The game fell below my expectations.
The game met my expectations.
The game exceeded my expectations.
I likely won't be playing For Honor when it's released.
I'm going to tell all my friends to play this game with me when it's out!
I so dearly want For Honor to be absolutely amazing!
But man are we struggeling with the connectivity issues and sliding players =( And the damn strict Nat thing that is only causing issues with Ubisoft games.
I keep my fingers crossed and hope. For Honor looks great and feels pretty good. It fills a niche Ive been waiting a long time for.
Right now the biggest issue, the elephant in the room who keeps knocking over all the china seems to be me though. Old and slow![]()
I likely won't be playing for Honor on release entirely because of the connectivity issues. Don't get me wrong, in purely gameplay terms, For Honor far exceeds my expectations and all of my friends are loving it too!
However, over the entire course of the closed Beta and now this open Beta, we were barely ever able to reliably connect to any match. It was just constant disconnects everywhere. We wait 10-15 for matchmaking to be done even on high-very high activity and when we finally find a match, we're all disconnected out of it as it starts. So infuriating.. it almost feels like no effort is being made to improve it too! We play from India but that has never stopped us from playing online in games with P2P multiplayer like Dark Souls.
I fear I might regret buying this game now.. the game will be fantastic but we won't even be able to play it.
Man, the game is so damn broken and buggy, are you really thinking roll out it in two days?
The all multiplayer system barely works: it take an eternity to find matches and even when you found one, the game can drop you and tell you "the game is full" .... And if you are lucky to found one there are very (high) chances the game match crashes and you lost all the progres gained.
What most troubles me is that back in the closed beta the game had this same problems, so probably by the time it launch (in two days) you will not have fixed anything.
And one last thing, obviously developers love vikings, because they are the most overpowered class in the game.
I pre-ordered a Gold Edition because this game looked amazing! The gameplay and combat are stunning.. until finally, Open Beta, when I first get to try out the game myself..
Oh.. My.. F.. G! I could never finish a game without someone disconnecting! There was an instance where I was playing with my brothers in a group.. suddenly everyone disconnected but 1 of my brothers and myself. I thought we were still playing together so I said to him, "that's ok, we can still win this together!"... until I looked at the scoreboard. WTF? how did we get thrown into separate games?? We're suddenly both are playing separate games against all CPU.
I love this game but these connection issues needs to change. Im now considering getting a refund on my Gold Edition.. purely because of these connections. This makes me very sad.. All the great games seems to be ruined by bad companies.. Either they're too cheap or they're money hungry.![]()
I like the beta alot but I have 1 suggestion/problem....and idk if it's just me or not but BLOCKING!!!
when fighting and blocking a attack coming at you I feel is not working as well as the closed beta version and it brings down the smoothness of the reaction timing for the game, if I would recommend anything to be fixed before the final release it would be this.
I really enjoy this game but the servers are killing it. I also would like that when you counter a guard break you get a little bit more time to counter it. Orochi seems a tad bit OP as with Nobushi but other than them I have fair enjoyable fights. Now bots are Annoying to fight in elimination because they seem to spam guard break and try to through you off edges, I've been thrown off edges by bots more than people. Other than those small gripes I have high hopes for this game.
Ive played the open beta for around 25 hours now, and ill list my issues.
Errors and disconnects
At multiple cases of matchmaking, Mid game and lobbies i was randomly kicked, it became so frequent i started counting them[LIST]
(network error occurred, returning to main menu) kicked from lobby before game (17 times) 0004000008
Kicked Mid game (12 times) 000600038
(An error has occurred, returning to menu) no other explanation given Kicked from games (7 times) 0006000019 (37)
(Unable to join match, game full) This made no sense, at least find a spot a reserve it before taking me out of matchmaking (countless times)
Other bugs
(game modes completely unavailable, multiplayer map distorted with no options to click) (6 times) lasted 20-30 minutes
My own suggestions for the game mostly quality of life
Need a chat log so i can see older messages
A match history or recent players to both report cheaters or add friends
Cant add in game friends?
Backfilling is anti fun, can give an advantage to either the allied or enemies depending on what your broken code decides
Had games where player wouldn't spawn in and we were 3v4 the whole game
Other times Bot was about to die and then would disappear to be replaced by a full hp player
Spawned into random locations with backfill, i spawned next to an ally and an enemy and obviously 2v1d him
Need a punishment for leavers to stop this? however fix the servers first
Hero Balancing
Overall the characters aren't badly balanced they all have clear strengths and weaknesses, the only issue i have is spam, common in most fighting games.
It does though feel anti fun when someone presses a button over and over again forcing you to react, for example spam of grabs (especially on cliffs), headbutt and other unstoppable charges or knock backs. Also revive and Sprinting might need changes in elimination, making it so sprinting drains stam or chasers get a boost of speed may solve it. as every game dissolves into 3 people chasing 1 person for an eternity until hes cut off or gets a revive off.
I love the combat as everyone does, however these network issues and the games population worry me, with all this negative feedback from the open beta i don't know how successful the release will be especially seeing as some idiot decided to release the game 2 days after an open beta which means none of the problems will be fixed
The gameplay in this game is so great, a game hasn't felt this satisfying in along time.._._ however, i am so disapointed in the massive connectivity issues,i was prepaired to renew my PlayStation+ just to play this game (Equivalent to buying the game twice in my country ) but since playing the open beta im having serious second thoughts. The only game mode i was able to play was the 1v1 deul mode. Every single time i tried to join dominion mode I was kicked from the match within 2 minutes of joining, if i was lucky enough to make it past the VS screen at all. This is your flag ship game mode! Connectivity issues of this magnitude should be unacceptable to any game, let alone one with sutch huge esport potential
I want to love your game, butit just wont let me play it. Why wont you let me love you?