Change gender in story mode

[Thimo Beil]

I had For Honor on my wish list for quite a while and was thrilled to see the free weekend. Downloaded, started playing, went to story mode and selected what I thought was the shorter player model. Turned out that is the female model. I did not see any specific symbol letting me to believe it was a female model. Started story mode, heard the voice and wanted to change gender immediately. Turns out that's impossible. Looked through forums and apparently it is by design. So I will now delete the game from my hard disk and also remove it from my wishlist. Great work Ubisoft...as always...and honestly, should not have expected more.

[RhodosGuard]

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[Rammstein]

So ur problem is, Valkyries are no men? Maybe its really best u delete the game. lol

[Nathaniel Flint]

First fckin world problems.

Not every game has a mass effect-style character creator. Some games have certain protagonists.

Delete your nonsense hogwash, before some deranged feminist see´s it and goes into a frenzy.

[.]

Originally posted by Disturbed:

So ur problem is, Valkyries are no men? Maybe its really best u delete the game. lol

Reading is hard, I know.

OP, I had your problem too, except I wanted to replay as the opposite sex to what I had previously chosen so I could hear all the voices. Unfortunately, Ubi stores your sava data in their cloud, so you'd have to appeal to them to get it deleted.

Some dude actually did this a while back and almost got caught up in a legal case because of how awkward Ubi were being about this incredibly simple feature that should just be in the game already.

I solved my problem just by watching a Let's Play with the other voice, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do apart from either sucking it up or appealing to Ubi and hoping they're having a good day.

[.]

Originally posted by Nathaniel Flint:

First fckin world problems.

Not every game has a mass effect-style character creator. Some games have certain protagonists.

Delete your nonsense hogwash, before some deranged feminist see´s it and goes into a frenzy.

It isn't an ME-style character creator; you can pick up to 3 variations of armor for male and female versions; OP did not want a versatile character creator, he simply wanted to change his choice.

Additionally, the characters are NOT fixed as certain protagonists, as they allow you the choice to pick initially. It's simply down to Ubi's inflexibility that you can't change it later.

[Thimo Beil]

Thank you for your feedback.
I would have loved to see my options by restarting the story mode but that's impossible. You are asked to chose your outfit and are told it is permanent, but the options are not stated clearly. This design let me to believe that I could have chosen a male character for the first chapter (I'm still not sure that that's not possible). But since restarting story mode is not possible, there is no way for me to confirm either way.
I'm left with the conclusion that I made a mistake in chosing a gender that I did not want to role play in.
This is not a statement towards any gender, I believe the players should have the ability to choose the gender based on their preferences.
Me, I would like to play as a male warden. The game design has let me to believe that I can chose the gender at the beginning of the game.
If the games wants me to play the first chapter as a female character, that's fine with me, but then I would need a little more lore beforehand.

[Agrorix]

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

HAHAHAH

and you made a thread about it X'D

[Thimo Beil]

Originally posted by Dr. Legend:

Originally posted by Disturbed:

So ur problem is, Valkyries are no men? Maybe its really best u delete the game. lol

Reading is hard, I know.

OP, I had your problem too, except I wanted to replay as the opposite sex to what I had previously chosen so I could hear all the voices. Unfortunately, Ubi stores your sava data in their cloud, so you'd have to appeal to them to get it deleted.

Some dude actually did this a while back and almost got caught up in a legal case because of how awkward Ubi were being about this incredibly simple feature that should just be in the game already.

I solved my problem just by watching a Let's Play with the other voice, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do apart from either sucking it up or appealing to Ubi and hoping they're having a good day.

Very interesting to read, thanks.
I believe one solution could be to create a new Uplay profile and then start new from there but I don't know if it's possible to have two Uplay profiles linked to the same Steam Account.
In the end this remains a game-breaking design flaw for me and any workaround appears to be quite time-consuming. I chose to stay away from this game but whish everyone else a lot of fun playing it!

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by Thimo Beil:

Originally posted by Dr. Legend:

Reading is hard, I know.

OP, I had your problem too, except I wanted to replay as the opposite sex to what I had previously chosen so I could hear all the voices. Unfortunately, Ubi stores your sava data in their cloud, so you'd have to appeal to them to get it deleted.

Some dude actually did this a while back and almost got caught up in a legal case because of how awkward Ubi were being about this incredibly simple feature that should just be in the game already.

I solved my problem just by watching a Let's Play with the other voice, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do apart from either sucking it up or appealing to Ubi and hoping they're having a good day.

Very interesting to read, thanks.
I believe one solution could be to create a new Uplay profile and then start new from there but I don't know if it's possible to have two Uplay profiles linked to the same Steam Account.
In the end this remains a game-breaking design flaw for me and any workaround appears to be quite time-consuming. I chose to stay away from this game but whish everyone else a lot of fun playing it!

"game-breaking design flaw"
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[perc 3000]

Originally posted by Disturbed:

So ur problem is, Valkyries are no men? Maybe its really best u delete the game. lol

what? he said that he chose a female character at the start of the story and he cant change

are you dumb?

[Hannya]

That's probably the most petty reason I ever heard as excuse to be angry about the game

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by Thimo Beil:

Originally posted by Dr. Legend:

Reading is hard, I know.

OP, I had your problem too, except I wanted to replay as the opposite sex to what I had previously chosen so I could hear all the voices. Unfortunately, Ubi stores your sava data in their cloud, so you'd have to appeal to them to get it deleted.

Some dude actually did this a while back and almost got caught up in a legal case because of how awkward Ubi were being about this incredibly simple feature that should just be in the game already.

I solved my problem just by watching a Let's Play with the other voice, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do apart from either sucking it up or appealing to Ubi and hoping they're having a good day.

Very interesting to read, thanks.
I believe one solution could be to create a new Uplay profile and then start new from there but I don't know if it's possible to have two Uplay profiles linked to the same Steam Account.
In the end this remains a game-breaking design flaw for me and any workaround appears to be quite time-consuming. I chose to stay away from this game but whish everyone else a lot of fun playing it!

....i don't understand this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, tbh, and quite frankly, that's what it is. How many games let you pick your gender? More these days, but relatively few by comparison to all the games out there. You're playing a set of characters, deal with it. Do you go ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the Battlefield forums because you can't play a female character?

Open world/pick your gender/character games have really spoiled this gen. Of gamers if we're now getting complaints that once you pick one you can't change it.

I guess in the FH world, they don't support transgender :p

[fede01_8]

Masculinity so fragile...

[fantastictuna]

there are only two genders...

[Team Triss]

I was wondering if gender was hidden under the hood when picking a campaign character, or if they were all female. Looks like I just picked wrong lol.

Sucks you can't readily change it (or restart), but it doesn't bother me that much.

Those of you who are laughing at TC, though, would definitely be in here REEEEEEEEEEEEing if someone wanted to play as a girl and there were only guy characters.