[E3 Recap] — Marching Fire (Siege Mode, China, FemWarden)

[Saint Landwalker]

Figured I'd toss this out for y'all. It was a short segment, but there's a lot there.

• Starter Edition is completely free-to-keep on PC if you get it between now and June 18. Roman is very pumped about how far For Honor has come and how much they've been able to work with and benefit from the community, and wants to bring as many folks into the action as possible.
  
  Link to Free Starter Edition[store.ubi.com]
  
  
• Also, the Standard Edition on the Ubisoft Store is 75% (costs only $15) for the moment.
  
  
• FEMALE WARDEN FACE REVEAL
  
  
• For Honor: Marching Fire
  
  
  • Will release October 16 (i.e. Season 8)
    
    
  • New Faction — Wu Lin (Chinese-themed)
    
    
  • Four new heroes
    
    
    • Shaolin — Athletic monk with a staff. Male/Female.
      
      
    • Tiandi — Heavy-looking fellow with a Dao (sword). Might be a vanguard or a heavy (HP looks like Vanguard). Male/Female.
      
      
    • Jiang Jun — Generals who wield the Guandao (polearm). Could be a heavy, could be a hybrid. Male only.
      
      
    • Nuxia — Assassin wielding dual hook swords. Female only.
    
    
  • Adding new Story Mode content (presumably for the Chinese heroes).
    
    
  • New 4v4 Mode: "Breach", a castle siege-style mode
    
    
    • Assymetrical — Goal is for the attackers to breach the castle and defeat the "King". Defenders must stop them.
      
      
    • Attackers have a limited number of "respawn tickets." If they run out of tickets, they lose. Revives do not "use up" a ticket.
      
      
    • Defenders have access to things like ballistas, cauldron (boiling pitch, which damages the ram and everyone around it), archer points, etc.
      
      
    • Side lanes have things like minion archers to support whichever side controls that zone.
      
      
    • Three phases
      
      
      1. Escort battering ram to the first gate in the "main lane". If the defensive team can destroy the ram (defender minions will damage the ram if there are no attackers near it), the Defense wins.
         
         
      2. Escort ram to the second gate.
         
         
      3. Breaching the second gate opens the "King's Court," the final phase of Breach. The "King" is a boss-level AI character that, judging by the health bar, makes Test Your Metal Gudmundr look like a kitten. Defeating the "King" means the attackers win the game. At this point, the only way for the defenders to win is by causing the attackers to exhaust their respawn tickets. The King's Court also has surrounding zones that give advantages (ballista access, minion archers, etc.) to the controlling team.
      
      
    • Major graphical enhancements (textures, environment, sky/cloud stuff.
      
      
    • Improved user interface and matchmaking speed.
      
      
    • A new, yet-to-be-revealed, "Endless PvE" mode for single player and two-player co-op.
    
    
  • They also showed a glimpse of a warden with a proper breastplate, so expect some pretty hype new armors coming down the pipe in the future (Edit: It was pointed out that Superwarden might have been an AI "boss" at the end of the siege, and not a playable character, so maybe rip gear. We'll see.)
    
    
  • The official preview page of Marching Fire is found here: https://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/expansion/marching-fire/index.aspx
  
  
• My dreams of a heavy Spear-and-Shield knight have been crushed.
  
  
• In the Breach Gameplay Walthrough video, you can get a glimpse of a Warden with an unblockable top heavy finisher.

[steal_TH-9]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Landwalker:

Ursprungligen skrivet av steal_TH-9:

Posting till pinned.

No need to bump it every 30 minutes. They'll see it eventually and decide whether or not to pin it (or maybe they already have, and it was found wanting.)

Fair enough. And I’m about to work soon.

[roylegent]

Sexy trailer: I am HYPED !

[Mac Tonight]

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It seems like Nuxia is the Assassin. In my eyes at least. So the Wu Lin Fighter's Emblem is a Dragon? If we were to ever get an Indian Faction, would it be an Eagle?

I just realised it too, and the Shaolin is also referred to as an Assassin, meaning Wu Lin will have two Assassins. What is the Jiang Ju then, I assumed he'd be a Heavy, but he could also be a Hybrid, either way the Wu Lin will be without one of these two at launch? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what???

When people say Indian faction, they mostly mean Hindu or Sikh, not Native American, so their animal emblem would be what Indian culture values, either a Lotus flower or an Elephant.

Funny you mentioned Dragon, as it makes me wonder how some of the Mythic and Mask outfits will look for the Wu Lin, since they won't have access to any Masks on release (until the next Halloween event) and the Dragon Mask is already claimed by the Samurai.

Kind of why people point out that adding a Chinese themed faction doesn't add much new in terms of flavor, since China and Japan shares various culture aspects, among them the look of their Dragons.
There are of course other mythical and historical aspects that they can use, but the Dragon in most will be locked off in various forms, even if they gave the Wu Lin a fire Dragon Mask outfit, it'd still be a dragon outfit similar to the Samurai ice Dragon Mask outfit.

Oh! When I meant Indian, I mean Native Amercian! Sorry!

[steal_TH-9]

Ey, wai...
Wasn’t there supposed to be an extended/updated look at the roadmap?
I thought they said they would show more of that by E3?

[Mac Tonight]

Ursprungligen skrivet av steal_TH-9:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Landwalker:

No need to bump it every 30 minutes. They'll see it eventually and decide whether or not to pin it (or maybe they already have, and it was found wanting.)

Fair enough. And I’m about to work soon.

If you're gonna make an off topic comment, I'll do the same. *clears throat*
Best Pokemon is Tyranitar hands down.
Best Legendary is Deoxys.

[snakesam007]

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i can see the old dude with the staff and the chick with the dual swords being locked but for the other 2 beats me.

Why would Nuxia be Gender Locked?

Because Nuxia 女侠 literally translated as "Female Warrior" ...that's a gender specific term ...
If they named the class as Xia Ke 侠客 (simply "Warrior" ) or Ci Ke刺客 "Assassin" then it made sense to not being gender locked..

[Mac Tonight]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Firerodan16:

Why would Nuxia be Gender Locked?

Because Nuxia 女侠 literally translated as "Female Warrior" ...that's a gender specific term ...
If they named the class as Xia Ke 侠客 (simply "Warrior" ) or Ci Ke刺客 "Assassin" then it made sense to not being gender locked..

Why must Asian lettering just be symbols instead of letters that I could somewhat try to translate.
EDIT: 侠客 This means Warrior? Where? IT'S TWO LETTERS!

[Skygaze]

Ursprungligen skrivet av snakesam1234:

Because Nuxia 女侠 literally translated as "Female Warrior" ...that's a gender specific term ...
If they named the class as Xia Ke 侠客 (simply "Warrior" ) or Ci Ke刺客 "Assassin" then it made sense to not being gender locked..

That's not even mentioning the fact that Nuxia in FH lore were dancers who were needed for defense.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Joseph Seed:

Why must Asian lettering just be symbols instead of letters that I could somewhat try to translate.

Because... they're not English... maybe.

China: "Why must English lettering just be symbols instead of Kanji that I could somewhat try to translate."

[Mac Tonight]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av snakesam1234:

Because Nuxia 女侠 literally translated as "Female Warrior" ...that's a gender specific term ...
If they named the class as Xia Ke 侠客 (simply "Warrior" ) or Ci Ke刺客 "Assassin" then it made sense to not being gender locked..

That's not even mentioning the fact that Nuxia in FH lore were dancers who were needed for defense.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Joseph Seed:

Why must Asian lettering just be symbols instead of letters that I could somewhat try to translate.

Because... they're not English... maybe.

China: "Why must English lettering just be symbols instead of Kanji that I could somewhat try to translate."

Highly doubt English is hard.

[Skygaze]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Joseph Seed:

Highly doubt English is hard.

Not for a native English speaker, no.

[snakesam007]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Joseph Seed:

Ursprungligen skrivet av snakesam1234:

Because Nuxia 女侠 literally translated as "Female Warrior" ...that's a gender specific term ...
If they named the class as Xia Ke 侠客 (simply "Warrior" ) or Ci Ke刺客 "Assassin" then it made sense to not being gender locked..

Why must Asian lettering just be symbols instead of letters that I could somewhat try to translate.
EDIT: 侠客 This means Warrior? Where? IT'S TWO LETTERS!

I'm not a linguistic teacher , so I'll try my best to explain :
The word or letter Xia 侠 alone could be translated as heroic /brave ,
while the letter Ke客 in this context is an agent suffix ,used to indicating “one that engages in a particular action or practice” ....
So in this context ,it means "a person that does heroic things" ...
kinda like " -er" in English ,eg: "Fighter" is an agent noun formed from the verb "fight"

So in other word , the literal translation of Xia Ke 侠客 would be .."Heroic Person"
Sounds weird ,right ? So I just went with simply "Warrior" ..

Hope it helps =)

[Mac Tonight]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Joseph Seed:

Why must Asian lettering just be symbols instead of letters that I could somewhat try to translate.
EDIT: 侠客 This means Warrior? Where? IT'S TWO LETTERS!

I'm not a linguistic teacher , so I'll try my best to explain :
The word or letter Xia 侠 alone could be translated as heroic /brave ,
while the letter Ke客 in this context is an agent suffix ,used to indicating “one that engages in a particular action or practice” ....
So in this context ,it means "a person that does heroic things" ...
kinda like " -er" in English ,eg: "Fighter" is an agent noun formed from the verb "fight"

So in other word , the literal translation of Xia Ke 侠客 would be .."Heroic Person"
Sounds weird ,right ? So I just went with simply "Warrior" ..

Hope it helps =)

So Kanji is basically taking a definition of something and combining it with a symbol. You add two of these definitions from these Kanjis to get one word. Huh...

[snakesam007]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Joseph Seed:

Ursprungligen skrivet av snakesam1234:

I'm not a linguistic teacher , so I'll try my best to explain :
The word or letter Xia 侠 alone could be translated as heroic /brave ,
while the letter Ke客 in this context is an agent suffix ,used to indicating “one that engages in a particular action or practice” ....
So in this context ,it means "a person that does heroic things" ...
kinda like " -er" in English ,eg: "Fighter" is an agent noun formed from the verb "fight"

So in other word , the literal translation of Xia Ke 侠客 would be .."Heroic Person"
Sounds weird ,right ? So I just went with simply "Warrior" ..

Hope it helps =)

So Kanji is basically taking a definition of something and combining it with a symbol. You add two of these definitions from these Kanjis to get one word. Huh...

Technically the term "Kanji" is used by Japanese when they are referring to the Chinese wording they incorporated into their writing system since hundred of years ago...
The Chinese wording/character/letter should be called "Han Zi”汉字 ...

But you got the basic idea right , unlike alphabets ,which are meaningless by themselves , but they are used to form words that have different meanings ...
However every single Chinese character /letter means something ,& could become a verb ,a noun depending on context & ya ,when combine with another character ,it will form a different word or term that might means something else entirely..

[SXMRAK]

The hype is real! The only thing that made me a little dissapointed is that Breach is only 4v4 and not 6v6 or 8v8.

[steal_TH-9]

Ursprungligen skrivet av S_K_Gh:

The hype is real! The only thing that made me a little dissapointed is that Breach is only 4v4 and not 6v6 or 8v8.

I’m a little disappointed in not having a three way battle. But now that we have a 4th faction, a 4 way battle might be too much for a server to bear, unless it’s a 4-way brawl.