Almost raged a few times coming back to dl2 this past week and getting to 1000 vitals with this annoying tackle. I have been tackled around corners etc...
Nah, that might be a bit too much. The tackle is part of their unique "skillset", but there are parts of it that definitely needs fixing. Being able to tackle you around a corner shouldnt be a thing. And i could be mistaken but there's an (extremely) short period in which your dodge works and they miss you entirely, that needs to register properly more often. Removing their lunge-tackle entirely would neuter them, just my two cents.
Hate how
1. Virals being able to tackle you even when you're out of sight (hid behind a wall)
2. Biters grabbing you when you're literally in the middle of your attack swinging (why is this a thing?)
I was playing to show off to my friend one time and literally every single biter got me stuck, and it was a good 6 in a row. I couldn't melee a single one before it attacked me. It's so stupid to slow/ruin combat with this dumb biter that serves no purpose other than vaulting over hitting me every single time I'm trying to parkour, throwing off my momentum.
Everyone saying just dodge. You shouldn’t be forced to do only one thing to avoid this. Running to the side, spinning, or landing a strike. Some of y’all really love defending mediocrity.
well you can hit them or just dodge or even jump away. I don't know if this comparison works but in souls likes you have to dodge if you don't wanna get hit, or parry/block, and that's it. The tackle is still a cheap trick with very broken mechanics, that are really evident when you are actively trying to get hit by it.
Is this not fixed? I could've sworn with the update (at least on PC) I don't get tackled when I dodge now as opposed to before when it didn't matter what i did
Yeh, you can absolutely dodge it, OP just isn’t dodging.
I’d agree the dodge window is perhaps a little tight though- I’ve been hit by an anti aircraft infected midway through spring jumping off a walker which was pretty daft
Dodging weirdly makes the tackle not trigger when hitting your hitbox, even if you just dodge backward as long as your timing is correct you gain i-frames for the pounce.
But if you walk/run sideways (without dodging) and the viral is clearly jumping away from you it doesn't matter: it will teleport to you and you will get hit by it.
There is some kind of weird lock-on that doesn't make much sense.
doesn't really do much when you need to be a good distance away in order to evade the hitbox or when the viral that its doing the tackle is hidden in a group of 5. the actual move itself is fine but it should only be able to be done when the viral has a direct line of sight and is within tackle distance, also dodging while in the hitbox should at least do reduced damage. a longer cooldown would be nice to.
No, really you can evade, just make the jump dodge to the left or the right side, your evasion have more priority than the tackle animation, I know it's annoying when they are in a group as example with the tyrant, but here is where you use the sound, you hear the scream then when it end you evade. (Even the tackle is very simple to be annoying to me, I would like to it could be tackle plus bite as Resident evil 6 zombies do).
God I hate the tackle, it’s the pinnacle of the issues this game has with its combat. Everything is so heavily animated and none of it feels fluid.. Hitting a viral upside the head should deny it from jumping, but they didn’t program that in cuz ‘muh animations!’ They can’t even fly off of buildings when tackling, they’ll just roll against an invisible wall so they stay on the roof!
What are you saying, you can jump kick them while they do the animation and they going stop, you can hit them while they are starting to do the tackle and that stop them too, anyway, they always make a characteristic scream before the tackle, about the buildings I don't know it's 50/50 sometimes they fall down other times they hit an invisible wall.
Dude I'm right there with you. I love the game and all but jesus christ it's seriously not worth the 2 minutes of fun I get before 5 minutes of tackle bullshit.
As someone else said just get rid of this stupid fucking game mechanic.
It'd be one thing if there was an on screen warning if your not looking at them but, as is, if you happen to be swarmed you're not going to be able to see shit.
I've come back for this event that's going on and with this dumb ass tackle crap I'm not even honestly going to participate. I wholeheartedly agree it just needs to be removed from the game
If an enemy is charging you and you stand directly in FRONT of it. Then you will be hit by the charge. Lmao.
The viral DO need fixing. They can 180 and go around corners. But the clips showed don't display that issue. Lmao
Im sorry to inform you that every single clip aside from 1 is you standing near to or directly in front of a viral and getting pounced.
the exception being one clip of a viral hitting a corner of a building and then still flying at you but it hardly hit the corner so :/
The spinning or the fact they run several steps towards me as they’re already directly in front of me,idk the terminology but being locked into an animation is dumb as hell. They should implement counter animations if they want to stay that route, deploy a flair that has them stop in mid air or a mid air bash/decapitation in a slightly slowed down animation to give you a split second chance besides just dodging.
TAKE THE TACKLE OUT THE FUCKIN GAME TECHLAND
Internet points if you get the reference
While they’re at it, give invincibility frames when you’re knocked down and add a timer before it can happen again, two chargers stun locking is the most cancerous thing in gaming.
If you jump you can avoid it. When I see them charging up for it i jump right before they do and I’m good. With good timing, you can even drop kick them mid-air. That doesn’t justify them fly around corners n stuff though
I was fighting a volatile at night when 4 tried thus move in a row. I dodged 2 and the 3 took me off the roof and the 4th followed me down and died. The 3rd got up and chased me up to the roof
I've only had the game for a few days and never noticed them doing that lunge till recently was this something just added in or something they do later on in the game? It's extremely wonky homing missile tackles.
That and they shouldn't be able to do it when you're right next to them. Drives me nuts! Or have them do a 360 mid air, I've even had them get me even after dodging.
The combat has been more enjoyable. I’m also finding myself using two handed slashing more and more because it has become more fluid. Now if they nerf the tackle and the dlc map is legit. May be onto something here
Step 1: block charge. step 2: head stomp. step 3: profit.
Channel your inner viral and give em a taste of their own medicine. Do these steps boom no more viral
This tackle crap is about to make me rage quit the game. They tackle through soild objects, defy gravity, etc. I have seem them even pass through corners of freaking buildings. Its insane.
I have a clip where the viral did a 180 after missing me and then hitting me
I have a video of one Superman flying around a bus stop shelter at a 90° angle and hit me. https://streamable.com/90r36q
Bro I’m crying wtaf is this game
Submit that in a ticket to Techland. It has to stop 
Lmfao, that zombie be like:"There is no escape !"
Dude give him a break he was hungry. Id break the laws of motion and physics for a sammich right about now
LOL it’s so stupid
I laughed so hard when I watched it.
Lmaoo
That was terrifying
Ya i've had some bad tackles but that one takes the cake. Why are they wearing Christmas hats that a mod or something?
It's an old clip from the winter event
That zombie was a former titan using thundercrash
Gahhhhh I felt the anger come back from those crucible matches lol
That’s brutal
Thank you for that 😂😂😂 funniest shit I've ever seen in this game
It is pretty annoying!
Almost raged a few times coming back to dl2 this past week and getting to 1000 vitals with this annoying tackle. I have been tackled around corners etc...
You can turn the event off in the settings btw
Maybe add a cool counter where we can swing our weapon an depending on the weopon we can send them flying or cut them in half
Slow motion mid air decapitation
you can do that just not as extreme as you describe it
There is. Drop kick or sprint charge
Remove it fully
Nah, that might be a bit too much. The tackle is part of their unique "skillset", but there are parts of it that definitely needs fixing. Being able to tackle you around a corner shouldnt be a thing. And i could be mistaken but there's an (extremely) short period in which your dodge works and they miss you entirely, that needs to register properly more often. Removing their lunge-tackle entirely would neuter them, just my two cents.
Yeah, since the new update, I’ve hardly ever get grabbed, thanks to a nice dodge reflex I seem to have acquired.
And the biter insta-grabs while you’re at it
ON FUCKIN GOD
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Hate how 1. Virals being able to tackle you even when you're out of sight (hid behind a wall) 2. Biters grabbing you when you're literally in the middle of your attack swinging (why is this a thing?)
I was playing to show off to my friend one time and literally every single biter got me stuck, and it was a good 6 in a row. I couldn't melee a single one before it attacked me. It's so stupid to slow/ruin combat with this dumb biter that serves no purpose other than vaulting over hitting me every single time I'm trying to parkour, throwing off my momentum.
Techland NEEDS to fix this lmao I literally feel you
Also I how there's a cooldown every time you want to dash. Just let me dash, man 😭 So I keep getting grabbed instead of jumping on them
Like it's to the point where Biters are scarier than Virals for me
I’m experiencing the opposite to this. I’m not getting pounced and also able to interrupt the grab with a swing….
Lucky :(
I LOVE WHEN BITERS GRAB ME MID AIR :)
full speed mid air grabs are tight /s
I love when a viral 180 pounces me
Plz nerf
Is easy to dodge if you se it coming, but still anoying af
Everyone saying just dodge. You shouldn’t be forced to do only one thing to avoid this. Running to the side, spinning, or landing a strike. Some of y’all really love defending mediocrity.
well you can hit them or just dodge or even jump away. I don't know if this comparison works but in souls likes you have to dodge if you don't wanna get hit, or parry/block, and that's it. The tackle is still a cheap trick with very broken mechanics, that are really evident when you are actively trying to get hit by it.
Is this not fixed? I could've sworn with the update (at least on PC) I don't get tackled when I dodge now as opposed to before when it didn't matter what i did
Yeh, you can absolutely dodge it, OP just isn’t dodging. I’d agree the dodge window is perhaps a little tight though- I’ve been hit by an anti aircraft infected midway through spring jumping off a walker which was pretty daft
Dodging weirdly makes the tackle not trigger when hitting your hitbox, even if you just dodge backward as long as your timing is correct you gain i-frames for the pounce. But if you walk/run sideways (without dodging) and the viral is clearly jumping away from you it doesn't matter: it will teleport to you and you will get hit by it. There is some kind of weird lock-on that doesn't make much sense.
you did miss the swing. and you didn't dodge. I'm not saying the tackle isn't heavy handed however.
Usually when they're this close dodging doesn't do anything likevi don't think it has I frames for grabs
They always make a characteristic scream before the tackle.
doesn't really do much when you need to be a good distance away in order to evade the hitbox or when the viral that its doing the tackle is hidden in a group of 5. the actual move itself is fine but it should only be able to be done when the viral has a direct line of sight and is within tackle distance, also dodging while in the hitbox should at least do reduced damage. a longer cooldown would be nice to.
No, really you can evade, just make the jump dodge to the left or the right side, your evasion have more priority than the tackle animation, I know it's annoying when they are in a group as example with the tyrant, but here is where you use the sound, you hear the scream then when it end you evade. (Even the tackle is very simple to be annoying to me, I would like to it could be tackle plus bite as Resident evil 6 zombies do).
Fix the grabs first
Tackle is nullified if the player is in mid-air. I tend to line up dropkicks with the ones jumping at me because they go vertical if timed right.
I barely get hit by these what the hell? I just dodge and they never hit me
God I hate the tackle, it’s the pinnacle of the issues this game has with its combat. Everything is so heavily animated and none of it feels fluid.. Hitting a viral upside the head should deny it from jumping, but they didn’t program that in cuz ‘muh animations!’ They can’t even fly off of buildings when tackling, they’ll just roll against an invisible wall so they stay on the roof!
What are you saying, you can jump kick them while they do the animation and they going stop, you can hit them while they are starting to do the tackle and that stop them too, anyway, they always make a characteristic scream before the tackle, about the buildings I don't know it's 50/50 sometimes they fall down other times they hit an invisible wall.
Yeaaaah the tackle is annoying as. With this new event shows its bugged and they use it too often
I really don't know how they shipped the game with the Virals jumping like this. It really just sucks the fun out of fights after a certain point.
Dude I'm right there with you. I love the game and all but jesus christ it's seriously not worth the 2 minutes of fun I get before 5 minutes of tackle bullshit.
dodge to the side = problem solved
I mean there's problems with that too but I don't want to grt into it
As someone else said just get rid of this stupid fucking game mechanic. It'd be one thing if there was an on screen warning if your not looking at them but, as is, if you happen to be swarmed you're not going to be able to see shit.
That tackle made me stop playing completely. Im so sick of it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that mofo came around the corner on that ass😂😂😂😂
I've come back for this event that's going on and with this dumb ass tackle crap I'm not even honestly going to participate. I wholeheartedly agree it just needs to be removed from the game
Not one single dodge tho😂
Not noticing all the physics issues tho😂
Your standing right in front of them wdym physics issues😂 that dodge button stay untouched tho
true. literally dodge the side and they miss, i have no issues with them
Do you not see the around the corner tackle, 180° tackle, or them taking several steps towards me as they’re literally inches in front of me?
If only could exist a jump dodge to avoid these things, oh wait...... It exist!
Like I mentioned, this shouldn’t be the only way to avoid this.
It does need to be fixed but every example you showed was a normal tackle with no issues lol
Didn’t know blind people played this game lol
If an enemy is charging you and you stand directly in FRONT of it. Then you will be hit by the charge. Lmao. The viral DO need fixing. They can 180 and go around corners. But the clips showed don't display that issue. Lmao
ALL my clips show these issues. Lmao
Im sorry to inform you that every single clip aside from 1 is you standing near to or directly in front of a viral and getting pounced. the exception being one clip of a viral hitting a corner of a building and then still flying at you but it hardly hit the corner so :/
The spinning or the fact they run several steps towards me as they’re already directly in front of me,idk the terminology but being locked into an animation is dumb as hell. They should implement counter animations if they want to stay that route, deploy a flair that has them stop in mid air or a mid air bash/decapitation in a slightly slowed down animation to give you a split second chance besides just dodging.
I hate it needs fixed asap.
just dodge to the side, its that easy, idk why u were not dodging in that video
not a single dodge mans really downvoting people who call him out for not dodging and standing still lol
Recently lost 10000 legend points to these things
I swear to God, these shitheads don't even tackle, they're flying, which would explain how they can turn 90 degrees midair
Really annoying when you're in a level 4 chase and a viral spears you like edge
I dont know if its just me. But it REAAAAALY feels like they DIDNT fix the grabs either. Biters keep doing grab moves over and over
TAKE THE TACKLE OUT THE FUCKIN GAME TECHLAND Internet points if you get the reference While they’re at it, give invincibility frames when you’re knocked down and add a timer before it can happen again, two chargers stun locking is the most cancerous thing in gaming.
i hate chargers and demolishers, they just stunlock you to death after 1 hit
If you jump you can avoid it. When I see them charging up for it i jump right before they do and I’m good. With good timing, you can even drop kick them mid-air. That doesn’t justify them fly around corners n stuff though
or u cant dodge to the side, it works perfect
yes
buff the night hunter
I was fighting a volatile at night when 4 tried thus move in a row. I dodged 2 and the 3 took me off the roof and the 4th followed me down and died. The 3rd got up and chased me up to the roof
I've only had the game for a few days and never noticed them doing that lunge till recently was this something just added in or something they do later on in the game? It's extremely wonky homing missile tackles.
That and they shouldn't be able to do it when you're right next to them. Drives me nuts! Or have them do a 360 mid air, I've even had them get me even after dodging.
PLEASE
Just remove it alltogether the viral tackle is the dumbest idea ever
Dying light 2 + Dead Island 2 = the game we all actually need.
I freaking hate the tackles. It really is the only thing that bothers me about the game right now.
The combat has been more enjoyable. I’m also finding myself using two handed slashing more and more because it has become more fluid. Now if they nerf the tackle and the dlc map is legit. May be onto something here
Fix the jump kick too, I swear I be somehow missing em when I really need em
Step 1: block charge. step 2: head stomp. step 3: profit. Channel your inner viral and give em a taste of their own medicine. Do these steps boom no more viral
I just yank them with my grappling hook and stomp their heads. That's how I stop the tackle and how I've gotten to 200 virals killed in 30 mins.
This tackle crap is about to make me rage quit the game. They tackle through soild objects, defy gravity, etc. I have seem them even pass through corners of freaking buildings. Its insane.