I’ve not stored up with the plot of For Honor, a game the place buff lads and lasses chop one another’s limbs off with elaborate pointy sticks. But as Ubisoft’s brawny fighter enters its fourth 12 months, they’re placing down the swords – if just for a short while. While Year Four may be the “Year of Reckoning”, Season 1 is entitled “Hope”, and sees all three factions holding nervous truce. Oh, they’ll get to decapitating quickly sufficient, however for now, there’s a platter of shiny gear to be earned, by means of a brand new battle cross arriving subsequent week.
There’s a lot for Ubi to get by means of in Year 4, and solely a four-minute trailer to do it in. Chop chop!
Alright, let’s begin with the large’un. For Honor is ditching its tried-and-tested Year Pass, which provided up a 12 months’s price of recent heroes for a set payment. Instead, the game’s hopping onto the battle cross trebuchet. You know the drill – 100 tiers of content material, separate rewards free of charge and paying gamers, grinding out tiers or shopping for them for real-world dosh, your typical affair. End-of-round rewards, retailer rotations and content material of the week will nonetheless stay, for those who’re not too fussed on grinding out ranges.
Year Four will nonetheless characteristic new heroes, although you gained’t be shopping for a season cross price of them at the beginning of the 12 months. Ubi declare they’ll be releasing two of them – one in Season 2, one in Season 4 – to tie into the 12 months’s ongoing plot, obtainable to buy utilizing in-game or paid forex.
That story, then. For Honor had a marketing campaign, nevertheless it was a bit naff – a “hackneyed tapestry sewn together from Ubisoft’s big box of levels”, Brendy so generously known as it back in his review. But Ubisoft have been pushing the game extra within the route of its contemporaries – games like Fortnite or Overwatch that inform their tales by means of in-game occasions and refined map modifications. You can catch the sensation in this brief Season 1 trailer. I’m positive this hand-holding friendship lark gained’t final.
Really, I reckon this’ll largely come right down to excuses to twist style in numerous instructions every month. In truth, Ubi stress that the style can be very, excellent this 12 months. What is For Honor, actually, if not a buff Viking dress-up contest?
There are extra obscure allusions in the direction of different areas of the game, together with modifications to aggressive play and the crew’s ongoing strategy to stability, hinted at in a Year 4 announcement post earlier this month.
Year 4 Season 1 swings into motion on Thursday, February sixth with its new battle cross in tow.
