So I could have sworn we already had a For Honor thread but apparently all the discussion we had about the game was in another thread (one of the E3 ones). I know there is a lot of interest within the group about this so I figured I'd make a thread not only to talk about the game and but also ask, who's gonna get it?

For those of you that have played I'd like to ask;
What characters have been your favourite to play?
Who do you plan on playing next?
What gameplay mechanic do you think is the coolest/do you like the most?
What do you enjoy about the game?
What's your favourite game mode so far?

And probably most importantly, which faction are the Wheelmen going to chose to represent? (I don't think it makes sense for us to deploy war assets against one another and just hinder each other from getting cool loot)



Also there will be an Open beta from Feb 9th - Feb 12th so any of those who haven't played in the closed Alpha or Beta but wanted to, or those wanting to just give it a tests to see what it's about be ready.

Also if you want to use the Halo Wheelmen flaming tyre logo here is a quick guide (this is based of the Viking shield but it gives you a rough template):


This can act as a basic emblem which you can then change and edit to your fancy.

Im most likely going to get this game, though I haven't played it yet. I would get unending flak from my RL friends if I don't join the vikings, so I already know my faction!

I'd be willing to check out the beta for this and see if it's fun.

Twisted wrote:

Im most likely going to get this game, though I haven't played it yet. I would get unending flak from my RL friends if I don't join the vikings, so I already know my faction!

See I chose the Vikings as my faction but a few others picked either Samurai or Knights, and it doesn't really make sense for us to be deploying War Assets against one another so I figured we'd all agree on a faction to be. It honestly makes no difference other than the shape of your shield.

I tried to play the first alpha they did but the connection was so awfull I never really got to experience the game but I'm still interested in it but just concerned I would get my ass kicked if I tried playing it.

I may get it if enough of you do and enjoy playing for more than a couple of weeks but to answer your question about which faction I would go with that would have to be the Knights but that's just me.

Panda wrote:

I tried to play the first alpha they did but the connection was so awfull I never really got to experience the game but I'm still interested in it but just concerned I would get my ass kicked if I tried playing it.

I may get it if enough of you do and enjoy playing for more than a couple of weeks but to answer your question about which faction I would go with that would have to be the Knights but that's just me.

Connection was bad in the Alpha but it was pretty stable in the Beta. I only had one or two problems.

Honestly you probably will get your ass handed to you at the beginning by both bots (they are pretty hard in the game) and people who have played previously but the newcomers shouldn't be too bad. This is only because of the way the fighting system works, other than nailing down the basics like attacks and guarding and parrying etc each character has a specific moveset like Fighting game, except unlike a fighting game you can't button mash and hope to win. It's a little bit like Evolve/Overwatch in the sense that each character has it's own kit so don't expect to be good with a character straight away, watch the basic and advanced videos for the characters so you know how to play them. There is also a basic training which you do when you boot up the game, and an advanced training for things like parrying which I highly recommend not just because they teach you useful moods by in the Beta you also got a lot of steal from them.

Mime and a few others were really having trouble because they jumped straight in and selected some of the hardest characters to play. Time some time to learn a characters moves set first and pick one of the easier ones and it will more enjoyable in the beginning.

Eager for this to be out.

Let us remind ourselves of this epic moment when swift set me on fire.

Actual friendly fire!

Soooooo excited! I can't wait to play some elimination.

It is time!

are we being vikings? i'm selecting vikings soooo....

Vikings!

Knights!

Also, why is it time? is the game out?

Well no Shep was the only one to really reply and we started the game first so we chose Vikings. Soooo I'm going to throw a poll up and whichever gets the most votes we will pick when the game comes out.

What I would say though is even though it doesn't matter which faction we pick, only that we all pick the SAME faction, I would prefer to be Vikings because they have a round shield which the Wheelmen Logo fits in perfectly lol.

The game is out on the 14th but the Open Beta is going on at the moment Cri.

Ok, so if we pick differnet things, will we not be able to play certain game modes together?

Criporc wrote:

Ok, so if we pick differnet things, will we not be able to play certain game modes together?

No we can all play together any game mode with any character.

Your faction only restricts where you place your war assets at the end of a match. The reason we should all be the same faction is because if we play a game of dominion and 2 of us are vikings and 2 of us are knights then at the end of the match we have 1000 war assets to deploy each. If the two Viking players place to attack one territory and then the two Knight players defend the same territory, well then you have just cancelled each others moves out making it pointless.

At the end of the season you get rewards not only based on your own personal contributions (territories attacked, territories defended, war assets deployed etc.) but also how well your faction does as a whole in the Faction War. If we all play on the same faction we are all helping each other and increasing our chances of getting better rewards. If we pick different factions the problem above arises and we basically stop each other from getting rewards/negatively impact how well one another does. AKA we work as a team or deliberately Pineapple each other over. 10 Wheelmen isn't a huge percentage when it takes in the player base but by negating each others deployments it basically makes our contributions worthless like they don't even matter and ever little does help.

I spent 10 minutes getting my ass handed to my by the AI (hardest difficulty)

To note, after this I went and did some more practice / learning so hopefully when I come back to this AI I can perform better.