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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Hints
Can you give me any tips for fighting?
1 of 9: First, it's probably best if you avoid combat whenever possible. Even if you're into action games, the combat sequences just aren't all that interesting to play.
2 of 9: As a general rule, you can avoid many (but not quite all) of them with proper puzzle solving. The exact steps you'll need to take will, of course, depend on where you are in the game, so the details will be covered in other sections of these hints.
3 of 9: For the most part, everything that you're "supposed to" learn comes from your training with Jama early in Chapter 1.
4 of 9: There are two kinds of attacks -- controlled with A and B on your gamepad or left and right mouse buttons. One attack is a little quicker and weaker than the other, but there isn't a huge difference.
5 of 9: You can also try attacking and moving at the same time -- such as pressing the W key on the keyboard to move left while pressing the right mouse button. The aiming is a little trickier, but I found that the damage seemed stronger if you can hit this way versus making a straight hit. Whether you want to try this or not is up to you. It took me a little practice to get this right, but once I had the pattern down, fights did get easier.
6 of 9: The game recommends that you hold down the block key (SPACE on the PC keyboard, or B on an Xbox gamepad). Your blocks won't stop 100% of the damage 100% of the time if you just stand there, but when you have the block key held down, it's easier to step out of the way.
7 of 9: Characters you have to fight will generally attack a couple of times and then pull back. If you block through their attacks, you should then be able to approach them once they stop and get in a couple of hits before stepping back and blocking another round. Just remember to release the block key before you start attacking again.
8 of 9: This whole strategy isn't perfect, but if you find yourself in a fight that you can't talk your way out of, I found that it would usually work. You may have to lose one or two times to get a sense of what your opponent's moves look like, so you can anticipate when to dodge.
9 of 9: You can also try just random button mashing -- just go on the attack, keep hitting, and hope you punch through enough blocks to win. It might be better to do this if you find the key combinations on the PC particularly unnatural. You may die a few times, but the mandatory fights tend to be balanced enough that you have a chance of winning if you keep reloading until you get lucky. (There's generally an auto-save just before most fights, anyway.)
