Dead Island 2: How to Block | Combat Guide

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While Dead Island 2 is a relatively straightforward zombie-killing RPG, there are a handful of things that go surprisingly unexplained by the game’s tutorial. From useful pieces of knowledge like the fact that to get into most houses, you might have to simply break a window instead of search tirelessly for a key to simpler things like how to slot weapons into the weapon wheel, the game relies a lot on players figuring things out as they go.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, plenty of games follow similar conventions, however, Dead Island 2 leaves out some basic explanations that would be nice to know for players looking to get the most out of their time in “Hell-A.” One such mystery is blocking.

Here’s everything you need to know about how to block in Dead Island 2.

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Blocking is mentioned very briefly in Dead Island 2‘s tutorial, however, its explanation is a little confusing. Players are told that they can block by hitting LB on Xbox controllers and L1 on PlayStation 5 controllers in a tutorial pop-up message, however, when doing so, they’ll quickly come to find out that LB and L1 cause them to dodge, not block.

If, like me, you then assume that dodging and blocking are one and the same in Dead Island 2, you’d be sadly mistaken since you’ll still take full damage if hit by an attack while dodging. So, what gives? As it turns out, blocking is a skill that’s unlocked for some characters right from the word go while others need to unlock it.

Characters will either start the game with the ability to block or dodge when hitting LB or L1, but Dead