First of all I am grateful for the invitation to the closed alpha of For Honor. Despite the issues and the seldom disconnects, the game looks and feels great and you can be sure i will preorder the gold edition. I figured the least i could do was to put my software testing knowledge to good use and make a list of the issues i found and my suggestions.

Errors:

1. An error has occurred. Going back to main menu. (3397432595) :
What I was doing :
Playing with the same people a third time in a row. The error occurred in the first 15 seconds of a new game
2. Host migration unavailable. Going Back to main menu. (2904484995)
What I was doing:
During the matchmaking phase I pressed X (on controller).
*note: I couldn’t reproduce it. The two don’t seem to be connected since the issue has happened other times without me fulfilling that condition
3. Recovering gameplay state. Resuming match.Please wait.. If this error occurs more than 4 or 5 times the players will be returned to the main menu. Each time a small rollback will follow.

Bugs:
1. After the last enemy is killed, just before victory is achieved a message will say 1 enemy remaining. The message needs to be changed into “All enemies have been killed” or something along the lines.
2. After I raised my reputation / reknown to lvl 1. I can no longer see my abilities or configure my character. I wished to unlock an execution move and I wasn’t able to.
3. The algorithm that searches for teammates when there are AI in your team in a pvp game needs optimization. I was an entire game, start to finish with 3 bots in my team. It was unlikely that nobody could be found to join in that situation.
4. Ocassionally when you join a game in progress you are already dead
5. If I want to exit the game from the keyboard, pressing “Enter” on the keyboard on the exit to desktop confirmation message will close it but the game will not exit. I had to end the game from the task manager in this case.



Recommendations:
1. 1v1 duel with a friend is a must from my point of view. This would be the best way to learn the combat mechanics in pvp (if one or both haven’t played the game before)
2. Add a “Recently played with” functionality which would list the players you have played with the past x games (from your team or the enemy team). The purpose of this list would be to be able to invite them in party (even if they are not in the friends list) or add them to the list of friends.
3. I would like to view the level of the item I am about to dismantle into. I lose track of how many more items are needed to be dismantled until the item I’m wearing levels up.
4. A level of competitiveness like ranked games would be most welcome because the game shows tremendous potential
5. Add a possibility to chat with my team during battle without the enemy knowing. A group channel. Haven’t had time to properly analyze this, but I assume the chat in battle can be seen by the oponents as well.

Best regards and hope to join the other stages of the game as well.