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I'm not understanding the combat controls

drmaxmandrmaxman
in Tales from the Borderlands

I was able to figure out how to get a robot to fire a weapon, but I have yet to figure out how to get said robot to throw a grenade once it appears. I just keep getting killed over and over by a rocket-launching bandit without the robot tossing the grenade. The controls are not intuitive enough for me! Plus, it won't let me reassign keys (I'm left-handed).

Any suggestions?

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  • freelancepolicefan11freelancepolicefan11
    edited November 2014

    What aren't you getting?

  • GoldenPaladinGoldenPaladin

    ...How is pressing one button hard...Seriously what do you play on?

  • drmaxmandrmaxman

    How to get a robot to throw a grenade.

    freelancepolicefan11 posted: »

    What aren't you getting?

  • EpicMustacheGuyEpicMustacheGuy

    Press 'Q' repeatedly.

    Or maybe click on the bandits once and then press 'Q'

    drmaxman posted: »

    How to get a robot to throw a grenade.

  • thesporkmanthesporkman

    There's a point during the fight where you have to target two bandits at once in order to fire the rockets or grenades. If clicking on just one guy doesn't work, try clicking on another one as well.

  • drmaxmandrmaxman

    Pressing 'Q' wasn't doing anything for me, and I was getting killed over and over. So I rewound the story and finally got past that part by using the rocket launcher. I'm not familiar enough yet with what does what in this game--very frustrating.

    EpicMustacheGuy posted: »

    Press 'Q' repeatedly. Or maybe click on the bandits once and then press 'Q'

  • drmaxmandrmaxman

    It's not the pressing per se, it's the not knowing what it will do, or it not doing anything useful for the situation at hand. I'm on PC.

    GoldenPaladin posted: »

    ...How is pressing one button hard...Seriously what do you play on?

  • drmaxmandrmaxman

    Yeah, I did something like that after the rocket launcher wouldn't fire after targeting one. The rocket finally fired and I got past that point. But I didn't know I had to do it that way before hand.

    Does TellTale have any documentation somewhere that discusses these kind of things, or do you just have to pick it up as you go along? This is quite different from the other 'Borderlands' game series, at least for me.

    thesporkman posted: »

    There's a point during the fight where you have to target two bandits at once in order to fire the rockets or grenades. If clicking on just one guy doesn't work, try clicking on another one as well.

  • VoldVold

    I thought the targeting was auto... I recall only need to press q and e.
    Not sure if I click target by accident or not.

    thesporkman posted: »

    There's a point during the fight where you have to target two bandits at once in order to fire the rockets or grenades. If clicking on just one guy doesn't work, try clicking on another one as well.

  • papai46papai46

    Now i understand why Telltale tries to make their gameplay as dumb as possible...

  • GoldenPaladinGoldenPaladin

    It says press a button.

    You just need to press the button!

    drmaxman posted: »

    It's not the pressing per se, it's the not knowing what it will do, or it not doing anything useful for the situation at hand. I'm on PC.

  • drmaxmandrmaxman

    Yeah, like leaving out key reassignment.

  • mirrorreflexmirrorreflex
    edited December 2014

    The different types of combat I remember are:

    • Pressing the Q button several times quickly then the E button
    • Pressing the arrow keys to dodge and avoid attacks
    • Clicking on the display device that Rhys has to select options
    • Clicking on the person that is trying to attack you to attack them back

    Glad to see that you got past that part though. If you have problems later post a screenshot so we can see what you are talking about.

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