Is combat bad or is it just me?

[Roy]

I'm having trouble enjoying combat.

It's just a horde of spamming warboys slamming you.
It feels more like i'm playing ♥♥♥♥ing guitar hero with the parry button than that i'm fighting, because animations can't even finish while i'm smashing buttons at the speed of light to react to enemies in time, it's ridiculous.
Anyone else feel like this? The combat system is pretty solid but the amount of enemies that try to destroy you at the same time is ridiculous.
Also 40% of the time i don't see an enemy attack because my ♥♥♥♥ing camera zooms in on the parry spamming..

Also in car to car combat i can't do jack ♥♥♥♥.
Sure i can ram but only if i have great momentum and i have a nice ram lined up i can do about 70% damage at most, while enemy vehicles seem to be in massively high numbers and have the exact same damage and health as mine does. I know i have to upgrade my car but how the ♥♥♥♥ do i get to that part if everything trying to kill me is the population of china?

-Edit-
I'm retrying and retrying but this is just ♥♥♥♥ing unplayable, how could this get through the testing? There is SO MUCH PARRY SPAM, there's not even a second of oppurtunity to actually ♥♥♥♥ing punch.
Also be ready to get surrounded by 20 guys and constantly have guys jumping in the screen with their fist going for your face with no time to react because of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera, because that's how you will die a lot.

Also what hte ♥♥♥♥ is the deal with the guy cheering his people up?
How the hell is this even a game mechanic if there's no ♥♥♥♥ing way to either take everyone out within the timer (fills up in like 5-10 seconds and enemies become super buffed and multiplied), or to shoot him in the face with a shotgun (WHICH you'll most likely not have loaded because the game is very happy to have max fire his shotgun randomly if you pressed the fire button once too many while exiting the menu).

[Lostedge]

The combat is too easy else it was pretty enjoyable. It only gets difficult with mutiple shield bearers and enemies that spam unblockable attacks.

[Pumpkin_Masher]

If you get fully surrounded just roll out of the crowd. Run away a bit and you can usually take them out as they run at you in single file.

[UncivilS3rvant]

It's called a challenge.

[Pumpkin_Masher]

I hate that "pull shotgun" and parry are the same button cause occasionally in a fight I see someone that needs parrying and instead Max reaches for his shotgun and gets hit.

[TRIUMPH]

Give it a few (7ish) more hours and fist fighting will become more fun as you find explosives laying around everywhere and you get the abilities that make you feel over powered.

[Roy]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

It's called a challenge.

And i love challenge, challenge is what makes games fun.
I just felt like it was a cheap way of being difficult, putting me up against many folks who can easily tear me to shreds. Challenge is great but it should be somewhat balanced throughout the game imo.

[Roy]

Originally posted by TRIUMPH:

Give it a few (7ish) more hours and fist fighting will become more fun as you find explosives laying around everywhere and you get the abilities that make you feel over powered.

I was kinda hoping someone'd say that, i just feel so underpowered and helpless against almost every fight situation right now.

[UncivilS3rvant]

Originally posted by Roy:

I was kinda hoping someone'd say that, i just feel so underpowered and helpless against almost every fight situation right now.

How many areas are you in?

[Roy]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

Originally posted by Roy:

I was kinda hoping someone'd say that, i just feel so underpowered and helpless against almost every fight situation right now.

How many areas are you in?

I've discovered Chalkies, Fuel Veins and Balefire flatlands.

Needless to say i'm early in the game, but i've restarted an encounter like over 10 times now because many enemies swing at me at once and i have no chance to retaliate (parry doesn't do ♥♥♥♥ if you don't hit them after it).

[Coors]

I've never had the enemies get the buff. He's usually dead before I even enter the base. It's called strategy.

[Kazmor]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

It's called a challenge.

i call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, combat is insanly easy and the only way some human with a brain can die is when u cant see enemy cause of the pretty bad camera...

[Einstine]

Look, I suck at games and I'm doing well at this, so I would say be patient. And, though like Batman in combat fighting, it is not exactly the same. Max is straight up fisticuffs and needs to be smart and get out of the crap some. I even use the environment, like climbing a ladder so it queues them up a bit for me.

Same for driving; started poor now doing better. I'm pulling guys from cars with harpoons then I can take my time to line their cars up and ram them. Of course I still ram them live if it makes sense.

Also, I'm still only in Jeets area. I'm not trying to rush through the story, but gather resources to toughen up, and it seems to be working.

[CurlyBurl]

Hand-to-hand combat and vehicle combat feels really rough and difficult at the start - cars handle like ♥♥♥♥, barely do any damage, take a lot, and so does Max. I was really put off. But trust me, once you upgrade Max and his car, you'll start dealing and taking a lot more damage and it's MUCH more satisfying. I'm no fanboy of this game, but I was very happy with the sense of progression.

[Rabid Urko]

Sort out one area before you move onto another.

[Hudson]

Man someone is playing this game wrong. If you are just charging in and getting surrounded like that...you deserve to get your A$$ kicked. I have no issues at all.