But if your goal is to stay alive, just stay out of the enemy's melee instead of blocking you won't lose any health and you can still move around.
If I upgrade my Bash soak or Defense combat feats (or other feats), will I then stun the enemy for a longer duration when they hit my block?Įureka! More test results found! Again, now fighting Stanley Gimble, I find that blocking in no way helps your attack, but rather simply reduces damage from enemy strikes.
If I upgrade my Unarmed or Melee combat feats, will I then be stunned for a shorter duration when hitting an enemy's block?Ĭ. Is this intended melee combat behaviour, or am I misunderstanding something with melee combat stats or combat in general?ī. Surely I must be doing something wrong or misunderstanding the Bloodlines melee combat system.Īll of this boils down to three questions, really:Ī. This makes blocking only useful for reducing incoming melee damage, and not as an opener for a subsequent "smarter" melee strike. In either melee combat scenario, no matter what I do the enemy blocks my strike, and whenever I block, the enemy always recovers before I can hit back. In short, I am stunned longer than the enemy is, giving me a disadvantage in melee combat. The enemy exploits the opening in my defenses and lands a quick strike. My strike hits his block, stunning me for a long while.ĥ. The enemy recovers from his brief stun and blocks before I land my strike.Ĥ. I exploit the opening in enemy defenses to land a quick strike of my own.ģ. I block until the enemy melee hits my block and he is stunned briefly.Ģ. The enemy exploits the opening in my defenses and lands a quick strike.ġ. The enemy blocks my strike and stuns me for a long while.ģ. I strike at the enemy with any close-range melee strike.Ģ. I performed both combat tests on the first Sabbat shovelhead encountered in the tutorial level, with Unarmed and Melee combat feats at 2, using fists as my weapon, and a Defense combat feat of 2 as well.ġ. Now follows two combat scenarios I have run, both ending with me being pummeled by the enemy. I'm probably doing something wrong in melee combat, so I hope you can enlighten me on how it works. So far I see no system or valid tactics to use when fighting, so normally my success depends more on endurance, bloodpacks and brute force, rather than smart maneuvers and player skill. Hi folks, just trying to make sense of the Bloodlines melee and unarmed combat system.
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