Warrior's Den February 15th
Ahoy folks. After last weeks live stream special, and tournament, it's back to business-as-usual with another Den.
No infodump this time, but Pope still teases us to tune in, promising "surprises".
CAPS LOCK AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!
Sorry. I'm excited.
Tomorrow at 12PM EST the Season 5 maintenance will begin on all platforms. It should take around 45 minutes of downtime to complete.
During this time I strongly urge you to check out the Warrior's Den as we have an incredible, surprise-packed show for you. Maybe if you saw the Roadmap we released last week you might have an idea of what we want to cover. But I promise you. are. not. prepared.
Damien is literally standing behind me right now and won't let me say any more, but it's dope as hell, trust me. SEE YOU THERE! And when the show's over you get to dive into the new Season's contents!
www.twitch.tv/forhonorgame
If you haven't already, all the patch notes for today's Season launch can be read here; https://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en...tch-notes-v119
The developers also wrote more detailed blog posts about the major hero reworks, and the core fight mechanic changes, you can read those here; https://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en...ity/index.aspx
Scroll down, and head to "Game Updates".
Forum Community Questions
I don't know yet if there's gonna be time for a Q&A, and hell if there are wouldn't y'all rather jump in game and get started on Season 5? But if anyone still has questions they long for answers to, post them below and I'll add them here for the team to check out.
Please be aware that there's no guarantee that your question will be answered today. The cut-off for new questions is roughly 1 hour before the Den starts.
Soldier_of_Dawn - Could it be made possible to combine two( or more) effects on the same execution, idle, and emote slot in the future?
BoBCaT_1989 - I have a question: could we get a random execution option?
Illyrian_King - Will the Dedicated Servers be used, to make any bigger battle like game mode (Siege) possible, or at least any kind of improved Dominion (like adding archers, captains, roaming minions, etc)?
Tundra - Can we get an update on the Easter Egg on Gauntlet? It's still not been found as far as I know.
Kryltic - Will you guys be looking to rebalance the top end and low end feats during season 5? Eg Catapult top) and Iron Lungs (bottom)
Recap
And we're live, sweet new intro music. Kind of a version of the Age of Wolves theme.
Insanely kick *** new trailer for a limited time game mode, Test your Metal in "Apollyon's Legacy"!
3 week event, featuring "Age of Wolves" themed gear.
Phil the Designer is on the couch with Pope, Bio and Damien to show something off.
Damien Powerpoint is up.
Apollyon event will have Apollyon Atmosphere.
Apollyon's Legacy Game Mode
Test your skills against the fiercest opponents from the Story.
Unique Emblem Outline rewarded just for logging in.
Emblem symbols for winning.
The mode is PvE, but you can matchmake to get into matches, but it's recommended that you get your friends, or use voice chat.
Showing off the gamemode itself; It's an Elimination type 4v4, where 4 players each face 1 of the heroes from the Story Mode.
When you win, the next round gets harder, but only when you win.
The heroes you can face get new feats/abilities occasionally to change things up. As I understand it, they'll be ramped up each week.
(Apollyon Mask Outfit?)
Heroes you will face in this gamemode;
Vikings; Gudmundr, Siv, Ragnar and Runa.
Samurai; Tozen, Sujiro, Ranja and Shrek. No one can remember their names, and i mispelled the ones they could.
Knights; Apollyon, Holden Cross, Mercy and Stone.
More Powerpoint.
Apollyon Atmosphere;
New Music.
The Face Off is on fire.
All the soldiers (minions) will wear black. (Maybe the heroes will do it too?)
For all 3 weeks of the event, Apollyon will be the announcer in game. (Damien suggests we look at the sky...)
There'll be a special Fest each week during the event, e.g. Extra XP, Extra Loot.
There's a Community Order to complete as many matches of the event game mode as possible. Remember for Season 5 fowards Participation is Required.
Limited Time Cosmetic Loot; Armor Sets & Weapons (they lied about the armors not launching at Season 5!)
The art teams worked overtime for this; And to be clear; It's Black And Gold versions of Existing Armor.
The Weapons are also Black and Gold. Can't confirm but they appear to be original designs. Lootta skulls on these things. Much death. Reminds me of the Black Sails intro.
All this loot only drops for the 3 weeks during this event, and you gotta collect the ones you want if you want to keep using their appearance. No news on how this will work yet but they're on it.
They do drop from crates.
Showcasing the armors now, and how to get as black as possible.
Black Color Scheme is lootable, along with others. (It Is Neutral Only, but for the Special Game Mode you do play in Neutral Colors)
There's also a Battle Outfit you can loot (Age of Wolves)
Damien keeps leaking and almost-leaking all kinds of stuff.
Everything drops at all Reps.
Outfits & Emotes;
For the first time, we think, you can loot an Emote! "I Am War"
Color Schemes; Blackstone Legion and Iron Legion.
Apollyon's Might Embossing.
Weekly Content
Battle Oufit (Age of Wolves)
I Am War Emote.
Apollyon's Wolves Mask Outfit.
Everything's Free except the Mask Outfit y'all. But it is discounted for the first week. (15,000 Steel)
There will be an Event Bundle next week with all this stuff, it'll be 25,000 Steel, but will not include the weapons and armor.
The Bundle pricing is again dynamic, depending on what you've already collected.
There'll be 2 new Emotes Next Week, that will stay for good, but they're a surprise. They'll be 7000 Steel Each.
Dedicated Servers Update
Jean-Francois (JF) on the couch with Damien and Pope.
Servers launch on PC first because they can push out fixes faster, if need be.
Every PvP mode will be available on Dedicated Servers. PvAI will remain on P2P.
Servers are located in;
Portland, Oregon, USA.
Richmind, Virginia, USA
Dublin, Ireland
Frankfurt, Germany
Tokyo, Japan
Singapore
If needed, new datacenters can be opened.
When you're grouped with trans-continental players, you'll typically use servers from the closest location to the majority of people in the group.
The Matchmaking system remains the same, grouping you based on skill like with the P2P system currently does.
Better matchmaking does launch with Season 5, please see the patch notes for details.
Luc's back on the couch, showcasing some sweet For Honor gear, and gifts the team got when the game launched.
The guys are going over last weeks tournament.
They're rolling a video showing the behind the scenes/making of, and highlights from the stream and tournament.
Arena Mode still slated for release later during the season, but no specific date yet. Focus remains on the servers.
Roman's stripping off camera. (Ah sweet he's got an Iron Maiden t-shirt)
Once the servers are stable, they can roll out their submission to the first parties (Sony, Microsoft) for the Arena Mode.
Roman's switched to playing on Xbox One.
They're repeating the hero updates launching today; Kensei, Conqueror, Berserker along with big balance changes for Highlander and Nobushi.
Reminder of the Parry Changes launching today as well. No more guaranteed GB on parries, no more guaranteed Heavies on parries.
Please see the Patch Notes linked above for full details.
Lag Compensation exists in the dedicated servers built, but it's not activated. Insert Damiens "We need more Data" meme here.
Message from Pascal. It's kind of an inside joke for long time Den fans, y'all gotta watch that one for yourselves.
And that's a wrap, Season 5 is live, go be wolves!
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