Came up with this in another thread off the cuff.
Thought I would put it in suggestions.
How about since the dodge button does nothing when you are not pushing a direction to dodge in with the L-Stick, we make dodge plus heavy attack execute the zone attack.
That way we wouldn't need such a tight timing window for the button combination that frustrates us all when trying to sweep out soldiers / minions.
And we wouldn't have a false directional indicator registering for our opponents.
I'm on PS4.
I think pressing X plus R2 would be great and comfortable way to zone attack.