Pay Attention to Your Focus Gauge, and the Enemy’s
Code Vein Tips & Tricks for Beginners
The Focus Gauge is one of the tougher elements of Code Vein to wrap your head around, especially since you don’t really have direct control over it. Basically as you fight your Focus Gauge will rise from things like taking damage, dealing damage, successfully dodging, guarding, and parrying.
When full you get a variety of beneficial effects like increased damage, or the ability to use a launch attack and stagger the enemy. The game even has a lot of passive Gifts that relate to Focus, like giving your weapon ice damage when you’re in focus mode, or increasing the effectiveness of dodge when in the mode.
Because of this, it’s hugely important that you pay attention to Focus, and know to press the attack when it’s full. The Focus gauge is the small grey one just above your health and stamina, and once it starts flashing blue you’ve entered Focus mode until the gauge totally drains.
Now the catch here is that most enemies also have their own focus gauge, that fills under the same conditions as yours. When an enemy’s focus fills they can become incredible unpredictable, and even launch extra dangerous attacks.
Luckily you can tell an enemy’s Focus is full when a flashing blue gauge appears above their head, just like with yours. At this point, it might be best to go on the defensive.
There are a lot of intricacies to Code Vein’s combat, but the push and pull between your Focus and the enemies is one thing you’ll always want to keep an eye on.
