VV: Ultimatum Controls & Keybinds - PC, Console and Mobile

Movement and combat:

Blocking and parrying share M2, and the difference is pure timing. Holding M2 blocks: incoming damage is reduced but not negated - you still take chip damage - and every blocked hit fills your posture bar; fill it completely and you are guard-broken and left wide open. Tapping M2 at the exact moment an attack lands parries instead: all damage is negated, the enemy is staggered for about one second, and you get a free punish window.

The documented window is roughly a quarter-second before impact. Tap too early and you slide into a regular block (chip damage, posture loss); too late and you eat the full hit. The tutorial boss is the intended training dummy - practice there until tapping on the attack's impact frame is muscle memory.

Enemy attacks are color-coded and each color demands a different answer. Green attacks use the standard parry timing - tap M2 as they land. Orange attacks use an alternate deflect timing, slightly offset from green; the tutorial boss teaches both patterns. Red attacks glow before they land and cannot be blocked or parried at all - your only answers are pressing F at the right moment to counter, or dodging through with Space, whose invincibility frames let you pass clean through the hit if your timing is right.

Q is your faction's flashstep - Shunpo for Soul Reapers, Hirenkyaku for Quincy, Sonido for Hollows. It consumes Reiatsu and carries a short cooldown, so it is both your engage and your emergency exit; spamming it offensively leaves you with nothing to escape with.

The advanced technique is the Z-Step: feeding a flashstep input during a skill's recovery window cancels the animation, letting you chain moves that should not chain. The community recipe is to knock an opponent airborne, then immediately follow with a Z-Step-compatible move into rushdown (Shift + Q). Note that Shunpo-tier flashstep is a hard requirement and lives in the Speed skill tree, so Z-Stepping is gated behind Speed investment.

The game is playable on PlayStation and Xbox, but controllers have fewer inputs than a keyboard, so some actions ship unassigned by default - you bind them yourself. The procedure (identical on all platforms): open Settings via the cog-wheel icon on the top-left hotbar, go to Keybinds, select the action, choose Record Keybind, then press the button or combination you want; Unbind clears an awkward assignment. None of our sources publishes a verified button-by-button PS/Xbox default table, so we list none - check your in-game Keybind menu rather than trusting any site's guess.

Mobile plays through on-screen touch prompts that surface contextually. It is serviceable for grinding and exploration; parry-heavy content is markedly harder without a mouse, which matches the general community advice to learn bosses on PC or controller first.

Console caveat (community-documented, June 2026): players report there is no controller remapping on console, so console keybinds cannot be changed - unlike PC binds, which are fully rebindable.

Community terminology and caveat (June 2026): "yellow kanji" attacks are grabs. Players widely report the space dodge is unreliable against them, with grabs connecting even within the first 0.2 seconds of a dash.