Combat Takedown

["Russian" incel 🇺🇦]

Chapter 2, one of the challenges is to perform a number of "Combat Takedowns"... What is that? Is it simply non-stealth kill?
Because that's precisely what i've been avoiding, i was so far going for 0 Suspicion Raised and 0 Times Detected, playing really stealth style, and so this "combat takedown" would totally spoil my type of game play, no?

And especially that the challenge is to Remain Undetected AND make 10 Combat Takedowns! Is it possible both at once?

p.s.
So how do we do this Combat Takedown anyway? I killed non-stealthily and it didn't register as Combat Takedown, so there must be a specific way to perform this Combat Takedown but there was no prior explanation or tutorial!

[Sishiya]

So...don't do it? You can always do it on another playthrough.

["Russian" incel 🇺🇦]

Originally posted by Sishiya:

So...don't do it? You can always do it on another playthrough.

I can't not do it - i'm obsessive-compulsive that way!

[Sishiya]

Well, my fellow gamer, it seems you need to choose which obsession to give in to! :D

[Lou Sassle]

If you're doing a ghost play through, you are going to have to skip some challenges. You won't be able to do every single challenge without killing at some point.

[yusupov]

ive also wondered what the hell this is. i only found out recently you can view the challenege objectives during a mission (ive missed out on so much gold grr) & on one of the sidequests i was supposed to both remain undetected & do 3 combat takedowns. i dont really understand how that works. does shooting w/ a bow count as combat? or is it just meant to provide multiple objectives for different styles & i was overthinking it? it seemed like you were meant to be able to complete all of them.

["Russian" incel 🇺🇦]

Ok, i figured out how to perform that Combat Takedown, just bash them with the R thingy and then they will fall on their knees - click & hold Q

But what about that challenge of at once remaining undetected AND performing combat takedowns? Can it be done both in the same play thru?

[Herreken]

What do you mean bash them with the R thingy?

Also, does anyone know how to do an aerial takedown? I was right above a guard and pressed the takedown button but nothing happened. I even enabled the interaction icons in the options menu, but there was no onscreen prompt to do an aerial takedown.

[Puppy Cat Underfoot]

It means to use the R key to swing the blackjack, then use takedown when they fall. This wouldn't fall into my definitions of either "remain undetected" or "combat takedown". When I have not reloaded immediately after steel has been drawn, once you get a guard's life down enough it will give you the option of doing a takedown. That would fit my idea of "combat takedown" but it loses the "remain undetected" bit.

[Herreken]

I never knew you could do a takedown after knocking them out with the blackjack outside of combat. Seems pointless if they're already unconscious...unless I'm misunderstanding you.

I usually reload once I've been detected or I run away. It takes way too long to take out a guard with the blackjack on Master difficulty with Focus disabled. By the time I've gotten a few hits in, there's usually two other guards there.

I'm tempted to start again with Focus enabled because that seems the only practical way to take out at least one guard in a decent amount of time. I haven't tried it yet.

[Jon]

doesn't seem to work anyways, most times i mash the R key but it either does nothing (doesnt swing) or the guard goes 'oh' and you've been detected. Might try choke arrows but tbh think i'll stick with the ghost instead.

- tried the choke arrows, they dont seem to help.

[neptunez //]

anyone figured out how to do these kind of takedowns? i tried everything, as soon as the eye above an eel turns yellow i hold Q, but still it won't count.. i remain undetected but dont get a combat takedown. am i doing something wrong? :S

[The_Finish]

For a combat Takedown, you need to be detected and fighting a guard. After a few swings with the Blackjack (R by default) he should go to his knees and then you can hold Q to do a Combat Takedon.

And no, you cannot Remain Undetected and do Combat Takedowns at the same time. It's either one or the other.

[dhr09]

Originally posted by nepomukz //:

anyone figured out how to do these kind of takedowns? i tried everything, as soon as the eye above an eel turns yellow i hold Q, but still it won't count.. i remain undetected but dont get a combat takedown. am i doing something wrong? :S

You can't remain undetected and do a combat take down in the same playthrough. you have to choose one or the other...

Thats why they let you replay the missions.

To do a combat takedown you have to actually be in combat with a gaurd which means you have been detected. Dodge his blows (V) and counter with the blackjack (R). After you hit him two or three times he will fall to his knees then you get the option to hold the takedown button (Q).

[neptunez //]

thanks for the answers guys! i wasn't aware of that.

if you replay a mission at a later point (like not immediately), will it still overwrite your first playthrough of that mission?

[RihaiKitty]

You actually can do a combat takedown and remain undetected. The way I found is if you take a fire arrow, fire it at their head, that will stun then then you can run in and do a 'Q' for the takedown. This will allow you to remain stealthy, if no-one else sees it, and do the combat takedown at the same time. That is what I did for Chapter 2.