While fighting multiple enemies, sometimes when someone hits you from behind it pushes you into the guy your targetting and puts you into a clinch. Even after winning the clinch the same thing happens again and again locking you into a clinch. If there are obsticles it gets even worse. Sometimes the game glitches out and you stay clinched, and you are not able to win or lose the clinch and get smashed by the guys friends while unable to do anything, because you are locked into a clinch animation. This doesn’t happen all the time to me but often enough. Right now the combat is much better then when the game launched and I love the challenge of fighting multiple enemies, especially heavily armored enemies. But the combat is so stiff, some animations are to long, as if it’s slow-mo, and targeting is atrocious against multiple enemies. Regardless I win most of my fights and I’m currently level 17 with all negative perks in hardcore. I’ve died around 7 times and always to this constant clinching.
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I have en lingered this too, while fighting an enemy and winning a clinch and another enemy is hitting me from another angle. If this happened I can be locked in the clinch animation and it seems like I kick or hit the enemy repeatedly while the other enemy is hitting me from behind or the side.
I have never died from it but I am not playing on HC-mode, so that may be why. The only advice I have is the simple and same advice anyone gives for any combat situation, do not be flanked. If this happens in other situations I guess that moving away fast as hell and reenter the battle may be the best solution.
Not a big help, I know… Sorry.
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Is this a console thing? haven’t come across this in my not so powerful PC.
Now getting hit from behind in the head and end up looking at the sky for a moment ( with a helm on), ya.
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It may be a console thing, and it is not that of a big issue either. It may be irritating when it happens but it is in no way often nor that much of a problem in my opinion. It would be cool if it could be fixed, but I rather would like WH to fix other issues first.
Hello, PC player here.
I’ve ran into this problem with getting clinched all the time while being hit from all sides.
It was at the biggest baddest bandit camp, the last one to be cleared, that had 8 well geared bandits. I’ve tried multiple times to go 1 vs 8 but would only manage to kill 2-3 and then get chain clinched and killed. Running around in the camp with many obstacles didn’t help.
Had to thin the numbers first, stealth kill the archers, kill off individuals that would go on patrol outside of the camp.
Once there were only 3-4 bandits left it was possible to deal with them normaly, hit then back away, not let urself get flanked, rinse repeat and win.
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I was very lucky when I encountered that camp. For some reason only four bad guys attacked me and the others where kindly waiting until I had killed the first four.
Yes, this is a issue, but i think this has more to do with your play-style them a real problem of the game.
For instance, take my tipe of play-style into account:
1- When i as attacked in the middle of the road, first i pick my bow (with poisoned arrows), and i walk backwards taking many enemies as possible (normally 1 or 2, if i was lucky enough).
2- After this i drop the bow and use my Longsword or Shield and Mace. Every time moving to not be surrounded. Because if you are surrounded is a certain death.
3- Them i FORCE a clinch with the guy next to me, and unlock a combo with my first strike directly above his head. And i repeat this until i kill everyone.
If i’m attacking a bandit camp or something, i do it in the night with the use of potions like Nighthawk (to see in the dark) and Padfoot (to maximize my stealth)… Them i try to kill everyone with poisoned arrows.
Since i pick this aggressive style of fighting i take so few hits that my armor even need rapair and my HP is 100 always. And the use of everything at your hand like potions and poisons to win the fight is the best way i could find.
Try to use poison in your weapons and train as much as you can with Captain Bernard before you take any fight. And try do dominate the Bow by hunting hares in the forest. I passed 5 hours in real time training with my bow hunting hares, and i lost how many hours i spent training with every weapon to maximize my Warfare skill with Captain Bernard.
If you check the description of Warfare skill, you will see that if you maximize it your attacks will be more fast and often.
I’m only trying to help here, see if these tips helps you in any way.
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I play on PC and I know how to get around it by picking people off or even going toe to toe I can do it. For fun I like to melee all the opponents at once, for the most part I can keep them in front of me, but once in awhile they will get you into that situation. The problem is there is no delay in re-clinching or whatever. If it is all clustered together the game just forces you into constant clinching. I’m not crying about it because I rarely die, just something annoying that has been happening that never used to happen. I stopped playing after 1.3 and started playing again recently and this was never an issue for me before.
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before what patch? you on hard core? There were changes to the AI with the last 2 patches.
Not to sound snarky but perhaps in those multi foe combats now pay just a tad more to being flanked and string them out a bit more?
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Nm… I don’t care about being surrounded and beat down, I know how to avoid it probably better then most people here. It’s just incredibly glitchy and makes the combat seem like a joke. I get cracked over the head and start stumbling only to have that animation broke by getting locked into a clinch instantly, then get stuck in a never ending clinch. To me that is terrible game play.
think it is a new issue in 1.6
Don’t remember experiencing it before this patch.
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