Welcome To The Core Combat Update!
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Warriors,
The Core Combat Update is now live in For Honor! This update brings more dynamic offense, more consistency, and changes to help counter spammed light attacks. You can find more info in the video below:
The CCU directly follows from the Testing Grounds changes that many of you tried back in March. You let us know which changes improved the game, and which parts (like damage values) needed more refinement.
Similarly, we recently held a closed Early Access phase for the Core Combat Update and were informed of potential issues which are scheduled to be fixed shortly after release including:
- Peacekeeper's Light -> Light chain is now always dodgeable
- Highlander's Light -> Light chain is now always dodgeable
- Orochi's Unblockable Top Heavy Finisher now can always feint to Guardbreak and catch back rolls
- Various damage and stamina changes
We want to thank all Early Access participants for their detailed feedback, which helped us put these adjustments in place as soon as possible!
We will keep listening and working on issues that emerge as the entire community gets to play the Core Combat Update! Please write your feedback at our dedicated Reddit thread. Our community team will be hanging out in the thread to see what you think!
Thank you, Warriors, for coming on this journey with us. Enjoy the CCU!
Congratulations - For Honor is finally a really good game
The recent fight changes addressed the last major concerns i really had.
I cant believe im actually saying this.. after years and years i feel incentivized to spend money because the game has hit a point where its good. I think i will finally buy bloody marching fire and check out the arcade for the first time now that playing against bots actually helps you practice the same timings that human players have.
I cant believe I would unironically recommend FH to someone and go: yea for honor is pretty good game you should definitely check it out (id also tell him to play WM because that shiet is op af but hey - its not that important when the game mechanics are actually great and work - seriously).
I still remember when this game released and i basically just had to hear 1 piece of information - the game is p2p with 4v4 multiplayer - and realize you guys had no idea what you are doing back then and theres 0 reason to buy this. Eventually bought it on a deep sale.
And here we are. God its been a long hard roard but you made it. Congratulations.
death of the game on the Consoles
The gameplay is rubbish on the consoles, it is practically impossible to see any kind of light attack, especially in a chain of blows. It is very annoying that you pair the enemy's blow and do not drain any stamina, this only strengthens the spam !!!!
#SaveForHonor
This game is awful now its the worst
I was waiting for this update for a long time but as we can see ubisoft still has the ability to never get anything right this update has ruined the game and I want a refund not just for the money but for the time i have put into the game. Please ubisoft stop making games altogether youre not good at it
Please Remove Core Combat
My friends and I have been playing the game for about one year now. We really love to play breaches and honestly have a great time, however this new update has made us switch back to other games. Not only does warmonger feel like a pay to win, whichever team has her wins. Her bash can be spammed so slow players like shugoki have no chance in a 1v2 or greater, and her lights are too fast. Now everything is faster, which I get why was done. Players like me and my friend had a hard time blocking lights anyway so making them faster didn't help. I get this is not the case for everyone. Can we please at least get an option to not play with the updated game, this way players could at least choose what they want to play?
Worst update and character upon release in the games history.
Light spam fix was a fail. Lag compensation was a fail. Stamina changes are a fail. Damage numbers are a fail. New character feats are extremely OP and the character itself is OP because of them mixed with the horrendous CCU. Played since the beta, play and buy damn near every game your studios put out but you are on a major decline, your empire is cracking and falling down. You need to face the music that you lost your opportunity at a real competitive esports chance by releasing the game without dedicated servers and it took you far too long to implement that in. Every update for the last year and a half has done nothing but hurt the console players and those are your main players. Scrap the CCU and nerf the warmonger feats. Focus on or at least pay attention to your console players, stop treating pc as the master race (slight sarcasm here, really slight). I have a ridiculous amount of time spent on this game and now I just feel like all the love and time I've spent on this game was an absolute waste. Its trash now, zero fun. Should have just kept on balancing the characters 1-3 at a time. You aren't fixing any problems by simply reacting, you're creating more problems. I'm at a point where I don't even think I would be interested in a For Honor 2. Valhalla is your last chance with me personally as your assassin's creed games are the only thing worth a damn anymore. Holding hope for gods and monsters and skulls and bones.... flop those and I'm gone. May not mean much losing one player but I've been a very outspoken and dedicated fan for longer than I can remember. You squandered a beautiful possibility practically overnight. And what's worse is how long you pushed it all back to release literal trash. You are quickly joining the ranks of anthem and fallout 76, you do not want to be there. I could go on but it just makes me sad and angry and feels like kicking a sick dog, which I also don't like. 😔
I would like more stamina for offense
Stamina cost of zone attacks
I feel that the stamina cost of zone attacks are far too high. Using a zone normally takes a third to half of your stamina, which leaves little for other forms of offense. I think stamina cost of zone attacks should be standardised to the cost of normal heavies and lights. For example:
- for every heavy that thrown in a zone, like normal heavies, it should cost 12 stamina.
- for every light that is thrown in a zone, light normal lights, it should cost 6 stamina.
- if the zone involves a bash(e.g. Gladiator), then the bash should be the cost of a standard short bash, e.g. 12-15 stamina.
These changes would make single hit and multi-hit zones fairer and allow for more offense.
Stamina cost of light attacks
The devs made the right call to try to address light spam and make the game more inclusive in the process. However, they took it too far. They didn't need to increase the stamina cost of lights to reduce light spam, they only needed to do the following:
- reduce the damage of light attacks along with heavies to give more time for reads
- reduce the hit stun of lights to allow players to dodge out of their opponent's light chains
- add frame disadvantage to light finishers so the defender can get the next attack first
Increasing stamina cost on lights reduced offense overall since anyone using lights had less stamina for other mixups. This was 1-2 steps backward from the progress we gained from the removed stamina penalties on blocks, parries, and misses.
The new update has ruined everything.
Assassins like my main Shinobi have been screwed over especially him because everything he does can get countered.He has the lowest amount of health in the game and the same about damage and why was his quad dash removed when Pk and the viking 2 have more dodges. Being the weakest in the game, he shouldn't have a block timer if hes going against Shugoki, Centurian, Warmonger, Jang Juan, and such are so overpowered especially Warmonger since she have the most overpowered feats. Like who came up with a Apollyon ripoff idea. I started playing again yesterday since I wanted to see how things were but first match in, I went against four of her and my entire team ended leaving. I want to rip my hair out after every round because its so frustrating going against overpowered heros with people who non stop gank. This is by far the worst update I've seen in a while for a game with such a big population. I loved the game last season since a few things were more balanced but this season is an absolute **** show. Parries are even harder to do with attack speed increased and un-blockables barely even being able to move out the way of. I would prefer to play Predator Hunting Grounds than this disaster of a game.I love Breakpoint more than this game even though thats considered worse than Wildlands (which after owning both, I can kinda see why.) This update/ future of the game needs to be re thought of which can take inspiration from Ghost of Tushima with that combat system and add other popular Ubisoft series looks into the mix ( Rabids even got a patch in Wildlands.) Like what about even adding predator into the mix, he has weapons we can use and a good set of tools that wouldn't be overpowered. Fix this game before it gets worse.