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Hello Warriors!

Year 3 Season 3: Hulda launches today! We’re currently in maintenance, but starting 2PM EST, you’ll get to explore our new map, Storr Stronghold, and check out our hero balancing updates.

If you missed today’s livestream, here is the full Warrior’s Den for you to learn more about our new Twitch Drops campaign and Year 3 Season 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYfncFtt9xc

NEWS


NEW HERO - JORMUNGANDR

If you purchased the Year 3 pass, you have a one week exclusive access to our new Hero, the Jormungandr, starting today August 1st. All other players will be able to purchase the new Hero on August 8 for 15,000 in-game Steel.

The Jormungandr is our new Viking hero and is playable as both male (Gretar) and female (Hulda).



PATCH NOTES 2.11.0

Patch Notes 2.11.0 give you in-depth details on what you can expect from today’s maintenance (ending at 2PM EST).



NEW MONTHLY ROADMAP

Here’s what the next month looks like on For Honor!




August 1:
Year 3 | Season 3 | Hulda Launch

August 8:
Weekly Arcade Quest: The Ludi of Daubeny

August 9:
Event Order: Ranked Vanquisher Challenge (August 9 - August 12 | XP Boost Reward)

August 15:
Weekly Arcade Quest: The Giants of Hrimar
New Content of the Week

August 16:
Extra XP Fest (August 16 - August 19)
Event Order: Executioner Challenge (August 16 - August 19 | Crate Reward)
Year 3 Season 3 Campaign 2

August 22:
Event Playlist: Carousel of Death (August 22 - August 29)
Event Order: Warrior Challenge (August 22 - August 29 | Steel & Crate Reward)
Weekly Arcade Quest: Rites of the Jormungandr
New Content of the Week

August 29:
Testing Grounds
Event Order: Testing Grounds Challenge (Steel Reward)
Weekly Arcade Quest: Haunting of Dead Shades

August 30:
Year 3 Season 3 Campaign 3

Our first Testing Grounds are happening on August 29! Be sure to tune in later this month for more information. Today, we can confirm that the Centurion, Gladiator and Warlord will have changes tested on the front during the first Testing Grounds. We will give you more details as August 29 approaches.


LARRY THE WARDEN IS BACK

After a lovely week off, which you can read all about in his vacation diary, Larry the Warden is back! Check out the new executions we released while he was away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV8CzzaNLAc


EVENT ORDER: SPECIAL SLAYER CHALLENGE

Be the faction with the most takedowns performed in the Event Playlist to win. From August 1st to August 8.




ARCADE WEEKLY QUEST: THE JORMUNGANDR’S MARCH

"Tell me everything you know about the Jormungandr," the old Warden says while pouring you a pint.
The Knight's request stirs bad memories of the first time you clashed with the Jormungandr."





EVENT PLAYLIST: STORR STRONGHOLD BREACH

Play the new Breach map, Storr Stronghold, in the event playlist!
From August 1st to August 8.




CONTENT OF THE WEEK

We’ve got new emotes for all heroes this week for 7,000 Steel each!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykBT0OCTPFE

You can catch the full livestream and more exciting coverage in our Twitch collection of highlights.
Alan Wake

Alan Wake and For Honor are both free on the Epic Games store.

Alan Wake, the action adventure game developed by Remedy, is free on Epic's store until 9th August.

For Honor, Ubisoft's melee multiplayer-focused action game, is also free on Epic's store until 9th August.

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FOR HONOR™ - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)

Firstly, it s free on the Epic Store right now, and free is good. Secondly, For Honor is an axe-swinging good time for all involved, even those plummeting to their death from a comically high castle wall. It is zero pennies from today until next Friday, August 9. However, you re only getting the base edition, so no Shaolin monks or creepy mystics for you, at least not at the start. Those are the unlockable characters. But if you scab together enough steel, the in-game currency, you can eventually muck about with those brawlers. Whether or not you get that far, you should give this brutish slice em up a go. Mordhau has all the swordists in a loved-up tizzy at the minute, but I reckon For Honor is better. Let me break down why.

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FOR HONOR™

Ubisoft's online melee battler For Honor is poised to enter the third season of its third year of content on 1st August, and the publisher has shared early details of what players can expect to see when Season 3, subtitled Hulda, gets underway.

Hulda is a distinctly Viking-themed affair, introducing a new "feral warrior" clan known as the Jormungandr (Hulda being the male hero variant, and Gretar, the female). They're described as "Viking sectarians who wear their devotion to the Great Serpent", and, armed with the somewhat hilariously named War Hamarr, the clan "aims to crush the weak before Ragnarok comes, as they believe only the most worthy must remain for the Great Battle."

Those that own For Honor's current Year 3 Pass will be able to play as the Jormungandr immediately when the new season begins at 8pm BST on 1st August. All other players can access the hero from 7pm BST on 7th August, for the sum of 15,000 Steel.

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FINAL FANTASY VIII - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

They just keep coming don’t they? A lot of games were announced at E3 2019, things that we didn’t know about, as well as stuff that’s previously announced, or expansions to already released games. Now, to the casual outsider, what we’re doing might seem absolutely nuts, but we thought we’d put together an alphabetical list of all the PC games that have been confirmed to appear at this year’s E3 show. With well over a hundred of them now in the books, the next year or so looks packed.

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FINAL FANTASY VIII - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

They just keep coming don’t they? A lot of games were announced at E3 2019, things that we didn’t know about, as well as stuff that’s previously announced, or expansions to already released games. Now, to the casual outsider, what we’re doing might seem absolutely nuts, but we thought we’d put together an alphabetical list of all the PC games that have been confirmed to appear at this year’s E3 show. With well over a hundred of them now in the books, the next year or so looks packed.

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