Choosing factions is pointless! | Forums

[CoffeeClicks]

The cross platform faction war is an amazing concept, I've played a lot of Planet Side 2 and they got a lot right.
Right off the bat For Honor is missing the point of choosing factions. If I can play as any hero in the fight whats the point? It takes away the impact of choosing the faction! You also lose a shock and awe element by doing this, imagine playing as a knight going up against a decked out Viking warlord, if I have my own badass Viking, then I know how he moves I've played him its not a big deal. You also lose the faction loyalty! Plus it just makes no sense! Why would a Samurai fight for the knights? You lose so much by doing this, it takes always the role playing aspect.

Please rethink this.

[lsbneskmo]

My biggest gripe with the game so far... Been following this game for a while now and they make a huge deal out of their "faction war". Starting my first game completely removed the immersion of what i think they were going for and what i personally was hoping for.

Why would you select a faction to fight for and then have us all fight along each other? Completely ruins the immersion and atmosphere of the game. I was hoping to have a clash between knights, vikings in samurai... Now i don't know what we have (since the faction map is just some background kink to make it seems like what you do matters).

I really think they need to rethink this before release... People love being a part of a group, fighting other groups to see who's the best.... Kind of like console wars and everything else for that matter. It's pretty ******ed in most real life circumstances, but for a game it's a good thing, really good. Like mentioned, something they did really well in Planetside.

So, please... To save this game... for me at least. Let us select a faction, then have us play with heroes from that faction and that faction only (for faction war mode, and what ever character for custom games) and have us fight the other factions. Preferably there should also be a game mode where all three factions clash at the same time.... But please don't get me pumped up to go knighting only to start of fighting with viking grunts (the minion guys really need to be same faction too) and samurai heroes.

Ofc we should be able to go back and choose to fight for another faction instead, or play which ever hero in custom game modes... But common, you're the ones making all the faction fuzz... So give us some.

[Knightdemios]

everyone would just play for the samurai if you had it your way.

i prefer the nice balance between the factions as of right now.

Really there is no balance between the factions right now cause there isn't any factions really like the above people mentioned if you can play as any hero and are grouped with random hero's then were does the factions come into play!? I am a part of the viking faction thus i should only be able to use vikings in pvp and ai games (except customs obviously) but no i am fighting along side samuri's and knights.

[Dezlow-]

The whole Faction War thing is useless fluff, really sucks the devs spent time on this crap rather than fixing glaring issues or adding stuff like Ranked modes.

[ridemyrath]

If they only let you use the people on one faction then everyone is simply going to play the most popular faction to get buffs or bonus. It will make things unbalanced but I do agree I do not see much point in the faction system at this point but I am guessing we do not have all the game yet either.

[LordUrano]

Actually, I think Ubisoft should use the faction as an excuse to include bonuses playing as characters from your faction. Additionally they could reward the best players of each faction, idk how it should choose or rank these players, but it will make the game just much more fun to not regret your faction choice.

[Rainbowsix876]

On points my man. Choosing a side should be the way faction wars are supposedto be played.
Next update should be a season rank mode in 1v1-2v2 and maybe 4v4.

Wake the F up Ubicashsoft

[Siphonario]

That's a pretty good idea Lord Urano! By increasing the after game rewards if you've played as a faction specific hero, it would give more incentive for people to play to their faction. I can't imagine the devs would lock 66% of their game because of factions, so this is good alternative.

[Zhantay]

Just make so you can switch faction every season if you don't like their team of 4 and not let me fight against my own faction members because it doesn't matter who wins we both are wasting time fighting each other. Only problem with this Faction war is that they didn't give us the complete set. Emphasis and shows a video for each class and didn't not offer them so now you have the Samurai's without their tank so they fall short in 4v4's and the Knight and Vikings don't have their zoning class, (Valkyrie and Lawbringer) so they are losing more 1v1's and 2v2's. And I was so hyped to play the Shugoki too.

[Malec1983]

if you would be locked to your classes of your faction, that would make it nearly impossible to play along with your friends, who all have different flavour and favorite classes and it also would get boring quickly i guess from a tactical standpoint, always to play the same 4-6 heroes of your factions to fight always the same 4-6 heroes of the other factions.