The controls were fine, but a lot of people got filtered by the combat because they never trained, which is optional. If you ever play the game make sure you take up the training in Rattay. It teaches you everything and gives you new moves. It almost makes the game too easy.
Oh so its the same type of people who got mad at Morrowind because they tried to use a weapon they had no skill in and couldnt hit anything. Got it. Thank you.
Don't forget that you even get a free perk for extra damage towards Cumans once you've killed enough of them that also makes some of them run away. Total Cuman Death.
I was never able to get most of the combo moves to work properly, even after training up a bunch. The game was still playable without them, though.
Yeah, the combos are extremely situational since you need to connect with every hit before they trigger and your enemy doing a single dodge or perfect block will end your chain, and even then only a few are capable of hurting someone in heavy armor, which is exactly the sort of foe you should be using combos against. The Scarmaker will only work against someone with a completely unprotected face, False Edge bonks someone on top of the head like something out of the Three Stooges so if they've got a helmet of any sort its useless, Zorn Ort and a few others just stab someone right in the chest, their best protected area, Blunt Strike is just a punch in the face with as little damage as you'd expect...
I played on PC, using a controller for the most part; there's nothing complicated about the controls. You use the right stick/mouse to choose the direction you swing the sword, and you need to choose different directions in succession to do combos. LB blocks but also does a riposte if you time it right that auto-wins fights. That's about it.
Probably heard the sound of those canceled pre-orders really, really well.
I rescind what I said before. Added back to wishlist.
