Obviously no way to prove this but I just wanna know if anyone else experiences this.
I often come across players whom seem to fight rather... inhuman. Like their strategies are one dimensional and they seem to make rather weird "mistakes" by mistiming a parry or something similar.
What got me convinced was this Zhanhu I was fighting, whom already reacted to my zone attack as Raider weirdly, but after attempting a few mixups with my zone attack this way I thought I was seeing the defense pattern they were using for my attack. Never dodge or parry attempt on it, but just about always get the parry whenever I'd let it through with a few "mistimings". Very spontaneously, I decided I would soft-feint the zone into guardbreak, and immediately this Zhanhu uses zone attack the instant moment my soft-feint kicks in. Completely inhuman behaviour, since it was pretty deep into the match I decided to do this mixup with no prior signs I'd resort to it.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Are there actually bots infesting the 1v1 bracket out there or did I just meet a really crazy good player?
Yup. I'm playing right now, and all I'm facing are people who incredibly always parry on the exact same perfect timing (noticable with feiths) and always react perfectly to soft feints. Just now, I fought a highlander who would parry every single attack I threw at him (be it lights or heavies), but never even attempt to parry when I feinted. He would also perfectly dodge every bash on the same timing, never missing (even ones I didn't fully charge on didn't charge at all).
And when it's not that, it's people with crazy high ping, I'm talking 170-300ms pings. Those guys are just killing the game now
Hmm. I definitely felt like things were a bit off in duels when I tried playing on PC. Every few duels I would encounter other low reps (I have 3 reps total on PC, but 313 on Xbox) and they were just gods. Exactly what was described above. Perfect parries while not even attempting to parry feints. Perfect counter gbs. Zero raw attacks. Zero feinted heavies. Zero gb attempts. Just parries, parry punishes, and counter gbs. Oh, and dodging all forms of melee/bash perfectly, again without reacting to fakeouts or baits at all.
PC For Honor is only really good for the Comp scene, but the online casual scene is broken by bots and scripters.
Console is far better (next gen, that is) for day to day playing, but not comp since the limit to frames is still 60. If they capped PC for honor at 60, console would become the best place for anything For Honor. The only reason the comp scene remains on PC is because the game runs at a better performance there, and its pretty much just framerates compared to my Xbox Series X.
Microsoft did just recently introduce "Frame Boost", and if it ends up working with For Honor, then we could see 120-240 fps on Xbox Series X.
If that happens, I'm going to need a new tv.
LOL