Beginner tips for combat?

[macmac]

Hey guys,

I just got the game but I'm kinda confused about the combat's mechanics.

So I put some magic/skills into the RB+RT slots but all it does is show an area when I fight? Other than that it doesn't do anything?

Also, can I just spam quick and power attack or is there some kind of limit?

Thanks in advance

[ShinkuTear]

Magic, you press and hold the button, and on release it should generate the attack, hitting whatever enemies were in range.

Skills, you press the button and it just goes, and some are non-obvious value at first, but might work well in certain situations. I personally like having a Counter as one of my skills. When you have skills assigned and fight battles, the game accumulates 'score' for those skills. Get enough score on the pre-requisite skills, and you unlock new skills.

Normal attacks are your bread and butter, since specials burn the entire meter that normals charge up. Many enemies can be put into an infinite combo with good timing of the weaker/faster normal swing, but that isn't always an option, and isn't always fun, so using the variety of other attacks comes into play.

There are more attacks than just the two basic ones by the way. I don't remember all the inputs, but one of them is the classic Hadoken input, a quarter circle direction input (rolling from Down to whichever Side) followed by your attack.

[macmac]

Originally posted by ShinkuTear:

Magic, you press and hold the button, and on release it should generate the attack, hitting whatever enemies were in range.

Skills, you press the button and it just goes, and some are non-obvious value at first, but might work well in certain situations. I personally like having a Counter as one of my skills. When you have skills assigned and fight battles, the game accumulates 'score' for those skills. Get enough score on the pre-requisite skills, and you unlock new skills.

Normal attacks are your bread and butter, since specials burn the entire meter that normals charge up. Many enemies can be put into an infinite combo with good timing of the weaker/faster normal swing, but that isn't always an option, and isn't always fun, so using the variety of other attacks comes into play.

There are more attacks than just the two basic ones by the way. I don't remember all the inputs, but one of them is the classic Hadoken input, a quarter circle direction input (rolling from Down to whichever Side) followed by your attack.

Thanks for the effort!

[Minus1]

Following up with some clarification.

For magic, you hold the button until the screen changes (usually a darkening of the screen) and the spell name appears. That is the moment the spell is ready at minimum. Continuing to hold will expand the range of the spell, as shown by the indicator.
Regular skills you assign to your other two buttons (that aren't light and strong attacks) are just as Mac says. Some appear to do nothing with just a button press, but some of them require an additional input, either the same button or an attack, to complete them. Try Jump and press attack, for example.
For regular attacks, it's an easy thing to do a full light combo and finish with a strong before you enter a recovery phase. However! If you wanna get a bit technical, you can attempt that infinite light attack chain that Mac describes. For me specifically, it was a mix of those well-timed button presses and those presses must also be "taps" to succeed. I also have a few more command inputs to add for you to enjoy.
2x forward
Back, Forward
Down, Up
All of these followed by a Strong attack.

Cheers, homie.

[ruppe27]

Combat is absolute garbage in this game, just press some buttons and continue the game, the fun part of the game is the stories and the coziness of everything.
The combat is something you have to deal with to get to the good parts lol.