Samson Gameplay Tips & Tricks

We are so excited to be live with Samson: A Tyndalston Story! Watching you play the game since the launch yesterday has been truly amazing. We thought this would be a good time to give you some helpful tips and tricks for some of the features in the game, as well as address some points of feedback that we have heard. Read on for the full details. We will be back with more updates and information soon. “Let’s clear some debt!”

Melee Combat

Light Attacks

Quick attack that deals low health damage and some posture damage. Easily blocked/evaded if overused. Light attacks are effective, but if you do them a lot then enemies will start to predict you and block or dodge more. Especially for higher level enemies.

Heavy Attacks

Slow attack that deal high health damage. Prone to being interrupted so use with caution. A heavy attack not only deals more damage, but gives you an opening to follow up with a shove or some lights without fear of getting blocked. But heavy attacks are slow, and enemies can take the opportunity to get a quick jab in against you.

Grab / Shove

Grab an enemy and push them into environmental hazards to deal massive damage. Or push them into their friends and watch them fall over like bowling pins. Great for crowd control. Can also be evaded/blocked if overused. If you're fighting a group, hazards can be a quick way to thin their numbers, or at least buy you some time and space.

Use Left Trigger/G to grab an enemy and choose the direction you want to shove them.

Weapons

Use weapons to even the odds when outnumbered. Increases your melee damage. Throw them at enemies to deal massive posture damage. So you're holding a weapon, but the enemies are hanging back, or maybe they're just coming at you. Reach out and touch someone by throwing that weapon (Left Trigger/Q). But stay on your toes, they'll throw things back at you, too.

Barge

Press A to perform a Barge. This lets you break dynamic objects and knock into enemies, briefly disrupting them. Some hazards can be pushed over on purpose to try and hit someone on the other side (Left stick and Left Trigger/ G).

Parry / Perfect parry

Parry incoming attacks to avoid taking damage. Time the parry perfectly to trigger a counter attack.

Evade / Evade counter

Evade incoming attacks to avoid taking damage. Time a light attack after evading to perform a counter attack.

Car Repairs

You can repair any car in one of the workshops, located at the gas stations. This is also where you can pick up your car if it is wrecked.

If your car becomes totaled, you can find it in a garage, but you have to pay for the repairs in order to drive it out of there.

To enter the garage, simply drive or walk up to the door and it will open automatically without a prompt.

Wanted State

The police will escalate their search efforts if you take down police vehicles or officers, and if you beat down civilians.

To successfully lose your Wanted state, you need to first escape the crime scene that is visualized on your mini map. Then, you need to break line of sight to your pursuers and stay hidden until the Wanted countdown timer runs out.

Remember to turn off your engine while hidden from view (RB on controller / X on keyboard) to decrease the