How the hell do you play Great sword?

[Traslo]

I tried greatsword for a change after playing sword and shield, but how the hell do you use it properly? I tried to go after a Rathalos with it, and it unironically just moves out of the way of every single attack, only to punish you because of unbelievable recovery times. It felt absolutely useless, and despite the weapon being taller than me it rarely reaches him in flight.

[DaBa]

引用自 Traslogan：

引用自 DaBa：

If you don't even know about the weapon's most important moves, it's a good sign you seriously need to watch a tutorial.

Most tutorials are for console with a controller, so I gave up on those long ago since it never makes sense relative to PC controls.

I fail to see how that's a problem? Nothing changes about how a weapon works with different control methods, you just press different buttons. Now go watch Arekz GS weapon workshop or something, or watch somebody play the weapon properly to get the idea of what you're supposed to be doing.

[overmage]

Greatsword is one of the hardest weapons in the game to use, despite being very simple mechanically. Long story short, you need to aim where the monster will go, not where the monster is. Playing it well requires that you understand a monster's movesets well enough that you can predict its movements accurately about 3 seconds in advance.

To tackle, first charge your sword by holding LMB and then hit RMB at any time. This cancels the charge into a tackle. For about one second, it greatly reduces the damage of the next attack you receive and gives you hyperarmour (makes you immune to damage reactions, so you won't flinch or be knocked down), as well as doing some stun. Most importantly, it skips one charge stage. The sword has 3 charge stages and the third is the one that does the most damage, called True Charged Slash. The goal in general is to get the True Charged Slash to hit the monster's head.

As DaBa said, the controls being for console is not an excuse. Just go see a tutorial, the game tells you exactly what buttons to press in the training area anyway, plus great sword has very few moves to begin with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vr8M3lQ88

[Bassdeff]

You slice a lot of air until you learn to not slice a lot of air.

[Mr. September]

引用自 Bassdeff：

You slice a lot of air until you learn to not slice a lot of air.

That's pretty accurate, and I can confirm first-hand.

[Cooperal]

You want to mainly learn the reach of monster attacks so you can wind up your own attacks while they do the gap-closing for you. Just as importantly are the safe spots where you know you can hug an enemy during their attacks and be confident that you will be unharmed without performing a courtesy roll/block.

Being able to pre-empt is the core challenge around using cumbersome weaponry in any action game. You will get slapped around a lot and accomplish little if your strategy is to make guesses. You want to try and be a step above guessing wherever possible.

[Prophet419]

Patience young padawan. Mastery of the heavy blade takes a while, its so slow but once you can get consistent with it gotdamn the damage is insane. If you want something faster and still hits hard as hell, it even fits your old S/s playstyle. Try out the ChargeBlade, it has a massive movelist so it also has a big skill ceiling, the shield can parry with well timed blocks, and it has a power mode that turns it into a greatsword/chainsaw that rips monsters apart. Longsword is also a blast imo

[MarcoPants]

shoulder bash and slinger bursts are your friends

[N.GinWorks]

M8, your first time with new weapon branch is fighting against rathalos? Btw, i personally use hit and run strategy. Sure its slower but the damage make up for it to catch up.