Warrior's Den January 25th | Forums

[Tundra 793]

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Another Week, another Den. Going forward I'll try to include a Forum Community Questions section where I'll collect the best/funniest questions from forum members, hopefully to get passed onto the Pope and the devs. So for the best chance to get your question noticed, please do post it here, and I'll add it to the list.

Fred beat me to the info dump, but you can all read it here; https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.ph...fo-and-content

Here's what you can expect

Season start date
New season name and look
Which Heroes exactly are receiving updates in S5? (note, we will not be showing the changes on tomorrow's show! SOON!)
New features! (we heard you want to do something with your salvage?)
Awesome new Faction War stuff
Updated maps
and MORE!

and also other updates:

new content of the week
AFK abuse
New Game Mode Event
Faction War Rewards

Looks like it'll be a pretty huge show, and if y'all have any questions, you can ask them on Twitch during the livestream, or here and I'll bug Fred to see if he can get some forum questions to the Pope and Roman/Damien by tomorrow.

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Forum Community Questions

Given the size of today's Den, there's no guarantee of a Q&A session, but if the devs can't get to your questions today, they do save 'em for future Den's, so don't hold back if you've got questions.

ChampionRuby50g - " Seeing as we are nearing For Honors 1 year anniversary, is there anything special planned for it, such as new event mode or outfits?"

ThomHermans1 - "Are there any plans on reworking the revive system?

The_B0G_ - "Given the Vikings season long domination, can we be assured that the Faction War and asset algorithm worked as intended, given the outcome of Season 4?

Fady117 - ": are they aware of how AoE feats are breaking the fundamentals of the combat in 4v4s, and that they should be reworked/nerfed/replaced?

Fady117 - "Also, any news about how we can apply the look of Frost Wind weapons to higher tiers? and whether Change Look will become possible cross-tier?"

Kryltic - "Could you look into more protection for players who are attacked upon respawning?

Kryltic - "Will you just be buffing all/most of the original characters to the level of the DLC ones or will you looking to buff older ones and weaken newer ones to even out their power levels? "

seaners95 - "With dedicated servers just around the corner, do the devs currently have any plans to expand the game even further in terms of number of players per match? for example a 6v6 or 8v8 game mode?"

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For Honor
Season V
Age of Wolves
15th February, 2018

Recap

And we're live.

News;
Compensation for last weeks outages went out today, everyone gets melee packs.

They've lowered the threshold for AFK farming, both in PvP and PvAI. As soon as you're caught, you're banned for 3 days for First Offence.
Second offence, longer ban, they're thinking about resetting character accounts for third offences.
They'll roll out sanctions every 48 hours starting with Season 5.

New Game Mode Event; Realistic Tribute.
New rules; no fight widget, no UI, only 1 revive, no radar and No Revenge.

No Community Order this week, postponed until next week.

Execution Sale; All 7000 Steel Executions are now 5000 Steel.

Season 4 wrap up with Bio;

Apparently people sort of gave up when it became apparent the Vikings would win, hence the large Viking territory gains.
Bio discourages new players from joining Vikings.
Brief video showcasing the season 4 rewards for each faction.
Damien confirms the bug with the faction war Emblem Symbol, they checked and fixed it on their end, but won't get patched until the Season 5 patch.

New Content of the Week; Mythic Outfits.

Knights; Brushed Stone
Vikings; Cosmic Dreams
Samurai; Tiger Bloom

Everyone agrees Vikings got the best one.

They're back, Roman appears out of nowhere.

Season V Age of Wolves reveal trailer.

Season 5 will focus on new content, reworking older heroes, balance and the dedicated servers.
No new gear rarity, but will introduce Gear Refinement.
You can spend Salvage to buy XP Boosts, that'll boost you and people playing with you.
Narrative based Trials for new players.
Arena Training Mode.
Players can equip different Effects for each Execution and Emote.
Tribute will become the Ranked Objective Mode instead of Dominion. Will feature more rewards.

Roman asks Eric "Why Age of Wolves?" They have a lot to say about that, but not today...

Update on the dedicated servers will come soon.

Major Hero Updates;

Updated Moveset for Kensei/Conq
New Animations for Kensei/Conq

Major balancing updates for Berserker, Nobushi and Highlander.

The fight team has detailed blog posts about these changes, they'll go live before Season 5 launches.

The goal is to bring all the old characters up to par with the newer characters.

XP Boost;

It's meant to give Salvage new utility in end game.
Allow players to control their progression better.
Can only be bought with Salvage.
Match based, 1 boost for 1 match.
Lower boost on all your teammates, it stacks.
Price increases every unlock and resets every day, it starts at 500 Salvage, caps at the 5th activation.

Bio demonstrates it. When you enter into any multiplayer match that rewards XP, you can unlock the Boost from the Hero Select Menu. RB on an Xbox One controller.
Once you've bought it, it won't disappear until you've completed a match. Won't be consumed if you disconnect, but will if you quit as part of the quit penalty.

XP Boosts can also be given out as rewards by the devs.

Refined Gear;

Further gear progression without making it mandatory.
The devs don't want to keep adding new gear rarities.
Lootable Legendary gear, some of which will be Refineable. Lootable from Rep 9.
Refining gear provides small gear stat boosts.
You can only refine Maxed Legendary Gear.

New Repution Level Cap;

From Rep 40 to Rep 50.

One Outfit per Reputation level from 40 to 50.

Faction War Updates;

Strategic Territories - Gives bonuses to the players of the faction controlling it.
Different types of territories provides different kinds of bonuses, from bonus XP to bonus troops.
Each faction control an even number of these at the start of each campaign, winning the other faction's strategic territory transfers that bonus to your faction.
The bonuses applies for all faction members.

Ranking Updates;

1v1 and 4v4 ranks will be reset with Season 5.
Season 5 will come with new tournament rewards.
Season 4 rewards can still be earned for a few more weeks.
4v4 ranked moves from Dominion to Tribute.

Multiple Effect Equipping;

Players can equip a different effect on each execution and on each emote slot.
You can have up to 9 different effect on 1 character.

Community Order System Update;

Players now need to participate in the Orders to collect the rewards.

The Pope reminds us to tune in to the Dens in case they slip up and reveal exciting new things.

Map Updates;

Duels on Citadel Gate; Spawn moved from the ledge bridge to the open ground just behind it.

Tribute on Tower Ruin; Offerings on each level of the Tower. Zip lines added to get out of the tower. Players respawn in the tower.

A challenge to the For Honor Community; Find the easter eggs in the last 2 DLC maps. Market Town, and Gauntlet. (I'm on this as soon as the Den's over).

Pope says next Den will be much bigger, on February 8th.

Q&A;

What is the point of off Season? - To change factions without penalty, and allow the devs to review the previous season's data.

Any news about how we can apply Frost Wind weapon looks to new weapons, and will there be cross tier looks? - It's happening, but not anytime soon.

They were going to wrap up, but Pope launched into a thrilling Costco pita bread story.

That's a wrap. And FadyOneHundredEighteen got a shout out from Damien, nice!

[ChampionRuby50g]

Looks like you’ve got your work cut out for you today! Some very exciting news to cover.

My question is though: Seeing as we are nearing For Honors 1 year anniversary, is there anything special planned for it, such as new event mode or outfits?

[Armosias]

This den is going to be tasty I guarantee it. Can't wait seeing this salvage solution for my 70K knight's iron.

[Tundra 793]

This den is going to be tasty I guarantee it. Can't wait seeing this salvage solution for my 70K knight's iron.

Whatever salvage solution they've come up with better be a stroke of pure genius. I have over 500,000 Salvage at this point...

[The_B0G_]

Ask them whats the deal on the Vikings hammering everyone since the last faction war update, and what they are going to do to re balance it.

Not interested in how they deployed assets or any other reason for their win, they had no time to do anything today besides setting troops on all fronts and they are wrecking already, something isn't right.

[Tundra 793]

Ask them whats the deal on the Vikings hammering everyone since the last faction war update, and what they are going to do to re balance it.

Not interested in how they deployed assets or any other reason for their win, they had no time to do anything today besides setting troops on all fronts and they are wrecking already, something isn't right.

Mind if i rephrase that into something more concise?

[No0b.Nr.1]

I need this right NOW

Good job, i think ,it will be great !

[ThomHermans1]

Question for de Devs:

Are there any plans on reworking the revive system?
Reviving a player has too much impact on a 4 vs 4 match. It makes it impossible to win in a gank because the enemy can just keep reviving each other for full HP
There is also a lack of animation for reviving a player. I would like to see an revive animation and I want to be able to buy more revive animations and effects just like the other animations.

Most game have a revive deadzone when an enemy is nearby.

[bob333e]

Thanks yet again, Tundra! patiently waiting for your recap.

I'd like to ask if possible: are they aware of how AoE feats are breaking the fundamentals of the combat in 4v4s, and that they should be reworked/nerfed/replaced? And whether there are plans for that in the near future, possibly just after dedicated servers are released.

Also, I'd like to ask if it's possible to have 5 loadouts per character, with having three loadouts once you reach Rep1, as it is currently, and one more loadout slot when you reach Rep5, and then one more when you reach Rep8. I've heard say before that there was some tech/engine limitation pertaining to increasing inventory size per character, but I don't see how giving a total of 5 loadouts would negatively impact the game's engine. Doesn't hurt to ask.

Also, any news about how we can apply the look of Frost Wind weapons to higher tiers? and whether Change Look will become possible cross-tier?

These are the most shallow questions I can ask currently (if they get answered). I obviously have much deeper concerns, but I know they'll inherently take a colossal amount of work and modifications, so I won't bother bringing those points up right now. Maybe later. Thanks again, my friend.

[The_B0G_]

Mind if i rephrase that into something more concise?

Sure.