

If you’re not careful, you can easily get knocked off its back and be left to deal with sticky situations. The horse’s fear level is a real issue in Wild Hunt. Damage on horseback is increased, so you want to use this as often as you as you get the chance. If you hold the attack button and look at the enemy you want to target, time will slow down to let you correct your angle and go in for the kill.

Wild Hunt lets you slash fools from the safety of your horseback, but you rarely get a chance to line up your hits, and often end up running around slashing aimlessly. You can slow down time to make fighting on horseback much easier The d-pad on either console will let you cycle through your signs by clicking right or left on it. Holding L2 or LT puts Geralt in a parry state to deflect arrows and incoming attacks, but it can get somewhat annoying if you’re constantly fumbling to click L1 or LB to switch signs. Manage cookie settings You can switch signs in combat, while parrying, without taking your hand off the parry button To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Try a few of these and you'll find your adventures with Geralt and Ciri much more manageable. On this page, part of our full The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt guide and walkthrough, we've gathered together some tips and techniques that the game itself doesn't make much effort to highlight. All of the following tips will make Geralt's quest for Ciri easier, but they have to be learnt the hard way - trial and error.

The Witcher 3 is full of systems and tutorials but there's a lot that it doesn't tell you.
