For Honor (PC/PS4/XB1)

[6souls]

Closed Alpha Requirements

PS4 REQUIREMENTS:

HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 12GB

XBOX ONE REQUIREMENTS:

HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION
XBOX LIVE GOLD ACCOUNT
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 12GB
SHARING CONTENT PRIVACY, LOCATED UNDER XBOX LIVE PRIVACY & SAFETY ACCOUNT SETTINGS, MUST BE SET TO "EVERYBODY".
JOINING MULTIPLAYER GAMEPLAY MUST BE ALLOWED IN THE PRIVACY & ONLINE SAFETY SETTING OF YOUR PROFILE.

PC REQUIREMENTS:

MINIMUM PC CONFIGURATION

RESOLUTION: 720P@30FPS
VIDEO PRESET: LOW
VSYNC: OFF
OS: WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 8.1, WINDOWS 10 (64-BIT VERSIONS ONLY)
PROCESSOR: INTEL CORE I3-550 | AMD PHENOM II X4 955 OR EQUIVALENT
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560TI (1GB VRAM) | AMD RADEON HD 6870 (1GB VRAM) OR EQUIVALENT
SYSTEM RAM: 4GB
HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 24GB
HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 24GB

RECOMMENDED PC CONFIGURATION

RESOLUTION: 1080P@ ~60FPS
VIDEO PRESET: HIGH
VSYNC: OFF
OS: WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 8.1, WINDOWS 10 (64-BIT VERSIONS ONLY)
PROCESSOR: INTEL CORE I5-2500K | AMD FX-6350 OR EQUIVALENT
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 | AMD RADEON R9 285 OR EQUIVALENT
SYSTEM RAM: 8GB

THE FOLLOWING CONTROLLERS HAVE BEEN TESTED WITH THE GAME:

OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED ON PC

MOUSE + KEYBOARD
MICROSOFT XBOX 360
MICROSOFT XBOX ONE
MICROSOFT XBOX ONE ELITE

PARTIALLY SUPPORTED (MAY REQUIRE 3RD PARTY DRIVERS)

ANY 3RD PARTY XBOX-COMPATIBLE CONTROLLER
LOGITECH CHILLSTREAM
OUYA CONTROLLER
STEAM CONTROLLER
SONY PS3 CONTROLLER

Alpha players are also allowed to stream and record videos.

[djzombie]

There is another play test going on this weekend for pc.

Have 3 keys available, add me djzombie83 on uplay if you wanna check it out.

[6souls]

Ubisoft has confirmed that the game is always online and will be unplayable without an internet connection. The game was originally advertised as an offline game for single player content.

[Tokitoki]

Closed Beta is up. Anyone playing on PS4? Downloaded it yesterday so I should be good to go today.

Just got my PS4 and have 0 friends so I have no idea how to do a search, but my ID should be OttomanRob I think.

[djzombie]

I play on PC, can't login to uplay though, big fuckin surprise, AMIRITE. Got more keys to hand out too if anyone wants one.

[takeDat]

Are your keys strictly for pc? I'm interested in giving it a whirl but on ps4

Sent from my SM-G928V using Tapatalk

[djzombie]

For me to send you a key you have to be on my uplay friends list, so I think that is restricted to PC, unless you can add me to uplay on ps4(not sure if that is a thing)

https://www.reddit.com/r/forhonor/co...tesextra_keys/

this thread says keys are platform specific, but you should be able to pick up a ps4 key there if toki doesn't have any extras, they were giving pc users 3 extra keys to give out, I'd imagine all platforms were similar.

[Tokitoki]

You're right, I do have 3 codes for PS4. I think we have to be friends, though.

I'm trying to bring up the page, but I'm just stuck in an infinite "Please wait" screen after logging in.

EDIT: Ubisoft service not available at this time...

[djzombie]

Yea ubisoft is getting shit on right now because they're trying to run a wildlands beta, for honor beta, plus all their normal users as well. Granted its 1pm est on a thursday, I would have thought most people would be at school or work right now, and traffic right now should not even compare to this evening.

[Tokitoki]

It's Thursday. Don;t play with my emotions like that.

Yeah, I have a feeling it'll be shit later on and I'll likely just end up playing Overwatch.

[djzombie]

Yea I meant to say thursday, wishful thinking I guess.

[Tokitoki]

Got into the invite thing, but we need to be friends on Uplay.

[Tokitoki]

Played or about 45 minutes or so yesterday. Not really impressed. It may have been because it's the Beta and the servers are getting slammed, but I feel like I'm losing inputs or something. I was watching some streamers while at work so I could get the general idea before getting home, so I wasn't completely lost on the concept or the mechanics when I started. Even so, I found it difficult to take advantage of what should have been openings.

As the Warlord from the Viking faction I'd use the shield to Parry then try to strike, but the person I just parried would be able to attack again and hit me, cancelling my light strike with his own. If I parry you there should a stagger effect so that I can make a strike. That's the idea. I'm not talking about just blocking, either. I mean I was blocking in that direction and hit heavy strike to parry.

I ran into a similar problem when I was trying Berserker. I was able to get my light strikes in, but I wasn't able to Deflect more than 5-10% of the time. I would dodge in the direction of the attack when the red arrow is largest (which should be the correct timing), but it would usually just result in a normal dodge. This was okay in that I was able to get an attack in, but it was only a single light strike which didn't do much damage.

I decided to check out a couple more streams while making dinner and saw other people were having the same complaints; they felt like inputs were being dropped or timing was off. I may give the game another shot today, but I think this one is a pass for me.

[tyven]

is this just a 1v1 fighting game?

[Tokitoki]

It has 1v1, 2v2 and 4v4 modes so far. The 1v1 and 2v2 are straight-forward matches. The 4v4 are a kind of Musuo type game where you have an army of grunts that push a central point while you and your team try to take the outlying points. The 4v4 usually ends up with 1 or 2 people trying to take the outlying points while also avoiding getting ganked by the enemy team; a lot of times ending up in a 1v3 or a 2v3.

If you play the 1v1s it is basically a fighting game with 360 movement and some environmental hazards. It can be fairly technical, but like I said, I feel like it can be a bit clunky.

EDIT: If you want to try it on PS4 I can send you a code. Add me on UPlay. Same user name as my Overwatch name.

[djzombie]

I was experiencing the same thing you're are on pc, Toki. I thought it was shitty that I could parry attacks and the enemy just keeps on attacking unphased. I was playing with keyboard and mouse, I think I am gonna try to setup my steam controller for it and try that. I went back and forth between kb&m and controller during alpha and just couldn't decide which I liked better.

[Andalusian girls]

thanks to the kindness of one zombie dj was able to go through a couple rounds of this this today. gotta say i think ubisoft has something special on its hands. gameplay is very reminiscent of a Dark Souls/Bushido Blade mashup with its emphasis on positioning + evasion + stances and the weightiness allotted to all moves. central conceit is silly and fun and already has the community dividing into deus vult/weeb/skol factions. 3 classes per faction isn't much but game should have some legs with item/cosmetic customization and DLC adding more.

didn't really experience the parry issues you guys had, even with just a basic block i was usually able to get in at least a quick attack before the stagger wore off unless i was a heavy class facing an assassin where they could usually keep the pressure up. but that i think is intentional given the class designs. biggest problem, as stated above, are the servers. definitely eating some lost inputs, and in the age of Overwatch P2P rather than dedicated is ridiculous. hope ubisoft comes to its senses, and does a few quality of life balance adjustments, or else a solid core gameplay experience is going to get buried under bullshit.

[Krandor]

I really want to play this because I fucking love the general idea but man, always online plus P2P just fucking kills me.

[fantasticdan]

I mean for 1v1 you'd want it to be p2p anyway, but for 4v4 or whatever yeah that's shitty. Is there splitscreen local?

Don't really want to bother with uplay thou, I can't understand how it's even still a thing.

[Intrinsic]

Game isn't fun imo. Didn't have that parry issue that others were talking about but even when I won duels there was no rush, just on to the next round. And 4v4 is such a trainwreck it shouldn't be in the game.