How To Survive Tomb Raider’s Annoying PC Quicktime Events

17 responses to “How To Survive Tomb Raider’s Annoying PC Quicktime Events”

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   fathermiso

   March 8, 2013 at 4:41 pm

   Where were you last night!!! I spent hours looking for that. Why does yours say press F.
   Mine sure as shit didn’t. I had recently got a tablet and it has that sort of icon for my touch screen and I actually ended up touching my computer monitor..

   The Circle means F, the hands means E.
   In both things no timing seemed necessary just keep spamming F till she does something else.

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   1. 

      Gunner

      March 8, 2013 at 11:49 pm

      You could have just, y’know… looked at the Key Bindings in your options list…

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         korolev

         March 9, 2013 at 2:10 am

         Like Patricia, my game didn’t show the “press F” prompt OR the symbol. It was literally nothing but the circles, which made it pretty damn annoying. I died 30 times, pressing multiple buttons because I had no idea what to press. There’s also another point later, where you get this new device, and you have to mash a key to use it properly, only the game doesn’t tell you which one and the symbol isn’t listed in the key binding menu. The game is not bad, but it has its problems and its QTEs are one of them. They’re awful.

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   spaghett

   March 8, 2013 at 4:42 pm

   I have a controller plugged into my PC and have had no trouble with the QTE’s

   Just shows the yellow Y

   Still, I have been known to miss it from time to time

   Sucks to hear others are having problems

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      akira_22

      March 8, 2013 at 5:04 pm

      So did I, but it didn’t display Y until it was too late.

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3. 

   light487

   March 8, 2013 at 4:43 pm

   Or.. pay attention to the on-screen instructions…

   Or get a controller and play it how it was designed to be played.. it may be on PC but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be played with a controller by default.. just because the PC is usually attributed with being keyboard and mouse doesn’t mean it has to be.. it’s a PC! It can have accessories added to it! That’s the great thing about a PC, it is so versatile!.. So rather than limit yourself… grab an accessory for games that are designed to use those accessories… otherwise it’s just another limited gaming device.

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      akira_22

      March 8, 2013 at 5:08 pm

      Calm down bozo. It does it on the controler too.

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   letrico

   March 8, 2013 at 6:02 pm

   If they fix the Nvidia issue it will be much easier to QTE

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5. 

   slackarse

   March 8, 2013 at 6:13 pm

   I, for one, would be happy to welcome an age where no QTE’s existed. Yes, I had this dying issue, but I’ve loathed QTE’s since the time of Dragon’s Lair, even in many games where I didn’t die because of QTE’s. Worst. Game Mechanic. Ever.

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   1. 

      ad

      March 8, 2013 at 7:12 pm

      They have their place, sometimes. God of War is reasonable, especially in GoW3 when the buttons to press are actually placed on the screen in the same position as they are on the dualshock. They tend to be contextual to the moves during regular play.

      On the other hand, QTEs during a cutscene? Worst. Thing. Ever. Yes, I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 4.

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6. 

   hazza

   March 8, 2013 at 6:49 pm

   in the beginning of my game it had the tooltip down the bottom saying what key to press, and the ! symbol in the middle of the circles. however, a little further on, the tooltips completely disappeared so i kept stuffing up the QTE’s. i eventually went into key bindings and saw the ! symbol was bound to the ‘F’ key. i didn’t have any problems after that.

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7. 

   rowjack

   March 8, 2013 at 6:54 pm

   it disappers in a split second for me most times, quick time events is a wrong name for tomb raider, it should be split second events

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8. 

   plmko

   March 8, 2013 at 9:58 pm

   What’s the point of the QTE mechanic in this game if every QTE is the same key/button in every cut-scene and gameplay section.

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   1. 

      blood

      March 8, 2013 at 11:27 pm

      They say it’s the engage the player…because pressing a key matters. Soon we’ll see enhance QTE’s called Rhythm QTE’s and you have to tap multiple keys in rhythm to get a cinematic moving.

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9. 

   korolev

   March 9, 2013 at 2:07 am

   There are times when the game just straight up doesn’t tell you what button to press. And sometimes the timing differs. Usually you can press the button almost anytime as long as the big circle doesn’t cross the smaller circle, but there are some fights which depend on you pressing the button when the big circle is almost crossing the small one. That was pretty annoying.

   I’m enjoying the game, but the QTEs are AWFUL. And some of the “Dodging” parts of the game are terrible as well.

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10. 

    Dunnowhathuh

    March 9, 2013 at 10:26 am

    Bought the game without realising it had quicktime events, made it all the hell more annoying for me. I died quite a few times because the damn prompt wouldn’t tell me what to do. Why don’t developers get it? Quicktime events need to die. If you really want to incorporate that shit, do it like they did in The Witcher 2, make that crap optional.

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       noobytwo

       March 9, 2013 at 11:05 am

       I agree, Quicktime events need to vanish. I cant believe they are still around. Quicktime events are a cheap way of gaming. Even back in the Mega Drive days I thought they would be on the decline and eventually just die.

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11. 

    dralezero

    July 30, 2013 at 11:15 am

    if you are having trouble with the timing of the QTE, try lowering your quality settings. even though my framerate was 20fps (surprisingly still very playable for me) it affected the QTE timing. At the end of the game I couldn’t beat it. It doesn’t think your mashing E when I was. I put quality all the way down to beat the last part of game.

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