Can't put any force behind my slash attacks

[T. Diniz]

Hey guys, I'm still new to VR, I'm playing this on an Oculus Quest 2 via Virtual Desktop, and I can't seem to put any amount of force behind any slash attacks, I only seem to be able to stab with great effect, can you guys give me some advice on what I'm doing wrong, as every time I take a right handed swing, it's like hitting the enemy with a piece of foam, but if I stab it goes right through the enemy like a hot knife through butter.

[Shy]

Turn up your spring settings a tad bit, this will make your hands and arms rotate and move more responsively.

You also need to try and hit vital spots and hit steadily, try to follow through, imagine you're actually holding a sword rather than waving your hands about.

Get good edge alignment, hits closer to the tip will do a bit more damage than if you hit them with the base of the blade. If you two hand make sure to utilise the hand closer to the pommel to get the most rotation out of your cuts.

other than that it's just practice, you'll start seeing good opening to make decap or sever but it takes getting used to the enemies patterns and really being accurate. Aim for the neck, calf, wrists, or head.


you can also look into getting mods like MMP or Sectory. MMP adds a ton of really cool weapons that not only handle better than vanilla but cut much easier depending on the weapon. Sectory improves the damage to enemies and makes it so even severing one of their arms or stabbing them in the body doesn't instantly kill them, and it just feels much better to fight.

Hope this helped!

[Gorgeous Freeman]

Originally posted by Shy:

Turn up your spring settings a tad bit, this will make your hands and arms rotate and move more responsively.

You also need to try and hit vital spots and hit steadily, try to follow through, imagine you're actually holding a sword rather than waving your hands about.

Get good edge alignment, hits closer to the tip will do a bit more damage than if you hit them with the base of the blade. If you two hand make sure to utilise the hand closer to the pommel to get the most rotation out of your cuts.

other than that it's just practice, you'll start seeing good opening to make decap or sever but it takes getting used to the enemies patterns and really being accurate. Aim for the neck, calf, wrists, or head.


you can also look into getting mods like MMP or Sectory. MMP adds a ton of really cool weapons that not only handle better than vanilla but cut much easier depending on the weapon. Sectory improves the damage to enemies and makes it so even severing one of their arms or stabbing them in the body doesn't instantly kill them, and it just feels much better to fight.

Hope this helped!

Whereabouts are the spring settings? I want to experiment with tweaking them a bit.

[Dmiester55]

Swiping hard at the neck or exposed head hard enough is usually a kill. I've found the easiest place to cut limbs in game is to use the in game crouch (set to toggle) and make a wide swipe at their knee. Wide steady & quick swipes, you also have to hit at the right angle and location to sever limbs. pretend youre using an actual sword and figure out how to move around and fight with the ferocity needed to get past their guards and get decaps. I like to dance just out side of their attacks and practice attacking where they are
vulnerable after certain attack animations, but depending what the size of you play space is, you may have to practice swinging hard and fast in a small radius around you. Slow mo is a huge boon when learning how to do these things

[Shy]

Originally posted by Gorgeous Freeman:

Originally posted by Shy:

Turn up your spring settings a tad bit, this will make your hands and arms rotate and move more responsively.

You also need to try and hit vital spots and hit steadily, try to follow through, imagine you're actually holding a sword rather than waving your hands about.

Get good edge alignment, hits closer to the tip will do a bit more damage than if you hit them with the base of the blade. If you two hand make sure to utilise the hand closer to the pommel to get the most rotation out of your cuts.

other than that it's just practice, you'll start seeing good opening to make decap or sever but it takes getting used to the enemies patterns and really being accurate. Aim for the neck, calf, wrists, or head.


you can also look into getting mods like MMP or Sectory. MMP adds a ton of really cool weapons that not only handle better than vanilla but cut much easier depending on the weapon. Sectory improves the damage to enemies and makes it so even severing one of their arms or stabbing them in the body doesn't instantly kill them, and it just feels much better to fight.

Hope this helped!

Whereabouts are the spring settings? I want to experiment with tweaking them a bit.

They're in the settings book somewhere, I can't remember what section off the top of my head though.

[The Baron]

Hey OP! What Shy was saying about adjusting spring options (they're in the dev menu section btw) and stuff is all correct, but be aware changing these options will change the physics of the game and thus have a ripple effect.

It's cool to change it if you want and to tweak the game how you want, but I would encourage you first have a look into the actual mechanics of the game and be sure you don't like the default before changing things. Here is and old, old, video but the little section talking about how to swing a sword is still relevant: (timestamp: 1:07) https://youtu.be/yE9dlUDZr4Y?t=67

So this video was U6 or something lol, so ignore everything else about it, but just the section talking about swinging a sword and speed. The TLDR is a smooth, steady attack is better than a hard and fast attack. Attacking too hard (too much force) or fast will break the attack power and cause 'noodle wrists'. It can feel like you are hitting with a nerf bat instead of a sword.

And then here is a detailed comment I made talking about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/BladeAndSorcery/comments/u6nnpp/hand_lag/i59fbqq/

Hope it helps! If not, then you still have the spring options to mess around with like Shy mentioned.

[T. Diniz]

Thank you everyone for the replies, it turned out I was swinging wrong, I am right handed, and I was swinging from the right, rather than over my left shoulder, kind of a brain fart move, but I've got it figured out now, thanks to the video from The Baron.