner, having people just standing in the middle, and when does the other guy get to reel unresponsively while I kock him about from *my* (few) hits on him?

Seriously, I'm so mad right now I could spit!

 

[NicodemusTNT]

While I don't disagree, you can make it fun. Dodging doesn't work. Gotta counter his attacks, get one or two blows in, retreat, then repeat.

 

[lwp]

Counterattacking works fine. But OP I agree that forced fistfights are a bore, and the fact that you die in most of the encounters when you lose a fight against some random peasant mob is pretty stupid.

 

[frozenkex]

sounds like a case of "its the player, not the game". I play on keyboard just fine and beaten every fistfight on death march.

 

[Smurfin]

The counterattacking's timing is already forgiving enough to make it easier to execute. The key factor in fistfighting is don't rush and be patient, keep your distance and take your time to position yourself better. You can't expect to beat your opponent by rushing it because you have to create an opening before you can deal damage.

The more you rush, angry and make your blood boiled the more likely you'll make mistake lol.

 

[foxyrick]

sounds like a case of "its the player, not the game". I play on keyboard just fine and beaten every fistfight on death march.

I don't disagree - I hate the fistfighting though with the key layout I use. In W2 I would rearrange the key layout just for a boxing match, and then put it back. Decided not to bother this time and just avoided all but the enforced boxing (and a few of those I could use igni in!).

Anyway, half an hour later I had bested the Elven git using counterattacking.

Just needed to vent a little, so I did

Still love this game so much that it outweighs the glitches a hundred times.