Controls don't work properly. Can't attack with weapon. Died during tutorial

[stepanot]

Anyone know how to attack? It says M2 is to attack. I tried pressing all mouse buttons, I tried pressing M and 2 on the keyboard. Nothing works.

[76561199273953362]

You need to 'swing the weapon' with mouse and click if I remember.

M2 is for Mouse Button 2. You should assign the keys to what works best for you.

In controls settings in game there is also a Mouse controls section button at the bottom of screen, or it's called Advanced if you use unity.

As well if you haven't done so download and install Daggerfall Unity so you can Click To Hit, have better graphics, get some good mods.

[stepanot]

Thank you. I was able to hit by dragging the mouse.

[76561199273953362]

Daggerfall weapon swings, a basic explanation of swing types from UESP:


Diagonal Slashes = Increased Damage - Moderately More Difficult to Strike

Horizontal Slashes = Base Damage - Base Accuracy

Vertical Chops = Highly Increased Damage - Extremely More Difficult to Strike

Thrust Forward = Lowered Damage - Increased Accuracy


So basically, go for Thrusts if you're having trouble landing hits.

[Defiant Dan]

I would recommend you install the Unity Version, it has so much Quality of Life and Graphics improvements.
The Manual looks complicated, but its super easy and you got it setup in 2 Minutes. Just copy 1:1 whats on the Screenshots
https://www.dfworkshop.net/

[misterbill5]

Yes and "click to hit" is much easier to hit with than the unmodded "swing to hit"--at least for me...

[Space is the Place]

Unity, install it like Dan said.

Daggerfall it´s a great game and now Steam version is up to the last official patched version, but still it´s an old game and it has some broken stuff still to this day.

Unity fixes all those problems and gives you a pretty good mod manager plus it´s own options to modernize the game, among them that attacking is done by simply clicking, removing the awkard "click and drag".