Brutal attacks sometimes not work

[Anime]

Keyword sometimes.
It's so weird, wonder if anyone else has experienced this. Like you are right at the boss's face, spamming brutal attack and it's not registering the input.

[thorin.hannahs]

I just had it happen against a shield enemy. Got him exhausted the symbol appeared it was even the execute version and the game wouldn't let me do it. I had stamina and I was close enough. The only thing other than dropped inputs I can think of is there was another enemy right next to him so maybe there was a weird body block issue.

[Baron01]

Knowing what boss you have issues with would help.

There are certain large bosses, such as Hismar, that are so large that even if you are technically standing in front of the target, you need to position yourself closer to the indicator (red circle).

Also, are you sure that it is issue with brutal attack? Is the red circle indicator present?

I'm asking the above as I have never encountered this situation where brutal attack failed to trigger, however, you can knock down boss by hitting its weak point or breaking off limb/horn and they will fall down and even if you deplete all of its stagger bar/stamina bar, you will not get prompt for brutal attack. You have to hit the boss once it stand up to trigger proper stagger and brutal attack prompt appears.

[Noop]

The only time this ever happened to me was when I exhausted the beast boss next to a wall. It would fall down with the head inside the wall so I couldnt reach it.
I do brutal attacks a lot so idk never happened to me.

I did notice some other inconsistencies with it though, like sometimes it wont heal me or give stamina back when I do it from the front.

[Widgit]

I only had this problem with Hismar and it was only because that damn dragon is too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ big and you have to stand right in front of his forehead.

[Anime]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Knowing what boss you have issues with would help.

There are certain large bosses, such as Hismar, that are so large that even if you are technically standing in front of the target, you need to position yourself closer to the indicator (red circle).

Also, are you sure that it is issue with brutal attack? Is the red circle indicator present?

I'm asking the above as I have never encountered this situation where brutal attack failed to trigger, however, you can knock down boss by hitting its weak point or breaking off limb/horn and they will fall down and even if you deplete all of its stagger bar/stamina bar, you will not get prompt for brutal attack. You have to hit the boss once it stand up to trigger proper stagger and brutal attack prompt appears.

I mean red indicator when you get an enemy run out of stamina. I guess it's just random

[RealKarl]

This happens very frequently on Hismar. I had him down to 10% two times, both times standing right by the glowing weak spot and red circle still there, pressing (B) did absolutely nothing, ZERO damage, then I died trying to get the stamina bar back down. Giving up this game for now.

[Giganx]

Yea, I think for some enemies where you have to stand to do a brutal attack is really specific.

Like against Hismar when you try to brutal attack him just being by his head isn't good enough; there's a very specific spot by his head you have to be standing by or it won't register.

[Zerixar]

only time i've seen this issue is where you're slightly out of range (maybe your combo did a little bit of knockback and they're just slightly out of range now), or just missed the timing by a little bit trying to squeeze extra damage in before the execute, or on specific bosses like hismar where you have to be standing in a specific sweet spot in front of his forehead (that I honestly wish they'd expand because it's a little iffy getting it to activate)