parrying Spears is so inconsistent

[H u n k]

I've noticed this with higher level enemies. they prepare to attack and parrying fails. the blue flash appears, parrying fails a lot of times. you wait for the spear to physically reach you and there's a 50/50 chance you fail or you get rewarded with a perfect parry. at times it just feels like Jin ignores an incoming spear attack.

I believe there's a reason you unlock a technique for automatically parrying spear attacks in the WInd Stance. it seems to me the devs are somewhat aware how unnecessarily difficult parrying them is at times.

[LordDeimosIV]

I have to agree. It was kind of fine in Act II but I'm in Act III on hard difficulty and parrying the spear dudes is beyond annoying. I just attack to get the auto parry most of the time now.

[H u n k]

Publicado originalmente por LordDeimosIV:

I just attack to get the auto parry most of the time now.

with auto parry I was referring to the technique in the Wind Stance, I never activated it because I want to parry attacks myself but seeing how buggy it is I'm tempted to to do it sometimes.

[LordDeimosIV]

Publicado originalmente por H u n k:

Publicado originalmente por LordDeimosIV:

I just attack to get the auto parry most of the time now.

with auto parry I was referring to the technique in the Wind Stance, I never activated it because I want to parry attacks myself but seeing how buggy it is I'm tempted to to do it sometimes.

Yep that's the one I'm referring too. It seemed a bit OP when I read the description but I'm glad I have it now.

[Alexoferith]

I don't think that it is buggy. The window for perfect parrying the spear attack changed as the enemy's rank goes up. So, it is much easier to perfect parry those soldiers' spear attack. But for the fully armour big dude (captain and generals), and of course, the Oni soldiers (in Legend mode), it is much harder to parry their spear attacks. The window is much much smaller.
The other trick the devs. use is the distance. Notice that for the soldiers, they are rather close to you. But for the captains and generals, and the Oni soldiers, they start their thrust (or rather, the blue light appear) much earlier. So, do you tap on the parry button earlier
(moment after the blue light appear) or before the tip of the spear arrives at your body. I tried both but failed. So, I tend to try perfect dodge their thrust attacks. I only attempt to perfect parry thrust attacks by the low ranking soldiers.
I arrive at this conclusion because I have found that it is easier to perfect parry captains' and general's sword attack.

[H u n k]

Publicado originalmente por Alexoferith:

I don't think that it is buggy. The window for perfect parrying the spear attack changed as the enemy's rank goes up. So, it is much easier to perfect parry those soldiers' spear attack. But for the fully armour big dude (captain and generals), and of course, the Oni soldiers (in Legend mode), it is much harder to parry their spear attacks. The window is much much smaller.
The other trick the devs. use is the distance. Notice that for the soldiers, they are rather close to you. But for the captains and generals, and the Oni soldiers, they start their thrust (or rather, the blue light appear) much earlier. So, do you tap on the parry button earlier
(moment after the blue light appear) or before the tip of the spear arrives at your body. I tried both but failed. So, I tend to try perfect dodge their thrust attacks. I only attempt to perfect parry thrust attacks by the low ranking soldiers.
I arrive at this conclusion because I have found that it is easier to perfect parry captains' and general's sword attack.

it's annoying how small the window is. I try to fight them the right way by having patience and parry the the right moment but I get poked to death 7/10 times. I think the devs overdid it with the spear.

[Hopper-King]

they probably were trying to force the utility of the anti-spear form, even though it's already the most op, with it's overly exploitable kick-into-executions. usually could get 2 charges of ghost form in the endgame battles just off those. or the monkey armor, which has the best non-anti-spear chance to perfect parry a spear. for me, i always roll from spears, 45 degrees to their side, and then kick them into an execution.

[WolfishMeat7]

on lethal difficulty you can feel all of the pain from the buggy fighting system, bc it is buggy and janky and it stays the same all the way till the end

[Cloud]

there is a posture strong for everything, i really recommend to take advantage of that
for spear the posture ends up auto parrying it helps a lot

[Dr. Professor Commander]

Publicado originalmente por LordDeimosIV:

I just attack to get the auto parry most of the time now.

This was the only way I managed to beat the final boss