Configure the game (the “guardian”) to keep some space from things like walls, so you won’t punch them by accident
Don’t straighten your elbow completely when you punch (keep it a bit bent), otherwise you might damage it in real life
For the same reason, don’t do strange bad things with your posture, such as bending your spine sideways
Generally bad pain is bad, you know.
I can say more about this if it would help
End your first round early, maybe
Consider doing the first round for only 20 seconds or so to avoid becoming overly exhausted without noticing (this has happened to one person I saw).
How to stop?
You can just take your headset off. If you’re like me, you’re totally going to forget this, but you can.
You can also “hug” your opponent for ~5 seconds to end the fight.
Tips that would appear in a Tutorial, if it would exist, I think
Consider skipping this if you want to investigate the game’s mechanics completely by yourself, hpmor style, but here goes:
I’d start by fighting the “dummy”. You can see your stats on the right of the dummy, including how much damage your last punch did. Then go to “fight”
The game cares a lot about how strong you punch
Many punches you do will be too weak and do 0 damage
To see how much damage you did, check the color the punch when it hits (you’ll see)
blue = zero damage
yellow = nice damage
red = a ton of damage
You can doge, including by ducking (great workout if you ask me)
You can block. If your opponent’s punch hits your glove before it hits you, it will do zero damage to you
Professional boxers on Youtube say that this game is reasonably realistic (even if not perfect), I’d take that as a prior for most uncertainties that I have (mainly around what technique to use)
Consider starting at “easy”
There are even more tips in Youtube tutorials, but I would personally prefer to only be told about the ones I wrote here before I started playing
Is the game scary?
My brain was all like “omg this person is coming to hit us! nooo!!”
I fixed this by doing one round where I let the opponent hit me as much as he wanted, and my brain was indeed surprised that nothing bad happened in real life, but then it let me play
Tips for Thrill Of The Fight
Safety
Configure the game (the “guardian”) to keep some space from things like walls, so you won’t punch them by accident
Don’t straighten your elbow completely when you punch (keep it a bit bent), otherwise you might damage it in real life
For the same reason, don’t do strange bad things with your posture, such as bending your spine sideways
Generally bad pain is bad, you know.
I can say more about this if it would help
End your first round early, maybe
Consider doing the first round for only 20 seconds or so to avoid becoming overly exhausted without noticing (this has happened to one person I saw).
How to stop?
You can just take your headset off. If you’re like me, you’re totally going to forget this, but you can.
You can also “hug” your opponent for ~5 seconds to end the fight.
Tips that would appear in a Tutorial, if it would exist, I think
Consider skipping this if you want to investigate the game’s mechanics completely by yourself, hpmor style, but here goes:
I’d start by fighting the “dummy”. You can see your stats on the right of the dummy, including how much damage your last punch did. Then go to “fight”
The game cares a lot about how strong you punch
Many punches you do will be too weak and do 0 damage
To see how much damage you did, check the color the punch when it hits (you’ll see)
blue = zero damage
yellow = nice damage
red = a ton of damage
You can doge, including by ducking (great workout if you ask me)
You can block. If your opponent’s punch hits your glove before it hits you, it will do zero damage to you
Professional boxers on Youtube say that this game is reasonably realistic (even if not perfect), I’d take that as a prior for most uncertainties that I have (mainly around what technique to use)
Consider starting at “easy”
There are even more tips in Youtube tutorials, but I would personally prefer to only be told about the ones I wrote here before I started playing
Is the game scary?
My brain was all like “omg this person is coming to hit us! nooo!!”
I fixed this by doing one round where I let the opponent hit me as much as he wanted, and my brain was indeed surprised that nothing bad happened in real life, but then it let me play