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I'm tired of all the "FH is dead" posts. We all recognize this, but I, like many others, still enjoy the basic concept FH was trying to achieve. So I want to share what I believe Ubisoft needs to do to fix For Honor. The long and short of it is that FH has been mismanaged right out of the gate when it first was launched. We're left with a game that is like a leaky boat with the devs desperately trying to patch the leaks, but for every one they fix, three more pop up.
You need to fix the two core problems with this game that have plagued FH since it's release; balance and online stability. These aren't easy fixes, and Ubisoft execs are going to have to throw some serious money at the game if they want it to succeed. You cannot continue with your current development cycles and ever hope to get in front of the many, many issues this game currently has. And the more time/resources you spend trying to fix problems, the less can be spent on new and interesting content for the user experience. Forget about ornaments, forget about new costumes, and forget about executions. You need to focus all your energy on balance and connectivity. That is what drove people away. Some of us stuck with it for longer than others, but everyone reaches a tipping point.
Goofy mood effects or ornaments aren't going to bring people back, people who left because they were fed up with stuff like the ridiculous Centurion's cut scene of death. You know, where you can't do anything, and are forced to watch your character get rag-dolled for 5 seconds while your screen jarringly shakes. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to be fired. You never want to put players in a situation where they are helpless to respond to what is happening to them. It is just bad design.
Once you can get these two major issues dealt with, you need to relaunch the game to highlight these changes. By that I simply mean a big event to promote the change. But you need to be clear and precise that this is a major overhaul of the game. You can make it coincide with the launch of a new season but what players really need to see from you is a serious and concerted effort to address the issues that are adversely effecting players' experience in FH. Up until now there has been a somewhat contemptuous attitude when critical issues are highlighted to the FH team. Typical responses as seen on the livestream were to brush off the issue, stating your data doesn't support what the community says, or in other cases that you need more data before you will acknowledge the issue at all. Players are not happy with the state of FH. Now I'm not saying that you need to cede to the wishes of everyone who has a bad game and complains about class X, but FH needs a serious departure from the way things have been going so far for it to get back on its feet.
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Didn't read but simple answer: get rid of centurion.
Then change spamables and gimmicks so they can't be used continuously and so they don't render you useless for all of the 30 seconds you're on your back then dead.
Then make connections better and balance matchmaking. I shouldn't have to restart my xbox before i play every day if i don't want to lag out or have every other chars be bots
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good sentiment, but it's never gonna happen this games playerbase is gonna dwindle down until there is 2 dudes left stuck in a perpetual duel match never seeing or playing against anyone else... I love this game mind you... but really...yeah nothing will change so i just have to deal with the fact that Ubisoft will never admit what they did wrong about like mass effect andromeda never will, but they WILL however gladly place the blame EVERYWHERE but themselves like a small child.
Those fat lumberjack piggies will never be men, because they lack the balls to stand up and admit the truth. I'm 38 and i'm pretty sure i had more balls before i hit puberty than these developers do...granted as i said they are not the only ones, every game that has issues nowadays blames the prob on everything but the perpetrator.
This generation of consoles has been such a let down... buggy game afeter buggy game after buggy game... in the past usually console games get better as they age... but ps4, xbox 1 hasn't and its a damned shame... when a console is hitting its golden years... it should be pumping out nothing but flawless games, but these developers have somehow ingrained it into weak minded individuals that a "buggy game is the standard".... yeah try that in ANY other field and you'll be jobless... oh heres a 2019 ford truck... its the best ford truck we have ever made with new innovations.... buuuuuut there is a glitch in it where you can only drive in a straight line... i'm sorry but we are investigating the problem and we will have it patched 6 months down the road.... DOn't you love our new truck it has sooo many safety features and paint jobs... oh here look buy the newly redesigned chrome bumper.... oh i'm sorry we accidentally made it from wax paper...wait 6 months for us to resolve the problem...smh
meanwhile there 20 fan boys over there screamin you just need to learn how to drive better to get around the fact you can't turn the steering wheel...
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I took a break of 1 month and I have to say Im a little bit surprised there are still connections problems. Thats my main complain. And I think thats really what killed a lot of the community (I play on pc).
I returned from my break along with two friends. One is still playing with me to do orders and the other just quitted again because of the constant disconnections.
I really enjoy the game.. when it works. I even continue fighting when I get matched against superior enemies with better gear and more experience than me. But those dc's are the main problem, beyond the balance and mm.
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I took a break of 1 month and I have to say Im a little bit surprised there are still connections problems. Thats my main complain. And I think thats really what killed a lot of the community (I play on pc).
I returned from my break along with two friends. One is still playing with me to do orders and the other just quitted again because of the constant disconnections.
I really enjoy the game.. when it works. I even continue fighting when I get matched against superior enemies with better gear and more experience than me. But those dc's are the main problem, beyond the balance and mm. At least for me.
Hope they fix those problems soon.. I beginning to notice Im fighting against the same players at night. And thats because of the low pop..
I really want to see this game fixed. I love it.
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Thank you for your input. Improving balance and stability are definitely two of our biggest goals and we're slowly trying to work our way there. If we could have one giant overhaul that would fix all the problems we would definitely like to have that too, but it's not quite so simple.
Balance - balance will always be an ongoing issue. Perfect balance is incredibly difficult and becomes even more difficult when we have to consider balance across different game modes. Believe me, we are in no way disregarding your feedback on balance as a community. But balance changes take time if we want to try to at least make sure we're doing the right thing. We are doing our best to respond as quickly as we can to community feedback about balance issues, but we do also like to have the supporting data as well in order to back up and confirm that we are making the right decision with the changes we make.
Connectivity - definitely still a major project that we're working on. We've seen incremental improvements as of late, and we hope that the quit-penalty will work to improve it even further (we're sorry about all the bugs that join-in-progress caused, which is why we disabled it temporarily again) - but we have even bigger changes planned that we hope will help us see a big leap in improvement. It's still being worked on so we can't give out any specifics just yet, but I just wanted to let you know that we're most assuredly not slacking off on this front.
That being said, I do appreciate that you took the time to write up your sentiments and thoughts. I just wanted to give you a bit of insight into our thought process and our perspective on these two topics. Always feel free to comment/expand further if you like on what you think could be improved on!
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why cant you guys just add servers? WHY? o w8 nvm. U guys never planned to keep For Honor as a growing game. mb mbOriginally Posted by UbiNoty Go to original post
