How to dramatically reduce frustration in FH
This is a repost of a response that someone provided to something I asked about in general discussion and my follow-up. It is an excellent suggestion to enhance both the game and the community, and I felt that it should be put here.
Originally Posted by pure_energist
Ubisoft, please pay attention to how many new players will have similar feelings as the OP and perhaps provide some additional videos within the "HOW TO PLAY" section informing the base about guaranteed hits. GB's, Off wall Staggers, certain blocks... With this information there will be less anger over losing since they will have an actual explanation to why they couldn't block an attack or why their attacked left them open... Many will assume its a bug, glitch, or connection issue and rant about that. I havn't been on a game forum in YEARS, and only started on this one because I was excited about For Honor and knowing it was a brand new design I thought a forum would be a great resource. Hadn't I been informed by this player base I would have put this game down the first month because I would have believed it was broken or I just wasn't getting it. Making players seek out information means they will be forced to go to forums where they will see A LOT of Angry postings that will only feed their dissent with the game as well. Please consider adding more informative videos to the games tutorial about your fighting system and what to expect.
Originally Posted by SikanderAzam
You nailed it in saying this. Even when I get angry, I have to concede that the overwhelming majority of the time the thing I'm angry about is probably not a bug, but with the lack of any Ubi provided information on recovery times, guaranteed hits, off wall staggers, and GB mechanics, there are still even after a couple months of playing things that I genuinely don't understand. Forum members like you have helped me out with some suggestions, but the details like this which are a total necessity for a good player to learn to become a great player are not intuitive and need to be sought out on forums which often usually have plenty of angry rants available to validate players' frustrations. Losing in a game fairly doesn't usually frustrate many people, but losing and feeling that they lost because of a bug or some mechanical flaw that they don't understand does frustrate people and leave them feeling cheated. This lack of understanding of the obscure but crucial details of this game probably accounts for the overwhelming amount of frustration, and it can be solved by making the intricate mechanics more clearly explained to new players through Ubi provided materials and perhaps even an expanded in-game tutorial on those topics.
There is so much more going on in this game than is obvious. Rather than it being "secrets" that players have to hunt down on forums and muddle through in frustration, wouldn't it be better if the information were readily available in-game? Tutorial expansion wouldn't be too extreme a change. A more extreme but interesting tidbit to think about would be a replay of the end of the fight which could be saved and viewed later with a break down of moves used and their timings so we can see precisely why each thing happened the way that it did.
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