Training with Tomcat

[CptWesker07]

Sword fighting mechanics in this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken and stupid, Been trying to train with Tomcat all damn day and can't get passed it. I get how it works but it just doesn't work. when he tells me to slash up, down and left that doesn't work. Is there a fix or a patch coming for this? I've seen some videos on this and other people are complaining about this issue

[Hangry Henrys]

You have to slash really fast btw
Up then right then left

[RocketLLama]

The biggest tip I can give for that combo specifically: do NOT move your mouse after the second hit. What he says earlier about 'natural combos' applies here as well. The third swing will automatically be from the left if the second swing is from the right. Just swing up, move and swing right, and without moving click the third attack it should automatically go left. Attempting to move manually for that combo breaks it almost every time for me.

[Gustuv Wynd]

The issue is the game doesn't tell you how to do this until after you actually do it.

Start with the up attack...

Here is the tricky part. After you do the up attack the game automatically moves your sword to the left. So you have to get it over to the right. I found it easier to click and hold, and then move my mouse to the right in a feint style movement, but even just normal works.

After attacking for the right, you will automatically move to the left again...so after carefuilly clicking through the first two attacks, at this point just spam the attack button and you should do it.

After ytou do it the game litterally shows an info page basically saying this.


I don't think I have ever used this combo in real combat. There are easier combos to land that are just as effective.

[ProfessorSpanky]

I have just come in here to say the same - I passed the 'natural combo' test; the next is the slash across the belly one - on my screen when you are supposed to slash upward, it gives me a right hand red marker NOT an upward one; then the guy tells me 'no you've got it wrong',I read you had to be fast so then I go fast and I still get no upward marker, I have not had any 'upward slash' marker yet and then the guy says' why don't you follow through or why did you stop'.
I thought that the red markers were indicative of where you have to hit??? Henry stops or hits from some other direction regardless of what you are doing with the mouse.
I've pretty much given up, I'd rather train with Captain Bernard frankly.
And before everyone carries on about it being a skill issue - of course it is, that's why the dude is teaching Henry.
Some helpful tips would be great - am I not aiming for the red markers on the star shape??
Bring back Captain Bernard!!!

[Hangry Henrys]

Originally posted by ProfessorSpanky:

I have just come in here to say the same - I passed the 'natural combo' test; the next is the slash across the belly one - on my screen when you are supposed to slash upward, it gives me a right hand red marker NOT an upward one; then the guy tells me 'no you've got it wrong',I read you had to be fast so then I go fast and I still get no upward marker, I have not had any 'upward slash' marker yet and then the guy says' why don't you follow through or why did you stop'.
I thought that the red markers were indicative of where you have to hit??? Henry stops or hits from some other direction regardless of what you are doing with the mouse.
I've pretty much given up, I'd rather train with Captain Bernard frankly.
And before everyone carries on about it being a skill issue - of course it is, that's why the dude is teaching Henry.
Some helpful tips would be great - am I not aiming for the red markers on the star shape??
Bring back Captain Bernard!!!

The red marker is where you will hit ... you can move it with the mouse

[makbthemf]

The mechanic is ok, tutorial is broken - here's a normal one - https://youtu.be/G5ht4aCDePw?si=S-iCJuzwcL4zRZ-8

[ScareCrow]

A wise man once said: Git gud! LOL just keep practicing it will get a ton easier after some skill increase

[Patpat]

Combat makes a ton of sense, git gud indeed

[Razamanaz]

Combat is not so hard once you get used to it. Getting used to it is the hard part. I had to spend untold hours of practice fighting with Tomcat to just be OK, but not great.

[Swans]

I got past Tomcat by just spamming every button and eventually I must have spammed the right sequence, but I have no clue what it was, it certainly was not what he was telling me to do. So it's not just horrible combat, it's horridly communicated with it.

Combat overall just seems to be a kind of very cumbersome QT event mini-game, that descends into a slog-fest.

Maybe that's how combat was back then, but it's incredibly dreary, which is surprising as the rest of the game is highly compelling and 'not-put-downable', but I avoid combat like the plague.

[ScareCrow]

Originally posted by Swans:

I got past Tomcat by just spamming every button and eventually I must have spammed the right sequence, but I have no clue what it was, it certainly was not what he was telling me to do. So it's not just horrible combat, it's horridly communicated with it.

Combat overall just seems to be a kind of very cumbersome QT event mini-game, that descends into a slog-fest.

Maybe that's how combat was back then, but it's incredibly dreary, which is surprising as the rest of the game is highly compelling and 'not-put-downable', but I avoid combat like the plague.

I cant get enough combat now, and silver is rolling in aswell dont know what to do with it all LOL

[Staquix]

I kept clicking at the end of each strike and failing. I figured out you have to click ahead as quickly as you can. Allowing the animation to complete then clicking is to slow.

[Hellsteeth30]

Once one animation is going press the direction and press the button for the next.

It's a kind of flow. On real opponents it's best to combo after they've tired themselves out a bit or to finish if they're wounded.

[CptWesker07]

I tried again and got fed up so I killed Tomcat out of spite and moved on. Also threw away my sword and switching to a bow.

[2High2tell]

I played one and got stuck here a bit. As the first post said you have to be fast. I dont know what to tell you. Once you got it, you got it, you can press the next key as soon as you hit the first one so speed is the correct path here.