Need help understanding combos

[BEZOBRAZNIK]

I seem to have a lack of understanding on how melee weapons combos work. Examples:

1) I can not for the life of me force kusarigama into ranged combos. Only way I can use it's ranged potential is to combo charged posture light attack into kick and a follow up with a grab that lets me pull an enemy whichever direction I want.

1.1) Kusarigama Entanglement without a combo prior to it, does not work, though it should, considering the skill descprition.

2) I can not force tanto combination of leap strike or escape strike to make it look the way it is on the preview of the skills. What happens is either a forward dash with a tanto hit (in case I press charged posture attack + directional movement) or a lightning fast tanto hit into spin backwards attack (if not directional input is present).

What is wrong here, am I not understanding something or it's somehow restricted to a keyboard (sounds like absolute nonsense, right?)?

[Midas]

Same here with the Leap Strike on the tanto. I’ve seen gameplay where people get the flip animation, but whenever I use it, it just looks like a superman punch. I don’t understand why the actual skill would look different from the preview video.

[JKDos]

Make sure you play with a controller. Combat is currently bugged with Keyboard and Mouse. The kusarigama especially.

kusarigama - Controller

• RT = Attack with the pick side
  
• RB = Swing the blunt side
  
• Hold-RT = Heavy Attack with pick side
  
• Hold-RB = Heavy Attack / Twirl the Blunt Side

kusarigama - KB+M

• LeftClick = Attack with pick side
  
• Shift+LeftClick = Attack with pick side <-- This is the bug
  
• Hold-LeftClick = Heavy Attack with pick side
  
• Hold-Shift+LeftClick = Heavy Attack / Twirl the Blunt Side

[ZemX]

Am I just looking in the wrong place or is none of this described anywhere in game? I am like 20 hours in and I have little idea how combat combos works other than trying to use skills I've purchased with Mastery points. But it sounds like combos are different from these skills, right?

[BEZOBRAZNIK]

I've managed to sort kusarigama combos out, however they aren't exactly perfectly executed. What you want to do is to hold shift, press and hold LMB midway and release it in between the timings of light attack and charging it into posture attack. That is the current way of dishing out heavy attacks on every weapon, as far as I can tell.

Makes me think, who is the idiot who designed heavy attacks around 300-400 ms held input that can be messed up into fully charged posture attack? It's gotta be a bug, right? RIGHT?

[JKDos]

Originally posted by BEZOBRAZNIK:

Makes me think, who is the idiot who designed heavy attacks around 300-400 ms held input that can be messed up into fully charged posture attack? It's gotta be a bug, right? RIGHT?

Every impression I have when playing Assassin's Creed, except for Valhalla is
"The developers obviously never play tested this game on Keyboard+Mouse"

[QuirQuix]

Originally posted by BEZOBRAZNIK:

1.1) Kusarigama Entanglement without a combo prior to it, does not work, though it should, considering the skill descprition.

Hold Shift+Lmb (Spinner)
release Shift+Lmb (AoE attack)
press Shift+Lmb at the moment of hitting the enemy (Entanglement just like in the preview)
SHIFT can be held down all time