Getting hit at beginning of fights
Aside from the combat system in general (which I think is horribly clunky and frustrating), my biggest gripe with this game has to be how unfair the beginnings of fights can be. the way it always seems to go is that you have a conversation, exit the conversation, geralt tries to draw his sword while the enemy already has theirs drawn, and then geralt gets hit at least once before I can dodge or move. It seems to be completely random chance whether I can get away before getting hit at the beginning of any fight after dialogue. This was apparent in the Letho fight, annoying in the fight with Thorak, and insanely unbalanced in the draug fight. I load the game, often with the draug swinging his sword as the game finishes loading and immediately lose anywhere from 25-75% of my health. These scripted fights, on average, require reloading anywhere from 5 to 20 times.
Did they even have play testers for these? I don't have words to describe how frustrating these fights are.
Aside from the combat system in general (which I think is horribly clunky and frustrating), my biggest gripe with this game has to be how unfair the beginnings of fights can be. the way it always seems to go is that you have a conversation, exit the conversation, geralt tries to draw his sword while the enemy already has theirs drawn, and then geralt gets hit at least once before I can dodge or move. It seems to be completely random chance whether I can get away before getting hit at the beginning of any fight after dialogue. This was apparent in the Letho fight, annoying in the fight with Thorak, and insanely unbalanced in the draug fight. I load the game, often with the draug swinging his sword as the game finishes loading and immediately lose anywhere from 25-75% of my health. These scripted fights, on average, require reloading anywhere from 5 to 20 times.
Did they even have play testers for these? I don't have words to describe how frustrating these fights are.