Help with lightsabre combat in Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

heartburnron · 25 Oct 2016 at 18:57

So I've been playing my way through this game for the first time and it's still a lot of fun despite it's age but there is one thing that is bothering that I'm wondering if any of you veteran's could give me some advice on...

When using the lightsabre, it seems to miss sometime even when facing the opponent - does moving the mouse whilst swinging make a difference? Also when fighting an enemy who also has a lightsabre, sometimes there is a clash of sabre against sabre for a few seconds - is there a way instigating these tussles or of ensuring you win one. It feels like there is some pretty smart light sabre combat underneath but I can't quite figure it out. Is there more to it that just clicking the mouse button. It could be that as I'm playing it at 3440x1440 resolution that perhaps the targeting with sabre is a bit off?

Any advice would be great...

heartburnron · 26 Oct 2016 at 17:35

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll have to experiment!!

heartburnron · 27 Oct 2016 at 15:31

Just wanted to day thanks again guys. After experimenting again the lightsabre combat really is awesome - I didn't even realise there were directional controls also - you don't get those kind of controls these days that's for sure. I'm now going through the levels using only the lightsabre!

heartburnron · 9 Mar 2017 at 18:50

Been playing through this again recently after a break. I've just been presented with the choice after rescuing Kaiden - I have to say I've never felt so excited with any choice I've ever had to make in a game before nor had so much trouble choosing which way to go. I ended up going with the dark side and can't believe how gleefully wicked I felt playing the level immediately afterwards - brilliant!

heartburnron · 12 Mar 2017 at 21:31

When I'm having light sabre duals in the single player campaign it feels a bit like pot luck whether I strike the enemy or not as it's all so fast and furious - is there a way to block and counter in these light sabre battles?

heartburnron · 13 Mar 2017 at 16:48

nitram100 said:
I remember playing this game last year, I was an obvious noob and some guy spent 2 hours with me teaching the ways to combat with lightsaber. Seemed like a really cool community, is it still around? Many players? Fancy installing now!

I wish someone would teach me! Don't get me wrong - it's great fun using the lightsaber and I get by ok but I still feel like I'm mashing the directional controls a bit when fighting an enemy who also has a saber. So so much fun to play though.