I don't understand the QTEs at all

[Blakeyrat]

First of all, I hate QTEs with a passion. Because I'm bad at them. (And there's no way to turn them off, I looked. Shame.)

But in this game, they seem to be impossible. It shows me a Q in a circle, so I hit Q. Ok now it's an E in a circle. So I hit E. Ok now there's blood on the screen and the robot chokes me to death? And I have no idea what I did wrong, there's no feedback at all.

Anybody have any tips here? Am I the victim of a bug?

[Shoushi]

I don't understand why when you sneak up behind the robot its a different key to actually disable it. its F (action) to sneak attack and then E to disable it where it should have been the same key. very confusing.

[Blakeyrat]

Yeah the key is different and it doesn't help that the QTE icon thing is so tiny you can easily not notice it at all. So far I've died to the first couple robots (the mission objective is "clear the hall") three times because I really just have no idea what the heck the game wants me to do...

Making it more annoying is it replays all the tutorial messages every time you respawn. So yeah thanks I heard the thing about shrinking objects down to store them, I get it, I've heard it many times now. How about a tutorial on how the QTEs are supposed to work? The thing I actually need?

Anyway I'll set it down and watch for a patch.

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[Shoushi]

Originally posted by Blakeyrat:

Yeah the key is different and it doesn't help that the QTE icon thing is so tiny you can easily not notice it at all. So far I've died to the first couple robots (the mission objective is "clear the hall") three times because I really just have no idea what the heck the game wants me to do...

Making it more annoying is it replays all the tutorial messages every time you respawn. So yeah thanks I heard the thing about shrinking objects down to store them, I get it, I've heard it many times now. How about a tutorial on how the QTEs are supposed to work? The thing I actually need?

Anyway I'll set it down and watch for a patch.

Too much going on at once, in just 30 minutes game i experienced 3 different door locks with different mechanics for opening it. And I was like, that's a lot of content that's cool but gameplay-wise I was lost lol.

[JIiri 3loj]

Originally posted by Blakeyrat:

First of all, I hate QTEs with a passion. Because I'm bad at them. (And there's no way to turn them off, I looked. Shame.)

But in this game, they seem to be impossible. It shows me a Q in a circle, so I hit Q. Ok now it's an E in a circle. So I hit E. Ok now there's blood on the screen and the robot chokes me to death? And I have no idea what I did wrong, there's no feedback at all.

Anybody have any tips here? Am I the victim of a bug?

You don't press the button once, don't you? Well, either you only press it once or you are to slow.
Both of those issues are from your side not game's

[Blakeyrat]

How many times am I SUPPOSED to press it? My complaint here is the game doesn't tell me how they work. You're also not telling me how they work.

As for your insult to my 1337ness or whatever, I already admitted I'm compete garbage at doing QTEs. But thanks for rubbing it in, you're really making the world a better place.

[Atlas1205]

Seriously the stealth attack QTEs are completely unnecessary garbage. Mashing buttons - what's the point?

[Ashar]

theres already a mod to skip one of the minigames, hopefuly more will come out to get rid of the rest

[Blakeyrat]

I guess that's the path forward. This game is obviously riffing on the Bioshock series and Prey, but... none of those games had QTEs so I'm not sure why exactly that's the place they tried to part from the formula. And the lack of any kind of accessibility options (not even: "make the subtitles large enough to be read") isn't filling me confidence that the developers will ever bother fixing it.

[Pliny The Welder]

Dude i just googled this because i find them genuinely stunningly terrible. Very easily the worst implementation of qtes I've ever seen in a game.

First of you can barely make out the text. Second mashing the move key is basically impossible as it's your middle finger which is not a movement anyone ever does.

This game has many amazingly terrible design choices. There are certainly some interesting things about the game but there's just a mountain of really really bad ♥♥♥♥.

Just an ass load of bad cutscenes, a ton of poorly done set pieces, really bad text and audio logs, awful English VA but you can't switch to English because the subtitles are so bad.

Just a mess in many ways.

[Mutharex - Allkeyshop]

You are supposed to press the button quickly and repeatedly till the ring around it has filled. It's a lot easier with a pad, but still annoying, as you need to press VERY quickly

[Blakeyrat]

Mutharex, did the game tell you that? I'm wondering if I missed a tutorial message, because the game literally did not even once tell me how the QTEs are supposed to work. Or even that they existed at all; fortunately(?) I've played enough games to recognize a Q in a circle as a QTE prompt.

[Tawahachee]

Originally posted by Blakeyrat:

How many times am I SUPPOSED to press it

you are supposed to fill the circle till the end. I'd suggest that you spam it till the robot falls dead because I had a time where even though the circle was completed (blue shine) the robot managed to get out and punch me in the face. so yeah, spam it quickly and stop only when your foe is ded

[Mutharex - Allkeyshop]

Originally posted by Blakeyrat:

Mutharex, did the game tell you that? I'm wondering if I missed a tutorial message, because the game literally did not even once tell me how the QTEs are supposed to work. Or even that they existed at all; fortunately(?) I've played enough games to recognize a Q in a circle as a QTE prompt.

No, I think it just assumed I knew how a QTE works, took me by surprise the first time and failed the stealth kill

[quixoticaxis]

You need to mash the button in most cases. QTE is poorly implemented and, yeah, I don't remember any tutorial for it.