r/videogames • u/Novapierce_ • 20d ago

Image / Video Fluid & Satisfying combat in Control Resonant

FOV is at 65 instead of default 100 to make it more cinematic, but it makes the game harder (harder to have enemy-awareness, hard to do very quick traversal movement etc). i still do think you should play at like 80 FOV or something compared to 100

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u/13thsword 20d ago

People keep saying the combat is the weakest part of the game and they may be right but it's because every aspect of this game is damn near perfect not because the combat is bad

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u/Quanathan_Chi 20d ago

Hitting things with a stick feels good and it's kept me entertained for the 20 or so hours I've gotten out of it so far (haven't finished the story but it's been great so far)

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u/13thsword 20d ago

Yeah I'm about 20 hours in as well and just found a combo of abilities and weapons I like and somehow it's even better than before

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u/Quanathan_Chi 20d ago

I've been mostly running Glaive and Hammer but I recently switched my secondary to the Whip and that thing feels awesome once you get the timing down.

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u/LnktheWolf 19d ago

Started with glaive hammer, went to glaive whip, but I decided I wanted to try strike out and holy shit I might be converted.

Strike for the fast paced crits, ship for a little AOE, fists (cant remember the name atm) for more stun is a fantastic combo.

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u/13thsword 20d ago

Haha I did the exact opposite went from glaive whip to glaive hammer

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u/LonigroC 19d ago

I went from sword hammer to cleave hammer to cleave drill to glaive drill even the whip was fun.

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u/13thsword 19d ago

I'm looking forward to really exploring the options in ng+

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u/renaissance1977 19d ago

Hitting things with a stick has kept me entertained for 20 years of gaming

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u/Kanehammer 20d ago

I mean combat wise it's basically nier automata with executions

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u/13thsword 20d ago

Can't complain about that honestly sometimes a hack and slash is exactly what I want

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u/East-Albatross-810 19d ago

you can customize your combat more I'd say

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u/Hanzimer 19d ago

I still don't understand how some people can say at the same time, this a great game but the combat system si boring and repetitive.

We are speaking about an ACTION GAME based on fights.

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u/13thsword 19d ago

Yeah I loved old devil may cry games and such, not everything needs to be a souls like sometimes you just want to hack and slash

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u/NYGBobby 19d ago

I disagree especially in boss fights the combat shines

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u/13thsword 19d ago

Yeah that's kind of what I'm saying the combat is good but everything about the game is so good that if I had to rank parts of it combat might be the lowest because every part of the game is fantastic

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u/Zangetsu2407 19d ago

Not that case for me. I love the combat. Honestly after the number of games that have become parry fest which is a playstyle I loath. I am happy just to have an action combat game.

So far I have geled with the combat much more than the other two games I have tried and bounced off this month

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u/13thsword 19d ago

I'm saying the combat is amazing but in a game that's full of amazing even the "worst" part of it is still better than most games

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u/Zangetsu2407 19d ago

Oh yer that is entirely fair then. That was me misreading then. So far I have played like 5 hours of it and it has been so much fun. Just did like my second boss fight and it was so cool.

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u/tomthedevguy 18d ago

Yeah it’s so good in other areas that the combat not being the best of all time is fine. The facial animations are weird. But other than that it’s a masterpiece

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u/PleasantFarmHand 20d ago

Really, is this game that good?

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u/13thsword 20d ago

I love remedy games so I might be biased but everything from the story to the environment is so unique I really can't think of anything that reminds me why I love gaming as much as a good remedy game and this one does not disappoint. I would play the first control if you haven't but it's my game of the year so far.

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u/Alternative-Wash2019 19d ago

Yes, the semi-open world in this game is the best semi-open world I've seen period.

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u/13thsword 19d ago

It manages to balance exploration without feeling bloated extremely well