I am having huge issues fighting in close combat in Tomb Raider 2013. When it says "mash left right" I do that, and I think fast enough. But I do not know if I have to be just faster or exactly in the timing of the screen. I fail about 30% of the time.
Then, when I have to kick with the foot, I think I have to press once. I fail it 90% of the time.
If I succeed that one, there is a red hand flashing in a circle, and I do not even know what to do then. Press E?
I am currently stuck with a wolf assaulting me over and over. I switched combat to easy already, but I am afraid that these sequences are not even influenced by that.
Anyone has any hints how to either get around these scenes or how to master them better? I am normally not such a bad gamer, but this is getting ridiculous. I am not in the mood to listen to her scream and watch the death sequence 50 times over and over again just to time pressing some combination on the fraction of a second.
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I also think that some of these fights are pretty unforgiving. This is what helped me:
If you have to mash left/right, do it as quickly as possible. Sometimes, when I was slacking and pressing it at a relaxed pace, I failed the combat.
Exclamation mark - hit melee attack (defaults to F on PC) Red hand - hit Use command (defaults to E on PC)
You will get notification that a command is coming up, there will be a circle around the icon that will be shrinking rapidly.. when it shrinks to zero, the icon will be lit, as it were, and that's when you have to press it. The preparation phase is about 1 second long.