I know I'm late to the party, but I just got For Honor some time recently from the PS Plus deal and I was really bummed out to learn that the minion executions were taken out. I'm sure this will get glossed over, but if it doesn't, can we please have the minion executions put back in or have a toggle for it in custom games. I usually don't play online all that often so I just pop on the custom match and fight AI.
I love for honor for its attention to detail and cinematics, especially with its fighting and its sad to see that charm that made this game pop in the trailers go away and have those hard worked on animations go to waste.![]()
We're aware that this is much discussed in the community, but there's no plans to bring back the minion kill animations.
As Stefan said in an AMA:
These were removed because Pikemen take multiple hits and the animations generally would slow down most Heroes in the lane (Shaman or Highlander for example). Unifying locked and out of lock attack timings was an important facet of this decision as well.
Yep, unfortunately they're standing by the decision.
They could have kept the animations for dominion, skirmish, and arcade (since there's no pikemen in those modes), but no. We get the usual flimsy "some heroes were slowed down by the animations" excuse, which conveniently doesn't take into account the heroes who have a harder time clearing minions now. That's not even mentioning how bad the new system looks, IMO they should've just sped up the animations that they felt were too slow if that was a concern, but no, I guess it was easier to delete everything and leave us with this total asspull.
Well, plans can change!Originally Posted by UbiInsulin Go to original post
NOBODY cares about highlander or shaman clearing minions. They use their ZONE attack anyway if they decide to clear minions, so there's no animation there. I never saw a shaman or a highlander kill a minion one by one, they always zone swarm kill them. Stop making useless excuses just because you're lazy to put the work into bringing those animations back. I have never seen a single highlander or shaman main complaining about not being able to clear minions because of animations. What a joke of an excuse lol.
I imagine they'll lock this thread tooOriginally Posted by ApollyonOfWar Go to original post
I don't know why they won't just simply make a damn POLL inside the game itself, that all players can vote in. You want to truly show that you listen to your players? Then make a poll inside the game, maybe on one of those tabs on the right side on the main menu. Start with something simple as bringing those minion executions animations back.
Poll:
1) Bring minion executions animations back
2) Leave it as is
Then give it 2 weeks like you did with your testing grounds and check the results.
STOP BEING LAZY OR YOUR GAME WILL DIE.
1Originally Posted by ApollyonOfWar Go to original post