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I now am a proud owner of a receipt that says "Your pre-order for For Honor has been cancelled". Here's why:
This game showed promise, a fighting game set in times of Knights and Samurai's and showed off a new fighting system that seemed to work really well ..... if you can ever find someone to actually duel with without being destroyed from behind by other enemies. I played a total of 8-10 hours of this Beta and stretched my experience over all 3 of the game modes. 95% of my duels were interrupted by either other teammates stealing my kill at the last second, or by another enemy surprising me from behind. The other 5% were duels i played in the 1v1 mode which obviously cannot be interrupted. There was even one moment where i initiated the kill animation to execute another knight, only to have the animation cut short and beheaded myself. My killer then walked over to his fallen ally and revived him, showing me that my interrupted animation didn't even count.
Lets mention something good .... The Player v AI mode .... because the only real players are helping you. The game is fun in this mode ... but way way way too easy as the AI knights do not pose much of a threat. Games will be over in less that 3 minutes playing in this game mode. Although fun to cut through endless hordes of enemies without the risk of a rogue player charging you and cutting you to ribbons, it quickly becomes too easy and you will want to go Player v Player ... BUT DON'T DO IT.
Forget the Player v Player mode. You will get no moments of chivalry at all. All your duels will be interrupted by other players 100% of the time unless you are playing a 1v1 duel. Either that OR the other player will get down to 10% health, realize he is about to lose and run away to escape or for back-up. There is absolutely no system in place to make duels fair or even. If you are locked in a kill animation you should be invulnerable until that animation is finished. Other players should also not be able to run once they have initiated the duel mode. These 2 HUGE FLAWS will make your gaming experience the most frustrating you will have ever played.
"For honor"? It should be called "No Chivalry" - Total multiplayer clusterf*** !!!
The classes are stupidly balanced. I know its a Beta but we are 2 weeks from release. No buffs or nerfs will help these problems. The most under powered class is the Knight. You will be chopped into small pieces by the Vikings and their ridiculous perks that make them invulnerable tanks, and if you do manage to find a lone samurai to duel with, his speed means he will escape long before you land any killing blows, probably using a smoke bomb as soon as you get him below 25% health. The samurai's are ideal for running around capturing points that make the match an easy win for a team of 4 samurai's, but they wont get a single kill fighting again 4 vikings because all they do is do unblock-able charge attacks and perks that mean they can block ALL 3 WAYS SIMULTANEOUSLY???!!!
The side you choose to fight for at the start makes NO DIFFERENCE at all ... meaning a wrong (unchangeable) choice at the beginning will cost you plenty of loot later on when your team continually loses even though its no fault of yours. No matter what team you choose you can play as all heroes anyway and choosing a specific class doesn't not give you any bonus buffs, loot or help to fight as a specific class. I chose to fight for the knights, so i thought i may get at least some extra exp when i chose a knight in battle but i received no benefits whatsoever making the initial choice pointless and random and a loot lottery.
This game is a perfect example of my point that ... multiplayer is evil if not done properly. I hate playing with other people online because .... suprise - suprise .... people are (enter swear word of your choice here). And the worst part is other people dictate your gaming experience in a game like this. The fighting system needs a overhaul so that duels cannot be interrupted at all and hero cannot run once a duel has been initiated.
Im just very glad this beta has saved me £40 and £40 of inevitable DLC and i hope it does the same for other people who prefer fair strategic multiplayer, rather than messy run around like a chicken with its head cut off, unfair game-play full of idiot people.
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its a game sold on its dueling mode and saying "end of story" wont change that. if it doesnt have duelling then your just playing a mindless multiplayer cluster game that every un-intellegent sheep of a player would be happy with but some of us prefer actual decent games to play.Originally Posted by SiewcaRaka Go to original post
screw off my threads unless your willing to be objective and respect opinions.
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Classic idiot online which only proves my point, i assume you can defeat a whole team of vikings while 4v1 when you can only focus on 1 at a time?Originally Posted by yakri13 Go to original post
get the hell off my thread you moron
