Faction War: Why is Nobody using War Assets? | Forums

[Psyperactive81]

Hey Guys!!!

I just checked out www.forhonor.ubisoft.com to how the Faction Far is going and much to my surprise, I see very little participation from almost everyone.

As of right now, there are only 19 Vikings, 21 Knights, and 14 Samurai actively participating in the Faction War.
Currently the Samurai and the Knights are tied with 17 territories each while the Vikings have 26 territories, which is more than 50% above. This means the Samurai are working very hard to keep up, while the Knights are slacking. It's seems that only the Vikings are taking this war seriously.

Edit: In response to some of the posts below, here is a tutorial video: https://youtu.be/NUqYs3hBh7o

I know there are other aspects in this game that you're all testing and checking out, but don't forget about your faction that you've pledged alliance to. It would be a shame to find out that less that a hundred people wrote the first chapter of the Faction War.

So I am calling out to all the Beta Players lucky enough to be here to do their part in the Faction War, else it becomes the Fraction War.

I am not lucky enough to be at home during the Beta so I am missing out on all the fun, but I am watching from the sidelines and cheering you all on. For Honor!!!!!!

Edit 2: It has been clarified below that the Leaderboard I mentioned only inlcuded the Generals, not all the participants. So I apologize for my assumption. However, this conversation has brought to light that many either were not aware of the Faction War or do not fully understand the mechanics, or are not very interested as it is not very inmersive or clear. Also, the time to do the deployment is very limited and in between matches where most spend thier time customizing instead of deploying.
If this is to be the backbone of the game, it needs to be looked into a bit deeper to be made a bit more user friendly

Cheers
Psyperactive81

[Xiellify]

There was no tutorial about it so most likely people miss that, I did. I assumed winning a match would automatically give us a point. Maybe they can add in the scoreboard the mini pop-up about War Assets after their first match.

[Psyperactive81]

Here is a quick link to the tutorial video
https://youtu.be/NUqYs3hBh7o

[Altair_Snake]

Aren't those numbers the territories?

And I think people aren't caring about it, because it isn't much of a game. It's just some micro-managing that doesn't have much wit involved. Unless I'm msising something, it seems to be about playing for the breakpoints.

I think they were clever with the vibe and the rewards, but the deployment of the assets is so "meh". Maybe it would help if players could accumulate their assets, for playing for many games, then, whenever they want... put the assets where they want. Having to do it between games is also a bit a of drag and easy to forget (I got use d to do it, but I guess many people didn't).

I wish the deployment involved a little bit more strategy, or were simply automated - it would be so different. The rewards and the map changes sound awesome, though. Can't wait. Anyone know if you get more rewards if you deploy more troops, or is it all about being in the winning faction, even if you don't dpeloy anything?

[Psyperactive81]

According to what I saw in the tutorial video, which I have already added to my OP, it states that the rewards will be granted to "players who participated, depending on the rank of their faction".

As for you question regarding the numbers, I posted both the current territory update, as well as the total amount of participants from each faction. As a quick reference, Samurai and Knights are tied with 17 territories while the Vikings currently have 26 territories.

[Angry Ari 1]

Where'd you get the idea that Knights are slacking? I've been dumping war assets into whatever area I think is about to flip/needs help. In any case, one reason why the fight seems to have been going back and forth between Samurai and Vikings is due to popularity; between Anime and the Vikings TV show, there's a fair amount of people who are psyched to be living their ninja/barbarian fantasies. Knights are cool and everything... but they are also very vanilla. This coming from a Knight.

[Psyperactive81]

Did not mean to offend, just going off the Leaderboards.
There are more knights participating than any other faction and they are currently tied with the Samurai who have the least amount of participants.
The only faction who's territories are consistent with number of participants are the Vikings.
I apologize if I offended, and its good to hear somebody as passionate as you is involved

[EothK]

Honestly it's hard to care about a faction when playing a Knight or Samurai still adds to my "Viking Faction".

I still think Faction Wars should be a seperate playmode in which you pledge to a Faction and in fights can only select from that Faction.
Points gathered there would go into the big pool for the territory struggle.

It keeps insisting I am part of a Faction war, yet the game/developers do not dare to actually make it a Faction thing.
So yeah I tried it for the sake of Beta testing but as a mechanic I see no fun or importance in it.

[Psyperactive81]

That is a Good Point.
I think that would be a great feedback topic because I think they did it to avoid limiting the available characters, but it would make more sense to have a specific mode for it.

[rcwd]

In one of the Loading screen tutorials it says that if you dont use your faction stuff it automatically gets put into all available sections evenly, so this post is kinda redundant.