the melee combat & the combo system is god awful and buggy

[Duke H. Vytantis]

never any single issue with directional combat like in M&B games.

for some reason in KC1 and KC2 it's always doing ♥♥♥♥ all with my inputs

i am literally standing here training with Tomcat and the UP - RIGHT - LEFT combo doesn't even "count".. tf?

sometimes the smithing does buggy stuff with directions aswell, once i had a sword be unsmithable cause it was clipping through the anvil gg wp

[Hamster Pirate]

Tomcat was incredibly frustrating and glitchy. The combos never work as you expect and Tomcat gets confused, saying "Why didn't you follow through?" or "Why did you pause?" or "That's the wrong direction?"
The devs should have used this combat arena with Tomcat to completely polish the combat experience. Instead, they vector players to this NPC and leave them with a frustrating experience that doesn't teach combat effectively.

[LArc7thHeaven]

Also if you finished fight training, sometimes he'll still in training mode but with his sword and attack you and you need to LAlt and pick finish training again or he'll chopped you with his sword

[Setheroth]

Originally posted by Hamster Pirate:

Tomcat was incredibly frustrating and glitchy. The combos never work as you expect and Tomcat gets confused, saying "Why didn't you follow through?" or "Why did you pause?" or "That's the wrong direction?"
The devs should have used this combat arena with Tomcat to completely polish the combat experience. Instead, they vector players to this NPC and leave them with a frustrating experience that doesn't teach combat effectively.

i keep having the same issue, in the "up,right,left" i have been trying for over an hour.
is there a fix?

[Kona]

Originally posted by Setheroth:

Originally posted by Hamster Pirate:

Tomcat was incredibly frustrating and glitchy. The combos never work as you expect and Tomcat gets confused, saying "Why didn't you follow through?" or "Why did you pause?" or "That's the wrong direction?"
The devs should have used this combat arena with Tomcat to completely polish the combat experience. Instead, they vector players to this NPC and leave them with a frustrating experience that doesn't teach combat effectively.

i keep having the same issue, in the "up,right,left" i have been trying for over an hour.
is there a fix?

I had this problem, he said I did it wrong once, and then i attacked slightly faster on my last cut and it worked.

[Mouse Rat]

Originally posted by Hamster Pirate:

Tomcat was incredibly frustrating and glitchy. The combos never work as you expect and Tomcat gets confused, saying "Why didn't you follow through?" or "Why did you pause?" or "That's the wrong direction?"
The devs should have used this combat arena with Tomcat to completely polish the combat experience. Instead, they vector players to this NPC and leave them with a frustrating experience that doesn't teach combat effectively.

It could also maybe just maybe mean that you can't pick up on the combat ques and do as he is telling you?

I've done that , had no problems.
Literally just did what he said, no other inputs on my part, not trying to "win" combat with him.. just followed the tutorial.

Until you get to kick his ass, then go crazy.

[Duke H. Vytantis]

What I noticed to all the bugs is that sometimes just quitting the game and rebooting "solves" the glitch/bug.

Except the game itself doesn't lend itself to this as you need to sleep or use a consumable to save. Betting on the Save&Quit future is questionable