[MAINTENANCE ALERT] – Game Update – March 30th 2017 | Forums

[FredEx919]

Hey Fred,

Is there any way you guys can give us insight into what you want to work on in the future? I know you don't want to give us false information and that's one of the reasons you guys don't post too much on updates until the day of or the day before. However, it would be nice to at least have a bit of a heads up on what you're currently looking at, just so people can rest easy knowing that some of the more pressing issues (on the player side anyway) are being looked at.

Something like, "We are currently investigating xx character's move kit in order to improve balance in the game". Even that alone doesn't have too much room for false info, but would let the community know that you accept that something is a problem for the health of the game and you're trying to find a good way to fix it without changing too much. I'm pretty sure even that little statement would placate a lot of the "non-transparency with patch stuff" complaints.

For sure. That's something we'll want to cover on our weekly streams. We're rescheduling the one we missed this week for tomorrow 3/31 at 1PM ET. We'll cover some concerns you all have had around the community and also take some questions. I'll send this over to the host as a question and in case you aren't able to catch it, i'll post all the details following the stream as well.

[thornh]

Excellent update. This is the type of communication many have been waiting for. You have an outstanding core game. With the developers and community working together with a positive attitude so much more can be done. There is an amazing amount of potential.

[Nolzan492]

All these new outfits and ornaments but still no Winged 1 for Wardens? It was shown in the progression trailer before the game launched why isn't it available??

[psyminion]

@ ubisoft

thanks for the communication and active steps you guys are taking to hone For Honor.

much appreciated!

I love this game.

[Ontari]

Thanks for cool update!

But when will this Champion Status start? I've just logged in, but I didn't get it for now. Will it be active during weekend?

[Madein1987]

Reading this at work is getting me hyped and now I can't wait to get home and log in to check the new outfit and get all that steel gains. Ubisoft, one thing I must admit is that you have a very passionate community. I am personnaly hungering for the blue posts on this forum and the sub-reddit. Reading this makes me feel empowered as a gamer seeing that you guys are actively making the game better. The ameliorations may not be as quick as some people would like to and its normal. Changes take time, every change must be part of a long process of studying the consequences and such. I just want to say a warm thank you. I love the game and wish you the best in what's to come. Can't wait for the stream.

[Pride_Of_Purity]

Gentlemans.

For starters I'll say that you have created an outstanding game. It's really fun to play. But please, do fix that crash after round end that have been introduced with patch 1.03. There is a whole huge thread on community support. Lot of people (me included) get's a champion status but we really can't do much with this...

Grab a link to the topic I have mentioned before:

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...-patch/page17?

I hope that everyone is having a great day!

[DAC.CaSs]

Hello Warriors,

Find below the details of upcoming game update for March 30, 2017. This update will happen today 3/30 at 11AM ET with an expected downtime of 20 minutes.

River Fort Map
We will re-introduce River Fort by end of day today.
We plan to re-introduce High Fort as soon as possible if everything goes well with River Fort.

Increased Steel income
We are increasing the overall income of Steel on all matches and Orders across all platforms. Here are the new rates:

• All matches Steel income are increased by 25%
• Daily Orders Steel income are increased by 33%
• Side Orders Steel income are increased by 50%
• Community Orders Steel rewards are increased from 500-1000 to 2000 Steel

• Those changes can raise your daily first 2 hours income by as much as 45%.

New Heroes Customization
We are bringing you a brand new Elite Outfit per hero (12 total). This week’s update includes:

• The Battlefield Chic Outfits for the Knights
• The Death Ravens Outfits for the Vikings
• The Death Blossoms Outfits for the Samurai

• Head over to the heroes customization menu to find these outfits.

Compensation for March, 28^th Ubisoft online outage
We will grant all players a 3-day Champion Status for the 8 hours outage. We are also investigating the Faction War rewards and will correct the situation soon.

How about fixing some bugs ? . for example the easy ones like : the collors that you get at lvl 1 but in the costumization they ar locked . or the item alert bug where thhe char have a glowing circle like you get a new item . or how about some char ballancing ?. oh no you implemented new outfits for more money. this game is almoust dead and you guys just put new cosmetics .

[suboptiml]

I think this is a solid start to Ubi potentially righting this ship.

I'm not that concerned with the steel gains honestly. What I'd like info on more than even steel gains is the cost the new heroes will be. Right now I'm sitting on close to 35k steel in anticipation of unlocking a new hero or two. If I knew in advance what they cost I'd be more willing to spend steel on other things now so I'm not having to do a ton of grinding when they are released. Perhaps even willing to actually buy packs or even the DLC I'd I can judge the relative merits of how to spend steel/dollars.

And that's with the understanding that unlocking the DLC heroes will likely be expensive in steel. That's part of the For Honor model, which I think is good in concept. Certainly better than DICE/EA splitting their player base by charging for new maps.

And I get that the devs want and need to make money too. I want the creators of this great game to make a good living while doing it.

In short, communicate with us. Let us know your plans so we can then plan our budgets accordingly.

And as a warning to pass along up the chain to any money-grubbing suits who may want to short-change us in some other facet to counter the steel gains: Absolver beta sign ups are available.

To look forward, I hope we see some more urgency from the devs on balancing issues. It's understandable to want to take your time to get it right. But some classes need some toning down sooner rather than later. Their easy ability to dominate creates an extremely unsatisfying experience in just facing them. They undermine the core brilliance of the game design.

[Kawira1]

Shietstorm over cosmetics only shows what's wrong with humanity...cheat glitches? WHO CARES! Broken vortex characters? WHO CARES! Expensive eye candy that needs to be grinded? BRING UP THE TORCHES BOYZ!