Hello everyone,

I know the threads about Nobushi's hidden stance not working for some people are legion, specially on reddit, but since I couldn't find any Ubisoft answers anywhere, I decided to come here and summarize the problem.

So the issue is that, due to it's very precise input requirement, people are struggling to enter Nobushi's hidden stance. The fact that the input needs to be more precise than Conqueror's and Warlord's full block stance is fine, but it doesn't seem to be working as intended.

I am playing For Honor on PC, with an Xbox 360 controller, through Steam's Big Picture. I always loved the Nobushi and as I went more in depth with it, I decided to master the hidden stance. I started practicing it versus bots. I only could reach the hidden stance 1/10 times while only focusing on the joystick, controller on the desk. So it's not impossible, but almost - and it will probably truly be impossible in a real fight where other things require attention.

I then thought it might come from my controller, despite it being rather new. I recalibrated it and nothing changed, I wasn't able to reach the hidden stance more than 1/10 of the time as I previously was.

Some people are saying it is a bug due to Big Picture. Could be. But I believe the issue comes from something else too.

I tried it at some friend's place, on a PS4, and I was only able to reach the hidden stance 1/3 of the time while focusing on it and it was nearly impossible in real fights. He even told me that he wasn't playing Nobushi at all anymore for that very specific reason.

So despite the fact that the problem may also come from Steam's Big Picture, the main one seems to be about joysticks sensitivity. Keyboard and Mouse players have no issue whatsoever to reach hidden stance, by just pressing a key. It is pretty clear that it is a controller issue, which represents a large majority of For Honor players.

Like I said previously, there is tons of threads on this very issue, from which I've learnt that some people, by getting use to it, can achieve Hidden Stance with controller but that it is then almost impossible to maintain and they slip out of it before being able to combo off of it. Some others have remapped the right joystick aimed down input to another button in order to be able to reach hidden stance. That is a trick, not a solution. Most of the other have simply given up on Nobushi.

As for myself, Nobushi is on stand by, I won't be playing it until I find a solution, until we get an answer from Ubisoft. For Honor is a great game, and it would be even greater without an issue that prevents controller players to play one specific character properly.

Thank you everyone for your time, and you Ubisoft community manager for noticing it at some point I hope,

Have a good day/evening