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I believe that For Honor needs a proper horde mode something maybe like the new siege mode but only defense, protect your keep with friends against waves of enemies.
Things I would like to see
- Improved AI to provide a real challenge
- 1-4 Players
- A lot of waves
- Endless waves option
= multiple maps
in short some business models I would take inspiration from are gears of war 2 and mass effect 3 their horde modes have always been a favorite of a lot of people and work a lot better than say models like gears 3
I love this game but I think a lot of people would agree in saying that anything more than 2v2 pvp doesn't really work well and with good and challanging ai I think a pve horde mode or longer more in depth campaign could easily become a much more popular mode, as someone who loves competitive e sports games I have to admit the most fun I have ever had with friends is playing horde mode on gears 2 and mass effect 3
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I've always been a fan of horde type game modes (especially in the Gears of War series). That could be a cool concept to consider at some point. We have a lot coming up, so we're in the zone with all the recent E3 announcements, but you never know what will happen. Horde is a nice challenging game mode that fits pretty well in most games.
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As an extra suggestion to add on to all of this (big fan of the idea btw, thanks OP) soldiers could have health bars and not go down in one hit, similar to how they are in the new upcoming Siege mode. I think that would make them more meaningful. Later waves could upgrade these to stronger soldiers that do damage similar to how the spooky scary skeletons did during the Halloween event last fall (where they did like 12-15 damage per hit). Bosses have special moves and feats they can use to attack players. I think the moves that the boss enemies had during the Apollyon event were cool, but I think there could be more attacks that are difficult to defend against or just faster. Give them mixups and make their AI extremely diverse with them. Make them bosses, I guess is what I'm saying. They should never be easy. Getting surrounded by soldiers who keep managing to poke at you and stagger you while you're fighting a boss should make it very difficult to win.
Also as a suggestion for AI as a whole, certain characters (specifically Highlander) can easily cheese almost any level 3 bot. The kick->grab combo forces the lv 3 bot to dodge the kick every single time because of how they're programmed, and unless they have a dodge attack they will be hit by the grab every time. I wish the bots would understand this (somehow, I'm no coding expert) and react in a less predictable way.
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I think the normal minions are fine being one hit it makes you feel a little bit more badass chopping through minions to get to the bigger badder guys, I think there would need to be a healthy mix of character bots mixed in and not just the captain units, they could also come up with new types of minions with health like maybe captain style units but with pole arms or other weapons, If all the minions have heath bars you could possibly get poked down too quick while trying to fight a bo,
and to the campaign and dominion comment, I see where you are coming from but neither one of those are anything like a proper horde mode where your trying to survive/ defend as long as you can it's more of clear and move on,
The Horde mode could have defense points kind of like siege or dominion but I would much rather prefer just a survive until you die style, or like mass effect 3 where there are a certain amount of waves and if you survive them all you get that satisfaction of the victory as in how you would extract at the end of the waves in me3, but maybe in for honor a boss would arrive at the last wave surrounded by bbots that would be his body guards and the boss and body guards would change based on the map
The more I talk with people about this idea the more I want it slaying through hordes of enemies defending a castle with my friends, carveing up minions before spotting a bot pushing up and having to carve a path towards them using whatever character you wish
