Dodge a red-flash attack just before it lands. The October preview build describes this as a Perfect Dodge. Red is the warning to use evasive timing; it is not the blue cue associated with the special parry response.
Read the attack after the red warning
A flash tells you which kind of defense to prepare. The attack animation still tells you when the hit arrives. Reacting to every red flash with an immediate dodge may be too early if the enemy continues its wind-up.
Earlier demo footage illustrates the warning; use your selected controls rather than assuming the pictured binding.
Watch the enemy’s movement after the warning and aim the dodge at the approaching strike. No universal delay, frame count, or safest dodge direction is verified across the game’s different encounters.
A simple practice sequence
- Recognize the red cue and prepare to evade.
- Keep watching the enemy’s weapon or body movement as the attack develops.
- Dodge close to the moment of impact.
- Read the follow-up before assuming that one successful evade ends the sequence.
The last step is a practical caution for learning an encounter, not a claim that every red move has an additional hit.
Avoiding the wrong defensive habit
If you are accustomed to answering every warning with a parry, separate the color recognition from the timing practice. Blue and red warnings ask for different reactions in the current preview description.
Button mappings depend on your selected controls, and the same timing is not guaranteed to work on every difficulty. Use the dodge input shown by your selected controls. The full game is still unreleased as of October 23, 2026, so these instructions describe the observed October combat system.
Sources and related reading
Last checked October 23, 2026. Preview observations remain subject to the release build.
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