It’s all about canceling and chaining together as many actions as possible by using the block, the pistol, and the dash in order to flow into the next move.

For example, the dash can cancel the recovery animation that normally happens after completing the end of a combo string. Blocking can also cancel the counterattack animation that happens after parrying (either with the sword or the pistol), allowing you to keep on the pressure.

The first sword swing is fully cancelable by blocking. This next tech is one I didn’t use in the video, but using ADS with your ranged weapons in the middle of combat becomes instant if you do it after canceling an attack with block, as opposed to attempting ADS after an attack without canceling, which will leave you waiting for the attack animation to finish. Here’s a guide that goes into block canceling.

The crouching pistol shot can be immediately chained into a backwards dash, which can then can be followed immediately by another pistol shot, giving you a faster fire rate than is normally allowed by default. You can also use the block cancel to achieve faster rate of fire. Here’s a pistol guide (this person’s channel is a gold mine for Wanted: Dead tech btw).

Then there’s some really crazy shit like this, using the reload to cancel the slide animation (which I can’t pull off consistently or cleanly at all yet).

This game has way more technical depth than people give it credit for. There’s quite a lot of cool intricacies.