Unarmed Combat: How to grab?

[Grant]

Kind of weird how players cannot grab fight, but the AI can which is a major problem as they can grab though your block.

[tinklepee]

They can also dodge. I think the player character has to learn both of these skills, while npcs having them from the get-go.

[Grant]

@Tinkle I discover player's can grab at least but it drain stamina big time. Meanwhile, the AI spam the crap out of it. They can also do side dodges, which sucks when you cannot. I won the first quest fistfight due to having 3 allies and in the second I won only due to my armor.

[Laiders72]

I have no idea how cinches work in combat. You seem to initiate them by pushing up against opponents and victory is determined presumably by strength, maybe warfare and maybe weapon /unarmed skill. Certainly strength has a perk to make you more likely to win and defense has a perk to damage opponents' weapons if you do. Unfortunately I don't think there's a tutorial for unarmed combat where cinching would be taught as well. Note, cinches can be initiated in armed combat and they can be quite deadly, especially if the player is outnumbered.

Dodging is a skill you learn by training Bernard after the prologue along with feinting and maybe combos. Certainly you can practise combos with him.

[Loyow]

You initiate them by walking into your opponent in combat. You need to click-rape your attack button to win it and a high strength stat is an advantage as well

[Eyune]

Originally posted by Li_Shin:

Kind of weird how players cannot grab fight, but the AI can which is a major problem as they can grab though your block.

Clinching is based on strength and wether or not you have the clinch master perk.

[Dbrn]

Yea, I keep looking around for how to initiate a clinch, but there doesn't seem to be an answer. Meanwhile the AI seems to just be able to do it whenever it wants to and the game doesn't explain it.

[Eyune]

Originally posted by Dbrn:

Yea, I keep looking around for how to initiate a clinch, but there doesn't seem to be an answer. Meanwhile the AI seems to just be able to do it whenever it wants to and the game doesn't explain it.

Clinching occurs when you try to attack and your standing to close to each other. if you wanna force a clinch sprint up to your opponent and attack.

[Dbrn]

Originally posted by Eyune:

Originally posted by Dbrn:

Yea, I keep looking around for how to initiate a clinch, but there doesn't seem to be an answer. Meanwhile the AI seems to just be able to do it whenever it wants to and the game doesn't explain it.

Clinching occurs when you try to attack and your standing to close to each other. if you wanna force a clinch sprint up to your opponent and attack.

Interesting. Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that.