witcher 3 combat is bad

© Valve Corporation. Before we go into the Witcher 3 specifically, it's worth briefly going over the difficulties that melee combat poses when recreated in a game.

Counterstriking is way too easy and too strong, and enemies don't take advantage of your weak moments or don't play aggressively enough when they flank you.Scaling is ridiculous (separate issue from problematic synergy), and removes any need to utilize Geralt's tools or vary up your playstyle. If you want to read the Gamespot praise review or the 12 objective reviews we have them too. It's true that on easier difficulties you can bypass a lot of this, and casually hack your way through the combat. Over the course of the series, CD Projekt have experimented with different systems, and gradually built toward an engaging and authentically based fighting style.

There is definitely a learning curve to the combat. I agree with what someone said earlier about how it is only as shallow or in depth as you make it. But having a good combat system is irrelevant when you have no good encounter designs to show it off.

Because people think everything needs to be Dark Souls. In addition, no matter how good a swordsman you are, fighting a coordinated group of opponents will almost certainly end up with you dead. Witcher 3 combat reputation is more of a buzzword at this point and easily can tell the difference between ignorant or smart critic based on their view of the combat. Lol everywhere I see people saying because of bloodborne they can't play witcher haha. But the encounters within the game are so good, that you have to push the system to its fullest.If Witcher 3 had encounters that were designed better, and people had to utilize Geralt's toolkit more strategically, and push the system to its fullest people wouldn't complain so much.But by the time I'm in Velen 90% of the fights for the rest of the game are spamming 1-2 buttons and winning easily, even on Death March.Wow this is a very good review of the combat system. Is it because all of you played Bloodborne that you find the combat so terrible?And are you all using lock on, cuz if you are please don't.As far as I know, you can't jump once Geralt goes into his combat stance, which really annoyed me when I would get stuck on obstacles that could easily be jumped over otherwise and resulted in me getting killed.Another thing I disliked about the combat was how Geralt automatically goes into his combat stance once enemies are nearby. A lot of people seem to compare it to the souls series/bloodborne which really makes no sense because the mechanics are totally different.

Not sure what it's like with a keyboard and mouse, but I use a controller.

But importantly, all of these have varying effects on different enemy types. HoS was better but still not great in this respect. It isn't like a big club he uses to bludgeon opponents with, as you might see in Skyrim or a lot of JRPGs.

Witcher 3 combat is good imo, it does its job good as an open world rpg game. The actual combat itself is good. If you want to turn on a dime why don't you turn on the "alternative movement" setting in the options menu?

Just so you know, I think the combat has way more depth in Witcher 3 than in either Skyrim or Fable, but that isn't always a good thing. I am not really sure what the issue is with your first point. User Info: Grizlucks. It takes several hours to get used to it and even more to get good at it.

Seems like 50% of the time I try to roll he doesn't roll, or it's delayed.The combat tempts you into button mashing on lower difficulties and i believe that those people tend to not like the combat very muchI don't get it either. They've consulted with experts who have studied Western martial arts extensively in order to better grasp how swords and sword-fighting work, and rebuilt the combat each time in a continuing process to figure out the best way to portray swordplay in-game.To answer the obvious question this raises, no, The Witcher 3 does not provide a realistic representation of swordfighting. Why everyone is wrong about the Witcher 3's combat The Witcher 3 is an excellent RPG, but its combat system has come under fire from many …

Dodging is satisfying and easy, and the finishing moves are seamless. I think the Combat System is okay, never had any issues with it really.

It's more like an extension of his arm, easy to hold, to adjust, and to strike with. I hardly ever had any of these problems with the witcher 3. pretty much every time I got hit was because my reaction time was slow, or I was standing in the wrong place.Usually when I see people trying to showcase how bad the combat is, it's them spamming fast attack against an enemy with a shield up then channeling their inner DSP with WOOOOOOW.Exactly. Good to hear. From a developer perspective, sword-fighting is one of the hardest things to represent virtually. Not simply in its grislier moments, but in how Geralt moves lightly on his feet and wields his blade with such ease. New York, Witcher 3 Builds. That's exactly what it does.Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

I think TW3 got inspired by Batman Arkham series, especially when Geralt fighting against human. Yeah I don't get the complaints either. Combat is secondary in traditional RPGs, but in an action RPG like Witcher 3, it is very important. It's is an inherently chaotic, analogue action, where every strike, every clash of blades, can happen at a different speed or a different angle.

© You can basically walk up to a max level golem and start a fight with him.

i actually tried to "spice it up" by install a mod called "Witcher 3 - Enhanced Edition", but it was still to easy/bland. When you figuered out how the combat works you can kill him with ease, it just becomes a patience test.