How bad is the combat?

[Jade]

game looks awesome but the combat system

[Ogami]

Its... serviceable. Its very flashy and chaotic and not very deep.
Basically just shooting nonstop and waiting for cooldowns to trigger abilities.
I was not a big fan to be honest but the game has very elaborate custom difficulty settings so you can just tune it to your personal liking.
It did not distract from the overall great game for me.

But dont buy this game for the action, buy it for the overall great graphics, music, characters and surprisingly well told story.

[ComputerX]

Custom elaborate difficulty settings? I set mine to the absolute minimum (very easy and further reduced manually) yet I still keep dying on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid encounters

[barzai]

Originally posted by ComputerX:

Custom elaborate difficulty settings? I set mine to the absolute minimum (very easy and further reduced manually) yet I still keep dying on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid encounters

Yep. What he said.

[Peanutman]

Originally posted by Jade:

game looks awesome but the combat system:bulbno:

The combat itself is not bad, but the enemies are what makes it bad. They just spawn in, you shoot them based on their weaknesses, and they die. It's a very dated approach to combat in 2021. You should get it even if you think the combat is bad because the dialogue and story is quite good and takes up a large chunk of the game. There are probably only 3 chapters in the game that are largely combat(funnily enough, those were my least favorite missions) and the rest are around 60-70% story/dialogue and 40-30% combat.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by ComputerX:

Custom elaborate difficulty settings? I set mine to the absolute minimum (very easy and further reduced manually) yet I still keep dying on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid encounters

I did set most stuff to the easiest setting too and did not die once in the entire game.
Well except by falling off stuff. On the easiest settings its REALLY easy.

[rocschlk]

bad

[Troubletcat]

Originally posted by ComputerX:

Custom elaborate difficulty settings? I set mine to the absolute minimum (very easy and further reduced manually) yet I still keep dying on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid encounters

lol, how? i've barely died on hard, pretty much never have to use the team ultimate or whatever.

To answer OP - the combat is mediocre. Quite simplistic and very easy even on the highest difficulty, meaning you don't really need to engage with what limited depth there is in terms of ability synergies and stuff. It's not AWFUL, certainly not bad enough to ruin the game, and there are a handful of encounters that I found quite fun and tense. But the main draw of this game is in the story, visuals, and characters.

[A Dirty Whiterose Shipper]

So far on medium its been pretty fun.

[How I Met Your Mother]

What does the low damage range mean?

[How I Met Your Mother]

My goodness, I am so depressed, I don't understand what does 'low damage range' mean, is there a shooting range to avoid it or sth?

[barzai]

Originally posted by Lakers Top Slam Dunker:

What does the low damage range mean?

It's just a visual indicator of the range gate. Close, high damage; far, low damage.

Every shooter has the mechanic, just in this game they make it explicit.

And, no, I've no idea what the actual crossover point is. I'm generally too busy spamming the combat roll button to pay much attention to that level of fine detail.

[Invader Shock]

Its really not as bad as people say it is. Most people just wanted the abillity to switch between the diffrent guardians which isnt the case.

[PrinceXavieR™]

easily the worst part of the game, hands down along with its brain dead puzzles

[TheReelReese]

I didn’t realize people thought it was bad. But then again, I stay out of online games discussions because I know people complain about any little thing.

[Roc4me]

I hate it. It’s very frustrating. I hesitate to proceed because I know another screwed up, anger inducing fight is going to happen. It’s not fun at all. The combat ruins the game so much I won’t recommend it to anyone, not even on sale.