How to duck and jump?

[Skidoosh]

I have had them trigger once or twice randomly but i'm not certain what triggers them. I have tried pressing the dodge button just as the attack is about to hit me and I just backstep/sidestep.

Anybody figure out how to do it and use it effectively?

[RIP Val Kilmer]

I dont know which button duck is, but if you mean the running jump it's left stick like a button once to start running, then left stick like a button again to jump.

[Eishern]

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

[Fez]

What eishem said. Jump and Duck is Forward or Back on the RH stick when blocking.

[RIP Val Kilmer]

Originally posted by eishern:

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

Woah, I had no idea you could stationary jump. Game needs a better tutorial level.

[Skidoosh]

Originally posted by Agent Pothead:

Originally posted by eishern:

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

Woah, I had no idea you could stationary jump. Game needs a better tutorial level.

I agree, I only knew it was a thing from the videos I have seen of the game.

[Turbo Nozomix]

Sounds like what happened with Lords of the Fallen, where there's a ton of functionality that is not explained by tutorial, but needs to be discovered through playing, or learned about by reading online. For LotF, I think that the lack of a fuller tutorial resulted in people not understanding LotF combat, and trying to play the game more simplistically than it is best or most effectively played, and even criticizing the combat.

I think Deck 13 should maybe patch in an extra tutorial to The Surge that goes into tactics more deeply than whatever they include in the main game.

[I Singularis I]

Originally posted by eishern:

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

Originally posted by Agent Pothead:

Originally posted by eishern:

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

Woah, I had no idea you could stationary jump. Game needs a better tutorial level.

Thank you all! I was at the first boss and I'm like I know I saw ducking and stationary jumping in the videos. Defintely a great game but those are some must have skills to progress and should have been in the tutorial.

[Omnifarious]

Originally posted by I-Singularity-I:

Originally posted by eishern:

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

Originally posted by Agent Pothead:

Woah, I had no idea you could stationary jump. Game needs a better tutorial level.

Thank you all! I was at the first boss and I'm like I know I saw ducking and stationary jumping in the videos. Defintely a great game but those are some must have skills to progress and should have been in the tutorial.

Eh, I feel like it's going to be a skill you use a couple times then throw away because its so clunky. Once you duck/jump he stops blocking and you have to repress it to do another duck/jump.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Agent Pothead:

Originally posted by eishern:

you can duck / jump when you flick the right stick up or down while blocking (lb).

Woah, I had no idea you could stationary jump. Game needs a better tutorial level.

It teaches you that later in the game, right before the 2nd boss. You fight a wall-e or repair bot and on the crate it says to block and flick to duck/jump. Attack directly after for a counter attack. This is where I learned how OP blocking was in this game. Block the attack, hit immediately, double damage.