Oct 30, 2018
FOR HONOR™ - Valve
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Ubisoft’s For Honor once looked like a write-off, but the competitive sword-o-brawler has somehow pulled itself together. Today’s expansion – Marching Fire – adds a bundle of new content to the game, a lot of it paid, but some major upgrades free for everyone. All players (regardless of version owned) will get access to a castle siege playmode and a slew of graphical improvements, but a new solo/co-op mode and four new Chinese-themed characters remain the domain of people who put down cash. Below, a launch trailer, featuring stabs, stabs, stabs and the occasional thwack.
For Honor's upcoming Marching Fire expansion will include a huge graphical overhaul.
The "Graphical Enhancements Showcase" segment of a recent livestream illustrates exactly what's been improved, which includes a major update to global illumination, updated sky tech, plus new tone mapping and colour grading, too.
Ubisoft - which started the upgrading process just after the multiplayer brawler was released - has also reworked all textures in the game.
Ubisoft s melee-dramatic, vaguely historically inspired For Honor has always been a speculative thing, mashing together unrelated factions for the fun of it. With the pending release of the Marching Fire expansion, they re taking it one step further and asking: what if knights vs. samurai vs. Vikings, but now everything is burning? See for yourself below:
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