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Anime was a mistake

Some new leaked execution effects, probably coming this Thursday;

edited 29th May '17 7:36:52 PM by StarOutlaw

New patch released on PC recently. Centurion got nerfed a bit. There will be a tournament mode eventually, and there's a tournament emblem contest.

Ornaments will now match armor color, and two have been renamed; Warden's Winged 1 is now Daubeny's Shame, and 10 armed Monk is now 12 Armed Monk.

Very importantly, there are now leave penalties; if you leave a match in progress via Quit or Alt+4 you will be barred from matchmaking for 10 minutes. There is a 30 grace window at the start of the match.

I've been hearing that parrying is going to be tweaked to make it less rewarding. My guess is that you won't be able to get a heavy or GB off of parrying a heavy, just a light, but parrying a light will left you. Side note; I learned that Conq can get a guard break from just blocking a heavy. That suddenly made playing Conq a lot easier for me.

edited 4th Jun '17 6:36:08 AM by StarOutlaw

Good. Rage quitting is annoying, especially when you're on the losing team and are suddenly alone because the rest of your team decides that it's a lost cause.

It's also the main reason for the game's connectivity issues in the first place, so it will help relieve a bit of that as well.

For Honor Is Struggling With Just Over 2,000 Average Users Months After Launch

That doesn't sound good. And I just bought the game for the PS 4, too. Granted, I believe those numbers apply for the PC version only (they mention some of the data being aggregated via Steam), so hopefully the lack of interest is just on the PC master race's side of things.

It's likely running into the Titanfall and Evolve problem: There's not that much to the game besides multiplayer and that gets really formulaic after a while and boring.

The number is in relation to Steam and not consoles or even Uplay.

Still, I think the dropped is noticeable, but I don't think it's just because of the game's quality. I think that the high learning curve put off a lot of players. This is a fairly deep combat system that fighting game players are used to, but I imagine a lot of people thought it would be closer to other hack and slash games.

There are other big games coming out too, like Tekken 7. There's also Overwatch and its anniversary, which has been taking up my game time.

The experience is different if you just play duels and brawls; no disconnects or tanks or gear to worry about. You just have to worry about character balance, but most casual players play dominion or deathmatch.

edited 7th Jun '17 8:49:21 AM by StarOutlaw

I was practicing parrying Centurion charged heavies, then got bored and decided to confirm if they recorded lines for all 99 possible rounds.

They did.

Dedicated servers have been announced. Not sure when they'll be implemented but probably by season 4. A new 4v4 game mode is coming in s4, but no details. New gear and an increase in level/rep cap is coming as well.

The Samurai won s2. As a knight, I'm very disappointed.

Just gonna say it's probably way too late to save this game even with Dedicated Servers.

The devs have revealed the monthly active users for June, and it was above 1.3 million. Players may have dropped off and don't play it as often, but it's not dead.

This thread has had little activity, but I think that's more due to the lack of story and character depth. I don't think many people here want to talk about the competitive side or post memes.

edited 27th Jul '17 3:37:28 PM by StarOutlaw

Especially the last one, as I'd rather the rest of you not know the full extent of my idiocy.

So anyway, theories on the new game mode; it may be like the story mission where you escort the battering ram, or something elsr asymetrical like capturing or defending points. Both of these are like the modes in Overwatch, which I think would be a good thing. They probably need the time to design maps specifically for that mode.

Season 3 announcements; Highlander and Gladiator are confirmed.

Apparently new chars are Highlander (with a large claymore, of course) and Gladiator (seems to be combining many gladiator types' look with a Retarius' trident, wearing little armor aside from a manica on the right arm and greaves on the shins and also wearing a small shield [that might be called a parmula but I can't be sure] with having their For Honor-requisite helmet be a Murmillo's, I think). Teaser with animations.

Huh. Apparently I take a long time to gather links and write.

It was the small gladiator types-binge, I swear.

New fellows clearly both do squats.

edited 3rd Aug '17 8:46:23 PM by VutherA

So the Legion finally gets a spear character.

Polearms for all, just like in real life!

Free weekend for all coming up;

edited 7th Aug '17 6:45:53 PM by StarOutlaw

Highlander and Gladiator trailers.

Kinda surprised by the muscle definition on the Highlander, the other ones tended to have a less extreme kind. Probably thought it was getting boring since the Gladiator's basically got the Raider's bod again.

Here and the emote and executions for them;

Some of their movelists have leaked too; Highlander goes into his offensive stance by holding the heavy attack, and Gladiator can follow up his sprint attack incase it misses, which could make it safe it opponent dodge it.

Both are guy locked too huh?

Welp so much for at least having the locked ones equal.

I was told there'd be Gladiatrices. There isn't?

No, Glad can be female.