How can you switch what you will throw first?

[Shame]

Say, when I have a stick and a tin can, and I want to throw the tin can first, is there a way I can indicate this? I've seen in this video at 6:28 that you can switch hands, which I guess indicates what you throw first:
https://youtu.be/12yAh5IdGXQ?t=388

[RAWRmonger]

IIRC, what's in the left hand is thrown first (if there are two items being held).
To switch hands, you double tap the "grab" button.

[Darthzz]

You can also drop items by pressing down movement direction and grab at the same time.

[Shame]

Originally posted by RAWRmonger:

IIRC, what's in the left hand is thrown first (if there are two items being held).
To switch hands, you double tap the "grab" button.

DOUBLE-TAP?! Why is this not told to you in the tutorial or anywhere in the controls?!

Originally posted by miao:

You can also drop items by pressing down movement direction and grab at the same time.

ALSO an impoetant piece of information that is never told -.-

[RAWRmonger]

I'm not going to excuse the game for being cryptic, but you can always experiment pressing buttons. Some of those actions come from conventional controls. Alternatively, I think there's a guide here which discusses the moveset.
There are some more "hidden" controls as well.
I was amazed when I found out how to slide and backflip. Walljump was a given move for some reason.

[Shame]

The game's being a bit too cryptic with that one. Most people, to some extent me too, can't and won't understand what to do in such scenarios. I do agree that having some way of understanding what to do should be done by the game through gameplay itself, but not on this level.

At the beginning of the game, you are only given the option to avoid or fight something; flee or fight scenarios. The fact that this goes throughout until chapter 5, where you have to, bizarrely, give pearls to the scavengers so they leave you alone is unexpectedly ludicrous.

If these controls are essential to the game, it should be told from the get go, or in some way to understand what you're doing, instead of putting a player in a death loop/stuck in an area because they can't figure out what to do.

@miao just realized you said the "down-move" button to drop items, and I thought movement in any direction PLUS Shift. Well, that resulted me dying another time for no reason, had 2 pearls on me as well to get past some annoying scavengers.

[strata_ranger]

Originally posted by RAWRmonger:

IIRC, what's in the left hand is thrown first (if there are two items being held).

Slugcat is right-handed so that item gets thrown first (but since Slugcat usually faces the screen, this means it's the one on "the left").

[Enderzilla747]

I'm pretty sure if you wait on the pause screen long enough where the controller/keyboard you use is showing, it shows the basic controls learned in the tutorial and then it shows additional tips underneath it, teaching you how to do these.

[Daeva The Shadow Demon]

Originally posted by Shame:

Originally posted by RAWRmonger:

IIRC, what's in the left hand is thrown first (if there are two items being held).
To switch hands, you double tap the "grab" button.

DOUBLE-TAP?! Why is this not told to you in the tutorial or anywhere in the controls?!

Originally posted by miao:

You can also drop items by pressing down movement direction and grab at the same time.

ALSO an impoetant piece of information that is never told -.-

It is told to you. Any time you press esc it tells you with the controls. Also at the beginning of the game when it first shows you the picture of the controls, it says it at the bottom :3

[Shame]

Originally posted by FloofyFox:

Originally posted by Shame:

DOUBLE-TAP?! Why is this not told to you in the tutorial or anywhere in the controls?!


ALSO an impoetant piece of information that is never told -.-

It is told to you. Any time you press esc it tells you with the controls. Also at the beginning of the game when it first shows you the picture of the controls, it says it at the bottom :3

Controls are told, but not mechanics like the ones mentioned before.

[Daeva The Shadow Demon]

Originally posted by Shame:

Originally posted by FloofyFox:

It is told to you. Any time you press esc it tells you with the controls. Also at the beginning of the game when it first shows you the picture of the controls, it says it at the bottom :3

Controls are told, but not mechanics like the ones mentioned before.

They are. It's written below the picture of the keyboard (for me, I use said keyboard)