Ubisoft’s conference included everything we expected, from a closer look at Beyond Good & Evil 2, to confirmation of the leaked Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, to the now traditional (and delightful) Just Dance dancy party. If you don’t have time to watch the conference in its entirety however, here is a showcase of the trailers that were shown and links to the associated news from Ubisoft. (more…)
At its E3 showcase, Ubisoft announced that the Starter Edition of its melee-focussed multiplayer brawler For Honor, will be free on PC via Uplay from June 11th to June 18th.
The freebie heralds the announcement of a major new For Honor update, known as Marching Fire, that's due to arrive on October 16th. According to Ubisoft, Marching Fire is the game's "biggest and most ambitious update so far".
"After the great cataclysm that brought knights, vikings, and samurai to fight," the publisher explained, "civil war consumed China. Warriors of the Wu Lin factions fought each other but failed to establish order. Amid the chaos, four warriors of the Wu Lin now march west."
Brutal medieval axe grinder For Honor is getting four new Chinese warriors as part of an update called Marching Fire, Ubisoft have said at their E3 announce-a-thon. It’s also getting a new 4v4 game mode about besieging castles, as well as a to-be-revealed “endless” singleplayer mode and some equally unknown two-player co-op stuff. The game’s cut-down Starter Edition is free for keepsies right now too. It was all announced with the battle pizzazz of a slow-mo cinematic trailer, which you’ll find below. Stabby stab. (more…)
Melee-focussed multiplayer brawler For Honor's sixth season of content is now live on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, bringing with it a new limited-time event, hero overhauls, and more.
Top of Season Six's additions, however, is the new map, Beachhead - a picturesque "grand fortress of solitude and respite" that's built into a mountain. "Invaders can only arrive by boat on the banks of this fortress," explains Ubisoft, "making it an extremely defensible position, a desirable stronghold for any army hoping to gain the upper hand in battle." You can see what that translates to in-game in the video below.
Elsewhere, Season Six pushes onward with Ubisoft's overhaul of the core For Honor experience that began in Season Five. This time around, heroes Orochi and Peacekeeper get all the attention, with the former receiving changes to help "players be more successfully able to counter-attack and parlay that into a sustained offence", while Peacekeeper's adjustments are designed to encourage players to use moves that are often ignored.