
Unfortunately, there’s no way to ambush an animal or do something cool like drop out of a tree for an instant kill.

You should then attack the animal as long as you have a weapon equipped, which will either drive them off or, if they’re wounded, kill them. To counterattack, you’ll need to hold the left analog stick towards the animal attacking and release A/X when you hear the prompt. You must wait for an animal to attack you, at which point a prompt will come up to hold A (Xbox)/X (PS4). Instead, you can only counterattack animals. Not only is pretty much everything faster and stronger than you, but you don’t actually have the ability to attack pre-emptively. How do you attack enemies in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey?Ĭombat in Ancestors is really stacked against you. The AI is pretty terrible at this, but it has a chance of working, and it also gives you a walking supply of arms that you can call over to you whenever you need it. Once you have the right neuronal, they can defend themselves as long as they have a weapon.

It’s also a good idea to distribute sharpened branches to all the elders and adults of your tribe. This allows you to mass-produce sharpened branches quickly. With the basalt chopper, you don’t have to strip the limbs from dead branches first, you can just chop them off. Sharpened branches are stackable, so I suggest after reaching a new settlement for the first time, make a basalt chopper and build a few piles of them around your camp. This does the most damage, and you can usually kill a tiger or warthog with two or three strikes. As you level up your attack neuronals, you’ll have more of a chance to pierce an enemy when you counterattack with a sharpened branch. However, it does have a drawback in that it shatters when you use it. The sharpened branch seems to do the most damage of any other weapon in the game.

You can make a sharpened branch as follows: So far, the best weapon we’ve found is the sharpened branch.
