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Hi guys !
I was working and just arrive on the last 10 min of the dev stream.
At the end he says "so on this patch we gonna have Orochi and PK reworks" ... but he didn't say about the valk...
Omg please tell me they've announced the valk rework as well before ? ???
BTW new executions looks all amazing)
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Recap is up.
Quick highlights
They teased something big at E3 next month
More new heroes at some point this year confirmed and more reworks
New executions next week
Reworks: Peacekeeper, damage nerf across the board, dagger cancel comes from top, dagger and dodge cancels on opener and finisher heavies, bleed now stacks.
Orochi, stormrush all sides with new animation, quicker riptide with input changed to backdodge light, quicker lights and heavies, damage nerfs lights damage buffs heavies, three new chains.
New map, beachhead, very reminiscent of a campaign map where the vikings raided the samurai. Symmetrical like citadel but smaller.
A look at the new gear, colour swatches now have some impact on weapons.
Gear visuals can be saved and applied across rarity values.
Good deep dive conversation with execution team.
Youtube video stopped working, I will look for another one later.
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It should be available to unlock via Ubisoft Club.Originally Posted by xRocketfishx Go to original post
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just going to copy paste my thoughts here:
"PK changes are interesting. The damage nerf I saw coming because her damage profile is probably the worst offender in the game next to shinobi. The ability to actually functionally use her cancels with finishers is ****ing fantastic and it's the one buff she needed above all else. Bleed change I also saw coming. For those un aware PK had 2 "different" bleeds. and this meant that some bleed attacks stacked but others didn't. Which is one of the reasons why dagger cancel wasn't really used. I'm assuming the changes mean all bleeds stacks now. I don't think this really buffs her too much since her bleed damage is pretty minimal and doesn't give her any other effect. really it's just a quality of life change. The dagger cancel being locked to top is what caught my interest though. It's a neat little mix up that I personally didn't think of. I'm glad they didn't go the full shaman route though. we don't need to have 2 heros behaving the same like that.
They said there was more balancing in the notes. Hopefully it's something that addresses her zone option select. Though I doubt it. That's the main reason why she's the best duelist in the game. And until they've effectively nerfed that she's going to remain there. So. Overall there was two good buffs, one qol change, and one okay nerf. I am drooling at the potential fire the forums will be once she goes live. if people went rabid of centurions minor buff people will explode literally over the new and improved pk.
Orochi wise...hmm. Sounds like you can change the input of the attack so your guard direction doesn't matter. Interesting. Slightly different speeds is 100% the shaman effect she has on her jumping heavies. that's real interesting. Top being undodgable...unsure how this will be helpful. Roll will likely get you away from it still. and they already nerfed back dash. So unless the top has insane side tracking not sure how this really helps. Removal of the soft feint is weird but it's whatever. Wasn't super useful to begin with. it counting as the first hit in a chain is good though. If only the buffered issue was fixed (work faster on that ubi :P)
Riptide turned into a faster attack that is a light makes sense. It hitting for 40 damage is probably the main reason it was made into a light. Not sure what they mean by "interupt action on dodge." Making it faster I suppose addresses the issue of it being a poor dodge when you back step on the animation. Though if it's got the same recovery as it currently does it's largely going to be useless as the quicker animation means it would be easier to react GB the persons whiffed riptide. "it has the benefit of protecting storm rush..." what?
Faster attacks. Saw that coming. wasn't really what I wanted. but it works I guess. and both him and pk getting the ability to dodge out of finishers is nice. Hopefully this is extended to all assassins who don't have it. gives them more of the agile feel they should have.
I'm surprised valk wasn't mentioned since I believe she was mentioned a dev stream or 2 ago when talking about reworks and roman got hushed. Maybe they didn't want to spoil everything. Or maybe shes just receiving qol tweaks like highlander and bushi got. They did mention there was other balancing in the notes..."
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The smart thing to do would be just to grant every person who's been playing before season 6 access to all previous looks. They could easily track peoples accounts to see whose participated/earned at least one piece of event gear as well. Question is if they're willing to put forth the effort to do so or if they're going to make everyone have to wait for the events to recycle through.Originally Posted by EvoXTalhante Go to original post
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I believe they said they have them stored and have, if things don't break, also stored all the event gear since winter.Originally Posted by EvoXTalhante Go to original post
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Well, stream really was full of surprises. Let me go this step by step:
1. Finally we got some new executions. Don't like Warden's again, too bad, but this just teaste matters. Still glad to see real new content already.
2. New map, well...some already existed map from campaign, so...could be two of it, I believe, but we got arena maps in the end of season 5. Still glad to see new map for Dominion finnaly.
3. Reworks. Well, friend of mine, who main PK were little confused with her rework. Something that you should try to understand, I believe. Orochi got some new tricks. Well, my rare sessions on him will be more intresting. And according to Season 6 logo, the third character, who get rework will be Lawbringer. Warden still got nothing. =(
4. I really wanted to stand up and applauded to the new customization system. I really hope devs do something like this and they did. First time my thoughts and team thoughts are match on 99% Just want to see this system in action and hope we will not loose every visuals we already have on chars.
5. New weapon model. Well, again too match gold. I got some suggestion on the next models. Give every weapon parts, that compared with materials. So if I got silver armor, I got silver+steel sword, if I got bronze armor I got bronze+steel sword etc. It will be waaay better than things we have right now.
Well, not so match to tell after all this info. But one thing I want to adress to For Honor team: You got huge set of things up in this season, so cool to see a lot of devs on stream, but plz let season 6 will be better than 5. Cause 5 was empty as hell, nothing happend and nothing comming out during season 5, and I really don't want to see same picture for season 6.
